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I havn't seen any of this news yet posted on the forum. Where are you Mr.Eh? I sold my 16ft for this very reason. Please be careful out there. Police are no looking for a 28 ft cabin cruiser who may of been responsible for swamping the fishing boat. LAKESHORE - A young girl and her mother are dead after search crews found them floating in the middle of Lake St. Clair early Monday, with no boat in sight. The 13-year-old girl, her mother and stepfather had set out on a boat trip around 3 p.m. Sunday. Earlier that day, next door neighbour Rick Parent said the father had stopped by his house to borrow a life-jacket, wanting to make sure his family was safe on the water. Parent said the victims' family told him, after the trio was found in the water, that their 16-foot boat sank when another larger vessel sped past and the boat was hit by a big wave. Police haven't confirmed that. FATEFUL TRIP: A 16-foot boat carrying a Tellier Road man, a 45-year-old woman and her 13-year old daughter, were last seen leaving this area of the Ruscom River at 3 p.m. Sunday. The boat overturned in Lake St. Clair, tossing the group overboard. The man survived, but the mishap claimed the lives of the mother and her daughter. Nick Brancaccio, Windsor Star Font:****"Another boat went by and swamped them," said Parent, who called police when he realized the family hadn't returned home. "Their boat sank." FATHER TREATED, RELEASED Police haven't released the victims' names. The father was treated for hypothermia and released from hospital on Monday. Lakeshore OPP said the family had launched from the Deerbrook Marina Sunday. The marina is just across the narrow Ruscom River from their home on Tellier Road. Police said they went to the family's house after a neighbour called around 1 a.m. Monday to say the three never returned. "They went out fishing and were overdue to return," said Parent. "They only wanted to be gone about two hours because she had other appointments. "He had told me they wanted to be back between five or six o'clock. "I noticed they weren't back and was getting worried about them." After Parent's call, officers searched the house. They found no one and called the Rescue Co-ordination Centre in Trenton. Capt. Larry Hrabets at RCC Trenton said his office got the call at 2:24 a.m. to launch a widespread search. He said the Canadian Coast Guard, the OPP's Essex County Marine Unit and the U.S. Coast Guard, with a helicopter, all joined the search. They found the 13-year-old girl and her father, in his mid-40's, floating in the water around 5 a.m. Search teams found the 45-year-old mother around 6:30 a.m. with no vital signs. She was pronounced dead at hospital. The young girl died at hospital around 11 am. Monday, after being treated for hypothermia, police said. Hypothermia was likely the cause of death for the woman and her daughter, said Hrabets. "We don't know how long they were in the water," he said. "We just don't know what happened. They were wearing life-jackets. That's the No. 1 thing." Hrabets said searchers found the family about two miles north of Stoney Point. The family's 16-foot boat, with a 65 horsepower Johnson motor, was still missing Monday evening, he said. Neighbours said the family had just got the boat and it had a new radio in it. Hrabets said the family also had cellphones, but no one answered when rescuers tried to call them. OPP Const. Karen Gignac-Trudell said police are still investigating how they became stranded in the water. The family moved to Belle River from London in August, according to neighbours. "They enjoyed fishing and they enjoyed being here," said Parent. They're very nice people. I talk to them quite a bit. She's just a beautiful young little girl. They were good neighbours. That's all I can say." They lived in a small grey, single-storey home nestled next to the river beside Essex County Road 2. Font:****News of the tragedy spread quickly throughout the small community, made up of avid boaters living along the lake and Ruscom River. "I was devastated," said Margaret Bensette, who lives down the street. "That poor little girl, then the mother. What he must be going through right now. It's sad." Their deaths were the second major tragedy to occur on Lake St. Clair over the weekend. Three people were killed and two more were injured in a crash Saturday on the U.S. side of the lake. It happened around 11 a.m., when a 38-foot power boat with five passengers crashed into a 120-foot barge that was docked in Belvidere Bay. [email protected] or 519-255-5777 ext. 642

My wife also got sucked in. The following was the letter I sent off and had the account cancelled: October 06, 2006 ATTN: XXXXXXXXXXXXXXX, (Compliance Analyst) Universal Energy 1605-25 Sheppard Avenue West Toronto, Ontario, M2N 6S6 VIA E-Mail & Letter Mail Mrs. XXXXXXXXXXX, My wife was approached on October 5 by one of your authorized agents XXXXXXXXX (ID# XXXXXXXX) demanding her to provide him with my current Hydro One and Union Energy bills. Once Mr. XXXXX was in possession of these two bills, which I may add is in my name solely and not my wife’s, he refused to return them to her. Even after several attempts by her to have my bills returned to her possession, Mr. XXXX refused. Are bullying tactics a common practice within your organization? My wife, feels she was co-coerced into signing both contracts with Universal Power on speculation that she would have the bills returned to her but this was not the case even thou both accounts are in my name, not hers. On several different occasions in the past 2 months, I have notified your Authorized Agents off of my property but to no avail, they return. I have formerly lodged a complaint with the Ontario Energy Board and I have also contacted your Accounting Department. On advice from Ontario Hydro, Ontario Energy Board and the Better Business Bureau, I am requesting from you in writing, cancellation of both accounts and request to have my Union Energy and Hydro One bills returned to me immediately by Universal Power. The following are the account numbers from your Residential Price Protection Application: XXXXXXXX, XXXXXXXXX. I hope this issue gets resolved in a prompt and appropriate manner. Good Day. XXXXXXXXX XXXXx XXX cc. Hydro One Union Energy Ontario Energy Board

It's been a while but I had to post on this subject. Nice pics btw. Here are a few pics of the yester years of my wife and I. Sorry for the poor quality, pics taken before my digital. Fishing the Kopka River system south of Wabikimi. This pic was pasted on all 400 bottles of wine at our wedding. Picture of the story of my life when she comes out with me.

What gives, This isn't my first post.....................?

Thats kind of ironic because the MNR had a booth set up at the Fishing Show in Novie Michigan last month, manned with one of our very own young and not very friendly CO's.