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Local hairdresser inspired by social media donates her talents to homeless people in Campbell River: Pg. 3
Police deal with rise in mental health situations Campbell River RCMP have seen an increase in mental-health related calls: Pg. 5
Local landmark gets a lift – to a new location
Campbell River’s very own clock tower is removed from Tyee Plaza and out of the downtown: Pg. 16
Jamie Turko, owner of Destiny River Adventures Rafting Centre, helps Jo-Ann Dumont, a person with quadriplegia, to snorkle with the salmon.
Woman doesn’t let quadriplegia prevent her from swimming with the salmon JOCELYN DOLL CAMPBELL RIVER MIRROR
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ast week Jo-Ann Dumont was carried from her wheelchair onto a bus and then onto a raft to snorkel with the
salmon. Jamie Turko, owner of Destiny River Adventures Rafting Centre, has taken hundreds of people down the Campbell River to snorkel with the salmon, including a few amputees and a paraplegic, but
Dumont was his first person with quadriplegia. “We usually try to push our limits a little bit, but snorkelling in the river I hadn’t done yet,” Dumont said. “It was an incredible experience and it was only because
of [Turko’s] passion for disabled people and that everybody should have a great experience that I got to go.” Dumont was bundled into a wet suit. Because of her poor circula-
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