In our edition of October 26, 2024, we reported on the action carried out by Rowing Hennebontais, as part of Pink October. Taking up the challenge launched by the French Federation of the discipline, the Hennebontais (Morbihan) had installed two rowers in the Intermarché shopping mall. “Our objective, underlines Armelle Leleup, the club secretary, was to achieve 500 km 547 kilometers were covered between October 16 and 31, 2024. Customers, employees of the establishment, volunteers from Aviron hennebontais took turns (i.e. 469 passages) and the kilometers traveled represented 2 days 9 hours and 27 minutes of non-stop rowing. »
For the sick
Sébastien Lemaire, the director of the supermarket, had committed to donating one euro per kilometer. Promise kept. Monday November 18, 2024, the latter presented a check for €547 to Catherine Le Sauce, of the Lorient Cancer League. This gave some information on the use of the funds: “They are used entirely for the benefit of patients on the four missions of committee 56: 63% goes to patients (social support, home help, financial assistance, supportive care, psychological support, socio-aesthetic care, adapted physical activity, health care). comfort, plantar and palmar reflexology, group sophrology, k’fés papotes); 26% looking; 10% for prevention and 1% societal mission. »
This Saturday, November 23, 2024, Rowing Hennebontais will hold two general meetings: an extraordinary general meeting to modify the statutes, then the ordinary general meeting.
Saturday November 23, 2024, at 6 p.m., at the Saint-Gilles neighborhood center.