Cheli Strumila:  

Life After high school I moved to South Padre Island and then to Dallas where I spent the next 10 years working at the Improv Comedy Club and then at Foley's and Neiman Marcus working in cosmetics. I moved to South Padre Island to work Spring Break in '93 and was offered a job as a stewardess on a 117ft yacht ...it was awesome...spent the next 9 months traveling the Carribbean and decided to jump ship in Biloxi, MS when I was offered a job cocktailing at Casino Magic Biloxi. I cocktailed for 15 years, but in 1999 I started an entertainment paper called "Coast Nightlife Observer" that promotes fun and exciting concerts and shows happening in our fabulous casinos (we are now the 2nd largest gaming area in the US after Las Vegas) and all the wonderful bar,nighclubs and restaraunts on the Mississippi Gulf Coast. CNO grew to be the leading entertainement publication and I was able to quit Casino Magic Biloxi in Feb. 2004.....Now, 2013, my newspaper Coast Observer celebrated it's 14 year anniversary, I have had a Alabama Coast Observer in Gulf Shores/Orange Beach, AL for 3 years, I produce our Keesler AFB The Scoop for our local air force base, and I am c-owner of a hotel/condo guide called Magnolia. You can view my publications virtual online by searching coastobserver as this will not let me post the web address and then click on each cover... And ...Expand for more