Today's NY Times (10-31-01) has an article in the Workplace section featuring our own Paul Amico. If you don't know who Paul is, he is a kayaker who often paddles out of the Downtown Boathouse as well as being a very dependable kayak escort for the swim events. Paul runs a dock construction business. He has, as a volunteer, worked on the docks for both the DTBH and for the Yonkers Paddle & Rowing Club (He won this year's kayak race up there). On the day of the events of 9-11 he sprang into action to help the ferries evacuating people from the WTC to first the seawall then Pier 26 when the regular ferry terminal next to the North Cove had to be abandoned. His kayaking knowledge of the Boathouse's pier let him know it would serve as an emergency ferry slip. He had a key to the Boathouse and knew of the acetylene torch there (he has used it before) and used it to open up the pier fence to let people get on to the NY Waterways ferries being used for the emergency. The article describes what he did and then leads into what others did that the day under the article's title, Everyday People, Extraordinary Day. Paul is in the article's photo. It is good seeing a great, humble guy get recognized for doing something that seems so extraordinary but that his friends know is just Paul's normal, helpful, resourceful character. Here is the article URL: http://www.nytimes.com/2001/10/31/business/31HERO.html?searchpv=nytToday ralph diaz -- ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Ralph Diaz . . . Folding Kayaker newsletter PO Box 0754, New York, NY 10024 Tel: 212-724-5069; E-mail: rdiaz_at_ix.netcom.com "Where's your sea kayak?"----"It's in the bag." ----------------------------------------------------------------------- *************************************************************************** PaddleWise Paddling Mailing List - Any opinions or suggestions expressed here are solely those of the writer(s). You must assume the entire responsibility for reliance upon them. All postings copyright the author. Submissions: PaddleWise_at_PaddleWise.net Subscriptions: PaddleWise-request_at_PaddleWise.net Website: http://www.paddlewise.net/ ***************************************************************************Received on Wed Oct 31 2001 - 06:43:04 PST
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