Membership Volunteer
Mike Coleman
Mike may not even know it yet, but he is this month’s membership volunteer of the month. For nine years, Mike has been AW’s lead on organizing the annual Deerfield Festival in Charlemont, MA. This year’s event was another great success with an estimated attendance of 1,000 paddlers.
Of those 1,000 paddlers, 145 either renewed their AW membership or joined us for the first time. Mike has taken the Deerfield to a level where northeast paddlers have come to expect a wonderful event and get it. As a result, they are more than willing to continue to help AW put on the event and support our efforts not only in the northeast, on rivers such as the Deerfield and the Ausable Chasm, but across the nation.
Thanks a bunch to Mike for putting his best AW foot forward.