Early risers might have seen crews of young people rowing boats and beating drums on Vasona Lake in Los Gatos, where one of the few South Bay dragon boat teams was practicing for an upcoming international race.
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Nollyanne Delacruz,
Mercury News,
17 Sep. 2025
While Indigenous groups have lived in the region for thousands of years, the river was largely introduced to the Western world when geographer John Wesley Powell ran his famed descent in 1869, shortly before becoming the first person to document rowing the Grand Canyon.
Minutes later, Jonny Righetti emerged the winner of the Pumpkin Regatta, the pumpkin-paddling race that takes place every year during the Cosumnes Community School District’s Elk Grove Giant Pumpkin Festival.
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Lia Russell,
Sacbee.com,
5 Oct. 2025
Despite bureaucracy, apathy, and disengagement, Chad pursues environmentalism like a surfer paddling into pounding beach break, confident that the wave of his life is just outside the shore pound.
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