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Author Topic: Tacoma Dragon Boat Association - makes the Seattle Times.  (Read 3353 times)
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« on: July 28, 2006, 06:32:48 PM »
Hi, Paddlers-

Here's a link to an article about Tacoma Dragon Boat Association in the Seattle Times yesterday (July 27,2006).

This article describes how this group now dragon boat paddles 5 times a week  on Lake Union in Seattle WA, after starting out in Tacoma in 2001.

They interview my friend Lee Bjorklund.  Tacoma uses the Hawaiian word "pau" to mean "stop" - since coach Clem Corbiel used Hawaiian outrigger language to train the Tacoma dragon boat teams, even though Clem is a native Albertan from Canada who used to race flatwater canoe against Hugh Fisher in the Canadian canoe organizations.

http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/outdoors/2003153650_nwwboatcolumn27.html

 
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