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discarded hospital food. Most of it wasn’t
even expired!)
• Mail all your (home-made) holiday greeting It’s not O.K. to cry on the river
cards from work
In response to the spring issue article 30 Essen-
• Sleep at the Park ‘n’ Fly in big cities—24-hour tial River Running Skills (V11,I1), I’d like to say
security ensures a restful night, except for the that if there is crying on the river, there had better
scream of 747s be blood as well. It’s true; you don’t have to be a
• And in keeping with your Committed to the
daredevil to enjoy the river. But if you’re enjoying
Core theme, reuse mozzy netting for a light-
it, why are you crying?
weight, low-cost bridal veil
lisa scott
GOLDEN, BC
Winnifred t. Jones
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There had better be blood?—Eds.
I just got home from work, picked up your Com-
Committed no more
mitted to the Core issue (V11,I2) in my mail box,
Having played second fiddle to kayaks for the
went to drop the Cosbys off at the pool and
last seven years I finally told him to get his smelly
turned right to the 100 Money-Saving Tips ar-
paddling shit out of my house. It was a happy day
ticle... I absolutely love how #1 is “Return your
when that rusty Tacoma rolled out of my driveway
empties.” Awesome.
(and out of my life) for the last time. And what do I
reilly Vickers get a week later in my mailbox but your True Love
BARRIE, ON
Issue of Rapid. Is this some kind of joke? I even
bought him the subscription for Christmas. Kiss
Happy endings
your boats boys, ‘cause you ain’t kissing me.
At the 2005 Level Six Capital Cup, my Esquif
Brittany steves
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Salsa freestyle canoe prototype was stolen off
the lawn before the competition. The thief had
a choice of 50 kayaks but showed good taste
Class V confession
and took my shiny carbon Esquif open boat. This
I loved the Love Issue of Rapid. I proposed to my
spring, a friend spotted the boat in a pawnshop
wife while scouting Garvin’s on the Ottawa. We
and alerted me. I talked to the owner who said
both learned to paddle on the Ottawa and even-
that if I had filed a report with the police at the
tually met on the river so it seemed only fitting.
time they would seize the property and return it
She said yes, but ten years later after reading
to me. I hadn’t, so he offered to sell it to me for
your last issue, she confessed that she had no
his cost…if I proved to him that it had been stolen
choice—she was afraid if she said no I wouldn’t
and was rightfully mine. Fortunately the theft was
show her the line.
reported in Local River News in the summer 2005
NORM JEFFERSON
issue of Rapid along with a report on the Capital
EMAIL
Cup. With the magazine report and a letter from
Esquif, the police investigated. They didn’t have
Palmer Fest 2009
enough evidence to charge the suspect but I Thanks for all your efforts at the Palmer Fest
did get my boat back. Moral of this story is: Re- whitewater weekend. You and your team did an
port boat thefts to the police and don’t sell stolen amazing job of things! Totally wow! I had a great
goods within five kilometres of the crime scene. time… this is definitely a must-do every year.
Mark scriver Gail Cowling
OTTAWA, ON EMAIL
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