Friday news

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Friday, April 16, 2004

*Port Royal to host Soft Shell Crab Festival on April 17
-Beaufort Gazette 4-16-04

*Boaters along portions of the Intracoastal Waterway in Georgia are almost certain to find some travel restrictions during the G-8 summit of world leaders in early June
-Coast News

*PGlynn County Health Department issued advisories Wednesday to swimmers to stay out of the water at all five Jekyll Island beaches, two on St. Simons Island and one on the south end of Sea Island after tests found high levels of bacteria
*Coast gears up for mosquito wars
-Brunswick News, 4-15-04

*Coast Guard finds boaters missing off Panhandle
-Florida Times Union, 4-16-04

*The Beach Act of 2000 required the nation's beach states to adopt uniform standards for monitoring beach-water quality
-St Augustine Record, 4-16-04

*Two whales swimming in waters about a mile and a half off Panama City Beach
-Panama City News Herald, 4-15-04