Recreational Paddle Event at Blazing Paddles Paddlefest to be Named in Memory of Conservation Hero Dave Vasarhelyi

Recreational Paddle Event at Blazing Paddles Paddlefest to be Named in Memory of Conservation Hero Dave Vasarhelyi

Share the River is grateful and honored to announce the new event for the July 24, 2021 3rd Annual Blazing Paddles Paddlefest, an 8.6 mile recreational paddle and float on Cleveland’s Cuyahoga River, will be named in memory of Dave Vasarhelyi, a northeast Ohio conservation hero.

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When Santa and the Coast Guard Rescue the Santa Paddle's Rescue Boat

When Santa and the Coast Guard Rescue the Santa Paddle's Rescue Boat

Usually we prefer to stay in the background when we're covering one of Cleveland's waterfront stories but during Sunday's third annual Santa Paddle, we found ourselves right in the middle of a Cleveland version of "The Old Man and the Sea"

 

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Critical YAK on the Cuyahoga River

Critical YAK on the Cuyahoga River

Last Friday we caught up with the inaugural Critical YAK, an informal aquatic gathering where kayakers put in at Cleveland Metroparks' Merwin's Wharf dock, paddled 1.7 miles down the Cuyahoga River out to Lake Erie, hung a left and beached at Wendy Park for some fun at Whiskey Island Still and Eatery before returning to Merwin's Wharf.

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