Venice North: Summer of Color

Dateline: Sunday, July 11, 2010

Where: Brooks Ave., Venice North, Venice Beach, Calif.

















Westminster, below


Thornton, below
















Relief O.L. at Brooks Ave., Jeremy Stewart, below, on foot patrol, just past 5 pm...


O.L. Pedro Caldas, below, at Thorton, just past 5 pm...


Rose Ave. Tower, below, from the parking lot, just past 5 pm...


The Boardwalk at Rose Ave., in Venice, Calif. just past 5 pm...


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Uncle Kipper NEEDS YOU !

Just in from Kip Jerger, LACo Veteran Recurrent Lifeguard:




From: kip jerger
Subject: Teaching the blind how to surf
Date: July 8, 2010
To: William Maguire

Kanoaaquatics is a non profit foundation that teaches over 200 inner city and abused kids how to surf yearly through the PS I love you foundation on Saturday, in Manhattan at sixth street from 10:00 am - 3:00 p.m., Saturday July 24th, 2010. Last year we taught over 100 children at Manhattan pier on the biggest south swell of the year. Waves were licking the bottom of the pier.

LACO lifeguard Kip Jerger, with 3 of his Kanoa surf camps instructors and equipment came up with a way to do it with many satisfied children surfers. Thanks to Lifeguard Jeff Horn, for helping Kanoa, and the back up. He and his wife Patti, and 200 volunteers donated their time and effort. Special thanks to the LACO Fire Department Beaches division Lifeguards for all their help. Only one rescue was made at the event that day. Yeh !

Volunteers welcome. Free food T-shirt and loads of fun. Contact Kip at 310-308-7264 or via email to: PSiloveyoufoundation@gmail.com


Kanoaaquatics has taught the Los Angeles Braille Institute children how to surf and boogie Board for the last 10 years. Some of the hardiest ones actually stand up and ride waves, all the way to shore. Wow what a sight ! This year we will be teaching the blind at 45th. St. in Manhattan Beach, from 10:00 am until 2:00 pm., on Sat., July 24, 2010.

*** You do not have to know how to surf to help. Again Volunteers welcome. Contact Kip at 310-308-7264 if you are interested. Thank you.

Peace


Kanoa Aquatics
P.O. Box 3582
Redondo Beach, CA 90277
310.308.7264
www.kanoaaquatics.com

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From: psiloveyoufoundation@gmail.com
Date: July 6, 2010 3:31:30 PM PDT
To: undisclosed-recipients
Subject: 2010 Day At The Beach - Adopt a Child for One Day

Hello Faithful Volunteers and Friends,

P.S. I Love You Foundation's 10th Annual Day at the Beach, Adopt a Child for One Day is Saturday, July 24th.

Come join us and “adopt-a-child” to share a day of healthy interaction, laughter and lots of love! And if you have already signed up as a mentor or staff ~ THANK YOU!! We look forward to seeing you soon!

Day at the Beach is an easy and rewarding one-on-one mentorship day between you and an at-risk child from our surrounding community. We unite 250 at-risk children with 250 wonderful volunteers like you and me to create a healthy interactive mentorship day of love and support.

Event: 10th Annual Day at the Beach, Adopt A Child for One Day
Date: Saturday, July 24th, 2010
Time: 9:00am - 3:00pm
Place: Manhattan Beach between 6th and 8th Street on the sand

Our volunteer opportunities fill up quickly and we would love your participation either as a mentor or as part of the beach crew.

Register to Volunteer:
Click on the link on our home page to review and accept the Volunteer Form.
www.PSILoveYouFoundation.org

We Need Your Support:
With the growing attendance of this event and the reduction in sponsor support, your financial assistance is needed. A $10 donation will help pay for t-shirts, food and drinks for the day and aid in continuing to make this a very special day for at-risk children.

Any donation will be very much appreciated. Just click on the secure link to

PayPal:
http://www.psiloveyoufoundation.org/Support%20Our%20Kids_Donate%20Now


Come see what the day is all about!

Please call Patricia Jones (310) 420-4717 with any questions. We look forward to seeing you soon.

With Love & Kindness,
The P.S. I Love You Foundation Team

P.S. I Love You Foundation is a 501c3 nonprofit dedicated to nurturing at risk children through education and inspirational enrichment programs. Tax ID# 330881944

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A Chance For Children": FIRST CALL FOR VOLUNTEERS

Subject: FIRST CALL FOR VOLUNTEERS AND SAVE THE DATE!!!

A Chance for Children Foundation

From: Greg Bonann

Date: July 7, 2010

Re: Pool Volunteers for Summer Camp

Hi Everybody!!!! It is that time again!!!!! This year’s goal is “ONE ON ONE”… we did it last year, and I know we can do it again this year!! For every child, every day, ONE volunteer!!

