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Dragon Boat Racing Team Continues To Make Great Waves With Premier Club By Brad Stager
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Riverview Chef Qualifies For World Cup Team Event In Luxembourg
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Riverview This is not Marquis’ chef Vanessa first international culiMarquis is achievnary competition as she ing a life goal this also participated in month. Marquis teams in culinary recently qualified school. Her spot on the for the American World Cup team also Culinary means that she is invitFederation’s World ed to represent the Cup team and will United States in the travel to Culinary Olympics in Luxembourg to 2020 against 59 other compete against countries. chefs from all over Marquis’ advice for the world the last anyone interested in week in pursuing a career as a November. chef is simple. An Executive “Do what you love,” Riverview resident Vanessa Marquis will Chef with she said. “Before I head to Luxembourg this month as a member of the American Culinary Hillsborough moved to a culinary Federation’s World Cup team. County School’s career I would come Center for Nutrition and Culinary Services home every night and cook as stress with CORE Brands and the Silo Event relief.” Center, Marquis was recovering from surThe Silo Eatery and The Silo Event gery on her arms when she was offered Center, where Marquis works as the opportunity to try out for the team in Executive Chef, are open to the public, Clearwater. The tryouts were a three day and all proceeds go back to Student process where she prepared a cold platNutrition Services and support feeding ter of food, dipped in gelatin to preserve local children. Visit www.thesiloeatery.com it, a five-course meal and finger food, on or call 605-5157. her feet for more than 12 hours each day. For more information on the Culinary “The tryouts were an exhausting but World Cup, visit www.worldchefs.org. exhilarating experience,” said Marquis, who joins seven other chefs from all over the country on the team as the first In This female in the savory portion. Issue The group will travel to Luxembourg later this month where, in addition to other challenges, they will prepare a three REALIGNMENT OLD BIG BEND RD .....PG 3 course meal for 110 people in an event MARY AND MARTHA VOLUNTEERS ...PG 9 known as The Restaurant of Nations. “More than 6,000 people attend the QUINN’S CLOSET .............................PG 10 World Cup and choose food from the repSEA SCOUTS .....................................PG 15 resented countries based on a menu description,” said Marquis, who explained EYE ON BUSINESS .....................PGS 25‐26 that one of the most unique aspects of CHALKLINES .....................................PG 38 the competition is the 18 glass-walled kitchens where the chefs prepare the ARTS & ENTERTAINMENT................PG 42 food. “It is such an intense and rewarding challenge. I get excited just talking about READ MORE LOCAL NEWS ONLINE it.” Medals will be awarded individually www.ospreyobserver.com and as a team.
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Dragon boats are among the sleekest of watercraft and people who enjoy racing them have a homeport in Apollo Beach. The MiraBay Dragon Boat Club (MBDBC), The MiraBay Dragon Boat Club practicing on their community's paddling as the man-made lagoon. Leviathans, has attracts a diverse crowd, but the key to been a part of the 2,000-year-old sport’s winning in competitive paddling is unity. growing popularity since 2012. The “You gotta be in sync and work sport’s origins and development of modtogether,” she said. “It’s fun to be part of a ern competitive formats can be traced to team and it’s something that anyone can southern China. learn how to do.” The Leviathans compete throughout MBDBC paddlers have Some Florida and also host the annual MiraBay achieved a high level of ability at the Dragon Boat Festival that attracts dozens sport, which requires stamina as well as of teams to race on the community’s upper-body strength and agility. Two of placid, man-made lagoon. team’s younger members, ages 13 the While powering a 40-ft., fiberglass and 16 at the time, were selected to comboat for hundreds of meters as one of 20 pete as members of Team USA youth paddlers can be a challenging workout, it crews in the 2015 World Dragon Boat is a sport accessible to anyone who is Racing Championships. interested, according to MBDBC coThe Leviathans compete against founder Ed Norstrem. other teams during fall and spring racing “It’s an exciting, fast-growing sport for seasons, with practices meeting three young and old, and all shapes and sizes,” times weekly at the MiraBay clubhouse, he said. MBDBC members’ ages range 207 Point Harbor Ln. in Apollo Beach. from 12 years on up, with most coming MiraBay community residency is not onboard with no paddling experience. required to join. Annual membership fees Norstrem added that he became are $150 for adults and $100 for ages 17 interested in dragon boat racing when he and younger. You can learn more about joined a company team that practiced on the MBDBC Leviathans and dragon boat the Hillsborough River. racing by visiting the club’s website at “I loved it, so I started a team here.” http://mbdbc.org or the MiraBay Dragon According to Lisa Krumme, vice presBoat Club Facebook page. ident of MBDBC, dragon boat racing
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