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Monday, January 16, 2012

MISSING SNOWMOBILER IN GOULAIS BAY On Sunday, January 15, 2012 at approximately 12:00 pm OPP were contacted to search for a missing snowmobiler in Fenwick Township in the Goulais River area.

MISSING SNOWMOBILER IN GOULAIS BAY

On Sunday, January 15, 2012 at approximately 12:00 pm OPP were contacted to search for a missing snowmobiler in Fenwick Township in the Goulais River area.

Forty four year old Norman Patrick Pitt had left a residence on Old Goulais Bay Road on his snowmobile shortly before midnight on Saturday, January 13, 2012.  He was driving his snowmobile down the shoreline of the Goulais River towards his residence near the entrance of Goulais Bay.

On Sunday morning he was found not to be at his residence on Mission Road and local residents and family began to search the area.

OPP, Sault Search and Rescue, Sault Ste. Marie Fire Department and Goulais River Fire and Rescue were contacted and attended the area.

At approximately 5:30 pm Sunday evening, January 15, 2012, the deceased was located by OPP helicopter in open water several hundred metres off the shoreline in Goulais Bay near the entrance to Lake Superior.


A post mortem is scheduled for today. 

I-POD FOUND AT LOCAL RESTAURANT

(WAWA, ON.) – On January 8, 2012 at 4:45pm Superior East OPP officers in Wawa located an IPOD Touch in the Tim Horton’s parking lot.  It’s described as white in colour in a white case.  The owner can claim the IPOD by contacting The OPP and identifying the unit.

“If you have any information regarding any criminal activity, call 705-942-7867 or 1-800-222-8477 (TIPS); submit an e-tip from The Crime Stopper’s web-site at www.saultcrimestoppers.com or send a text to keyword SSM to the short code number 274637.