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Kids Snapper Fishing Derby Honors Former Organizer
The event provides free bait, refreshments and prizes.
NEW ROCHELLE, NY — New Rochelle Parks and Recreation recently hosted the 16th annual Kids Snapper Fishing Derby and also honored a former organizer. A mayoral proclamation declared Sept. 9 as "Robert A. Cerreta Day."
Cerreta, who recently died, organized the first Hudson Park Snapper Derby in 2002.
Sixteen years later, it attracted more than 50 young people ages 6 to 16.
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The event features free bait, refreshments and prizes.
At this year's event, organizers said Cerreta was remembered for his passion for fishing, instilled by his mother who first took him to Hudson Park to fish as a young boy.
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Cerreta was a longtime member of the New Rochelle Advisory Committee on the Waterfront and also served as the chief ranger of the New Rochelle Forester's Club of America.
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