The Show will go on

The Show will go on

I am sure if you have been planning on competing or attending the Cape Kiwanda Longboard Classic this weekend, you have been watching the surf and weather forecast closely. It looks like this year is going to be one of the times where we must pay our dues to the Surf Gods. Big surf and unfavorable winds are what they are predicting. But as a couple of the competitors said to me via email "we are surfers not sissies" and "we love sloppy conditions or we wouldn't surf here" so the show will go on! Makes plans to be here and watch the competition, enjoy our beer garden, watch the Oregon Coast premiere of Compassing by Cyrus Sutton, eat tasty food from the Ribcage and Ben & Jeff's, listen to great music by 3 live bands, bid on surfboards and other products during the silent auction, win great prizes during the raffle, tour our vendor display area, and all of this under our 4,000 sq ft enclosed event tent! It's going to be a good time regardless of the conditions!

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“How would you describe the Cape Kiwanda Longboard Classic” is a question I get asked during interviews ahead of each year’s contest. The simple answer is to say that it’s a local surf contest put on by a dedicated group of volunteers. The truth is that the contest is something more than that. It has its own soul. It has a life that we and the organizers before us can’t take credit for. I would like to think we had something to do with it, but the reality is the Cape Kiwanda Longboard Classic has become something far beyond anything anyone ever imagined.

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Both cheers of support and loud laughter were heard throughout Pacific City this past weekend as surfers and spectators gathered on the beach to root on the participants in the annual Cape Kiwanda Longboard Classic. This year marks the 25th running of the beloved community event.
Started in 1998 by Bob and Michelle Ledbetter, the contest has grown to become a staple of the NW surf community. It not only attracts surfers throughout Oregon, but this year saw people from Canada, California, Washington and even Hawaii make the pilgrimage.