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Costa Verde International School Benefit

Monday, March 30, 2009

This Thursday, April 2nd from 6-10pm is an evening to benefit the Costa Verde International School that features a surf inspired auction, art exhibit, entertainment, plus food and drinks. This all goes down at 1129 State St for a suggested donation of $10. Tom Curren and his band will perform, and in attendance will be surfers such as Pat O'Connell, Danny Kwock, Donovan Frankenreiter, and if you aren't already tired of seeing them, The Malloy Brothers and Kelly Slater. This should be a great event to help out a great cause. Check out the pdf

About Costa Verde:

As an elementary school with initial grades from preschool through 6th, our aim is to produce healthy, happy and well adjusted life-long learners. Our target is that each child acquires fluency in a second language and a profound understanding
of the necessity for a “green” approach to living. To achieve this, CVIS is dedicated to a small student to teacher ratio and has focused education on the whole child in an environment designed to develop the talents and skills particular to each
individual. School curriculum centers on ecology and respect for the environment. Students learn to analyze and solve problems, rather than simply memorizing facts.

Our International School is just the beginning. Our goal is to provide all ages in our community with a location to find knowledge. Through our Sustainable Resource Center, our mission is to get the people of the community to find the changes
they feel are important and to make those changes. Through our Cultural Center, our ambition is to provide adult education classes, art showings, theatre, a public library, and other learning opportunities for the community. We want to expose our
amalgam of families to art, culture, and knowledge from around the world and to inspire the entire town to become ecological.

The proceeds from this event will go towards providing Costa Verde International School with Green Energy and Hot Water, and serve as a working model to initiate change and sustainability within the community.

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Storm Proofs Reception

Thursday, March 26, 2009

Tomorrow night, Friday, March 27, from 6 - 9PM will be the "Storm Proofs" Artist's Opening Reception and Book Signing. To take place at Santa Barbara Art Studios, 709 E. Mason Street, there will be wine tasting and live Bossa Nova and blues music.
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Stolen Boards. Westside 3/20

Tuesday, March 24, 2009

3 boards were stolen from a VW Westfallia on the 800 block of W. Pedgregosa on Friday night. If you see these floating around, contact the owner or us here at Santa Barbara Surfing.

Stolen 6'2" Clyde Beatty Jr. Fish, twin fin, blue n' gray grafitti deck
Stolen 9'2" Walden Magic Model, yellow with blue flower nose
Stolen 6'6" Anderson thruster faded white
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Bowdish Photos

Monday, March 23, 2009

We are a bit behind on linking to photos
from our winter swells, mostly because a monster swell never came in that provided tons of photos. Callie Bowdish has been documenting the waves at Coal Oil Point all winter so here are all of her galleries. (Photo: Callie Bowdish)

Dec 21, 2008
January 17, 2009
January 17., 2009 (continued)
January 19, 2009
February 7, 2009
February 21, 2009

Also, anyone know who the surfer pictured above is? He has nice style and we've seen him at Campus and Deveraux. Amongst some surf friends we call him "Silas." On the swell of February 21st he took off on one of the bigger waves we've seen of the winter. On a longboard. Old school longboard. Leashless. As we were staring up at a big red board while duckdiving. He pulled it.
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Lakey Peterson Profile

Thursday, March 19, 2009

Our Edhat article this week is a Lakey Peterson profile as she prepares to surf for Team USA in Ecuador.

Some other stuff to link up.

• Ding Repair guy on Craigslist
• Goleta Surfing's Happy Monday and Locals Only.
• Jon Shafer's three most recent entries.
• UCSB ranked #4 surfing college, behind UCSD, UCSC, and Cal Poly.
  

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