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San Clemente artist Gary Prettyman stands beside a living picture of his Kelly Slater painting ‘Cutting Glass’ on Friday, July 20, backstage at the 2018 Pageant of the Masters. Pageant cast member Joseph Marquez, 15, of San Clemente, portrays Kelly Slater. Photo: Fred Swegles

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Five things San Clemente should know this week City Council Votes to Contract with Mercy House for Homeless Outreach THE LATEST: During its meeting Tuesday, July 24, City Council voted to contract with Mercy House, a homeless outreach organization that is already working with Family Assistance Ministries (FAM) in San Clemente, for services.

The contract was for $75,000, which the organization will use to “develop relationships” and begin a list of chronically homeless people in San Clemente.

Dana Point recently contracted with Mercy House through a recommendation of its homeless task force.

Stephani Ogas, the outreach coordinator for Mercy House, said they will create a database of the homeless population to help the city to provide permanent supportive housing and rapid rehousing. They also will provide temporary financial and social services as well as a public health nurse to get clients linked to transportation for substance abuse treatment and mental health programs.

“Mercy House is a proven partner in this, and if they need to get someone into a home and store their stuff for them, that’s something that San Clemente doesn’t have,” Councilmember Kathy Ward said during the contract hearing. “They don’t feed them, but they do outreach.”

Speakers at recent public meetings have been skeptical of the food services that FAM provides, alleging that the nonprofit is enabling the homeless to stay in their occupied areas by providing such resources. In a recent San Clemente Times interview with FAM executive director Mary Perdue, she said FAM does not go out to give food to the homeless. But that doesn’t stop people from taking that food from FAM headquarters to those locations, other public speakers alleged, and they provided their own footage of what they claim are people taking the food to the homeless.

WHAT’S NEXT: Mercy House is to provide outreach services six days a week in San Clemente.

As reiterated by the City Council in public comment, the homeless people Mercy House does reach out to can refuse the services, as is their Constitutional right.

FIND OUT MORE: Turn to page 10 to read San Clemente Times July 26-August 1, 2018

Capistrano Beach resident Nick Clarke recently came by the San Clemente Times office to explain his proposal of setting up small modular homes for homeless people in South Orange County. Clarke said the costs are low and can have about 60 units or more in one modular facility that could take up less than 2,000 square feet, but he said he needs the space to do it. The method he would use is called “city pods,” which are 8-foot by 15-foot living quarters. The photo pictured shows a similar rending to Clarke’s proposal. Photo: Courtesy of the city of Vancouver, Canada

about encampments and local residents who are trying to take action to help the homeless and get them out of the canyons and open space in San Clemente.

FAM is hosting a benefit concert at San Clemente Presbyterian Church, located at 119 Avenida de la Estrella San Clemente, featuring Jeff Harnar. The concert is from 4-6 p.m. on Saturday, July 28. Tickets are $25 and can be purchased at http://bit.ly/ FAMconcert or call 949.492.8477. —Eric Heinz

City Attorney Pinpoints Areas of TCA’s Pre-Draft Toll Road Report THE LATEST: At the Tuesday City Council meeting, City Attorney Scott Smith outlined the areas of interest and what the city will challenge in a draft document recently made public by the Transportation Corridor Agencies (TCA), the organization proposing to build toll roads through San Clemente.

A project study report and project development report (PSR and PSD, respectively) were released a few weeks ago by the TCA, which said the document is intended to give people an insight to the projects it is exploring. From those documents, the TCA officials said they could whittle down project ideas.

The city of San Clemente was quick to criticize the report, saying that it is telling of the agencies’ objectives.

“The TCA and Caltrans have released the preliminary draft of the scoping document for the intended toll road,” Smith said.

Caltrans is the lead agency overseeing

the proposed toll road projects.

“There are several alternatives that TCA lacks the authority to implement, and the arguing point is that TCA by statute is charged with South County toll corridors,” Smith said, adding that the city’s first comment to the document is that the TCA has no power to write the document.

“TCA and Caltrans have not paid attention to the extensive needs-and-transportation studies the city has formulated,” Smith said, referring to the IBI Group study the city released in March. Smith added that agencies are required to take all studies provided to them under consideration, though the public comment period has not yet started on the draft documents.

A few of the proposals, including Ideas 14, 17 and 21, suggest the taking of land in order to fulfill the projects’ needs.

There are other documents that the TCA has published that entertain the process of eminent domain.

Idea 14 is proposed to be constructed straight through San Clemente to Avenida Pico; Idea 17 would run right along I-5 across the front of the Outlets at San Clemente and down south of that; Idea 21 would extend Los Patrones Parkway, which is being constructed as an arterial road, to La Pata and would also add lanes to I-5.

“The document has flawed project objectives…to rationalize an unnecessary project,” Smith said. “They talk about peak service and there are several objectives that are artificial and rationalized… what they already intend to do. The document hides (information on) right-of-way takings.”

Councilmember Kathy Ward said the city has asked the TCA to table the study

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until it can establish without question what rights it has to construct the toll roads through San Clemente. The city is already in litigation with the TCA regarding its protective agreement settled with the Save San Onofre Coalition as well as a lawsuit related to public records.

“What we’re doing on the legal front is quite a lot, and we’ve gotten pretty far since November 2016,” Ward said.

Mark McGuire, a San Clemente resident who has been working with groups such as the Coalition to Save San Clemente, which opposes the toll road construction, said the studies actually show that the toll roads would be unnecessary.

“Even assuming the accuracy of the TCA’s own projections, the project study report shows there is absolutely no need for an extension of the 241 to I-5,” McGuire told the San Clemente Times on July 25. “Their own projections say that in 2050, during the busiest hours of traffic, at most only two cars would divert off I-5 and go inland on the 241 every 14 seconds. That’s under nine (vehicles) per minute. No agency has ever spent a $1.3 billion and destroyed an established community to build a massive road to carry a tiny trickle of traffic. So the idea of extending the 241 to I-5 is dead on arrival.”

WHAT’S NEXT: The TCA estimates the study will be ready sometime in mid-2019 for public comment during the required draft environmental impact report (DEIR) phase under the California Environmental Quality Act (CEQA). The next joint board meeting of the TCA is at 9:30 a.m. on Thursday, Aug. 9, at its headquarters in Irvine, 125 Pacifica.

FIND OUT MORE: The entire 1,276-page PSR-PSD as well as the city’s comments can be found online at this article at www.sanclementetimes.com. —EH

City Council Election Update: Now Eight Candidates, Two Ballot Initiatives THE LATEST: Three more candidates have entered the San Clemente City Council election race for the three seats that are up for decision on Nov. 6.

As of 8:15 a.m. on Wednesday, July 25, Gene W. James, Brad Malamud and Ed Ward all pulled nomination papers. The other five candidates who have already pulled are Dan Bane, Don Brown, Wayne Eggleston, Tiffany Robson Leet and incumbent Kathy Ward. More candidates (Cont. on page 7) www.sanclementetimes.com

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(Cont. from page 3) are expected to join as the nomination period continues. The deadline to file nomination papers with signatures is 5 p.m. on Aug. 10.

Additionally, the City Council voted at its July 24 meeting to add a ballot initiative that would increase the “hotel tax” (transient occupancy tax or TOT) from 10 percent to 12.5 percent of every hotel bill.

This would bring in an estimated $570,000 to the city.

Mayor Tim Brown said that as the city’s residents ask for more public safety and amenities, this could help with those costs.

The same ballot initiative was proposed in 2016, but it would have increased the tax to 13 percent, and failed by just eight votes.

Another ballot initiative, submitted by residents, will be decided this year— whether to separate San Clemente into voting districts.

WHAT’S NEXT: City Council representatives are expected to sign their supporting arguments for the hotel tax ballot measure at 4:30 p.m. on Tuesday, July 31, at the City Council Chambers at 100 Avenida Presidio; rebuttals to the ballot measure are due to the City Clerk’s Office by 5 p.m. on Aug. 3 at 910 Calle Negocio. The full statement of the ballot initiative arguments will be published by the City Clerk following press time. Check www.sanclementetimes. com for updates. —EH

USGS: Rising Sea Levels Threaten California Coastal Bluffs THE LATEST: The U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) recently published a study that shows significant erosion to California’s coasts could be more dramatic than previously thought.

According to an announcement by the USGS, the study “combined several computer models for the first time to forecast cliff erosion along the Southern California coast.”

The research forecasts sea levels could rise from 1 and a half feet to more than 6 and a half feet by the year 2100. The study analysis said that bluff tops for about 300 miles of the coast in Southern California could lose 62 to 135 feet by that time and much more in certain areas.

“USGS researchers combined five different computer models that forecast how cliffs crumble in a manner similar to how meteorologists blend several hurricane forecasts to get the best predicted path of the storm,” the analysis stated. “This is the first time anyone has reported an ‘ensemble forecast’ for cliff retreat that produces a range of values for each section of coastline instead of each model yielding one number. Scientists used earlier studies to supply the erosion models with sea level San Clemente Times July 26-August 1, 2018

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This map of the Southern California coastline shows cliff retreat with forecasts using 6.6 feet of sea level rise.

Orange and red circles indicate extreme erosion beyond 167 feet. Photo: Courtesy of USGS public domain files

rise values from 1.6 to 6.6 feet, long-term wave energy forecasts and other data.”

Coastal cliff erosion rates vary depending on sea level rise, wave energy, coastal slope, beach width and height, and rock strength, the study analysis stated.

The study analysis stated that without the bluffs to deposit sand from eroding cliffs, beaches in Southern California “may not survive the rising sea levels” and “bluff-top development may not withstand the estimated 62 to 135 feet of cliff recession.”

“Consequently, managers could be faced with a difficult decision between prioritizing private cliff-top property or public beaches by permitting or prohibiting cliff armoring, respectively,” the study’s collective authors said in a joint quote.

“Sea cliff retreat is a serious hazard,” said Patrick Limber, the USGS research geologist and lead author of the study.

“Unlike beaches, cliffs can be stable for decades between large landslides that remove several feet of bluff top.”

Limber also said that the USGS is still learning more about cliff erosion and that there should be some discretion when applying the site-specific scale to the erosion scale because there is a great amount of uncertainty in this forecast. He said further research will need to be conducted to verify forecasts.

The study is part of a USGS effort to forecast climate change effects of the Southern California coast using the Coastal Storm Modeling System, the analysis stated.

and extreme concern areas.

