April - June 2017 Volume XIV, Issue II

Sally Spenny Editor

THE STATE OF THE PHLOCK

which raised $10,170. The foundation exists to support PHIP Parrot Heads who could experience a personal need in the future. We continue to exceed the National PHIP Alzheimer’s Team goal of $100,000. Last year our National Alz-heimer’s Team members raised $227,236 and we in-creased our team participa-tion numbers to 69!! Again, the PHIP Board would like to thank all of the clubs who stepped up to helped and donated to the Walk to End Alzheimer’s The lasting friendships we have built over these few years have gone beyond the life that Jimmy Buffett sings about. Our national mem-bership focuses on harmony and pulling together for the greater good! It’s the music and lifestyle that drives us, but it’s also the needs within our own communities that compel us to help. We cele-brate your club’s many ac-complishments. As with any organization, the right leadership is what makes a chapter succeed.

It’s that time of year when we celebrate all things PHIP Parrot Head Clubs and there is no better way to celebrate than presenting the 2017 PHIP State of the Phlock … Here’s a recap of our 2016 Party with a Purpose. We closed out the 2016 year with 25,323 members, and our membership figures paired with the volunteer hours and fundraising efforts reveal much more than someone’s payment of dues and the occasional annual involvement within the clubs. Those 25,000+ mem-bers make up the 221 Clubs who are the heart and soul of PHIP. PHIP welcomed 3 new clubs to our ranks in 2016: For-gotten Coast PHC in Flori-da, Pirates of the Neuse in North Carolina and Parrot Heads of Southeastern Ohio. Last year’s fundraising ef-forts amounted to a whop-ping $3,421,622. More im-portantly you generously donated 190,457 hours of your extremely valuable time! It is the Parrot Heads who go above and beyond

the required 2 charitable or en-vironmental projects per calen-dar year and volunteer when they see the opportunity to give something back … to their own communities, to the environ-ment and to their fellow man, they do it in a big way. You make up the Meeting of the Minds volunteers, donate many hours to hosting successful club events and phlockings, volunteer as judges, work event information booths, man phone banks and generally pitch in when you see a need. Your service projects are var-ied and many. You help the elderly, less fortunate families, and the homeless, providing clothing, meals, toys, senior services and youth camp dona-tions, animal shelters/rescues and many clubs have Adopted A Manatee. On a national level clubs volunteered or raised money for Make A Wish, St. Jude’s Children’s Hospital, Toys for Tots, Ronald McDon-ald House, many walks for various cancers or diseases. The Lone Palm Foundation, the non-profit charitable arm of PHIP had two successful fund raisers. The one day auction in July which raised over $11,000 and the live auction at MOTM

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Published Quarterly; Mid January, Mid April, Mid July and Mid October. PHiP and the TWT does not solicit advertis-ing for this particular publication. Articles for consideration must be submitted on the 5th of each month of publica-tion. Information contained in this publication is intended for PHiP membership. PHiP reserves the right of refusal to print any article.

Consideration for article submission, contact: Sally Spenny at ssspenny@att.net

Our advice for this coming year is to surround yourselves with an incredible group of of-ficers who really care about the success of your club. Take time to identify your talents within your membership. Some of your members are just waiting to be asked to be a part of your club’s success. In the long run you’ll have the much needed help. We truly remain united, work-ing to achieve the same goals. There really is a bigger picture and a brighter future when we all work together. Your report-ed numbers reflect another healthy year in the books. May you all have a very successful 2017! Sue Kermis PHIP, Dir of Membership phipmembership@gmail.com

President Kathy Pfister cheesehead_in_paradise@ yahoo.com

Vice President Rick Fyffe rjfyffe1@ymail.com Secretary David Cohen volcanodavid@roadrunner.com Dir of Finance Charlene Schultheis ohiocharlene@yahoo.com Dir. of Membership Sue Kermis phipmembership@gmail.com Dir. of Conventions 2017 Andrew Talbert andrew.talbert@gmail.com

2017 PHiP Board Of Directors

The Latest Hummin’ Headlines

PHIP “State of the Phlock” Pg 1-2

PHiP President’s Letter Pg 3

PHiP Interim Reports Pg 3

MOTM Pgs 4 - 5

Lone Palm Foundation Raffle PG 5

PHIP Alzheimer's’ Team Pg 6

SAPHC Featured Club Pg 7

PHiP Financials Pgs 8-10

Golden Coconut Contest Pgs 11-12

Newsletter Contest Pg 12

MOTM Convention Ads Pg 12

Domino College Dean’s List Pg 13

Be a PHIP Featured Club Pg 13

Parrot Head Club Birthdays Pg 14

Top 20 Clubs by Size Pg 14

Regional Events Pgs 15 - 16

MOTM 2017 Ad Pg 16

Tune in to Radio Margaritaville! Listen on your computer at mar-gartitaville.com/radio or on Siri-us XM radio, channel 24. It is a great source for all things Par-rotHead!

