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No sign of missing teen
Samantha WRIGHT ALLEN
Citizen staff sallen@pgcitizen.ca
The search for a missing teen was suspended shortly after noon on Sunday, two days after the 15-year-old boy was swept underwater while swimming near Lheidli T’enneh Memorial Park Friday afternoon.
RCMP brought in a dive team Sunday morning to assist, with help from a four-member Prince George Search and Rescue team, but found no sign of the teen.
They focused their search in the slough and along the slough shoreline down to Lansdowne, said Dale Bull, Prince George Search and Rescue information officer.
“At this point (an) RCMP missing person file will remain open and their investigation will continue looking for any new leads,” said Bull of the search near Hudson’s Bay Wetland Natural Park (more commonly known as Hudson Bay’s Slough).
CITIZEN PHOTOS BY JAMES DOYLE
see ‘ITIS, page 3 River, below.
Members of the RCMP Dive Team load their gear into a boat Sunday, above, amid a search for a missing teen. Members of the Prince George Search and Rescue Swift Water Team debrief on Saturday after searching the Fraser
Rolling out the Welcome Wagon
Citizen staff
Laurie Hooker remembers the knock on the door, the friendly face, the basket.
It was 1986 and Hooker had moved from Vancouver to a Prince George rental house near the Pine Centre Mall. The city at the time, she said, was not the ideal landing spot for a woman in her early twenties, a mill town still swaddled in bush. She found a job at an answering service, fielding calls for businesses after-hours in that time before voicemail, and began taking messages from those new to town for a service so ubiquitous even then it was a well-worn popular touchstone - the Welcome Wagon.
She passed on the messages and mentioned she was a recent resident to Prince George. Hooker booked an appointment, little knowing, two years later, she would be among those rolling out the Welcome Wagon - or that she would one day look back on three decades of the city’s newly arrived, married, born and retired as perhaps the last Prince George representative of a North American tradition.
— see ‘JUST GETTING, page 4
CITIZEN PHOTO BY JAMES DOYLE
Laurie Hooker is wrapping up 27 years with Welcome Wagon in Prince George.
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