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Some $10,000 was raised earlier this month at the fourth annual RCM-SAR Richmond Annual Fundraiser at the Britannia Heritage Shipyard Seine Net Loft.
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Search-and-rescue dinner raises $10K
Published 11:13 PDT, Wed September 27, 2017
Last Updated: 2:12 PDT, Wed May 12, 2021
The fourth annual Royal Canadian Marine
Search-and-Rescue fundraiser at the Britannia Heritage Shipyard Seine Net Loft
drew some 150 people on Sept. 9 and raised about $10,000.
That money will support training of the search-and-rescue
volunteer members who keep safe everyone who uses the waters off Steveston and
Richmond, according to Aaron Harnden, past station leader and boat coxswain.
Whatever isn’t used to fund the training of
volunteers will be added to the fund for a new $800,000 replacement vessel.
Harnden said the new all-weather lifeboat
they are eying is a rigid hull inflatable that’s self-righting.
“If it goes over, it goes back up,” he
explained.
The volunteer crew’s current vessel has
limitations to weather, and is not re-righting, he added.
“If we can keep safe, then we’re more likely
to be able to help others,” he said.
Seeing so many people buy tickets and
organizations make donations to the fundraiser is incredibly inspiring and a
testament to how much the community appreciates the volunteer work they do,
putting their lives at risk each time they go out to try to help others.
Funds were raised through a raffle, silent
and live auctions, and ticket sales.
But with a goal of raising $800,000, there’s
still plenty of work ahead, he said.
All of the equipment and specialized clothing
used by the volunteers is purchased thanks to fundraising efforts or government
grants, he said.
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