Cute photo of the week! Frank (on top), Porsche the Boxer and Julie the American Shorthair.

Fish on!  Buoy 10 opens August 1 through August 31.

Like Covered Bridges?  Mark your calendars for the Grays River Celebration.

Remember, you can keep up on the latest listings from my website, Discovery Coast Real Estate.  Just visit NEWEST LISTINGS and contact us for more information.

Here’s something to plan for:  The SW Washington YMCA is planning a big weekend at the beach and it sounds like lots of fun for everyone:

August 22^nd 1pm Hilltop Bowl in Ilwaco $20 entry fee gets you 2 games and lunch. We are looking for a total of 8 teams of 6. We will have raffle prizes and a 50/50 raffle for cash money too. As well as a grand prize for the team with the combined highest score. And special prizes for the team with the best Hawaiian shirts or team shirts. Contact Craig at Lost Weekend Clothing Company for your team shirts at 360-642-LOST or www.lostweekendclothing.com

August 23^rd 10am at Peninsula Golf Course $40 entry fee gets you 9 holes and a BBQ lunch afterward. We are also still looking for hole sponsors ($50), a hole in one challenge sponsor for hole #4 and raffle items. We will be selling Mulligans, Putting String and a 50/50 raffle for cash money.

For more info, contact Trish Potter.

THIS WEEK’S PICK OF THE LISTINGS:

PORT OF ILWACO TURN KEY RESTAURANT WATERVIEW DINING $240,000 CLICK PHOTO FOR MORE INFO.

Just a reminder: Starting in August, I will no longer be sending out regular emails. Instead, I’m encouraging all of you to sign up for my website’s RSS feed. This new technology is great! Here’s how it works: click the link below and type in your email address. The next time I post a new listing on my blog, you’ll get an email with all the information! This way, you’ll hear about my hot new listings right away, instead of having to wait until my next newsletter. If the signup link here doesn’t work for you, you can also sign up on my website – look for the big blue box at the top of the sidebar. And, of course, please call or email me if you have any questions or problems with signing up!

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We would like to thank all the people and businesses that helped to make our first “Home Buyer Fair” a success: Raymond Federal Bank, Colvin’s Home Inspections, Strand Insurance, Pacific County Title and Metropolitan Mortgage.  And thank you to the businesses who supplied door prizes: Full Circle Cafe & Tapestry Rose Yarn Shop, Lost Weekend Clothing, Imperial Schooner and Great Escape Espresso.

If you missed it, too bad!  But we still have a lot of info for you so feel free to stop by.

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	CROWN JEWEL OF J PLACE! PRICE JUST REDUCED TO $599,000 3 bedrooms and 2-1/2 baths with stunning views of both the ocean and the Willapa Hills MORE INFO
	NEW LISTING!  30006 H Pl, Surfside Canal Frontage 61′ x 130′ $45,000

This month has certainly flown by! We’ve had some wonderful sunshine, wind & rain and now they say we may get snow! Well, why not? That’s what makes living at the beach so interesting.

Watch for more news on what’s happening here on the Discovery Coast!

BBB recommends not trusting text messages that discuss finances. Lake Oswego, OR — Feb. 18, 2009 — Your Better Business Bureau has received recent inquiries showing that con artists are using text messages to attempt to scam financial-institution customers. Scam examples: – Washington and Oregon consumers called your BBB saying they received the following scam text message: “Application Center / This is an automated message from Cullman Savings Bank. Your ATM card has been suspended. To reactivate call urgent at 1-888-873-9356.” Cullman Savings Bank Web site says they “do not use e-mail, text messaging or telephone calls to verify personal or account information.” – Alaska consumers called your BBB and Alaska State Troopers sent out a press release warning that text messages were being sent that falsely informed consumers their Credit Union One account had been suspended. It directed mobile phone owners to call the bank at 870-345-4202, or visit 8705874360@cu1.org to resolve the problem. Credit Union One will never send consumers a text message or e-mail to verify account information. Smishing: Such scams – where consumers are contacted through a text message in hopes of swiping their personal information – are known as smishing. Your BBB advises the following to avoid smishing scams: – Assume unsolicited text messages are fraudulent. – Know your financial institutions’ communication policies. These can be found on the Web site or by calling the customer service line. Financial institutions will never contact you for personal or account information via text message or e-mail. – If you receive an unsolicited message supposedly from a financial institution, contact the business at the number you know is valid – not the number in the unsolicited message. Check the legitimacy of the message in this way. Never reply back, click on links or visit Web sites from unsolicited messages. – Consumers can also report unsolicited text messages to their phone service provider. – If you discover you have provided financial account information to a scam artist, contact the financial institution immediately. If you had money stolen from the account, file a police report and place a fraud alert with the three major credit reporting agencies: Equifax, 800-525-6285; Experian, 888-397-3742; and TransUnion, 800-680-7289. Visit www.bbb.org to stay up-to-date on scams affecting your area.

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