BUSHWOOD, Md. – Due to the anticipated adverse weather conditions from the incoming storm, 2022 Blessing of the Fleet at St. Clement’s Island Museum, scheduled for this weekend, Saturday and Sunday, October 1 & 2, 2022, has been CANCELLED. We are extremely sad that we cannot proceed with this year’s event, but safety is our first priority. See you in 2023!
The 7th District Optimist Club released the following statement:
“The club leadership had a long meeting this evening regarding the Blessing of the Fleet. Cancelling this event is not something we take lightly since it is our biggest fundraiser of the year. It is very hard, almost impossible to post a rain date for the Blessing.
We start planning this event in December and sometimes we are reserving bands 18-24 months in advance.
The team that produces our fireworks show is based in Pennsylvania, the bands we get are popular regional bands and some of the other attractions we have cannot simply commit to a rain date.
If we could come up with a rain date and all of our entertainers and attractions could commit to that we would have done that.
Planning an event of this magnitude with an entirely volunteer team is hard, having to cancel after 10 to 11 months of planning is even harder.
I want to thank all of our advertisers for their support over the years and I want to thank our community members that have also supported us over the 50+ years of our club’s existence.”
however, the blessing of the throat is probably still going on.