Jul21

Blast from the Past –1979 July 4 Rescued from the Mississippi River

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Photo from the Carleton  Place Canadian files- Carleton Place and Beckwith Heritage Museum

1979— July 4
An Ottawa man was rescued from the smashed auto after it left Lake Avenue West and plunged into the Mississippi River early Saturday morning. Carleton Place Police credit a quick call from a nearby resident with preventing a tragedy.

Anyone remember this?

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About lindaseccaspina

Before she laid her fingers to a keyboard, Linda was a fashion designer, and then owned the eclectic store Flash Cadilac and Savannah Devilles in Ottawa on Rideau Street from 1976-1996. She also did clothing for various media and worked on “You Can’t do that on Television”. After writing for years about things that she cared about or pissed her off on American media she finally found her calling. She is a weekly columnist for the Sherbrooke Record and documents history every single day and has over 6500 blogs about Lanark County and Ottawa and an enormous weekly readership. Linda has published six books and is in her 4th year as a town councillor for Carleton Place. She believes in community and promoting business owners because she believes she can, so she does.

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