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Camping trip turns into river rescue ARNE PETRYSHEN Townsman Staff
A camping trip quickly became a rescue mission for a group up the Gray Creek Pass. The five-person group, which included Cranbrook resident
Mike Krahn and four of his friends, were cutting wood near their camp, when a man came running up the road. “We were about two kilometres up the Gray Creek Pass where you come off the St. Mary’s
road,” he said. “We were cutting up some wood and when we shut our saws off, we could hear somebody screaming ‘help’.” The frantic man and his three vehicle passengers had driven
across Redding Creek earlier but got stuck in the middle of the raging creek on the way back. The man had managed to swim, fighting the current, to the bank then ran about a couple of kilometres to get to
the campsite. So the group hopped into their side-by-sides with the man and he led them up the road about nine kilometres and then down an old skidder trail that takes you to Redding Creek.
Krahn said he’d been down the trail before and so was not expecting things to be good. “We get down there and we can see where the alders open up to the river and sure enough there’s a pickup sitting about 40 feet into the water, halfway across the river,” he said. The truck was facing them and leaning hard downriver, being
pushed by the strong current. Water was flowing over the hood. On top of the truck were the three other passengers, who said they could feel the truck shifting back and forth from the water’s force. The group anchored the side-by-sides near the water and used a winch line.
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B.C. considers Bountiful charges SAL LY MACD ON AL D Townsman Staff
The RCMP has handed over a report on the polygamous community near Creston to B.C.’s Criminal Justice Branch. Now independent special prosecutor Peter Wilson will examine the report and determine whether criminal charges should be laid
against people connected to Bountiful. Possible charges could relate to sexual exploitation and other alleged offences against minors by people associated with Bountiful between the early 1980s and today. Wilson could also recommend charges of polygamy.
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Body of one Findlay Creek victim retrieved SAL LY MACD ON AL D
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Isaac Hockley of HM Productions walks through the Cranbrook Curling Club Wednesday, July 10, the morning after 1,000 concert-goers were left stunned by Nazareth’s lead singer, Dan McCafferty, collapsing on stage seconds into the concert. The production company is providing full refunds — which can be obtained at Bridge Interiors. See full story, Page 4.
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last seen leaving a campsite at Whitetail Lake on June 8. Their truck was pulled out of the fast-flowing Findlay Creek near the falls on June 24, but the men were not inside it.
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