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The week of March 14, 2025
B.C. TIMBER Proposed new forest act to balance ecology with economy P.6
SAYING GOODBYE A great supporter of kids’ sport moves on P.8
Visit our website at peachlandpost.org • Vol. 1 Issue 11
ABOUT TOWN Find out what’s going on and where it’s happening P.11
SUITE SITUATION Council looks at secondary dwelling policy in Peachland P.3
FRIENDS FOREVER? CANADA-U.S.
Peachland resident who once tracked Soviet subs appalled at U.S. threats to our sovereignty By Jeff McDonald
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Staff Reporter
t was 1962 and the Cuban missile crisis had the world on edge. U.S. intelligence had determined that the Soviet Union had placed nuclear missiles in Cuba capable of hitting targets in most of North America. The Royal Canadian Navy played a major role in anti-submarine warfare during the crisis. And a young Jacqueline Prewitt (now Kennedy) watched it happen from a vantage point few people knew about and she wasn’t allowed to speak about. The Peachland resident, now 82, was a member of a team of Canadian women, working with the U.S. Navy, whose job it was to track Soviet submarines as they moved beneath the Atlantic Ocean waves. Jacqueline was one of the WRENs, or Women’s Royal Cana-
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Peachland’s Jacqueline Kennedy (back row, second from right) was part of a team of Canadian Navy submarine hunters that played a key role in de-escalating the Cuban Missile Crisis.
dian Naval Service, members of the Royal Canadian Navy active during WWII and afterward. Born in England, Jacqueline’s
family emigrated to Canada when she was 14. She was recruited into the Navy out of high school in North Vancouver
in 1959. But she couldn’t talk to her parents about her new job.
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