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PHOTOS: Juan de Fuca Search and Rescue introduces new ground crew

Sooke News Mirror23 February 2026Christine van ReeuwykJDF SAR era

Christine van Reeuwyk. “PHOTOS: Juan de Fuca Search and Rescue introduces new ground crew”, Sooke News Mirror, 23 February 2026 ref-only
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Summary

Juan de Fuca Search and Rescue's new ground crew has successfully completed a survival skills exam. The article introduces members of a new cohort of JDF SAR ground-crew volunteers and covers their practical survival training. The new recruits participated in a hands-on exam covering survival skills in the field, passing the requirements to be certified as active ground search and rescue members.

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Details

Headline	“PHOTOS: Juan de Fuca Search and Rescue introduces new ground crew”
Publication	Sooke News Mirror
Date	23 February 2026
Page	Not applicable — web edition, no print page number
Byline	Christine van Reeuwyk
Era	JDF SAR era
Document type	news report
Original article	PHOTOS: Juan de Fuca Search and Rescue introduces new ground crew — Sooke News Mirror ↗
Source	sookenewsmirror.com
Accessed	2026-08-05
Licensing	ref-only
Record confidence	confirmed

Archivist's note

Profile of the 2026 JDF SAR new ground crew completing their survival skills exam. No incident. Useful for the team profile chapter — confirms the training pipeline and cohort intake in early 2026. SNM reporter Christine van Reeuwyk is the same reporter as several other SNM articles in this archive.

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Scan of Sooke News Mirror, 23 February 2026 — the article “PHOTOS: Juan de Fuca Search and Rescue introduces new ground crew” — The article as printed. source scan is already a single-article print-to-PDF clipping, so the full scan is the article - no crop needed.

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PDF captured via fetch_authed.py 2026-08-05. OCR quality 0.915. Summary written from OCR clean text.

Record id 2026-02-23-sooke-news-mirror-nopage-new-ground-crew. Original file in the project archive: 02_articles/2026-02-23_sooke_news_mirror_new_ground_crew.pdf.

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23 February 2026Juan de Fuca Search and Rescue's new ground crew successfully completed a survival skills exam.