The city is currently conducting a sea-level-protection study that will take more than a year to complete related to its coastal implementation plan, which complements its coastal land use plan that was adopted earlier this year. These plans are through the California Coastal Commission in order to give the city more

WHAT’S NEXT: San Clemente appears to be in the medium to high level of concern, whereas areas of Ventura and Los Angeles coastlines were designated in very high Page 7

THE LATEST: The successes of the San Clemente Summer Trolley Program have garnered attention from Orange County Transportation Authority (OCTA), according to City Councilmember Lori Donchak.

On July 24, the City Council voted to extend the trolley services to seven days a week, serving Monday through Friday from noon to 10 p.m.; 10 a.m. to 10 p.m. on Saturday and 10 a.m. to 8 p.m. on Sunday.

The city will have to put an additional $12,000 toward the 10 percent matching grant, which was denoted as $108,000 in the document, but Donchak said the grant allocations are far more than that, and that the city was allocated a solid percentage of the funds from the OCTA’s grant program.

Donchak said OCTA is using San Clemente as an “experiment” in public ridership, as the trolley numbers keep surpassing required minimums by three-fold.

Donchak also said OCTA has recognized that as the city was stripped of its two bus routes in 2016, which may be a contributing factor. The trolley is free to ride.

WHAT’S NEXT: Daily service may not start until Aug. 6 or 13, according to a city staff report. —EH

Outlets Approved for Two More Tower Signs for Incoming Movie Theater

BY ERIC HEINZ, SAN CLEMENTE TIMES

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ity Council approved two more signs for the Outlets at San Clemente that will identify its planned movie theater, scheduled to open sometime in 2019.

Overall signage at the Outlets has been controversial for about three years when proposals were brought to the city. People have argued that the signage would be unsightly and cause unnecessary light pollution as well as a myriad of other arguments.

The decision was established based on previous approvals for two movie theater signs that will be the same color pallet, light configuration (back-lit halo) and will be turned off 30 minutes after sunset. Although additional freewayoriented signs are no longer allowed in

San Clemente, the Outlets was grandfathered in when approvals were made to the signage more than a decade ago.

In order to ameliorate a lawsuit settlement with the Outlets, the city honored those past decisions. The signs will be placed on an identification tower yet to be constructed at the Outlets.

Kathleen Armenteros, a San Clemente resident, questioned protection of the city’s dark skies, suggesting and that additional signs at the Outlets would contribute to light pollution.

“Where are our dark skies? More and more signs are going up,” Armenteros said during the hearing. The settlement between the city and the Outlets ensures the mall operators cannot sue the city for more signage, so they’re locked into the current signage as it stands. SC

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Classic Porsches ‘Surf the Roads’ to San Clemente While the 42nd annual Ocean Festival was luring aquatic-action fans to the Pier, just inland at Bella Collina San Clemente the 32nd annual 356 Club Concours was attracting Porsche owners and fans from near and far. More than 400 vehicles rolled in to be judged by Porsche experts, or just to show their classic lines of iconic automotive design. This was the first year that Bella Collina hosted the event.

“The grounds are a beautiful backdrop,” said Ed Wyche, 356 Club Concours president. “We hope to make this our permanent home for future events.”

The production coupe, convertible, and Speedster vehicles, along with a few rare purpose-built race models, came to be judged in classes, including: Full Concours, Street Concours, Wash and Shine, and Display. In the Full Concours class, there were more than 50 vehicles of the 356 model that competed, allowing viewers at a complete history of what the earliest Porsches, now restored to original form, looked like as they graced the roads from 1948 through 1965. There were even some never-restored cars that were cloaked in the patina of six decades of road use. The basic exterior design remained the same throughout the model lifetime, though there were impressive engineering and innovation evolutions, along with many racing/competition models that had great success and contributed early on to help establish the Porsche brand to a legendary reputation.

Porsches from all eras, all the way to current models, came and parked on the lawn to support the 356 event. Walking the gathering was an informative way to review the entire history of the brand. The timing was such that attendees could see the cars on the lawn in the morning and still have time to catch the ocean action at the beach in the afternoon. —Coverage submitted by Lou Leto

San Clementeans to Ride in Pan-Mass Challenge On Aug. 4 and 5, 77 riders from California will cycle up to 192 miles in the Pan-Mass Challenge (PMC) with the goal of topping last year’s record-breaking gift by raising $52 million for cancer research and patient care at Dana-Farber Cancer Institute.

Two San Clemente cyclists, Andrea Bendzick and Arthur Dunn, are scheduled to join the ride.

During PMC weekend, more than 6,300 cyclists from 43 states and 10 countries will gather in Massachusetts to participate San Clemente Times July 26-August 1, 2018

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SAN CLEMENTE EXCHANGE CLUB Noon. San Clemente Exchange Club meets on most Thursdays at the San Clemente Municipal Golf Course.

Wedgewood Restaurant, 150 E. Avenida Magdalena. 949.412.6301 www.exchangeclubsc.org.

Hundreds of Porsche vehicles were on display on Sunday, July 22, at the 356 Club Concours gathering at Bella Collina San Clemente. Photo: Courtesy of Lou Leto

in the PMC. Riders include everyone from seasoned triathletes to weekend warriors and range in age from 13 to 85. Many ride to honor a family member or friend lost or being treated for cancer, and more than 900 riders and volunteers are cancer survivors or current patients themselves, considered living proof of the PMC mission.

Designed to cater to all levels of cycling and fundraising ability, the PMC offers 12 different routes, varying in mileage and difficulty, passing through 46 towns across the state with starting lines in Sturbridge, Wellesley and Bourne. Cyclists are required to raise between $600 and $8,000, depending on the chosen route.

The average cyclist raises more than $7,000.

For more information, visit www.pmc.org.

AAUW to Host Happy Hour The San Clemente-Capistrano Bay Branch of the American Association of University Women (AAUW) will meet for Happy Hour from 4-6 p.m. on Wednesday, Aug. 1 at Hennessey’s Restaurant, 34111 La Plaza, in Dana Point. Prospective members are welcome. Send an email to aauw. sccb@cox.net to RSVP. On Sept. 15, AAUW will host its Tech Trek Breakfast at 8:45 a.m. at San Juan Hills Golf Clubhouse, 32120 San Juan Creek Road. For more information, visit www.aauw.org.

Elks Lodge Donates to Military Outreach On Friday, July 20, the San Clemente Elks Lodge, No. 2068, presented a check for $2,000 to Mary’s Feast, a subdivision of San Clemente Military Family Outreach (SCMFO).

Each year, women from San Clemente gather for a fundraising event in support

of SCMFO. Money raised is distributed to under-resourced Marine families.

Last year, Mary’s Feast contributed over $5,000 for San Onofre Elementary School. The San Clemente Elks Lodge received a grant to help this cause.

Coastal Animal Services Authority (CASA) Wins Risk Management Award Kim Colodenko, general manager of Coastal Animal Services Authority (CASA), announced on July 24 that her organization won Best Overall Performance for non-municipal agencies for the Workers’ Compensation Program in the 2018 Risk Management Awards, presented by the California Joint Powers Insurance Authority (“Authority”), one of the largest municipal self-insurance pools in California.

The Risk Management Awards highlight dedicated efforts and achievements in risk management, recognizing Authority members who have demonstrated the best overall performance in the Liability Program and the Workers’ Compensation Program. To select the winners, authority staff evaluated various factors that reflect an organization’s risk management efforts, including the cost of claims and their progress toward completing action plan items.

CASA was formed in 1996 and is governed by a joint powers authority and oversees the cities of Dana Point and San Clemente in both animal sheltering and animal control services.

The award-winners were honored at the insurance authority’s board of directors meeting on July 18 at the authority’s La Palma campus.

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SAN CLEMENTE ROTARY 6-7:30 p.m. San Clemente Rotary meets every second and fourth Thursday the month. OC Tavern, 2369 S. El Camino Real. 949.370.0959. www.sanclementerotary.org TUESDAY, JULY 31

SUNRISE ROTARY 7:15 a.m. San Clemente Sunrise Rotary meets every Tuesday at Talega Golf Course Signature Grille. 990 Avenida Talega. www.scsunriserotary.org.

BECAUSE I LOVE YOU (BILY) MEETING 6:30-8:30 p.m. Meets every Tuesday.

Because I Love You (BILY) helps parents find solutions to any crisis they are experiencing due to their children’s (adult or minor) poor choices.

Presbyterian Church. 119 Avenida De La Estrella. www.bilysc.org.

SAN CLEMENTE TOASTMASTERS 7 p.m. The club meets every Tuesday, with doors opening at 6:30 p.m. for social and networking time. San Clemente Baha’i Center.

3316 Avenida Del Presidente, San Clemente. 805.794.0653. www.sanclementetoastmasters. toastmastersclubs.org.

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KIWANIS SAN CLEMENTE Noon. Kiwanis San Clemente meets on most Wednesdays. Fratello’s Italian Restaurant, 647 Camino De Los Mares No. 126, San Clemente. www.sanclementekiwanis.com.

THE MARKET AT NORTH BEACH 4-8 p.m. Certified farmer’s market selling a variety of seasonal items, arts and crafts vendors, food trucks and children’s activities weekly. 1832 N. El Camino Real. 949.361.8264. www.san-clemente.org.

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Residents Respond San Clemente residents take aim at potentially dangerous homeless sites

BY ERIC HEINZ, SAN CLEMENTE TIMES

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here were several blankets, a sweatshirt and an inexplicable car battery within an open-space area off Avenida Pico, just west of Calle del Cerro, propped against some grassy foliage on Tuesday, July 24.

Homeless “encampments,” or areas where homeless and transient people take up residency and refuge, have dotted San Clemente’s open space areas for the last few years and their numbers could be increasing, according to local law enforcement officials.

There are also contingencies in North Beach and other noticeable places that have become more permanent or growing.

As the city grapples with the results of a federal lawsuit against the County of Orange and staying in compliance with laws while trying to protect themselves, frustration with the homeless and transient populations has reached a boiling point.

Residents Respond San Clemente resident Kelly Chapman started the San Clemente Citizens Group on Facebook group about a month ago.

Fire hazards are the No. 1 safety issue concerning Chapman and his cohorts, he said.

“I’d say a close second to fire hazards is someone coming in contact with them,” Chapman said.

Chapman acknowledged that there are varying degrees and circumstances that cause someone to become homeless— one is by choice. He said in order to help the homeless and transients, services provided need to handle their issues on an individual basis, whether that be from drug abuse, mental and behavioral health problems, economic hardship or others.

