{"id":12519,"date":"2011-10-03T08:21:49","date_gmt":"2011-10-03T12:21:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/?p=12519"},"modified":"2011-10-06T03:33:43","modified_gmt":"2011-10-06T07:33:43","slug":"cat-island-sailing-club-distributes-water-to-hurricane-victims","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/2011\/10\/cat-island-sailing-club-distributes-water-to-hurricane-victims","title":{"rendered":"Cat Island Sailing Club Gets Water to Hurricane Victims"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_12529\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-12529\" style=\"width: 486px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12529 \" title=\"cat-island-water\" src=\"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/10\/cat-island-water.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"486\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/10\/cat-island-water.jpg 540w, https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/10\/cat-island-water-150x69.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/10\/cat-island-water-250x115.jpg 250w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 486px) 100vw, 486px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-12529\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Cat Island Sailing Club members distributing water to the hurricane victims.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>The Cat Island Sailing Club, under the leadership of President Maxwell Burrows, traveled to Cat Island on Saturday and Sunday September 24th and 25th.\u00a0 He was accompanied by Vice President James Gilbert, Secretary Andrea Sturrup, Treasurer Marcian Mortimer and other Club members.<\/p>\n<p>The group visited victims affected by Hurricane Irene and distributed cases of water to the victims.\u00a0 The group inspected damaged homes in the various settlements and handed out water from Orange Creek to Devil&#8217;s Point.<\/p>\n<p>According to President Maxwell, &#8220;The Club is more than a Regatta promoter.\u00a0 It is our goal to positively affect the lives of persons in Cat Island.\u00a0 After the hurricane, immediately we went to work by purchasing water on behalf of the good people of Cat Island.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It is our intention to do more.\u00a0 We would like to sincerely thank SYZ &amp; CO. BANK &amp; TRUST for their generous donation of 3,000 gallons of water to the Club. Also making donations towards water were members of The Cat Island Sailing Club, Henry Colebrook, Members of the Taxi Drivers; Airport and Coral Towers Stand, William Dean, Eva Pratt and Patrice Antonio. We also extend thanks to SKY Bahamas and Mr. Tom Hanna.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>In August, The Cat Island Sailing Club hosted the 55th Annual Regatta in New Bight.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Cat Island Sailing Club visited victims affected by Hurricane Irene and distributed cases of water. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":17,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"rop_custom_images_group":[],"rop_custom_messages_group":[],"rop_publish_now":"initial","rop_publish_now_accounts":{"facebook_10223285771444175_51037792744":""},"rop_publish_now_history":[],"rop_publish_now_status":"pending","footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[61,133,181,59,97],"class_list":["post-12519","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-lifestyle","tag-charity","tag-community","tag-hurricane","tag-islands","tag-sailing"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12519","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/17"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12519"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12519\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12519"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12519"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12519"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}