The OWLS Dragonflies are racing in the Portland Rose Festival Dragon Boat Races this weekend.  The best place to view the races is from the Tom McCall Waterfront Park, just south of the Hawthorne Bridge. The race course runs from the Marquam Bridge to the Hawthorne Bridge (approx. 535 meters) and each race takes about 3 grueling minutes.  The Dragonflies will be racing at 9:06 am and 2:12 pm on Saturday, and we would love a whole bunch of screaming fans lining the river.  We will know at the end of the day Saturday when our first race on Sunday is, which will start sometime between 9:48 and 10:33 am. We plan to place well enough to make it into the Women's semi-finals, which will start anytime between 1:21 and 1:48 pm. We also hope to be in the Women's finals, which starts around 3:25.

Looks for us in purple and white shirts in our tent bedecked with our logo and sponsor banners.  A big thank you to the following for sponsoring us in 2009, especially in this economy:

PLATINUM SPONSORS
Cable Huston Benedict Haagensen & Lloyd LLP
Landye Bennett Blumstein LLP
Perkins Coie LLP
Yates, Matthews & Eaton, P.C.

GOLD MEDAL SPONSOR
Farleigh Wada Witt

SILVER MEDAL SPONSORS
Clif Bar
Gentle Dental
Weber Gunn, PLLC

BRONZE MEDAL SPONSOR
Next Adventure

PEARL SPONSORS
Barran Liebman LLP
Bodyfelt Mount LLP
Bullard Smith Jernstedt Wilson
Garvey Schubert Barer
Paradigm Legal Nurse Consulting

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