16th Annual Paddle for Clean Water

The Paddle For Clean Water and Post Paddle Party are coming!

The Paddle for Clean Water is a non competitive event that consists of hundreds of local beach goers paddling around the Ocean Beach Pier in a joint effort to bring awareness to the pollution problem along San Diego’s coastline. This is a free event, and all ocean enthusiasts are invited to participate. As part of the festivities, there will also be free breakfast for all paddlers, guest speakers, music, a huge raffle and a beach cleanup.

This year there will be a Post Paddle Party, a Festival for Healthy Oceans immediately following the Paddle until 6pm at the Ocean Beach Pier parking lot. The event includes a kids art contest, an art show, dance lessons and great live bands.

Trestles Beach Event

Barefoot Wine & Surfrider Team Up For Trestles Beach Cleanup & Tour/PARTY!
September 1, 2007, Cleanup & Tour 4 - 6 PM, Trestles Beach / PARTY 8 - 10PM
Rip Curl Store, 3801 S El Camino Real, San Clemente, CA 92672

Just Released!

JUST RELEASED: Every year the San Diego County Department of Environmental Health compiles a Beach Closure and Advisory Report. Late last week the 2006 edition was released online. How did your local beach fare? Click here to view this informative report and find out.

August Brings Good Times for Surfrider

Beach Babes Bachelor/ette Benefit this Saturday August 11th at Bar West in PB!
The intent is to create a fun, feel-good event that offers charity-minded men/women the opportunity to meet and make a difference through raising money for the Surfrider Foundation San Diego Chapter. Our event will feature a mix and mingle, during which the bachelor/ettes sport leis/boas for easy identification while floating throughout the crowd pouring champagne for the guests to "break the ice".

The mix and mingle will be followed by a bachelor/ette auction, where dates with some of San Diego's finest men/women will be auctioned off to raise money for the Surfrider Foundation - San Diego Chapter. After the auction, guests are encouraged to stay for music and dancing. 3-6pm (VIP 2-3pm) Check out buymelovebenefits.com for more info.

Belly Up Anniversary Series

Belly Up Anniversary Series

This year, Belly Up rolls into our 33rd year, and to celebrate our anniversary, we want to give back to the patrons for supporting the club throughout the years. The talent department has booked Belly Up favorites and slashed the ticket price to only $7!!! Fans will be able to see their favorite Belly Up bands for about half of the usual admission price.

*July 18 – B-Side Players: Album Release Party!
*July 25 – Greg Laswell w/Get Back Loretta & Derren Raser
*Aug 1 – Cowboy Mouth
*Aug 8 - TBA
*Aug 15 - ALO w/Culver City Dub Collective
*Aug 22 - Grand Ole Party, The Creepy Creeps & The Muslims
*Aug 29 – Marc Ford w/The Swedish Models

**Other bands soon to be announced. Check bellyup.com for updates.

Next Chapter Meeting

The next Chapter Meeting is Wednesday July 18th at the Homeblown surfboard blank factory!
Please note that the meeting is NOT at Forum Hall again this month, join us on site at a local eco-friendly surfboard manufacturer "Homeblown US" for this month's chapter meeting.

Ned McMahon, the general manager of "Homeblown US", will share what they are doing to help the "Surfing World Go Green" and will bring us behind the scenes to share with us their Biofoam technology as well as allow us to tour the manufacturing facility of their boards. Also, Ellen Shively will share the vision of a local community coalition formed called "The San Diego Coastal Habitat Coalition" who have united to try to save the harbor seal colony in La Jolla by winning approval for a San Diego Coastal and Marine Sanctuary and how the Marine Mammal Protection Act plays a role to save the seals. Ned and Ellen will be available to answer questions after they speak. We will also update you on other local issues, programs and events along with ways for you to get more involved with Surfrider right now. The meeting is from 7 to 8:30pm and doors open at 6pm so you can tour the facility and enjoy refreshments. Homeblown US is located at 10326 Roselle Street #103 in San Diego 92121, basically just south of the 5 and 805 merge. Click here for directions

The Time to get Involved is NOW!

The Surfrider Foundation is getting ready for the busiest part of the year and could really use your help. If everyone can help at one or two events each, everything will be well covered, more effective and more fun. There is a wide variety to choose from all over the county:

Saturday June 16th 10:00 to 11:30am Core Volunteer Training. Do you want to know more about Surfrider and how to make the most of your volunteer experience? This 90 minute workshop is perfect. It is not required for volunteering at any of our events, but strongly recommended. This time the good folks at Patagonia Cardiff are offering their outdoor patio, adjacent to the store, for our use. We should have plenty of space, but seats are limited so bring a beach or camping chair if possible. Please email me or belinda@surfriderSD.org to rsvp for this.

Beach Cleanups:

We need three people to help lead each cleanup which includes getting everyone signed in, their supplies and checking everything out at the end. Let me know if you can help.....

6/9 (this Sat) 8:30 to 11:00am Oceanside at Buccaneer Beach.
6/23 (Sat) 8:30 to 11:00 Pacific Beach - Crystal Pier.
6/30 (Sat) 8:30 to 11:00 Mission Beach - Belmont Park.
7/5 (TH) 7:30 to 11:00 Morning After Mess! at seven sites in SD County. We still need a site captain for the Oceanside and Tourmaline sites and three other volunteers to help there and at PB Drive in Pacific Beach. This is our largest cleanup event of the year and get great media coverage while picking up heaps of trash.

International Surfing Day on the summer solstice, June 21st 6-8pm

Our chapter meeting this month is moved back one day to Thursday the 21st to celebrate International Surfing Day and the summer solstice. We are hosting at two locations, Belmont Park and Cardiff, and asking everyone to come out to enjoy the surf, help with a beach cleanup or just get their toes in the sand. We are looking to get food for each location and Surfing magazine is helping with some special surprises at the Belmont location. We can use four people helping organize at each location, just show up between 5 and 5:30, let me know if you are interested.

Ocean Beach Street Fair: Saturday June 23rd

Shifts: 9am to 2pm or 2pm to 7pm This street fair is always interesting and fun. We have a great location secured by the beach and close to the main music stage, just need some people the booth and a leader for each shift that can be responsible for the supplies. Please reply if you are available for a whole or partial shift.



Trestles camping Friday 6/22 - Sunday 6/24

We are having a camp out and awareness event at the San Mateo campground a mile upstream from the Trestles surf breaks. We have six sites reserved and a few open spots remain if you are interested in camping on Friday and Saturday night. On Saturday there will be a host of activities available. Please email me Stefanie if you are interested or have any questions. SSekich@surfrider.org If possible, let us know:

- Will you be attending the Saturday activities (Trestles workshop, lunch, hiking, surfing, beach cleanup, etc)? We are hoping to have media there, so even if you can't camp, we'd love to have as many bodies there on Sat….
- Will you be camping both nights (if not indicate which night you will camp)?
- How many people are in your party? (More people using less tents is preferred, let us know if you have extra room in your tent)