Believe it or not, this will be our 18th annual weeklong summer camp. We are so grateful for the continued support of each volunteer who has helped us over the years in keeping our dream alive - to reach out to homeless and ‘at risk’ youth. This years camp will take place August 9 - August 13. The thirty-five children attending the camp range in age from eight to twelve years old and will attend camp at no expense to their families.

In recent years many of you have assisted by donating your time teaching basic swimming skills to our youth - many of whom have never seen the ocean or a swimming pool. My hope this year, is that each of you may be able to find at least one afternoon to spend with the children.




Helping a child conquer their fear of the water and learn to swim offers each one a lifelong gift. Everyone who has helped in the past knows the great reward of watching a child’s confidence grow over the course of the week as they become more comfortable in the water – like last year watching the kids who couldn’t swim on Monday jump off the high dive by Wednesday - AMAZING.

Please review the following “Pool Schedule”. If you are interested, email or call with the day(s) you will be able to participate. My email is MrMaliBone@aol.com or feel call my cell (310) 562-4769.

Pepperdine University Pool, 24255 PCH, Malibu

August 9 – August 13, 2010

POOL SCHEDULE:

MONDAY, AUGUST 9th 12:30 p.m. - 4:00 p.m.

TUESDAY, AUGUST 10th BEACH DAY/NO POOL

WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 11th 12:30 p.m. - 4:00 p.m.

THURSDAY, AUGUST 12th 12:30 p.m. - 4:00 p.m.

FRIDAY, AUGUST 13th SM PIER/NO POOL

Directions to Pepperdine Pool: Make your favorite way to PCH and turn on John Tyler Drive. Pass the guard gate, go up the hill, park anywhere after the first speed bump. The pool is on the right.


(note: All Photos and Graphics are sourced from AChanceForChildren.org).

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From: Tai Collins
Subject: A Chance for Children Summer Camp
Date: July 7, 2010

A CHANCE FOR CHILDREN

…because all children deserve a chance.


The countdown to summer camp has begun!

Save the Dates:

August 9 – 13, 2010


Dates and Time for Pepperdine University Pool Events:

Monday, August 9, 12:30 – 4 p.m.

Wednesday, August 11, 12:30 – 4 p.m.

Thursday, August 12, 12:30 – 4 p.m.


Tuesday will be on the lifeguard boats in Marina Del Rey & at the beach in Santa Monica

and Friday will be at the Santa Monica Pier

The wonderful thing about memories is that no one can ever take them away from you and learning to swim is one of life’s moments that one never forgets.


A HUGE THANK YOU IN ADVANCE FOR YOUR SUPPORT!!!

NOTE: Volunteers are needed full days all five days as well as the week prior to prepare!

If you know now you can volunteer please contact Greg Bonann at mrmalibone@aol.com or Marissa McDaniel at marissa@achanceforchildren.org


Tai Collins
17366 W. Sunset Blvd. #102B
Pacific Palisades, CA 90272
310-849-3045
tai@achanceforchildren.org
http://www.achanceforchildren.org

"Anyone who does anything to help a child is a hero to me." Fred Rogers

Summer Storm Warning!

(Note: L.A. Times, July 5, 2010, LATEXTRA section, featuring a great photo of a wave crashing at the Wedge in Newport Beach on Sunday, July 4th, 2010, revealing the truth of the New Zealand origin storm surf hitting our So. Calif. beaches since July 4th! x-ref: http://www.latimes.com/news/local/orange/la-me-waves-20100705,0,4865723.story


Cowabunga, dude!

H O L Y C O W !

Was that SOME SURF or WHAT !?...

The powers that be and prognosticators hit this one ON THE NOSE! This was a HUGE and POWERFUL storm from New Zealand which has, indeed, been crashing on our So. California south facing beaches since Sunday, July 4th! We are hoping to upload more photos, but we've got some photos taken by our "County Recurrent" Photography Unit... yesterday around 11 a.m. at Santa Monica South near Towers #26 - 28. These photos show our LACo beach guards hard at work making Preventions, setting up flags and signs, and even sweeping the ramp clear of sand so that no one slips while charging down the ramp on a rescue or prevent or the like.

We would especially like to add more photos of this storm so please send them on. You know that "County Recurrent" adamantly provides attribution and credit to the photographer. We insist upon it. You provide us a photo, YOU get the credit! Deal with it!

In any event, here goes. Sunday, July 5, 2010. Santa Monica South. 1100 hrs approximately:


SMS Tower #26, below


"Anatomy of a Prevent". This is HOW IT IS DONE! Rookies: Pay Attention! Watch how LACo OL Bill White descends the ramp at T-26, keeps his rescue can high for visibility and to alert the T-24 guard and T-28 guards, hoofs it to the location of the prevents and whistles the swimmers to get their attention. Four Preventions! Count em! With the depth of the inshore holes and the mean lateral current literally hoovering into the Rip at T-26, count these as FOUR lives saved! White was all over this like peanut butter on Wonder Bread!










