Editor’s note: Over the years, Mike Sweeney has embarked on many strenuous adventures, in order to raise awareness and money for The Arc of Amador and Calaveras. The arduous journey outlined below is Sweeney’s latest, and he will be telling our readers about the joys and pains along the way.Â
At the recent Journey of Hope picnic for the inspiring PUSH America cyclists, Ledger Dispatch sports editor Jerry Budrick and I shared a pleasant lunch.
As we watched camaraderie unfold among the people we serve and the cyclists, talk turned to summer plans. I told him that I was planning another hike to raise much-needed funds for our nonprofit, The Arc of Amador and Calaveras  … More
An accident in 1998 left George Rickman with his right leg amputated, after he fell 40 feet at a construction site.
Rickman said he thought he never would recover from the accident, but after receiving prosthetics and a little encouragement, he not only rebounded, but began competing for national kayak championships.
The Middleville resident was one of six physically disabled athletes to compete Tuesday in  … More
More than two dozen men’s and women’s teams paddle 20 miles round-trip in the 40th Annual Whitey Harrison Classic. Spectators watch from vantage points up and down the coast.
Garrett Crayton, 11, helped his teammates get their nine-person, 40-foot outrigger canoe up out of the waters of Dana Point Harbor. He and his Lanakila outrigger canoe club members had just completed the 20-mile Whitey Harrison Classic race from Dana Point Harbor to Laguna Beach, and back to Doheny Beach  … More
Six sailing canoes hailing from Pacific Islands, recreated their entry under the Golden Gate Bridge on Sunday after completing the Hawai’I to California leg of their trans-Pacific journey earlier in the week  … Pictures and more