The Santa Cruz Chapter General Meeting will be Tuesday, January 8 at 7:00 p.m. in the O’Neill Sea Odyssey Training Room at the Santa Cruz Small Craft Harbor. That’s 2222 East Cliff Drive, in the O’Neill Building, on the beach and upstairs adjacent the Surfrider office and lab.

PLEASE, JOIN US FOR THIS LIVELY MEETING! WE’RE FOCUSING ON THE INCREASING AMOUNT OF USED DRUG SYRINGES AND OTHER HUMAN TRASH LEFT ON PUBLIC BEACHES, PUBLIC PARK AREAS, AND ALONG THE RAILROAD TRACKS. THIS ISSUE HAS BECOME A HOT ITEM IN SANTA CRUZ AND WE’D LIKE TO STIMULATE THE DISCUSSION AND GET SOME SOLID ACTIONS IN PLACE TO CONTROL THE PROBLEM. AS OF THIS WRITING, WE’RE STILL TACKING TOGETHER THE EVENT, BUT IF YOU WANT TO SPEAK OUT, GET IN TOUCH.

WE ARE EXPECTING TO HAVE DAVID TERRAZAS,CITY OF SANTA CRUZ CITY COUNCIL, AS A GUEST AND KEN “SKINDOG” COLLINS, SANTA CRUZ BIG WAVE CHARGER, SURFING AMBASSADOR FOR THE SANTA CRUZ WORLD SURFING RESERVE, AND COMMUNITY ACTIVIST

SURFRIDER HAS ATTENDED PUBLIC MEETINGS ON THIS SUBJECT, AND WE HAVE ALSO WRITTEN A LETTER TO THE CITY’S SAFETY COMMISSION URGING PUBLIC ACTION AND ADVOCATING FOR A COMMUNITY RESPONSE.
THE SANTA CRUZ WORLD SURFING RESERVE HAS ALSO COMMENTED, POSTING A LETTER TO SANTA CRUZ CITY COUNCIL EXPRESSING STRONG CONCERNS AND ADVOCATING FOR A COMMUNITY SOLUTION.

INCREASED INTEREST IN THIS ISSUE MAKES US CONFIDENT THAT A LASTING COMMUNITY SOLUTION WILL SOON BE ESTABLISHED. WE THANK EVERYONE FOR THEIR INTEREST IN THIS MATTER AND FOR THEIR DESIRE TO CLEAN IT UP AND DISCOURAGE REPETITION. SEVERAL COMMUNITY GROUPS HAVE FORMED OR ARE FORMING TO CLEANUP VARIOUS “HOT SPOTS” AROUND THE CITY, SO WE ARE CONFIDENT THAT A MORE PERMANENT APPROACH TO THIS ISSUE CAN BE ARRANGED.

We’re stoked to report that the Capitola City Council approved the first reading of an ordinance to prohibit plastic carryout bags and place a 25 cent fee on paper bags on December 13. The Second reading will be January 10th. The implementation date is 3 months following the second reading. Thank you all for your support.

THE MERMEN COME ASHORE at MOE’S ALLEY
CATCH THE SHOW!

And in a very cool December Feature, catch THE MERMEN at MOE’S ALLEY on Friday, December 14 FOR A “VERY MERMAN XMAS”. Here’s a surf band that sounds like….well….nobody else! No, we’re not kiddin’. If you don’t have a MERMAN CD in your collection..well, you really haven’t heard NOR-CAL surf music! And this is a Santa Cruz Chapter benefit show, too! Have fun and help your local Surfrider chapter at the same time! Stop by the Surfrider table and say “Hi!”

“The best rock and roll is poetry in motion, with or without words — and some of the best records of the year came without. The Mermen play an extreme brand of surf music; the trebly turbulent and black minor chord moods of guitarist Jim Thomas are like a rough ride on the icy seas of the mid-Atlantic. Hints of Dick Dale filter through the cracked sidewalk wave forms of Sonic Youth. Thomas sounds more like Neil Young at the wheel of the good ship Crazy Horse.” –David Fricke, Rolling Stone

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CHAPTER GENERAL MEETING, TOO! There you go…Rock out at a very cool show and hang with your Surfrider buds, too. We’re having a general meeting with DICK DALE this month! JOIN US!