“I think there’s a difference between a clever guy who’s working the system and somebody who obviously has issues and can’t get along in society.” Chapman said.

Chapman has weighed the prospect of holding a protest in North Beach this weekend in order to gain city officials’ attention to the growing issue, but he is adamant that he and his group do not want to target homeless people or demean them.

He said he doesn’t want anyone to ever miss a meal, statements he also made at a Beaches, Parks and Recreation Commission meeting a few weeks ago, but he sees it as an issue that needs to be addressed.

“The thing that the public should know is that every city in California is experiSan Clemente Times July 26-August 1, 2018

Various items such as blankets, shirts and a car battery were found at this location on Avenida Pico just west of Calle del Cerro on Tuesday, July 24. This location has had various evidence of human occupation for the last few years.

Photo: Eric Heinz

encing the same thing, some worse than us,” said Lt. Mike Peters, the chief of San Clemente Police Services, “but everybody is experiencing the same thing. So, it’s not like San Clemente is a target.”

Affecting Change Although the homeless populations have caused fear in many people due to interactions or conducting what’s normally deemed as unsightly behavior, officials are wary of telling them to just move along.

The American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) has sued cities before, such as the case of Jones v. City of Los Angeles in which they successfully stopped police officers in the city from ticketing homeless people for sleeping or sitting on public facilities.

Other factions have fought against the removal or displacement of homeless people in recent months.

As a federal lawsuit by Orange County Catholic Worker and the County of Orange continues, San Clemente enacted ordinances banning panhandling on public property and giving more leverage to private property owners to have trespassers removed by authorities, a law that was intended to deal with the homeless.

The city was also backed into a corner when it was sued and subsequently ordered to allocate land under SB 2 that would be zoned for a homeless shelter, and it was threatened to do so under an injunction forbidding any permitting or construction in certain areas of the city until it complied.

What They’re Seeing John Kopp is a self-described concerned resident of San Clemente who has been

videoing encampments that have popped up around the city. Kopp said he initially started filming the sliding parking lot of St. Andrews by-the-Sea, but when he saw the encampments from his bird’s-eye view, he started looking for others.

“There’s just a bunch of litter, and also some of the stuff that is found is concerning,” Kopp said, adding he’s seen more homeless encampments reappear shortly after they’ve been exiled from the private property. There have been propane tanks and other flammable material found in these areas. “I just got an email from the Sheriff’s Department saying they visited the last few sites, but the problem is there is more occupancy than that. They’re just not catching them.”

This can cause problems for property management companies or homeowners associations who want to protect their areas from any kind of danger.

“All it needs is a spark and we’ve got a large fire,” Kopp spoke of referring to the dead or dry shrubbery swaths around the city.

Kopp stated there are about 30 or 40 small encampments or locations where homeless and transient people have been spotted, but he says there are likely more.

He’s not allowed to fly the drone south into the state parks areas, but he said he has seen some evidence even from across the city’s jurisdiction.

Lt. Mike Peters said although his department has had to deal with the encampments, he’s not sure how many there are.

“I don’t know if there’s a quantifiable way to (count them),” Peters said. “Pico Canyon by itself could have numerous encampments. They come and go. We’ll

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get waves of transients that come and go. We have a mini-group in the city and it hasn’t really decreased. It’s increased slowly, but we’ll get larger groups that get off a train or a bus.”

Peters said some of the homeless and transient people he’s seen throughout the city sometimes have train tickets or bus passes given to them by people in other cities. He said he couldn’t pinpoint where they get them, but they are receiving them from somewhere.

Joel Zlotnik, the public information officer for Orange County Transportation Authority, said at no time does the authority allow someone to ride for free or at least without a ticket/pass.

Some are likely from the Santa Ana riverbed that was cleared of hundreds of people who are homeless. The county gave them vouchers in March to hotel and motel locations throughout Orange County to suffice shelter requirements under the lawsuit, but those vouchers expired after 30 or 60 days. Although county officials said they’ve kept a majority of them on their registry, some just didn’t report back. Additionally, the Santa Ana armory recently closed, displacing dozens of homeless people.

They come from other areas as well; many of them are locals to South Orange County, but Peters said a recent case had a man extradited back to New Jersey for armed robbery and other crimes.

Letter of the Law Although the laws apply to all citizens, the homeless population sometimes goes through a revolving door at the prosecutorial level. Sometimes it’s almost not worth taking them to Santa Ana, with officers knowing they’ll end up back in San Clemente.

“If you and I stood in that parking lot and drank vodka or smoked whatever, we would be arrested,” Chapman said, adding that its oxymoronic that the same people who are known repeat offenders, who are either homeless or transient, are left alone because authorities know they’ll either be back on the streets or sent through Homeless Court in Santa Ana. “At the very least, county jail probably gives you a chance to look at yourself and change your situation, but they’re not even getting that if they won’t take them up there.”

Peters said until the laws are changed at the state level, his deputies have to work within those confines. Within the last five years, California has passed bills that made narcotic possession and other low-level crimes offenses that are a ticket at most when they once were misdemeanors or felonies.

“We have this delicate balance…that comes in dealing with (homelessness) appropriately and making sure their Constitutional rights are observed while maintaining the safety of the public, and we’re doing everything in our legal capabilities to get this done,” Peters said. SC www.sanclementetimes.com

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San Clemente Times July 26-August 1, 2018

We Have More Power than the Pharaohs

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hen we talk of living like kings, we underestimate ourselves.

Today we live better than kings.

Better than the richest man in the world ever did a century ago.

Every day when we get in our automobile, more 200 horses slip into their harness and race us to our destination at the tap of a pedal. Julius Caesar and all his legions never rode in a leather-cushioned chariot that could go zero-to-60 in less than 10 seconds. And there were no airbags when Roman rigs collided with armored cavalry.

In the course of history, we working stiffs of today are a lucky bunch. Consider the Pharaohs of ancient Egypt: all-powerful, near deities, they built the largest structures on earth at the time. But King Tutankhamun never lived in an air-conditioned bedroom or slept on an orthopedic mattress. He would have built the sphinx in the shape of the supervillain Sub-Zero had he ever been able to drink a glass of iced lemonade. Or take Alexander the Great— he may have conquered the world, but he is assumed to have died in agony of typhoid fever, which would have been treatable today, if he was not already vaccinated.

And is there any doubt that the King of

Letters to The Editor SPEED CUSHIONS ON VALENCIA ARE A BAD IDEA CARTER REDISH, San Clemente

The city of San Clemente Planning Commission approved the placing of speed cushions along the 100 block of Avenida Valencia for traffic calming at its June 20 meeting and forwarded to the City Council an order for approval at the July 24 meeting.

I’ve lived in the southwest part of San Clemente since 1974. For most of that time, since the El Camino Real off-ramp was realigned from Avenida Gaviota to Avenida Valencia, we have been traveling back-and-forth on Avenida Valencia on a daily basis. Times change, but the fact that drivers will always look for the quickest route to their destination doesn’t change.

This street calming proposal will only cause people to choose another street.

Gaviota will become the new street

Siam would have whistled a happy tune if he could have seen Anna and the King on the big screen or heard the soundtrack on his iPod at the wave of his royal finger?

There are just so many things we have that king-types never did. For instance, convenience stores: Genghis Khan may have had a thousand temples built in his name, but he would have mortgaged his birthright for a Slurpee machine from the local 7-11 store.

Not to mention 31 flavors.

And you talk about eating like kings? Before Columbus, no European sovereign had ever tasted WAVELENGTHS

By Jim Kempton a strawberry, an avocado, pineapple or a See’s chocolate bar. They all came from the new world. Would Henry the VIII have traded his six wives for half a dozen bushels of plums, pecans, or fresh heirloom tomatoes? It’s a good bet.

Queen Elizabeth was known to brag that she “bathed once a month whether she needed to or not.” Unfortunately, her subjects were not nearly so lucky to have that luxury. Princess Pocahontas bathed daily

of choice. Instead of exiting the freeway directly onto Valencia through a green traffic light, drivers will make a quick right turn and then a quick left turn across traffic, without the aid of a light, and head down Gaviota, a street that is very tight with curbside parking on both sides.

Valencia is designed to handle the heavier traffic, with a center divider, for safety from on-coming cars. This request simply passes a perceived traffic problem over to the occupants of the next street. All the other adjacent streets are tight, barely wide enough for two-way traffic with cars parked along each side, certainly not wide enough to handle the additional traffic that this misguided proposition would create. The idea of having speed cushions on Valencia is a bad idea and will only lead to other streets requesting similar traffic calming measures, as is indicated in the city agenda package. Do we really want all of our streets to have speed cushions? If something really needs to be done, then the restriping option is the best and only solution.

Editor’s note: This letter has been published following the July 24 City Council meeting.

We will update this letter at www.sanclementetimes.com for the outcome of the decision.

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but in the icy currents of Virginian rivers.

Neither she, nor any other royalty ever experienced a heated pool (or hot shower) so common to us all today. Plus, Queen Lizzie never surfed. (No wetsuit.)

Erasing pain seems so simple today, but it wasn’t always. Take toothaches: Queen Marie Antoinette demanded the finest sweets in Paris. But the resulting cavities made her suffer all her short life when dental fillings would have been a relief.

Speaking of relief, imagine running without Nike’s, sunning without Wayfarers, brushing without Crest, sneezing without Kleenex or skiing without Gore-Tex, small luxuries most world rulers never enjoyed.

So, you can still say it’s good to be king, as long as you reign in the 21st century.

I mean, let’s be truthful, would you trade your refrigerator, automobile, stereo, movies, or Penicillin to run an 18th century empire? Probably not. Would you give up aspirin, heated pools, indoor toilets and dental fillings to be “ruler of the world” without them? Pretty unlikely. But going without ice cream, hot showers, surfboards and guacamole? Forget about it.

Jim Kempton is a surfer and writer who is pretty sure he could not live without the last four items mentioned above.

Editor’s note: Click the hyperlink in this story to see what device Tutankhamun likely used for sleep. SC PLEASE NOTE: In an effort to provide our readers with a wide variety of opinions from our community, the SC Times provides Guest Opinion opportunities in which selected columnists’ opinions are shared. The opinions expressed in these columns are entirely those of the columnist alone and do not reflect those of the SC Times or Picket Fence Media. If you would like to respond to this column, please email us at editorial@sanclementetimes.com

MORE TO SONGS THAN MEETS THE EYE MIKE RUSSELL, San Clemente

Jake Howard’s report in the July 19-25 edition of the San Clemente Times on his tour of the San Onofre Nuclear Generating Station was both interesting and balanced.

