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Slidin’ into the sunset WILD RAPIDS WATERSLIDE CLOSING AFTER 34 YEARS BY PAUL COWLEY ADVOCATE STAFF
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Eric Chevalier, left, and his brothers, Kyle and Matthew, of Edmonton, drove to Sylvan Lake when they heard the last day of operation at Wild Rapids Waterslide Park was going to be Thursday. Here they do a tripletube ride on the Sidewinder yesterday. The waterside was to stay open for the weekend, but due to forecast cool weather through the long weekend the site may not open again.
Mother Nature apparently isn’t sentimental about water parks. Wild Rapids Waterslide was to go out with a final splash on the weekend, but it looks like the weather won’t co-operate. On Thursday afternoon, Wild Rapids general manager Charlie Everest was doubtful the doors would open again with highs in the 12 C to 15 C range forecast for the next three days. “It might be the final day today,” said Everest. “That’s happened quite a bit in the past. We’ve actually had weekends in the past where there’s a little bit of snow on the ground for the September long (weekend).” Please see WATERSLIDE on Page A2
‘Climbing or screaming’ WOMAN RECOUNTS ESCAPE FROM ABANDONED WELL BY THE CANADIAN PRESS REDWATER — An Alberta woman says she has been sore and sleep deprived since she spent hours clinging to the sides of an abandoned well near Edmonton earlier this week. Trieva McBeth plunged more than two metres into the grass-covered hole while she was walking her dog near Redwater, Alta., on Monday. Days later, her voice remains hoarse from screaming for help. The exertion of hoisting herself out of the well has made her body into “one big charley horse,” her muscles hurting so badly that she can barely lift anything. And she hasn’t been able to sleep. “I close my eyes and I see the cement wall in front of my face again or I see the little patch of sky that I was able to see from down there.” McBeth said she could see her four-year-old bull terrier Loki looking into the well and hear him whining.
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“I could tell he was concerned. But I had to actually get mad at him and yell at him to go away because I was worried that he was going to get too close to the edge and fall in there with me.” There was murky knee-deep water at the bottom and McBeth said she couldn’t bear the idea of Loki drowning in it. The 37-year-old alternated between yelling for help and trying to climb out of the well, all while storm clouds were forming overhead. “If I wasn’t doing one of those two things, that’s when I started thinking about everyone and not making it out of there and that’s the only time I came close to losing my cool,” she said. “So I just tried to either be climbing or screaming.” Her phone was in her car. She had her car fob in her pocket, but efforts to set off the alarm were unsuccessful.
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