Hospice Cup Creates Youth Charity Awareness through Art and Sailing
Honoring
the all-new Junior
Hospice Regatta, Hospice Cup,
Inc. has chosen the image of junior artist, Aaron Marshall, a freshman at
Anne Arundel Community College, to represent the race taking place Saturday,
September 26, 2009, following the main regatta on the Chesapeake Bay near
Annapolis, Maryland.
The Junior Hospice
Regatta is a new race premiering during this year’s Hospice Cup Regatta,
which will include the 16 top performing junior racers from all over the
Chesapeake region. The junior sailors will be competing in “team racing
format” using Optimist dinghy sailboats.
“It’s a unique situation where junior sailors are working together to make
this first effort a success in 2009. We hope to give them positive exposure
to team racing which they will carry on the collegiate level, while also
introducing them to hospice and what it’s all about,” said Brien Jones-Lantzy,
Hospice Cup, Inc. Secretary of the Board, and co-chair of the junior regatta
event.
Marshall, a Severn, Maryland resident, studied art during his four years of
high school under the tutelage of Ms. Rita McRoy, at Annapolis Area
Christian School. Ms. McRoy was the creator of the official image of the
2008 Hospice Cup Regatta, “Victory.”
“Ms. Rita was such a blessing to me and she inspired me to paint with my
heart, soul and mind, not just with my hands. In the first stages of my
painting, the canvas looked flat and dull, but as time went on and with
encouragement from Ms. Rita, this lifeless ocean suddenly became an
explosion of color and movement."
Marshall’s image will be printed on tee-shirts and posters created
specifically for the junior sailor participants, and will also be auctioned
off at the post-race Shore Party at the Atria Manresa on the Severn River.
This all-day junior sailing event will begin at 10:00 am on the 26th with
pre-race coaching and practice for the junior sailors. The Hospice Cup
Junior Regatta races will be held from 4:00 – 5:30 pm. Spectators will be
able to watch the Junior Regatta from the
Shore Party location taking
place at the Atria Manresa located on the Severn River. Awards for the
Junior Regatta will be awarded during the feature trophy ceremony for the
Hospice Cup XXVIII.
About Hospice Cup
To date, over $7 million dollars has been raised for the
participating hospices since the race began in 1982. The annual event is
a cooperative effort of Hospice Cup, Inc., numerous volunteers to support
the hospices participating in the race, the Shearwater Sailing Club and the
Storm Trysail Club.
Funds raised on behalf of the
Hospice Cup regatta help to pay the expenses not covered by Medicare or
private insurance. These dollars enable the hospices to provide skilled
compassionate care, comfort and dignity to the terminally ill, their
families and friends, regardless of their ability to pay. Hospice enables
patients to carry on alert, pain-controlled lives so their last days may be
spent in comfort, at home or in home-like settings. Hospice care
concentrates on care, not cure. Bereavement counseling and support groups
are part of hospice services after the loss of a loved one.
The 2009 participating hospices currently include:
Capital Hospice,
Hospice of the Chesapeake,
and Montgomery Hospice. Each
hospice must meet the standards of the National Hospice and Palliative Care
Organization.
The annual Hospice Cup race is a cooperative effort organized by the
all-volunteer Hospice Cup, Inc. (HCI) Board of Directors and its executive
director, the staff of participating area hospices and hundreds of volunteers. The race
is managed by Shearwater Sailing Club and assisted by Storm Trysail Club
Chesapeake Station.
The Hospice Cup race is sanctioned by the Chesapeake Bay Yacht Racing
Association (CBYRA) and counts for CBYRA season-long High Point competition.
Hospice Cup, Inc. is a 501(c)(3) non-profit organization chartered under the
laws of the Commonwealth of Virginia, Maryland and the District of Columbia
for the purposes of conducting a benefit yacht race and related events.
Hospice Cup, Inc. is also a proud member of the National Hospice Regatta
Alliance, www.hospiceregattas.org.
Additional information about the event can be found online at the official
Hospice Cup web site www.hospicecup.org.
Contact: Julie Phillips-Turner
Phone: 410-490-0033
E-mail: jbpturner@aol.com