Plastic Campaign Web Mail Manager Needed! This technologically savy individual is needed to help merge all of our petition signers into a cooler email account so we can message to them and coalition groups. Please contact Charlie at cplybon@surfrider.org
The Ocean Frontiers film premiere in Brookings, Oregon, is hosted by Southwestern Oregon Community College and Lower Rogue Watershed Council.
Film Premiere Details:
Ocean Frontiers, 80 minutes
Friday, May 11, 2012
Krieger Community Room—Southwestern Oregon Community College Curry Campus
6:30-8:30pm (doors open 6:00pm)
SEATING IS LIMITED. PLEASE LEAVE A MESSAGE WITH YOUR NAME AND NUMBER OF GUESTS THAT WILL BE ATTENDING THE EVENT AT
541-888-1693
3 Surf Camps this summer in Curry County!
We have some great ideas for this summers camps including partnering with Coast Guard, Port Orford Ocean Resource Team, Watershed Councils, more life guard challenges, a volunteer camp out on the Saturday nights and short field trips after surfing. We will be giving priority to kids who have not surfed in one of our camps previously. Please let us know if you would like to help in any or all of the camps and please share this volunteer opportunity with your surfing friends.
June 9th & 10th Port Orford- Hubbard Creek
July 7th & 8th Gold Beach- South Jetty Rogue River mouth
We could not do these awesome camps without your involvement. To volunteer please contact Michelle Carillo at: Michelle.Carrillo@oregonstate.edu 541 247-6672 or Dave Lacey at: davejlacey@yahoo.com 541 373-0487
Mahalo!
It’s coming! The 5th annual Port Orford Water Festival is nearly upon us and we hope you’ll join us again for this fun filled day of land to sea connectivity activities for the whole family. Over 14 organizations and agencies will have interactive booths and the afternoon will host a suite of activities from surfing and fishing lessons to workshops by NOAA partners. This year’s keynote speaker, First Lady of Oregon Cylvia Hayes. More info. Click below to check out some of the highlights from last year’s event.
The new Gold Beach 4-H Surfrider Surf Club will have a fun filled first meeting/enrollment night Tuesday, February 21st from 5:30-7pm in the OSU Extension Office meeting room.
Activities planned include surf movies, Indo boarding and sign ups.
Club activities will combine the fun of surfing while learning about marine and coastal conservation. Several wetsuits and surfboards have been donated and are available for the clubs use. Membership is open to children in 4th-12th grades but K-3rd graders are welcome to participate with a parent partner.
If you have interest in learning more, contact 4H and Michelle or Sheri the 4-H Extension Office. (541) 247-6672 or (800)356-3986
Or call South Coast Organizers for Surfrider and Dave Lacey at 541 373-0487
Ocean Frontiers: The Dawn of a New Era in Ocean Stewardship will premiere in Port Orford on Sat. Feb 11 at the Savoy Theatre at 5pm. The film profiles successful examples of ocean stewardship in the U.S. including local efforts in Port Orford. Purchase your ticket by Friday January 20th for $10 at www.oceanfrontiersportorford.eventbrite.com. A reception will follow at the Community Hall at 7:30pm with Hors d’oeuvres & spirits provided (21 & over only). For more information on the film, please visit: www.ocean-frontiers.org. Special guests include Mayor Jim Auborn, State Representatives Wayne Krieger & Arnie Roblan, Governor John Kitzhaber & First Lady Cylvia Hayes. The Surfrider Foundation is proud to be a co-host of the event. Seats are limited, so please purchase your tickets today! There will also be a Sunday matinee on Feb 12 at 4pm with tickets available for $5 at the door.
DOORS OPEN at 1:30pm
Warm up with a slideshow featuring images of birds and nature by talented local photographers.
2pm -5:15pm
AFTERNOON SESSION
Chetco Adventure- a very short (2 min.) adventure piece by top-notch kayaker and Banff-Mountain-Film-Festival-award winner Andy Maser gives us a rare glimpse at the upper Chetco River as it flows deep in the Kalmiopsis Wilderness.
