JANUARY NEWSLETTER

Happy New Year 2021!

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happy nude year

COVID-19 Update

Sunsport is open to guests.
The Covid 19 Virus Pandemic is spreading in Palm Beach County. The safety of the members of the Sunsport community and guests is paramount. At this time, there have been no known cases at Sunsport. However the virus is asymptomatic; we are taking all precautions.
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Remember staying six feet away from other people and wear a mask when applicable.

    January is a wonderful month at Sunsport
    We have a reunion with our many friends from the North. This year we have many new visitors as well. In November, 2020, Sunsport gained 14 new year round members. possibly a record number.
    January is the month when members can sign up for seasonal sites and cabin and trailer rentals for next year with members getting choices based upon their length of stay. Don't miss this opportunity to select the site or accommodation you want. A list of available sites is in the office.
    see reservation document at the end of the newsletter.

    Check out our website!
    Get the latest on our commitment to Naturism, Permaculture, Health, Nutrition, Spirituality and Community.

    Rentals

    To see pictures and descriptions of all our rentals and a map of locations.....go here.
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    Meet the Board

    On Thursday, the 14th, individual members have an opportunity to Meet the Board to ask questions, make suggestions, or simply comment. This year Board members will participate by Zoom. Members should come to Morley's trailer wearing a mask. Please sign up in the office for your 15 minute time period. Time periods start at 8pm.

    Community Happenings

    Movie Night

    Saturday movie nights replacing dances remains very popular. Movies begin at 8:30 pm in the pavilion. The movies are now shown on a new large television screen .
    Popcorn is provided,

    Daily Events

    Ongoing activities include daily afternoon Petanque at 2, Water Aerobics Monday, Wednesday, and Friday mornings at 10, morning pickleball.

    Monthly Drum Circle

    The January 1st First Friday Community Drum Circle is ON!
    The drumming leaders will remind people to wear masks and social distance 6 feet apart. We are reinstituting the Drum Circles due to confidence that drummers and dancers will respect their own safety and the safety of others.

    Due to increased costs, daily ground fees have been increased by $2 beginning January 1st. The new rates are $29 per day, $24 per day for people affiliated with national naturist organizations (e.g. AANR, TNSF), and $8 for young adults aged 18-30 with a student ID. Children continue to be free.

    This year Holiday events were abbreviated and altered due to the pandemic. On Christmas Day, there was a socially distanced community pot luck meal with gifts for all of Sunsport's children. Also, Vickie Wesby organized a remote gift swap.

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    The second weekend in December the Winter Wonderland weekend for young adults took place with masks and social distancing. The weekend was lots of fun with a drum circle, workshops, water play and bands playing poolside. There was a large turn out with many returnees as well as first timers. One of the objectives of the young adult weekends is to introduce new young people to naturism. It was a great success. It was a pleasure to see naturists of all ages intermingling and having fun together.

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    Sunsport grown Vegetables!

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    The restaurant will reopen for lunches during season when attendance warrants.
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    Sunsport's restaurant, the Naturally Nude Cafe, is seeking a part time cook and server. If interested, you can get an application form in the office.
    Sunsport's restaurant, the Naturally Nude Cafe, is now serving with limited seating space in addition to its take out and delivery service.

    Call 561-485-5554 to place an order.

    Now people from outside Sunsport can order delicious and healthful food from the Naturally Nude Cafe through Uber-Eats. That should help people in the community become more aware of Sunsport.
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    Sunsport has an amazing staff

    The Maintenance and Grounds Team led by Roger Byrd keep everything safe and functioning smoothly, not an easy task. Recently, a new rental cabin on wheels has been completed and the clubhouse roof has been resurfaced. You may have noticed the beautiful plantings and the smoothness of the roads.
    Loreida Jones is creating delicious and healthful meals in the Naturally Nude Cafe, sometimes using produce grown at Sunsport.
    The Office Team led by Theressa Frazier does an amazing job of finding spots for everyone and overseeing the funds.
    We all appreciate how the Housekeeping Team. Daniel Watier and his staff keep the showers, rest rooms, community buildings, and rental units incredibly clean. Most important are our community members and guests whose spirit inspires us all.
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    Reminder:
    Please help recycle. Place clean paper and cardboard in the yellow bins and cans, plastics (except bags, styrofoam, and utensils), and bottles in the blue bins. Leave word in the office if you need yellow and blue totes or small bins which can be placed roadside near your site for pick-up. Most important, place large items such as platforms and furniture near, but not in, the dumpster. Place only bagged garbage in the dumpster.

