Howie Hanson Column: All-city
high school musical begins Thursday
COMMUNITY NEWS
. Duluth’s All-City High School Musical Grease — featuring students from Denfeld, Central and East — opens at 7:30 p.m. Thursday at the Denfeld High School Auditorium. Tickets are $12 for adults, $10 for students and seniors.
. With more than 20,000 square feet of sail and thousands of nautical miles between them, three tall ships, the U.S. Brig Niagara, the Pride of Baltimore II and the Madeline will drop anchor on Thursday alongside Harbor Drive behind the Duluth Entertainment Convention Center. Read more.
. The Hermantown Community Fund, an affiliate fund of the Duluth Superior Area Community Foundation, is accepting grant applications through September 1, 2008. Read more.
LOCAL SPORTS
. Greg Carlson seems to be an ideal fit to serve as the College of St. Scholastica’s first head football coach. Read more.
. Brad Onofreychuk, facility manager at the new Duluth Heritage Sports Center, pinches himself each day he walks into the new multi-use recreational facility in Lincoln Park. Read more.
. The Duluth Rowing Club finished third at the 2008 Northwestern International Rowing Association Championship Regatta in Kenora, Ontario, last weekend. Read more.
DRAGON BOAT FESTIVAL IN THE NEWS
Friday is the registration deadline for the 2008 Lake Superior Dragon Boat Festival. So far, over 80 teams have registered for this year’s event — with openings still available.
Each team is comprised of a maximum of 25 members, which includes 1 Team Manager, 1 Drummer, 1 Steersperson, 20 paddlers and 2 alternates. As in other dragon boat competitions, each team must compete with a minimum of 8 women per-boat, per-race.
A wide variety of dragon boat teams are assembled every year — including businesses who put together teams as a team-building event and friendly competition with other local businesses, friends who put together teams for a fun weekend together, cancer survivors with the common bond of conquering their battle with cancer, Rotary organizations locally and from around the region, and many other teams.
Details about how to register your team for the festival can be found at www.lakesuperiordragons.com.
The Lake Superior Dragon Boat Festival is presented by Jamar and is the largest festival of its kind in the U.S. It is an annual fundraising event organized by the Superior Rotary Club, Harbortown Rotary Club of Duluth and Superior Sunrise.
The 2008 race will be held August 22-23 in the Superior Bay off Barker’s Island in Superior — and includes a traditional Dragon Boat race as well as music, food and beverage vendors and other entertainment.
Last year the festival raised over $100,000 for local charities and non-profit partner SMDC Breast Program. To date the festival has raised over $600,000 all of which has been donated back into the Duluth-Superior communities.
To find out more about the Lake Superior Dragon Boat Festival, or how to enter a team in the festival please visit: www.lakesuperiordragons.com
GOOD READ
Visit Duluth: You can join the crew of the U.S. Brig Niagara. Read more.