Bike Week Raffle Winner, John Shermer, With His Prize
Presented byTerry Steimer (Sept 2000)
See more pictures from Bike Week and Seacrets Customer Appreciation Day
here.
The
Ocean
City
Chapter
is
now on Facebook
Become
a
Fan now.
Ocean City,
Maryland Repeats as a 5-Star Beach in
NRDC's Annual Report, Testing the
Waters (July 2009)
For the 19th year in a row, the
Natural Resources Defense Council (NRDC) has released a report
summarizing the status of our nations beach water quality.
Unfortunately, 2008 marked the 4th year in a row that the number of
closing and advisory days topped 20,000 days nationwide due to elevated
bacteria levels. In Maryland, 2% of all reported beach monitoring
samples exceeded the state's daily maximum bacterial standards, which
was a decrease from 4% in 2007. In 2008, Ocean City beaches reported no
instances of exceeding the standards.
Learn about your
beach in these individual state reports: NJ | DE | MD | VA
Leave
Only Your Footprints Message on the High Seas
Many
thanks to the SeaBoard for spreading the surfrider message to "Please
Leave Only Your Footprints." Photo courtesy of Warren Overman.
Surfrider
Weekend
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OC
Surfrider
9th Annual Longboard
Team
Challenge,
June 2009 (More
pictures here)
Beautiful Beaches!
May 20, 2009. The Stephen
Decatur High School communication arts class created a public service
announcement to promote clean beaches in Ocean City. Ocean City
Surfrider Foundation is airing this student produced PSA on national
cable networks such as Animal Planet, Comedy Central, Discover,
Entertainment TV, The Family Channel, MTV, Nickelodeon, Cartoon
Network, and the Travel Channel. Terry Steimer from OC Surfrider
Foundation presents a check to the student videographers and producers
for their exemplary work. Mr. Steimer (left) presents the check to
(left to right) Matt Stocker, Jake Widgeon, Kenny Goodyear, Principal
Lou Taylor, Alli Collins, and Mrs. Maureen Brittingham, teacher.
Winter Gear Needs? Shop O.C. Surfrider Foundation!
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Select from a variety of sweatshirts, hats, short-
and long-sleeve t-shirts, and much more. Order from our on-line
site.
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The
Surfrider Foundation
is a non-profit grassroots environmental organization dedicated to the
protection and preservation of our world’s oceans, waves and beaches.
Now in its 25th 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. Please consider becoming
a
member! [OC-SRF Logo in
Hi-Res]
Charity
Navigator,
the
most-recognized
independent
evaluator
of
American
non-profit organizations, has given the Surfrider
Foundation
their
highest
rating:
Four
Stars.
Learn
more
here.
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Finding
Ways
to
Keep
Waste
Local
Americans
throw
away
an
estimated
2.5
million plastic bottles every hour, so
you'd think we'd have enough raw materials for recyclable products. Sam
Eaton explores the issue behind the waste and how Obama's stimulus plan
may help [click
here].
Surfrider Foundation Launches
"Rise Above Plastics"
On
November
19,
2008,
the
Surfrider Foundation announced the roll out of
its long awaited Rise Above Plastics
program. The program seeks to reduce the amount of plastics making
their way into our beach and marine environments though education and
outreach efforts. Learn
more here.
Make the Pledge to Rise
Above
Plastics!
I
commit
to
do
my
part
to rise above plastics and protect the world's
oceans, waves and beaches from plastic pollution. I will do this by...
learning more about the plastics in our oceans and on our coasts and by
joining millions others in making the pledge. Learn more and
make the pledge here. See the Surfrider Foundation Pledge Board
[PDF file].
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According to
the Pocono Record,
using a cloth bag can save 6 plastic bags weekly, 24 bags monthly, 288
bags yearly and over 20 thousand bags over an average lifetime. The EPA
estimates that somewhere between 500 billion and a trillion
plastic bags are consumed worldwide each year. See the slide
show and learn more at PoconoGreen.
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DO. Collect your bottle caps during beach
clean-ups and from special recycling collection bins. Estee Lauder,
parent company of
Aveda, is collecting the caps, melting them down, and turning them into
new caps for their products. Learn more here on the Surfrider
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Shelly Dawson Honored for Leadership and Stoke
Members of the Ocean City/MD Surfrider Chapter honored
Shelly Dawson, Chairman, for his continuing leadership and stoking
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What
State is Your Beach?
Read the annual Surfrider State of the Beach
report and find out the
state of your beaches.
Leave Only Your Footprints Public Service Video
See the video here
(large MPG).
Check out Will Lucas’/Surf 64 Productions’
DVDs:
Board Shorts, Cruisin' Atlantic Avenue,
and
Waves of
Reflection.
A portion of the proceeds from the sales of these DVDs benefit OCSF.
Looking for our
Sister Chapters?
Visit the Delaware
and D.C. Capitol
chapter websites to see what's happening nearby. Don't forget
the other Mid-Atlantic chapter in Virginia
Beach.
