321 Lift Off

Join us Friday, August 20 at 10 a.m. when we speak with our guests Jeanna Merrifield, co-owner of Wild Ocean Seafood, and Cinthia Sandoval, Marketing & Outreach Director for Wild Ocean Seafood.

Wild Ocean Seafood Market has over six generations of fishermen, shrimpers, and shipwrights behind them. Here you find the finest and freshest seafood to take home and cook at your leisure.

We will be discussing the shrimping industry and what comes through their docks - anything from a 10-pound Florida lobster to roe mullet- and delicious recipes to cook them. Also, we'll be hearing all about the rock shrimp legend!

Join us Friday, August 6, at 10 a.m. when we speak with our guest Penny Flaherty, owner of Island Boat Lines out of Cocoa Beach, and the Indian River Queen sailing from Cocoa Village.

Island Boat Lines offers pontoon boat tours that take you to see the wildlife along the Indian River. We will be on location aboard the Indian River Queen, a stunning three-deck paddlewheel boat that cruises majestically along the Indian River.

We will be discussing the various types of tours offered at Island Boat Lines, like their sunset-scenic cruises and launch viewing cruises

Join us Friday, July 23 at 1PM. when we will be speaking with our guest, Mitch Varnes, the Events Producer for many of the endurance running and triathlon events on the Space Coast and East Central Florida, including the well-known Cocoa Beach 10k, commonly known as the “I Dream of Jeannie” race. He is also known for his work on Florida's biggest pro surfing contests in history.

Mitch Varnes will be serving on the Surf Competition Management Team with the Tokyo Organizing Committee for the 2022 Special Olympics.

We will be discussing the events he has worked on in the past and awaiting a special announcement of exciting plans for a future special event coming early next year to Florida's Space Coast

Welcome to 321 Lift Off! Today our guest is Bob Papke, Manager of  the Maxwell C. King Center for the Performing Arts in Melbourne, Florida. The King Center presents a variety of performing arts and entertainment events.  He will discuss upcoming events and stars coming to perform

Welcome back to 321 Liftoff! Today we are joined by Michelle Goldcamp Manager of the Cocoa Beach Convention and Visitors Bureau; and Nancy Peltonen, CEO and President of the Greater Palm Bay Chamber of Commerce. We find out all great things about tourism in Cocoa Beach and Palm Bay. We also learn 3 things about Michelle and Nancy. Here's a hint... One of them is a line dancer!

Join us Friday, July 2 at 10 a.m. We will be speaking with our guests Rob Himler, Manager of Marketing and Communications for the Melbourne Orlando International Airport, and David Dow, Senior Vice President with Elite Airways.

Elite Airways was founded in 2006 by airline veterans looking to provide a better travel experience for their passengers. Elite Airways recently announced resuming flights from Melbourne to New York and New Jersey, boosting tourism to the Space Coast.

We will be discussing future growth planned for both Elite Airways and the Airport.

We will be speaking with our guest Paul O'Leary, Director of Marketing for the USSSA (the United States Specialty Sports Association), at the Space Coast Sports Complex.

The United States Specialty Sports Association (USSSA) was founded as the United States Slow-pitch Softball Association in the Spring of 1968 and currently governs 13 amateur sports nationally. Now sports teams from all over the United States come to the Sports Complex to compete and showcase their skills.

The USSSA Space Coast Complex is home to many sporting events like the upcoming Space Coast Cup Super-Regional Championship June 23-27 and the USSSA Space Coast World Series June 28 - July 3

321 Lift Off will be Live be speaking with Canaveral Port Authority Chairman Wayne Justice, a retired U.S. Coast Guard Admiral.

We will discuss cruising from Port Canaveral, tourism in the Cove area of the Port, and his coveted position as a military aide to President George H.W. Bush and President Bill Clinton.

Justice lived in the White House and traveled aboard Air Force One to all four corners of the globe because wherever the President went, Justice went

The 321 Lift Off crew will talk with the Visitor Services Manager Kim King-Wrenn. She works on permitting for eco-tour guides and her team

hosts over 1.5 million visitors to the Center each year. They provide tours and lectures for visitors from around

the world and environmental learning experiences for local schoolchildren.

Welcome back to 321 Lift Off! Hope you're hungry because we're at Q's Crackin Crab and Seafood Kitchen.