Nevertheless, some additional information may be helpful to your readers.

Regarding the seawall, it was designed and built to protect the Unit 1 reactor, which operated from 1967 through 1992 against a tsunami caused by the maximum credible offshore earthquake and the maximum credible storm surge, if these events occurred at the same time. Check with the Nuclear Regulatory Commission, who prepared a safety evaluation report before issuing an operating license.

Regarding transferring used nuclear fuel from wet storage to dry storage, that project is scheduled to be completed next year. Check with Dr. David G. Victor (University of California, San Diego) who is the chairman of the San Onofre Community Engagement Panel.

Regarding the permanent home for www.sanclementetimes.com

SOAPBOX used nuclear fuel, a deep geological repository has already been built in Yucca Mountain near the Nevada Nuclear Test Site. Only political gridlock in Washington, D.C. prevents used nuclear fuel from being shipped out of our backyards.

FRED SWEGLES HIRE WAS A GOOD MOVE RICARDO NICOL

By offering excellent community news coverage, the San Clemente Times seems to be going in the opposite direction of the declining newspaper medium. Adding Fred Swegles to its team only enhances its value to San Clemente and other South Orange County cities. Congratulations to Norb Garrett and Picket Fence Media.

SOLUTIONS TO TRAFFIC CAN BE ACHIEVED WITHOUT CHARGING THROUGH SAN CLEMENTE JIM COSHLAND, San Clemente

For my San Clemente friends: take a little drive. Check out the Avenida La Pata and Ortega Highway area. There are thousands of new homes. Drive up San Antonio Parkway to Rancho Santa Margarita.

Another groups of thousands of homes.

Ladera Ranch, more thousands. Go up to Orange and down to Foothill Ranch and the Trabuco Canyon area. Does anyone think that the huge number of cars going south on the I-5 through San Clemente are

all from the Los Angeles area?

When the Orange County folks mentioned above decide to go south, how do they get there? Answer: I-5, of course.

To minimize jam time, shortcuts down La Pata and through San Clemente are suggested by apps such as Waze. Avenidas Pico and Presidio become impacted as well as many smaller streets.

It will only get worse as time goes by and those thousands of new homes become occupied. San Clemente has been thrown under the bus by being on the outside when the TCA signed a protective agreement with an environmental coalition, making it only consider routes through San Clemente and not around it. Monumental traffic will go through San Clemente in the future without a way to divert it.

The existing proposed routes through San Clemente are the result of that agreement.

That agreement has to be voided through the courts as it settled a longstanding lawsuit.

There is a simple route in which the toll road (or better, a free road) could continue south from Oso, crossing Ortega Highway around the eastern limits of San Clemente, continuing south and connecting to I-5, south of San Clemente city limits. Of course, there will be backups on the two highways—there always will be—but there is no reason for city streets to be congested, as there’s no advantage to anyone.

A highway bypassing San Clemente is the only logical choice. I’m an old guy, been

here for more than 40 years. It will not impact me. I urge everyone to observe, gather facts and think for yourselves and to not be led around by shortsighted special interests.

SAN CLEMENTE PAVES THE WAY FOR ENVIRONMENTAL SAMANTHA STARR, Santa Barbara (San Clemente)

Over seven years ago, Stacie N. Galang, former editor of the San Clemente Times, explained to us the strides that our city forged in her article, “Forget the Foam.” It was the city’s stance against the pollutant called polystyrene, or what a lot of people think of as Styrofoam. San Clemente successfully banned the product in local businesses. Yet, the state of California still needs to catch up to this requirement and justified act by our city.

A lot of pollutants come from things we don’t need and we’ve known we shouldn’t use for the last decade. This trash ends up in our oceans where it injures and kills birds and marine animals like sea turtles.

Now that San Clemente has taken the lead in conservation and preservation, California is attempting to catch up and make polystyrene a state-wide ban.

Environmentally conscious advocates are going door-to-door legislate a ban on Styrofoam products in January 2019. Let us stand with the rest of the state and encourage our success with the state Legislature.

As a graduate of San Clemente High

School, and current student at UC Santa Barbara, I am proud to be from a city that has made such headway on the topic and hope further support can be created from San Clemente residents.

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Join the San Clemente Times for Beachside Chat, Friday, July 27 at 8 a.m. at Café Calypso This week’s Beachside Chat guest will be representatives from the San Clemente Village, an organization of local volunteers who help senior citizens by volunteering their time for various tasks.

Beachside Chat is a spirited, town hall forum on community issues, hosted by SC Times editor Eric Heinz every Friday at Café Calypso, 114 Avenida Del Mar. All are welcome.

SC GETTING OUT San Clemente

YOUR SEVEN-DAY EVENT PLANNER

The List

At the Movies: ‘Eighth Grade’

What’s going on in and around town this week COMPILED BY STAFF

HAVE AN EVENT? Submit it to San Clemente Times by going to www.sanclementetimes.com, and clicking “Submit an Event” under the “Getting Out” tab.

Thursday | 26 SUMMER CONCERT SERIES: WIGS & TIES 6-8 p.m. Wigs and Ties will rock your socks off, even if you’re wearing sandals.

Dinner will be served by Maiz Cocina food truck. Linda Lane Park, 400 Linda Lane. 949.361.8200. www.san-clemente. org.

LIVE MUSIC AT IVA LEE’S 7 p.m. Join Iva Lee’s for live music every Wednesday through Sunday. For the ultimate live music experience, be sure to reserve a lounge table on Fridays and Saturdays. 555 N. El Camino Real, San Clemente. 949.361.2855. www.ivalees. com.

Photo: Courtesy of A24

BY MEGAN BIANCO, SAN CLEMENTE TIMES

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EDITOR’S PICK Photo: Courtesy of Casa Romantica

THURSDAY, JULY 26: CASA COOL: GREGORY PAGE 7 p.m. Gregory Page is a genre-bending recording artist, producer, songwriter, filmmaker and published poet. As a veteran of music festivals worldwide, he has performed alongside Bob Dylan, Leon Russell, Judy Collins, Chris Isaak, and Jason Mraz.

The Gregory Page Trio features Page on guitar and vocals, with longtime collaborators Chris Klich on clarinet and Josh Hermsmeier on percussion. The trio’s music transcends the traditions of folk, Celtic, American Roots Jazz, ragtime, blues, swing, and French Romanticism into its own signature idiom. Casa Romantica, 415 Avenida Granada, San Clemente. 949.498.2139. www.casaromantica.org.

Friday | 27 CASA UP CLOSE: THE HISTORY OF BAJA CALIFORNIA 7 p.m. Through Aug. 25, learn about the history, culture, and legends of Baja California with self-described “Baja buff” Greg Niemann, the author of nonfiction books Baja Fever and Baja Legends. Nieman has been visiting Baja California all his life, and has written award-winning articles for several regional travel publications. Casa Romantica, 415 Avenida Granada, San Clemente. 949.498.2139. www.casaromantica.org.

LIVE MUSIC: MANIC FANATIC 9 p.m. Join in an 80s party featuring the band Manic Fanatic performing takes place at OC Tavern. $10 cover charge.

Doors open at 8:30 p.m. 21 and older only.

2369 S. El Camino Real, San Clemente.

949.542.8877. www.octavern.com.

Saturday | 28 TALEGA RUN CLUB 7:30 a.m. Whether you are about to tackle San Clemente Times July 26-August 1, 2018

your first 5K or you are just keeping your cardio and running prowess in top form, be sure to stop by Peet’s Coffee in Talega. Every Saturday a group runners of varying skill level take a brisk three-mile run around a predetermined course. Admission is free. 801 Avenida Talega, San Clemente. 949.588.5054. www.facebook.com/2xusanclemente.

ACRYLICS DEMONSTRATION WITH JEFF OLSON 10 a.m.-Noon. Acrylic paint and auxiliaries provide the artist with an exciting array of working properties that provide the opportunity to explore a wide variety of painting techniques. Utilizing acrylics fast-drying feature, Jeff Olson will share some essential acrylic masking skills than can be used for both representational and abstract painting applications.

The class is $5 and each participant will receive a set of paint and inks to take home and continue their own artistic explorations. San Clemente Art Supply, 1531 N. El Camino Real, San Clemente.

949.369.6603. www.scartsupply.com.

Sunday | 29 DEL MAR FARMERS’ MARKET 9 a.m.-1 p.m. Bundles of flowers, fresh produce and much more every Sunday.

Avenida Del Mar. YOGA ON TAP SERIES 11-Noon. Get to know your fellow yogis and beer-drinkers at Yoga on Tap. $10 for an hour of yoga and pint of beer. Left Coast Brewing Co., 1245 Puerta Del Sol, San Clemente. 949.276.2699. www. leftcoastbrewing.com.

Monday | 30 OPEN MIC NIGHT AT BARNOA WINE CO. 7-10 p.m. Open mic night will be hosted on Monday evening. Barnoa Wine Co. 831 Via Suerte, Suite 106, San Clemente.

949.388.4378. www.barnoawinebar.com.

uch like how Richard Linklater showed us what it was like to grow up in the mid2000s with Boyhood (2014), comedian Bo Burnham takes a break from his stand-up gigs to give us a representation of childhood in the mid-2010s with Eighth Grade. But Burnham’s coming-of-age feature doesn’t take place over a whole decade or use the slightly pretentious method of filming for literally 12 years. It takes place in just one week, the final week of eighth grade.

Thirteen-year-old Kayla Day (Elsie Fisher) lives in the New York suburbs and is an average tween in the early 21st century. She has more online followers than friends she socializes with outside, and she hosts her own YouTube advice vlog. It’s the last week of eighth grade, but she doesn’t feel any more mature or confident than she did back in sixth grade. Within the next few days, Elsie goes to a birthday party for one of the popular girls in school (Catherine Oliviere), meets some older high school friends and tries not to get embarrassed by her dad (Josh Hamilton).

Eighth Grade features completely unknown actors and feels even more like a faux-documentary than Boyhood did. Fisher is cast perfectly, as she looks exactly like your ordinary middle-schooler, with zits and all. It would be easy to just say her performance is good because she’s “playing herself,” but it takes genuine talent to carry the two dramatic scenes near the end. For some, Burnham’s piece might hit too close to home, but it is an authentic account of the most awkward years in life. SC

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GETTING OUT (Cont. from page 14) BINGO AT GOODY’S TAVERN 7 p.m. Every Monday, Goody’s hosts a bingo night for a charity of the month. Cards are $1 per sleeve, and raffle prizes are offered.

