Celebrating the 20th annual Great Lake Villa Madonna Cardboard Boat Regatta — yes, a wet (but fun) day for all

Villa Madonna students put physics to the test in cardboard boat race

At the sounding of a Viking horn, Villa Madonna Academy students shoved their life jacket-clad teammates in colorful cardboard contraptions off the banks of the school’s pond. Shrieks filled the misty Friday morning air as the entire student body, decked in rainbow colors, cheered on the student duos who paddled feverishly with cardboard oars. Within […]

Celebrating the 20th annual Great Lake Villa Madonna Cardboard Boat Regatta — yes, a wet (but fun) day for all

By Andy Furman NKyTribune staff writer The text is carved into the front of the James A. Farley Post Office in New York City. And the kids at Villa Madonna Academy probably knew about it. You know — “Neither snow nor rain not heat nor gloom of night stays these couriers from the swift completion...