<19/02/2007
February 9, 2007, The Hudson Reporter
“Liberty Yacht Club hosts fundraiser Monday for ‘City Sail’ program for teens”
Monday 12, 2007, a fundraiser for the “City Sail” program was operated by the New City Kids Organization in Jersey City.
The goal was to raise $30,000 for the program’s docking, maintenance and related expenses. To do so, people were invited to gamble at the Liberty House Restaurant’s “Casino Night.”
New City Kids Organization is a subsidiary of New City Kids Church. The religious group started a summer program to initiate teenagers from 14 to 18 to the joys of sailing on the Hudson Rive. The program runs every Tuesday afternoons from July to August.
If the weather is too bad to go out on the water, the kids are taught nautical terms and theory on how to operate a boat.
Most of the children who join the program have never been on a boat before and all end up loving it, the article said.
Pastor Trevor Rubingh said he had the idea of creating such a group on a sailing trip on the Hudson River a few years ago with clergyman Tony Hinchliff.
The two men managed to get access of boats from the Manhattan Sailling Club for their program and Paul Duggan, a local sailor, was to be the sailing instructor.
The City Sail fundraiser idea was proposed by Jim O’Connor, the commodore of the Liberty Yacht Club, a nonprofit organization formed in July 1998 to promote leisure boating on the lower Hudson River.
The $30,000 to be raised will help the City Sail program with maintenance fees for the boat being donated to them by the Liberty Yacht Club, and will enable them to have their own slip a the Liberty Marina.
http://www.hudsonreporter.com/site/news.cfm?BRD=1291&dept_id=523586&newsid=17834581&PAG=461&rfi=9
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