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Lost hikers found in East Sooke Park
Times Colonist3 January 2000p. 10Sooke SAR era
“Lost hikers found in East Sooke Park”, Times Colonist, p. 10, 3 January 2000 ref-only
Summary
A page carrying two separate articles. The primary Sooke SAR article, "Lost hikers found in East Sooke Park" by Louise Dickson (Times Colonist staff), reports that the search for two lost hikers ended on Sunday morning (January 2, 2000) when RCMP officers aboard the vessel Higgitt spotted the pair on the shore of East Sooke Park. An 18-year-old girl from Quebec and a companion had set out for a short walk through Anderson Cove on Saturday (January 1, 2000); when they failed to return by 6 p.m. their youth group leader called Sooke RCMP. Sooke search and rescue volunteers and an RCMP tracking dog searched through the night. The Higgitt patrolled the shoreline and spotted the pair on shore at 3 a.m.; the rugged coastline prevented the crew from landing a small boat, so officers radioed the foot teams with the location. The hikers were brought back to the dock in Sooke and reunited with their youth group. The second article on the page, "Rescue: Senkowski downplays his heroic swim," covers a U.S. Coast Guard commendation for Gunter Senkowski, 49, of Courtenay, who swam to a stricken sailboat in a Caribbean storm and saved Brian and Pat Gale; it has no connection to Sooke or JdF SAR.
Details
| Headline | “Lost hikers found in East Sooke Park” |
|---|---|
| Publication | Times Colonist |
| Date | 3 January 2000 |
| Page | 10 |
| Section | Capital Region |
| Era | Sooke SAR era |
| Document type | news report |
| Source | ProQuest Times Colonist archive (BC ELN) |
| Accessed | 2026-07-15 |
| Licensing | ref-only |
| Record confidence | confirmed |
Archivist's note
RESOLVED 2026-08-06 by reading the page scan. The page carries two distinct articles. The Sooke SAR article — "Lost hikers found in East Sooke Park" by Louise Dickson — appears in the bottom-right corner and was overlooked in the initial cataloguing pass, which described only the much larger Senkowski marine-rescue story occupying the upper portion of the page. The filename ("robyn-candidate") reflects the original research hypothesis that this page might document the 2014 Robin Penwarn search; it does not — this is a January 2000 youth-group incident in the Anderson Cove area of East Sooke Park. The record is retained and updated to document the Sooke SAR article correctly.
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