It’s back!  Remember that oversized wicker chair your mom place perfectly in the corner of the living, you called it the peacock chair, well its back with a fresh new look and style.  Pretty Please, the children’s boutique in Grand Boulevard, has revamped that favorite wicker chair, and introduces the new and improved Bonnet Chair.  It’s perfect for a child’s playroom or even your own pad.  Custom designed by owner Keely Fall and built by Andre Originals, the bright fuchsia lacquer paint and a lime green pattern cushion will transcend any room into the fun vibrant area that people of all ages can enjoy.  Fell’s keen design eye and unique personal style transformed this retro piece from a furniture fad has-been to an absolutely fabulous, trend-on piece.  Come in and visit Pretty Please to get some great design ideas for your child’s playroom, and even your room.  For more information visit www.grandboulevard.com or www.prettypleaseonline.com.

Grand Boulevard presents Restaurant Week/Dining for a Cause from November 9 – 13.  This exciting week-long event combines one-of-a-kind 3-course fixed price dinners ranging from $19.95 to $32.95 from our five signature restaurants and $1 dollar from each 3-course meal sold goes to Emerald Coast Children's Advocacy Center. As if that isn't incentive enough, each time you order the 3-course meal from Fleming’s Prime Steakhouse & Wine Bar, P.F. Chang’s China Bistro, Cantina Laredo, Tommy Bahama’s Restaurant & Bar and Mitchell’s Fish Market restaurant, you can enter to win a $1,000 Shopping Spree from Grand Boulevard - just in time for holiday shopping.

Come back each night for a great cause and to enter to win a $1,000 shopping spree.  On Friday, November 13, at 7:30 p.m. in Grand Park, the drawing for the winner of a $1,000 shopping spree will be drawn by special guest author Sister Schubert of Sister Schubert rolls fame.  Come out and listen to radio station Coast 93.3 who will be on hand in Grand Park Friday night spinning tunes from their “80s all weekend” show.  Grand Boulevard’s Town Center will be decorated early for the holidays that week to provide you with a beautiful and memorable dining experience.

Restaurant Week/Dining for a Cause offers a wonderful opportunity to enjoy delicious meals at great prices and allows you the chance to give back while dining out. For more information about Restaurant Week visit www.grandboulevard.com.

Grand Boulevard at Sandestin^® announced the selection of The Emerald Coast Children’s Advocacy Center in Niceville as its beneficiary for the first-ever Restaurant Week: Dining for a Cause.  Scheduled November 9 – 13, the week will feature a specially selected three-course meal at each of Grand Boulevard’s five signature restaurants: Fleming’s Prime Steakhouse & Wine Bar, P.F. Chang’s China Bistro, Tommy Bahama’s Restaurant & Bar, Cantina Laredo Mexican Gourmet and Mitchell’s Fish Market. The Center receives one dollar for each select three-course meal sold during the week.  In addition to the specially prepared three course meals each night, each visit during the week earns the patron an entry into a drawing for a $1,000 Shopping Spree from Grand Boulevard – just in time for the holidays!  The drawing will be held the evening of November 13 at Grand Park in Grand Boulevard.  For more information about Restaurant Week, and Emerald Coast Children’s Advocacy Center, visit www.grandboulevard.com or www.eccac.org.  

The Orvis Company will present their Fall Orvis Days Seminar scheduled October 8 – 18.  The week’s event will feature seminars from the Panhandle Flyfishers, Espy of Florida Fish and Game, Captain Mike Mangum and Captain Preston Sutter of Shallow Water Expeditions, Alaqua Pet Rescue, and various other representatives from Orvis and other local clubs.  Enjoy swamp fishing tales as you enjoy lunch at Orvis at Sandestin.  Special promotions will be available all week.  Adopt a dog and receive a 20% discount on all your new pooch’s needs.  Love fish and fish tales, head over to Orvis and indulge yourself in nature’s natural pleasures.  For more information on Fall Orvis Days visit www.grandboulevard.com. 

Early bird special!  The UPS Store extended their hours to better serve the working public.  The UPS Store will now be open Monday through Friday from 7:30 a.m. - 6 p.m., and on Saturaday from 9 a.m. - 4 p.m.  For more information visit www.theupsstorelocal.com/4873. 

Coldwater Creek presents Blue Jeans in Pink sweepstakes, an exciting new program launched in support of Breast Cancer Awareness Month. From October 1^st – 31^st, customers are able to enter to win 16 pairs of one-of-the-kind celebrity custom-decorated jeans.  All donations support Susan G. Komen Race for the Cure^®.  For more information about Coldwater Creek’s Breast Cancer Awareness Month visit www.coldwatercreek.com/komen.

Emerald Coast Coffee & Grille present a weekly in-house concert featuring guitarist Scott Gilmore.  Look forward to great Contemporary Jazz, Pop, Classic, and Latin music every Thrusday night from 5 p.m. - 7 p.m.