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after surviving disaster

By ALEX HAMILTON

“ TWO CANOEISTS who were trying to

‘ paddle across Canada are now combing the ° banks of the Skeena River for their gear + after catastrophe struck in the Babine Can- yon.

Frank Wolf and Ben O’Hara were dumped by 15-fo0t standing waves on May 12, a week after they had paddled upstream past Terrace.

“We were thrown out of our boat,’ said Frank Wolf, 27. ‘I was sucked underwater for a minute, Luckily I got to shore.”’

Wolf said be and ©’ Hara, 23, survived near

waves crashed against their canoc.

jackets they were wearing.

ashore and hike out of the bush to get help. Now the duo are on the lookout for their may have

Wolf and O’Hara set ovt on the Skeena April

© 21 from the village of Port Edward near Prince

Rupert.

from east to west in 1995, so he wanted to try .

. Wolf had already crossed Canada by canoe

« going the other way. - They figured the 9,300 kilometre trek would

take them five to six months, but they were

stopped 22 days later entering Babine Canyon. > **We survived,’’ he said, “but all of our stuff ~ got flushed out of the canoe.’

The men were filming their trip for Canadian

: National Geographic. > ‘Their videocamera, still cameras, and journals

death-experiences when 28 ‘kilometre per hour

Wolf said he believes they’re alive because of ce re the special dry suits and the heavy-duty life i ne

Thanks to bis gear, he said he was able to get

washed up

The Terrace Standard, Wednesday, May 20, 1998 - A3

News In Brief

DEATH DEFYING: Canceists Frank Wolf and Ben O'Hara were plucked off a riverbank last week after losing their canoe and most of their gear in Babine Canyon.

are all still missing,

‘(We want to get back out there to finish our trip, so we need all our gear,’’ said Wolf.

The men lost four waterproof buoyant con- tainers, One clear vinyl holder contains their professional Sony VX-1000 videocamera, lent to them from National Geographic, one of their sponsors. The video tape inside the camera doc- uments their wild trip down the canyon.

Also missing are a green and black 115-litre ‘Sealine Propack” containing a journal and a camera, and a yellow and black 70 litre yellow waterproof backpack conlaining another journal

_ and a Pentax MZ-M camera.

A grey hard plastic case with valuable videotape of the trip and their 17.5-foot ycllow canoe With the name ‘Groovy Gravy”' on it bas also not been found.

The pair’s gear could be scattered or still at- tached to the canoe,

“Tie canoe could be somewhere in an eddic or stuck on some island somewhere,'’’ Wolf said.

Anyone spotting the canoe or any of the gear on the Skeena near Terrace are asked to cantact Gretel Miles al 250-842-6787.

A reward will be given for some or all of the

” Hems recovered.

. MILITARY JETS BOOKED

» A MONEY shorlage has concerned airshow organizers putting out a call for more corporate sponsors to back the event

The Kitimat-Terrace Airshow Society is so far well back of the amount of money it hoped to raise to kickstart this year’s airshow, slated for Tuesday, July 21.

They’re planning to spend a total of $30,000 on acts and other costs, says society president Brian McNair.

Much of that money will come from ticket sales on the day of the show.

But McNair says they also need a chunk of money up front to secure the performers and provide a finan- cial comfort zone.

So far they have about $8,000 and he said they want to boost that

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to about $12,000 soon in order to ensure the scheduled acts do come.

‘*Right now we don’t have to cancel any acls,”’ be said. ‘“But we need a little extra money to make sure we can get the acts to come.”’

‘*We’re not al the stage where the airshow is in jeopardy or anything but we coukl use some exlra money to get things going,’’ he added.

McNair said corporate sporsor- ships have been much slower than expecied.

‘It has been very difficult fund- raising in this economic climate we're in right now,”’ he said.

Closing the show will be a U.S, Air Force A10 ground attack jet and a Canadian CF-18 jet fighter, whose fly-bys will be accompanied

by pyrotechnic explosions to simu- late a strafing run.

Other headlincrs inchude the Snowbirds and the Leapfrogs — a U.S. Navy parachute team — which will open the airshow.

“Right now we don’t have to cancel any acis. But we need a little extra money to make sure we can get the acts to come.”

Other military aircraft include a JT-33 trainer, a U.S. Pave Hawk search and rescue helicopter, and Orion and Aurora anti-submarine warfare planes.

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Airshow needs cash to get airborne

“We're looking at having a Stealth fighter fly by,’' McNair added. “‘And there’s a possibility of getting a U2 spy plane as a static display.”

Civilian acts booked include a Pitts Special.

The show has also been shifted to somewhat later in the day than pre- vious airshows here,

MeNair said this one will be start- ing at roughly 4 p.m. and ending at about 8:30.

‘We've designed it at this time so everyone can get off work and get out to the show,”’ he said.

He said sponsors get a mect-and- ,

greet session with the pilots.

Anyone interested in sponsorship information can cantact Brian McNair at 635-1854,

Bob Hallsor to retire

CITY administrator Bob Hallsor is announcing plans to lake early retirement after 22 years in his job,

He won't be gone until March, 1999, but says J he wants ta give city council plenty of time to recmit a

replacement. Hallsor, who turned 57 yesterday, worked under §

three mayors and says he’s j: seen the city grow dramati- § cally since be first arrived here in 1963 as a public health inspector.

‘When I first came here we still bad some board sidewalks,’ he said last week. ‘‘It still has some way to go but it certainly has ¢s- tablished itself as a regional f; centre and is a lal more | diversified.”’

Hallsor

Bob Hallsor municipal government in the Cariboo before returning to Terrace in 1974,

He got the job of clerk-administrator for Terrace in 1977.

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Sawmills stay down

SAWMILL WORKERS in Smithers and Camaby are Waiting: even longer to get back to work.

Skeena Cellulose spokesman Don McDonald said last week the shutdown of those mills is being ex- tended further due to what he called the continued softness of lumber markets.

Carnaby and Smithers are now scheduled to restart operations June Ist —- assuming market conditions improve.

Lights on in Atlin

THE ATLIN District Airport Association is getting $61,767 for a hazard beacon at the village’s airport. Involved in the work is relocating an obstruction lights.

The money comes from the provincial government's air transport assislance program through the B.C. Transportation Financing Authority, said Bulkey Valley-Stikine NDP MLA Bill Goodacre.

It’s on top of the $485,000 spent in 1996 on runway lights and beacons for night operations and fils with Transport Canada regulations,

West meets in Rupert

PRINCE RUPERT is being tipped as the site of a western ministers’ conference next month.

A tentative date of June 19 has been set for the con- ference, deputy premier Dan Miller told the Prince Rupert Daily News last week.

Representatives from Saskatchewan, Manitoba, Al- _berta, B.C,, the Yukon and Northwest Territories are expected. to altend.

The gencral focus is on northern issues, Miller added.

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