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11/08/2013

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Sarasota News Leader November 8, 2013 Page 100 "He actually hooked the largest tarpon of the Benderson Park in August, Kenney explains day," Chambers points out of her husband, that all the veterans selected for this latest and Thom broke the reel in the process. retreat had expressed an interest in adaptive rowing. Any who decided to take up the sport That laugh erupts again as Thom describes how volunteers were trying to hold his wheel- afterward would be directed to adaptive rowchair down on the deck as the tarpon put up ing clubs in their communities, he says. a tremendous fight, towing the boat behind it. Blackketter and his boss, Randy Benderson Finally, the tarpon snapped the line. "They — president of Benderson Development — felt so bad when it happened," Thom adds "are deeply invested in the adaptive rowing of the volunteers. His view, he says, was to program," Kenney points out, "especially for acknowledge to the fish, "You won your life; our military veterans. you can go." They have "made no bones about the fact that a big part of the facility [at Benderson Park] THE ROWING will be for adaptive rowing," Kenney adds. As With plans under way for the USRowing for Kenney: "I tell people I don't know anyMasters National Championships at thing about rowing, but I do know veterans." Nicholas Thom (second from right) fishes for tarpon during an earlier visit to Sarasota. Contributed photo

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