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Delmore <br /> From: Mary Delmore [mailto:mary@mrdlaw.biz] <br /> Sent: Wednesday, February 26, 2020 2:34 PM <br /> To:Adam Edwards <aedwards@ci.orono.mn.us> <br /> Cc: LLRC Long Lake Rowing<longlakerowing@gmail.com> <br /> Subject:Support of LLRC <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 /> Attention Orono Parks Commission, <br /> I have lived in Orono for 26 yrs. and have watched the area evolve with the Highway 12 bypass project, <br /> development of multiple neighborhoods,the shop Long Lake effort and the face lift associated with the <br /> 112 reconstruction project. <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 the • <br /> Orono Community Center I met some master rowers and noticed that the Orono Community Ed offered <br /> an adult learn to row class with LLRC. I put aside my inhibitions and took the class. I was a recently <br /> retired attorney and at 62 and 5 foot 2"with no prior rowing experience-- I was hardly the likely <br /> recruit. <br /> I was totally hooked after my first time on the water. <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 water <br /> this spring. Ergging at the LLFD is fine example of a community partnership with LLRC. <br /> I have met a number of new people who live in the community and surrounding area in the Masters club <br /> 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 back <br /> yard. It's not a sport for the faint of heart. <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 interested <br /> in the both the future of Long Lake and the LLRC. I strongly urge you to support LLRC and provide the <br /> public community an opportunity to try rowing. <br /> Watching rowers on the lake is very picturesque and is a unique sport that distinguishes Long Lake. It <br /> should be fostered. <br /> Sincerely, • <br />