AFFILIATED NATIONALLY WITH JANUARY 2013 SERVING THE NATURIST COMMINUTY FOR OVER ELEVEN YEARS VOL. 12 NO. 01 ALLEN BAYLIS WINS SCNA ANKH AWARD AT ANNUAL HOLIDAY EVENT SCNA EVENTS IN JANUARY 2013 VALENTINA ARIZO WINS ROBIN MARTIN VOLUNTEER AWARD, JIM CARTER IS NEW Saturday-Sunday January 12-13 MEMBER OF THE YEAR. Travel Trade Show Booth, Long Beach Saturday January 19, 12 Noon - 5PM This year our annual holiday party was held at The Mandarin Nude at the Getty Museum King Restaurant on Sunday 12/16. Twenty-five people attended on a rainy day in Northridge. Monthly Meet-up Dinner Meetings Tuesday, January 8, 6:45 – 8:30 PM, Van Nuys The meal consisted of appetizers (Chinese Chicken Salad, Egg Monday January 21, 6:45 – 8:30 PM, Pasadena Rolls, and Egg Flower or Hot & Sour Soup) followed by five Wednesday, January 23, 6:45 – 8:30 PM, Torrance main dishes: Sweet & Sour Pork, Moo Goo Gai Pai, Mongolian There is no Meet-up in Ventura or West LA this month. Beef, Shrimp with Lobster Sauce. Mandarin Soft Noodles, and Fried & Steamed Rice. All were delicious. SCNA EVENTS IN FEBRUARY 2013 President Rolf Holbach then welcomed everyone to the party Sunday February 3, Noon - 7:00 PM and gave a short summary of the accomplishments and activities Annual Super Bowl Party/Chili Cook-off, North Hills achieved by SCNA during 2012. He then announced our annual Saturday February 23, 2:30 PM – 5:30 PM award winners: Nude Bowling, Montrose First, 10 Year Membership Certificates were awarded to Joe Monthly Meet-up Dinner Meetings Rubin, Valentina Arizo, and Bob Rubin. Rachel Smith was Tuesday, February 12, 6:45 – 8:30 PM, Van Nuys awarded the “Rubber Chicken Award” for being best potluck Monday February 18, 6:45 – 8:30 PM, Pasadena cook. Jim Carter received the New Member of the Year Award. Wednesday, February 27, 6:45 – 8:30 PM, Torrance He then presented Valentina “Paki” Arizo with the Robin Martin There is no Meet-up in Ventura or West LA this month. Volunteer of the Year Award. The most important Ankh Award was given to Allen Baylis of the Naturist Action Committee who has been extremely helpful to SCNA with legal advice and in our Santa Barbara beaches campaign. Unfortunately Allen could not make the luncheon, so we will give it to him at the Western Gathering this summer. Allen did express his gratitude by phone: “Sometimes you think you are alone sticking your neck out [on the beach and nudity issues] as we so often do. So I am grateful to SCNA for this award and knowing someone out there cares.” Last, Rolf made some Special Presidential Citation Awards to each of the members of the Board for their tireless volunteer work during the year and helping with the transition in leadership from Gary to Rolf. After the awards were all presented, we proceeded to the raffle. President Rolf Holbach welcomes members to annual holiday party. Twelve “sitting” towels donated by AANR-West were drawn for © COPYRIGHT 2013, SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA NATURIST ASSOCIATION, A NON-PROFIT first. No doubt we will see them all in use next summer! The 501(C)(7) CORPORATION, CALABASAS, CALIFORNIA, USA. ALL RIGHTS RESERVED. wine and cheese basket went to Akila (who gave it to Zee), and IMAGES AND TEXT ARE THE PROPERTY OF SCNA AND CANNOT BE REPRODUCED WITHOUT the year’s membership in The Naturist Society was won by Bob ADVANCED WRITTEN PERMISSION. Rubin. CONTINUED ON PAGE 2 SCNA Newsletter for January 2013 Page 1 of 10 HOLIDAY PARTY PHOTO ALBUM TEXT CONTINUED FROM PAGE 1 Then we moved to everyone’s favorite part of the party, the white elephant gift exchange. A mechanical talking parrot was the funniest item opened and it exchanged hands several times before Bill Caskie finally got the bird. The other item that was passed around the most was a Starbucks gift card. There were also books, candles, coffee cups, and a dish set exchanged. Everyone walked out with something, which helped make the day a great success. Award winners (above, top to bottom) are Valentina (Robin Martin Award), Jim Carter Enjoying their meal (top photo) are Oscar, Joe, Bob, Brian, and Bill. In the (New member of the Year), and Rachel Smith bottom photo are Akila, Amy, Zee, Tim, and Paki. (Rubber Chicken – Best Potluck Cook). SCNA Newsletter for January 2013 Page 2 of 10 OTHER SCNA NEWS JOHN HARVANCHIK PLACES 4TH IN SENIOR BOWLING CHAMPIONSHIP John Harvanchik came in 4th Place overall in the California State Senior Bowling Association tournament held 11/26/2012 in Modesto, CA. John's high score was 256, with a combined 3-game score of 708 for 3 games (236 average). His 4th place was achieved by combining his scores in the singles, doubles, and