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SOME TIME overnight on Friday, March 19, someone caretully removed more than 200 daffodils trom
the West Vancouver garden of Josephine Roberts. Where many flowers once stood, there now stands a
sign with a message to the thief: ‘1 hope you are satisfied with your actions. Not only have you denied
us the joey of looking at these beautiful flowers, but also the many other people who enjoy this wail. if
you wanted some that badly we probably would have given you some." For story see page 3.

Delay in reporting missing Howe Sound canoeists hampered search

missing teens.

RESCUERS INVOLVED in the weekend search for three
Vancouver teens who drowned while canoeing in Howe
Sound waters Friday said the teens should have had an
escort power boat with them as they attempted to cross
from Aavil Island to Gambier Island.

Meanwhile, searchers were
hampered by poor weather condi-
tions at the scene as well as sever-
al hours of missed time between
the period when the canocists
disappeared and the time they
were reported as Jost to the Cana-
dian Armed Forces Rescue Coor-
dination Centre.

Said Chris MacKay, comman-
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Coast Guard vessel Osprey,
“Those types of canoes, even in
the bands of experts, are best off
of these types of waters.

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close to shore and be able to be

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put up ata friendly shore within a
few minutes.

“The weather can change here
drastically within a shart period af
time. Those things are not seago-
ing canoys

“tf they are making a transit
across a larger body of water,
they should have an escort craft, a
power boat or something they
could ike refuge on if it got too
rough,’ MacKay said.

Ron Luan, 18, Winston Lee,
17, und Raymond Yan, 17, died
while participating in a camp
cleanup at Daybreak Camp on
Anvil Isfand.

The recreational outing, attend-

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ondary school students, was
supervised by a school counsellor.

Two other adults joined in the
trip.

The three, joined by other
canoeists, set out for Gambier
Island at about 4 p.m. in a 16-
foot open fibreglass canoe,

By 5 p.m. weather conditions
deteriorated rapidly, with a 12- to
15-knot wind and a or to
three-foot chop in the sound,

According to the Squamish
RCMP, by 7 pam. the school
counsellor and two students set
out in a 20-foot, aluminum out-
board boat to search for the three

At 9:30) p.m. the Canadian
Armed Forees Resetie Coordina-
tion Centre (RCC) in Victoria was
called,

Two Canadian Coast
vessels, two hovercratts, a
Vancouver-based North
Lifeboat Society vessel, a Gib.
sons-bused lifeboat vessel, an
RCC rescue Buffalo aireralt, and
more than 20 Canadian Coast
Guard Auxiliary volunteers joined
in the search.

The empty cunoe was found at
approximately 1:10 a.m. on

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See Hypothermia page 5