So... I don't quite know what to say other than thank you to everyone! As many of you may or may not know I was entered to run Duryea for my first time in years. I even registered and teched, in the pooring rain, friday night. But I guess god had a slightly different plan for me that weekend, and at 1am saturday morning I was driving my wife Tess to the hospital becuase she had gone into labor! She was 3 weeks early, and this was our first. Everyone kept telling us the first one's always late, well not for us. I thought there would be no problem running Duryea but I guess I was wrong. At 6:36am saturday our son was born. In honor of the events, of which the Duryea and Pagoda hillclimbs have been a part of my life in one way or another for at least 20 years, and the fact that I drove Tess up Duryea Drive to the Pagoda and looked out over the city on our very first date, we named him Declan Duryea Kennedy. I want to thank my brother Matt for the Idea of getting people to sign a poster for little Declan, and I want to thank everyone for signing it and all the well wishes. It's going to be so much fun celebrating his birthday each year AT the hill. Attached should be a photo of my father Don holding him in one of his many Duryea Hillclimb T-shirts.
Thanks again,
Keith Kennedy
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What an awesome name! Kudo's to you both...congrats!
*His nickname may become "Pagoda".
*His nickname may become "Pagoda".
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Congratulations Keith! This reminds me of Bill Lessig (Lotus Elan) who has run every Duryea since about 1969. Every one except the one he missed when his son was born!
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On Thursday evening, BMR donated $1,000 to the Pagoda Pennies Flagpole Fund. The donation was made at the Foundation For The Reading Pagoda's official rollout reception held at the Pagoda.
$240 came from the Saturday night auction, the rest from shuttle bus donations and the car show.
Thanks to everyone who helped make this possible!
$240 came from the Saturday night auction, the rest from shuttle bus donations and the car show.
Thanks to everyone who helped make this possible!
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Just got the report from our friends at Pagoda Skyline, Inc. They received a total of $1,685 in voluntary admission donations at Duryea this year. They are happy!