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fle de La Madeleine, Quebec
— THE WORST moment

-. Game when I peeked around

., the edge of the closed win-
., dow, blind in the second-

, Story hotel room. where we:
‘were barricaded with our
lights.out so the mob.
wouldn’t figure out which
room we. were. hiding i in,. and

; Saw one of the sealers drag-
‘ginga’ black: Vietnam-style ~

. ‘body bag across the parking ©
Jot jammed with pickups ©:

trucks, and I thought:

They’ ve killed him.

; : For. years Ihave ‘been haunted ©
“by the awful thought that some -:’
‘day I would wind up’ having to
"report Paul: Watson's murder,
“assassination or crucifixion, and °
the day.I dreaded had finally. ~
‘come... . uM
iDown at the end of the rlivay
where, Watson had been cornered .
by nearly. 200 drunken seal -
hunters,'we could hear the screams
of a pack that had caught its prey.
Crouched by the window, \.":
‘videographer -Todd Southgate’
risked discovery by poking his
lens out to roll-on the wild scene
outside as the mob erupted from
‘the hotel foyer. Todd couldn't see.”
Paul, but we knew. they had him.
bepaluse e everybody was now taking
oO

was still alive. The bad news was: .

a that they. were probably taking him °.

somewhere to finish him off. .
‘After the ‘mob took down the
door and surged into. Watson’s
room, Hammering veteran Sea
‘Shepherd photographer Mark . *
. Gaede, smashing his camera, and

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The good news was,. itr meant he

trying to gouge his eyes out, the
local cops who were supposed to
be protecting Paul stepped aside to
let the mob at him.

“Watson retreated into his bed-
room, threw the mattress against
the door, and held it as long as he
could, before it too broke and
about 40 hunters surged in.

They had Watson with his back
to the wall.”

The sealers cursed at him, then
one of them leapt forward and
grabbed Watson’s hair.

Watson immediately grabbed
him back by the hair and shoved,
sending him flying. Then the cap-
tain of one of the ships Watson

‘had driven from the Gulf of St..

Lawrence a few years before

lurched forward and threw a fist at

the side of Watson's head.
He connected.
The mob surged in for the kill.

‘ They punched him to the floor and
-- began to kick at his kidneys and

spine and head.

The two cops ‘made no move sto
end it.

If anybody saved Watson from

permanent maiming, it was one

’ young sealer who, at the last

moment must have decided enough -

was enough, and planted himself
over Watson, his own back to the

_others, shielding Watson as Paul
himself had shielded so many seals sic
“ Germans bolted for the church,

’. Todd led the rest of us in through

in the past. :

- But then, as the mob backed °
off, panting, satiated, Watson — ;
recalls saying: “I’m‘not going.”

“It'was enough to drive the seal- ~

ers crazy again, ‘and this time; the,

“cops finally pushed their their way

“to Watson’s side, hoisted him'by : ”
his elbows and dragged him’:

; fhrough the door. ao

GLC.
: fates

No sooner was he shoved into
the police jeep than a brick hit the
glass, the shrapnel slashing his
right temple.

What we saw from our hotel
room was the cavalcade streaming
for the airport. And then there was
frantic pounding on our door. It
was Lisa and Mark Gaede: “Quick,
get out of here! They said they're
gonna smash your cameras and
take your tapes!”

They had their main prey. It
was our turn —~ the media’s — to
be hunted.

Two Germans had already
escaped. by jumping from their
second floor window at the back _

of the hotel onto an awning and ~
sliding down into a snowbank.

Todd and I scrambicd to dig out
our tapes from our cameras and
bags, stuff them into our pockets,
and ran for the side ‘exit stairs.

The choice was to go out the

back, or out the front, Where

clutches of sealers were still
milling about, and the parking lot

‘lights blazed like a lit stage.

There was a hospital just across
the street from the hotel, next to a
Catholic church. .

We forced ourselves to walk,
not run, across the parking lot,
heads down, avoiding eye contact.

“Once we made it to the other
side of the street, two of the

the-front door of the hospital.

A nurse, although she spoke no
English, somehow understood -
what we were trying to say, and

led us to waiting room with blinds ,

on the windows. We piled i in.

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Work Begins on.
Parkgate Community P Park

As is beginning March arth on
the site of the Parkgate. Community ‘
Park, west of Mount Seymour Road, as,
; construction gets. ‘under. ‘way. on.
this eagerly 2 awaited addition to the .
community. :

Phase lof the park, located c on the west side
of Taylor Creek, is a 4 year Capital .
‘Development Program with completion.
currently scheduled for 1998. The initial
stage of the development, to be completed

in the Fall of 1995, will include: .

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@ site preparation

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two hardball diamonds
@ one soccer field.

To view the plan for the Parkgate
Community Park, drop in to the Parkgate
Library after March 27th.

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