On Saturday, December 8 be sure to get your tix for the “KING OF SURF GUITAR” as Dick Dale cruzes into Santa Cruz for a rockin’ show at MOE’S ALLEY, along with THE CONCORDS, in a Santa Cruz Chapter of the Surfrider Foundation benefit show!     

DICK DALE + The ConcavesAppearing Live at Moes Alley

Saturday, December 8th

The King Of The Surf Guitar Returns!

8:30 PM, Doors Open 7:30 PM, $20/25,

Benefit For The Surfrider Foundation’s Santa Cruz Chapter.

Moe’s Alley welcomes DICK DALE for a very special Saturday night performance. THE CONCOVES open the show at 8:30pm so come out early. This show will be a benefit for the Surfrider Foundation’s Santa Cruz Chapter.

Rock Pioneer, King of the Surf Guitar, Father of Heavy Metal and Grammy Nominee DICK DALE is back with a vengence performing classic hits from the Dick Dale catalogue.

Don’t miss this rare opportunity to see the man behind PULP FICTION’S soundtrack and THE influence behind Jimi Hendrix, Brian WIlson, Stevie Ray Vaughan, Nirvana & The Black Eyed Peas.

ABOUT DICK DALE

Dick Dale invented surf music in the 1950′s. Not the ’60′s as is commonly believed. He was given the title “King of the Surf Guitar” by his fellow surfers with whom he surfed with from sun-up to sun-down. He met Leo Fender the guitar and amplifier Guru and Leo asked Dale to play his newly creation, the Fender Stratocaster Electric Guitar. The minute Dale picked up the guitar, Leo Fender broke into uncontrolled laughter and disbelief, he was watching Dale play a right handed guitar upside down and backwards, Dale was playing a right handeguitar left handed and changing the chords in his head then transposing the chords to his hands to create a sound never heard before.

Moe’s Alley, Santa Cruz
1535 Commercial Way, Santa Cruz, California 95062

AND SAVE SOME ENERGY FOR THE MERMEN, PLAYING MOE’S ALLEY ON DECEMBER 14 IN A SANTA CRUZ CHAPTER BENEFIT!

In lieu of our monthly meeting in November we are encouraging everyone to come out an join us at the Save the Waves Film Festival at the Rio Theater Nov. 9th at 6pm

Save the Waves 4th-annual film and music event brings together our singular community of surfers, environmentalists and ocean lovers for intimate screenings of environmental, surf and ocean films in a unique and inspiring way. The festival includes the premiere of Chris Malloy’s latest surfing documentary, Groundswell, in which a group of activists set sail for an exploratory surf trip along British Columbia’s unspoiled but threatened west coast. Also featuring the world premiere of “Ode” — an alternative look at the northern California wilderness surfing experience — by underground Santa Cruz lensman Patrick Trefz. Additional films are announced on our film festival blog. On November 9, Save The Waves Film Festival visits the Rio Theatre in Santa Cruz, and the tour ends at the historic Victoria Theatre in San Francisco on November 16. Event proceeds benefit the environmental programs of Save The Waves Coalition and World Surfing Reserves.

VOLUNTEER: Two shifts are available: 2 PM – 7 PM and 5 PM – 10PM. The first shift will help with set-up and VIP reception. The second shift will assist the bar, raffle, and breakdown after the event. Everyone will get a chance to enjoy the films during the show. Please contact Amie Miller, amielee75@gmail.com 415-794-4878

Buy tickets and learn more at our film festival website: www.savethewaves.org/filmfestival

Measure P passed with an overwhelming 71% approval.   Good job you guys and the coalition members for pulling this off!   That means we’ll be back at the polls if a proposal is put forward to build the plant.

Santa Cruz city residents-Ensure your right to vote on the proposed desal plant.  A yes vote on Measure P would ensure voter approval before the city could approve a desalinization project.  Desal can have some major impacts on marine life and construction of the proposed project could affect our coastlines.  Since we don’t know how the project will play out ensure your right to vote on this when we get all the final information.

Learn more at:  http://voteondesalsc.org/