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December 2, 2010 Thank you to everyone that attended the Leadership Hermosa
Beach General Meeting on Tuesday night. In addition to the business and the
revelry, we held elections for 4 open seats on our Board of Directors.
Congratulations go to Francesca Brooks, Dorothy Forba, Ryan McCormick, and
Rashel Mereness, each of whom have been elected to serve a two-year term
beginning December 2010, and join Ryan Nowicki, Sandi Pfister, Jennifer
Mayer-Sandoval, and Karen Nowicki, who are at the half-way point of their 2-year
terms.
August 10, 2010 Surf Legends Memorial becoming a reality On October 28, 2003, the City Council unanimously approved the installation of a memorial statue commemorating Hermosa's great surfing heritage with the only caveat being that it be funded entirely through donation. Public Works staff have been fundraising since then by selling memorial bricks at $200 each (71 sold to date) and tee shirts. The fundraising was going pretty slow until Leadership Hermosa's Class of 2008 adopted the Surf Legends Memorial as their class project. They took the project to the community in a big way by organizing a fund raising event which was held at Sangria restaurant in June of 2008. This event raised approximately $30,000 after expenses. As of today we have approximately $45,000 in the project budget. GREAT NEWS! We have just received confirmation of an additional $50,000 to be donated by a local resident, Joe Melchione. This brings our total budget to approximately $95,000, making this project a feasible reality! In addition, local contractor Bennett Talsky has offered his companies' services at no cost, including structural engineer, lighting, electrical and paving. The artist, Phil Roberts, who has been working with us since the inception, has prepared a preliminary drawing of the new design of a bronze statue (without the water fountain component) that can be done within this budget (see attached drawing). With up-lighting and surrounded by memorial bricks, this will be very dramatic piece of art to serve as a gateway landmark for Hermosa Beach at Pier Ave. and PCH. You'll see on the back side that there will be space for Hermosa's great surfing history, photos of Leroy Grannis and his iconic photo of Dewey Weber that will be etched into the bronze along with biographies of each written for our memorial by Steve Pezman, editor of The Surfer's Journal. Phil Roberts is constructing a scale model of the statue for casting in bronze which is needed to get a cost proposal from the foundry. When this is completed I hope to be bringing a contract to City Council for approval to start this long awaited project.June 21st, 2010 On behalf of the entire Board of Directors of Leadership Hermosa Beach, we congratulate Amanda Charney and Michael Cross on winning our 2010 Young Leader Award scholarship! Their essays on the qualities of leadership, as well as their entire scholarship packets, proved to be of exceptional quality and we are delighted to present this award to such a gifted and motivated students. Board of Directors of Leadership Hermosa Beach
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