Salute to Greenwich and GSC by Scott Heimer

Scott, Hollie and Tony - Photo courtesy of Scott Heimer

My family and I, spread out across North America, want to thank the town of Greenwich for helping to put on the annual Island Beach Two Mile Swim every August. We grew up in the waters off Greenwich, so this has been a yearly reunion for us for a long time. It’s a great event, put on by great people. In particular, Jon Harnett, the race director and head of the Greenwich Swim Committee (GSC), is a terrific guy.

I do quite a few ocean swim races in Southern California, where I live. My brother Tony and his daughter Hollie, a SUNY Potsdam first-class competitive swimmer, also compete in the ocean near their home in the Norfolk, Virginia, area. Our other brother is Tom, a scuba dive master who lives in Halifax, Nova Scotia. All of us converge on the dock off Arch Street every second Saturday in August for one of our most fun days of the year.

Please know that we appreciate Greenwich and the GSC for all you do to make this day happen, and for all the effort that goes into maintaining the facilities on Island Beach just like they were when we were kids. (Probably better now)

Scott Heimer