Pioneering open water swimmer visits Petersburg
Posted by Joe Viechnicki | Jul 8, 2021
(Image courtesy of Lynne Cox)
A pioneer in the field of open water swimming, motivational speaker and author makes her first visit to Petersburg this week.
64-year-old Lynne Cox has completed dozens of swims in extreme conditions around the globe, from Antarctica to the Bering Strait. That’s perhaps her most famous swim, in August of 1987 when she swam nearly three miles from Little Diomede to Big Diomede Island in the Bering Strait, crossing the border from Alaska into the Soviet Union. She trained for that challenge in Nome and received encouragement from a Petersburg fishermen as she swam along the Nome shoreline.
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Virginia State University welcomed home one of their own. Petersburg native Dr. Jewel Bronaugh made her first official appearance as USDA Deputy Secretary at a closed-session roundtable and public town hall meeting.
“VSU is the Commonwealth’s leader in supporting socially disadvantaged farmers and ranchers through its agricultural research and Cooperative Extension programs,” said Dr. M. Ray McKinnie, VSU College of Agriculture Dean and 1890 administrator. “It was truly an honor for Deputy Secretary Bronaugh to recognize our work in this field and to choose VSU as the Virginia site to host the USDA’s Socially Disadvantaged Producer American Rescue Plan Roundtable and Town Hall.”