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Artist Michelle Loughery works on a new mural, dedicated to the people forced into Canadian internment camps, on the side of the Sutton building. Work on the mural will continue for the next couple of weeks.
Kal Lake camping trip takes tragic turn ROGER KNOX Morning Star Staff
A camping trip ended tragically for two Vernon men when their bodies were discovered in Kalamalka Lake, near Cosens Bay, Wednesday before noon. According to RCMP, it is possible the pair, both in their 50s, had been on the lake in a 12-foot car-top-style boat with a small dog Tuesday when a severe storm hit the region. “We may never fully know what happened to them,” said RCMP spokesperson Gord Molendyk. The names of the two men had not been released by press
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time Thursday. Molendyk said the last contact anybody had with the two men came at 1 p.m. Tuesday. According to police, a third man who had been camping with the pair had left early, but received a phone call from the two men to pick them up at a dock on the lake. When the two men didn’t show up at the scheduled time and meeting place, the other man thought they were staying longer, maybe waiting out the storm that had blown into the North Okanagan, bringing heavy rain and strong winds. A Coldstream resident out for a walk in Kalamalka Lake Provincial Park Wednesday at
around 7:30 a.m., near a dog beach at Cosens Bay, noticed a cooler on the shore, a cooler floating in the lake and he also spotted what appeared to be a dog floating in the water. Vernon-North Okanagan RCMP were called, as was Vernon Search and Rescue, who dispatched about 20 members to the scene. Shortly before noon Wednesday, the bodies of the two Vernon men were found in the lake. “That is the tragic end result,” said Molendyk, who added that both men were found wearing Personal Floatation Devices (PFDs). However, police said where 2013 TOYOTA RAV4
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the bodies were found, in relatively shallow water near Cosens Bay, is not likely where the pair fell into the cold water of Kal Lake. “No, there was a storm and the storm blew some of the items up on the shore,” said Molendyk. The boat, belonging to one of the victims, was also found overturned and missing its motor which was there when the camping trip began. Police were not clear as to where the men had been camping. Foul play is not suspected and the investigation into the accident has been turned over to the B.C. Coroners Service.
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The bodies of two Vernon men in their 50s were found in Kalamalka Lake, near Cosens Bay, shortly before noon Wednesday.
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