New Boating Club Promotes Safety, Charity

Lake Saint Louis' newest boating club, the Good Samaritan Pleasure Boating Club, manned a booth at the recent On the Water Boat Show at Windjammer Pointe. On a nearby picnic table was a stack of life jackets of various types, sizes and colors and a sign that read

Free life jacket exchange

Need one? Take it!

Have one? Leave it!

The club's goal is "to provide an organized network of LSLCA members willing to commit to being a Good Samaritan and provide assistance and support to boaters or swimmers in distress on Lake Saint Louis and Lake Sainte Louise until emergency personnel can respond. Club memers wll also support safe boating best practices."

The club is registering new members at three levels of membership: boating members, social members and supporters.

The club's Rib White and Blue Festival, a rib cook-off, will be from 4 p.m. - 8 p.m., Saturday, July 2 at the Lake Saint Louis Community Association clubhouse. The ticket price of $30 for adults includes dinner, an open beer and wine bar, music, a silent auction and swimming for the kids (kids' price is $15). Proceeds from this event will be used to send Marine Corporal Todd Nicely to New York for the ten-year memorial ceremony of 9-11.

KSDK's Mike Bush interviewed Cpl. Nicely in September of 2010. Nicely lost his hands and legs while serving in Afghanistan.