According to the Houston Chronicle William M. Barnum Jr., a director of Zumiez Inc. just bought 54,937 shares of Zumiez.
In a Form 4 filed with the SEC, William M. Barnum Jr. reported he bought the shares for $18.05 to $18.40 apiece on Thursday.
Wonder if he knows anything?
[Link: Chron.com]
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According to the Orlando Sentinel, A 14-year-old girl was bitten on the foot by a shark while surfing Volusia County Beach.
The teen was surfing near Minorca condominiums between 8 and 9a.m. when she stepped off her board in knee-deep water and was bitten on her right foot. She was taken to Bert Fish Memorial Hospital and treated for puncture wounds and lacerations.
We’re glad she’s okay. Apparently that section of the beach is pretty sharky.
[Link: Orlando Sentinel]
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The surfing community lost one of its most OG members when Parker “Woody” Brown died Wednesday, April 16, 2008 Hale Makua, Kahului, Hawaii. He was 96.
“Woody Brown was one of the first and greatest icons in the history of surfing,” state Sen. Fred Hemmings said Friday.
“He was the essential surfer, an iconoclast: extremely independent, futuristic and, most especially, healthy — which explains why he lived for 96 very productive, wonderful years,” said Hemmings, the 1968 world surfing champion who inaugurated the world professional surfing circuit in 1975. “… I only hope more of us who call ourselves surfers can live the way Woody lived.
Woody Brown is survived by his wife, Macrene; three sons, Woody Brown Jr., William Parker Brown and Jeffrey Sellon; two daughters, Mary Sue Gannon and Jennifer Snyder; and 10 grandchildren and 19 great-grandchildren.
He will be missed, but his legacy will live on.
[Link: Honolulu Advertiser]
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While we may not so sure about “The Triathlon of a New Generation” a.k.a. the Ultimate Boarder 2008, a contest in which athletes compete in snowboarding, surfing, and skateboarding with combined scoring, we are absolutely sure that the right guy won.
Carlsbadistan’s Aaron Astorga edged out pro snowboarder and ESPN commentator Todd Richards and rolled away with a check for $30,000.
“It was an amazing event and everyone had a great time,” said Ultimate Boarder™ champion, Aaron Astorga. “The contest organizers did an unbelievable job of bringing all of the surfers, skaters and snowboarders together and I know a lot of us are already looking forward to next year’s contest.”
Follow the jump for all the details.
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In an email sent out to Transworld Media employees on the morning of April 18, 2008 Group Publisher Jeff Griffing announced that after six months on the job he would be leaving Transworld Media and moving east (the second time in the last year that he has quit and moved).
My wife and I have decided to leave southern California to raise my son Jake back east. . . .There will be rumors that I left because I’m frustrated with Bonnier, Winter Park, whatever…..none of which are true.
His replacement: former VP of Sales and long-time Transworld adman Liam Ferguson. Mr. Ferguson will have the distinction of being Transworld Media’s seventh Group Publisher in the last five years.
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We are so lucky to live on the West Coast. And stories like this are nice reminders of how bad surfers in Florida have it most of the year:
From the minute you step foot on area beaches, the blast of sand whipping around hits your face well before you notice red flag warnings. “It’s amazing, that’s why we stopped and pulled off the road, it’s like we wanted to see what the beach was doing,” says Cindy Collins.
Yeah, that wave looks pretty amazing.
[Link: WPTV.com]
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It was a night where size definitely matters as the elite big wave riders gathered at The Grove in Anaheim, California on April 11, 2008 for the 8th Annual Billabong XXL Global Big Wave Awards. This year, the biggest wave of the year award went to Mike Parsons, 43, for his Cortez Bank 70 footer.
“I didn’t think a session like that could ever happen twice, I mean that day in 2001 where I rode the first winner at Cortes was incredible,” said Parsons. “It feels surreal to say that I rode a 70ft wave, I can’t believe it… There have been so many big waves ridden throughout time and when I sit at home I can’t believe that I may have ridden the biggest one ever,” he said. “The amazing thing about big wave surfing now is how global it is going.”
Parsons only got $15,000 for riding the largest wave, all the big money ($50,000) went to Shane Dorian, 35, for “Ride of the Year” for his wave at Teahupoo on November 1, 2007. Hmmm, I guess Billabong can give their money to whoever they want, huh?
[Link: Billabong XXL]
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According to the Sunshine Coast Daily:
A Sunshine Coast surfer has been pulled out of a competition in WA after a massive shark was sighted by a fellow competitor – a day after a 16-year-old boy was killed by a shark.
Maroochydore’s Mitch Coleborn was midway through the heat at the Drug Aware Pro at Margaret River in Western Australia when the drama unfolded.
Coleborn was leading the heat comfortably when the surfers were called in with nine minutes remaining.
“I’d just completed a wave when I heard the commentators call us all in so I knew immediately it was a shark sighting – I paddled as fast as I could and it definitely rattled me when they called us in…. “
[Link: Sunshine Coast Daily]
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According to LiveNews.com.au Koby Abberton has been asking his girlfriend Tahyna Tozzi to marry him repeatedly, but the girl keeps saying no.
“I ask her to marry me every single day, but she keeps saying no,” he said. . . For her part, Tozzi tells News Limited Abberton was far from the ruffian his reputation suggested. . . . “I’m not saying Koby is an innocent angel – because I know he can be a boy – but to me he’s just a teddy bear,” she said. . . . Abberton is due to face court next month after being charged with assault in a recent Hawaiian bar brawl.
What could possibly be stopping her?
[Link: LiveNews.com.au]
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From the Daily Telegraph:
A BODYBOARDER could get a bravery award after desperately trying to save his mate’s life when a boy was mauled to death by a shark on the NSW North Coast today.
The 16-year-olds were surfing at Lighthouse Beach, near the mouth of the Richmond River, at Ballina, when the victim Peter Edmonds was grabbed by the left leg.
The boy’s friend Brock Curtis-Mathew told paramedics he heard his mate Edmonds cry for help and immediately paddled over to help.With no sign of the shark and blood pooling around them, the young bodyboarder then bravely paddled his Edmonds 75m to shore.
During the ordeal Edmonds passed out, forcing Curtis-Mathew to take his weight and drag him through the shallows on to the shore.
The youngster then used Edmond’s mobile phone to call for help.
However, by the time paramedics and a lifesaver arrived the boy had bled to death.
[Link: The Daily Telegraph]
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