Goody’s Tavern. 206 S. El Camino Real.

949.492.3400. www.goodystavern.com.

Tuesday | 31 NEEDLEWORK CIRCLE 12:30-2:30 p.m. Join the Needlework Circle on Tuesdays as they knit and crochet for a community service project. San Clemente Library, 242 Avenida Del Mar. 949.492.3493. www.ocpl.org/libloc/sc.

OPEN MIC NIGHT 6-10 p.m. Singer/songwriters perform

at The Point Restaurant open mic every Tuesday. Bring your instrument and your voice; The Point supplies the sound system. 34085 Pacific Coast Highway, Dana Point. 949.464.5700. www.thepointrestaurantandbar.com.

Wednesday | 01 BEACH BARBELL CLUB 7-9 p.m. San Clemente Beach Barbell Club is a monthly club that meets at San Clemente Gym every first Wednesday of the month. The club is a dedicated group of enthusiastic and like-minded lifters who meet to improve and teach the art of lifting. The group varies in skill level and experience and includes people who are just learning to lift. 123 S. El Camino Real.

949.361.1007. www.sanclementegym.com.

EDITOR’S PICK Photo: Courtesy of San Clemente Presbyterian Church

BALL-GOWN GIVEAWAY San Clemente Presbyterian Church (SCPC) is collecting gently used, long dresses for a Marine Corps ball-gown giveaway event benefiting the spouses of the 1st Combat Engineer Battalion (1CEB) based at Camp Pendleton. According to the event organizers, the goal is to have a beautiful assortment of gowns for them to choose from for this special occasion and to make sure that the cost does not deter any of the 1CEB Marines from attending.

All sizes and appropriate dress styles are needed and can be dropped off at the church office, located at 119 N. Ave. de la Estrella, San Clemente, Monday through Friday between the hours of 9 a.m. and 4 p.m. For more information, contact SCPC at 949.492.6158. Gown are being collected between now and Sept. 18.

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PROFILES OF OUR COMMUNITY

Jim Kempton, owner of the award-winning Margaritas Village in San Clemente. Photo: Courtesy

First We Surf Then We Eat Local Jim Kempton shares his life and love of traveling, surfing and eating in new book

BY DANIEL RITZ, SAN CLEMENTE TIMES

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n a foreword to Jim Kempton’s new book, First We Surf Then We Eat, famed surfer/chef Raphael Lunetta, the head chef and proprietor of Lunetta restaurant in Santa Monica reflects on the experience of communing over a meal and the bond that experience brings.

“When you’re surfing,” Lunetta said, “you’re always building strong personal connections. I’ve learned that the best way to nurture those connections is through a wonderful meal.”

In First We Surf Then We Eat, Kempton aims to pass along the innumerable connections he has formed through a lifetime of surfing, cooking and writing. The editor and former publisher of SURFER Magazine as well as director of the Quiksilver Crossing Project, a boat that searched the world for the best surf breaks, the San Clemente resident currently serves as the president of the California Surf Museum and expressed that in its own way, his new book is about recording his own history.

“I hope people see this as an opportunity for good recipes that are enriched by the stories that come with them,” Kempton said. “It’s like reading a book by your favorite author and knowing the real-life stories connecting them to what you are taking in. It makes it so much richer.”

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Kempton certainly has a few stories to tell, and a dish to accompany every one.

First We Surf Then We Eat features more than 75 recipes from across the globe, many with accompanying stories from Kempton’s travels to that region. True to surfer form, Kempton said the unifying theme across all the recipes is relative simplicity, a skill he learned during his time manning the Quiksilver Crossing Project, where world-class chefs catered to traveling surfers and more.

“I learned so much there, seeing these chefs making delicious and exotic meals without 14 pans and all of the bells and whistles,” Kempton recalled. “Most of the recipes in First We Surf Then We Eat can be made on hibachi, a weber grill, or stuck on a stick over a fire.”

Kempton said that throughout the book’s stories and recipes, a cultural connection to the ocean and coastal culture is evident.

“This book is unique in that it is a crossover of two very similar worlds,” Kempton said.

For Kempton, First We Surf Then We Eat is metaphorical to a musical performance.

“Surfers are like jazz musicians. There is a lot of freestyle, we travel in small packs, and generally stay below the radar,” Kempton said. “Jazz musicians are in their dim-lit clubs, out of the spotlight. The big hairbands played the arenas. Surfers, and chefs, we don’t ever want to do that, but sometimes, occasionally, a Miles Davis “Bitches Brew,” or the like, is born, and something is brought from the back room of the jazz club a little closer to the big stage.”

EDITOR’S NOTE: Jim Kempton is the author of the monthly column ‘Wavelengths,’ featured in the San Clemente Times. First We Surf Then We Eat is available now for purchase on www.prospectparkbooks.com and by emailing hello@prospectparkbooks. com. It will be available everywhere Sept. 4.

Stay tuned to www. sanclementetimes.com for future book-signing and release events.

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A ‘Cut’ Above San Clemente artist’s painting prominently featured at Pageant of the Masters

BY FRED SWEGLES, SAN CLEMENTE TIMES

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f you have never seen the Laguna Beach Pageant of the Masters, this would be a good summer to experience the spectacle, whether you are a fan of art, surfing, music, local history or Southern California beach culture.

The pageant transforms paintings, sculptures, photographs and other media into living pictures, peopled by artistically enhanced volunteers.

The magic happens when cast members step into a painted backdrop. They assume a position, freeze and become one with the picture.

The centerpiece of this year’s show is “Cutting Glass,” a 1991 acrylic-on-canvas painting by San Clemente artist Gary Prettyman. It depicts an 18-year-old Kelly Slater riding a wave at Lower Trestles during the 1990 Body Glove Surf Bout.

Slater, now 46, scored his first professional victory there and went on to capture an unprecedented 11 professional world surfing titles.

Prettyman’s painting holds a distinction among local artists in the Pageant of the Masters in that it has appeared three different years since 1992—two of those years as centerpiece of the show.

This year, as in 1992, the image of Slater was selected to be the pageant’s souvenir poster, T-shirt and program cover. It embod-

ies 2018’s pageant theme, “Under the Sun.” “It was a perfect fit,” said Diane Challis Davy, the pageant’s director. “Gary’s painting really captures the essence of the sport in the 1990s, and of course, he certainly was smart to recognize the impact of international surfing champ Kelly Slater.

The audience really loves this picture.”

Prettyman, who grew up surfing the beaches of San Diego County, has lived in San Clemente with wife Nina since 1976.

In 1991, he was a Laguna Beach Festival of Arts exhibitor, with “Cutting Glass” on display in his booth. The painting’s striking textures and colors caught the eye of pageant directors as they scouted livingpicture possibilities for the 1992 pageant.

“My reaction to being in the pageant was surprise, disbelief, joy and a deep sense of accomplishment,” Prettyman said.

DÉJÀ VU It happened again in 2003. “Cutting Glass” wasn’t the pageant’s centerpiece that year, but the 2003 show was special to the artist because Kelly Slater attended it and went backstage with Prettyman to pose for photographs with him and the living picture.

This year is special, too. The surf painting’s 2018 resurgence and soaring popularity with pageant-goers has inspired Prettyman to pick up his brushes again, after a sequence of health issues sidelined his art career in 2010.

He almost never even got that far.

In 1994, two years after “Cutting Glass” had starred at the pageant, a seemingly insignificant cut or scratch on Prettyman’s left arm nearly killed him. He never knew what caused the arm to swell up. He battled fevers, his blood pressure plummeted and his internal organs went haywire, leading to kidney failure. Blisters on his arms, legs and back left him resembling a burn victim.

San Clemente surf artist Gary Prettyman’s acrylic painting ‘Cutting Glass’ adorns the cover of the 2018 Laguna Beach Pageant of the Masters program on sale on the Festival of Arts grounds. Photo: Fred Swegles

ABOUT THE LAGUNA BEACH PAGEANT FIRST YEAR: 1933 2018 SHOW: 27 living pictures illustrate a lively narrative about local history, pageant history, local artists and surf culture; after intermission, 12 more artworks showcase artistic masters, concluding with “The Last Supper” A FEW HIGHLIGHTS: Images from California’s rancho period, historic Serra Chapel at Mission San Juan Capistrano, the golden age of colorful California orange crates, scenes from Laguna Beach’s early art colony, the poster from “The Endless Summer” surf movie, and the bronze sculpture of a surfer that you pass while driving PCH through Huntington Beach

Pageant-goers pose for pictures before entering the Laguna Beach Festival of Arts grounds, where they can visit artists’ booths, dine, sip wine or purchase souvenirs prior to the 8:30 p.m. Pageant of the Masters show.

The festival is a summer art show, open daily, which runs alongside the nightly pageant. Photo: Fred Swegles

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MAKING IT HAPPEN: Nearly 500 volunteers include cast members, makeup artists and more, hold casting calls in January, rehearsals beginning in February

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GEOGRAPHIC: More than 80 percent of pageant volunteers are from outside of Laguna Beach, mostly from around Orange County but some as far away as Murrieta and Sherman Oaks CASTS: There are two complete casts; each performs for seven evenings, alternating weeks NARRATION: The pageant’s dramatic script isn’t recorded; it’s live, every evening MUSIC: The pageant’s own orchestra performs original compositions for the show, plus popular tunes THIS YEAR’S LINEUP: Song list includes six Beach Boys songs, plus the twangy tune “Wipeout” and a San Clemente-born anthem, “The Endless Summer” VOCALS: All of them, from “Warmth of the Sun” to “Surfin’ Safari,” are sung live

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SC LIVING The diagnosis was necrotizing fasciitis, portrait he’d like to do of iconic Hawaiian or flesh-eating bacteria. surfer Ben Aipa.

“We almost lost him,” wife Nina said.

Aipa and Prettyman have been friends “I was in ICU for six weeks,” he said. since Prettyman was a teenager riding Recuperation from the near-death expeAipa surfboards. Prettyman still has his rience was a year-long ordeal. Eventually old Aipa boards, unwilling to part with Prettyman resumed painting while also them. For many years, when Aipa coached taking a day job at Costco in 1998.

