For the third year in a row, we here at the Ocean Isle Inn are working together with our parent company Sloane Realty to raise money for Habitat for Humanity here in Brunswick County.

Last year, a contribution of $20,000 was made to the local chapter of Habitat and we want to exceed that this year.

As you may know, the goal of Habitat for Humanity is to help provide families with a safe, decent place to live.  Through contributions of money, materials and labor, homes that were once a dream are now a reality.  The owners of the home participate in the construction of the home by providing their “sweat equity”.

Once the families become residents of their new home, payments are made based on their individual financial circumstances.

To help meet and exceed the donations we received in 2008, this year Sloane Realty is sponsoring a golf tournament on June 13.  All participants will automatically be entered in a raffle with seven vacation prizes to be awarded.  One of the prizes is a one week stay in an apartment in Athens, Greece!  For more information, please go to this site: http://www.SLOANEROOFRAISER.com.

For the guests of the Ocean Isle Inn, donations can be made either at check-in or for those guests who choose to make online reservations, a donation can be made then.  Contributions of any amount are welcome and go to a very worthy cause.

The weekend of April 24th, BMW OBX Cruz for the Cure rallied for an auction to benefit the research at Duke University for Parkinson's Disease. This was one of the many BMW cars that filled the parking lot of The Ocean Isle Inn of Ocean Isle Beach, coastal NC. Photo taken by Maria M, one of the staff members for the INN.