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On the weekend marking the 10th Anniversary of September 11th, a band of brave swimmer scouts and their crews set out to cross the length of Lake Mempremagog between Newport, Vermont and Magog, Quebec. Their mission is threefold:

• To promote a more open border with our Canadian friends and neighbors even as we support efforts to deal with terrorist activities

• To raise funds for the continuing operations of IROC (the Indoor Recreation Center Orleans County), which provides health & wellness services for people at risk such as those suffering from diabetes, heart disease and cancer

• And, of course, this merry band set out in search of Memphré, the famed creature of Lake Memphremagog

Show your support for this endeavor. Contribute to IROC here:

IN SEARCH OF MEMPHRE

Thursday, September 8, 2011

Track (some of) Us Online Tomorrow and Saturday!

Thanks to the wonder of GPS, there will be a few swimmers trackable online. Check out this link at MyAthleteLive to see where Liz Fry, Bill Shipp, and Jen Dutton are during the swim. Given what we know about the swimmers, this seems like a good distribution of tracking devices between the "forward recon" group, the middle of the pack, and the "sweep pair." See the group online at http://www.myathletelive.com/events and click on one of the athletes listed under the Scouting for Memphre Event. 

Follow us and watch us make history. And while you're at it, if you're feeling philanthropic, chuck a few bucks IROC's way. 

As Adele would say, "Rumor has it" our little expedition may have raised about $20K for IROC over the past two weeks. How's that for inspirational? Nice work, Swimmer Scouts! 
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