Kona Kai Ea Surfrider Chapter Inaugurates!

Posted on September 19, 2008. Filed under: love your mother earth, Protect the 'Aina, Punalu'u Black Sand Beach, Surfing | Tags: kona, kona waves, pine trees, protect kona shores, Surfing, surfrider |

Hi SKY ~ Sorry this news is reaching you almost a month late, but as they say, better late than never!

This sent to me by Dr. Rick Bennett, Co-chair

Aloha,
The Kona Kai Ea chapter of the Surfrider Foundation had its inaugural meeting last thursday night. It was well attended and the excitement in room was amazing. We heard about the amazingly good work of Surfrider Maui from Jan Roberson and about the threats and opportunities to Keep it Blue from Rick. The members of the Executive Committee all took part to make the event a Big Wave.
We announced 3 campaigns and a philosophy for our chapter
1. Keep it Blue… water quality and watershed education, monitoring and outreach. It is sad to see our water getting greener in some places. The time is now to stop it and we must address the landscape scale of this issue
2. Keep it Clean… Our beach clean up program will begin Sept 13 at Kohanaiki Pine trees in concert with the Ladies Surfing Contest. Come help us clean and win prizes for the most trash.
3. Keep it Fun and Funded … is our plan to have fun in our mission with concerts, dance, photo contests and raise money to make it all happen and central to all our programs we embrace and we are enriched by the wisdom and guidance of the Hawaiian Culture and will follow the ways of the very first surfers as we malama ka aina.

This is an invitation to join our Kona Kai Ea Surfrider and our Yahoo group.
This will be the best way to stay connected to us and for us to communicate with each other.
To join send an email to the subscribe address below.
Mahalo for your kokua,

dr. rick and Hannah Springer,
Co-chairs, Kona Kai Ea
“THE RISING TIDE”
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