New & Notable: The Ride breaks the $1 million mark in this, its 11th year. The 20-mile River Ride makes its debut. Roswell Park’s WJK Park and Gardens is renamed Kaminski Park and Gardens after the late Waldemar Kaminski, a self-made millionaire whose donations underwrote its development in 2000.
Founder Mitch Flynn announcing that the 2006 Ride had broken the $1 million mark.