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Spring has sprung! Well, at least it has here in the Sonoran desert. We just wrapped up Spring Training and I was lucky enough to watch my life-long team, the World Series Champion Chicago Cubs, play two games. (Man, it feels good to be able to type the World Series part of that sentence!) It’s not just here that people are starting to get out more for some great events. March brought the New England Par-rot Head Convention, St. Min-neSomePlace’s This Hotel Room in Minneapolis, Music on the Bay in Tampa and Pi-rates In The Desert in Las Ve-gas. With April comes the 12th Annual Panama City Parrot Head Rendezvous, Angels in Tropical Shirts Music Fest in Texas, the 11th Annual Savan-nah PHC Scavenger Hunt, 27th Birthday Bash for the St. Louis PHC, and the San Diego Parrot Head Pub Crawl. Finally, One Particular Phlocking in New Jersey and the PHoPS 7th An-nual Pub Crawl & Poker Run in Tacoma are coming up in May. How do I know about all these great events? Well, I’ll let you in on my information sourcing secret. I know because the folks putting on the events A) put the event details on their respective PHiP Regional Cal-endars, B) talked the event up on the PHiP Club Leaders and Regional Yahoo Groups and C) posted about them on their Facebook pages (both club and regional).

That’s it! It’s easy-peasy to find out about what’s going on if people get the word out. So, consider this your annual re-minder to make your event “findable”. And, follow up when it’s done with results, sto-ries, pictures, etc. You want to make people think, “So glad I was there!” or “Dang, I’m sorry to have missed it so I’m putting in my calendar for next year.” Of course, the BIG event of the year. Meeting of The Minds, is on everyone’s agenda for No-vember. Right? Haven’t signed up yet? You can at http://www.phip.com/motmregistration. Hope to see you on the road somewhere this year! Kathy Pfister, President Parrot Heads in Paradise, Inc.

PRESIDENT’S PERCH PHIP INTERIM REPORTS

Just a reminder that with sum-mer comes Interim Reports, which are due beginning July 1st and must be received no later than July 31st. As always, these should be submitted electronically to phipmembership@gmail.com and labeled as INTERIM RE-PORT in your subject line. For new officers or new chap-ters, the Interim Report is simply a brief free-form synop-sis of your Club's charitable, civic and environmental activi-ties for the period 01/01/17 - 06/30/17. It should contain who, what, when & where and should provide a contact name, if appropriate. All Chapters must file an Interim Report ... If there is nothing to report, please so state. Reporting of volunteer hours donated is not required on Interim Re-ports. However, please continue to track these figures throughout the year ... Your cumulative annual totals are due with your Annual Renewal. As approved by the PHiP Board, effective 2008, there is a $100 penalty for any Chapter filing an Interim Report after 07/31/17. Please do not hesitate to con-tact my office with any ques-tions or concerns. Sue Kermis Director of Membership PHIP, Inc.

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Meeting of the Minds By Andrew Talbert, PHiP Director of Conventions

CASA MARINA OR BE ON THE WAIT LIST FOR THE CASA 2) Book your room at the Reach Resort. While our awe-some Parrot Head rate is only valid at the Casa Marina the Reach is offering a discount to our group this year. This Reach Resort rate will not be as low as the Casa rate but it is a booking discount. There are some Casa Marina cancellations every year so booking early will put you up the list as we do go in order to move people over as vacancy happens through the year. This can happen right up to the event so give the hotel your cell num-ber not your home number for con 3) Email our MOTM Direc-tor of Registration Rick Fyffe at rjfyffe1@ymail.com Put in the title of your email "MOTM Casa Marina Wait List." Tell Rick you are booked at the Reach and registered for MOTM. Rick will add you to the Casa Marina wait list in the

