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Have you seen the new Surf billboards? 94.9 The Surf is now welcoming visitors and letting them know which radio station to listen to!
We have three different locations along the Grand Strand…on the north end on Highway 17 in North Myrtle Beach near Williams Carpet, on the south end at Highway 17 near Glenns Bay Road in Surfside Beach, and on Highway 501 coming in from Conway near Forestbrook Road.
These digital billboards display five different businesses in six-second intervals. 94. 9 The Surf is spreading the word about “The Carolinas Beach Music and Classic Hits Station”!

HURRICANE PREPAREDNESS

The Atlantic Hurricane Season is upon us. The official season began June 1 and will end November 30, although it is possible that a bad storm will occur outside these parameters. For those of us living on the Grand Strand, the mere threat of an impending hurricane brings stress and confusion.Image

PREPAREDNESS is the “buzz word” concerning this topic. According to officials at the Horry County Emergency Management Department, there are many new residents here that have never lived in a hurricane-prone area before and literally have no idea of the danger. Even long-term residents of Horry County have become complacent and don’t take warnings seriously enough.

NOW is the time to prepare…not when the warnings take place. We must make plans now! Do you know if you live in a flood zone? The difference in a storm watch and a storm warning? The difference in a voluntary and mandatory evacuation? The best evacuation route for your exact location? The nearest shelter? How you would get there? Do they accept pets? What do you need to take with you? How to best protect your home and property? What exactly is a storm surge? How important is the projected path of the storm to your plan?

94.9 The Surf will give you weekly tips to help you in your preparedness. This week we want you to have an open discussion with your family and neighbors and let them know you are preparing a plan in case of emergency. Invite them to take part in your plan. We are our neighbors’ keepers you know. TOGETHER we can make a commitment TODAY to prepare. We all must take a proactive role in our safety!

More next week…



JUNE

June is busting out all over!

June is named for Juno, the Roman goddess of marriage. Many believe it is good luck to marry in June, and it is indeed the most popular month for wedding nuptials.

June 1 is the official beginning of the Atlantic Hurricane Season. (All those newlyweds can huddle together when the winds start to blow!). You will be hearing more soon on what you need to do in emergency preparation in case we have a hurricane scare on the Grand Strand. Can you believe this is the 20th anniversary of Hurricane Hugo? 2009 is also the 10th anniversary for Hurricane Floyd.

Americans honor our Stars and Stripes on June 14. Although many had unofficially been hoisting their flags on June 14 for years, Flag Day did not become a legal holiday until 1949 when President Harry Truman signed an Act of Congress designating it as such. We all know that there are 50 stars on our flag, one for each state, and 13 stripes in alternating red and white that symbolize the original 13 colonies. Here’s a stumper for you…is it red or white that marks both the top and bottom stripe?

June 21 is the first day of summer and is the longest day in terms of sunlight in the year.
June 21 is also Father’s Day. You know we celebrated moms in May…now it’s Dad’s turn!

Yes, the tourist season is upon us, but 94.9 the Surf is too busy to take a vacation!
We have an active BEACH PARTY schedule this summer, including weekly live broadcasts at different locations in our area. Check the EVENTS page for time and place (PARTY WITH US, then EVENTS). Locals love these remotes, and we invite everyone who visits our area on vacation to join us.

As always, keep your radio tuned in to 94.9 the Surf, or your Internet connection on our site, as we spread Carolina Beach Music to the world!

MEMORIAL DAY 2009

ImageMonday, May 25 is Memorial Day.

This federal holiday honors all members of our military who lost their lives during service to our country. At 3:00 Monday afternoon, our nation will have a national moment of remembrance designed to collectively commemorate these heroes who gave their lives to keep us safe and free.

Memorial Day allows many to have a three-day weekend and often acts as “the unofficial beginning” of summer. We hope everyone has a great weekend, but we also hope you will remember the REAL reason behind the holiday.

