Komick maintained low profile, big presence

Photos by Chris Miller Kim Komick was a building developer who respected her profession’s typically low profile. But she cast a wide net. Mourners filled American Martyrs Church for her memorial service last Wednesday. Then on Saturday, a similarly large number of friends, and colleagues joined her family in a paddle out in her memory […]

Kim Komick, Daughter of the Beach grew up to be Builder of the Beach

Redondo Beach mayor Bill Brand called Kim Komick a “Matriarch of the Beach.” Surf buddy Patti Nernberg said of Komick, “She fueled the flame that drove us to be better versions of ourselves.” South Bay Boardriders Club president Tom Horton recalled Komick, a SBBC founding member, one of the few female surfers who charged big […]