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Surf club set to mentor waterkids

By Kevin Cody / April 14, 2010


Noted watermen and waterwomen are leading an effort to revive the surf club, a 1960s-era tradition that mentored young people in the ways of the water.

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Surf club forms to mentor kids ways of watermen/waterwomen

By Kevin Cody / April 13, 2010


The idea for a South Bay surf club hit Mike Balzer two years ago. His son Shane was 9 and his daughter Malia was 6. They weren’t enthusiastic about dad teaching them to surf because they wanted to play with their friends and their friends didn’t surf.

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Best of the Beach 2024 Winners Retail and Services

By Special Contributor / March 13, 2024

click on the heading of each section to read the winner’s write-ups. Retail Antiques Stars Antique Market 526 Pier Ave. Hermosa Beach (310) 318-2800 starsantiquemarket.com   Flower Shop Rolling Hills Flower Mart 231 Vista Del Mar Redondo Beach (310) 540-3333 1016 Manhattan Ave. Manhattan Beach (310) 937-7377 rollinghillsflowermart.com   Gift Shop Fringe 1806 Catalina Ave.…

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Best of the Beach Retail and Services 2022 Complete List of Winners & Runner Up

By Easy Reader Staff / March 16, 2022

Retal and Service as determined by ballots cast online at EasyReaderNews.com Retail Flower Shop Growing Wild 1201 Highland Ave., Manhattan Beach (310) 545-4432 growingwild.net   Runner-up Rolling Hills Flower Mart Manhattan and Redondo Beach rollinghillsflowermart.com   Gift Shop Gum Tree Shop & Cafe 238 Pier Ave., Hermosa Beach (310) 376-8733 gumtreela.com   Runner-up Curious 128 Pier Ave., Hermosa…

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SB Boardriders hosts Grom-O-Rama

By Easy Reader Staff / August 29, 2021

Photos by Ken Pagliaro (KenPagliaro.com) Swimming, paddling, and beach, and water flags were among the events local groms participated  in Saturday at 22nd Street in Hermosa Beach during the South Bay Boardrider Club’s  Grom-O-Rama. The annual event is designed to introduce children, ages 5 to 13, to the joys of a day at the beach,…

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Best of the Beach 2020

By Judy Rae / March 12, 2020

As determined by ballots cast online
at EasyReaderNews.com

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Best of the Beach 2019 – Health

By Teri Marin / March 15, 2019

Best of the Beach 2019

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Best of the Beach 2017 winners: retail and services

By Mark McDermott / March 12, 2017

Best of the Beach 2017 winners (click to see BOB write-ups).  Dining and entertainment will be featured in Beach magazine’s April issue (vote here). The urge to recognize “the best” is universal, even though everyone knows “the best” to too subjective to be scientific. Best of awards are really gratitude ceremonies. They satisfy people’s need…

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All for a Few Tasty Waves: Local surfer Chris Wells Profile

By Easy Reader Staff / January 17, 2013

Monday, December 23, 2012: Chris Wells put himself on the edge of another Avenues drainer. He’s locked in the dirty vortex, half sand, half water equaling a 100 percent critical tube, the escape just yards away. Fully committed Wells, pumps, all hell breaking over him, chases the closing gap… The late 70s was the era…

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Two enshrined on Hermosa Beach Surfers Walk of Fame

By Robb Fulcher / April 12, 2012

Dazzling golden sunshine bathed former U.S. Surfing Champion Mark Levy and widely published surf photographer Steve Wilkings as they were formally inducted onto the Hermosa Beach Surfers Walk of Fame in a Saturday ceremony at the foot of the city pier. Wilkings grew misty-eyed when he offered “a special thank you” to another Walk of…

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