Another Santa Cruz Holiday Parade under our belts and what a wonderful day it was. Last year, due to the inclement weather, few Woodies and even fewer people braved the rain to celebrate the start of the Christmas season. What a difference a year makes! While those of us who live in California are still praying to the weather Gods …

Santa Cruz Woodies Club (SCWC) recently spent the weekend in Pleasanton, Ca at the Good Guys West Coast Nationals. We started off with a welcome party hosted by SCWC Past-President Toni Wilkerson at her home on Thursday evening. Friday morning we were all up early and arrived at the Alameda Fairgrounds to secure our favorite spots in “The Grove”, a nicely …

The start of the 21st annual Woodies on the Wharf weekend was very special indeed. 130 years ago in the summer of 1885 three Hawaiian princes, David Kawananakoa, Edward Keli’iahonui and Jonah Kuhio Kalaniana’ole, who were in California to attend boarding school, introduced surfing to the U.S. mainland. The three Hawaiian princes surfed Santa Cruz’s San Lorenzo River mouth — …