COLUMN: Nanaimo’s dragon boat festival needs more support

I remember my adrenaline pumping as my dragon boat team lined up with other teams in the Newcastle Channel to prepare for a race during the annual Nanaimo Dragon Boat Festival more than 20 years ago.
We had trained for months to participate in the festival and now we were about to find out how we stacked up against other teams from Nanaimo and from as far away as Portland who had also spent a considerable amount of time on the water honing their paddling skills.
My team was the Bastion Dragons a