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Blue Weekend Benefit Show at Santa Cruz Skate and Surf Shop

shawn — Thu, 02 Feb 2012 19:45:25 +0000

We talked to our buddies in Blue Weekend and they agreed to play a benefit show for us at Santa Cruz Skate and Surf Shop. We decided that we would have the entry to the event be FREE, but we are requesting that people donate to Grind Out Hunger. This event is about bring people together in support of a good cause, if we help feed kids in our community while doing it, GREAT! We will have Grind Out Hunger product available and well as some special Blue Weekend merch with proceeds benefitting Grind Out Hunger.

Feel free to bring Canned food and/or Ca$h donations to the event.

Email Shawn Hatjes with any questions or concerns.

SEE YOU ALL THERE!!!
Event details below…

Santa Cruz Skate and Surf Shop Presents:

Blue Weekend

February 12, 2012
6:30pm

A benefit show for Grind Out Hunger

No Cover. Donations Appreciated.

LOT F MINI RAMP will be OPEN.
(Notarized waiver required to skate. Download waiver HERE.)

To find out more about Blue Weekend visit their Facebook page at:
https://www.facebook.com/blueweekend

To RSVP to this event check out the Facebook Event at:
https://www.facebook.com/events/377798932236934/

I Don’t Wanna Hear It – New Years Bash Raises 1100 pounds!

shawn — Tue, 03 Jan 2012 20:08:43 +0000

It was a rockin’ New Years for Grind Out Hunger. Local 80′s punk rock cover band, I Don’t Wanna Hear It played a benefit show/New Years Bash at Margaritaville and it was crazzzy to say the least. We packed Margaritaville with fans and GOH supporters. We had a raffle where we gave out 2 skate decks, a hat, a bunch of band merch, and more! People donated cash as well as canned food throughout the night! It was a blast and a great way to bring in the new year. We look forward to teaming up with I Don’t Wanna Hear It again in the future as well as other local bands interested in rocking out for a cause!

The show raised 1100 pounds of food for Grind Out Hunger. Not bad for a party!

Big thanks to the band for putting on an awesome show as well as donating merch money to GOH, and to Margaritaville for hosting the rockin’ party!

Enjoy a few photos from the event and HAPPY NEW YEAR!!

I Don’t Wanna Hear It band members include Jeff Frady, Ed Gregor, Nick Davern, Guerin Myall, and Jimbo Phillips.
Photos by: Shawn Hatjes Photography

You can see a full gallery of photos on facebook here: https://www.facebook.com/media/set/?set=a.10150454117862596.354511.101722792595&type=3

I Don’t Wanna Hear It – New Year’s Margaritaville Benefit Show

admin — Wed, 28 Dec 2011 17:20:13 +0000

Our last big benefit show happened at The Catalyst when SC’s punk rock band Fury 66 reunited for a night to rock Santa Cruz County. Now, we have a group of our friends that have decided to form an 80′s punk rock cover band to keep spreading that punk rock feel all over the county. A couple of the band members you all might recognize including, Jeff Frady, from Fury 66 AND the artist and one of our major sponsors Jimbo Phillips. Yup, this is a show you aren’t going to want to miss. Come ring in the new year with this crew as well as the Grind Out Hunger team.

Start the new year off by rocking out and giving back to your community.
Need we say more?

Here are the details:

The Band Features 5 Members:

Guerin Myall -VOCALS
(Stench and Cupcheck)

Jeff Frady-GUITAR
(Fury 66)

Nick Davern-BASS
(Skulduggery and Pariah Faction)

Ed Gregor-GUITAR
(No Use For A Name, Hedgehog)

Jimbo Phillips-DRUMS
(The Undecided, do you really have to ask who he is??)

_______________________________________________________

Margaritaville Presents:

80′s Punk Rock Cover Band
I DONT WANNA HEAR IT!

NEW YEARS EVE
9pm-1am

21+

A BENEFIT FOR: GRIND OUT HUNGER

This event is a New Years Eve bash benefiting local charity, Grind Out Hunger. They will have a donation barrel for non-perishable food items, money donations, and merchandise for sale with 100% of the sales benefiting the cause.

