{"id":213562,"date":"2026-06-08T10:41:15","date_gmt":"2026-06-08T10:41:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/213562\/"},"modified":"2026-06-08T10:41:15","modified_gmt":"2026-06-08T10:41:15","slug":"high-school-crew-team-rowing-368-miles-along-erie-canal-to-benefit-homeless-shelter-in-rochester","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/213562\/","title":{"rendered":"High school crew team rowing 368 miles along Erie Canal to benefit homeless shelter in Rochester"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>By Tom Rivers, Editor  Posted 7 June 2026  at 4:20 pm <\/p>\n<p>\t\t\tMcQuaid Jesuit rowers passing through Orleans County today on day 1 of week-long trek<\/p>\n<p><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-245448 alignnone\" src=\"data:image\/svg+xml,%3Csvg%20xmlns=\" http:=\"\" alt=\"\" width=\"650\" height=\"433\" data-lazy- data-lazy- data-lazy-src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/060726_RowHope5.jpg\"\/><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-245448 alignnone\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/060726_RowHope5.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"650\" height=\"433\"  \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Photos by Tom Rivers<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">ALBION \u2013 The McQuaid Jesuit crew team was out this afternoon rowing along the Erie Canal. They are shown in a photo taken from the Presbyterian Road canal bridge.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-245454 alignnone\" src=\"data:image\/svg+xml,%3Csvg%20xmlns=\" http:=\"\" alt=\"\" width=\"675\" height=\"450\" data-lazy- data-lazy- data-lazy-src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/060726_RowHope8.jpg\"\/><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-245454 alignnone\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/060726_RowHope8.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"675\" height=\"450\"  \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The group left Buffalo in the morning and is headed to Brockport on day 1 of an eight-day \u201cRow for Hope\u201d to Albany. The team is raising money for Rochester\u2019s House of Mercy that serves people experiencing homelessness.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-245450 alignnone\" src=\"data:image\/svg+xml,%3Csvg%20xmlns=\" http:=\"\" alt=\"\" width=\"675\" height=\"450\" data-lazy- data-lazy- data-lazy-src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/060726_RowHope6.jpg\"\/><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-245450 alignnone\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/060726_RowHope6.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"675\" height=\"450\"  \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The journey will cover 368 miles over the eight days. The group left Buffalo in the morning and stopped in Medina just after noon for lunch. They will stay overnight in Brockport tonight.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">There are 11 boys on the team making the trek across the canal. They plan to put in about eight hours a day of rowing. The schedule also includes camping at Palmyra, Weedsport, Brewerton, Rome and Glenville.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">For more information about the Row4Hope or to donate, visit <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mcquaidcrew.org\/s-projects-side-by-side\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">http:\/\/houseofmercyrochester.org\/rowforhope\/<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-245449\" class=\"size-full wp-image-245449\" src=\"data:image\/svg+xml,%3Csvg%20xmlns=\" http:=\"\" alt=\"\" width=\"675\" height=\"459\" data-lazy- data-lazy- data-lazy-src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/060726_RowHope2.jpg\"\/><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-245449\" class=\"size-full wp-image-245449\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/060726_RowHope2.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"675\" height=\"459\"  \/><\/p>\n<p id=\"caption-attachment-245449\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">The team heads east on the canal, with the Allen\u2019s Bridge road canal bridge in sight.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"By Tom Rivers, Editor Posted 7 June 2026 at 4:20 pm McQuaid Jesuit rowers passing through Orleans County&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":213563,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[136,138,137],"class_list":["post-213562","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-erie","tag-erie","tag-erie-headlines","tag-erie-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/213562","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=213562"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/213562\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/213563"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=213562"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=213562"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=213562"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}