Mike & Jessica Duncan
Stacey Kostavicki & Angela D’ Alessandro
Megan Chapman & Bryan Morelock
Jim & Jennifer Richardson
Kristen Phillips & Ashlee Warner
T
he 5th Annual Pensacola Dragon Boat Festival is a yearly
paddle boat race organized by the Northeast Pensacola
Sertoma Club. On Saturday, September 8, teams gathered to
row to the fi nish line and compete for bragging rights. The
festival consists of dragon boat races, athlete’s village festivities, arts and
craft vendors, food vendors, and family activities, including face painting,
free caricatures, and balloons. The races feature twenty-one individuals
on a team paddling a forty-two-meter paddle boat three hundred meters
down Bayou Texar. Opening ceremonies consisted of a performance
from the McGuire’s Pipe Band and the Young Marines of Pensacola
introducing the teams.
In the past four years, the festival has delivered over eighty thousand
dollars to the Gulf Coast Kids House. A record breaking thirty-nine
teams and thirty vendors signed up for this year’s festival. The event is a
great team building exercise for companies, organizations, krewes, non-
profi ts, and raises awareness to the local community. This year, proceeds
benefi ted both Gulf Coast Kid’s House and Junior Achievement of
Northwest Florida, Inc.
Adam Medley & Liam Longsworth
VIP Pensacola at Bayview Park
photos & story by
Kristina Wright
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