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.
—
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.
Report her findings to someone in a uniform, a process that took at least an hour including paddling back across the pond and returning to her car.
—
NEAL RUBIN,
Freep.com,
1 Oct. 2025
Affleck tackled the role of angry soon-to-be super-senior Fred O'Bannion, who took pleasure in paddling freshmen during Lee High School's annual hazing ritual.
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