Posted: Friday, May 29th, 2020
“Feel Good Friday.” Support Local Words and Waves.
By Visit Ventura
It seems like an odd combination, but it’s not really. Ventura is home to world class waves that will send your heart soaring, and equally uplifting writers whose words will do the same. Writers like Woody Woodburn and Roger Thompson and Jeff McElroy. Waves like C Street, the Rivermouth, and Rincon. No surprise that some of the writers are surfers too. “Feel Good Fridays” are about Supporting Local, and this Friday we’ve decided to take a somewhat left of center tack. Yes, Visit Ventura has been working hard to do our part to help all our local friends through these difficult times. We started “Takeout Tuesdays” (for our restaurants), and “Thirsty Thursdays” (for our breweries/wineries/spirits/and even chocolatiers). “Feel Good Fridays” are the next right step — and they’re as simple as they look. Pick a Friday (or honestly, any day of the week), and do what you can to support a local business. This time around, we’re asking Venturans to cast an eye toward our local surf shops, book stores, writers, and — in a collective writing sense — our community newspaper, the one-and-only Ventura Breeze. At their roots, they’re all small businesses. And, like so many small businesses, they are all labors of love. No one at the Harvard Business School ever stood at the podium and said, “Invest everything in a surf shop” or “Publish a community newspaper,” but, thankfully, many Venturan’s don’t walk the conventional path and life isn’t just about the ledger. Not many PricewaterhouseCoopers accountants can walk away from their desk when there’s a swell, and their life is the poorer for it.![“Feel Good Friday.” Support Local Words and Waves. “Feel Good Friday.” Support Local Words and Waves.](https://visitventuraca.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/07/49566345118_9a9369464c_o-1-scaled.jpg)
Master craftsman, Steve Walden of Walden Surfboards, shapes a “Made in Ventura” board
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Image by Steve Cattanach
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