The boat race is part of the annual Hong Kong Dragon Boat Festival, an opportunity for Georgia's Chinese-American social and professional organizations to network while enjoying traditional Chinese arts and sports. Crews of 20 maneuver the racers along a 500-meter course. Another festival, also in its seventh year, will celebrate the traditions of Atlanta's Scandinavian community. Atlanta is home to more than 5,000 Scandinavians. The Boat Festival will take place at the Olympic Rowing Venue at Lake Lanier, at 9 a.m. Saturday.
Admission is free.
The Scandinavian Festival will be held at the Cobb County Civic Center from 10 a.m. to 7 p.m. Saturday and from 11 a.m. to 6 p.m. Sunday. Health officials say significant scientific work done in the developing world on diseases such as cholera and sleeping sickness is often lost to the global community because field workers and researchers lack access to the academic journals and peer networks of industrialized countries. By combining CARE's field work in some of the poorest areas in the world with the CDC's scientific expertise, the organizations hope to bring valuable knowledge to light. This week, CARE field staff members from Ghana, Kenya, Madagascar, Nicaragua, Peru, south Sudan and Tanzania are in Atlanta working with technical advisors to prepare articles on their work for the American Journal of Public Health. The articles will be published in the journal's October issue.