Hawaii’s scholastic surfers and brought His art career took another hit in 2010 the team to California for the NSSA when Prettyman needed ankle-replaceNationals at Trestles, the team would stay ment surgery, a belated consequence of at the Prettymans’ home. It was Aipa who the episode with flesh-eating bacteria. introduced Prettyman to Slater at the 1990 After the ankle surBody Glove Surf Bout. gery came a fivefold bam-bam succession ARTIST’S GO SEE IT of other serious mediTESTIMONIAL When: 8:30 p.m. through Sept. 1 cal challenges.

Prettyman recommends “I had too many the 2018 pageant to anyWhere: 650 Laguna Canyon Road, things distracting me one who can identify with Laguna Beach from art,” Prettyman “Under the Sun,” a creative Tickets: $15 to $240 at foapom.com said. spectacle choreographed Ticket includes: Return visits (with to be inspiring, informaoriginal ticket) to the Festival of WHAT’S NEXT? tive and fun, including Arts grounds to view the art, special some colorful live-action Newly retired from events, live music and more Costco since July 5, surprises. and feeling totally The 68-year-old artist Ticket office: 800.487.3378 healthy, Prettyman sounded like a kid this is amped to get back week, describing the thrill into painting after viewing “Under the of seeing his art presented alongside Sun” on July 20. The crowd’s response to works by his heroes Claude Monet, Paul the show and his work was enthusiastic.

Gauguin, John Singer Sargent and Leon“It was great,” he said of the show. “It ardo da Vinci. was informative. It was fun. It was histori“That was beyond my wildest dreams,” cal. It was educational. And musical. It was Prettyman said. “I mean, I’m (saying), one not to miss.”

‘Gary, your art is being shown with da His own resurgence may begin with a Vinci? Get out of here!’” SC

Brian Jacoby, portraying Kelly Slater at the 1992 pageant in the first living picture of artist Gary Prettyman’s acrylic painting ‘Cutting Glass.’ Photo: Fred Swegles. Painting: Courtesy of Pageant of the Masters

HOW DO THEY DO IT? The pageant’s living picture of Kelly Slater on a wave is one of those “how is this even possible?” technical challenges.

“I said, ‘You could never do that!’” artist Gary Prettyman said, describing his reaction when told his painting was selected for the 1992 pageant. “They go, ‘we’re doing it ... we can handle this!’

Here’s how: “They cut a hole in the wooden backdrop,” Prettyman said. “His back leg goes through there, and there’s a little seat where he’s sitting, halfway in, and the front leg is on a pad under his foot, to keep it in position. His back leg is counter-balancing, so he doesn’t fall forward.

He’s sitting on the thing, but you can’t see

it. It’s very creative how they figured that out. I couldn’t believe it.”

PERFORMING IN THE PAGEANT At 15, San Clemente’s Joseph Marquez is a veteran cast member, spanning five seasons at the pageant.

He appeared in a Vincent Van Gogh painting, “Wood Gatherers in the Snow.”

He portrayed a middle-aged man in a scene re-created from the movie “Ferris Bueller’s Day Off.” He was a construction worker in a Norman Rockwell painting. He was part of an indigenous tribe during a Buffalo Bill’s Wild West Show live-action segment.

At this year’s pageant, he is Kelly Slater, pro surfer.

SC LIVING GUEST OPINION: On Life and Love after 50 by Tom Blake

Where Are the Single, Senior Men? Four Suggestions from Tom

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f I had a magic wand, I’d create single, senior men and introduce them to single, senior women who tell me they’d like to have a male companion.

In July, I have received several emails from women regarding the lack of men.

Four of those emails are being included today. Two were from daughters hoping their widowed mothers would meet a potential mate.

Christi emailed, “I read your article in the San Clemente Times and thought of my mom, an incredible widow, 62, active, fit, positive, outgoing, fun-loving, an accountant for a large church, one of the most sincere and honest people I know.

My dad died of cancer 12 years ago, and while she has dated a little and would like to meet someone, I’ve yet to talk her into internet dating, but she insists it will just happen, kind of like the story you tell of meeting Greta.

After I checked your website, I thought maybe you knew someone in a similar boat who wanted to be set up. I know it’s kinda crazy but the thought came to me so I had to chase it!”

Stephanie also wants a mate for her mom. She wrote, “I want my mom, 50, to remarry; it’s been eight years after my father ON LIFE AND passed away. I want her LOVE AFTER 50 to marry to a man who

By Tom Blake is well-to-do and can take very good care of her the way she deserves to be taken care of. She is loving, caring, kind and affectionate. She is pretty as well.”

Lynn, who recently relocated from Washington state to south Orange County, emailed, “Being 68 years young now, and three marriages later, I found you by mistake as I googled San Clemente apartments and was led to the San Clemente Times.

The headlines of your 24 years of writing on love and life after 50 grabbed my attention!

I am a firm believer in the adage, ‘There are no coincidences.’ And, once again, reading your articles proved it.

My relocation has not been easy. Reading many of your posts has lightened my heart and renewed my faith in ‘anything is possible at any age.’”

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Mirtha emailed, “At the Coffee Importers in the Dana Point Harbor, I picked up a copy of the June 22 Dana Point Times with your article: ‘Is This Single Senior Woman Being Too Fussy in Dating Men?’ I am a senior widow who lives nearby and decided it was time to try to meet a male friend with whom to go dancing or watch a movie. But, I’m not seeking a boyfriend or husband.

I frequently attend public places. I go to all dances in local senior facilities. I attend all shows at the Cabrillo Play House and the Laguna Play House. I am not sitting at home waiting to meet a new friend, but the result is always the same: senior couples, senior couples, or senior ladies.”

Burton Frasher Sr. Photo: Courtesy of Pomona Public Library/Calisphere

FROM THE ARCHIVES

Tom’s comments I commend the women who are trying to help their moms find happiness.

While each single, senior woman’s situation is different, I recommend four tidbits to each:

Burton Frasher Sr. was a commercial photographer, starting out in California in 1914, according to the Pomona Public Library collection. In 1921, he moved his studio to Pomona, California, where he began to sell his own increasingly popular picture postcard views of the Southwest. By 1948, more than 3 million of his postcard photos were sold.

1. Sign up for my complimentary eNewsletter that is published every Friday.

In that way, you can easily reply, thereby establishing an email connection with me.

The eNewsletter has 2,000 subscribers across the globe, mainly in the U.S. and not just in Orange County. Signing up on the home page takes less than a minute. www. findingloveafter50.com

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Pet of the Week: Juliet

2. Understand that finding good men in the later years is difficult. By age 70, single women outnumber single men by approximately three or four to one. Plus, women tell me that many of the men are not “dating-material” or simply don’t date.

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3. Consider online dating. I am not a big fan of online dating for seniors--too many flakes and kooks out there. But, it can be a tool for you to use to try to meet a potential mate. But, be careful.

4. Get off the couch, out of the house and get involved in activities you enjoy.

These four tidbits are a start. If you email me, I will attempt to address your specific situation. Be positive, friendly and smile.

You never know when someone nice will enter your life. If only I had a magic wand.

Tom Blake is a Dana Point resident and a former Dana Point businessman who has authored several books on middle-aged dating. See his websites www.findingloveafter50. com; www.vicsta.com and www.travelafter55. com. To receive Tom’s weekly online newsletter, sign up at www.findingloveafter50.com.

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Juliet. Photo: Courtesy of the San Clemente/Dana Point Animal Shelter

uliet is a pretty kitty who loves just about everyone she meets. At 5 years old, she has a mellow demeanor and enjoys birdwatching most afternoons. Juliet would prefer to be the only pet but may consider a home with another quiet cat.

If you would like to know more about Juliet, call the San Clemente/Dana Point Animal Shelter at 949.492.1617, or visit with her at 221 Avenida Fabricante, San Clemente. SC

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BY MYLES MELLOR

Each Sudoku puzzle consists of a 9x9 grid that has been subdivided into nine smaller grids of 3x3 squares. To solve the puzzle, each row, column and box must contain each of the numbers 1 to 9. Puzzles come in three grades: easy, medium and difficult. Level: Medium Last week’s solution:

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SC SPORTS & OUTDOORS San Clemente

STORIES, SCORES, SCHEDULES AND MORE

Scoreboard COMPILED BY ZACH CAVANAGH, SAN CLEMENTE TIMES

Our City Scoreboard keeps you updated on all of the local San Clemente youth and community team accomplishments and special individual performances of the week. Email zcavanagh@picketfencemedia.com for submission.

Water Polo Clubs Compete in Junior Olympics

Kolby Allard (pictured with San Clemente in 2015) has moved swiftly through the Atlanta Braves organization and is considered the team’s No. 5 prospect by MLB. Photo: File

Tritons at Work San Clemente alums pushing forward in professional baseball

BY ZACH CAVANAGH, SAN CLEMENTE TIMES

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s the dog days of summer roll on, baseball charges forward.

Let’s check in on some former San Clemente High School Tritons, a trio from the Class of 2015, making waves in the ranks of professional baseball: Kolby Allard The 20-year-old left-hander has made a meteoric rise in the Atlanta Braves system.

Considered the Braves’ No. 5 prospect

by MLB’s scouting service, Allard has advanced a level in each of his four seasons in the minor leagues.

Currently, Allard is a starting pitcher for the AAA Gwinnett Stripers of the International League. Gwinnett County is located in suburban Atlanta, and the Stripers play 36 miles east from the Braves’ ballpark.

The 6-foot-1, 190-pound hurler has started 18 games for Gwinnett this season for a 6-4 record and a 2.80 earned run average over 109.1 innings pitched. Allard has thrown 87 strikeouts against 33 walks and a .249 opposing batting average. He is on San Clemente Times July 26-August 1, 2018

pace for career highs in wins, innings and strikeouts and career lows in ERA and batting average.

In his latest start on July 22 for the Stripers’ Christmas in July game, Allard threw five innings and allowed one earned run on three hits with six strikeouts against the Pawtucket Red Sox. He didn’t pick up the win as the game went to extra innings, but the Stripers pulled it out in the 10th inning.

After being drafted out of San Clemente High School in the first round of the 2015 MLB Draft, Allard began with three games of rookie ball with the Gulf Coast League Braves. In 2016, Allard threw five more games of rookie league baseball with the Danville Braves of the Appalachian League before being promoted to full-season A with the Rome Braves of the South Atlantic League.

He spent 2017 with the AA Mississippi Braves of the Southern League and joined Gwinnett for the 2018 season.

