Save the URGER Update at Tugboat Roundup Muster
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WHAT: Save the Urger Update at Tugboat Roundup Muster
WHEN: Friday, September 7 at 2:00 p.m.
WHERE: U.S.S. Slater / Dutch Apple Cruise Parking Lot - Port of Albany - 141 Broadway at Quay Street
- Jay DiLorenzo, President, Preservation League of New York State
- Hon. John T. McDonald III, NYS Assembly, 108th District
- Hon. Patricia Fahy, NYS Assembly, 109th District
- Bob Radliff, Executive Director, Erie Canalway National Heritage Corridor
Speakers will provide an update on an advocacy campaign, launched August 1, to save the National Register-listed Erie Canal Tug Urger and to #KeepCanalBoatsAfloat.
The news conference will take place against the backdrop of boats forming a flotilla to travel north from Albany to the Tugboat Basin in Waterford for the 19th annual Tugboat Roundup – including the historic fireboat John J. Harvey. The vessel received an Excellence in Preservation Award from the Preservation League in 2002.
Colorful #SaveTheUrger banners will be deployed along the route, including at the Troy Riverfront Park and the 112th Street Bridge, as the vessels go by.
The League will have a table and continue to collect petition signatures at the Tugboat Roundup in Waterford on Friday, Saturday and Sunday, and Jay DiLorenzo will present a "Tug Talk" titled From Workhorse to Flagship: Tug Urger at the Waterford Harbor Visitor Center at 1 Tugboat Alley on Sunday at 11 a.m..
For more information, visit www.preservenys.org