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Since the beginning of the year you've been hearing about Barefoot Wine Rescue the Beach Project. 

3 years ago Barefoot Wine and Surfrider Foundation launched the Barefoot Wine Beach Rescue Project...a national partnership to keep America's beaches "barefoot friendly". 

To read in detail about Barefoot Wines country wide efforts please click the link below.http://republic.barefootwine.com/beachrescue/

The project will reach out to 25 locations around the country in celebration of Surfrider's 25th Anniversary.   

The Project selected the Suncoast Chapter to be its Florida tour stop.

July 11th, Saturday.

11am-1pm

Clean the Beach!

ALL AGES WELCOME to the CLEAN UP EVENT!

Upham Beach.  North end of St. Pete Beach, 69th Avenue and Beach Plaza. 

Please Check In At The Surfrider Tent on the Sand Behind The Snack Shack. 

Sign In! and get a Free Event Parking Pass.

Free water!

Free Bagels from Publix! (while supplies last)

Free Give aways!

Free pickers, gloves and bags from Keep Pinellas Beautiful.

Opportunities will be available to join or renew your membership with Surfrider Foundation and receive a free tote bag and an issue of Surfing Magazine. (while supplies last)

Are you 21?  A little bit of work goes a loooonnnggg way!

Attend the clean up, show your id, get a bracelet as free admission to a celebration- thank you private party later that night.

6pm-8pm

Cha-Cha Coconuts

St. Petersburg Pier Downtown

Free Wine! Free Food!

Free Concert by Mason Jennings, national recording artist, and super stoked activist!

Surfboard raffle!

Tossouts!

Look for flyers in all the surfshop and for them to pop up in locations in downtown St. Petersburg!

Archibald Park
Madeira Beach
15100 Gulf Blvd
Just a couple of longboards north of
Tom Stuart Causeway and Gulf Blvd.
(727) 391-7373

BBQ and Paddle out for clean water in support of the local Fertilizer Ordinance.

A blast in the heat wave!

The newly planted dunes are holding up to the scorching temperatures and sporatic rain.  We look forward to sucessfully enhancing all of Madeira Beaches dunes as an ongoing Suncoast chapter initiative. 

 At Saturday's ISD event, we sold tickets for a surfboard raffle and Suncoast surfrider tshirts.  Had plenty of great food, lots of toss outs and more than a dozen surfers and swimmers in the water for the clean water paddle out. 

Thank to everyone for coming out!

Lara and Nate won prizes for "surfing" a table in costume!

Stay tuned for pictures of this event!

Thanks goes to

Surfrider Foundation

Laura of Surfrider National

Keep Pinellas Beautiful for the donation of trash pickers, bags, gloves and butt containers. 

Monster Energy Drinks     Surfing Magazine     Matix     DVS     O'Neill     DaKine     Globe     Patagonia     Body Glove     Ecousable     Quicksilver     Sector 9     Rip Curl     Billabong     Reef     Vans     and      Volcom

for their generous donations of free stuff for the event and more importanly their everlasting support of the Surfrider Foundation! 

Thanks goes to John for cooking up dogs and burgers,

Thank you Brandi, Andre, and Lee for working so positively with the city of Madeira Beach to make it possible to hold the event there.  Thank you Jessica, Jake, Victoria, Thomas, and Laura for their work at the table on the hotter side of the beach. 

 
For other events and news visit the ISD Website! http://www.surfingmagazine.com/isd/

COMPETE, SURF, CREATE FOR A GOOD CAUSE

anniversary on June 20, Surfrider Foundation chapters and other ocean lovers around the world will be holding three on-site challenges to get beach-goers creating, surfing and competing: Costume Party: Best Costume While Riding a Wave, Most Spots Surfed on ISD: Photo and/or Video Contest, and the Butt Challenge: How Many Cigarette Butts You Can Collect in an Hour.

In addition, ISD “challenge” sponsors are hosting a variety of activities ranging from filmmaking, to beach cleanups, to art and surf contests. This year, “challenges” and prizes are sponsored by Electric, Ocean Minded, Matix, DVS, O’Neill, Reef, Sector Nine, Globe, Vans, Volcom, Body Glove, Patagonia, Billabong, Quiksilver, Rip Curl, Ecousable and DaKine.

“We are very excited to continue the tradition of incorporating ‘challenges’ into International Surfing Day,” says SURFING Magazine’s editor-in-chief Travis Ferre. “The ‘challenges’ are a great way for people to get involved and be creative all while giving back to a good cause, our oceans.”

Founded five years ago by the Surfrider Foundation and Surfing Magazine, International Surfing Day, presented by Monster Energy, unites surfers from around the world in celebration of the sport of surfing. As is tradition with the annual holiday, surfers will do their part to give back to our oceans, waves and beaches through various organized events such as clean-ups and restoration projects courtesy of the Surfrider Foundation.

