Austin Haynes Steps Up - Now It’s Your Turn
By Greg L | 2 July 2008 | Patriotism | 11 Comments
Soil and Water Board member Austin Haynes likes the idea of a spraypark in Manassas, although he doesn’t like the idea of having taxpayers fund it, especially when budgets are tight. So instead of griping about it, he’s raising money himself to have it built. Classy.
From my inbox this evening:
Dear Friends,
It is less than a month away from my annual fundraising birthday event. I will be attempting to swim 20 miles in a 24 hr. period. The Olympic swimming marathon is 6.3 miles. This is over 3 marathons in 1 day! I am trying to raise money to build a Sprayground in the City of Manassas. A sprayground allows children with disabilities to participate in the water, please join me in this good cause.
August 1, is my 50th birthday and this event is my gift to the city. Manassas has been great to my family; I can’t think of a better way to celebrate my birthday. If you have already donated, thank you. If not, please consider helping out! I don’t want gifts, I want checks! My goal is to raise $25000. this year. I am attaching a pledge form and feel free to stop by at Stonewall Park Pool on August 1 to cheer me on. I will dive in at 6am on the 1st and have to finish by 6 am on the 2nd.
Thank you and God Bless,
Austin B. Haynes
Twenty miles in the water. That is just amazing.
You can reach Austin at Austin@christopherrealestate.net, and can download the pledge form here. Let’s help Austin as he tries to help kids with disabilities in Manassas!
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What a great opportunity to help our community. I hope Austin gets his call answered. If everyone gave just a little we’d have a “spraypark” in no time.
Good luck Austin.
Thanks for letting us know about this Greg.
I met him once - had a wonderful conversation with him. I am going to be sure to stop by Stonewall to wish him well on the first, with a check in hand.
The whole concept of this event, the Ultimate Swim-A-Thon, originated last year when Austin raised about $7,000 for it. You may also contribute online at the City of Manassas Recreation website:
http://www.manassascity.org/index.asp?nid=510
This is an exciting opportunity for the City.
That is certainly a class act. Thanks for posting this. Getting the job done by keeping limited government principles and not raising taxes; good on all fronts.
Three cheers for Austin. He is a long time supporter
of the Manassas community, especially of our children.
- The Spraypark will be a popular venue available
to everyone, including those with disabilities.
- It will contribute to the upgrade of the Stonewall Park
pool area (now over twenty-five years old) by
adding an exciting new attraction.
- Plan to be there and help support Austin on August 1st.
I want to thank everyone for cheering Austin on to his goal. Austin has always been a friend of Recreation and Parks and we appreciate his tremendous support. A Sprayground is a zero depth water feature that will benefit everyone no matter what their age or ability and requires no additional staff. Thanks again Austin!
If anyone else would like to participate, please contact the Recreation & Parks Department to get your pledge form. Please don’t think that you have to swim 20 miles; any distance would be great.
Wow! Thanks Greg so much for posting this. I did not know until just now when I received a call from one of your readers. I hope everyone that can, will support this.
My trainning is not going as well as I hoped, pain has definately set in. Last year I swam a little over 8 miles in one clip, 20 is going to be a real test! I will have 24 hours to do it, so I can have some breaks.
We have a great town and I am proud to be associtaed with it. I beleive things are best accomplished with public/private partnerships and i want to thank the city for their support.
Austin
David Core, along with Austin, has been driving this effort on behalf of Recreation and Parks for well over a year now. Dave and Austin are a great example of citizens who go above and beyond for the good of the greater community. Thanks guys!
What?!?
An elected official swimming for charity instead of drinking martinis with developers? We (here in Fairfax County) would never tolerate such an outrage. Our elected officials do not get their exercise from swimming. They get their exercise the old fashioned way - by bending at the waist to kiss the butts of builders.
On a more serious note - good for Austin.
However, I’ve got to ask, “What’s a zero depth water feature?”. Is that a pool with an open drain?
Dear Groveton, Just a little info on myself: I do not drink alchohol (almost 20 years) and I run a real estate company. I love builders and developers provided their projects make sound fiscal and planning sense! As to Fairfax, you may want to move to the City of Manassas or Prince William County! We have plenty of houses available and I know a good agent!
A zero depth feature is political correctness for ground level or FLAT.
Dave Core has really ran with the Sprayground project as well as JoAnn Higgs the department director. Many thanks!
thats my daddy!!!!
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