2001 Winners Rogue Valley Family YMCA 522 W 6th St. Medford, OR 97501 Granted $994. Purchase: Life jackets (Type II and Type III) also four inflatable Tahiti rafts. Goal: To be used for instructional purposes within pool facility and residence camp. Coast Guard Aux. Assoc. Inc. Flotilla 3-5 (9ER) 326 Colonial Dr. West Grand Island, NY 14072 Granted $1000. Purchase: Inflatable PFDs. Goal: Raffle of vests at Public Education classes, to boaters with a Vessel Safety Check, and individuals "visiting" Auxiliary Safety Booths. Purchase: Fatal Vision goggles. Goal: To educate the public on the risks associated with alcohol consumption. US Coast Guard Aux. Flotilla 33 8244 Sturm Lake Granite Bay, CA 95746 Granted $1000. Purchase: (8) inflatable life vests. Goal: Public Education classes will now provide vests for on-the-water training. US Coast Guard Aux. Assoc., Inc. Flotilla 4 Indiana St. Wheeling, WV 26003 Granted $750. Purchase: Banners for Boating Safety Displays Life Jacket key chains, t-shirts, and ball caps for giveaways Goal: To promote Boating Safety with a more visual presence. River Rescue of Community Lifeteam Volunteer Relief Assoc. PO Box 284 Harrisburg, PA 17108-0284 Granted $600. Purchase: Trading Cards with pictures of Water Rescue equipment, Personal Watercrafts, and Splish and Splash photos. Boating Safety messages and contact addresses will appear on the back. Goal: Through boating safety messages printed on the back of cards. Distribute to children attending Safe Boating Events. Coast Guard Aux. Assoc., Inc. Flotilla 085-33-01 4710 N. 48th St. Omaha, NE 68104-2415 Granted $1000. Purchase: Screen printed tee-shirts with promotional logo. "I was caught wearing It my PFD. I boat smart!! Do you?" Goal: To award tee-shirts to children who are caught wearing their PFD while in or near the water. Coast Guard Aux. Assoc., Inc. Flotilla 61 600 N. 6th Grover Beach, CA 93433 Granted $774. Purchase: Materials for North American Boating Campaign Road Show. Examples: Canopy, tables, signs, panels for canopies. Goal: Increase the boating publics awareness in boating safety. Community Boating Center, Inc. P.O. Box 41021 New Bedford, MA 02744 (Member) Granted $825. Purchase: Personal Floatation Devices for students attending Learn to Sail/Safe Boating classes. Students will keep the PFD’s upon completion of the program. Goal: Project will increase PUBLIC AWARENESS in the importance of boating safety. Vermont State Police R.E.E.U. 2777 St. George Rd. Williston, VT 05495 (Member) Granted $1000. Purchase: 2,500 26oz. Plastic sport bottles, with the message "Paddle Smart" "Wear Your Life Jacket" along with the unit’s logo. Goal: Marine Patrol officers will pass the message along and reinforce it by handing the sport bottles directly to canoeists and kayakers. Delta County Sheriff 111 N. 3rd St. Escanaba, MI 49829 Granted $1000. Purchase: LifeSavers candies with a safety message printed on the packaging. Goal: Children wearing a PFD would be given a LifeSavers candies. Purchase: Boater Safety patches. Goal: Incentive for students in Boater Safety Course to successfully complete the course. Purchase: Loaner equipment Goal: Marine deputies will have the "loaner" equipment aboard on routine patrols. If they come across a boater in violation, they can loan the equipment so they can continue to boat. The equipment is to be returned to the Sheriff’s Office later. U.S. Adaptive Recreation Center P.O. Box 2897 Big Bear Lake, CA 92315 Granted: $1000. Purchase: Two child size water ski cages and one adaptive water ski. Goal: Cages are an apparatus that allow children without use of their legs or amputees to ski in the sitting position. The equipment will help greatly to insure that each child has a successful training lesson. Sea Scout Ship 726 Ohio 27820 Rexford Rd. Bay Village, OH 44140 Granted: $1000. Purchase: Replacement safety equipment for training vessels. Goal: Improve safety of Sea Scout Ship when sailing or canoeing on Lake Erie and or inland lakes and rivers. Purchase: Safety related educational materials. Two educational videos and quick Reference cards to review concepts while on the ships. Goal: Share materials with other ships in area. Ships will be safe on water and eliminate other potential dangerous conditions. U.S. Coast Guard Aux. Division 7, 5NR 76 Beverly Lane Manahawkin, NJ 08050-3701 Granted: $1000. Purchase: Signs and mounting materials Goal: Distribute signs along the waterways announcing New Jersey Law requiring children 12 yrs. & under to wear a PFD on boats underway. Dubois Area School District 400 Orient Ave Dubois, PA 15801 Granted: $1000. Purchase: Canoe, Kayak and paddles Goal: Allow school to continue its current level of instruction and introduce people to recreational kayaking. U.S. Coast Guard Aux. Assoc., Inc. Flotilla 28-01-090 7603 Idlewood Land Rapid River, MI 49878 Granted: $1000. Purchase: Regulatory buoy, solar powered light unit, sinker, chain, and related tackle. Printing and lamination cost for chartlets. Goal: Provide safer AOR for recreational boaters by reducing groundings and related vessel damage. As well as prevent risks to boaters and would-be rescuers. Code 4 Public Safety Education Assoc. 1133 S. Riverside Ave. #10-221 Medford, OR 97501 Granted: $1000. Purchase: Inflatable PFD, Type II or III PFD, Type IV, and a child sized PFD in different types. Also the new children’s swim wear with flotation, and some daytime & night time signaling devices, and container to transport items. Goal: For instructors who currently teach student to have actual class examples to show. U.S. Coast Guard Aux. Assoc., Inc. Flotilla 12 203 Packard Ave Ferndale MD 21061-2417 Granted: $1000. Purchase: Plywood, Marine carpet, Professional painting, decals, welding material and labor, Marine paint, misc. hardware. Goal: A Vessel Safety Booth constructed in the shape of a boat. This would attract more attention at boat shows, & various marinas. Set up to get the safe boating message out.