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"Houston’s New Waterfront" "This is real. And coming to Houston. “It’s rare you find this kind of site with attributes like Buffalo Bayou frontage within the urban core in the shadow of downtown. The model on the table is of East River, a potential city-changing development East of downtown abutting the Buffalo Bayou.We’re talking about 150 acres of former industrial land long closed off to Houstonians, a swath that’s the equivalent of 65 city blocks. It’s the largest site within the 610 Loop that is still open for redevelopment. One that introduces a riverfront to Houston..." Complete story: PaperCityMag "Giant canoe project idea floated" (Canada) "Temagami’s 50-foot canoe project is back on track after some delays. Council received a verbal update on the project from working group member Dave Wilfong at their December regular meeting. The purpose of creating the canoe is to give the town a landmark that would also be the world’s largest wood canvas canoe..." Complete story: Timmins Today "Meet The Appalachian Trail’s Only Ferryman" (Maine) "As the only ferry service on the Appalachian Trail, the famous 2,190-mile footpath from Georgia to Maine, Caruso and his 17-foot Old Town Tripper serve as a lifeline for some 2,500 hikers per year. He’s the fourth ferryman to hold the position since 1987, when a drowning made the canoe crossing the only legal way for hikers to traverse the fluctuating, dam-controlled waters of the Kennebec..." Complete story: Paddling Magazine "8 Kayakers Caught in Storm" (Australia) "The sky and sea turned black, and suddenly the water around us seemed to boil. It rose in vertical dancing turrets, sharp and angry. Whitecaps started rolling in ahead, and seconds later they were whipping off the surface and spraying us with mini daggers. It was a southerly storm front that hit out of nowhere. Forward momentum became near impossible..." Complete story: Paddling.com "Deputy uses canoe to rescue fisherman who fell through thin ice" (Wisconsin) "A Kenosha County Sheriff's deputy rescued an ice fisherman after he fell through thin ice. Deputy Colin Coultrip used a canoe to help rescue the 57-year-old man from the frigid water. "I knew every second counts when it's this cold," Coultrip said..." Complete story: WISN.com "Vintage photos of paddling down the San Antonio River Walk in the 1940s" "Kayakers were recently given a rare opportunity to paddle through the business district of the San Antonio River Walk and it got us thinking - what did it look like to travel along the River Walk in years past? Well, thanks to some historical photos from the University of Texas at San Antonio, we’re able to see just how it looked to travel down the famed San Antonio River Walk as far back as the 1940s..." Complete story: KSAT.com "Tippy canoe dumps load of non-perishable food on Christmas Cheer" (Canada) "Notre-Dame-du-Sault has once again filled their canoe as part of the Noël Portage campaign that the school runs every year. The goal is to fill a canoe with non-perishable food items to donate to Christmas Cheer. “This is a tradition that’s been going on at the school for many years now. We do it because of our school’s voyageur logo that includes a canoe..." Complete story: SOOToday "Firefighters use canoe to rescue blind dog that fell down embankment" (Florida) "One lucky pooch is back home with her owners after crews with Flagler County Fire Rescue were able to rescue her from a 20-foot steep embankment along the Intercoastal Waterway. Crews say Mattie was found stuck in the mud after wandering into a densely wooded area and falling from a sheer drop along the water’s edge..." Complete story: FirstCoastNews.com "Body of drowning victim recovered in Lake Corpus Christi" (Texas) "According to a Facebook post from Sheriff Oscar Rivera, the body of 68 year old Philip Richard Boutin of Corpus Christi has been recovered. Texas Parks and Wildlife divers were able to locate the body of the man who went missing during a fishing trip on December 17. San Patricio County Sheriff Oscar Rivera said his office received a call about a man who had fallen out of his kayak near the cove area at the lake..." Complete story: KIIITV.com "Kayaking kid conquers raging rapids" (Washington) "A 9-year-old kayaker attempted a brave journey in the short film “Between Two Swims.” Ivan Knight is certainly one of the youngest people to ever kayak through the dangerous rapids, his father Christian Knight said, and the film shows Ivan’s persistence through two attempts at Boulder Drop over this past year..." Complete story: Kent Reporter
"This is real. And coming to Houston. “It’s rare you find this kind of site with attributes like Buffalo Bayou frontage within the urban core in the shadow of downtown. The model on the table is of East River, a potential city-changing development East of downtown abutting the Buffalo Bayou.We’re talking about 150 acres of former industrial land long closed off to Houstonians, a swath that’s the equivalent of 65 city blocks. It’s the largest site within the 610 Loop that is still open for redevelopment. One that introduces a riverfront to Houston..."
"Temagami’s 50-foot canoe project is back on track after some delays. Council received a verbal update on the project from working group member Dave Wilfong at their December regular meeting. The purpose of creating the canoe is to give the town a landmark that would also be the world’s largest wood canvas canoe..."
"As the only ferry service on the Appalachian Trail, the famous 2,190-mile footpath from Georgia to Maine, Caruso and his 17-foot Old Town Tripper serve as a lifeline for some 2,500 hikers per year. He’s the fourth ferryman to hold the position since 1987, when a drowning made the canoe crossing the only legal way for hikers to traverse the fluctuating, dam-controlled waters of the Kennebec..."
"The sky and sea turned black, and suddenly the water around us seemed to boil. It rose in vertical dancing turrets, sharp and angry. Whitecaps started rolling in ahead, and seconds later they were whipping off the surface and spraying us with mini daggers. It was a southerly storm front that hit out of nowhere. Forward momentum became near impossible..."
"A Kenosha County Sheriff's deputy rescued an ice fisherman after he fell through thin ice. Deputy Colin Coultrip used a canoe to help rescue the 57-year-old man from the frigid water. "I knew every second counts when it's this cold," Coultrip said..."
"Kayakers were recently given a rare opportunity to paddle through the business district of the San Antonio River Walk and it got us thinking - what did it look like to travel along the River Walk in years past? Well, thanks to some historical photos from the University of Texas at San Antonio, we’re able to see just how it looked to travel down the famed San Antonio River Walk as far back as the 1940s..."
"Notre-Dame-du-Sault has once again filled their canoe as part of the Noël Portage campaign that the school runs every year. The goal is to fill a canoe with non-perishable food items to donate to Christmas Cheer. “This is a tradition that’s been going on at the school for many years now. We do it because of our school’s voyageur logo that includes a canoe..."
"One lucky pooch is back home with her owners after crews with Flagler County Fire Rescue were able to rescue her from a 20-foot steep embankment along the Intercoastal Waterway. Crews say Mattie was found stuck in the mud after wandering into a densely wooded area and falling from a sheer drop along the water’s edge..."
"According to a Facebook post from Sheriff Oscar Rivera, the body of 68 year old Philip Richard Boutin of Corpus Christi has been recovered. Texas Parks and Wildlife divers were able to locate the body of the man who went missing during a fishing trip on December 17. San Patricio County Sheriff Oscar Rivera said his office received a call about a man who had fallen out of his kayak near the cove area at the lake..."
"A 9-year-old kayaker attempted a brave journey in the short film “Between Two Swims.” Ivan Knight is certainly one of the youngest people to ever kayak through the dangerous rapids, his father Christian Knight said, and the film shows Ivan’s persistence through two attempts at Boulder Drop over this past year..."