The students of Santa Cruz County need your support. Buy the 2010 Grind Out Hunger Skateboard and 100% of proceeds are donated directly to Second Harvest Food Bank. Designed by Jimbo Phillips Graphix when you buy this board the school of your choice will receive a 300 pound credit towards winning the contest in Santa Cruz County. The elementary, middle and high school that collects the most pounds per student will receive gift certificates from Santa Cruz Skate and Surf Shop and SkateWorks Skate Shop totaling over $1800 this year! 250,000 pounds is the goal this year can you help?
Labor Day Monday was insane! The weather was crackin, the kids were out, Aloha Island Grille was providing the grinds (no pun intended) and there was no shortage of Tarp Barrels being pulled for the kids. Santa Cruz Skate and Surf Shop hosted the event on Monday September 6th as the 1st annual Tarp Surfing Extravaganza to benefit Grind Out Hunger. Once again, the youth of Santa Cruz County came through and between food donated and cash paid to get Tarp Barrels they managed to raise over 500 pounds of food or cash equivalent. YouTube Legends Homer Henard, Omar Etcheverry, Chris Killen (Ruse Entertainment) threw major Tarp Kegs while Dana “SkimShady” along with FujiTV from Japan, Tyler Fox of SantaCruzWaves.com and Seth Migdail professional photographer at large came down to capture the event. Dana “Skimshady” got all suited up and provided a killer water angle. After hundreds of Tarp Sessions, the day was wrapped up the kids went home with dreams in their heads and a few more kids won’t go hungry in Santa Cruz County. Thanks to all that were involved, you made the day AWESOME!
Bruddah Timmy of Aloha Island Grille getting Tarp Kegged!
SC Family members MMA fighter Luke Rockhold and Pro Surfer Bud Freitas shacked!
Its all about the kids!!!
Seth Migdail gets Tarperfection with Homer Henard...look closely..its only Tarp Surfing and Him...
SEPTEMBER 15TH & 16TH marks the Grind Out Hunger Annual Holiday Food Drive Kick-Off!
Grind Out Hunger is kicking off our annual food drive at the Santa Cruz County Fair during Education Days on the 15th and 16th. We will be teaming up with Elementary schools all across Santa Cruz County to fill a customized, Plexiglas half-pipe FULL of non-perishable food items in an effort to get food into the homes of families all across Santa Cruz County.
Since 2004 Grind Out Hunger has partnered up with Elementary, Middle, and High schools all over Santa Cruz County to get the student body involved with their schools Holiday Food Drive. Last year Grind Out Hunger infiltrated 30 Santa Cruz county schools to raise over 130,000 pounds of food, and for 2010 we are aiming high and looking to double those numbers at 250,000 pound goal.
On the 15th and 16th we will be keeping track of every pound of food donated by participating schools. Those numbers will be consolidated into each schools overall Holiday Food Drive donations, as well as Grind Out Hunger’s overall numbers for 2010. Participating in the Grind Out Hunger Kick-Off is an easy way to get started early on boosting your school’s annual Holiday Food Drive numbers!
Last year Gateway Elementary School raised 6,403 pounds of food for the Santa Cruz community. Along with the honor and recognition that came along with being the elementary school that raised the most pounds of food per student in Santa Cruz county, Gateway Elementary also won a Grind Out Hunger gift package. The 2010 Grind Out Hunger winner will receive gift certificates to Santa Cruz Skate and Surf Shop and SkateWorks Skate Shop, a Jimbo Phillips customized Grind Out Hunger Skate Deck Trophy and countywide recognition at Second Harvest Food Banks annual awards dinner.
Come out and kick off your school’s annual Holiday Food Drive with us at Santa Cruz County Fair! We’re looking forward to working with you!
Sincerely,
Danny Keith
Grind Out Hunger Founder
For more information and details around the Grind Out Hunger food drive go to www.grindouthunger.org or contact:
Santa Cruz Skate and Surf Shop put Grind Out Hunger on the map in 2003 by recognizing the need to inspire children in the schools that year the total raise was 8000 pounds. Fast Forward to 2009 and the youth of Santa Cruz County pulled in 130,000 pounds bringing the 7 year total to around 500,000 pounds overall.
SkateWorks Skate Shop, born and bred skateboarding in Santa Cruz County for over 22 years, will bring a steady constituency of hard core skateboarders to help drive the message of feeding children. Jason Strubing managing partner states “turn those canned lima beans in the back of the pantry into a new skateboard? Sounds like a win-win. I wish that option was available when I was in school…” he goes on to say “seriously, how can we be letting kids go hungry in Santa Cruz County?”. SkateWorks Skate Shop is a new partner for 2010.
KDON 102.5 has been a community leader for quite some time when asked about the reason to support Grind Out Hunger, Sam Diggedy of KDON 102.5’s The Morning Madhouse quips “Anything that gets kids helping kids, KDON wants to be a part of, especially when it has to do with skateboarding and feeding children.” KDON 102.5 has been a part of Grind Out Hunger since 2008.