April 1 has come and gone! The year is flying by! It is time to announce the winners of our two Meeting of the Minds 2017 drawings! Thanks to everyone for your participation in the drawings! The Casa Marina Four Night Two Bedroom Suite Drawing First the WINNERS of the two bedroom oceanfront suite for four nights at the Casa Marina for MOTM 2017 are Kim and Mason Hollis of the Finz Up, Lake Monroe Parrot Head Club! Congratulations go out to Mason and his wife Kim for winning this awesome prize! Thank you for being registered for MOTM 2017 and staying at the Casa Marina!! It pays to stay at the Casa Marina in more ways than one!! Two Tickets and Hospitality Passes for a Jimmy Buffett 2017 Concert of Your Choice Drawing Everyone who registered for Meeting of the Minds 2017 pri-or to April 1 was entered into a drawing for two tickets and hos-pitality passes to see Jimmy Buffett and the Coral Reefer Band anywhere on the 2017 concert schedule courtesy of MARGARITAVILLE FOODS! Congratulations go to Jason Shaffer for winning this awe-some prize! Thank you Marga-ritaville Foods! Jason is a mem-ber of the Virtual Parrot Head Club! Registration is going very well! Don’t forget to register now! Registration for the 26th Annual Meeting of the Minds 2017 con-

tinues until September 15 or when we reach 3,500 registered parrot heads! Don’t be left out! This is going to be a big party! http://www.phip.com/motmregistration The Casa Marina Remains Sold Out! We are still sold out at the Casa Marina but we are collecting names for the wait list as some level of cancellations will al-ways happen and we need to keep the hotel sold out! If you want to be on the wait list just follow the steps below: The 2017 MOTM Wait List for the Casa Marina - Here are the 3 steps below: 1) Register for Meeting of the Minds 2017. REMEMBER YOU MUST BE REGISTERED FOR MEETING OF THE MINDS 2017 TO STAY AT THE

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order in which you contact him. We have to fill the Casa Marina so we will work very hard to move everyone we can as cancellations occur. We will be working down the order in which you reply to Rick Fyffe. Sorry for any confu-sion but it is best to manage this list through Rick vs. contacting the hotel. Here is the special link to the Reach Resort for our group dis-count – Again this is NOT the same rate as the Casa Marina. Simply copy and paste the URL below into your browser to access the exclusive rates available for this group: https://secure3.hilton.com/en_US/wa/reservation/book.htm?inputModule=HOTEL&ctyhocn=EYWRRWA&spec_plan=ZZPAR9&arrival=20171029&departure=20171107&cid=OM,WW,HILTONLINK,EN,DirectLink&fromId=HILTONLINKDIRECT

The Call in code is: ZZPAR9 The Reach reservations line is: 305-296-5000. 2017 MEETING OF THE MINDS REGISTRATION REGISTRATION FOR THE 26th ANNUAL MEETING OF THE MINDS 2017 is OPEN and going very well! Don’t get left out as we stop registration at 3,500 or September 15th which-ever comes first!! Here is the link: https://www.phip.com/meeting If you have ANY QUESTIONS about Meeting of the Minds reg-istration questions are generally answered at this FAQ link: https://www.phip.com/meeting-faq MOTM Entertainment Sched-ule Update The final contracts and phone

calls are in process to finish the MOTM 2017 entertainment schedule. Look for a MOTM schedule announcement VERY SOON! Standby for many more an-nouncements soon!! Until next time, I’ll see you, down the road… Andrew Andrew Talbert Parrot Heads in Paradise, Inc. PHiP Director of Conventions Meeting of the Minds Key West, Florida "We're Still Here'"

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Parrot Head Club of Tidewater raises over $70,000 in 2016 for Walk to End Alzheimer’s® #1 Ranked Parrot Head Team

The Parrot Head Club of Tide-water was founded in 1996 by Andy and Bonnie Harrell. Throughout 20 years of philan-thropy for numerous national and local charities including the Alz-heimer’s Association, members have given back countless volun-teer hours helping to raise over a half million dollars. One of their largest fundraisers, the charity Beach Ball, raises money for the Alzheimer’s Association. Last year, the event raised over $67,000 and helped catapult this club to the #1 Parrot Head Walk to End Alzheimer’s team in the nation. This year’s sold-out event raised over $73,000. The event fea-tured live and silent auctions, live music, dinner, and a guest speaker, Karen Garner. Karen is a member of the Alzheimer’s Disease and Related Disorders Commission for Virginia and former caregiver to her late hus-band, Jim Garner. Jim, a retired Air Force senior master sergeant, was diagnosed with younger-onset Alzheimer’s disease in 2011 and passed away in 2016. This momentous anniversary marks 20 years of support to help the Alzheimer’s Association ad-vance research focused on pre-venting and effectively treating Alzheimer’s disease as well as

sustaining free programs and ser-vices for families facing daily challenges of this insidious dis-ease.

