River Shorties
Margaret Langford wins bronze B.C. athlete Margaret Langford took home
her fifth World Cup slalom medal on July 6. The three-time Olympian won the bronze in women’s K1 at the season’s second World Cup race in Seu D’Urgell, Spain.
Legend runs the falls This spring, long-time Saint John paddler
Harold Cox ran the first descent of Quiddy Falls on New Brunswick’s Quiddy River. The Quiddy is about 10 kilometres long and consists of about 15 to 20 waterfalls and chutes dropping into the Bay of Fundy near Sussex, N.B. This year marks the 30th anniversary of Cox’s first kayak purchase.
New Ottawa Riverkeeper website The new Ottawa Riverkeeper enviro group has a fine new website under construction at
www.ottawariverkeeper.ca.
Barry White dies, aged 58 Many of us were on the way to or from the river when we heard of the death of Barry White on July 4. The baritone mood maestro’s leg- endary make-out music will live on in shag-car- peted campervans everywhere.
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Couple beats communication breakdown Canoe partners Brian Otter and Karyn Lippincott of B.C. have solved the age-old prob- lem of tandem communication. They inserted headsets with voice-activated microphones under the foam in their helmets and put water- resistant radios in Ziplocs
inside their wetsuits. “Bow paddlers have difficulty being heard
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and the problem is exacerbated when an aging stern starts to go deaf,” said Karen. “Bow paddlers mumble a lot,” replied Brian. “They insist in talking forward into the river rather than to their partner. None of this has anything to do with my aging hearing!”
Photo Michelle Chiasson
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