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Piper Spurrier, of Fort Dodge, and Kynadee Dodd, of Wisconsin, glide down the large slip-n-slide arrange on the hill overlooking Badger Lake through the Badger Lake Dragon Boat Bash on Saturday.
The 2022 Badger Lake Dragon Boat Bash ended with a photograph end — and a tie.
Within the finals of Division A, the Motley Crew, of Racine, Wisconsin; The NEW Cooperative Dragon Masters, of Fort Dodge; and the Cedar River Gang of Jap Iowa, have been neck-and-neck-and-neck because the groups paddled throughout Badger Lake.
In the long run, The Motley Crew and the Dragon Masters glided throughout the end line collectively, with a time of 97.4 seconds, or 1.623 minutes. The Cedar River Gang wasn’t far behind with a ending time of 98.1 seconds, or 1.635 minutes.
“If anyone wasn’t on the market on the finish of the day to see the final race, they missed most likely the most effective races I’ve been a part of in 25 years,” occasion co-chair Barb Michaels mentioned.
Although the joy was on the finish of the day, the principle occasion was the afternoon’s breast most cancers survivor ceremony. The Badger Lake Dragon Boat Bash celebrates and honors native ladies who’ve survived or are nonetheless combating breast most cancers. A silent public sale raised upwards of $5,000 for the Most cancers Middle at UnityPoint Well being — Trinity Regional Medical Middle to cowl uninsured wants of sufferers, in keeping with occasion co-chair Linda Donner.
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Members of the Combating Angels Abreast dragon boat staff paddle their means throughout Badger Lake on Saturday.
The occasion received its roots a few years in the past when Donner and Michaels, members of the Dawn Rotary Membership, began a clean-up occasion down the Des Moines River. After a number of years of that, the river received too low to race down, and the membership determined they have been able to move the occasion on to a different group. That’s what began the Badger Lake Dragon Boat Affiliation, Michaels mentioned.
“One of many different issues we’ve performed as a company is helped begin breast most cancers groups across the Midwest,” Michaels mentioned. “We began our personal breast most cancers staff, which supplies help to newly recognized ladies.”
Three groups of breast most cancers survivors competed on Saturday — Combating Angels Abreast, of Fort Dodge; Life is Bliss, of Ames; and KC Pink Warriors, of Kansas Metropolis.
“On the boat, nothing else exists, apart from that second,” Michaels mentioned through the breast most cancers survivor ceremony. “What a optimistic technique to expertise life, particularly for a survivor.”
The survivors have been all given pink carnations to toss within the lake in honor of these battling breast most cancers.
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The Dragoneirs, a youth dragon boat staff, was one in all two youth groups competing within the 2022 Badger Lake Dragon Boat Bash on Saturday at John F. Kennedy Memorial Park.
Within the boats, 20 paddlers, a drummer and a steerperson, work in unison to propel their vessels by the water.
“The important thing focus is teamwork, as a result of when you don’t work collectively, you may’t make issues occur,” Michaels mentioned. “And that’s very true within the boat.”
It takes dozens of volunteers to run the Badger Lake Dragon Boat Bash — which kicked off with a live performance and fireworks on Friday night time at John F. Kennedy Memorial Park. The volunteers did all the pieces from operating concessions to loading the boats to timing the races to serving to with parking, and extra.
“We will’t thank our volunteers sufficient,” Michaels mentioned. “We had a small however mighty military of volunteers.”
RACE RESULTS
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The Interstates dragon boat staff paddles its technique to the beginning line of the race on the 2022 Badger Lake Dragon Boat Bash on Saturday.
Finals
Division A
Motley Crew – 1.623 (in minutes)
NEW Cooperative Dragon Masters – 1.623
Cedar River Gang – 1.635
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The NEW Cooperative Dragon Masters, in Boat 2, and the Interstates dragon boat staff, in Boat 1, have been neck-and-neck through the second timed trials of the Badger Lake Dragon Boat Bash on Saturday. The Dragon Masters in the end tied within the finals with the Motley Crew from Racine, Wisconsin.
Division B
Interstates – 1.703
Silver Bullet – 1.848
Cargill Corn Rowers – 1.917
Youth
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The Life is Bliss dragon boat staff, of Ames, embellished their tent with distinctive bras on the Badger Lake Dragon Boat Bash on Saturday. The staff is comprised of breast most cancers survivors.
Staff Eagle – 2.106
Dragoneirs – 2.451
Breast Most cancers Survivors
KC Pink Warriors – 1.800
Life is Bliss – 1.974
Combating Angels Abreast – 2.199
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Dragon boat groups race previous a household fishing at Badger Lake through the Badger Lake Dragon Boat Bash on Saturday.
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The KC Pink Warriors, a breast most cancers survivor staff from Kansas Metropolis, received the breast most cancers survivor staff finals on the Badger Lake Dragon Boat Bash, with a time of 1.8 minutes.
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Dragon boats are full of breast most cancers survivors holding up pink carnations in honor of those that are nonetheless combating their battle.
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A pink carnation floats in Badger Lake following a ceremony honoring breast most cancers survivors on the Badger Lake Dragon Boat Bash on Saturday.