FEATURE: A Wild American Forest– Learn what makes the Klamath-Siskyou ecoregion –in our own backyard–so extraordinary. This film aired on OPB last year. Narrated by Susan Sarandon
Intermission
FEATURE: Vanishing of the Bees (starting around 3pm) – A gripping narrative documentary about Colony Collapse Disorder–a health threat to bees that risks the loss of much more than honey since we depend on honeybees to pollinate 1/3 of the food on our tables.
5:15-6:30pm
INTERMISSION • DINNER BREAK
Grab a quick bite at a local restaurant, at home, or at the Savoy Concession stand.
6:00 to 6:30pm
Festival Reception
Mingle at the stage, refreshments provided by KAS-member volunteers.
6:30 -9:15 pm
EVENING SESSION
Mini-sneak Preview: Ocean Frontiers—promising approaches ocean stewardship, featuring Port Orford! –coming to the Savoy on Feb. 11
LOCAL FILMMAKERS SHOWCASE:
Salmon Skin –Go eye to eye with five West-coast salmon species! A short film by Arcata-based underwater videographer Thomas Dunklin, plus additional under-river footage of the robust 2011 Chinook runs on our own Elk and Chetco Rivers. A unique opportunity to enter the world of the salmon.
Wild Oregon–WORLD PREMIERE! Enjoy a stunning tour of Oregon’s wild landscapes in this short film by Emmy-award winning, Port-Orford-based cinematographer David Fortney. Fortney’s eye for beauty, distinctive perspective, and filming techniques set his work apart and give viewers a sense of awe and wonder.
Intermission
FEATURE: Ghost Bird–(starting around 7:45pm) A smart and humorous documentary that considers the “rediscovery” of the Ivory-billed woodpecker and how it changed a small, rural Arkansas town. The Wall Street Journal has called it “witty and metaphysical” and the New York Times says it’s “a multi-layered story that will fascinate practically everybody.” –WINNER OF THE CINE 2010 GOLD EAGLE AWARD, SOUTHERN SOUL OF INDEPENDENT FILM AWARD, INDIE MEMPHIS AWARD, and many others…
Stand Up! For The Bay is a community event designed to bring our Coos bay, and waterways into the focus of citizens in our community. The event will take place in downtown Coos Bay, and registration and check-in begins at the public dock/boardwalk at 8:00 am. Participants will be paddling via kayak, canoe, stand-up paddle board, surfboard (or whatever you like!) and congregate in the Bay waters for an easy to moderate loop. A luau with food and live music will follow, along with an informative meeting of what’s currently happening in the bay area with Surfrider Foundation and the local interest in forming a chapter in Coos Bay. Join Us! For more information email Carmen Matthews. Registration sheets can be filled out the morning of or at Waxer’s Surf Shop. Call (541) 266-9020 for more information…we hope to see you there!
Paddle out: 8:30-11:30am
Luau: 11:30-1:30pm
(boardwalk or Broadway Theater, depending on weather)
Floras Lake State Park and the Blacklock Point area still need us — Sept. 14 at 5pm, Docia Sweet Hall at the Fairgrounds Event Center in Gold Beach! At a series of recent Town Hall meetings, Curry County Commissioner George Rhodes finally unveiled long-secret plans to develop two golf courses, one on the shores of Floras Lake and another atop bluffs that are now part of Floras Lake State Park. Kalmiopsis Audubon members and friends have been leading the charge presenting impressive, substantive, and inspiring comments at several meetings already, so let’s be sure and give them and the coast we need in this important meeting—which may count the most. There will be a car pool leaving the Langlois Lions Club at 3:30 and from the Port Orford Library at 4:00 pm. And we encourage Brookings members and friends to carpool from the south. If anyone’s up for pizza afterwards, at least a few of us will head for the Panther’s Den, on the east side of 101 toward the center/south end of Gold Beach.
We hope to see you at this very important meeting. At this crucial juncture, the future of our beloved place depends on us. Read more.
