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Rideau Ferry Regatta dock missing in action BY DESMOND DEVOY
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Organizers of the Rideau Ferry Regatta are looking for a $3,000 dock that they believe was stolen. “It’s key to our event,” said Scott Cameron, one of the regatta organizers, during an interview in Lower Reach Park in Smiths Falls on July 23, where he was taking part in a performance with The Doherty Brothers Band at the Rolling Thunder Show and Shine Car Show. “I don’t know how low people are getting … It’s a community event."
The dock was constructed by volunteers from the Rideau Ferry Yacht Club to be used by the public at the RVCA boat launch. SCOTT CAMERON
And Cameron is angry about it. The dock was stolen, he believes, from the Rideau Valley Conservation Authority (RVCA) boat launch in Rideau Ferry sometime between the afternoon of Wednesday, July 12, and the morning of Thursday, July 13. “The dock was constructed by volunteers from the Rideau Ferry Yacht
Club to be used by the public at the RVCA boat launch,” Cameron wrote in a later email to this newspaper. “The docks (had been) placed at the boat launch as part of the staging for the upcoming Rideau Ferry Regatta.” He believes that the dock was loaded up on a trailer, and was last seen by the local conservation authority the next day. Cameron has contacted the OPP. The dock is made from plastic culverts and “it’s obvious it’s a Rideau Ferry dock. They are uniquely built.” The dock is 22 feet long by eight feet wide. It was constructed with 4x6-inch fir framing, topped with 1x6 pressure treated decking, sitting on two black plastic culverts for flotation, according to Cameron. “The docks can be easily identified by the black ribbed flotation culverts,” he wrote. Anyone with information is asked to contact the OPP at 1-888310-1122. The biennial regatta, which will be held from Saturday, Aug. 19 to Sunday, Aug. 20, dates back to 1897. It will be celebrating its 120th birthday this year. Cost of admission for the regatta is $5 per person, per day, with children 12 and under free.
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