Eckerd College Search and Rescue aids stranded boater, hits pay dirt – Eckerd College News
Jarad Mattson, owner of A Tractor Works, a landscaping supply company in Pinellas Park, Florida, was motoring a 24-foot sailboat from St. Petersburg to Palmetto one evening in late June. “It was about 5 p.m. and I had made it most of the way,” he recalls.
“But the tide was coming in, and I burned more gas than I thought I would. Then the engine shut off. I ran out of gas. I called all my friends, but no one could make it out there. So I spent the night on the boat.”
The next day, one of his friends suggested he call Eckerd College “because they have a rescue team that could help me. They were there in half an hour, and they had the gas I needed to get home.”
Fast-forward to mid-July.
Jarad Mattson dumps six cubic yards of fill dirt at the farm, free of charge. Photo by Penh Alicandro ’22
Maggie Jensen ’11, Eckerd College’s farm manager, needed to order a truckload of fill dirt. She was looking for a landscape company relatively close to campus. For no particular reason, she called…
The post Eckerd College Search and Rescue aids stranded boater, hits pay dirt – Eckerd College News first appeared on SEO, Marketing and Social News | OneSEOCompany.com.
source: https://news.oneseocompany.com/2023/07/25/eckerd-college-search-and-rescue-aids-stranded-boater-hits-pay-dirt-eckerd-college-news_2023072548085.html
Your content is great. However, if any of the content contained herein violates any rights of yours, including those of copyright, please contact us immediately by e-mail at media[@]kissrpr.com.