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La Jolla Shores Surfing Association July 2013 e-news
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Surf Competition Schedule - Save the Dates!
Summer is busy with surf contests sponsored by our surf club friends in the Coalition - check out the schedule - and let us know if you'd like to try your hand at competing and/or come spectate and check out the always great longboarding skills on display by some of California's top surfers. For more info about our surf team please contact Michelle Connelly, surf team captain:
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Summer is Bountiful
Happy 4th of July!
Greetings!
It's been a busy spring for all of us, and I never had a chance to properly welcome summer until today. Not only did i get sunburned, but I also lost a game of jellyfish dodgeball while enjoying body surfing and my first season ocean swim. Ouch!
 I consider myself lucky that our surf club connections paved the way for my first surf trip ever....to Ashdod, Israel, leading a surf delegation of our friends from the Coalition of Surf Clubs. I am smiling with the memories and the incredible journey of surfers coming together to share their cultures and surf stoke. Check out our story written by Simon and Julie Andrews and the photo galleries we have from our good times night surfing and touring this amazing country.
I am very much saddened by the recent loss of a dear family member and today, I met another kindred surf soul on the boardwalk, also grieving. Brian had lost his beloved wife Gloria Brown to breast cancer, and as we consoled each other, noting the very full and happy lives of the departed, we both agreed that the lessons of grief teach us to celebrate life by living better. I am comforted by the words of my departed sister in law Lisa Froeb who wrote this prayer while on a trip last year to Ecuador: "...Please help me live every day through the lens of abundance rather than that of scarcity and may I end the day with more things done than left undone..." Amen, sister - those words ring so true for me as I look out over the seascape of abundance everywhere at La Jolla Shores: our community, our waves, our beach, our families and our friends. May we live well while we still can. Warm water, sunny days, lots of waves, happy beach goers....and yes, abundant surfers....I love you all.
I'm very happy to report our most successful (13th Annual) La Jolla Shores Surfing Menehune Contest ever in April. Check out the photo galleries, event program, and charities that were beneficiaries of our event - and THANK YOU to all who participated, volunteered, donated, and supported our big day.
IF you can't find a parking spot on July 4th to enjoy a surf, then please consider joining us the DAY AFTER - Friday July 5th when our surf club cleans up the beach. The Park & Rec. beach crews have come to depend on us to help restore the beach, parking areas, and lawn back to normal. We'll be hard at work from 7am to 9am, come join us!
Enjoy the beach, share the waves, and SEA you out surfin'!
Lorraine Schmalenberger, President
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 Annual Beach Cleanup - the Day After
Friday July 5, 7am to 9am Please join us to help restore the beach to normal after the trashiest day of the year at the Shores. We get started early and will have coffee and donuts to get you going. Pickup sticks and trash bags provided. Meet @ Dave's truck, a few benches south of the north restrooms.
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8th Annual Abram Jones Memorial Blood Drive
Thursday, July 11, 9:00 am to 2:30 pm La Jolla Shores parking lot
Every so often we have an opportunity to give a part of ourselves, and there's nothing like donating your own blood - literally, the gift of life to someone, somewhere. Abram Jones was a young friend of one of our surfers, and every year, i'm proud to promote this blood drive on our back door step - the San Diego blood mobile will be at the Shores parking lot on THURS. July 11. Call to schedule an appointment 1-800-4MY-SDBB or log onto www.sandiegobloodbank.org. Walk-ins accepted. |
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Menehune Contestant 2013 photo by Victor Santos
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April 20, 2013 Menehune Surf Contest at the Shores!
We hosted a successful event this spring and invite you to visit our website to check the online photo albums, event program, and contest results. Congratulations to all our division winners and all the participating groms and their families. We're proud to have donated $5,000 to four charities from the event proceeds: WiLDCoast, Scripps Institute of Oceanography, Torrey Pines State Preserve, and Natural High. Thank you to all our event sponsors! p.s. I have a lost and found boys full length wetsuit waiting to be claimed. Contact lorraine@ljssa.org if you lost one. Also - if ANYONE took a photo of our large group at the end of the day before the last raffle, i'd appreciate a copy...thanks!
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So Cal. Surfers enjoy Israeli hospitality
May 2013 surf delegation guests of the Municipality of Ashdod
 We were invited by the Mayor and Surfing Association of Ashdod Israel to experience the surf culture, night surfing, and rich history and sights of Israel. At left, Club President Lorraine Schmalenberger presents a surfing trophy hand crafted by our own Ed Newton to Dr. Lasry, the Mayor of Ashdod as a token of our appreciation. Below, our surf delegation gathers at Gil Beach to enjoy night surfing, a special Ashdod treat. Click here to download our story written by Simon and Julie Andrews, and click here to view our online photo albums from the trip. A special thanks to the two men who made this "surf connection for life" all possible: Allan Goldstein of La Jolla Shores Surfing Association, and Omer Zadikevitch of the Ashdod Surfing Association. Todah and Shalom!
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 La Jolla Shores Surf Team members enjoy Steamer Lane in Santa Cruz and Tourmaline at the Summer Longboard Classic!
Our surf club members have been spread around the globe recently. In May, the Furuholmen family traveled to represent La Jolla Shores Surfing Association at the Annual Santa Cruz Longboard Union Memorial Day Invitational at Steamer Lane. Dad Eric competed in both the longboard and shortboard divisions and daughter Kristin competed in the Menehune Division. They reported "wonderful new friends...well organized contest...and of course, the "amazing beauty of Santa Cruz - with lots of sea life: starfish, otters, seals, crabs, dolphins"..all from their seaside camping at Steamer Lane! We hope that some of you reading this will travel next year to this Classic Coalition event hosted by our No. Cal. friends!
 Congratulations to our La Jolla Shores Surf Team members who made a great showing at the 15th Annual Summer Longboard Classic at Tourmaline in early June hosted by our good friends in the Pacific Beach Surf Club: Jeremy Bjork (1st place/Sr. Men), Carla Vergruggen (2nd place Sr. Women), Annika Verbrugghen (1st place Jr. Women 15-19), Ava Verbrugghen (2nd place Menehune Girls 14 & under) and Kristin Furuholmen (3rd place Menehune Girls 14 & under). Pictured at right are Ava (2nd from right) and Kristin (3rd from left accepting trophy) at the Menehune Girls trophy ceremony. You go girls!!! |
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I look forward to 'sea'ing you and surfing with you this summer!
Sincerely,
Lorraine Schmalenberger, President, La Jolla Shores Surfing Association: lorraine@ljssa.org |
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