Photo by Lisa RabCan you spot the eyesore in this photo?Don't you love it when your local government acts swiftly and efficiently to protect the health of its citizens? Especially when those citizens are being threatened by evil boaters? Behold the tale of Broward County's latest brilliance: Most Saturday mornings, members of the Blazing Paddles draw a small crowd to West Lake Park in Hollywood with their drums and shouts and general cheerfulness at the ungodly hour of 9 a.m. They are dragon boa
Flickr user: Newfie BulletDon't mess with people who love to paddle.The Blazing Paddles dragon boat team won a temporary reprieve this morning in its quest to keep storing its boats and holding weekend practices at West Lake Park. The Broward County Parks and Recreation Advisory Board voted to recommend that the team stay in the park, at least until the County Commission can address the issue. "They were recommending that [the team] be allowed to store the boats at a facility that would be code-
Flickr user: Newfie BulletThe commissioners chose lunch over dragon boats.Members of the dragon boat team fighting to keep practicing in West Lake Park finally made their pitch to the Broward County Commission this week. But they were met with resounding... silence. The commissioners, who allowed the Blazing Paddles to make a presentation at Tuesday's meeting, listened and smiled while three people spoke about their beloved, ancient Chinese sport. Behind them sat more than a dozen boaters who
Flickr user: Newfie BulletThe Blazing Paddles find open arms in Hollywood.The City of Hollywood rarely gets a chance to shine as a beacon of political sanity. But after a strange, months-long tussle between dragon boaters, a lone kayaker, and Broward County commissioners, the scrappy city now looks like a hero.A dragon boating team known as the Blazing Paddles was threatened with eviction from West Lake Park in Hollywood this spring because one kayaker, Jerry Griffin, complained that their bo