“We, as a community, are mak-ing a difference. We, as a com-munity, are the hope that shines brightly for those navigating the maze of Alzheimer's disease. With the support of the Parrot Heads, we will see the day when some-one stands before us and says, ‘I am an Alzheimer's survivor’.” — Gino Colombara, Executive Di-rector Alzheimer’s Association Southeastern Virginia Chapter In 2016, 82 Parrot Heads clubs participated in Walk to End Alz-heimer’s events across the coun-try, raising over $230,000, which represented a 50 percent increase over 2015. Bob Noonan from the Chicago Parrot Heads Club took over as National Team Captain

and sent out a series of e-newsletters called “Walk Wednesdays.” This year, Bob is proud to continue serving in this role and hopes to get over 100 clubs participating and raise more than $250,000! To join the Parrot Heads Nation-al Team, simply visit alz.org/parrotheads and “start a team.” Your contributions will help support the Alzheimer’s Associ-ation and its chapters in commu-nities where you live across the country. It’s a great way to sup-port a cause that affects so many of our members, including the Buffett family. For more information, please contact Bob Noonan at rnoon-er@aol.com

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San Antonio Parrot Head Club Featured on PHIP Website

San Antonio, Texas, is well known for The Alamo and the famous Riv-er Walk, but in 1998 when Garrett Van Delden, and several of his family and friends returned from a Jimmy Buffett concert in Las Ve-gas, energized and looking for a local parrot head club – there was none in San Antonio. They had been Jimmy Buffett fans for a long time and realized that they wanted to join the Parrot Heads in Paradise (PHIP) community and “Party with a Purpose". He gathered a small group of dedicated people, his fam-ily members and close friends to form the first Board of Directors for the San Antonio Parrot Head Club (SAPHC) in March 1999. Then they set out to grow the mem-bership and support for the commu-nity.

The SAPHC has two events a year on a consistent basis, the first being the club's anniversary party. This party is the biggest fund raiser of the year. We have a full band play because our members love to dance. It includes a silent auction and other raffles for other donated items. This event supports the San Antonio Food Bank and we also collect non-perishable food for them. We just concluded our 2017 event and though totals are not in yet, it was very successful for us. The other annual event that we have is our “Survive" weekend on the Texas coast for our members. We take about 150 club members and family about 170 miles to the coast for a three day event to “get away and unplug". We have live music, provide food, activities at the host hotel pool, a bonfire on the beach and other beach activities. We have several fun contests as well. Keeping this in “the family" has fostered a sense of closeness and comradery between members

which benefits the club all year round. Any money collected above expenses goes to the Alz-heimer's Association. This has helped us be among the top ten Alzheimer's Walk Teams in PHIP and locally.

While SAPHC supports numer-ous charities throughout the year, we have a strong tradition of helping the San Antonio Food Bank in a variety of ways. Quar-terly, we have a Food Bank work day and work packing and sort-ing food items to be distributed to families in the local area. Ad-ditionally, we always have a team for their Great Turkey Challenge, a 5K walk/run on Thanksgiving Day. One of our continuing efforts for the last seven years is supporting the County Line Music Series at the County Line Bar-b-q off IH-10. Every Thursday evening from Apr-Aug we gather at the County Line and collect both food and monetary donations for the Food Bank. Our efforts have not gone unrecognized as we were the 2011 Food Bank Volunteer

Group of the year. Additionally, nominated by the Food Bank to the United Way, we won the 2014 San Antonio United Way Volunteer Group of the Year for our continu-ing support of the Food Bank.

We have a great core membership group that works together plays together well. Though members come and go, we have some that love to volunteer for our charities and others that come for the social connections. We were fortunate to win the PHIP Golden Coconut Award in 2009 and feel we still embody those qualities that made us worthy of the award. No matter what the activity, we always have fun - even when picking up trash, sorting food, collecting donations, wrapping and delivering presents or listening to great music – we've been told that we always bring “the party" to whatever we are doing. We also have members that love to travel and support many other par-rot head clubs and events, and you can usually pick us out from the crowd!

To learn more about (or join!) the San Antonio Parrot Head Club, check out their website: www.saphc.org

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Financials Contributed By: Charlene Schultheis, PHiP Dir of Finance

Parrot Heads in Paradise, Inc. Financial Statement - General Fund - YTD as of March 31, 2017

Income:

Balance 12.31.16 $27,787

Membership/Handbooks-CD $29,468

Total Income $57,255

Expense:

Board Meeting/Meetings $3,366

Office Equipment $7,665

Printing/Postage $49

Returned Item/Serivce Fee $88

Scholarship $176

Total Expenses $11,344

Ending Balance: $45,911

Parrot Heads in Paradise, Inc. Financial Statement-Scholarship YTD as of March 31, 2017

Income:

Balance 12.31.16 $18,937

Credit Card Partner $137

Interest $2

Total Income $19,076

Expense:

Total Expense $0

Ending Balance: $19,076

Parrot Heads in Paradise Financial Statement MOTM Year to Date March 31, 2017

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Income:

Balance 12.31.16 $ 17,753

Convention Guide $ 250

Mini Mart $ 3,250

Registration $ 67,561

Total Income $ 88,814

Expenses:

Authorize.net (transaction fees) $ 88

Award/Giift $ 117

Bank Charge (iPayment) $ 1,838

Casa Marina $ 18,720

Entertainment $ 765

MOTM 2016 Grand Prize Winner $ 1,201

MOTM Meetings $ 1,382

MOTM Supplies $ 296

Postage/Printing $ 15

Tax software (1099) $ 154

Transportation $ 1,495

Website $ 48

Total Expense $ 26,118

Ending Balance: $ 62,696

Parrot Heads in Paradise Financial Statement Relationship Savings (Gen) YTD as of Mar31, 2017

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Parrot Heads in Paradise Financial Statement Relationship Savings (MOTM) YTD Mar 31, 2017

Income:

Balance 12.31.16 $91,550

Transfer from Checking

Interest $36

Total Income $91,586

Expenses

Transfer to Checking

Expenses: Total Expenses $0

Ending Balance: $91,586

Income:

Balance 12.31.16 $26,101

Interest $6

Total Income $26,108

Expense:

Total Expenses $0

Ending Balance: $26,108

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Thinking about entering the Golden Coconut Contest?? PHIP Director ofMembership will be-gan accepting entrieson July 1st!! Entries for the 2017 Golden Co-conut Award of Excellence, pre-sented by a representative of Margaritaville, Inc., will be ac-cepted via email from July 1st until August 30th, 2017. For all the new clubs and new leader's out there, here's a little history lesson: In 1996, Margari-taville and ParrotHeads In Para-dise, Inc. decided tocreate an award to be given to a deserving Parrot Head Club, emblematic and in recognition of the out-standing Charitable and Environ-mental efforts of ALL Parrot Head Clubs. Today, competition for the cov-eted award is waged through a "blind essay" submitted to an illustrious panel of judges com-posed of previous Golden Coco-nut Award recipients. If your club hasn't entered or has entered in the past and didn't win, then you should submit a first time entry or enter again!!! Did you know: * Many clubs who submit a blind essay for the contest have sub-mitted an essay before * Many clubs don't enter because they think it's based on member-ship or fundraising numbers. NOT TRUE!! Here are a few hints that might help: 1. BE CREATIVE!! (if it looks boring & not fun to read and it

really has nothing but fundrais-ing figures, it's probably going to get a low score). Make it fun to read! We know you all are creative out there! You show your creativity in your concert attire, tailgating, event decorations and events! Put that same creativity to paper!! 2. Read last year's winning essay, as well as previous winning essays!! They are posted at: http:// www.phip.com/club-winners Use their creativity as a Guide-line! 3. You can't win if you don't enter!! The Golden Coconut Award is like winning the Lot-tery of PHIP and gives your club membership into a very unique and small group of Clubs who use their win to their advantage! You have bragging rights to use on your website, on your club merchan-dise! You know you love to talk about your club to anyone who will listen!! Imagine tell-ing a potential sponsor of your event or club that your club is a Golden Coconut Winner and then explaining what it stands for!! We know you can be loud & proud .. put that spir-it down on paper!! 4. Follow the rules!! Yes, we gotta have some stinkin' rules ... (as all contests do). (see rules below) 5. Don't have time to write a blind essay to submit?? I would be willing to bet that you have someone in your club who is a creative writer! Tap them as a resource!! There is

NO rule that the Golden Coco-nut SUBMISSION must be written by a Club's Officer, the GC just needs to be submitted by the club's contact!! Some-times a member who would love to contribute in some way just needs to be asked! 6. Every chapter, with the ex-ception of previous Golden Coconut recipients after 2011, regardless of size or age, has an equal opportunity to win this most coveted designation! CONTEST CLOSES AU-GUST 30th, 2017. THE RULES: * All clubs, with the exception of previous Golden Coconut recipients after 2011 are eligi-ble to enter the contest * Entries must be received by this office no later than August 30th, 2017 * Entries received after 8/30 will be returned unopened * Electronic submissions, in MSWORD format, are accepta-ble and encouraged * Entry is to be by blind essay – No recognizable references to club name, city, state, local charities, etc. may be included. Entries with any discernable reference will be returned to the author for editing, if time allows

THE 2017 GOLDEN COCONUT AWARD CONTEST

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PHIP NEWSLETTER CONTEST FOR 2017