In honor of our military, we offer the following poignant essay written by Ben Stein (attorney, actor, and writer) on American heroes:

Ben Stein's Last Column...
How Can Someone Who Lives in Insane Luxury Be a Star in Today's World?
As I begin to write this, I 'slug' it, as we writers say, which means I put a heading on top of the document to identify it. This heading is 'eonline FINAL,' and it gives me a shiver to write it. I have been doing this column for so long that I cannot even recall when I started. I loved writing this column so much for so long I came to believe it would never end.
It worked well for a long time, but gradually, my changing as a person and the world's change have overtaken it On a small scale, Morton's, while better than ever, no longer attracts as many stars as it used to. It still brings in the rich people in droves and definitely some stars. I saw Samuel L. Jackson there a few days ago, and we had a nice visit, and right before that, I saw and had a splendid talk with Warren Beatty in an elevator, in which we agreed that Splendor in the Grass was a super movie. But Morton's is not the star galaxy it once was, though it probably will be again.
Beyond that, a bigger change has happened..? I no longer think Hollywood stars are terribly important. They are uniformly pleasant, friendly people, and they treat me better than I deserve to be treated. But a man or woman who makes a huge wage for memorizing lines and reciting them in front of a camera is no longer my idea of a shining star we should all look up to.
How can a man or woman who makes an eight-figure wage and lives in insane luxury really be a star in today's world, if by a 'star' we mean someone bright and powerful and attractive as a role model? Real stars are not riding around in the backs of limousines or in Porsches or getting trained in yoga or Pilates and eating only raw fruit while they have Vietnamese girls do their nails...
They can be interesting, nice people, but they are not heroes to me any longer. A real star is the soldier of the 4th Infantry Division who poked his head into a hole on a farm near Tikrit , Iraq . He could have been met by a bomb or a hail of AK-47 bullets. Instead, he faced an abject Saddam Hussein and the gratitude of all of the decent people of the world.
A real star is the U.S. soldier who was sent to disarm a bomb next to a road north of Baghdad ... He approached it, and the bomb went off and killed him..
A real star, the kind who haunts my memory night and day, is the U.S. soldier in Baghdad who saw a little girl playing with a piece of unexploded ordnance on a street near where he was guarding a station. He pushed her aside and threw himself on it just as it exploded. He left a family desolate in California and a little girl alive in Baghdad .
The stars who deserve media attention are not the ones who have lavish weddings on TV but the ones who patrol the streets of Mosul even after two of their buddies were murdered and their bodies battered and stripped for the sin of trying to protect Iraqis from terrorists.
We put couples with incomes of $100 million a year on the covers of our magazines. The noncoms and officers who barely scrape by on military pay but stand on guard in Afghanistan and Iraq and on ships and in submarines and near the Arctic Circle are anonymous as they live and die.
I am no longer comfortable being a part of the system that has such poor values, and I do not want to perpetuate those values by pretending that who is eating at Morton's is a big subject.
There are plenty of other stars in the American firmament..the policemen and women who go off on patrol in South Central and have no idea if they will return alive; the orderlies and paramedics who bring in people who have been in terrible accidents and prepare them for surgery; the teachers and nurses who throw their whole spirits into caring for autistic children; the kind men and women who work in hospices and in cancer wards.
Think of each and every fireman who was running up the stairs at the World Trade Center as the towers began to collapse. Now you have my idea of a real hero.
I came to realize that life lived to help others is the only one that matters This is my highest and best use as a human. I can put it another way. Years ago, I realized I could never be as great an actor as Olivier or as good a comic as Steve Martin or Martin Mull or Fred Willard--or as good an economist as Samuelson or Friedman or as good a writer as Fitzgerald. Or even remotely close to any of them.
But, I could be a devoted father to my son, husband to my wife and, above all, a good son to the parents who had done so much for me. This came to be my main task in life. I did it moderately well with my son, pretty well with my wife and well indeed with my parents (with my sister's help). I cared for and paid attention to them in their declining years. I stayed with my father as he got sick, went into extremis and then into a coma and then entered immortality with my sister and me reading him the Psalms.
This was the only point at which my life touched the lives of the soldiers in Iraq or the firefighters in New York . I came to realize that life lived to help others is the only one that matters and that it is my duty, in return for the lavish life God has devolved upon me, to help others He has placed in my path. This is my highest and best use as a human
Faith is not believing that God can. It is knowing that God will.
By Ben Stein