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Dec. 7, 2011 Vol. 2 No. 39
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Event Highlights
For a complete listing see our calendar.
Dec. 7
- Farmers' Market Moonlight Madness
Dec. 8 - Green Drinks Annapolis
- Midnight Madness One
Dec. 15 - Chesapeake Legal Alliance Holiday Open House
- Chesapeake Regional Tech Council Holiday Info Mixer - Midnight Madness Two Dec. 17
"It's a Wonderful Life" in West Annapolis Dec. 21 - Magothy River Association Meeting
Dec. 20 - Severn River Association Meeting Jan. 24 - Green Drinks Annapolis
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A "Great Deal" for Everyone!
Landmarks Great Deals announces a local fundraising opportunity
it's a First - with Annapolis Green!
Annapolis Green and Landmarks Great Deals (LGD) announce a partnership to keep the momentum of Shopping Local going, not only now during the holiday season, but continuing through the cold days of January and February.
Local merchants get terrific exposure via LGD's online, social media and traditional marketing; shoppers get the great deals - some discounts are as deep as 90 percent; and our newly nonprofit Annapolis Green gets a donation when our followers and friends purchase these great deals using the Annapolis Green promo code.
Annapolis Green, long a promoter of living, working and playing sustainably in this area via our website and "in-person social networking" Green Drinks events, will soon become a non-profit entity. This will allow us to take our work to the next level by raising funds for projects that will benefit the greater Annapolis area, both environmentally and economically.
The partnership with LGD is a great way the community can help Annapolis Green do its good work!
So here's how it works
Annapolis Green supporters go to LGD's website, landmarksgreatdeals.com, to see Today's Deal. If it appeals to you, click on Buy Now or Buy it for a Friend. That will take you to the purchase page. The deals can be anything from discounts at restaurants, hair salons, retail stores and more.
Here's the important part: In the Donation Code box, type in 1dd2da. That will attach your purchase to us and Annapolis Green will receive a donation from Landmarks! The rest is self-explanatory.
We'll soon have a widget on the Annapolis Green website that will make the process even easier and will highlight the daily deals. Also, you can open an account and subscribe to LGD so you won't miss a thing.
Why are we doing this?
Landmarks Great Deals' goal is to compete with the big discounters such as Groupon to keep our shopping dollars local, right here in our area. This benefits our economy and every one of us. Since LGD is a 23-year old local company with some real roots in this market (and the other guys aren't), they have great relationships with in the community and continually come up with the best offers of any of the current deal sites.
As another way to giving back to the community LGD is donating a portion of its profits to worthy groups like ours - and we're the first!
Annapolis Green, as a non-profit, has a lot of work ahead promoting environmental initiatives and projects so we are exploring many fundraising opportunities. We are happy to be a partner of Landmarks Great Deals.
Part of sustainability is supporting our own - because without our locally owned, independent businesses, well, Annapolis just wouldn't be Annapolis!
Sign up at Green Drinks ... encourage your friends too, so we can tap you in for more fun and savings (at your leisure) in the New Year! Rumor has it ... there will be bonus dollars handed out for all those signing up at Green Drinks!
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Top of the Line
 | Thursday, December 8
5:30 - 7:30 p.m.
Maryland Inn Top of Main Street, on the circle
Free. Cash bar. No RSVP needed. |
Begin your Midnight Madness with Green Drinks!
Hosted by Historic Inns of Annapolis, we are taking over the first floor of the historic Maryland Inn -- lobby, ballroom -- complete with decorations and cozy fires in real fireplaces!
The cash bar will include organic wines and local beer along with mixed drinks. They'll be treating us to  complimentary coffee and tea and generous appetizers, including a potato bar (!) Read more on our website. The inn will be showing off their very own "greening" initiatives as well.
Outside, the holiday merriment will be augmented by performances by the Wiley H. Bates Performing Arts Chorus. Inside, local musician Mike Ruocco will entertain us. He is the Singer/Songwriter for the bands Cinder Road and SR-71. Read about Mike at www.mikeruocco.com. What a treat!
We're going to be at the perfect location -- at the top of Main Street -- from which to head out into the night and be part of the very special social and community experience that is Midnight Madness. Come shop until midnight, enjoy the merchants' hospitality, hear music and carolers on the street, and just enjoy our town. Midnight Madness includes Main Street, Inner West Street, and Maryland Avenue. The performance schedule is on the Annapolis Business Association's Facebook page.