THERE WILL BE A RAFFLE
$1 Raffle Tickets
Prizes from Grind Out Hunger and IDWHI

RSVP to Facebook Event Here: https://www.facebook.com/events/292639160777222/

Vanguard Surf and Skate Shop Presents: Grind Out Hunger Holiday Skate Jam! – Benefiting LA Regional Food Bank

shawn — Tue, 06 Dec 2011 20:08:33 +0000

Vanguard Surf and Skate Shop, located in Torrance, California is teaming up with the Grind Out Hunger campaign by hosting a Holiday Skate Jam to benefit the Los Angeles Regional Food Bank. With the collaboration between Grind Out Hunger, Los Angeles Regional Food Bank, and Vanguard Surf and Skate Shop this could be the first major step for Grind Out Hunger to expand to a national campaign. Skate Jam participants are being asked to bring 2 pounds of food to donate and in return they will receive 15% off at Vanguard Surf and Skate shop.

Support this growth by notifying friends and family down in Southern California that this event is happening!

Vanguard Surf and Skate Shop Presents:

Grind Out Hunger Holiday Skate Jam!
& best trick contest!

Sunday, December 11th, 2011
11am-Dark

5205 Pacific Coast Highway
Torrance, CA 90505

• MUSIC • FOOD • RAFFLE PRIZES •

Help Grind Out Hunger!
Bring 2 Pounds of dry/canned food and get 15% off at Vanguard Skate and Surf Shop!!!

All donations benefit Los Angeles Regional Food Bank

• Over 400,000 Children in LA County face hunger.
• For each $1 donated LA Food Bank can purchase $5 worth of food.

• www.vanguard-sss.com •

• www.lafoodbank.org •

RSVP to the Facebook Event Here: https://www.facebook.com/events/254468911279699/

Local Bands to Play Grind Out Hunger Benefit Show

shawn — Tue, 29 Nov 2011 20:18:10 +0000

Benefit Show for Grind Out Hunger

Aptos Christian Fellowship Church
7200 Freedom Blvd, Aptos, CA

Saturday, December 10th
7pm

$5.00
(100% Benefits Grind Out Hunger)

Featuring Bands:

Rat Trap
Funk Faction
Bell Thieves
Blue Weekend
Otis and The Fascist Bagels

RSVP to the Facebook Event HERE: https://www.facebook.com/events/198462016899102/

Click on images below to go to each band’s Facebook Page.

Rat Trap

Blue Weekend

Bell Thieves

Otis and the Fascist Bagels

: Funk Faction

Aptos High School Kickoff Presentation

shawn — Fri, 28 Oct 2011 23:35:44 +0000

Aptos High School, the first school to embrace Grind Out Hunger back in 2005. When all other schools questioned the brand new program, Aptos took it in and owned it. We know these kids have endless amounts of school pride and sprit. It is this motivation that will bring Aptos High School to the top during this years food drive.

Principal, Casey O’Brien introduced Grind Out Hunger founder, Danny Keith to all 1400+ students in the gym. Danny took the floor and gave his speech to all of the students on how and why they need to step up to help fight this battle against hunger in our community.

Danny emphasized 3 main ways to make their food drive numbers sky rocket:

#1: Bring a bagged lunch to school and donate the $3 that you would have used to purchase a meal on campus to Grind Out Hunger.
#2: Take that quarter that you get for change during lunch and drop it into a donation container every day. A quarter = 1 healthy meal.
#3: Bring in canned food and drop them in the donation barrels around campus.

We looked at the numbers and found that last year Aptos Jr. High raised 11,500 Pounds. Almost tripling Aptos High’s raise last year of 4,500. We are wanting to see Aptos High to own this program again and be the ones on top. With their student body and faculty, we know they all have more than enough power to do it.

As we left Aptos High we had a teacher run up to us and buy a skateboard. We also has a faculty member say that he had funds that would tack on another 1200 pounds. Thats 1400 pounds right off the bat! Aptos High is already on a roll.
Let see what happens when the kids start bringing in the donations!

