The La Jolla Light presents this continuing series of online activities to undertake on your computer or tablet during your quarantine quandary, as well as local in-person events as we emerge from the COVID-19 pandemic.
The La Jolla Light presents this continuing series of online activities to undertake on your computer or tablet during your quarantine quandary, as well as local in-person events as we emerge from the COVID-19 pandemic.
“Everyone has a Butch story.”
So says author Douglas Cavanaugh about surfer Butch Van Artsdalen. And so says Carl Ekstrom. And Mike Hynson. And Hank Warner. And Melinda Merryweather. And members of the Windansea Surf Club.
To share their stories, Cavanaugh wrote and recently published “Remembering Butch: The Butch Van Artsdalen Story,” a biography about the surf legend who rode the waves at Ehukai Beach in Hawaii known as the Banzai Pipeline and lived in La Jolla for five years and surfed at Windansea Beach. He died at age 38 in 1979.
“When I get into something, I get into the history,” Cavanaugh said. “In the mid-1990s, I watched a surfing documentary that had a small segment on Butch. At the end of his part, it said he died at 38 from alcoholism. To drink yourself to death at 38 is jaw-dropping, so I wanted to know more about how he got to that point.”
By City News Service
Mar 13, 2021
SANTA ANA (CNS) - The trustee overseeing Ruby s Diner Inc. s Chapter 7 proceedings is suing the chain s co-founders and former officers in Santa Ana, alleging the pair drove the restaurant group into bankruptcy after improperly taking the company s assets and seeking at least $35 million in damages.
The complaint, filed Thursday in federal bankruptcy court by trustee Richard Marshack, alleges the chain s insolvency was caused by Douglas Cavanaugh and Ralph Kosmides due to a series of improper decisions.
An RDI representative could not immediately be reached for comment after regular business hours.
According to the suit, RDI owned and operated the Ruby s Diner restaurant chain, which Cavanaugh and Kosmides started in Newport Beach in 1982 and grew to include over 40 locations. The company declared bankruptcy in 2018 when it owed over $14 million to its creditors, the suit says.