Lucas Herbert The 21-year-old catcher is also working his way through the Braves organization.

Herbert is in his first season with the Advanced-A Florida Fire Frogs of the Florida State League. The Fire Frogs play outside Orlando in Kissimmee, Florida.

The 6-foot, 200-pound backstop has played in 53 games for the Fire Frogs this season. Herbert is hitting for a .211 average with 15 runs, 21 RBI and four

home runs. Behind the plate, Herbert has caught 328.2 innings with a .985 fielding percentage and 25 runners caught stealing.

Like Allard, Herbert was drafted by the Braves out of San Clemente High School in the second round of the 2015 MLB Draft. Herbert joined Allard with the Gulf Coast League Braves rookie ball team in 2015.

Herbert played all of 2016 and 2017 with the full-season Class A Rome Braves of the South Atlantic League, playing with his classmate Allard once more in 2016.

Herbert played 96 games in 2016 and 101 games in 2017.

Herbert has played the entire 2018 season with the Fire Frogs.

Will Tribucher The 21-year-old left-hander is the latest of the 2015 class to make it to the pro ranks.

Tribucher was selected out of the University of Michigan in the 14th round of the 2018 MLB Draft by the Colorado Rockies. Tribucher signed with the Rockies on June 13 and was assigned to rookie ball.

Tribucher has played nine games for the Grand Junction Rockies of the Pioneer League. The 6-foot-3, 210-pound thrower has put together a 1-1 record with a 3.38 ERA, 18 strikeouts and a .179 opposing batting average.

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The San Clemente Tritons Water Polo Club and Orange County Water Polo Club each put up strong efforts in the USA Water Polo Junior Olympics from July 21-24.

OCWPC made a ninth-place finish and the Tritons took 13th in the national showcase in the south end of the San Francisco Bay Area.

OCWPC opened its run with a 12-2 win over Rain City on Saturday, July 21, and followed up later in the afternoon with a 15-1 clobbering of Trident.

Sunday, July 22’s action didn’t start too hot for OCWPC with back-to-back losses to SoCal Black, 7-6, and Pride, 9-6, but the club bounced back with a win over Stanford, 4-3, to close the day.

OCWPC took another loss to Trojan Cardinal, 10-6, to open Monday, July 23 but came back with a win over Vanguard, 10-3.

In the ninth-place match on Tuesday, July 24, OCWPC closed its tournament strong with a 9-3 win over Aetos.

San Clemente opened on July 21 with a huge win over the Rocky Mountain Neptunes, 13-1, but fell in their next match in a tight one to West Valley, 9-8. The Tritons closed the day with a 13-7 win over Thunder Black.

San Clemente took down Rose Bowl, 8-2, on Sunday before another tight loss against Stanford, 4-3.

On Monday, the Tritons took down Northwest, 9-7, and CHAWP, 11-3.

San Clemente claimed 13th-place with an 11-4 win over Foothill Red. SC

Junction was his first appearance on June 23. He threw two innings and allowed no runs and no hits with five strikeouts and 19 strikes on 24 pitches.

This season at Michigan, Tribucher earned a 4-4 record and four saves with a 3.44 earned run average and 43 strikeouts. SC www.sanclementetimes.com

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The 42nd Annual Ocean Festival in Photos ‘The Greatest Show on Surf’ was action-packed PHOTOS AND TEXT BY ERIC HEINZ, SAN CLEMENTE TIMES

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ossed around by evanescent high surf, determined to one-up their competition, and trying to right the course in various vessel competitions, athletes were visibly motivated to put forth strong efforts during the lifeguard and other contests during Day One of the San Clemente Ocean Festival on July 21.

Dory boat racers were caught off-guard in the first heat, as an unexpected set of waves crashed into the boats just as they ventured into the Pacific Ocean. Some competitors were jostled but uninjured as they balanced their timing and strength with the oncoming tumult.

Swimmers in the rescue competitions had to work together to make it ashore before their opponents, using flippers and floaters to simulate a lifeguard task.

The Youth Pavilion was buzzing and so was the rest of the San Clemente Pier throughout the weekend.

On Sunday, July 22, Day Two, there were one-mile swims, a morning run, a sandsculpting competition and the introduction of the Marine Raider Boat Challenge.

Competitors were from the U.S. Army Special Forces, Marine Raiders, Marine Reconnaissance, Navy SEAL Team 5 and more. The Marine Reconnaissance team won the first challenge at the San Clemente Ocean Festival. The objective was to have the best time paddling amphibious boats.

Challenge participants raced on behalf of their respective charities, but from Ocean Festival all donations were given to a World War II veterans’ reunion that took place during the weekend.

All events were made even more dramatic as a south-southwest swell headed for California was making its arrival, putting up 3- to 5-foot surf that made matters difficult for the stand-up paddleboard races toward the end of the day.

There were more events at this year’s Ocean Festival compared to last, but with calm weather and mostly manageable surf, all events were completed. And, of course, the Duck Derby took place at the end of the day near the Marine Safety Headquarters.

The estimated attendance was 62,500 people over the weekend, with more than 750 athletes competing, according to Ocean Festival organizers. SC San Clemente Times July 26-August 1, 2018

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SPORTS & OUTDOORS Donya Binette, (40-49) Jennifer Medeiros, (50-59) Mary McFadden, (60-69) Karen Gabay

San Clemente Ocean Festival Results

MEN’S BIATHLON // Gold: (1-14) Chase Brouwer, (20-29) Jerrod Braam, (30-39) Christopher Dempsey, (40-49) James Fallen, (50-59) Christopher Cosner, (60-69) Rick J. Delanty, (70-99) Ian Stuart

FISHING DERBY Children’s Division

WOMEN’S BIATHLON // Gold: (114) Ruka Gorordo, (20-29) Sarah Burris, (30-39) Nicole Vettraino, (40-49) Romina Gorordo, (50-59) Chris Linkletter, (60-69) Janet Buchanan

HEAVIEST FISH // Gold: Logan Anast, 13.25-inch sand bass, Silver: Gavin Pluma, 8.25-inch yellowfin croaker, Bronze: Julian Downs, 8-inch sand bass SMALLEST FISH // Steele Toland Adult Division HEAVIEST FISH // Gold: Kenny Iwakoshi, 21.75-inch spot fin croaker, Silver: Nathaniel Iwakoshi, 13-inch spot fin croaker, Bronze: Nicolas Aquino, 8.5-inch salema SHARK // Douglas Toland, 15.5inch bat ray

SAND SCULPTING

INTERNATIONAL IRONMAN // Gold: Hayden Hemmens, Silver: Brian Murphy, Bronze: Kevin Fink

CASTLES & THINGS // Gold: Casa Romantica by Sand and Deliver, Silver: Kingdom of the Hippo by Team Mo-ger, Bronze: Underwater Siege by Arizona Sand Blast Jr.

INTERNATIONAL IRONWOMAN // Gold: Kelsey Cummings, Silver: Jenna Solberg, Bronze: Holly Maine

CREATURES // Gold: Wookiee’s Wild Wave by Alessandro Sand Sculptors, Silver: The Shark by Sea Side Day Spa, Bronze: Kingdom of the Hippo by Team Mo-ger FAMILY // Gold: Three Doug Knight by Arizona Sand Blast, Silver: Incredible Day at Beach by Alessandro II, Bronze: Underwater Siege by Arizona Sand Blast Jr.

AMERICAN IRONMAN // Gold: Jeff Hart, Silver: Kelby Tursick, Bronze: Tom Seth

Photos: Eric Heinz

GIRLS 11-14: Gold: Taylor Stacy, Silver: Makayla Moss, Bronze: Julie Guild

OPEN // Gold: Seal Rock by Brightview Design Group, Silver: Up, Up and Away by Eizenbeisz, Gallagher, Webster, Heidemann, Bronze: Incredible Day at Beach by Alessandro II

STAND-UP PADDLEBOARD CHAMPIONSHIPS

GREAT RUBBER DUCK RACE

MEN 39U // Gold: Anthony Maltese, Silver: Daniel Hughes, Bronze: Gavin Mencinsky

Gold: Charlie Strelitz Silver: Jake Buchbaum Bronze: Kelsey Mitchell

GROMS RULE SURF CONTEST OPEN, PUSH-IN, 7U // Gold: Bodhi Aguilar, Silver: Israel Cannon, Bronze: Shae Sherman BOYS 10U // Gold: Quaid Fahrion, Silver: Wesley Young, Bronze: Val Snyder GIRLS 10U // Gold: Remy Todd, Silver: Elyse Berg, Bronze: Ry Bailey BOYS 11-14 // Gold: Myles Biggs, Silver: Kyan Yang, Bronze: Dylan Young

AMERICAN IRONWOMAN // Gold: Jenna Solberg, Silver: Kelsey Cummings, Bronze: Coral Kemp

WOMEN OPEN // Gold: Nikki Newland, Silver: Shane Foudy, Bronze: Lexi Alston

MEN 40+ // Gold: David Boehne, Silver: Drew Brophy, Bronze: Anthony Vela

ATHLETIC EVENTS Day 1, Saturday, July 21 MEN’S SURF RACE // Gold: Hayden Hemmens, Silver: Kevin Fink, Bronze: Patrick Jacobson WOMEN’S SURF RACE // Gold: Kelsey Cummings, Silver: Jenna Solberg, Bronze: Coral Kemp MEN’S RESCUE RELAY // Gold: Kevin Fink, Hayden Hemmens, Silver: Patrick Jacobson, Jeff Hart, Bronze: Wadley, Quincy Lee

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WOMEN’S RESCUE RELAY // Gold: Holly Maine, Sydney Brouwer, Silver: Coral Kemp, Jena Solberg, Bronze: Raselle Cheytand, Lauren Amiglio COED RESCUE RELAY // Gold: Kelsey Cummings, Brian Murphy, Silver: Madison Feldman, Ryan Buckley MEN’S SURF SKI // Gold: Brian Murphy, Silver: Hayden Hemmens, Bronze: Sean Barlow WOMEN’S SURF SKI // Gold: Renae Jackson, Silver: Kelsey Cummings, Bronze: Jenna Solberg MEN’S DORY RACE 1 // Gold: Mike Ohannru, Jeff Hart, Silver: Mel Sorberg, Tom Seth, Bronze: Dick Deboer, Decker Dempsey

