River City Challenge , April 27, 2013

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We are a little over a week away from the second annual River City Challenge and Eco Festival on the south bank. The main activities will focus on the Fountain area. There are kayak, canoe and paddle board races being run from the River City Marina dock to Exchange Island and back, 8 mile.  There is a shorter course for the less swift , 3 mile.  Racers are divided into classes. The race starts at a line extending from the marina dock. The start is by classes. Fast classes first. The 8 milers go up the south bank and around exchange Island (Mathews Bridge) and back. The 3 milers go to a turning mark a mile and a half away and back.

On the bank will be booths, displays,food and entertainment.  Last year there were some seminars including kayak fishing, greenland style paddle making and other things. The list and schedule is due out this week.

Take a look at their web page.

http://www.rivercitychallenge.org/#

See you there.

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The entertainer times are posted now next to the bios. They start around noon.

The race starts at 11am by class. 

Hours for the festival is 10am to 7pm. Y'all come down. Main area is at the fountain on the south bank.

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Here is the link to the Outdoor Expo schedule.  These events will be downtown at the fountain.

http://www.rivercitychallenge.org/#!expo/c1a8z


Here is the entertainment link.

http://www.rivercitychallenge.org/#!music/chqd

My favorite of this group is Ben Prestage at 1:30pm.  If you like Leo Kotkee you'll like this guy..............


"Ben Prestage’s musical background began before he was born... even before his parents were born. Ben’s great-grandmother was a Vaudeville musican who toured with Al Jolson and also participated in medicine shows. Her daughter was a Boogie-Woogie pianist and painter who used to play for Ben when he was coming up. On the other side of the family tree, his grandfather, who was a Mississippi sharecropper turned Ben onto the sounds and culture of Mississippi and Blues in general."