Might as well add TWO More Prevents to Bill's tally because this surfer was attempting to surf along with his young son, in background in ankle deep water. Too Big and Too Rough for either of them.


Two shots below of the Rip at T-26 which is fed by the lateral current running along from Towers 28 and 27 leading any swimmers in those spots right into this Rip !



T-28 is in good hands below, with Chris Newman, on duty




As predicted, the lulls would last a few minutes between sets but when the sets of the storm surf rolled in the faces were 8 - 12 feet plus. I know because I had to haul a.. out through a four wave set with each succeeding wave bigger than the one before and breaking further out. The fourth wave had a wave face height of over 12 feet and this OL is glad, in fact, real glad that particular set had only 4 waves because the wave face height of that fourth wave was, in the words of ESPN's Stuart Scott,
R I D I C U L O U S !










Yep!... that's one of LACo's Baywatch Rescue Boats heading west toward the Santa Monica Pier in the next two photos, below



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That's all we've got! Please send us some of your Surf Photos from this current storm so we can share them with our tribe of ocean warriors.


Until next time.....


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"County Recurrent" July 2010 Forecaster

Wed., June 30, 2010

Heads up!

Mark your calendars for the events listed at the linked webpage below:

I. July 2010 Lifeguard Competition Schedules, Courtesy of "Lifeguard Competition" on Facebook at:

http://www.facebook.com/home.php?#!/LifeguardCompetition?v=app_2344061033&vm=all

including:

The San Clemente Ocean Fest, Saturday and Sunday, July 17th & 18th, 2010:



http://www.oceanfestival.org

*** Event Schedule Link:
http://www.oceanfestival.org/Event_Schedule.htm




Saturday, the top California lifesavers and watermen and women compete in stand-up paddleboard, 1.5K sprint paddleboard, surf ski championship, ocean ironman races, and the ever-popular thrills and spills of the dory competition. San Clemente Ocean Festival is excited to announce the return of beach flags and the addition of SUP relay to this year’s competitions.

Sunday, the Waterman & Waterwoman event offers exciting and fun filled 5K Beach Run/Walk, ocean swims and run-swim-run races for everyone. The premiere event is the One Mile Ocean Swim in which over 250 swimmers participated last summer.


The International Surf Festival (at Ave. C in Redondo Beach, CA.):


http://www.surffestival.org/

Friday, July 30 2010
7:00 p.m. LA County Lifeguard Championships — Avenue C, Redondo Beach. U.S. Coast Guard Helicopter & L.A. County Lifeguard Rescue Demo, 6-Lifeguard Run Relay, Lifeguard Events, Bud Stevenson Intracrew Medley Relay.



Saturday, July 31 2010
7:00 p.m. So Calif. Lifeguard Championships Events — Avenue C, Redondo Beach, U.S. Coast Guard Helicopter & Los Angeles County Lifeguard Demo, Lifeguard Events / Junior Lifeguard Taplin / Lifeguard Beach Flags, Judge Taplin Three-Mile Lifeguard Medley Relay.


Sunday, August 1 2010
9:30 a.m. Lifeguard Dory Race — Hermosa Pier (8:30am check-in).

note: Thursday, July 29th, the Medal of Valor dinner and ceremony will take place as it usually does to kick off the Intl. Surf Festival.



For more information, contact Dave Story at: davestory@me.com


II. OTHER Important News

A. Thursday Nite Paddling In Hermosa (in June and July 2010)

http://countyrecurrent.blogspot.com/2010/06/byo-paddleboard-hermosa-thursday-nite.html

B. "Santa Monica South 2010: Summer of Color" (A Photo Essay)

http://countyrecurrent.blogspot.com/2010/06/santa-monica-south-2010-summer-of-color.html

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BYO Paddleboard: Hermosa Thursday Nite Paddling

Head's Up! Just in from Mike Murphy.

Thursday Nights in June and July.

Board Paddling Practice at the Hermosa Pier at 6:30 pm.



Benefits:

* get more comfortable in the surf

* not feel like a kook if you ever HAVE to paddle

note: "County Recurrent" seconds this benefit!

* find something to do when the surf is terrible

* learn from a variety of guest speakers

comment: this could actually be a deal-breaker.... :-)

Any Questions?
Contact: Mike Murphy 310.991.1837
email: mfmurf999@hotmail.com



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"County Recurrent" News applauds this weekly event which Murf is organizing and we especially think it is important for the younger guards to hone their paddleboard skills and to get connected to our ocean warrior tribe and to contribute to the camaraderie of our clan.



Per Murf: "We want to be as inclusive as possible to all lifeguards, regardless of area, section, or even agency. We try to present paddling as an easy way to get into the ocean when the surf is lackluster, and a swim is less than exciting. We also emphasize that spending more time in the water in a recreational setting ultimately behooves us in circumstances that are not recreational. Last, we hope this is a healthy way to include young lifeguards, who don't have the seniority to work regularly, thus missing out on the camaraderie we all appreciate so much."

Until next time.....


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