MEN’S PADDLE RESCUE RELAY // Gold: Patrick Jacobson, Shane Gallas, Silver: Hayden Hemmens, Hogan Porter, Bronze: Jeff Hart, Tom Seth WOMEN’S PADDLE RESCUE RELAY // Gold: Morgan Tandis, Jenna Solberg, Silver: Sydney Brouwer, Holly Maine, Bronze: Audrey Neilan, Christina Boring COED PADDLE RESCUE RELAY // Gold: Kelsey Cummings, Brian Murphy, Silver: Emma SainsburyCarter, Philip Barnett, Bronze: Zachary Fine, Hudson Eskigian MEN’S PADDLE // Gold: Brian Murphy, Silver: Hayden Hemmens, Bronze: Kevin Fink

MEN’S 10K PADDLE // Gold: (SUP 14-foot 18U) Tyler Bashor, (SUP 14-foot 19-39) Jake Graham, (SUP 14-foot 40-49) China Fielder, (SUP 12-foot, 6-inch 18U) Maximillian Torres, (SUP 12-foot, 6-inch 19-39) Mathias Hodges, (SUP 12-foot, 6-inch 50+) Larry Moore, (SUP Surfboard 40-49) Rob Rojas, (Prone 12-foot 19-39) Dane Gudavskas, (Prone 12-foot 40-49) Brian Crain, (Prone 12-foot 50+) Matt McCormick WOMEN’S 10K PADDLE // Gold: (SUP 14-foot 18U) Jade Howson, (SUP 14-foot 50+) Kristin Thomas, (SUP 12-foot, 6-inch 18U) Abby Baker, (SUP 12-foot, 6-inch 19-39) Shae Foudy, (SUP 12-foot, 6-inch 40-49) Juliana Gonzalez MEN’S ONE-MILE SWIM // Gold: (1-14) Wyatt Miller, (15-19) Timo Paisley, (20-29) Hayden Hemmens, (30-39) Ryan Bullock, (4049) Andy Bailey, (50-59) Shawn O’Gorman, (60-69) John King) WOMEN’S ONE-MILE SWIM // Gold: (1-14) Jaden Kopp, (15-19) Sydney Brouwer, (20-29) Kira Makuta, (30-39) Lexie Kelley, (40-49) Romina Gorordo, (50-59) Chris Linkletter, (60-69) Christie Ciraulo MEN’S RUN SWIM RUN // Gold: (1-14) Chase Brouwer, (15-19) Fischer Frauenzimmer, (20-29) Hayden Hemmens, (30-39) Ryan Bullock, (40-49) Regi Vettraino, (50-59) Shawn O’Gorman, (6069) Duff Murphy

Day 2, Sunday, July 22

WOMEN’S RUN SWIM RUN // Gold: (1-14) Savannah Mellott, (15-19) Sydney Brouwer, (2029) Sarah Burris, (30-39) Myka Winder, (40-49) Romina Gorordo, (50-59) Chris Linketter

WOMEN’S DORY RACE 1 // Gold: Madison Feldman, Renae Jackson

MEN’S 5K // Gold: (1-14) Ian Hansen, (15-19) Elijah Sech, (2029) Daniel Torres, (30-39) Phil Bresnahan, (40-49) James Fallen, (50-59) Rick Bright, (60-69) Larry Moore

MEN’S SUP SPRINT // Gold: (1-18) Tyler Bashor, 19-39) Paul Pianowski, (40-49) Dave Boehne, Silver: (1-18) Keaton Rose, (19-39) Jason Watson, (40-49) Justin Van Dyck, Bronze: (1-18) Zeke Rose

WOMEN’S DORY RACE 2 // Gold: Madison Feldman, Renae Jackson

WOMEN’S 5K // Gold: (1-14) Sydney Resser, (15-19) Nicki Bright, (20-29) Lisa Delanty, (30-39)

WOMEN’S SUP SPRINT // Gold: (1-18) Abby Baker, (19-39) Shae Foudy, Silver: (1-18) Jade Howson

MEN’S DORY RACE 2 // Gold: Mike Ohannru, Jeff Hart, Silver: Dick Deboer, Decker Dempsey, Bronze: Kelby Tursick, Colin Rutherford

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WOMEN’S PADDLE // Gold: Jenna Solberg, Silver: Kelsey Cummings, Bronze: Coral Kemp

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Open Intrigue U.S. Open of Surfing in Huntington Beach offers local interest for San Clemente and Dana Point surfers

BY JAKE HOWARD, SAN CLEMENTE TIMES

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t’s that time again. The U.S. Open of Surfing is here. Kicking off in Huntington Beach this Saturday, July 28, 2018’s incarnation of the “biggest show in surf” has a little something for everyone.

Getting the party started right, San Clemente’s Pat, Dane and Tanner Gudauskas will host their Stoke-O-Rama kids surf contest on Saturday on the south side of the iconic Huntington Beach Pier. Open only to Huntington Beach residents, it’s a precursor to the San Clemente Stoke-O-Rama the brothers are planning for T-Street this September and should be an epic day for the local groms. A fun, irreverent opportunity for kids to get in the water, hang with a few of their heroes and get stoked, it’s a fitting way to get the Open underway.

The Gudauskas boys will premiere their new documentary film titled Can’t Steal Our Vibe. Detailing their stunning surfboard drive that saw beach communities around the U.S. contribute more than 750 boards to kids in need in Africa, it’s a behind-the-scenes look at how transformative the endeavor has been. The film will screen at the U.S. Open Amphitheater at 7 p.m. on Saturday, July 28, and again on Tuesday, July 31.

Pat Gudauskas putting on a show at the ‘pier bowl’ during the 2017 U.S. Open of Surfing. Photo: WSL

“It wasn’t always about the jerseys for my brothers and I,” Pat said. “As we grew older in professional surfing, it became apparent to us that we had the platform and ability to help other people. It’s so important to us to represent surfing in a way that promotes positivity and community. To have this influence on (surfing’s) future is so empowering, and to see this surf passion come to life on all levels at the U.S. Open is exactly what makes the event so unique.”

Unfortunately, while we’re getting pounded by a healthy south swell this week, Surfline’s long-range surf forecast for the Open is calling for surf in the knee- to waisthigh range throughout the contest. There’s potential for a small uptick in south swell for the last three days, but it’s not going to be firing by any stretch of the imagination.

The men’s event is considered a Qualifying Series contest, but for the women there are world title-implications. The women’s contest is the seventh stop on the Championship Tour. Currently, Australian Stephanie Gilmore leads the race and is gunning for a record-tying seventh world title. Hot on her heels is Santa Barbara’s Lakey Peterson, who has ambitions of becoming the first Californian to win a world title since Tom Curren back in 1990.

Interestingly, the Open is one of the contests that launched Curren’s competitive career in the early ’80s.

This year also marks the first-ever women’s Vans Duct Tape Invitational. A specialty longboard contest, it will feature 16 women from around the world, including South Orange County’s Tory Gilker-

son and Karina Rozunko.

“There are so many young girls now who surf so incredibly well,” Rozunko told SURFER Magazine earlier this year.

“They’re so excited about it, and I feel like they have such a great future ahead of them, and I want to help them however I can…I want to be that positive influence on the next generation.”

And when it comes to inspiring generations, San Clemente’s Herbie Fletcher will be one of three surfers honored at the annual Surfers’ Hall of Fame in front of Huntington Surf and Sport. He’ll join Hawaiian surfer/shaper/coach/mentor Ben Aipa and Huntington all-star Brett Simpson at the induction ceremony on Friday, Aug. 3, at 9 a.m.

Herbie is responsible for a number of advancements in the sport of surfing, including using a jet ski in massive Hawaiian waves, launching the first surfboard traction company, AstroDeck, as well as producing the seminal Wave Warriors video series. His sons, Christian and Nathan, are among two of the most progressive innovators the sport has ever had the privilege of knowing.

“As a husband and soulmate, I knew the moment I met him on the beach at Makaha when I was 13, he had the greatest imagination. It hasn’t been easy living a life going against the grain, it’s been fantastic,” said Herbie’s wife Dibi, who is the daughter of surf industry icon Walter Hoffman and sister to two-time World Champion Joyce Hoffman.

Surf action. Surf culture. Surf history.

It’s all happening this year in Huntington Beach. The U.S. Open of Surfing runs from July 28 through Aug. 5. Should you find your way up PCH to enjoy the show, remember three things: water, sunscreen and get there early if you want to get a decent parking place. SC

SURF FORECAST

GROM OF THE WEEK SIERRA DOWNER

BY JAKE HOWARD, SAN CLEMENTE TIMES

T

ip of the cap to San Clemente’s Sierra Downer who earlier this month put in a huge performance at the 13th Annual WSA Sun Bum Menehune Surf Fest held at Goldenwest St. in Huntington Beach.

Notching wins in the girls 13-16 shortboard division and the girls 13-16 longboard division, she’s as comfortable busting her fins free as she is cross-stepping her way to the nose.

She’s also what you might call a multisport athlete. A member of the championship Shorecliff’s Middle School surf team and defending Stoke-O-Rama champ, the San Clemente Times July 26-August 1, 2018

Sierra Downer. Photo: Courtesy of the Downer family

13-year-old frother has been participating in the San Clemente Junior Lifeguard program this summer, and she’s no slouch on a skateboard either.

And as much as she’d like to, young Downer can’t spend every waking moment on the sand or in the water. She’s also a member of the San Clemente Surf Soccer Club and helped them win the Manchester Cup over Memorial Day Weekend. And when she’s not on the pitch, you may find her swinging her clubs on the golf course or draining threes on the basketball court.

Albert Einstein once said, “Life is like riding a bicycle. To keep your balance, you must keep moving.”

Well, from what we can tell, Downer’s definitely well-balanced—and it doesn’t look like she’s going to stop moving anytime soon. SC

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Water Temperature: 68-70 degrees F Water Visibility and Conditions: 5-8’ Fair Thursday: Easing SSW swell is strongest in the morning with surf in the shoulder high to 2’ overhead zone (4-7’) with some lingering larger sets at standout spots. Size is down just a slight notch more in the afternoon. Calm winds early, trending to light S/SE winds through the morning hours.

Light SW’erly flow takes over in the afternoon.

Outlook: SSW swell is down another notch on Friday with waist-head high+ surf (3-5’+) then size keeps dropping through the weekend with waist high and under leftovers on Sunday. Surf looks small to modest for next week with a little mix of new S hemi swells running. Be sure to check the full premium forecast on Surfline for more details and the longer range outlook.

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