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Racing toward a cure

Group of local residents prepare to compete in Sail For the Cure

By Laurent Bonczijk, Newberg Graphic reporter
E-mail Laurent at lbonczijk@eaglenewspapers.com
   When they race, they haul, squeeze and tack. Occasionally they engage in gamesmanship. The closer they get to a buoy the more so. While most often they race for fun, this weekend Newberg sailors Sandy and Frank Noragon and Nathalie Mary will sail for money.
   Not that they will keep any of it. They are participating in Sail for the Cure, a spinoff of Race for the Cure. The Susan G. Komen Foundation, which will celebrate its 25th anniversary next year, organizes the races to raise money for breast cancer research and detection programs.
   Sandy and Mary have both participated and Sandy has run in Race for the Cure. Mary became involved 10 years ago when she moved to Newberg and provided massages (she’s a licensed massage therapist) to participants.
   “Now I am doing Sail for the Cure,” she said.
   “I’ve had several friends that have had breast cancer,” Sandy said in explaining her commitment to the organization. She added that her granddaughters would also participate in memory of their other grandmother, who died of breast cancer. Mary said that several of her relatives, friends and clients have had cancer.
   On Sunday the charity will ask people all over the United States to participate in those Race for the Cure fund-raisers. The Noragons, onboard their 38 feet sailboat “Cool Change”, are participants in the Columbia River Flotilla that will take landlubbers onboard for a taste of racing.
   Frank, in his mid 60s, is an affable man on land. Things change a bit once he takes the wheel and becomes Capt. Frank. Orders are given and expected to be executed rapidly and efficiently by his crew. Calls are exchanged with other boats regarding their distance; typically captains of boats have very differing opinions of what 12 feet is. Threats of challenging an opponent’s actions are issued. But when the last buoy has been rounded, the boat docked and the wine uncorked, the atmosphere is relaxed once again.
   “I like the racing, it brings a crew together,” Frank said. He also enjoys the camaraderie after the race, calling it a “great social time.” After all it’s only a race, right?

From Sept. 19, 2007, Newberg Graphic
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