PAWTUCKET – For the 18th year, Rhode Island will celebrate the annual Chinese Dragon Boat Races & Taiwan Day Festival Saturday Sept. 9 at the Festival Pier along the Pawtucket River, the Blackstone Valley Tourism Council reminded Wednesday.
From 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. the event will host a number of attractions including a Chinese folk-art workshop, a Narragansett beer garden, food trucks, riverboat tours, and dragon boat races.
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Participants in the annual race can vie for cash prizes and trophies awarded to top teams, though all entrants will receive official 2017 Dragon Boat Races t-shirts and medals and a food voucher for the fare offered at the festival.
The winner of a dumpling eating contest will also receive a round-trip ticket to Taipei courtesy of EVA Air.
Registration for the races also includes professional training from 22Dragons, the 2017 Canadian National Champion dragon boat club.
Kyle Borowski is a PBN contributing writer.