Historic Inns will be giving us Green Drinkers a 10% discount for dinner at the Treaty of Paris on Midnight Madness nights - 8th and 15th! There's no more cozy a holiday setting than Treaty with its history, brick walls, roaring fire, you get the picture.
 Event Sponsor -- Thank you to Smart Home Services for sponsoring our event.
Smart Home Services is a Baltimore-based performance contractor specializing in energy audits, energy efficient home improvements and bringing sustainable knowledge to high-end custom building services in Maryland and DC. This is the perfect time of year to jump into home improvements and make your home more beautiful for the holidays. Call 410 329-1103 today and mention GREEN DRINKS to receive 10% off green interior home improvements.
Our friends at Chesapeake Regional Tech Council also will help us kick off the evening and we will join with them to rev up next Thursday's Midnight Madness Two following CRTC's 4th Annual Holiday InfoMixer on Thursday, December 15, from 5:30 - 7:30 p.m. at the Westin Annapolis Hotel. Click for more info.
Remember, there will be no other holiday vendors at Green Drinks -- we want to encourage you to hit the streets and support our local, independent businesses.
And here's a call out to any local merchants and vendors. We have display tables for you to futher encourage customers tonight with any promotions/coupons, brochures, etc.
Lastly, thanks for bringing your name badges AND anyone who would like to help out for the evening -- please let us know!
Cheers and see you tomorrow,
Elvia & Lynne
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It's incredibly important to shop local and support our economy. For every $100 spent at a locally owned business, $45 goes back into the economy. The same $100 spent at a chain store leaves only $14 in the local economy. Click here to learn more. Local businesses: it's part of what makes Annapolis, Annapolis!
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Don't Forget to Support Us Through
Mills Fine Wine & Spirits'
Community Rewards Program
Give us your Mills cash register receipts!
 When you shop at Mills, at the foot of Main Street in downtown Annapolis, save your cash register receipts and give them to us. Once a quarter we'll turn them in to receive a 5% rebate as a donation from Mills.
This generous offer costs you nothing and will allow us to keep spreading the word about environmental issues in Annapolis. And, four to six times a year Mills will provide unique wine, spirit and beer offers specifically created for as special promotions just for Green Drinkers! It's a Win-Win! Please shop at Mills and save your receipts for us.
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Homes for the Holidays
See Annapolis for Christmas like you've never seen it before! How? Join Annapolis Urban Adventures for its inaugural "Homes for the Holidays" excursion aboard an eCruiser! Mention Annapolis Green and $5 of your $25 fare will be donated to Annapolis Green!  From now until January 1, the 1+ hour excursions will take in the "Lights & Sights" of Decorated Homes and Shops in Murray Hill, Historic Downtown Annapolis, the Harbor area and Eastport. Your trip will end with a FREE Hot Chocolate, Coffee, Tea or non-alcoholic Egg Nog and a vote for your favorite decorated home and business. Excursions are available from 5:30-11:00 p.m. |Read more The eCruisers will be decked out and ready to roll right after Green Drinks! Look for them as you leave our event.
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Stormwater Legislation Action Report
About 30 people turned out on Monday night to testify in favor of Bill 79-11, Stormwater Restoration Fund legislation introduced by Anne Arundel County Council members Chris Trumbauer and Dick Ladd. Watershed Stewards, the local Homebuilders Association, commercial builders, persons who have gotten sick from contact with the water, and watershed groups all supported passage of a $35 a year fee to create a dedicated fund to restore our waterways. The Council voted to hold the bill until the next session after several questions were raised about State plans to raise the "flush fee" and what impact that increase might have on businesses and individuals.
There will not be a hearing on December 19th, but if the bill is amended there will be another hearing in January. Keaghan Muller, the South Riverkeeper's young son, got the Council's attention when he said, "I would like to proclaim that it is not fair that the stormwater runoff is destroying our resources like in the South River. We have dirty water and cancerous catfish. We must pay our share so that future kids can have clean water."
Kincey Potter
Board Vice Chairman
Anne Arundel Watershed Stewards Academy
H 410 280-6254 C 443-223-6392
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The Annapolis Business Association will be selling the lovely 2011 Annapolis Christmas Ornament at Green Drinks. 