We are planning on having a skate event at Aptos High School on Wednesday November 9th at 1pm. This will be our first ever skate event held on a school campus. Students from Aptos as well as all schools within Santa Cruz County are welcome. We will bring our full ramp setup in our NEW 48ft trailer. Students will be allowed to skate as long as they bring in $5 OR 5 Cans to donate that day.

It is required that participants fill out a waiver and bring it to the event in order to skate.
You can download that waiver HERE: Aptos_High_Liability_Release (50)

If you are wanting to donate online you can CLICK THE BUTTON BELOW and make your donation direct to Aptos High School’s food drive numbers…

Aptos High Principal, Casey O'Brien (left) and Grind Out Hunger Founder, Danny Keith.

Carolyn and Dakota Jones’ Break-A-Thon Raises 6,500+ Pounds

shawn — Wed, 26 Oct 2011 17:38:34 +0000

Here is another story from the front lines of kids stepping up to the plate to help those in need…

Last Saturday Carolyn and Dakota, both black belts from Aptos Martial Arts Academy, broke 110 boards in the fight against hunger. Family, friends, and supporters pledged money per board with a large portion of the funds going to Second Harvest Food Bank. Students at Aptos Marital Arts all got together prior to the event and decorated all of the boards that Carolyn and Dakota were going to break. The art on the boards was a mix of encouragement, thanks, dedications to people and supporters, as well as struggles that they wanted to be symbolically broken through. Twin Lakes Church Pastor, René Schlaepfer showed up to support Carolyn and Dakota. A special board was saved for him to break at the very end of the event.

After the event Dakota expressed his thanks, “I knew that for every board we broke we could potentially save a life. I feel so blessed to have received the support we did. It is really awesome. Thank you all very much!”

This “Board Break-a-Thon” raised 6,560 Pounds of food!

Although these pounds aren’t being counted specifically towards Grind Out Hunger‘s food drive we wanted to highlight these two, seeing as they are two kids with big hearts. These pounds will be going toward Twin Lakes Church’s goal of 1 MILLION pounds for this seasons Second Harvest Food Banks Holiday Food Drive.

We are excited to have Twin Lakes Church supporting Second Harvest Food Bank – Santa Cruz in such a big way.

Thank You Carolyn and Dakota for your dedication and support.

Carolyn and Dakota both teamed up to break boards in the fight against hunger.

110 boards were broken and 6,560 Pounds of food were raised.

Twin Lakes Church Pastor, René Schlaepfer, breaks a board at the end of the event.

Carolyn and Dakota Jones

2nd Annual Skate-A-Thon Raises 6,000 Pounds!

shawn — Wed, 12 Oct 2011 22:24:26 +0000

2nd Annual Skate-A-Thon

This past Saturday was our 2nd Annual Skate-A-Thon at Twin Lakes Church. It was the first time we were able to put our NEW 48ft trailer to the test. We hauled the ramps to Twin Lakes Church at around 830am Saturday morning and unloaded them all by 10am. With help of a few of the Twin lakes staff we were able to get everything done quickly and smoothly. Last year this event had on and off rain, this year we couldn’t have asked for better weather. The sun was shining with barley any clouds in the sky. Having nice weather, fun music, a great crowd, and a bunch of kids skating made this event the success that it was.

Kids started showing up to skate right at 10am. Many of them stayed all the way from 10am-4pm. Our mission during these events is to create a safe, fun environment for kids to skate for a good cause. It bring awareness to the youth as well as their families about the hunger issues in Santa Cruz County and beyond. They are able to see how supporting the community can be combined with fun activities such as skateboarding.

We had a table set up with merch and a place to purchase raffle tickets. Items we had available included; hats, stickers, buttons, wristbands, and skate decks. We ended up raffling off 2 skate decks signed by Jimbo Phillips as well as a Grind Out hunger hat. Twin lakes Church Pastor, René Schlaepfer even stopped by the event for a bit to show his support. He was thrilled about the environment we had set up for kids to skate in support of a good cause.

