Victoria Clarke, spokeswoman for Juan de Fuca Search and Rescue, said a group had camped on the Saturday night at Wye Lake and was planning to hike out on the Sunday, but some members felt unwell. "I think they'd spent a pretty cold, wet night in their tents," Clarke said. "In addition to being cold and tired, they were sick." The adults decided to call for help rather than try to hike to Jordan River with the whole group. "I think it was really a good idea on their part," said Clarke, noting the group was in a mountainous [area, description continues beyond the region read].
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“Youths spend night in backcountry with rescuers” Not recorded in the catalogue — read from the clipping image. Check it against the clipping below before quoting it.
The first Times Colonist article in the archive to quote Victoria Clarke, who the Sooke News Mirror later reports took over as coordinator in 2022. The location - Wye Lake, hiking out toward Jordan River - places this on the Kludahk Trail on the San Juan Ridge, the upland plateau route that the archive's filename refers to.
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The article as printed. source scan is already a single-article clipping (671 words on the page), so the full scan is the article - no crop needed.
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ProQuest — the scanned page in the Times Colonist digital archive ↗subscription or library card Recorded exactly as captured, including the Greater Victoria Public Library proxy address — it needs a GVPL card or a ProQuest subscription. Without one, search ProQuest for the document ID in the address. This link opens through the Greater Victoria Public Library and asks for a library card number before showing the page. Cards are free for Greater Victoria residents — sign up on the GVPL site; an online temporary card is enough for the digital databases. Outside Greater Victoria, ask your own library whether it offers the ProQuest Times Colonist archive. http://search.proquest.com.proxy.gvpl.ca/pdntimescolonist/newspapers/november-272024-page-a7/docview/3141247072/sem-2?accountid=6051
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Shared page: the scan is a full newspaper page whose other content is unrelated. The summary describes only this article. OCR quality 0.95. The number and ages of the young people in the group and the outcome of the extraction fall beyond the region read. Matched to ProQuest bulk page ocr_bulk-022.txt with 0.73 body overlap.
Record id 2024-11-27-times-colonist-pa7-clarke-kludahk-youths. Original file in the project archive: 02_articles/2024-11-27_times_colonist_pA7_clarke_kludahk_youths.pdf.
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27 November 2024Victoria Clarke, spokeswoman for Juan de Fuca Search and Rescue, said a group had camped on the Saturday night