For more information on International Surfing Day, including challenges, events and participating chapters, please go to www.intlsurfingday.com.

About Surfrider Foundation

The Surfrider Foundation is a non-profit grassroots environmental organization dedicated to the protection and enjoyment of our world’s oceans, waves and beaches. Now in its 25^th year, the Surfrider Foundation has grown from a small group of dedicated surfers in Malibu, California to a global movement made up of over 50,000 members and 90 chapters worldwide. For more information visit us at www.surfrider.org.

About SURFING Magazine
Founded in 1964, SURFING Magazine is the global leader in coverage of progressive, international and competitive surfing. As the official magazine of the National Scholastic Surfing Association and the Vans Triple Crown of Surfing, SURFINGSURFING’sSURFING continues to showcase Generation Now and the generations of the future. unique properties include International Surfing Day and Shaper of the Year. publishes 12 issues per year as well as the annual Swimsuit Special.

CONTACT:

Alexis Henry

Surfrider Foundation

Phone (949) 732-6413 / Fax (949) 492-8142

Email: ahenry@surfrider.org

Elishia Matta

Action Sports Group

Phone (949) 661-5149

Email: Elishia.matta@sorc.com

On May 16th, 2009, Suncoast chapter volunteers stepped up to give back to a polular Pinellas County Beach.  In one day the chapter cleaned up the beach and planted 170 native plants in a badly trampled dune system.  The city of Maderia Beach was so proud to have this project complete that they awarded the chapter permission to replant all the dunes along this special beach. 

Thank you Brandy, Andre, Lee and Scott for the donated funds and plants for this great cause.  Thank you everyone else whom came out! 

For more pictures on the event please visit www.gulfster.com  Great pics Jake! 
 

Your new Suncoast Board is in place! 

Congratulations and great big welcome go out to:

Chapter Chair: Jessica Respondek

Chapter Vice Chair: Scott Orsini

Chapter Volunteer Coordinator: Don Williams

Also...huge welcome back to the chapters South of the Bridge Coordinator, Amanda!

For comments, questions or suggestions please check the contact us page to reach any of the 2009-2010 board members by email.

What a blast! Hundreds of partiers of all ages turned out for the January 10^th Suncoast Surfrider Foundation party at Mulligan’s Sunset Grille on Blind Pass. Out on the back patio under the bright full moon, were lots of familiar faces among new ones. Austin Piazza kicked off the party with an awesome acoustic set, belting out favorite covers of Jack Johnson and the like. Then the partiers spread out and made room for the dozen female and male professional models from Benz Model and Talent agency to take the runway in the best beach wear fashions of the west coast provided by many local surf shops. The babes and dudes strut across the patio in barely there bikinis and baggies. As they danced and played the crowd ate them up. Meanwhile the keg, donated by Mulligan’s, kept pumping, and Dave shucked raw oysters behind the cash bar. Mike Meehan and Ron Henkle of Surfrider took the stage, lei’d Darcy and Brandy, and drew the first of three winning tickets for the surfboards raffle. And on behalf of Suncoast Chapter, Mike presented Roger with a trophy, he’s one of the chapters most active members, a long time west coast surfer, an all around great guy, whom will be going into surgery for a new pacemaker (heart) on Monday. Roger we love you man! Locolism from Tarpon Springs, took over and with sit in musicians from Sarge and the Aeromen they did what they do best, rock it good and loud enough for the cops to come. No worries, St. Pete Beach’s finest just came to check out the fun. Two more surfboards were given away in the raffle plus shirts and hats from Toes on the Nose. Suncoast collected $565 in donations and each $5 donation bought a ticket for the raffle. At 12:30, when I left, the crowd was still thick but not so loud and Mulligan’s staff, grateful for their running shoes, looked weary but still smiling.

Huge thanks go out to everyone for coming out!

Suncoast Chapter board sends out very special thanks to:

Dave and staff at Mulligan’s. Great space! Great food! Great staff!

Darcy of Benz Model & Talent Agency, from Ybor City.

All the models of Benz for donating your time.

Lenny of Lenny’s Surf Shop, St. Pete Beach.

Joe of Suncoast Surfshop, Treasure Island.

Greg and Robyn of Surf Shack, St. Pete Beach.

Larry of The Island Shop, Indian Rocks Beach.

Pete of Nekton, Indian Rocks Beach.

Ron for knowing everybody including Brandy the photographer.

Brandy for the hook up with Darcy and shooting the event.

Austin Piazza

Locolism & Sarge and the Aeromen

Scott from Toes on the Nose.

Erich & Tiffany from DNA Energy Drinks for keeping the ice chest fully loaded.

Thomas for the LocalS campaign.

Jason (6inall) for the LocalS vinyl stickers.

Kelley, Leif, Mike, Desiree, Ron and Julie for running the Surfrider table.

John for arranging the bands and the venue.