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La Jolla Shores Surfing Association March 2013 e-news
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Dear ,
Every year we go ALL OUT for our Annual Menehune Surf Contest and this year's contest 'season' has begun! Mark your calendars SAT. April 20, and please consider joining our Contest Committee to help us plan and implement our best event ever! We need all of you to help us with sponsors, event planning, phoning, e-mails, and day of stuff - judging, BBQ, raffle, registration, tallying, and more..IF you would like to volunteer please contact Contest Director Stephanie Hoffman, and plan on attending our next surf club meeting WEDNESDAY, April 6, at 6:00 p.m. If you or someone you know would like to be an event sponsor or donor, click here to download a sponsorship form. Click on the image above of one of our amazing 2012 contestants catching air to link to a wonderful short video clip of our 2012 Contest produced by club member Mike Dixon.
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Gathering of the Crew for a Good Cause....
Local Charities Named Beneficiaries of 2013 Menehune Contest
 Besides hosting the best kid's surf contest ever...we're also committed to raising funds for charity with the net proceeds from our annual april event. This year our members have nominated and voted on four charities to receive funding - all great causes that relate to our kids, the ocean, and our local environment. We're proud to announce our 2013 Contest beneficiaries:
Natural High -a (San Diego based) drug abuse prevention organization that helps youth discover, amplify and pursue their natural high so that they have a reason to say no to an artificial high. Scripps Institute of Oceanography in support of the Oceanographic Collections. The collections are world-renowned resources supporting basic research, educating current and future generations of scientists, providing factual information to governmental agencies and public policy makers, stimulating curiosity and scientific understanding, and providing a repository for samples collected by Scripps researchers.
Torrey Pines State Natural Preserve is located within San Diego city limits and yet remains one of the wildest stretches of land on our Southern California coast! Torrey Pines Docent Society (TPDS) provides opportunities for community organizations like ours to support programs and projects within the Torrey Pines State Reserve. Donations go specifically for trail maintenance,habitat maintenance, education, or library program funds. WiLDCOAST is an international conservation team that conserves coastal and marine ecosystems and wildlife. WiLDCOAST protects some of the most beautiful and biologically significant coastal areas in the Californias and Latin America.
Group 2012 Menehune Contest Photo by Claudia Perez
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Entry Forms for Menehune Surf Contest are now online!
Early Bird Signups offering great discount expire March 25
 We've issued the call and it's official: we're now accepting entry forms for our Annual Menehune Surf Contest. Click here to download a form to mail or follow this link to our website where you may register online using PayPal. Rusty's Boardhouse, Mitch's, and SouthCoast (PB) will have entry forms as well. Our deadline is April 13, 2013. Hurry, because our early bird discount expires March 25. IF you're a member of a middle or high school surf team and you can get a group to enter with you (5 or more), we'll apply additional discounts. This also applies to surfing students in area surf camps or schools. Contact Contest Director Stephanie Hoffman for details. Photo by Don Sheffler.
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La Jolla Shores surf team places 8th overall in 2012
Coalition standings
The Coalition of Surfing Clubs recently published the standings for 2012. We  compete with and against 30+ surfing clubs up and down the west coast. Our surf team has been showing up at the big events, and slowly but surely working out way into and up the ranks of the top ten surf clubs. All our individual and team finishes at every Coalition event make a huge difference - and I thank all of you who have competed, camped, cooked, and been a part of our surfing family. We've had a lot of fun along the way and everyone is invited in. Special shout out goes to Kevin Connelly, our top MVP. He had four 1st place finishes in the Men's division last year! Kudos also to Mike Dixon for all the great video footage, and to our surfing juniors - Ava and Annika Verbrugghen, Cameron Lapuaho, Carsten Lester, and Kristin Furuholmen for making every trip worthwhile! Pictured at right is future team surfer Kella Connelly helping team rider Carla Verbrugghen at the Tourmaline Classic in November. Contact surf team captain Michelle Connelly to get involved.
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Surf Art Contest deadline extended until March 22
Annual Art Show at La Jolla Riford Library in April
 La Jolla Shores Surfing Association is again sponsoring an art contest for youth, 18 & under. The grand prize winner will receive $100 and have his/her artwork adorn our Menehune Contest event t-shirts. The top 40 entries will be exhibited at the La Jolla Riford Library during April. Artwork must be original and best illustrate our contest: kids surfing the Shores and having fun!! The deadline for art entries has been extended to FRIDAY MAR 22. We can accept scanned original work (in black ink) via e-mail. Please contact us if you submit art this week to ensure we receive your entry. Click here to download a flyer with more information. The contest is open to all kids 18 & under. For more information, contact Art Contest Coordinator Alex Furuholmen Thanks to the hard working and creative teachers in many of our participating schools who are submitting art entries from their classrooms: Muirlands Middle, Pacific Beach Middle, La Jolla Country Day, La Mesa Middle, Marston Middle, and more. Pictured is grand prize winner Tina Aliev's artwork from 2012.
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Welcome Mickayla Rina Paraiso! 
It seems that the ocean waters off La Jolla Shores continue to be proven and fertile ground for producing great surfing offspring! We extend an official warm welcome to Mickayla Rina Paraiso, born September 12, 2012 to proud parents Nikki and Ben Paraiso and big brother Quinan. Weighing in at 7lb 5oz and already making beach appearances with her mom, I have a feeling she'll soon be appearing in the not too distant future in our Menehune Contest! She'll be in good company with all the girls that precede her from our local surf community and friends: Olivia, Kella, Ellianna, Bailey, Sisilia, and McKenna.
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Surfing Etiquette never goes out of style
 When I opened a newsletter from my niece's 3rd grade classroom in Tiburon CA., I was surprised and delighted to discover their teacher had adorned their classroom wall with this photo of a tiled wall in Capitola/Santa Cruz area exhibiting the very basics of surf etiquette. Their teacher, Christine Heilmann of the Bel Aire School, a surfer herself - noted that the surf rules apply to ALL areas of life and it got me thinking...We could all use a refresher course in surf etiquette however experienced we may be. La Jolla Shores attracts so many surfers of such different backgrounds and skill levels; it seems like the time could be ripe to entertain our OWN surfing wall. We have just such an opportunity.
The north bathrooms will be remodeled after this summer - a much needed upgrade. Our surf club is hopeful we can design and install a surfing sign that will appeal to and speak to EVERYONE who enjoys our beach and surfs there. If you have ideas and would like to get involved in this project, please contact me. IN the mean time, let's remind ourselves of those basic surfing rules. Meanwhile stay safe, keep warm, and I hope to SEA you soon in the lineup!
Lorraine Schmalenberger, President
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You can sea that we've got lots going on, and we invite all of you to get involved - in our Menehune Surf Contest, our Art Contest, as a volunteer, club member, surf team member, or in any capacity - we welcome each and everyone of you!
Sincerely,
Lorraine Schmalenberger, President, La Jolla Shores Surfing Association: lorraine@ljssa.org 858.692.5235 |
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