Rafting deaths
ruled accidental

THE FURY hearing the evidence at the coroner's inquest into the
duly f Elaho River cafling trapedy has brought in five verdicts of
accidental death by drowning.

Testimony revealed 20-year-old guide Kyle Thorpe, the man at
the helm of the ill-fated raft, was an experienced whitewater
kayaker, but relatively inexperienced at pitoting loaded rafts
through rapids.

One of the five dead, 63-year-old Herbert Keough, apparently
collapsed at a tricky point in the river called Devil's Elbow just be-
fore the raft hit the log jam.

Keough, Christine Patlot, 28, Elen Winterhoff, 29, all of Van-
couver, Leslie Ownes, 26, of Sydney, Austratia, und Marie Steven-
son, 34, of Burnaby, lost their lives in the mishap.

The provincial government announced eartier this month (hat all
commercial rafting operators working B.C. rivers are now subjeet
to river rafting regulations.

Environment and Parks Minister Bruce Strachan said although
operators are expected to comply to federal boating restriction
regulations immediately, commercial rafting operators have until
Sept. 30 to secure operating permits.

“Compliance with the new regulations and standards will ensure
that all commercial operators meet minimum safety requirements
for raft construction, operation and equipment,”’ said Strachan.

Cruiser crash
victim named

NORTH VANCOUVER RCMP have released the name of the
motorcyclist who died after colliding with a police cruiser Aug. 19.

Dead is 26-year-old Joseph Serge Lalonde of 1185 Haro St.,
Vancouver.

The driver of the police vehicle, Cst. Carl Cavaco, received
minor injuries, sustaining facial cuts and bruising. The car is a
write-off.

Accarding to police, preliminary investigation, including infor-
mation from witnesses and un examination by an independent UBC
engineer, indicates the motorcyclist was travelling at a high rate of
speed when he slammed into the front passenger door of the car,
causing the vehicle to spin around.

The accident occurred at 2:18 a.m. The police car was crossing
Marine at Fell Avenue and the motorcyclist was travelling east-
bound on Marine.

Lalonde was taken to Lions Gate Hospital where he was pro-
nounced dead on arrival,

Trial set in
murder charge

A WOMAN ‘of no fixed address charged with second degree
murder in connection with the March 15 death of Denis Leo Auger
in West Vancouver was ordered Tuesday in North Vancouver pro-
vincial court to stand trial in B.C. Supreme Court. .

Alisha Marlene Dyke, 18, appeared in North Vancouver provin-
cial court for a two-day preliminary inquiry ending Tuesday with
her being ordered to trial.

Dyke was originally charged June 26 with the death of the 41-
year-old Auger, whose body was found by a friend beside the in-
door pool of Auger’s $450,000 West Vancouver residence.

Auger died of a drug overdose.

Dyke, who is presently being held in custody, is slated far triai
Sept. 16.

NV woman dies
im auto accident

AN 18-YEAR-old North Vancouver woman is dead after the car
she was driving collided with a logging truck near Brohm Lake
along Highway 99 Monday at 2 p.m.

Bonnie Duggan was travelling northbound when she hit the truck
travelling southbound.

Thirteen-year-old Katherine Faulkner of North Vancouver, a
passenger in the rear seat of the car, remains in Lions Gate Hospi-
tal intensive care unit in critical coadition.

Sixteen-year-old Jennifer Faulkner, a front-seat passenger, was
released from LGH uninjured.

The logging truck driver was not injured in the accident.

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