The 2017 annual PHiP News-letter Contest opens July 1st and I encourage each & every one of you to submit your best for consideration. RULES: 1. All clubs are eligible to par-ticipate 2. Submissions must be re-ceived in this office no later than August 31, 2017. Entries received after August 31, 2017 will be returned unopened ... 3. Judging will be done by a panel of five (5) volunteer judg-es selected at random, whose decision will be final … 4. Both hard copy and on-line newsletters are eligible for con-sideration. However, on-line newsletters must be printed out and submitted in hard copy form. PRIZES: 1st Place ------ $ 300 donation to your local charity of choice, 2nd Place ------ $ 200 donation to your local charity

of choice, 3rd Place ------ $ 100 donation to your local charity of choice. TO ENTER: Please send seven (7) originals of the SAME issue of your most recent newsletter to the following address: PHiP Membership Newsletter Contest P.O. Box # 1647 Wildwood, FL 34785-1647 REMEMBER: Your newsletter may not be the best ... but it may be the best the judges see! Winners will be announced at the General Membership Meet-ing during Meeting Of The Minds. Good Luck!! Sue Kermis Director of Membership PHIP, Inc. phipmembership@gmail.com

Spaces in the convention guide are on a first come, first served basis and space is limited (prior advertisers will be given prefer-ence). Make sure to reserve your OFFICIAL club ad today! Also, as an added perk, Parrot Head Clubs get a discount!! You don’t want to miss out on your opportunity to participate in such a momentous event. So don’t delay, jump on this amaz-ing offer TODAY! The Particulars: INSERTION ORDERS AND MONEY MUST BE RE-CEIVED BY JUNE 1ST. (NO

GET YOUR AD FOR MOTM CONVENTION

GUIDE Greetings from the Meeting of the Minds Convention Guide Advertising team! My name is Sara Kessler and I have volun-teered to help out with the 2017 Convention Guide sales this year. We are especially excited about our convention guide this year and hope you are as well! If you have a big event coming up you’d like to share with the Par-rot Head Nation, there’s no bet-ter way to promote a local or re-gional event then with the MOTM Convention Guide.

EXCEPTIONS) ARTWORK IS DUE IN NO LATER THAN JULY 1ST. (NO EXCEPTIONS) ADS NOT PAID AFTER JULY 1ST WILL FORFEIT THEIR AD SPACE RESER-VATION. (NO EXCEP-TIONS) If you have any questions, please feel free to email me at the official 2017 MOTM Con-vention Guide email address: motmadvertising@gmail.com. Sara Kessler MOTM Convention Guide Chair

* There is no minimum nor maxi-mum length for the submission * Judging will be conducted by a pan-el composed of previous Golden Coconut Award winners, whose decision will be final * The 2017 Golden Coconut Award winner will be announced at the General Membership Meeting dur-ing Meeting Of The Minds. Please direct any questions to: phip-membership@gmail.com with GOLDEN COCONUT in the sub-ject line. Get that creativity going NOW! This would be a great time to put your thoughts down & still have time for edits. Good luck!! Sue Kermis Director of Membership Parrot Heads in Paradise, Inc.

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Did you know there’s a Featured Club page on the Parrot Heads in Paradise website? Well, now you do! It can be found at https://www.phip.com/featured and is cur-rently featuring the San Antonio PHC. Past posts have been on the San Diego PHC, Chicago PHC, Virtual PHC and several other very

worthy clubs. This feature is a great way to not only be recognized by the Parrot Head world but also a good re-cruiting tool for your club. Imag-ine saying to prospective mem-bers, “We’re being directly pro-moted by our National organiza-tion! Check it out!”

Think your club is awesome and worthy of its own spot-light? I’m pretty sure you’re right so send me a note at cheese-head_in_paradise@yahoo.com and we’ll talk. Thanks for par-ticipating! Kathy Pfister President, PHiP, Inc.

FINS WAY UP to all of you that “Partied with a Purpose” this past quarter! To be included in this list you need to post on the PHiP Club Leader’s Yahoo groups lists when you have a charitable or community service activity. Or you can send an email direct to me at ssspenny@att.net. Some clubs write a short “quarterly report” or recap of their activities and post or send that to share their accomplishments. If you post on a facebook page, please copy the in-formation and put it in an email to send out - not everyone is on facebook and newsfeeds do not reach everyone!

