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 Festival 2003 - June 14

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NEWS RELEASES


FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE June 15, 2003

84 local dragon boat teams
all winners for good cause

PETERBOROUGH — Survivors Abreast executive is pleased to announce the winner of the dragon boat festival held yesterday at Del Crary Park on Little Lake. The Dragon Flyers, from the Recreation and Ministries division won the champion final for the third year, beating out their competitors from the other five divisions. The Dragon Flyers won the 400 meter race with a time of 1:56:19. The TAS Griffins from the Education and Government division place second, Team Synergy, Medical division, third, Americredit Dragons for Life, Finance division, fourth, Willow Creek Cursaders, Service and Community division, fifth, and C.W. Stewart Travel, New Business division, placed sixth. Winner of the women’s division with 20 teams competing, was Twohey’s “A” Women’s Hockey team with a time of 2:01:68.

Organizers are astounded and grateful at the tally for the pledge money at $126,000 and still rising. A final figure will be released in a few weeks once the revenue and expenses for the festival are finalized and Survivors Abreast is ready to present a cheque to the Breast Assessment Center at the PRHC.

The team who raised the most pledge money is Survivors Abreast—$7,457 and Dave Nicholls of the team Dave and the Puronaughts, is the individual who of the raised the most pledge money— $3,360.

This year’s festival sponsors included Kawartha Credit Union, the platinum sponsor: the 17 dealers of the local advertising group for Chrysler-Dodge-Jeep as gold sponsor; CHEX/Kruz/Wolf, in-kind gold media sponsor, Saturn Isuzu of Peterborough, Mark's Work Wearhouse ,Country 105, Americredit, Shirley McDowell/Re/Max, Cosburns Hobby Depot Ltd., Minute Maid, Peterborough This Week, Nurse Emission Testing and Repair, Coach Canada, Price Chopper, Tim Hortons, The Peterborough Examiner and the Electric City Gardens.


FOR MORE INFORMATION ABOUT THIS RELEASE:

Carol Mutton
Communications
(705) 755-3101 or (705) 292-0015


Peterborough's Dragon Boat Festival

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE January 14, 2003

Local dragon boat festival getting bigger and faster

PETERBOROUGH - Organizers of Peterborough's Dragon Boat Festival on June 14, 2003, are planning for a two-thirds increase in the number of teams competing in this summer's races, plus shorter, faster races.

Planners hope to increase the number of competing teams to 84 this summer from 50 teams last year, shortening the course to 400 metres from 450 to increase the action and keep the races moving, and doubling the number of boats available for racing.

Instead of four dragon boats, the festival will rent eight boats to cut in half the time between races. Four teams can be moving into starting positions as four teams are finishing.

"This year, the final championship race in the afternoon will be fast and furious," said Len Minty, festival planner and coach of Survivors Abreast. "We're shortening the final race to 200 metres and putting six boats abreast with the teams going flat out all the way."

Another change is the addition of two new community-minded festival sponsors: the members of the local Chrysler dealer advertising group (gold sponsor contributing $10,000), Price Choppers (contributing all the water for an estimated 1,800 participants) and Mark's Work Wearhouse (contributing product up to $2500).

The platinum ($15,000) sponsor of the festival for the second year is Kawartha Credit Union. Other returning sponsors include Saturn Isuzu of Peterborough, Americredit, Nurse Emission Testing and Repair, Street Side Media Inc., The Peterborough Examiner, Cosburn's Hobby Depot Ltd. and CHEX TV and the Wolf/980 KRUZ.

"I'm delighted that Kawartha Credit Union is supporting this popular and worthy community event," said Robert Wellstood, Kawartha Credit Union CEO. "It gives us a chance to demonstrate our commitment as a caring company and to help improve the well-being of the community where we work and live."

Teams in the festival can be any group from communities listed in the Lindsay, Peterborough and Surrounding Area Bell Telephone Directory.

As in the past, all money raised during the festival stays in the area to help purchase diagnostic equipment for the regional hospital's Breast Assessment Centre.

In 2002, the festival tripled the money raised from $25,000 in 2001 to more than $84,000. "The community and the dragon boaters just took our original 2002 goal of $50,000 and went way over the top with it," said Meredith Cosburn, president and founder of Survivors Abreast, a dragon boat team made up entirely of women who have survived breast cancer.

This summer, Survivors Abreast will once again take on three teams of breast cancer survivors from outside the area in a special race, which will be followed by a remembrance ceremony.

And again this year, a special plaque will be presented to the dragon boat team with the most pledge money. The plaque, in memory of the late Dr. Richard Jarosonek, is on display in the Peterborough Clinic.

As well, Saturn will once again hold its customer appreciation day in Del Crary Park to further support the festival.

Registration packages will be available March 3 at the Kawartha Credit Union, 1054 Monaghan Road, Peterborough. Registration fees start at $600 with one practice.

For more information about the festival, please contact Meredith Cosburn at 745-8422 or meredith.cosburn@sympatico.ca. For inquiries about registration, please contact Susan Miller at 743-9253.

FOR MORE INFORMATION ABOUT THIS RELEASE
Contact Carol Mutton at 292-0015 or 755-2019

Photo Gallery 2003
Click here for pictures from the 2003 Dragon Boat Festival


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