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PORTS O’ CALL VILLAGE, SAN PEDRO, CA – SEPTEMBER 9, 2007 – Guests at the Port of Los Angeles Lobster Festival will have a chance to meet real movie stars when cast members from Pirates of the Caribbean: Curse of the Black Pearl will make a personal appearance at the Brethren of the Coast Pirate Camp on Saturday, Sept 15, and Sunday September 16 to raise funds for Children’s Hospital of Orange County. Autographed photos will be available for a small fundraising fee, as will photo opportunities with the cast members for guests who bring their own camera. Supplied photos will cost $10.00 and $5.00 for a photo opp.

On deck with the Brethren of the Coast and raising funds for Children’s Hospital of Orange County will be Michael Berry, Jr. who played Twigg; Isaac Singleton, Jr. who played the Bo’sun; Treva Etienne who played Koehler and Vince Lozano who played Jacoby. They will be at the camp 11 am to 8 pm on Saturday and 11 am to 6 pm on Sunday.

Over the past nine years the producers of the Lobster Festival have donated over $100,000.00 to local non-profits including Harbor Interfaith Services, the San Pedro Chamber of Commerce, San Pedro Rotary Club, La Piazza Cultural Center, Hurricane Katrina Relief and others.
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PORTS O’ CALL VILLAGE, SAN PEDRO, CA – AUGUST 23, 2007 – First Class Tickets for the Port of Los Angeles Lobster Festival are now on sale. Tickets may be ordered three ways: Online at www.lobsterfest.com, by calling Harbor Interfaith at 310-241-0292 or in person during normal business hours at the Harbor Interfaith offices. Last year’s record profits from the First Class ticket sales enabled Harbor Interfaith’s food bank to feed over 2,000 people for two months.

First Class Guests can choose from two options this year – with and without a lobster meal. With the meal tickets cost $39.00 and without the meal only $25.00. If purchased separately all the First Class benefits would cost over $50.00
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AUGUST 6, 2007 – SAN PEDRO, CA. – At 7:30 am on Friday, Sept. 14, the Port of Los Angeles Lobster Festival kicks off with a rumble on the waterfront at the Third Annual Lobster Breakfast. The 110 member “Cranberry Tarts of San Pedro” go up against Lomita’s “Dames of Whinin’ Roses” for the second time in a lobster hat throwdown to see whose hat will become the King of Crustaceans’ Official Crown – and earn a donation for the winner’s charity. The Cranberry Tarts will be defending their title this year. The 2006 Lobster Breakfast received television coverage in over 17 states and as far away as Hawaii and Alaska.

The sisters who will be strutting their hattitude belong to the Red Hat Society, a national “dis–organization” whose qualifications for membership include being over 50 and attending meetings in full regalia (red hat, purple outfit and usually a bright crimson feather boa).

“We think this is a wonderful way to have some fun, do some good and showcase LA’s exciting waterfront,” said Cranberry Tart Vice-Queen Dorothy Matich, last year’s winner. “We’re going to show those crimson chicks from Lomita what a radical fringe is all about.”
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AUGUST 6, 2007 – SAN PEDRO, CA. – The July 12 episode of Rachael Ray’s hit television show featured a segment filmed during the 2006 LobsterDog Pet Parade at the Port of Los Angeles Lobster Festival. The parade takes place at noon on Saturday during the festival, and is a fundraiser for Peninsula Dog Parks, Inc.

“Peninsula Dog Parks has done an incredible job each year producing the LobsterDog Parade, and Rachael Ray managed to really capture both the originality of the costumes and the excitement of the parade,” said Jim Hall, Lobster Festival producer. “I’m so glad that all their hard work is bringing national attention to the great job they do.” The LobsterDog Parade has also been the subject of documentaries on American life produced in Germany and Korea.

“Being featured on the Rachael Ray Show puts San Pedro’s own Lobster Festival in a whole new category, we’re now officially a nationally recognized event,” Hall said. “No other food festival in Southern California has been featured on both the Food Network, and a show like Rachael Ray’s. I’d say that ranks Port of Los Angeles Lobster Festival right up there claw-to-claw as a major family event.
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