THE VIRGINIAN-PILOT
Copyright (c) 1995, Landmark Communications, Inc.
DATE: Friday, January 6, 1995 TAG: 9501050174
SECTION: VIRGINIA BEACH BEACON PAGE: 10 EDITION: FINAL
SOURCE: BY BILL REED, STAFF WRITER
LENGTH: Short : 44 lines
An 80-page magazine, featuring a slick and beachy cover illustrated by local artist Rick Romano, will hit the streets Saturday with almost all the information city residents need to know about where and when to go for recreation and leisure.
Entitled ``Virginia Beach Guide To,'' the magazine will be distributed to local doorsteps, vending machines and magazine stands as an insert in The Virginian-Pilot and The Ledger-Star Saturday.
It is one of three annual issues to be published by the city's Parks and Recreation Department, and contains information on every youth and seniors recreation program offered by the city.
It also contains registration forms that will enable locals to sign up for various physical fitness, dance, drama and arts and crafts classes offered at city recreation centers and parks now through mid-May.
Pete Hangen, who heads the newly created marketing arm of the Parks and Recreation Department, said events publications from all six city recreation centers have been combined into three annual offerings.
There will be a winter-spring edition, which will be distributed this month; a summer edition, to be distributed in late April; and a fall edition, to be distributed in August.
``We were trying to get more of a one-stop-shopping concept with this,'' said Hangen who, with other Parks and Recreation staff members, began work on the first edition in early November.
Hangen hopes to beef up future editions with more information about the municipal golf programs offered in the city.
Cover artist Romano is a Virginia Beach native and is known locally for his newspaper illustrations, beach-oriented posters and paintings. ILLUSTRATION: Cover artist Rick Romano is a Virginia Beach native and is known
locally for his newspaper illustrations, beach-oriented posters and
paintings.
by CNB