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From:Mary Delmore <br />To:Adam Edwards <br />Cc:LLRC Long Lake Rowing <br />Subject:Support of LLRC <br />Date:Wednesday, February 26, 2020 2:33:48 PM <br />My profile: <br />Orono resident for 26 years <br />Novice master rower with LLRC <br />Recently 63 yr old retired attorney <br />Founding and regular user of the Orono Activity Center <br /> <br />Attention Orono Parks Commission, <br /> <br />I have lived in Orono for 26 yrs. and have watched the area evolve with the Highway 12 bypass <br />project, development of multiple neighborhoods, the shop Long Lake effort and the face lift <br />associated with the 112 reconstruction project. <br /> <br />Ever since the LLRC started rowing on Long Lake I watched them with keen interest. It is such an <br />elegant, artful sport that very of us have had an opportunity to try or watch. When working out at <br />the Orono Community Center I met some master rowers and noticed that the Orono Community Ed <br />offered an adult learn to row class with LLRC. I put aside my inhibitions and took the class. I was a <br />recently retired attorney and at 62 and 5 foot 2” with no prior rowing experience -- I was hardly the <br />likely recruit. <br /> <br />I was totally hooked after my first time on the water. <br /> <br />The sport is very artful and requires a deceptive amount of technique that will take me years to fully <br />develop. I am ergging at the Long Lake Fire Department January – March before getting on the <br />water this spring. Ergging at the LLFD is fine example of a community partnership with LLRC. <br /> <br />I have met a number of new people who live in the community and surrounding area in the Masters <br />club and everyone is very welcoming and gracious to a novice rower with zero experience. It’s been <br />refreshing to take on a new challenge and push myself out of my comfort zone – and all right in my <br />back yard. It’s not a sport for the faint of heart. <br /> <br />I am confident the LLRC will continue to be a strong community partner and good steward of Long <br />Lake. You should consider me a representative example of a committed community member <br />interested in the both the future of Long Lake and the LLRC. I strongly urge you to support LLRC and <br />provide the public community an opportunity to try rowing. <br /> <br />Watching rowers on the lake is very picturesque and is a unique sport that distinguishes Long Lake. <br />It should be fostered. <br /> <br />Sincerely, <br />Mary Delmore