Lake Superior Dragons

Official Webletter of the Lake Superior Dragon Boat Festival

In This Issue
T-Shirt Opportunity
Festival Entertainment
Plan Now for 2012
Online Practice Scheduling
Fundraising Website
Training Tips

How to paddle a Dragonboat (Part 2)

How to paddle a Dragonboat (Part 2)

Does Your Team Need

T-Shirts for the Festival?

Dragon Shirt

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for more Information! 

Did you know that our approved clothing vendor,

Hill Creek Marketing donates 20% of their gross sales to local Rotary Clubs to help fund community projects?

 
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Entertainment!

Alison Scott

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Our headline acts for Friday night, August 26th are Alison Scott and Freedy Johnston. 
Fireworks will take place at DUSK!

Advance Planning!

Start of Race 

Registration costs for the 2012 Festival will remain at the same levels as this year's festival. Registering by 8:00 p.m. on August 27th allows you a discount of $100 for next year's festival if all registration fees are fully paid by July 1, 2012. The staff at the Registration Tent will be happy to answer any questions for you. Please plan ahead and consider registering for the 2012 Festival.

 

We Are Getting Close to Our Goal!

There are only three weeks to go until the 10th Anniversary of the Lake Superior Dragon Boat Festival on the weekend of August 26 & 27, 2011. We currently have 93 teams registered just 7 teams shy of our goal of 100!  Co-chairs Paul Damberg and Warren Bender want to thank all of you for your assistance in helping us grow. 
For more infor regarding any aspects of the Festival, please contact us as soon as possible at [email protected] or call the Festival Information Phone at (218) 260-9850

 

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Online Practice Scheduling Has Arrived!
As promised, the Lake Superior Dragon Boat Festival now has online practice scheduling capabilities! Thanks for your patience....were sure you'll agree that this makes scheduling fast and convenient.

Following are the simple steps for access and scheduling:
Click on the Team Login navigation button on top of the home page, or click this LINK
Your email address is: Enter email address here
Your password is: Enter your password here   (If you do not have a password, go to [email protected] for assistance)
Click on Submit
From there, follow the simple instructions to locate and click on an Open Boat or available time slot.
Click Yes if this is the time slot desired.
Click on the X to close the dialogue box.
Click the Close button and thats it - your team name will appear and time slot is reserved!
To edit, click on Edit Sessions just above the calendar and the time slots you have reserved will display.
To delete your selection, click on Delete then Close and you've released this time slot.

General items to remember:
If you do not have a password, go to [email protected] for assistance.
Each team is entitled to TWO free practices. Practices are one hour long and are conducted on Barkers Island.
Do NOT schedule practices back to back, and ideally, they should be on different days.
Practice sessions on the Friday of the Festival are reserved for out of town teams only.

 

Additional practices sessions may be arranged by

contacting the Duluth Boat Club at [email protected]

Essentia Health SMDC Foundation
Essentia Health SMDC Foundation has launched a new Dragon Boat fundraising website called "Friends Asking Friends" for the paddlers in this year's Festival.  Paddlers can register online and create their own personalized website.  You can upload photos and video, set your own fundraising goals, and blast out emails to friends & family to ask for support.  You will also receive notices when someone donates to your page and automatic responses will be sent to your donors should they make a pledge to your team!
Paper copies of the Dragon Boat pledge form are available in limited numbers (it's keen to be green!) from Charity Smith at (218) 786-1062 or [email protected].  Please encourage your teammates to register on this website in order to ask for donations online.  Prizes will be given out all summer for paddlers that register on the Friends Asking Friends website, and winner will be notified by email.
LSDB Festival Website
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Our new Website launched the first week of July. The first Phase of the website offers new features pertaining to the operation of this year's festival. Phase II will be operational by this fall in anticipation of the 2012 Festival.

Please check out our new Website by clicking on the link below: