The Gulf Breeze Area Chamber of Commerce will host Pet Fest 2008 on Saturday, May 10, from 10am to 4pm, at the Shoreline Bark Park located at 800 Shoreline Drive across from the South Santa Rosa Recreation Center in Gulf Breeze.

Seven area veterinarians will be on-hand providing educational information on flea control, heart worm disease, micro-chipping, exotic pets & much more! Enter to win a Pet Fest contest: Pet Tricks at 11:30am, Anything Goes at 1pm, Pet/Owner Look-A-Like at 2pm and a Pet Fashion Show at 3pm. Be sure to stick around for the Best of Show Parade for all pets at 3:45pm. Mascots from the Pelicans, Ice Pilots, and Cat Country will also be on hand. The Santa Rosa and Gulf Breeze K-9 Units and the Five Flags Dog Training Club will give demonstrations throughout the day. Bring the kids to meet Tuffy, A Real American Quarter Horse Hero! Grilled hot dogs and beverages will also be served.

Sponsorships and Vendor space are still available. $5 admission fee. Proof of rabies vaccination for pets required. For more information call the Chamber at: 850-932-7888 or go to: www.gulfbreezechamber.com

The Great Gulfcoast Arts Festival is sponsoring its design competition to select the official GGAF poster for 2008. Creative artists of all ages are encouraged to submit their designs. Entries should be appropriate for replication for posters, silk screened T-shirts and other GGAF promotional items. Judging criteria will include viability of sales potential and submissions should be thematically related to the Arts Festival and the region.

The selected design will be announced May 26 on the GGAF website at www.ggaf.org. The selected artist will receive a $1,000 cash award, and the selected poster will be reproduced for sale during the Festival. Only 250 signed copies of the poster, which have become a regional collector's item, are available for sale each year.

Guidelines and examples of past poster designs are available at www.ggaf.org. Design entries must be received by noon, May 16, 2008. Entries need to be mailed or delivered to ARC Gateway, 3932 N. 10th Ave. Pensacola, Florida 32503. This year's Great Gulfcoast Arts Festival will be Nov. 7, 8 and 9 in Pensacola’s Seville Square.

The 5th Annual Outside Art Fair (OAF), is presented by the Arts Council of Northwest Florida. This local art show and sale features the works of over 100 local artists. The outdoor event is free and open to the public. The OAF event has in past years drawn upwards of 5,000 people and this year's fair, scheduled to be held on May 17th & 18th in Bartram Park on Bayfront Parkway will be no different. For more information, please visit the Arts Council of Northwest Florida's website at www.artsnwfl.org or call 850-432-9906.

The first King Mackerel event of the season is just a few short weeks away and getting closer by the minute. The 2008 Miller Lite Mack Attack is set for May 23 and 24 in Perdido Key, Fl. The mandatory Captain's Meeting will begin at 6:30 p.m. Friday, May 23 at Hub Stacey's at the Point, 5851 Galvez Rd., Pensacola and registration closes at 9 p.m. The scales will be open at Lost Key Marina and Yacht Club, the host site for the event, from 3 to 7 p.m. Saturday, May 24 and the awards will be presented at Hub's at 6 p.m. Sunday.

The Mack Attack not only signals the beginning of what promises to be a stellar season of fishing along the Gulf Coast, it also provides several unique features to set it apart from the crowd. King Mackerel, Cobia and Amberjack will be the target species and all boats registered before May 19 will be eligible for a free artificial reef courtesy of Pensacola Reef Builders.

Set at Perdido's Lost Key Marina, located at 10045 Sinton Dr., Pensacola, the Mack Attack is unique in location alone. Add kayak and pier divisions as well as bonus awards for the top lady and junior anglers as well as a target weight bonus and categories for single-engine boats and vessels 23 feet and under in length, and you have one of the most entertaining events on the water. The public is invited to attend the weigh-in and get a chance at great prizesand giveaways as well.

Entry forms and tournament brochures are available throughout the Pensacola area at most bait and tackle stores. All event proceeds will benefit Covenant Hospice. For more information, contact tournament director Brad Sauers at (850) 723-8834 or e-mail him at bradsauers@bellsouth.net.