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Becker, Eaton shaped surfing SHARE Mike Eaton (far left) and Phil Becker (in straw hat) with fellow Peninsula surfers, Eddie Clark, Ricky Burns, Richie Clark, Jared Eaton and Frankie Shinn at the end with the zinc oxide nose. The picture was taken at Bluff Cove by May Clark, Eddie’s wife, around ‘54 or ‘55, according to the Eatons’ sister Ann (Eaton) Medve. Photo courtesy of Steve Mangiagli Phil Becker and Mike Eaton grew up on the Peninsula to become two of the most prolific and influential surfboard shapers in surfing history by Kevin Cody Phil Becker and Mike Eaton grew u...

Eaton’s passing follows fellow shaper Becker’s, by just 7 days SHARE Mike Eaton lines up at the start of the 2006 Hennessey's U.S. Paddleboard Championships in Hermosa Beach. He is paddling a Tom Blake kook box, like the board he learned to surf at Bluff Cove in 1950 . Photo by Kevin Cody by Kevin Cody Pioneer surfer and surfboard shaper Mike Eaton passed away at his home from a stroke on the Big Island of Hawaii last Thursday, at the age of 86. Eaton’s death came just seven days after his childhood friend, Big Island neighbor and fellow South Bay surfer and shaper Phil Becker...

Date Time Strategic approaches to managing frost risk and impact GRDC frost workshops to be held in Victoria, South Australia and Tasmania will cover all frost-related considerations for growers. Photo GRDC A series of workshops will be conducted across the southern cropping region this month to enable grain growers to better manage frost risk. The Grains Research and Development Corporation’s (GRDC) Better Frost Decisions workshops in Victoria, South Australia and Tasmania will explore the practical aspects of managing frost on-farm and will assist growers in developing locally...

Dagro consultant and grower Craig Drum, of Tatyoon, will be among the commentary panel of advisers at the GRDC Bendigo Grains Research Update. Photo:...

In his 1993 memoir, We Aspired: The Last Innocent Americans, writer Pete Sinclair evocatively chronicled a period of American history that between 1959 and 1969 saw the development of a remarkable archetype. This was a small, interconnected group of men (and a few even more adventurous women) who, turning their gaze from contemporary, societal norms of regimentation and attainment, chose rather to dedicate themselves to the pursuit of something less productive, more ephemeral, yet vastly more spiritually satisfying. Something that couldn’t be found wearing a tie or punching a clock, but onl...