Jimbo Phillips has been a skateboard artist since the day he was born. Jimbo bought in early for Grind Out Hunger, “I feel blessed to be doing what I do and this is a way for me to give back to the community and feed kids through my art” creating the FoodBank skater, he has lent his creative hand to a worthy cause, Jimbo explains “Seeing the effect and response to the skateboard art I created, the graphic provided the breath of life needed for Grind Out Hunger to succeed”. Jimbo Phillips Graphix has been a partner since 2006.
Local Rotarians encompass the mission statement “The mission of Rotary is to provide service to others, promote integrity, and advance world understanding, goodwill, and peace through its fellowship of business, professional, and community leaders.” And they have not missed a beat by stepping in and networking the 7 area Rotary Interact clubs in the high schools to get involved. Through this pilot ambassadorship Grind Out Hunger truly has the legs it needs to be successful now more than ever.
Grind Out Hunger was created through the vision of skateboarders helping kids overcome hunger. Santa Cruz Skate and Surf Shop founded Grind Out Hunger with the one goal of inspiring kids to help kids; Danny Keith mentions “by going directly to the schools and talking with the kids, it has a huge impact.” Grind Out Hunger is an educational piece challenging local elementary, middle and high schools to raise food and money for hungry children in the community. The school that raises the most pounds per student is awarded gift certificates to Santa Cruz Skate and Surf Shop and SkateWorks Skate Shop total valued at $1800. Keith continues “The collaboration between students and Grind Out Hunger has been very successful raising over 500,000 pounds together”. This year UCSC and Cabrillo colleges will enter the fray to compete as well.
Grind Out Hunger 2010 goal is 250,000 pounds to almost double last year’s raise of 130,000 pounds. The window this year starts September 15th with the Santa Cruz County Fair education days and completes itself December 20th.
The 2010 Grind Out Hunger skateboard deck is hand drawn by Jimbo Phillips and will be sold for $100 with all proceeds benefitting Second Harvest Food Bank Santa Cruz County and awarded to the winning schools as annual trophy.
SANTA CRUZ — For years, the Grind Out Hunger campaign has been asking kids to fill barrels with food donations. Now, to get them to donate over the Labor Day Weekend, it’s offering to put them in a barrel — a plastic, blue, “surfable” barrel.
Riding the wave of a recent worldwide tarp surfing trend that began here in Santa Cruz, Grind Out Hunger will host an event Monday where kids can donate either a pound of food or $3 for a ride through what campaign founder Danny Keith calls “massive, kegging tarps.” The event will be held in the parking lot behind Santa Cruz Skate and Surf Shop on 41st Avenue and will run from noon-3 p.m. All food will go to Second Harvest Food Bank, and cash donations will be split between the food bank and local youth nonprofit, The Core.
“I think there’s other boring events kids are going to get dragged to this weekend,” said Keith, who also owns the skate and surf shop. “But kids would probably rather be tarp surfing than going to an airshow — I’m just saying.”
Started in 2004, Grind Out Hunger aims to get kids in local schools to donate food to other kids in need. More than 500,000 pounds of food have been raised through the campaign, Keith said. As incentive, Keith gives winning schools gift certificates to his shop.
More than 150 people have confirmed they will attend, according to the event’s Facebook page, and more than 200 are listed as maybe.
“At first, I didn’t think it was going to be that big of a deal,” Keith said. “Now, I’m getting calls from people in San Francisco asking if the event is going on.”
Grind Out Hunger works closely with Second Harvest, which feeds about 60,000 people each month, said Bly Morales, the bank’s food drives and events manager.
“Any way we can get people involved is a good thing,” she said. “I’m going to be taking my son out there.”
Tarp surfing requires one person to run and pull the corner of a big, blue tarp. A tube is formed and another person can then ride a skateboard in and get “barreled” much like a real wave.
A tarp surfing tsunami has formed worldwide since well-known local surfers Homer Henard, Omar Etcheverry and Nic Lamb and friend Chris Killen released a spoof video on YouTube on July 19. Henard, Etcheverry and Killen will all be pulling tarps Monday.
Their video has received nearly 2 million hits, and media outlets throughout the world continue to contact them for interviews and TV segments. Tarp surfing is featured on the new Apple iPod Touch commercial, and Keith, who runs TarpSurfing.com for the group, said French-German television station ARTE recently did a piece on Henard for its music program, “Tracks.” The Los Angeles Times also wants to do a story on tarp surfing, and a Japanese TV station asked to film the event Monday.
“When the kids end up seeing how much they’ve raised, they realize, Wow, we really can make a difference,’ ” Keith said.
The innovators of Tarp Surfing and http://www.tarpsurfing.com/ will be on site at Santa Cruz Skate and Surf Shop pulling barrel after barrel for all to enjoy. All you have to do is bring 1 pound of food for every Tarp Barrel you would like to get (all food will benefit http://www.GrindOutHunger.org/)…watch as Homer Henard (Wizard of the Tarp), Omar Etcheverry, Chris Killen and DK pull massive kegging Tarps for all to see all while Dana “SkimShady” films and edits for the world to see! Tons of deals this weekend as we roll out the hookups with up to 60% off all clothing and 30% off selected skate and surf hardgoods!!! All of this is going down at Santa Cruz Skate and Surf Shop 912 41st Ave get directions HERE! Check out the Facebook Event HERE.
