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La Jolla Shores Surfing Association Saturday, May 10 - 2014 Menehune Surf Contest

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2013 contestant Quinn Chalfant featured on Event Poster and Program photo by Victor Santos

Thank You Sponsors!

thanks to our many sponsors who have donated items for our goodie bags, surfboards, or prizes to the event. Please click here to see ALL our great sponsors! We have LOTS of great stuff in our:

GOODIE BAGS !

Stance socks

Water bottles donated by

She Manages

Headhunter lip balm

Surfing Magazines

Hike,Bike,Kayak drawstring bag

cool sunglasses and LJSSA

event t-shirts & trucker hats!

SURFBOARDS !

our local surfboard shapers and surfshops have donated surfboards for the raffle, silent auction and a few lucky division winners:

SeaBrothers Surfboards

Ciccimaro Surfboards

Kevin Connelly Surfboards

Hanger 94

INT Soft Boards

Mitzven Surfboards

Josh Oldenburg Surfboards

Southcoast

RAFFLE!

Avenida de la Playa restaurants,

cool surf apparel, kayak rentals, artwork, gift certificates, hats, t-shirts, accessories, and more...

End of Day - surfboards!

SILENT AUCTION !

bidding will close @ 3:00 PM

this year, we are able to process credit cards on the beach...yeah!

Scorpion Bay Club vacation

La Jolla Shores Hotel vacation

Flow Camp at Belmot Park

America's Funniest Home Video special taping/visit

Todd Glaser Photography

Shaper Studios

Thanks to all our parents, contestants, and volunteers for your support!

Our 14th Annual Menehune Contest at La Jolla Shores is this weekend - Saturday, May 10.

Mother Nature reared her ugly head on our original date of April 26th, and we awoke to high winds, high surf, and rain - unsafe conditions for our surf contest. We are thankful that so many of you have hung in there with us to re-arrange your schedules to be with us this Mother's Day weekend.

We still have openings in a few divisions but you must check with Contest Director for any late entries: Stephanie Hoffman. Please check our website for heat times and plan to arrive early before the first scheduled heat in your child's division. Click here for revised heat schedule.

Jr. Girls at our 2013 Contest

We've got a great day of fun for the entire family. Kids will be competing in longboard, shortboard, and novice divisions, ages 18 & under. We have special heats planned for surfing parents - "DOG" (Dads of Groms) and "MOB" (Mothers on Board).

FREE Shore Thing Cafe Coffee will greet you as the first heats gets underway at 7a.m., and our fabulous BBQ lunch, raffle, and silent auction featuring lots of great prizes will keep you stoked all day. We've got surfboards,skateboards, apparel, gift certificates, vacation getaways, and more! Our goodie bags are brimming with surprises, and if your child makes the finals, he/she will take home a wonderful hand hewn wooden trophy made by Ed Newton. For more information or questions, contact our Contest Director, Stephanie Hoffman.

Youth Surf Art on Exhibit at La Jolla Library through mid May

Congratulations to our Grand Prize Winner

Maddie Troyan of Parkway Middle School for her original artwork (pictured) which will adorn our event t-shirts. The top 40 entries are being exhibited at the La Jolla Riford Library and Youth Annex through May 16 at 7555 Draper Avenue, La Jolla, 92037. Many thanks to all our participating schools, art teachers, and art students whose creativity inspired all of us!

Donations Welcome! Sponsor a Surfer

photo by Victor Santos

We depend on our generous sponsors to help us host this contest and raise funds for charity. Thanks to all who have contributed to the cause. It's not too late to give - we welcome gifts of ANY KIND to feature in our raffle - we give away prizes every hour starting around 11 am and announce our sponsors over the loudspeaker. We encourage those of you who can to donate $60 or more to help us cover entry fees for families that have fallen on tough times. No one is turned away for their inability to pay - so let us know if you can help. Please contact Lorraine Schmalenberger (tel: 858.692.5235) immediately, if you can help with a donation of any kind. Thank you!

Gathering of the Crew for a Good Cause...

We're proud of our good record of giving - all the proceeds from this contest will benefit charities which our surf club members support. This year's beneficiaries include:

Friends of La Jolla Shores for installation of an educational surfer's wall on the north comfort station in Kellogg Park.

Natural High is 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.

San Diego Junior Lifeguard Foundation in support of scholarships for summer camps for families who can't afford to pay.

Scripps Institute of Oceanography to support the important research of the iconic 'Keeling curve', a 55-year record of rising atmospheric carbon dioxide levels.

Torrey Pines Christian Church Surf Ministry, in support of their wounded warrior program with the Naval Hospital Surf Clinic.

Randy Abbott, Veteran and paraplegic surfer

Randy Abbott to be featured speaker at Awards Ceremony

We're proud to bring motivational speakers to our Awards Ceremony, and this year we're excited to welcome Randy Abbott. Randy is a Wounded Warrior, and a positive role model for those around him. Randy has surfed some of the biggest waves in Mexico and California and climbed the Face of El Capitan Half Dome prior to his injury that left him a paraplegic. He is now being sponsored by Billabong to climb Half Dome again, a task tough enough without being paralyzed from the waist down. Click here to read an article about Randy from INERTIA.

New Sponsor Shaper Studios!

We welcome new sponsor Shaper Studios who will be offering a shaping package in our silent auction and a prize for one lucky division winner!

We've got a great day lined up - surf and weather forecast are GOOD - and I hope to 'sea' you on Saturday, May10th!

Sincerely,

Lorraine Schmalenberger, President, La Jolla Shores Surfing Association: lorraine@ljssa.org