/C O R R E C T I O N -- Mobile Bay Convention and Visitors Bureau/

In the news release, Move Over Times Square; MoonPie Rising Over Mobile!, issued earlier today by Mobile Bay Convention and Visitors Bureau over PR Newswire, we are advised by the company that the first paragraph, second sentence, should read "45,000-calorie banana MoonPie" rather than "4500-calorie banana MoonPie" as originally issued inadvertently. The complete, corrected release follows:

Move Over Times Square; MoonPie Rising Over Mobile!

The Tastiest New Year's Celebration in America

MOBILE, Ala., Dec. 26 /PRNewswire/ -- Mobile, Alabama will usher in the New Year in tasty and spectacular fashion with a 600-pound, 1,500-light electronic MoonPie rising over the city at the stroke of midnight, it was announced today. And just before midnight, officials from Chattanooga Bakery, the MoonPie Bakery, will serve up the largest MoonPie ever baked -- a 60-lb, four-foot-wide, 45,000-calorie banana MoonPie -- to members of the public, plus thousands of the individually wrapped chocolate, graham cracker and marshmallow snacks.

MoonPies have been a popular snack item since 1917, particularly in the southern United States. But in no place are MoonPies more popular than in Mobile, where they are virtually iconic.

MoonPies have been tossed from floats at the Mobile Mardi Gras celebration for generations (Mobile boasts the nation's first Mardis Gras celebration (1703)). More than four million MoonPies are sold during Mobile's Mardi Gras season each year.

"This New Year's Eve event will not only kick off our Carnival season, but we believe it will become the premier event for the Central Time Zone, creating a tremendous economic impact for our city," said Mobile Councilman Fred Richardson, who came up with the MoonPie concept for Mobile.

New Orleans Jazz Sensation Charmaine Neville will headline the entertainment lineup for the New Year's Eve celebration which will include the Mobile Singing Children; The Dance Center; Bishop State Community College Chorus; Melinda Leigh School of Dance; Elements of Difference (Students from Murphy High School); the Excelsior Band and bands from the City of Mobile James Seals and Sullivan Community Centers.

Royal Crown Cola (RC Cola), the traditional soft drink with which to enjoy a MoonPie, will be donating 5,000 cans of RC Cola to the New Year's celebration.

Proceeds from the sale of commemorative T-shirts and coffee/hot chocolate will go to the local Salvation Army and McKemmie Place, a local shelter for homeless women.