{"id":47571,"date":"2013-06-21T15:00:02","date_gmt":"2013-06-21T19:00:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/?p=47571"},"modified":"2013-06-21T12:16:15","modified_gmt":"2013-06-21T16:16:15","slug":"assemblyman-stirpes-bill-allows-expansion-of-syracuse-chargers-rowing-club","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/?p=47571","title":{"rendered":"Assemblyman Stirpe\u2019s bill allows expansion of Syracuse Chargers Rowing Club"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/madisoncountycourier.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/Al-Stirpe.jpg\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-thumbnail wp-image-43068\" alt=\"Al Stirpe\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/madisoncountycourier.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/Al-Stirpe-150x150.jpg?resize=150%2C150\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/><\/a>(June 18, 2013) A bill authored by Assemblyman Al Stirpe (D-Cicero) that would allow the Syracuse Chargers Rowing Club to lease over 2 acres of waterfront park land on Onondaga Lake from Onondaga County, has passed\u00a0both the Assembly and Senate (A.7743).<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMany in our community rely on the Chargers to meet the area\u2019s rowing needs and it\u2019s important that this club has the resources available to fit the growing popularity of the club,\u201d Assemblyman Stirpe said. \u201cMore schools in our community would like to field rowing teams and existing teams want to expand their current teams to include boys.\u00a0 A new Chargers Rowing Club boathouse would allow for these team additions and expansions.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The bill would allow the Chargers to lease the land needed to build a bigger boathouse to meet the needs of the community. The club has a long and proud tradition of sport rowing in Central New York. It serves many organizations and institutions in the region including; Onondaga County and the county parks system, the city of Syracuse and many area high schools. Currently, the Chargers operate out of a boathouse in Onondaga Lake Park, which is owned by the county. The club, in partnership with the county, has developed plans to build a new boathouse that will be located near the existing boathouse.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe frankly cannot keep up with the demand of the community with the size of our current boathouse. Over half of the club\u2019s fleet of rowing shells is stored outside during the summer. We have no more room,\u201d\u00a0Joe Bufano, president of the Syracuse Chargers Rowing Club\u00a0said. \u201cI would like to thank Assemblyman Stirpe for helping us with this legislation so we can better serve all the rowers of our region.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIn recent years these rowing teams have provided the opportunities for many local girls to receive athletic scholarships. In fact, the largest number of Division I athletic scholarships, for women, are in crew,\u201d Assemblyman Stirpe noted. \u201cWithout these scholarships, many of the girls would not be able to afford college tuition. Crew allows them to realize the college dream.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(June 18, 2013) A bill authored by Assemblyman Al Stirpe (D-Cicero) that would allow the Syracuse Chargers Rowing Club to lease over 2 acres of waterfront park land on Onondaga Lake from Onondaga County, has passed\u00a0both the Assembly and Senate (A.7743). \u201cMany in our community rely on the Chargers to meet the area\u2019s rowing needs [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[22341],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-47571","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-regional"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p43meu-cnh","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47571","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=47571"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47571\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=47571"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=47571"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=47571"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}