Grab an oar and row June 7
National Learn To Row Day is Saturday, June 7, and the Albany Rowing Center is sponsoring a free event from 8:30 a.m. to noon.
Participants should meet at the Albany Corning Preserve Boat Launch on Water Street.
Wear comfortable clothes suitable for the weather and bring drinking water.
Albany Rowing Center volunteers will give tours of the boathouse and boatyard.
Learn about different boats and rowing terminology, practice the rowing stroke on a stationary rowing machine and then try out the skills on the river.
For more information, go to email@example.com
To register for the event, go to http://www.albanyrowingcenter.org.
-— Staff report
Disparity in drowning risks
Almost 21,000 people younger than 30 died from drowning from 1999 to 2010, and there were substantial variations in death rates depending on age, race and ethnicity.
An analysis published in Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report found that infants most commonly drowned in bathtubs, young children in swimming pools, and people older than10 in natural water settings.
Non-Hispanic whites at age 1 had a higher rate of drowning than blacks and Hispanics, possibly because whites have easier access to backyard swimming pools. But by age 10, drowning rates among blacks significantly exceeded those of whites and Hispanics, a difference that became narrower with age but was still apparent by age 29.
Swimming pools were generally safer than natural water settings, but blacks ages 5 to 19 were 5.5 times more likely to drown in pools than whites the same age.