{"id":2906,"date":"2021-12-14T18:08:54","date_gmt":"2021-12-14T18:08:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sailsporttalk.com\/?p=2906"},"modified":"2021-12-18T22:52:06","modified_gmt":"2021-12-18T22:52:06","slug":"marilyn-and-otis-brock-recipients-of-the-picya-2021-meritorious-award","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sailsporttalk.com\/index.php\/2021\/12\/14\/marilyn-and-otis-brock-recipients-of-the-picya-2021-meritorious-award\/","title":{"rendered":"Marilyn and Otis Brock &#8211; Recipients of the PICYA 2021 Meritorious Award"},"content":{"rendered":"<body>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Long time members\/leaders of Ebony Boat Club based in Stockton, California, established in 1987 and\u00a0<br>and the leaders with the Ebony Youth Foundation established in 2016.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Both have served as Commodores and various other leadership roles at EBC\u00a0and Otis Brock is the Treasurer for Recreational Boaters Of California (<a href=\"http:\/\/Lifelong%20service%20to%20support%20youth%20at%20risk%20and%20to%20feed%20and%20cloth%20the%20homeless.%20To%20take%20kids%20fishing%20and%20on%20the%20water%20activities.\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">RBOC<\/a>) and the Ebony Youth Foundation\u00a0(EYF).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Marilyn and\u00a0Otis Brock received the Pacific Inter-club Yacht Association (<a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"http:\/\/picya.org\/\" target=\"_blank\">PICYA<\/a>) 2021 Meritorious Service\u00a0Award &amp;\u00a0Trophy recognition for two rescues at sea in one day where they helped\u00a0to save several lives on disabled boats.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-vimeo wp-block-embed-vimeo wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"(Audio 141) Sail Sport Talk with Karen Lile: Christmas Lighted Boat Parades; Marilyn and Ottis Brock.\" src=\"https:\/\/player.vimeo.com\/video\/656812670?dnt=1&amp;app_id=122963\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"autoplay; fullscreen; picture-in-picture; clipboard-write\"><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>PICYA Award criteria:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><em>Boating\u00a0safety is a central value for PICYA and\u00a0for responsible recreational boaters\u00a0everywhere. \u00a0<br>Within the context of safety\u00a0is\u00a0the sometimes unspoken commitment to help our\u00a0fellow boaters, and to risk\u00a0our own comfort and\u00a0safety when necessary to go to the aid of\u00a0others to protect\u00a0life and property.<br><br>This\u00a0Meritorious Service Award\u00a0is presented to\u00a0any boatsman or person\u00a0regardless of their\u00a0affiliation who has performed exceptional acts\u00a0of rescue\u00a0and aid in saving of life and\/or\u00a0property in the age old tradition of the sea.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>The Ebony Youth Foundation<\/strong> is the educational and scholarship component of the Ebony Boat Club. Our mission is to provide the youth of our community with water and boating safety education and award college scholarships to a cross section of talented and deserving youth in need of financial support.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Plus ifelong service to support youth at risk and to feed and clothe the homeless. Taking kids fishing and other on the water activities.<br><br><strong>The Ebony Boat Club<\/strong> has provided the youth in our community fun and educational water-related activities and college scholarships since 1987. The Ebony Youth Foundation was established in 2016 to provide even more education and increase the fund raising efforts for our scholarship program. A registered 501(C)(3) charitable organization. 1<a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/ebony-youth-foundation.square.site\/\" target=\"_blank\">00% of donations go directly to our scholarship recipients.<br><\/a><br><br><\/p>\n<\/body>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Long time members\/leaders of Ebony Boat Club based in Stockton, California, established in 1987 and\u00a0and the leaders with the Ebony Youth Foundation established in 2016.\u00a0 Both have served as Commodores and various other leadership roles at EBC\u00a0and Otis Brock is the Treasurer for Recreational Boaters Of California (RBOC) and the Ebony Youth Foundation\u00a0(EYF). Marilyn and\u00a0Otis Brock received the Pacific Inter-club Yacht Association (PICYA) 2021 Meritorious Service\u00a0Award &amp;\u00a0Trophy recognition for two rescues at sea in one day where they helped\u00a0to save several lives on disabled boats. PICYA Award criteria: Boating\u00a0safety is a central value for PICYA and\u00a0for responsible recreational boaters\u00a0everywhere. \u00a0Within&#8230; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2912,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[181],"tags":[33,485],"class_list":["post-2906","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-recognitions","tag-picya","tag-rboc-ebony-boat-club"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/sailsporttalk.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/Screen-Shot-2021-12-14-at-10.04.57-AM.png?fit=553%2C345&ssl=1","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sailsporttalk.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2906","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sailsporttalk.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sailsporttalk.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sailsporttalk.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sailsporttalk.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2906"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/sailsporttalk.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2906\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3035,"href":"https:\/\/sailsporttalk.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2906\/revisions\/3035"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sailsporttalk.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2912"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sailsporttalk.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2906"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sailsporttalk.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2906"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sailsporttalk.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2906"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}