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 http://www.idahostatesman.com/newsupdates/story/847262.html A Washington woman drowned while rafting on the North Fork of the Payette 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. 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.