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UPDATE: Police report tragic end to case of missing man

GOLDEN – RCMP have recovered the body of a former Kelowna man from the Columbia River near Golden.

Const. Spencer Lainchbury says Taylor Oelrich, 27, was on a ski trip with friends and was staying at a lodge in Golden when he was reported missing to police on Sunday, Feb. 15, 2015.

He says volunteer search and rescue members were patrolling the river Wednesday when they noticed a hole in the ice near Oelrich's lodge.

Lainchbury says RCMP divers and search and rescue volunteers recovered his body from the river Thursday afternoon.

Police do not suspect foul play, and the coroner's service is investigating the death.

Oelrich is originally from Kelowna but had been living in Alberta.

To contact the reporter for this story, email John McDonald at jmcdonald@infotelnews.ca or call 250-808-0143. To contact the editor, email mjones@infotelanews.ca or call 250-718-2724.

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John McDonald

John began life as a journalist through the Other Press, the independent student newspaper for Douglas College in New Westminster. The fluid nature of student journalism meant he was soon running the place, learning on the fly how to publish a newspaper.

It wasn’t until he moved to Kelowna he broke into the mainstream media, working for Okanagan Sunday, then the Kelowna Daily Courier and Okanagan Saturday doing news graphics and page layout. He carried on with the Kelowna Capital News, covering health and education while also working on special projects, including the design and launch of a mass market daily newspaper. After 12 years there, John rejoined the Kelowna Daily Courier as editor of the Westside Weekly, directing news coverage as the Westside became West Kelowna.

But digital media beckoned and John joined Kelowna.com as assistant editor and reporter, riding the start-up as it at first soared then went down in flames. Now John is turning dirt as city hall reporter for iNFOnews.ca where he brings his long experience to bear on the civic issues of the day.

If you have a story you think people should know about, email John at jmcdonald@infonews.ca

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