Non-Witness Narrative by (do not publish name) on 2009-07-27 (okay to publish): in newspaper – see text below TEXT ATTACHMENTS http://www.idahostatesman.com/531/story/847071.html BANKS, Idaho — Two people are dead after separate rafting accidents on the Payette River. Emergency workers in Boise County were called to the first accident Saturday afternoon, when a raft holding 10 people on a family reunion hit a rapid and tipped, throwing two teenagers and a 47-year-old woman. The teens were able to make it to shore, but Sharon Irene Barclay of Lakewood, Wash. became stuck under a log and drowned. Boise County Chief Deputy Dale Rogers says the group was in the water for less than 10 minutes when the raft tipped about three miles north of Banks. The second accident happened a short time later, when two men from Salt Lake City hit a log jam while tubing near Garden Valley. A 57-year-old man was sucked under the jam and drowned. The men were not wearing life jackets. http://www.idahostatesman.com/newsupdates/story/847262.html Boise County Sheriff’s deputies were called to rescue two people in separate incidents on the Payette River at about 3:15 p.m. Saturday. A Washington woman drowned while rafting on the North Fork of the river; a Utah man drowned while tubing the South Fork of the river. Sharon Barclay, of Lakewood, Wa., drowned after she was thrown from a raft in rapids and then became trapped under a log, said Boise County Chief Deputy Dale Rogers. She was wearing a life jacket. Barclay was rafting the river with family, including relatives from Nampa. She was one of five adults and five children in the raft. The family put in about 3.5 miles north of Banks. Rogers said the river north of Banks has class IV and V rapids, and not water that people typically raft in. “Highly-skilled kayakers go there,” Rogers said. “Everything above Banks, you need good water skills.” Rogers said three people were thrown out of the raft just 5 or 10 minutes into the trip. Two teens were pulled back into the raft before the river split around an island. The raft went to the left of the island, while Sharon Barclay was swept to the right. At about the same time, Boise County Dispatch got a call for help on the South Fork of the Payette River. Rogers said the two incidents occurred about 12 miles apart. Michael Glenn Ashe, 57, of Salt Lake City, drowned when he got stuck under a log on the South Fork of the Payette River south of Crouch, according to Rogers and Boise County Coroner Pamela Garlock. Ashe and his brother were floating the river in inner tubes. Rogers said the section of the river the pair were on has class II rapids. Rogers didn’t have all the details on the second incident because he responded to the first. But he said the Ashe drowned when he tried to rescue his brother, who got hung up on a log. Neither of the men was wearing a life jacket.