Our “Paddle Party” was a Celebration of Living with a Parade of Pink. On a very rainy June 13th one dragon boat full of members paddled across Lake Banook, Dartmouth from the Austenville Owl’s Club dock to join our Buddies who walked to two pink benches, installed by the city in memory of our members on the other side of Lake Banook. We wore pink to honour the brave, strong twenty-four woman who paddled the first dragon boat in Vancouver in 1995, and became known as Abreast In A Boat. Each team member taking part, wore a name of one of the twenty-four original women. Following a short ceremony we sang our team song inspired by one of our co-founders Sharon Driscoll. Our team walked and paddled back to the Austenville Owl’s Club for cookies and pink lemonade. The weather was terrible but our spirits were high – we are all winners in this breast cancer race!