From the Editor
SURFING YORK BEACH, MAINE. For surfers, the Thanksgiving holiday was about more than turkey dinner and family gatherings around the house. With surf estimated at 20 feet, an unidentified surfer enjoys a holiday ride on a wave at Short Sands Beach.
Photo Courtesy of Tom Callan
Surf City, Part II
This Thursday night at 6 p.m. at the York Beach Fire station, the town of York and its responsible surfer citizens have the chance to do something right. After an often contentious summer surf season, which culminated in a series of unfortunate standoffs between surfers and the town, The York Parks and Recreation department is sponsoring an informational meeting on ways to address the town's existing surfing ordinances. They should be applauded for it, and concerned surfers and citizens should make sure to take advantage of the opportunity.As we have written before, the sport of surfing has the potential for being an enormously positive element to the overall health and vibrancy of the town of York. No longer a sport just for wild youngsters, surfing has become a family sport, with many of its local practitioners being well into their 40s and 50s. We expect that these folks will have no shortage of suggestions on how to responsibly improve the current ordinances, and we look forward to the open and positive dialogue that we expect will occur on Thursday night.
The end of last summer was a community wipeout that none of us want to visit again. Now's the right time to get back on our boards and start paddling. Be there, aloha.
