Author: Graeme Galves

Come join us for the Fall Small River Run at Fort Langley Canoe Club on Saturday October 28.

The spectacular golden colours of the fall season offer a crisp setting for your race day in historic Fort Langley BC. Fort Langley’s many establishments offer you time to eat and shop. Take your family and friends and enjoy the historic charms of Fort Langley after you post your personal best.

THE DETAILS

This is a CORA-sanctioned race and you must be a CORA member.

The Race Course is a flatwater 10-12 Kilometre loop up the Fraser and around Brae Island. It is a race for any and all paddlers.

Race Day Schedule, Saturday October 28:

• 8:45 Registration
• 9:30 Pre-Race Meeting
• 10:00 Race – Mass Start
• 11:45 Awards / Prizes

Cost:

• Small Boats: $30 per boat ($15 Juniors)
• You will not be considered registered until you have paid your registration fee.

Registration:

• FLCC 2023 Fall Small River Run Flyer
• Registration / Waivers / Payment Here
• Registration open until and including October 28

Questions: Ask Jim – ocrep@fortlangleycanoeclub.ca

CORA recognized that there were many individuals who had made “Significant and Exemplary Contributions” to Canadian outrigger canoeing, but their stories had never been captured, and they had never been formally recognized. CORA spent January 2021 thru June 2023 tracking down this history, and fact-checking as best as possible the exploits of those individuals who founded CORA, who founded / nurtured CORA clubs, who inaugurated / perpetuated races, who excelled at IVF / Molokai / Catalina / Queen Liliuokalani events, and who designed / built / imported / distributed canoes to grow the sport.

As of the August 2023 CORA Board Meeting there were 7 individuals inducted into the Canadian Outrigger Hall Of Fame for 2023.

Lotus Sports Club had graciously offered to host a Canadian Outrigger Canoeing Hall Of Fame presentation for the 7 inductees at the Lotus CORA Cup Championship Iron event on the July 22/23 weekend to recognize these individuals, but none of the Inductees could attend. CORA will have an online Town Hall in November of this year to recognize the inductees for 2023.

CORA wishes to congratulate the 7 Canadian Outrigger Hall Of Fame 2023 Inductees:

• Ruth Matson
• David Hill
• Nancy Botting
• Len Morris Jr.
• Lynda Roberts
• Norman MacDonell
• Leanne Stanley

You can visit the CORA website and view the “Virtual Hall Of Fame” that has the names / headshots of the 7 individuals inducted this year and links to a 3-page PDF that has their contributions in 2-pages and a 1-page set of references on every online article that CORA could find where they were mentioned.

CORA introduced a new initiative for 2022 at the CORA 2021 Pre-AGM that was continued for 2023. To encourage participation by new paddlers at CORA 2023 events, a new Junior / Novice OC Paddle Draw Grant was funded. Every Junior / Novice participant at each CORA Cup Series 2023 event was given 1 entry for the end-of-season draw. It was possible for each Junior / Novice participant to have up to a maximum of 4 entries for the end-of-season draw. The response was impressive with 75 entries in total from 7 Western Canada OC clubs. There were at least 10 entries in each of the Junior Women, Junior Men, Novice Women, and Novice Men divisions such that 2 winners were drawn from each of these 4 divisions.

CORA wishes to extend a round of appreciation to Oddball Workshop, our generous sponsor, for contributing Gift Certificates for each of the 8 Junior / Novice winners to redeem for a paddle of a length of their choosing within 1 year from the end-of-season draw date (22-Jul-2023).

CORA wishes to congratulate the 8 Junior / Novice 2023 OC Paddle winners:

• Zane Halperin – (Kelowna Paddle Centre)
• Roy Yang – (False Creek Racing Canoe Club)
• Aleta Dengler – (Lotus Sports Club)
• Oscar Tessman – (Comox Valley Canoe Racing Club)
• Lauren Gray – (Kelowna Paddle Centre)
• Melanie Mellaart – (Penticton Racing Canoe Club)
• Ayden Dean – (Lotus Sports Club)
• Kendra Shaw – (Kelowna Paddle Centre)

CORA wishes to extend a round of appreciation to the Race Coordinators (Don Mulhall; Carole Fullerton; Jackie Bell; Grace Morissette) from CORA Cup Series host clubs Penticton, Jericho, Comox, and Lotus, and as well as the club reps who collected the names of Junior / Novice participants at these 4 events, and forwarded these entries onto the CORA Board for the draw at the Lotus Awards presentation.

Penticton Racing Canoe Club

Jericho Paddling Club

Comox Valley Canoe Racing Club

Lotus Sports Club