Photo by Craig Tooley.
The Sea Ranch Summer Sessions
The Sea Ranch Summer Sessions are almost here! Mingle with other Sea Ranchers: learn about local organizations that support our lives.
If you’re new to The Sea Ranch or just want an update on what’s going on, head to the Vision Committee’s Summer Sessions. There are two talks on the agenda this summer. Each will last about 20 minutes, with time left for mingling, snacks including popcorn and s’mores, and soft drinks and wine.
The first session is on Saturday, June 3rd from 4:00 – 5:30 pm, at The Hot Spot. Listen to David Susalla better known as Sus (pronounced Seuss), the current Executive Director of Gualala Arts. Sus will talk about the history of Gualala Arts, how Sea Ranchers have been involved in that history, current programs, and the challenges they face in their future.
Ever heard of the shakuhachi? Well, when you arrive you will find Karl Young performing on the Japanese bamboo flute. Karl, a former physicist, frequently performs at the Gualala Arts Center, as just one of their many top-notch musical offerings. Afterwards, Sus will speak.
Sus was born in 1967 during the Summer of Love in the middle of the Detroit Riots. He was raised in an artistic environment in Grosse Pointe Farms Michigan by his mom, teacher of art & home economics to middle school students for 38 years and his father who was a 2nd generation jeweler, raced sports cars and played jazz drums.
Sus put himself through accounting school by working in the catering industry in Detroit, met his wife Harmony traveling with the Grateful Dead, worked as a Controller for a securities broker dealer in the dot com days in San Francisco, moved to Gualala in 2001 with his Harmony and co-founded a wholesale organic cotton business called Harmony Art out of their Gualala home. Together they are honored to be a part of our special community for the past 20 plus years.
Sus started working for Gualala Arts January 1, 2002. He took over the helm as Executive Director in 2004 when Karel Metcalf retired from the previous 18 years as Director.
Sus has had the pleasure of working with hundreds of volunteers to present a wide range of programing over the years for our community. His personal goal is to make the Gualala Arts Center welcoming to all with Gualala Arts mission “to promote public interest and participation in the Arts, since 1961.”
Later in the summer, on Saturday, August 26th, from 4:00 – 5:30 pm at One-Eyed Jack’s is a session featuring Coast Life Support. Their District Administrator, Dave Crowl, has been a paramedic since 1993 and a student of emergency services. He will talk about the emergency services along 60 miles of our coastline, how Coast Life Support works with its partners, including first responder fire departments and helicopter services, RCMS, Mendonoma Health Alliance and others. And you’ll hear about other emergency services under Coast Life Support’s umbrella including Urgent Care, contracted to RCMS, and emergency training for EMTs and community members.
If you want to bring the kids there will be a COAST LIFE SUPPORT ambulance there for them to explore and see some of its equipment. And while parents are listening to the talk, kids can learn how to contact someone in an emergency and color a reminder for their refrigerator.
Lu Lyndon
Vision Committee
Sea Ranch Circle, Ohlson Beach. Photo by Jim Alinder.
Welcome to The Sea Ranch
In partnership with the Vision Committee, TSRA has recently revised “Welcome to The Sea Ranch,” a one-page document used in the past for local rental agents to send to their clients when they rent a Sea Ranch property, and post in those same rental houses. It’s short and to the point, talks of the beauty The Sea Ranch, but also explains some of the factors inherent in the area for all to be aware of, and lays out how all of us—owners as well as visitors–like to be treated by others while we’re here.
In doing so we realized this is a good time to also share this document with all Sea Ranch owners, whether they live here full time or not, to remember the Sea Ranch philosophy and how it applies to the way we try to live in this beautiful place–in harmony with the land, its plants and animals, as well as our neighbors and friends and those vacationing here.
This document will also be shared with local, regional and national rental agencies that do business at The Sea Ranch.
We are asking that those who rent their houses post this message in a prominent place in their rental house and include it with their rental information sent to people when they rent the house. If you don’t rent, but sometimes have family or friends visit you here, you may want to consider making this document available to them.
You can copy or cut out the document on the next page, download or print it at https://tsra.org/welcome-letter, or feel free to stop at the TSRA office and pick up a copy. Recent InfoAlerts also included information as well as a link to the document as a PDF file. Thank you.
Vision Committee