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Upcoming
Events
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Next Monthly Meeting:
Date of Event: Saturday, February 6, 2010
OCSF meets the 1st
Saturday of the month. Guests and prospective members welcome.
Beach
Clean-Up/Community Surfice
Date of Event: Saturday, February 6, 2010 (no
rain date)
This is an OC
Surfrider clean water awareness initiative. Join OC
Surfrider and community groups such as the
Ocean City Beach Patrol, Stephen Decatur High School, Jr. Red Cross,
Chauncey's Surf Shop staff, Salisbury University's Sigma Pi fraternity,
the Annapolis Surf Club, and
Camp Odyssey and in
cleaning up
the beach. This is an OC Surfrider clean water awareness initiative. Earn
community surfice credits.
More info on the Calendar.
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Help
Wanted!
Surfrider needs
volunteers for its many programs
&
projects. See where you can help in upcoming events here:
OC-SRF
Volunteer
Sign-Up
Sheet
for
Community Surfice Hours for
2009. Please contact the Ocean City Surfrider official listed.
Note: Students are eligible for community service hours for
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Recent Events
Date of Event: December 12, 2009 (Saturday)
Time: 7:00pm to 10:00pm
Location:
Bull on the Beach, 94th Street, Ocean City.
Tel.: 410-524-2455
Join
us to celebrate a successful 10th year of protecting Ocean City area
beaches. No cover, just a good time, good music, and great food. Great
music by DJ Bill Morningstar (who else?). Sponsored by Sysco Foods and
OC-SRF and hosted, of course, by Tim and Tommy of BULL
on the BEACH. Click
on image, or
here, for a full-size JPG.
Beach
Clean-Up/Community Surfice
Date of Event: November 7, 2009 (Saturday) (no
rain date)
Time: 10:00am
Location: Castle in the Sand,
37th
St.,
Ocean
City, MD
This is an OC
Surfrider clean water awareness initiative. Join OC
Surfrider and community groups such as the
Ocean City Beach Patrol, Stephen Decatur High School, Jr. Red Cross,
Chauncey's Surf Shop staff, Salisbury University's Sigma Pi fraternity,
the Annapolis Surf Club, and
Camp Odyssey and in
cleaning up
the beach. This is an OC Surfrider clean water awareness initiative. Earn
community surfice credits. Click
on
image,
or
here, for a full-size JPG.
Maryland
Coast Days
Date of Event: September 19, 2009 (Saturday)
Time: 9:00am
Location: Assateague State Park
Join the Coastal Bays Program for a
fun and informative day on Assateague! More info will be available here.
Help at our info tables or
just stop by and say "hi" and pick a new t-shirt.
Bike
Week
Date of Event: September
17-20, 2009 (est.) (Thursday-Sunday)
Time: all
day
Location: Winter Place in Salisbury, MD, and Seacrets in Ocean
City, MD
Motorcycle
industry leaders gather with more than 200 vendors & 100,000
motorcycle enthusiasts for four days of rides, fun, games, contests
& free concerts. Thurs.-Sat., 9 a.m.-9 p.m.; Sun., 9 a.m.-4 p.m.
Bruce Bennett. http://www.delmarvabikeweek.com
We need tons of help and volunteers for the 2009 Bike Week! We are not
only raffling off, not one, but two (2) OC Surfrider Foundation Bike
Week surfboards (and of course they are black and orange) as well as
selling our own 2009 Bike Week tee’s. We need volunteers to man the
sales booths at Winter Place in Salisbury and at Seacrets in OC each of
the four days. We will post a shift chart on the web – so please jump
in and help us raise some dollars for our initiatives.
Ocean City Surfrider Foundation Bike Week Pictures.
Seacrets
Customer
Appreciation
Party
Date of Event: September 27, 2009 (Sunday)
Time: Noon
to 8pm
Location: Seacrets
Admission
is $5 at the
door with proceeds going towards the Ocean City Chapter. There will
also be raffles and great prizes. Please attend with a pocket full of
bills for an afternoon of fun. We need volunteers for the door and
raffles as well. Learn more
about volunteering and how to sign
up
here (contact the coordinator).
International
Surfing Day Paddleout
Date of Event: June
20, 2009 (Saturday)
Time: Noon
Location: 37th Street, Ocean City, MD
This
year's International Surfing Day Paddleout will take place during the
pro surf event being held as part of a 3-day multiple venue
celebration of beach activities during Ocean City Beachfest. Surfers
from
across the globe
will
unite to celebrate International
Surfing
Day. The annual observance,
now in its fifth year, was established to inspire waveriders
everywhere to take a day to share and acknowledge their mutual love of
surfing and our beach and ocean environments. Details in the "Calendar."
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For other past
events, click here.
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Meet the
Seacrets Raffle Man
(aka Terry
Steimer)
Also Known as the
Ambassador of the "Please
Leave Only Your Footprints" Campaign. You'll
see Terry at Seacrets and everywhere else about
town selling raffle tickets and explaining the Surfrider
mission.
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