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Choppy waters on Harrison Lake has kept Kent SAR busy.
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West Coast Vintage Racers and fans mingled around the cool cars at the Agassiz Speedway Saturday evening. The itinerary featured the vintage racers, who travel all over the continent to race, as well as the Brad Adams Hornet Special, late model sportsman, mini stock and midgets races. This Saturday, the Speedway is looking for volunteers to join a work party starting at 10 a.m., to scrub, weed whack and more. For upcoming races, see www.agassizspeedway.com
Bodies of missing swimmers recovered
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Sasquatch Days in Harrison this weekend.
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No one in the group of eight were wearing life jackets, search officials say no body recoveries on the Harrison River as the current typically takes the bodies to the Fraser River. “This was a very sad event for everyone involved,” says Brewer. “But, at least we have provided closure for the families and friends.” The two men, Daniel Dale Reid, aged 23, and Gary Duong, aged 25, were both from Vancouver. Reid and Duong were part of a large group staying in Harrison. According to KHSAR, eight of them left the beachfront on an inflatable raft on Monday, June 8. Reid and Duong at some point jumped into the
Harrison River Friday morning, from Harrison The BC Coroner’s Service Lake right to the Fraser has confirmed that the two River, but didn’t find the bodies located along the other missing man. Then late Harrison River last week Friday afternoon, a fishing were those of the men that guide spotted the body went missing on Harrison upstream from the highway Baseball's Best . . . . . . 2 Lake June 8. 7 bridge in Harrison Local kayakers spotted Mills. KHSAR volunteers Opinion . . . . . . . . . . . . 6 a body two kilometres recovered the subject from down the Harrison River the shoreline next to the Mail Bag . . . . . . . . . . . 7 on Thursday, June 18 and bridge using a rope system. phoned it in. Kent Harrison “The two separate Search and Rescue (KHSAR) recoveries on the Harrison Discover . . . . . . . . . . 16 was paged Thursday evening with Riverthe were unusual, Can you add the word Chubby (before Chicken) R in front” ofstates to assist RCMP Neil Brewer, one of the team’s Garden Tour . (not . . . . after . . . 20 chicken chicken). And then we in canits go ahead. recovery. search managers. Brewer says in his KHSAR members spent Classieds . . . . . . . . . 22 four hours searching the experience, there have been Lorene Keitch THE OBSERVER
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water and planned to swim back to shore. The remaining six individuals had required assistance from KHSAR when they were unable to get back to shore. It was only later in the day that the friends realized the two men had not shown up back in Harrison. Three intensive search days turned up nothing and the search had been called off. KHSAR confirms that when they rescued the six individuals, none were wearing personal flotation devices, and the two bodies recovered did not have PFDs on either.
On Duong's Facebook page, tributes have been pouring in since the incident. Friends and family write that he was full of life, was an incredible soul and a "ridiculously talented" artist. One friend writes, "He was a stand-up man, as sensitive to art as he was to the people around him. Rest in peace, bud." KHSAR spent more than 300 volunteer hours on the rescue, search and recoveries. The BC Coroners Service and RCMP are continuing to investigate the deaths.
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