    To help Sunsport and the environment, *please deposit aluminum cans in a special bin with a round hole in the top in the main recycling area.
    • The yellow containers are for paper and flattened cardboard
    • The blue containers are for aluminum cans*, glass, juice boxes, and plastics except styrofoam, bags, and utensils.
    • Deposit other trash in the large grey or black trash bins with tops.
    Please secure all trash cans tightly since raccoons are skilled at opening containers and making large messes. Thanks.

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    ArtBox Gallery

    The Art Gallery is becoming the cultural hub of Sunsport.

    Watch the progress here as Sunsport's Art Gallery comes to life;

    see curator Theresa Frazier for information.

    Lester "Tex" Reutter

    Lester "Tex" Reutter at age 100 passed away in his sleep in December. Tex was much loved by many people as evidenced by the large attendance at his annual New Year's Day parties and his last birthday party which filled the pavilion. Tex was the longest time member of Sunsport, always active, making many contributions.

    He was in charge of maintenance and grounds for Hugo Forrester and served as a Board member. He gave tennis lessons and organized the annual April Showers tennis tournaments and Wiggle Waggle Bingo. He led tours of Sunsport's natural areas during Midwinter Naturist Festivals. He also served informally as a club historian.

    He will be missed.

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    N Magazine

    The most recent issue of N Magazine (39.4/40.01), published by the Naturist Society Foundation, had seven articles about events at Sunsport and many photos. Thanks to Olivia Cruz, Richard Keyes, August Stritt, Karl Harris, Zachary Williams, and Rochelle Gold for the well written articles. Sunsport supports the Naturist Society Foundation's important work to educate people about naturism and expand opportunities for clothing-optional recreation.

    sunsport winter festival
    Sunsport's largest event, the Mid winter Naturist Festival, is coming soon, February 11th-16th. Camping sites and a few accommodation rentals are still available. Call Sunsport's office at 561-793-0423 to make a deposit for a reservation. Dry camping is always available. The registration form and a full schedule of workshops and activities is on Sunsport's website. Please send in your registration form now. Special Festival ground fees for people outside the immediate area increase February 1st. Sunsport always shines for the Festival thanks to the efforts of our dedicated staff and the many volunteers from the Sunsport community.

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    Permaculture Sunsport News

    Sunsport's Bananas

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    Check out our resort map to help navigate the hiking trails.
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    Some of our varieties:
    Blue Java
    aka Ice Cream
    Raja Puri
    Mysore
    Praying Hands
    Kandrian
    Saba
    Brazilian
    Pisang Ceylon........

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    Jamaican Red dwarf
    LacaTan
    FHIA-01 - Goldfinger
    Double Mahoi
    Dwarf Cavendish
    Dwarf Namwah
    Apple - Manzana
    Hua Moa
    Burro Banana
    Dwarf Puerto Rican Plantain
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    Hey What is Permaculture?

    Geoff Farmer:
    Permaculture is a philosophy of design for creating a sustainable human culture. That is, it's a way of thinking about how we set up the support systems around us: shelter, food, water, energy, society and business. Well designed permaculture systems allow us to live as a beneficial part of the ecosystems around us.


    Join our FaceBook page for more details and meetings of the Sunsport Permaculture & Community Garden Group .
    https://www.facebook.com/groups/permaculture.sunsport/

    Art & Naturism.......naturist spirited art

    A Forgotten Twentieth-Century Photographer’s Wild Portraits of Women in Nature

    To capture her images of female nudes in natural landscapes, Anne Brigman sometimes set up camp for weeks or months at a time, eight thousand feet up in the Sierra Nevada. “Where I go is wild—hard to reach . . . because there [are] things in life to be expressed in these places,” she wrote to a Vanity Fair reporter, in 1916. Brigman would load her heavy camera equipment into stagecoaches that picked their way through the Sacramento Valley and up the American River

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    Canyon, then finish her journey using pack mules to ascend to Donner Pass or into Desolation Valley. Her sister Elizabeth and a selection of friends often accompanied her, and together they would camp, hike, cavort, and pose for Brigman’s pictures.

