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Rain, Snow, and News
Thursday, January 24, 2008
Photos of Rain and Snow
Edhat: Snow on Front Range, Mud Surfing at the Mission
Rincon Photo
Turns out the wave in the last post about a Rincon cleanup set on January 12th has been identified as Rincon regular Josh Stichter.
Campus Point Boat
Kathy captured an image of the boat "Waterbase" that is grounded at Campus Point now, and the artwork that was added to it last week by a local graffiti artist.
Trestles
The Save Trestles folks are asking for help from their neighbors to the North in their fight against the tollroad. You can check it out on the Surfrider site.
Film Fest Events
Happy Hour With Legends
Tonight, Thursday January 24 @ 5pm @ Stateside
Join SB Surfrider for a remarkable Happy Hour at The Stateside Restaurant & Lounge (1114 State Street) 
on Thursday, January 24 at 5PM Mark Richards ("MR") and Wayne "Rabbit" Bartholomew, on their first visit to Santa Barbara, will be present with Shaun Tomson in conjunction with a SB Film Festival event. This will be the ONLY opportunity for the general public to meet these surf legends! Admission will be $5, as a benefit to SB Surfrider. All ages are welcome.
Bustin Down The Door
Sunday, January 27th @ 7pm @ Arlington
From the hallowed shores and notoriously hollow waves of the Banzai Pipeline in the mid-1970’s, comes the most important surfing documentary film of our time - ‘Bustin Down the Door’, which premieres at the Santa Barbara International Film Festival on Sunday January 27th at 7:00 pm, at the Arlington Theater in Santa Barbara.
Shaun Tomson Boarding House Visit Story
Shaun Tomson paid an impromptu visit to the final 2007 summer Boarding House Mentors event in Santa Monica. The distinguished guest talked to the group of Mentors, Mentees from South Los Angeles and BHM volunteers about the intense meaning of surfing in his life, the metaphor of surfing in all of our lives, various Swahili greetings and his "Surfers Code". Shaun was greeted by the BHM crew with "Sawbona"......a Swahili greeting that has been used by the BHM folks for five years. Simply, it is "hello". It's true meaning is "I see you".....an acknowledgement. The response being "yebo sawbona"...I see you seeing me.
Shaun was approachable to all, grounded and connected to our entire group 
immediately. For those of us who have read characterizations over the years about him being erudite and aloof, his presence and kind gesturing displayed something distinguishably different. He was warm and openly human. He was laden with humility as well. Shaun closed the session out by emotionally reading a moving passage from his book about the sacred circle his son had created and related it to the circle that BHM closes each session with.
His exit was coupled by a statement of "Ngiyabonga", which means "thank you". BHM responded in kind and wants now to acknowledge Shaun's contribution to our group as well as the surfing community. Hopefully the world will gain further insight into the gifts of his character while also acknowledging his surfing accomplishments.
More info on Boarding House Mentors at www.boardinghousementors.org
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on Thursday, January 24 at 5PM Mark Richards ("MR") and Wayne "Rabbit" Bartholomew, on their first visit to Santa Barbara, will be present with Shaun Tomson in conjunction with a SB Film Festival event. This will be the ONLY opportunity for the general public to meet these surf legends! Admission will be $5, as a benefit to SB Surfrider. All ages are welcome.Shaun was approachable to all, grounded and connected to our entire group
immediately. For those of us who have read characterizations over the years about him being erudite and aloof, his presence and kind gesturing displayed something distinguishably different. He was warm and openly human. He was laden with humility as well. Shaun closed the session out by emotionally reading a moving passage from his book about the sacred circle his son had created and related it to the circle that BHM closes each session with.His exit was coupled by a statement of "Ngiyabonga", which means "thank you". BHM responded in kind and wants now to acknowledge Shaun's contribution to our group as well as the surfing community. Hopefully the world will gain further insight into the gifts of his character while also acknowledging his surfing accomplishments.
