The Nanaimo Dragonboat Pageant Society has turned over the occasion to new organizers, and made a exceptional farewell gesture.

The society, with help of longtime title sponsor Save-On-Meals, offered donations of $25,000 to the Nanaimo and District Hospital Basis and $15,000 to the Nanaimo Hospice Society this week.

The society, in a press launch, famous that the ultimate donations will “keep it up a legacy of help and take care of individuals with most cancers.”

“It was not simple to let the pageant and races go. After a two-year pause, and protracted COVID threat, there was an excessive amount of uncertainty about groups and our potential to maintain volunteers and the general public secure,” stated Heiko Behn, who was the occasion’s longtime chairperson. “In the long run, it was a enterprise determination as a result of our structure requires the society to lift and donate funds. We remorse that we now have grow to be one other COVID casualty.”

The society famous within the launch that Save-On-Meals must be congratulated for its years of dedication to the occasion, together with offering meals and snacks to volunteers and members, particularly on the survivors’ dinners and paddlers’ events.

“These massive tent occasions will likely be remembered with glad hearts,” the discharge famous.

The occasion has been taken over by Fairway Gorge Paddling Membership, and the Nanaimo Dragonboat Pageant Society stated within the press launch that “we want them and the paddlers all the very best.”

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