Continued coverage of the Sooke River recovery operation in which a truck was found in the water and bodies recovered downstream, with Juan de Fuca search and rescue working alongside neighbouring teams and an RCMP dive team.
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“Mayor talks of ‘very wide circle’” Not recorded in the catalogue — read from the clipping image. Check it against the clipping below before quoting it.
The Sooke River drownings of February 2020 are the heaviest single event in the archive's modern record. The Sooke News Mirror leadership profile published nine days later (2020-02-13) was written in its aftermath and contains the team's candid passage on the psychological cost of body recoveries. The ProQuest bulk export indexes four further Times Colonist pages from the same series - 2020-02-04 A1, 2020-02-06 A1, 2020-02-25 A1 - that are not held as scans; see gaps_articles_without_scan.csv.
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The article as printed; the crop is only partly verified. crop re-OCR matched 38% of the article text.
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No external link. No stable public link is recorded for this article. It was read from a page scan obtained through a library database. The full page scan is below.
Shared page: the scan is a full newspaper page whose other content is unrelated. The summary describes only this article. SENSITIVE: multiple deaths. This is the second consecutive day's page on the same event; the fuller account is in the 2020-02-04 A2 record. The distinct content of this day's article was not isolated with confidence in the region read, so the summary is kept general. A targeted read of the page image would allow a proper summary. OCR quality 0.95.
Record id 2020-02-05-times-colonist-pa2-sooke-river-recovery. Original file in the project archive: 02_articles/2020-02-05_times_colonist_pA2_sooke_river_recovery.pdf.
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4 February 2020Juan de Fuca search-and-rescue and RCMP continued the search for a missing man on the Monday.
