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Showing posts with label Featured Stories. Show all posts
This weekend a "SAVE THE VENICE LIFEGUARD TOWER" petition started being share on Twitter and Facebook. Here is what the petition says:
"Without notice to the Venice community, LA County lifeguards, ocean ecologists or beachgoers, the LA County Department of Beaches and Harbors plans to demolish the iconic Venice Lifeguard Tower and leave our beach with the surrounding nondescript eyesore single story building.
The Tower provides a phenomenal and unmatched expansive view of the entire Santa Monica Bay. If destroyed, it could never be replaced. It has been the pride of our lifeguards for the past 50 years. The County has disregarded the Tower's unique outstanding qualities, its history, the scarcity of public buildings in Venice and has failed to consider alternative uses.
We are asking for the opportunity to evaluate repurposing the Tower for use as a public venue such as a Lifeguard Oceans Museum. Private not-for-profit funds are available.
Repurposing the Lifeguard Tower as a community asset would create an exceptional cultural, environmental and educational venue for everyone, young and old, residents and visitors, to enjoy.
Initiative of: Adjacent neighbors, LA County lifeguards, Venice Oceanarium, Dept of Historic Resources, and Venice Neighborhood Council Preserving Public Places Committee."
No other information about this is avalaible. The petition closes with this statement:
THIS IS NOT A REQUEST FOR FUNDS - DO NOT MAKE DONATIONS
Which is good. Due to one of the above mentioned organizations having a current board member who was previously caught stealing donated funds of over $9,000. So please be careful of any donatations you make to causes like this.
To visit the petition page or to sign the petition, Click Here
You can now register online for the 29th Annual Venice Surfathon!
Save $5 on the contest entry by registering online. It is going to be $30 to register at the beach on the day of the contest. It is just $25 to register online, plus you get to reserve a contest t-shirt in the size you want!
For more info and to register, Click Here
In October 2022, The Ocean Cleanup deployed the USA's first Interceptor in Ballona Creek, LA County. Here’s a look behind the scenes at how this deployment was brought to life as crew members, municipal leaders, and partners share their reactions.
See how Interceptor 007 came to be stationed in California and hear first-hand the hopes of residents for how The Ocean Cleanup’s intervention can improve their environment.
The Ocean Cleanup's Interceptor 007 is up and running in Ballona Creek. Facing the first major rain event of its deployment, Interceptor 007 successfully extracted plastic and other debris to full capacity - all waste that would otherwise be heading for the Pacific Ocean right now.
The Ocean Cleanup will continue to optimize Interceptor 007 during its pilot project over the next two storm seasons. The first steps deal with minor leakage and catch management issues to increase efficiency and keep even more plastic out of the Pacific.
For more info, Click Here
Video recap of the 2022 Haunted Heats, featuring all the costume performance, some surfing, and the awards ceremony.
Held by ZJ Boarding House, this Halloween contest is part surfing, part costume performance.
Check out the all the photos in our 2022 Haunted Heats Photo Gallery, this Halloween contest
Here's our photo coverage of the Haunted Heats Surf COntest. This set of surf photos was shot by Six12 Media.
These are just a few of the 300+ photos from the contest. If you were in it, you probably got some shots, probably multiple photos, they will be in the complete contest photo gallery, check them out, the link to the complete gallery is down below.
As always wijth the Haunted Heats. the costume performance portion is first. Every contestant has 30 seconds to act out their costume.
Then comes the surfing portion of the contest.
You can find all the photos from the contest, all full size and in high-resolution, in this photo gallery:
If you were out there, we probably got some cool surfing shots of you, go check them out!
Wanna see photos from previous days at this and other local surf spots from this photographer?
Click Surf Spot Galleries and look for the spot and then the date.
The fate of the Venice Surf-A-Thon is now unknown.
Contest founder & organizer, Ger-I Lewis, made two announcements this morning via his social media accounts. Both announcements statimng he has decided not to produce the contest anymore, and the second announcement was the same as the first but he added in a sentence about gifting the contest to "the Venice neighborhood" , which he called aa "a strong and responsible group".
This news comes just 12 days after Ger-I had announced the 2022 Venice Surf-A-Thon date.
His full announcement:
"Family, friends and supporters of Venice Surf-A-Thon Surf Contest, I have decided to not to produce the Venice Surf-A-Thon Surf Contest any longer. Thank you for the support and a wonderful 28 years of fun and surfing! I decided to gift the contest to the Venice neighborhood and a strong and responsible group that is considering keeping the 'Thon going into the next 3 decades.
Sincerely, Ger-I"
Is the Venice Surfing Association the group Gert-I is talking about?
And does that mean the 2022 contest is still on?
From Santa Monica Close Up:
"City of Los Angeles Department of Public Works sanitation workers in white hazardous materials suits, with Clean Harbors Hazardous Waste Management and Action Cleanup Environmental Services clean-up homeless encampments at Venice Beach on Friday, October 21, 2022."
Santa Monica Close Up is a photo blog by Santa Monica based Photojournalist/Press photographer Fabian Lewkowicz. Fabian is the former staff photographer for the Santa Monica Daily Observer Press, Santa Monica Mirror, Santa Monica and the Santa Monica Corsair.
Support Santa Monica Closeup/Fabian Lewkowicz with Venmo or PayPal to help earn money to make these videos:
https://venmo.com/u/santamonicacloseup
https://www.paypal.com/paypalme/fabianlewkowicz
Here's our photo coverage of the surfing from the Breakwater Open. This set of surf photos was shot by Six12 Media and brought to you by XCEL Wetsuits.
These are just a few of the 1200+ photos from the contest. If you surfed in it, you probably got some surfing shots, probably multiple photos, they will be in the complete contest photo gallery, check them out, the link to the complete gallery is down below.
You can find all the photos from the contest, all full size and in high-resolution, in this photo gallery:
If you were out there, we probably got some cool surfing shots of you, go check them out!
Wanna see photos from previous days at this and other local surf spots from this photographer?
Click Surf Spot Galleries and look for the spot and then the date.
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