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A TRIP TO CJ 77 BY LOCAL VENTURERS miles of water and fun By MAGGIE HANNAH Herald writer The first Georgetown Ven canoe trip to Prince Edward Island Is over but the stories won t oil be told for days and days The Powell home on Aire dale Court was busy when The Herald called on Venturer ad visor Howard Powell to hear how their trip had gone It seems a great number of Georgetown residents ore as as our reporter Financially they are in good shape Howard says Although he has not finished totalling bills he expects them to be in the red by about loo The trip cost over The only disappointment Lhe boys expressed was with the lack of support from the officials Cabot Provincial Park They were not officially recognlied and the presentation to the mayor of Georgetown had lo be made back stage so as not to Interrupt the well regulated program set up to open the jamboree on July Howard points out that they were merely guests not re gistered delegates and so they entitled lo much It may have been a great experience and a lot of fun as well as work but the first Georgetown Venturers all give credit to lhe man who led We could have been In big trouble If Howie wnsn so good at reading water and Heather signs Brian Hastings said One day we were paddling along really enjoying our selves The water was good and everything seemed to be right for us Howie told us get ashore in a hurry We were mad at him bul wc hardly got to land before the storm hit It was a bad one with lightning and all It would have been really serious if wed been caught on the water The Venturers left Kingston on June 18 When they stopped for lhe night at the Thousand Islands they found Walter and he Callaghan Tarn wailing for them They had brought boys to Kingston for the departure on Saturday then decided to see how things were going before they headed back to Georgetown Since it was raining and all the canoe ists were soaking wet the parents took everyone clothes to the laundromat and dried them out for a fresh start Monday The second night Lhe Ven hirers made camp at on the American side of the river The police came along to check that they had everything they needed and stayed long enough to swap some scouting bodges and give Howard an American flag One of the officers turned out to be an American Scout leader and Invited the entire group to an American jamboree later in the year When the boys first saw the police approaching they were nervous Howard says because they expected to be in trouble for not going through customs What the I realized was that Rob Healon had taken lhe van carrying all their equip ment through customs and the authorities knew to expect them later in the day They dldn hit big waves until they reached Quebec There are special locks there for pleasure craft Howard soys and they tried to use them All the way down through the canal they could hear the authorities yelling for lhe Venturers to start Then suddenly as they got almost to the locks someone came run nlng down the edge of the canal and yelled thai they go through Apparent ly only motorized with a minimum weight can use the locks and lhe Venturer canoes didn meet requirements Back they went to the start of the canal and Howard went to meet the lockmaslcr After filling out special forms re questing assistance they were helped to portage around lhe When reached Montreal they camped at lhe base of the rapids and everyone went Into town for supper and a quick look around That was the day ihcy had rocks thrown at them Brian Hastings says The incident occurred as they were passing through the reservation just west of Montreal Three Indian boys about 10 years of age began throwing rocks almost the size of tea cups at the canoeists The boys followed them for about a hundred feet along the river heaving lhe rocks but no one was hurl although there were some near misses Brian admits No one in the group can account for lhe youngs actions unless they didn like us In canoes someone quipped A sign saying Indian Reserve Only no outsiders had been spray painted on a rock wall beside the they said From Quebec the nacre paddled miles to Three Rivers In one day They at and lunched at the monument reclcd lo Madeleine chercs a French girl who held a fort against the Iroquois for eight days with only Iwo young brothers and a handful of old men to help her They first noticed the lldc at Three Rivers The next day they found the current was good and the tide was right and l hey were able to make CO miles and spend lhe night at Quebec Cily point they had travelled least 35 miles each day The day they left Quebec city Ihcy started hitting big waves It was windy and cold and they were forced to stop after only making miles Since their van driver had been told lo make for St Michael which was some distance further down river they sent Marty Boyle and Tom Hastings hitchhike a head and find him He came back and took them to where the camp was set up Then in the morning he brought them back to lhe beached canoes and they headed on again That was Iheir firs I day of really rough water Howard says and grins He found out afterwards that the boys in the other canoe were all saying Honourable Howie sir ore you out of your cotton mind because they thought the river was too rough lo The Venturers lost two of their crew Village nates Jasper and Kevin Baxter had to turn back in order to bo home in time for summer jobs as Junior Fores I Rangers in Northern Ontario They come back by train on June It as sunny and warm and there was no wind that day so canoeists made 51 miles to They also saw porpoises which they mistook for whales that day Howard says they came a little closer than he liked to the canoes and Ihey were big The following day was very windy and Ihey had to stop miles short of camp The weather the next day was even worse Rob brought them back to their beached canoes and took off to set up the evening at Mount When the Ven lurers struggled out of the water Vh hours later