Rescue operation a success after hiker injured in fall at Sooke Hills
Times Colonist·4 December 2018·p. A5·Jeff Bell, Times Colonist·JDF SAR era
Jeff Bell, Times Colonist. “Rescue operation a success after hiker injured in fall at Sooke Hills”, Times Colonist, p. A5, 4 December 2018 ref-only
Summary
A woman in her mid-30s was rescued from Sugarloaf Mountain near Sooke on the Sunday by crews who hiked hours to get her to a waiting ambulance. "She was a hiker, hiking with her boyfriend," said Kathryn Farr, a search manager for Juan de Fuca Search and Rescue. "The terrain is very, very rugged in that area, quite steep," Farr said.
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“Rescue operation a success after hiker injured in fall at Sooke Hills”
The article that settles the spelling of Kathryn Farr's given name, corroborated by the Sooke News Mirror profile of 2020-02-13. It is also the second Sugarloaf Mountain rescue in the archive, ten years after the 2008-07-29 hoist.
The clipping
The article as printed. Clipping cut on 2026-07-30 after reading the page. This article occupies the left third of the page in full height, so the crop is that column band, including the locator map and the page's own masthead line. Verified by re-OCR: 493 words, all 13 distinctive terms present..
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Shared page: the scan is a full newspaper page whose other content is unrelated. The summary describes only this article. A map graphic labelled Metchosin runs beside the text and bleeds into the OCR. OCR quality 0.94. Matched to ProQuest bulk page ocr_bulk-084.txt with 0.70 body overlap.
Record id 2018-12-04-times-colonist-pa5-farr-sugarloaf-rescue. Original file in the project archive: 02_articles/2018-12-04_times_colonist_pA5_farr_sugarloaf_rescue.pdf.
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4 December 2018A woman in her mid-30s was rescued from Sugarloaf Mountain near Sooke on the Sunday by crews who hiked hours t
