Jim Szymanski said this week that he and other organizers are more than halfway to their goal of raising $20,000 for inflatable suspender collars for the Haines fishing fleet. Many of the donations are from fishermen, he said.
The flotation devices slip over a fisherman’s suspenders, so they’re always attached, said Szymanski. He launched the effort as a memorial to friend and gillnet skipper Richard “Dick” Boyce.
Boyce was presumed drowned after falling off his…