    The work Brigman created on those sojourns made her a groundbreaking early-twentieth-century photographer. She was an artist who helped shape American modernist, feminist, and landscape photographic traditions—and was one of the first women to photograph herself in the nude. She showed her first photographs in San Francisco, in 1902, and a year later was anointed by Alfred Stieglitz, who awarded her membership in his Photo-Secession movement.

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    “Heart of the Storm,” circa 1912
    She published poetry and art criticism. Yet her work fell into obscurity after her death at the age of eighty-one in 1950.
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    “The Pool,” circa 1906
    This spring, an exhibition of her photographs, organized by Ann M. Wolfe of the Nevada Museum of Art, was scheduled to travel to N.Y.U.’s Grey Art Gallery. It was cancelled, along with almost all of New York City’s cultural events. It’s difficult to measure exactly where the loss of a single art exhibition registers on this year’s unfurling ledgers of terror. Yet I confess to taking this one hard. Brigman’s spectacular, little-known work has already waited too long to be seen.t this to insert text.
    The soft nude bodies in Brigman’s photographs twist and contort, pushed up against the trunk of the tangled juniper trees that are common in the harsh environment of the High Sierras; she captures knees sliding along rough granite, skin exposed to wind and cold.

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    Drum Circle

    This months Friday evening,
    January 1st monthly Community Drum Circle is ON!!!

    Please Support These Important Organizations

    Fighting for Our Freedoms

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    The Naturist Society Foundation

    Vision: Creating a clothing-optional world where your body does not define who you are.Mission: Promoting a culture of body acceptance through clothing-optional recreation, education, and community outreach.Values: Naturism, Understanding, Diversity, Education
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    The Naturist Action Committee is the political adjunct to The Naturist Society Foundation. NAC exists to advance and protect the rights and interests of naturists throughout North America, and supports the responsible recreational nude use of public lands.

    The Naturist Education Foundation is the nonprofit informational and educational adjunct to The Naturist Society Foundation and is dedicated to improving the awareness of naturism and body acceptance among both naturists and non-naturists, including business leaders, legislators, and the college community. NEF seeks to achieve an understanding and acceptance of naturists and their activities throughout North America.
    NAC and NEF are 501(c) nonprofit corporations.
    American Association for Nude Recreation
    Our Mission: Simply put, we exist “To advocate nudity and nude recreation in appropriate settings while educating and informing society of their value and enjoyment.”
    The American Association for Nude Recreation is the largest, most long-established organization of its kind in North America. With roots dating to 1931, we have grown from our humble beginnings to an organization that has served 213,000 individuals throughout the United States, Canada, Mexico and beyond. These members enjoy their own backyards and pools with family and friends, as well as over 180 nudist resorts and affiliates.
    the Federation of Canadian Naturists
    The Federation of Canadian Naturists (FCN) is Canada’s national nudist organization. Along with the Fédération québécoise de naturisme (FQN), the FCN represents and promotes the naturist lifestyle as wholesome, healthy, and enjoyable.

    Our Mission Statement

    The Federation of Canadian Naturists is a member-supported, not for profit organization dedicated to fostering a greater understanding, acceptance and appreciation of naturism as a way of life throughout Canada.
    B.E.A.C.H.E.S.
    Beach Education Advocates for Culture, Health, Environment & Safety (B.E.A.C.H.E.S.) Foundation Institute aims at establishing amicable and mutually beneficial working partnerships with government, business, naturist beach advocacy groups and the public to design, establish and manage designated clothing-optional or naturist areas at public beaches.
    B.E.A.C.H.E.S. Foundation is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit corporation, former Miami-Dade County Parks, Recreation and Open Spaces Department Programming Partner for Haulover Beach and an adjunct of South Florida Free Beaches (SFFB), founders of Haulover Beach’s naturist section in 1991.
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