Seattle’s Row for the Cure® honored with Komen Group Volunteer Award
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SEATTLE, Jan. 28, 2007 -- Seattle’s Row for the Cure® has been named the 2007 recipient of the Susan G. Komen for the Cure’s Puget Sound Affiliate Group Volunteer Award. The annual award, which recognizes a group that works together to benefit the local affiliate, was presented by Dr. Eric Taylor, board member of Susan G. Komen for the Cure’s Puget Sound Affiliate to Penny Lewis of Seattle’s Row for the Cure® and Erin Effman of Pocock Racing Shells at the affiliate’s annual meeting, Wednesday, at the Fairmount Olympic Hotel in Seattle. |
Photo Courtesy Mike McQuaid
Dr. Eric Taylor, (left) board
member of Susan G. Komen for the Cure’s Puget Sound Affiliate,
Penny Lewis of Row for theCure and Erin Effman of Pocock Racing
Shells accept the annual Group Volunteer Award at the local
affiliate’s annual meeting, Wednesday, at the Fairmount Olympic
Hotel in Seattle. Seattle’s Row for the Cure™ raised a total of
$50,000 through its 2006 regatta.
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The Seattle rowing community’s annual third-party fundraiser for Susan G. Komen for the Cure raised a total of $50,000 through its 2006 regatta and since its inception in 2000, has raised over $170,000 in the fight against breast cancer.
In 2006, 350 competitors including 15 current and former U.S. national team rowers, 24 paddlers in two Tulalip tribal canoes and corporate teams from Starbucks, Zymogenetics and the Seattle law firm of Lane Powell, took to the waters of Lake Union to compete in the annual breast cancer benefit.
“Row for the Cure® is an empowering, active and healthy and a tremendously beautiful event,” said Lynn Hagerman, Executive Director of Susan G. Komen for the Cure’s Puget Sound Affiliate. “Row for the Cure® taps into Seattle and Puget Sound’s rowing and maritime culture, and brings people together to participate in finding a cure for breast cancer,” she added. “We value this partnership and are grateful to the Row for the Cure® committee and participants for their support.”
About Row for the Cure®Row for the Cure® (www.RowForTheCure.com) regattas are third-party events benefiting local affiliates of Susan G. Komen for the Cure. Since the regatta’s inception in 1994 on Portland’s Willamette River, Row for the Cure® has expanded to 11 U.S. cities, raising more than $500,000 in the fight to eradicate breast cancer as a life threatening disease. USRowing, RegattaCentral® and Pocock Racing Shells are official partners of Row for the Cure® regattas across the United States.
Row for the Cure® in Seattle is made possible through the generous support of Pocock Racing Shells, Starbucks Coffee, H.D. Fowler Company, Lane Powell, Seattle Breast Center and NW Hospital, Zymogenetics, Columbia Bank, Shoreline Bank, Snyder Hartung Kane and Strauss, KING Television, the George Pocock Rowing Foundation and RegattaCentral.
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