they had only gone five miles The was about miles wide and the banks were feet high rock walls at this point so they walked along the shore until Ihey found a road going cut Once again they sent out their hitchhikers to find their van driver this time they weren so lucky They wound up sleeping on the rocks night eating the peanuts and raisins they had in the canoes as emergency rations and do ing without sleeping bags or tents Someboyswhohfldbeen sent to look for a store found lhe van driver and spent night in relative comfort but the ones specifically looking for him never saw him at all Tom and Brian Hastings and Laurence Eutenicr found a sheltered crevice built selves a fin and quite comfortable for tin night Then about the tide came in had to scramble for higher ground Despite the cold and misery the boys dmcovercd an old and slakes in the cave they sheltered in and arc now proud of the souvenir they have to show for Iheir bid night on the near SI Simon In morn ng they out and went miles to where their was located at Italia to pick up the rest of their crew says it was difficult the canoes because Ihej hid only four people in each instead of the muni six From there they continued to SI a distance of 3G miles where they took the canoes out of the water to porta go across Gaspe Since that was July 1 and the leaders the boys to Canada birthday Waller and Howard Powells old canoeing buddy arranged to provide a steak dinner for the Venturers He gave Howard he money lo buy supplies but laid down some conditions The boys must wear tics They must sing Canada And they must have tin flowers were the prettiest Choose it TIUDEN ANDREW MURRAY MOTORS Road everything a log on hunk of rope to dead lot nit reasonably well Ml ihcy were said they had to Ik loo formal Carl and Sam of who belong the Trafalgar Boy Scouts drove down in a von especially to help the turcrs transport one of the canoes lhe Malapcdta Valley Tht Invcw is made on July On Jul they started across Mlramichi Bay They were half an hour off shore when a squall struck The wines were feel high and the md have been 32 to 38 miles per hour Howard soys that is the Beaufort scale reading for the type of water conditions they were facing By the llmi they reached shore so me of lhe boys win so lired they collapsed Monday July Ihej decided to change their route Originally they were to head along the coast of and make a crossing on lhe ferry at Tor They decided instead to go miles across ocean straight from St Thomas to Prince Inland They canoed from 30 a until that day A storm came up very soon they left shore and decided logo back and wait for II to let up When they tried trip an hour later Ihey wtrt meeting long rolling waves feel high but serious like lhe slorm on Howard admits he vai worried when he got out of sight of land worked ml his readings and allowed 10 degrees for land drift and landed right on target at Cape I Carl picked up the Venturers and transported eonoes across to Molpcc Bay the morning of July Then they merely had a short Jaunt of miles arrive CJ official opining ceremonies complete with I General Jules lieutenant governors of the our Maritime provinces Anne Murray a television crew and the Canadian Armed Pones demonstration team the Snowbirds During the break in the ceremonies the Venturers resented a plaque from lo the Mayor of Harry MacConnell the mayor of Georgetown I presented each boy with a post card of his town and a pennant He also gave a plaque from his Georgetown to ours It was presented to Mayor Tom Hill is a own of about BOO on the shore of the Island where the Cardigan River empties into Cardigan Bay off the Nor thumbcrland Strait It Is a tourist town A highlight of the trip was a birthday party for Tom Hastings on July Howard had the van driver Rob buy eight chocolate cakes and hide them in the van us a surprise for Tom after heir evening meal had he tin The worse part of the whole trip was gelling up every morning to face wet socks and sneakers Howard says although he Is glad to point out that they had no accidents during lhe whole trip not even so much as a cut finger The year old advisor was bom In Springhlll Scotia and arrived in Ontario in 1959 after serving three years in the army He has been In the scouting movement about ten years since his son Dale was old enough join the Cuba Dale has a win sister Deborah who also likes to canoe although not on a long trip like that Howard has been canoeing for roughly nine years but so for he has not gotten his wife Ruth broken in lo being a member of his canoeing crew I friends who tell me I m crazy not lo go along on their trips Ruth chuckles Not me Id rather slay home I scared o death in a canoe Now Ihcy want to make this trip to In the fall and they want to make it a coed trip so they want me gu along to the girls NOTICE Refuse normally picked up Monday August 1st will be picked up Tuesday August 2nd and further refuse picked up Tuesday August 2nd 19 will be picked up Wednesday August 3rd Works Department Town Kills Venturers Dale Powell Mike Dickson Dave Mark Burner Todd Beckett and Bruce were awarded flnt aid certificates Sunday lhe earned before canoe trip The were treated to a free meal al McDonald a and other comrades who joined In for lhe fun were Robert and Howard Powell team advisors Some of the crew were away on holidays and were unable to job In Away were Dong Marty Boyle Dave Brian and Tom Hatting Kevin Baiter and Jasper Liberal Julian alio present to lhe boys on their exciting trip Not a minute to lose I Prices slashed even more for the Final 4 Days Sale will end Sat July 30th It wsf of bt aver ffcii Saturday Hurry fai SHOP DAK SAT for Gnat fluyil SKLAR L0VESEATS Now Special Collection of lamps Pictures Mirrors Statues KR0EHIER 2 LIVING ROOM SUITES Only One Left BOX SPRING MATTRESS SETS ONLY TWIN SIZES DOUBLE QUEEN SIZES 25 II AH Roof Sample Al Ho or Mfc Main St Downtown Georgetown robcrt Cr Gougcon lor li lentil CASH or FINANCING 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