Arizona PHC

Barefoot Children of FLL

Baton Rouge PHC

Beaches A1A PHC

Berks County PHC

Blossomland Pirates PHC

Canyon Lake PHC

Cedar Creek Lake PHC

Central Alabama PHC

Central Illinois PHC

Central Oklahoma PHA

Central Texas PHC

Chicago PHC

Clinton County PHC

Coast of Carolina PHC

Colorado PHC

Detroit PHC

Eastern Illinois PHC

Emerald Coast PHC

Galveston Bay PHC

Hillbilly PHC

Houston PHC

Inland Empire Parrot Head

Club

Isle O' Bama PHC

Isle of Iowa PHC

Lakes Area Parrot Heads

London PHC

Lone Star PHC

LowCountry PHC

Lower Alabama PHs

Metro PHC

Midwest Indiana PHC

Mobile Bay PHC

Nature Coast PHC

North Coast PHC

NorthWest Indiana PHC

Ocean State PHC

Ozark Mountain PHs

Palmetto PHC

Parrot Heads of the Prairie

ParrotHead Pirates of the

California Delta

Phin City PHC

PHINdy PHC

PHs in Lincolnland

PHs in Michiana

PHs of Central Florida

PHs of North Carolina

PHs of Puget Sound

Phun Coast PHC

Pirates on the Water

Pittsburgh PHC

Quad City PHC

San Antonio PHC

San Diego PHC

Savannah PHC

Seguin PHC

Southern Wisconsin PHC

St. Louis PHC

St. MinneSomePlace PHC

Strange Birds of Little Rock

Tallahassee PHC

Tampa Bay PHC

Towns Around Biloxi PHC

Treasure Coast PHC

Tulsa PHC

West Georgia PHC

Western New York PHC

Western North Carolina PHC

PHIP FEATURED CLUB

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Parrot Head Clubs Celebrating Birthdays This Quarter!

APRIL

Coosa Landsharks 04/12/11

Strange Birds of Little Rock 04/18/04

Miami PHC 04/16/03

Phun Coast PHC 04/26/03

PHs of Central Florida 04/19/92

Sarasota Bay PHC 04/15/96

Atlanta PHC 04/01/89

West Georgia PHC 04/23/13

Central Illinois PHC 04/23/94

Finz Up, Lake Monroe! 04/28/12

Derby PHs 04/06/95

Pontchartrain PHC 04/21/11

PHC of Eastern Mass. 04/08/94

Nautical Whalers 04/03/00

St. Louis PHC 04/01/90

Towns Around Biloxi PHC 04/07/99

Pleasure Island PHs 04/29/98

Toes in the Water PHC 04/25/11

Western North Carolina PHC 04/12/98

Jersey Shore PHC 04/03/00

Western New York PHC 04/01/97

Youngstown PHC 04/19/07

Tulsa PHC 04/28/93

Hanover Area PHS 04/10/99

Ocean State PHC 04/11/94

Houston PHC 04/01/94

Lone Star PHC 04/14/95

Party Pirates PHC 04/29/13

Southern Wisconsin PHC 04/17/93

London PHC 04/01/98

Parrothead SouthEast O 04/04/16

MAY

San Diego PHC 05/11/95

PHC of Connecticut 05/16/92

Lake Lanier PHC 05/01/94

Isle of Iowa PHC 05/09/97

Southern Idaho PHC 05/08/09

Pirates of the Red 05/15/12

Ocean City PHC 05/03/98

Tri-City PHC 05/27/07

Mid-Michigan PHC 05/28/03

Traverse City PHC 05/20/05

PHs on the Pamlico 05/03/05

Central Oklahoma PHA 05/17/93

Last Mango in Paris 05/16/04

Cedar Creek Lake PHC 05/19/00

PHs of the Old Dominion 05/12/95

Vermont PHC 05/23/95

Central Wisconsin PHC 05/25/99

Pirates of the Northwoods 05/20/09

Saskatoon PHC 05/16/10

JUNE

New Smyrna Beach PHC 06/30/10

Key West PHC 06/29/98

Space Coast PHC 06/22/05

Tallahassee PHC 06/17/96

Northwest Georgia PHC 06/22/08

Northern Illinois PHC 06/14/99

Northwest Indiana PHC 06/09/00 PHC of the Northern Tropics 06/09/08

Blossomland PHC 06/24/14

PHs of the Triad 06/07/99

Coastal Jersey PHC 06/12/03 Pirates of the Susque-hannah 06/02/05

Black Diamond PHC 06/10/03

Presque Isle PHC 06/08/04

LowCountry PHC 06/04/96

Pickwick PHC 06/08/04 Southside Virginia Land-sharks 06/10/02

PHs of Puget Sound 06/11/95

Australian PHC 06/21/01

Vancouver Island 06/17/15

Top 20 PH Clubs as of Dec 31, 2016

The top clubs are listed in order beginning with 1st place. The Villages PHC - 1,185 Key West PHC - 768 Cedar Creek Lake PHC - 602 Charlotte Harbor PHC - 547 Galveston Bay PHC - 509 Tampa Bay PHC – 495 San Diego PHC – 488 Emerald Isle PHC - 450 Lone Star PHC - 445 Central Oklahoma PHC - 413 Detroit PHC - 375 PHs of Central Florida - 344 Sarasota Bay PHC - 332 Quad City PHC - 330 Space Coast PHC - 308

