Community Corner
Swim Across America-LIS Open Water Swim at Larchmont Yacht Club - July 26
Swim Across America Long Island Sound Chapter
(SAA-LIS), a not-for-profit organization dedicated to raising funds for cancer
research and prevention programs through open-water and pool swims, is holding an
open-water swim at Larchmont Yacht Club.
The chapter's
open-water swim in Larchmont was recently recognized by the World Open Water
Swimming Association as one of America's Top 100 Open Water Swims. The
Long Island Sound Swim, one of the oldest and largest SAA events, has been
raising money for cancer research, prevention and treatment since 1992. In the
last 22 years, SAA-LIS has raised in excess of $14 million….and continues to
make waves against cancer!
Swimmer registration: www.swimacrossamerica.org/long_island
Swimmers
may swim 1 mile, 1/2 mile or form relay teams to raise funds for cancer research, prevention and treatment.
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Donations can be sent to SAA-Long
Island Sound, P.O. Box 217, Larchmont, NY 10538.
SAA-LIS
Beneficiaries: the Cancer Support Team (serving lower
Westchester), the Tommy Palazzo Fellowship for Columbia University and Morgan
Stanley Children’s Hospital at New York-Presbyterian, The Memorial
Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center’s Swim Across America and DeMatteo Research
Laboratories, and United Hospice of Clarkstown.
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For more information, please email tony@swimacrossamerica.org or call 914-769-8411.
Please help us make waves to fight cancer!