Image Of The Week—A Volunteer’s Own Reward
Minus volunteers, most go-fast boating events don’t exist. Nowhere is this more evident than at the weeklong Lake of the Ozarks Shootout. The Central Missouri happening requires an army of people willing to work for little more than the satisfaction of helping others. During the past 36 years, their efforts have enabled the event to raise more than $4 million for local charities in the area.
Tyler Miller and Myrick Coil know that without the likes of Mike McClain (center) they wouldn’t have a Lake of the Ozarks Shootout to enjoy. Photo by Kendall Helmkamp copyright Helmkamp Photos
Local Mike McClain, who helps coordinate and organize the late-Sunday-afternoon awards ceremony when everyone is tired and ready to call it a week, is among those volunteers at the Shootout. During a break in the action this year, he took a moment to find Tyler Miller and Myrick Coil of M CON Racing team on the docks to sign a metal print from the Shootout Offshore event in May.
“He said he’d been volunteering for years and that the new ‘offshore’ portion of the Shootout was spectacular,” Miller recalled.
Miller and Coil were honored, and Kendall Helmkamp, the daughter of speedonthewater.com contributing photographer Jeff Helmkamp, was there to get the picture.
To all the Mike McClain’s in the go-fast boating world and beyond, enjoy this Labor Day holiday weekend. You more than earned it.
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