
Instead of soaking the rays poolside in Palm Springs or being flipped around an inner tube in tow on one of the southwest’s desert lakes or waterways, for the fourth year in a row the Mira Costa Surf Team spent their spring break bopping around the playful breaks of central Nicaragua.

Larry Prutch, Cengiz Volkan, and Alan Goldstein founded the Prutch, Volkan, Goldstein (PVG) Group Foundation, a non-profit charitable organization dedicated to improving the quality of life of disadvantaged children in the South Bay community. Since its inception, the foundation has hosted and funded its annual PVG Foundation Bicycle Giving, an event that takes place in May at which 100 kids between the ages of 7 and 18 are gifted with a brand new bicycle.