The Miles River Yacht Club Foundation has added its first Corporate Sponsor to the individuals and foundations supporting the Foundation’s “SOS: Sink or Swim” initiative. Kelly Distributors of Easton, a distributor of Anheuser-Busch InBev and craft brewery products to Talbot, Queen Anne’s, Caroline, Dorchester and Kent counties, will help underwrite the expense of teaching children how to swim this summer at the Bay Hundred Community Pool and Moton Pool in Talbot County.
The MRYC Foundation launched its five-year program last summer, turning 275 non-swimmers into swimmers. It seeks to teach every Talbot County child to swim, and is committing nearly $22,000 this year to teach 500 children. The Foundation and Kelly Distributors believe that swimming is a basic life skill that every Chesapeake Bay child should have, both for safety and as a prelude to being a boater.
Founded in 2010, the MRYC Foundation has granted $148,694 to 23 non-profit organizations that provide children with maritime-oriented competitive sports or educational activities in the Chesapeake Bay watershed.
Clyde Kelly of Kelly Distributors and Maggie Jarboe of the MRYC Foundation Board of Directors discuss plans for the 2015 “SOS: Sink or Swim” program in Talbot County.
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Jonathon Powers says
Very nice of the people at Kelly Dist. To help out.