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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
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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? |
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From
Sept. 19, 2007, Newberg Graphic
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