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February 2006 Issue
February Calendar
Saturday, February 4
The Ventura Surfrider and the Santa Barbara Channelkeeper meet on the first Saturday of every month for “Stream Team” from 9 a.m. to 1 p.m. The Team recruits and trains community members to take part in monthly water quality monitoring. Plan on getting your feet wet. Free pizza and drinks are provided. Call 648-4807 for more information.
Make art from scrap with the Community Environmental Council. The CEC takes materials that would normally be thrown away and recycles them into art supplies for the community. Join them a 10 a.m. at 302 E. Cota St., and check out www.communityenvironmentalcouncil.org for complete schedule of events.
Sunday, February 5
Swim with the Oceanducks along Butterfly Beach for their “Four Palms to Red Hut” swim every Sunday. Oceanducks is a non-profit organization established to encourage ocean swimming as a way to good health and spirit. Meet at the stairs by the Coral Casino at 9 a.m. For more info, log onto www.oceanducks.org.
SB Channelkeeper’s Goleta Stream Team meets on the first Sunday of every month at 10 a.m. in the Kmart parking lot in front of the garden center. Be prepared to get your feet wet. Free pizza and drinks provided. Call 563–3377 or visit www.stream-team.org for more info.
Tuesday, February 7
Get involved and learn what's happening in your community at the Ventura Surfrider meeting at 6 p.m. in the Foster Library (651 Main St.), Topper Meeting Room. All those who want to learn or lend a helping hand are welcome. For more information, call 667-2222 or visit the website at www.surfrider.org/ventura/
Thursday, February 9
The Santa Barbara Surfrider Foundation has general meetings on the first Thursday of every other month at 7:30 in the watershed resource center at Hendry’s Beach. For more info email srfrdrsb@rain.org
Yoga/Surf Session for Women, every Thursday from 9-11 a.m. Start with a pre-yoga session on the beach and then get coached to step up your surf skills. Call Monica at 681-9293 or Angelica at 451-8213.
Saturday, February 18
The Ventura Surf Club will be meeting for the Big, Bad and Ugly Surf and Turf today and tomorrow at the Estero Bay Surf Club in Morro Bay. For more information, visit www.venturasurfclub.org
Tuesday, February 21
The Ventura Surf Club will be meeting today at Yolie's Fresh Mexican Grill, 26 S. Garden. As a club member, you are able to surf in all intra-club, coalition and other contests. Meetings start at 6:30, visit www.venturasurfclub.org for more information.
Thursday, February 23
The Santa Barbara County Surf Club meets on the last Thursday of every month. Anyone who wants to learn more about the SB surfing community is welcome to the meeting, which starts at 6 p.m. at Rusty's Pizza on Cabrillo and Bath St. Visit www.sbsurfclub.com or call President Debby at 569-1029.
Saturday, February 25
Contest #8 of NSSA's Gold Coast Conference Explorer Season will go down today at Campus Point, Santa Barbara. For more information, log onto www.nssa.org.
The “Destination Point” Surf Movie Tour will be coming through Santa Barbara this weekend to the Victoria Hall Theatre. “Destination Point” was filmed in Tavarua, Hawaii, California, Indo and Mexico, and stars Bobby Martinez, Tom Curren, Ratboy, Flea, Barney, Kelly Slater, Malloy and Iron brothers, and more. This film was made by young local Josh Pomer. For more information, visit www.thesurflab.com.
Join Angelica Keets of Surf Happens and Monica Mesa of ChakraSea Yoga for the Yoga and Surf Clinic for Women. You will learn and practice a surf specific sequence of Yoga postures you can integrate into your pre or post surf session, and get coached to step up your surf skills. Date and location may change, contact Monica at yogamom3@yahoo.com for updated information.
Sunday, February 26
Mark your calendears for Santa Barbara's first Steelhead Festival, an all-day event that supports our local watersheds and the fish and wildlife that depend on them. The Community Environmental Council believes that by raising public awareness, they can gain support for protecting the watersheds and improving creek habitat so that the steelhead trout can return to our waters. The festival will begin at 10 a.m. at the Santa Barbara Zoo. Visit www.communityenvironmentalcouncil.org/index.html for more information.
Posted February 2006 Blue Edge Magazine. All rights reserved.