team competition with a total 2167 points. The winner scored only 57 more pins than John. VOLUNTEERS NEEDED FOR JANUARY TRADE SHOW BOOTH Rolf and Gary with some of the 500 pounds of donated clothes and dry goods. The weekend of January 12-13 is the annual Adventure Travel Show being held at the Long Beach Convention Center. SCNA SCNA DONATES “CLOTHES OFF needs volunteers to help staff the AANR booth there. We will distribute AANR and SCNA literature and talk to attendees OUR BACKS” TO LOCAL CHARITY about nude recreation in the Los Angeles area. As many as 12/21/2012 - Just in time for Christmas, SCNA today made a 50,000 visitors are expected. Call us at (818) 225-2273 if you large donation of clothes and dry goods to the Cancer Control can spare a few hours to help; or, if you plan to go to the show, Society. stop by the booth and say hello. An estimated 500 pounds were collected from members between November 10 and December 9 as part of a nationwide SCNA ADDS YOUNG NATURIST event promoted by the American Association for Nude Recreation (AANR). AFFILIATION TO MASTHEAD “Who better to donate clothes for charity than a nudist The Young Naturists of America (YNA) organization and organization?” said SCNA President Rolf Holbach of Altadena. SCNA have agreed to become mutually affiliated effective at “I want to express my deep thanks to all the members who once. The announcement was made jointly by SCNA President contributed to our annual drive.” Rolf Holbach and YNA chair Felicity Jones in New York. The Cancer Control Society, located in West Los Angeles near “We've always been open to having YNA members join in our Vermont and Hollywood Blvd, distributes literature, books and activities and events,” said Holbach. “We are very pleased to videos to help patients prevent and control cancer and other formalize the relationship between the two organizations.” diseases through better nutrition and non-toxic therapies. The YNA was founded in 2009 expressly for nudists under age 30 clothing will be distributed to the patients. so they could enjoy their own age group away from the existing clubs and organizations. Under this new agreement, card- WEST L.A. RESTAURANT FIRE carrying YNA members now can get into any SCNA backyard pool party for $5/person instead of the $20 charged to other CAUSES MEETUPS THERE TO guests. The YNA logo now appears on the masthead of the BE CANCELLED FOR JANUARY SCNA newsletter and also on the SCNA home page. The West LA Grill in Santa Monica Blvd, formerly known as Dolores Restaurant and the location of our SCNA monthly Meetups, was struck by flames on Christmas Eve. Fortunately there were no injuries, and the blaze was extinguished in under a half hour. The cause of the fire is currently unknown, but the restaurant is now closed indefinitely for repair. As a result SCNA must cancel its monthly Meetup dinners there (usually the third Thursday of each month) until either the restaurant re-opens, or we can find a suitable replacement spot for our Meetup. We will keep you updated on our website Activities page, and also on Meetup at www.meetup.com/nature-519/. SCNA Newsletter for January 2013 Page 3 of 10 OTHER NUDIST NEWS NUDIST REPS MEET WITH SANTA BARBARA COUNTY OFFICIAL ABOUT LOCAL BEACHES 12/5/2012 – Gary Mussell (past SCNA president) and Walt Stephens (AANR-West GAT Chair) had a meeting this afternoon with Eric Friedman, the Exec Assistant to Santa Barbara Supervisor Salud Carbajal, whose First District covers Carpinteria and Bates Beach. Gary, Walt, and Sonya met with him three years ago about re-opening the nude section of Bates Beach, and he expressed support after hearing our presentation about the positive economic impact the beach would have on the south county. Eric gave us a long list of key people in the county to talk to in order to seek their support. This is what we did during the 3 years, and now it was time to report back and take the next step. Attorney Allen Baylis (Naturist Action Committee) was NUDE SUNBATHERS ARE supposed to join us, but he got caught in court this morning in Huntington Beach and couldn’t make the long drive in time for BEACHLESS IN N.J. AFTER the meeting. So Walt and Gary made the 40-minute HURRICANE SUPERSTORM presentation. New Jersey’s nudists face the prospect of spending their 2013 We told Eric we never ran into any opposition from anyone we summer being naked only in private after October’s super storm spoke to (Tourist Association, local hotel and motel owners, Sandy devastated Lower New York Bay, including the popular Chamber members, local merchants, local police chiefs, park nudist beach at Sandy Hook, New Jersey (see map).