The event ended up raising 1,500+ pounds of food including both cash and canned food donations. The Helen and Will Webster Foundation ended up giving us a $1500 cash donation totaling our poundage to 6,000!!!

Thanks to Dominic Cusimano, owner of 3D Construction for helping with setup and ramp repairs, Ben K of TAC Apparel Company for helping with this years flyer, Jimbo Phillips for signing decks and being a huge supporter of the cause
Big thanks to Twin Lakes Church and their staff for providing the space for the event as well as setup and breakdown support.

We also wanted to give a shout out to Mike Murray, who shot photos during the event and shared them with us on our facebook page. Be sure to head over to www.facebook.com/grindouthunger to check some of them out!

Can’s wait until next year!
Be sure to be on the lookout for our next skate event. Another one is in the works. Stay tuned.

Putting Our New 48ft Trailer to the Test.

Colby Phillips shredding...

Dropping in...

Our New Grind Out Hunger Stickers.

Zane Keith tearing it up at the Skate-A-Thon

Grind Out Hunger Speaks at St. Francis High School

shawn — Thu, 06 Oct 2011 21:44:46 +0000

We journeyed over to St. Francis Central Coast Catholic High School this morning at around 7:30am to speak during a school wide assembly. Danny Keith took the floor equipped with a wireless mic and 2 Grind Out Hunger skateboards. He spoke to the student body about the issues of hunger in our community and the need for action especially from the youth.

Last year, the first year that St. Francis High School participated in the Grind Out Hunger food drive, they raised 10,281 Pounds. Their goal this year: 10,000+ Pounds. We want to see them hit the 20,000 mark. We know they have the capability and the motivation to do it.

Last year St. Francis High School borrowed our mini half pipe with a plexiglass front. This half pipe is used to collect dry food donations. During one of their events that they were collecting donations the plexiglass shattered because of the overwhelming amount of donations. We still laugh about the broken plexi, and St. Francis teacher/staff member John Marheineke still has a part or the plexi that he keeps in his class room.

We can’t wait to see what these kids can do this year. It seems like the student leaders that are fronting the Grind Out Hunger food drive at St. Francis are fired up and ready to start feeding kids.

Thank you, St. Francis High for letting us come speak at your school.
We are here to support you in any way you need during your food drive.

Danny Keith and John Marheineke

Danny Keith and John Marheineke at St Francis with a piece of the shattered plexiglass from last years food drive.

Fury 66 Benefit show Raises 12,500 Pounds for Grind Out Hunger

shawn — Mon, 26 Sep 2011 20:45:37 +0000

Fury 66 skate deck with money raised from the show.

It’s been just over 2 weeks since the September 10th Fury 66 Reunion show to benefit Grind Out Hunger. We are still reveling in the success of the show. Sold out, over capacity, screaming crowds, amazing energy, and a killer performance. So, we are sure you all are wanting to know the outcome of the night when it comes to numbers. How much DID the show raise for Grind Out Hunger???

Well, friends, here are the numbers:

The event raised 12,500 Pounds of food OR 16,666 meals for kids/families in Santa Cruz County.

We chatted with the band and have decided that we don’t want to stop here. Grind Out Hunger and Fury 66 are bringing you an art reception featuring photos shot from the night of the reunion show. Photographers that will display their photos include: Peter Saporito, Tom Audisio, and Shawn Hatjes.

• 20% of all photo sales will benefit Grind Out Hunger
• We will have Fury 66 merch from the show available
• We will have Fury 66 skate decks available
**Proceeds benefit Grind Out Hunger

The event will be held October 7th at the Santa Cruz Skate and Surf Shop from 6-9pm.

More info about the event here: http://www.santacruzbuilt.com/2011/09/21/sc-photo-wall-friday-reception-fury-66-reunion-tribute/

RSVP to the Facebook event here: https://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=111695845603983

See you all there and thanks for making it out to the show on the 10th!

Fury 66 Reunion Tribute Photo Wall Flyer