Good day SURGE fans and welcome to the 51st edition of SaveSURGE News! We love SURGE more than Coca-Cola ever expected.

Sightings Report
There was just one new SURGE Sighting added since the last edition of SaveSURGE News. It is in Purcell, OK.

Sadly, there were four deletions. They were in: Lafayette, IN; Emporia, KS; Moore, OK & Oak Ridge, TN.

Currently, there are 174 SURGE Sightings listed. A great big thanks to all of you who are on the lookout for SURGE wherever you go!

SaveSURGE.org to be Featured in Beverage World
SaveSURGE.org is slated to be included in the June 2003 edition of Beverage World magazine! Beverage World is a huge beverage-industry publication which is subscribed to by over 54,000 people worldwide (more than 34,000 in the USA alone). Many of the people who read Beverage World are executives at soft drink companies who make decisions on which sodas to make and which to discontinue (nudge-nudge, wink-wink). In fact, Coca-Cola even makes a small mention of Beverage World on their website.

This is very big news for SURGE and for the website. The people who read this magazine are the ones we must convince that SURGE is missed, wanted and needed by its incredibly loyal fans. They are going to be reading the article and then they are going to visit SaveSURGE.org. SURGE fans, this is a big opportunity for all of us to make a statement together. I believe that we'll make that statement just by doing what we've been doing since February of 2002. Let's continue to show our undying love for that Fully-Loaded Citrus Soda and good things will happen!

The June edition of Beverage World is coming out sometime within the next week. We will have more info and hopefully a full transcript of the article available to you as soon as possible. In the meantime, let's keep fighting that good fight. It's YOUR time to shine.

URGE Update
As you know by now, SaveSURGE.org is running a campaign to bring SURGE's Norwegian equivalent, URGE, to the good old USA. We've asked you to go to the Real Soda message board and let them know that we want and are willing to buy URGE. Boy, have you responded! The topic we setup on the Real Soda message board is now 5 pages and counting, by far the largest and most popular topic on the board.

This week was a big step forward for our campaign as we received a letter from Danny, the head of Real Soda! The general tone of the letter is that Real Soda would indeed like to help us out and bring URGE to the USA. Danny writes "I enjoy seeing people fight to get something they want".

However (you knew there was a catch!), the process of importing a new drink isn't an easy one. "The biggest problem to get this drink URGE is going to be trying to find a way to officially import it.", Danny said. He added, "I'm going to send a note to someone who I know has family (in Norway) and see if they can make some contacts". This process could take 6 months or more, but it really depends on how quickly Real Soda can establish a contact in Norway and how difficult importing the soda ends up being.

That being said, Danny's letter has brought significant progress to our campaign. Avery & I would like to thank Danny and his staff over at Real Soda for their help! Their efforts to please SURGE fans all over the country should be applauded by all of us. While six months may seem like a long wait, remember that anything in life that is worth having can take some time. We ask that you stay patient and keep hoping that there is a way to bring URGE to the USA!

You may also want to check out the Real Soda store and browse their unbelievable selection of great sodas from all around the world. The store's address is: http://www.sodaking.com/. When you see some of the rare and out-of-the-way sodas they carry, you'll know why SaveSURGE.org asked them for help!

Another New Soda from Coke
Within the next week Coca Cola will begin test marketing another new soda, Barq's Floatz. It's yet another entry in a growing list of brand extensions, but this one actually sounds pretty good!

Barq's Floatz is a soda that is meant to taste like an old-fashioned root beer float. It even comes in a 12oz. glass bottle to give it an old school image. While this soda sounds intriguing, it's only going to be available in the great states of Louisiana and Mississippi (the birthplace of Barq's Root Beer) during its test market trial. If it does well enough in those areas, it may be produced in other places in the future.

If any SURGE fans in Louisiana or Mississippi have a chance to try this new beverage, we'd love to hear from you! Please e-mail us at surge@savesurge.org with your thoughts on Barq's Floatz.

New Bulletin Board
The brand new SaveSURGE.org Bulletin Board has passed its testing phase with flying colors and now it's ready for action! In fact, we've taken the old one off completely. The new, ultra-modern board features:

• Allows you to register with your very own username/password or post as an unregistered guest
  
• Send private messages to other users (registered users only)
  
• Search the board for specific keywords
  
• Upload custom Avatars (images no larger than 48x48pixels or 6kb in size)
  
• Allows users to keep and update a custom profile and much, much more!

So what are you waiting for? Visit the board this instant and talk about SURGE, Movies, World Events or anything else that comes to mind:

http://www.karks.com/surge/phpBB2/index.php

Poll Results - You Love it All
The latest SURGE Poll asked you, what do you love most about SURGE?

51.4% - I love it all!
23.7% - Sweet citrus taste
10.8% - It's overall uniqueness
6.9% - The extreme image SURGE projects
3.9% - Packaging
2.9% - Energy from carbos

Total Votes = 101

The results definitely indicate that SURGE is the complete package!

That's all the time we have for this week. Thanks to all of you for your love of SURGE!!!!!!

Sincerely,

Eric Karkovack
Co-Webmaster
www.savesurge.org