The Humanitarian efforts of veteran Dover Downs' horseman Ken Wood will be featured tomorrow on the NBC Today show. The Ken Wood segment is scheduled for the 8:30 a.m. segment of the program
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Wood, a highly successful horseman for more than three decades will be cited for his personal effort to provide fresh drinking water to many of the inhabitants of the country of Ghana, in Western African.
For a little more than three years, Wood has provided the well drilling equipment and expertise to the local population. Wood, who operates a well drilling company with his son headquartered in the Easton-Denton area on the Maryland Eastern Shore, has already traveled to Ghana 19 times and has completed 475 well to the native community that previously had to walk around five miles to reach unfit drinking water. All of this at his own expense.
Wood has used the monies earned by his modest stable racing at Dover Downs, Harrington, Chester Downs and the Meadowlands to his project as well as other money he has borrowed to finance his campaign. He chooses to do so with aligning with interested charities because all of the money with no exception goes to his effort.
Several Rotary clubs and the harness racing industry Wood has honored for his humanitarian efforts. Wood received the U.S. Harness Writers Association Humanitarian award and Harness Horse International (HHI) Dominic Frinzi Person of the Year award in recent years.
Wood's humanitarianism will be featured on the morning Today Show, Tuesday, Oct. 19 at approximately 8:30 p.m. ET. From noon to 1:00 p.m. ET, AARP Ambassador Jane Pauley, the former co-host of the Today Show and Dateline, will participate in a live online chat at www.AARP.org/Jane to discuss reinvention, volunteerism, and how you can give back using one's career skills. Wood will join her in this month's Your Life Calling segment, along with career transition expert, David Simms of the Bridgespan Group. One can sign up now to take part in the session at www.AARP.org/Jane to participate.
(Dover Downs)