It’s Your Life : Local Wave Riders, Inventor to Be on CNN

CNN headquarters in Atlanta sent a TV crew to Ventura last week for a piece on Call of the Wind, a unique pager designed by Jim Martin of Ventura.

Although an air date is not yet set, CNN will probably show the clip sometime this month on “Future World,” which runs at 12:30 p.m. Sundays.

Call of the Wind alerts wind surfers to favorable wind conditions so they can hit the water and never miss a wind-surfing opportunity.

“You don’t waste time anymore trying to figure out when or where the wind is blowing,” says stockbroker Morgan Webber, a self-described “addict” of the sport.

The CNN piece will include several locals. CNN producer David L. George caught Webber and restaurateur Chang Liampetchakul receiving a wind alert at work. Cut to action of them off Surfer’s Point.

Budding wind surfer Donna Landeros--between breezes, Ventura’s new city manager--was also taped.

“Chang convinced them that I am really a wonderful [wind] surfer,” Landeros says. “All I know is if there’s enough wind for it to show up on [the pager], I shouldn’t be out there.”