Local activist Craig Cadwallader hospitalized
Environmental activist Craig Cadwallader. Photo Craig Cadwallader has many gifts. He’s articulate, thoughtful, and — perhaps most unusually within the rough and tumble of local politics — kindly spoken, carefully reasoned, and cheerfully unruffled. He’s also almost omnipresent at Manhattan Beach City Council meetings and particularly at all ocean-related events, owing to his deep commitment to marine environmental protection. But Cadwallader, who is policy director of the local Surfrider Foundation chapter, has been notably absent for the last two weeks. Surfer and fellow activist Morgan Sliff announced the reason at Saturday night’s South Bay Boardriders Club annual Big Wave Awards: Cadwallader nearly lost his life due to an unusual intestinal blockage and has been hospitalized since April 19. Cadwallader had been experiencing pain for several days but refused to have it checked because he was focused on Manhattan Beach’s expansion of its plastics ban on April 17, a Surfrider meeting the following day, and the upcoming hearings regarding a proposed desalination plant in El Segundo. When he was finally convinced to go to the hospital, doctors immediately realized he was in severe…
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