San Antonio PHC - 298 Western New York PHC - 297 Colorado PHC - 287 Hanover Area PHC - 272 Metro PHC - 254 Congratulations to our Top 20 Parrotthead Clubs for recruit-ing and retaining their mem-bership rolls!!! We wish you all the best in 2017!! Sue Kermis Parrot Heads in Paradise, Inc. Director of Membership phipmembership@gmail.com

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PHiP REGIONAL EVENTS

WHO: Northwest Arkansas PHC

WHAT: Beach House on the Hill

WHERE: Fayetteville, AR

WHEN: July 15, 2017

BENEFITS: Flock for Rock

MORE INFO: Debbie Neese at debbimckee@yahoo.com

WHO: Ft Lauderdale PHC

WHAT: Water Taxi Pub Crawl

WHEN: May 19 – 21, 2017

WHERE: Riverside Hotel, Ft Lauderdale, FL

BENEFITS: Multiple Charities

MORE INFO: www.barefootchildrenphc.com

WHO: Beaches A1A PHC

WHAT: 21st Annual Beach Bash

WHEN: July 14 -15, 2017

WHERE: Amelia Island, FL

BENEFITS: Alzheimer’s Association

MORE INFO: www.a1aparrotheads.org

WHO: Multiple PH Clubs

WHAT: One Particular Phlocking

WHERE: Princeton, NJ

WHEN: May 5 -6, 2017

BENEFITS: Multiple Charities

MORE INFO: oneparticularphlocking.com

WHO: Savanah PHC

WHAT: 11th Annual Scavenger Hunt

WHERE: Savanah, GA

WHEN: April 29, 2017

BENEFITS: Memorial Health Foundation Prostate Can-cer Support Fund

MORE INFO: savannahphcevents.webs.com

WHO: Route 66 PHC

WHAT: Crawfish and Shrimp Boil

WHEN: June 24, 2017

WHERE: Sullivan, MO

BENEFITS: Russell House

MORE INFO: www.route66parrotheads.com

WHO: Central Illinois PHC

WHAT: Leather and Leis River Poker Run

WHERE: East Peoria Boat Club, Peoria, IL

WHEN: July 8, 2017

BENEFITS: Illinois Cancer Care Foundation

MORE INFO: www.ciphc.org

WHO: Emerald Coast Parrot Head Club

WHAT: Tailgates Down Phriends All Around Concert Series

WHERE: Destin, FL

WHEN: May 20, 2017

BENEFITS: Children in Crisis

MORE INFO: ecparrotheads.org/news/

tailgates-down-phriends-all-around/

WHO: Parrot Heads of Puget Sound

WHAT: Laid Back Attack

WHERE: Olympia, WA

WHEN: July 20 – 23, 2017

BENEFITS: Animal Rescue and USO

MORE INFO: www.laidbackattack.com

WHO: Chicago PHC

WHAT: Summer Chi ill 2017

WHEN: Aug 3-6, 2017

WHERE: St Charles, Ill

BENEFITS: Cornerstone Services, Inc

MORE INFO: http://www.summerchi-ill.com/

Events cont on page 16.

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Are you missing out on advertising your party or event? Advertise your club’s activities on your Regional Calendar by contacting your RC today!! You can also send events directly to ssspenny@att.net - put Tradewind Times Event as subject. Be sure to list WHO, WHAT, WHEN, WHERE, WHO BENEFITS, and where to get MORE INFO! You never know when people might want to travel to your area!

WHO: Eastern Illinois PHC

WHAT: C U in the Prairibbean

WHEN: Aug 5, 2017

WHERE: Champaign, Ill

BENEFITS: Annual Fundraiser

MORE INFO: www.eiphc.org

WHO: Charlotte Harbor PHC

WHAT: 10th Annual Birthday Bash

WHEN: Sept. 1-3, 2017

WHERE: Days Inn Hotel, Port Charlotte, FL

BENEFITS: Back Pack Kidz & Time Out Respite Care

MORE INFO: https://chphc.com

Events cont from page 15.