SARC Community
Saint Andrew Rowing Club values our community by giving time, energy and other resources back to the local area in the following:
Row for the Cure
2010 Row For The Cure will be held Sept. 11, 2010 at the Azalea Park. The entire team will be rowing shifts throughout the day to raise funds for this worthy cause.
In 2007, SARC held its first 12 hour Row-a-thon to benefit Susan G. Komen for the Cure. It has grown in the past two years by dollars raised and including other local rowing clubs, Atlanta Rowing Club, AJRA, Georgia Tech and Georgia State in our local event. The event is held in association with the Head of the Hooch, which offers opportunities to any team attending the regatta to sponsor an event benefiting Komen. In its inaugural year, SARC together with ARC raised $15,557. In 2008, when AJRA and Georgia State joined in, an amazing total of $52,429 was raised. Despite the bad weather of 2009, five clubs raised $37,954.
Thanks to events like ROW FOR THE CURE ®, Komen has invested nearly $1 billion to fulfill their promise, becoming the largest source of nonprofit funds dedicated to the fight against breast cancer in the world.
ROW FOR THE CURE – SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 11, 2010- CREATE YOUR DONATION ACCOUNT TODAY AT: www.rowforthecureatlanta.org
Rivers Alive
Sept 25, 2010 will be the next Rivers Alive.
In cooperation with the Keep Roswell Beautiful Program, SARC participates in Rivers Alive, Georgia’s annual volunteer waterway cleanup event that targets all waterways in the State including streams, rivers, lakes beaches and wetlands. The mission of Rivers Alive is to create awareness of the involvement in the preservation of Georgia’s water resources. The team participates by picking trash out of the river from canoes. It is important that our athletes help clean the river that we enjoy rowing in daily.
Boy Scout Eagle Projects
Several of our rowers are also Boy Scouts. SARC has sponsored and helped fund Eagle Scout Leadership Service Projects over the years. Our parent volunteers mentor and help our scouts develop and lead projects benefitting the club.
Currently, Mike Davis is in the planning and fundraising stage of his Eagle Scout project, which will involve building a new, fire safe structure that will house all of our gasoline tanks and life vests.
United Mitochondrial Disease Foundation
In 2006, the club raised $6,020 for the United Mitochondrial Disease Foundation with a Row for Mito event. Our rowers secured pledges and participated in an erg-a-thon to raise money for UMDF. This Foundation came to our attention because an extended member of our SARC family suffers from Leigh’s Disease, a fatal mitochondrial disease.
Mitochondrial diseases are diseases where the body is unable to turn food into the energy to support life. They can present with a wide range of health issues such as a weak heart, seizures, failing kidneys, neurologic problems, and/or respiratory complications. The mitochondria are the power plants in almost every cell of the human body. UMDF provides critically important information on mitochondrial diseases and other issues that affect sufferers and their families. Visit their website at www.UMDF.org.