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Helping Hands on the Great Loop

Rick and Suzanne Rosenwald have been helping people all their lives. He’s a retired firefighter and she’s a retired paramedic and healthcare worker. It just made sense to them, after they completed an America’s Great Loop cruise, to volunteer as helpers for other Loopers cruising near their hometown of Sheboygan, Wisconsin, on Lake Michigan.

“As we were doing the Loop, there were so many people who helped us out with little things here and there,” Suzanne says. “When you’re on your boat, you don’t have a car to go run and get things. You don’t have a way to go get a certain screw or a cord for the

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