East Race Waterway celebrates 30 years SOUTH BEND - 29 years ago last month, then-South Bend Mayor Roger Parent, clad in a life vest and crash helmet, boarded a rubber raft and headed down the newly constructed East Race Waterway, marking the grand opening of what was then the only man-made whitewater course in North America.
July 20, 2013 - 22 WSBT South Bend