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The Lake City Yacht Club was incorporated as a Minnesota nonprofit organization on the 23rd of June 1969. With one hundred fifty boats in its fleet, the sailors are residents of Minnesota, Iowa and Wisconsin. It is located at the Lake City Marina, Lake City, Minnesota. Lake Pepin, on the Mississippi River, is the primary sailing venue.

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We have offered sailing lessons on Lake Pepin for over 12 years in conjunction with the American Red Cross.

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Learn to sail on Sunfish sailboats. The Sunfish is a small, beach launched sailing dinghy fiberglass hull carrying a lateen sail mounted to an un-stayed mast. You learn to what all this translates to your first day!

Seasoned Sailors

Each class is made up of enough instructors to usually provide one-on-one sailing instruction out on the water.

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You'll spend half a day in the class room, the rest of the time will be spent out on the water where you will get to put your new-found knowledge to practice. This is where all the fun happens!

If you have ever dreamed of sailing across the waves on a sailboat, the Lake City Yacht Club Sailing School may just be the answer to your dreams! This summer LCYC Sailing School continues its tradition of teaching new sailors the basics of small boat seamanship. Join the more than 35 sailors who have participated in these local classes beginning in 2012 and continued every year since. This is a fantastic way to gain both classroom knowledge and on the water instruction to give you the confidence in the finer arts of sailing.

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Sail for Leukemia

The Lake City Yacht Club shares their love of sailing with the community at this last weekend of July event.

If you’ve seen the beautiful sight of the sailboats in Lake City’s Marina, then you’ve probably wondered, “How do I get out on one of those???” While private charters are available, this great event allows you to try out crewing for a great cause. For a recommended donation of $25 per person, you can go sailing on beautiful Lake Pepin for an hour and a half. All proceeds benefit the Leukemia and Lymphoma Society of America.

More info is available at https://www.lakecityyachtclub.com/Sailing-for-Leukemia or by phone at (651) 345-3383.

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Sail for Leukemia reports record attendance, funds raised

The Lake City Yacht Club’s 26th annual Sail for Leukemia event held July 29 and 30 was a huge success this year, the club said in a news release.

“We topped the charts with record numbers of 483 guests brought for sailboat rides and donations of $21,735,” the club said. “We had fabulous weather with light winds starting our first sails of the day both mornings, but wind filled in to steady breezes at 10–12 mph which made for near-perfect sailing conditions.

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A history   of   queen city yacht club.

Presented by former Historian Captain Lloyd Vosper and Commodore Scott Grimm

If anything, the linking of Lake Washington to the tidewaters of Puget Sound created a spark that ignited the founding of Queen City Yacht Club.  The construction and completion of the Lake Washington Ship Canal and the Hiram Chittenden Locks, in 1916, made all but inevitable the development of a club that could take advantage of both salt and fresh water cruising. 

By the late fall of 1915 and early winter of 1916, the government had been working on the locks in Ballard for many months excavating, dredging and pouring enormous quantities of concrete.  The channel dredging had been completed in Salmon Bay and had reached well toward Lake Union. Fishermen’s Dock (now Fishermen’s Terminal) could be reached by boat at high tide, but when the tide was out the boats rested in the mud.  Native Americans fished for salmon from a low level bridge at Fremont.  Lake Washington was nine feet higher than Portage Bay, and the outlet was just about opposite the end of our Dock 3.  Pleasure boat owners, whose activity has been restricted to Lake Union or Salmon Bay, were looking forward to the time when they would access Lake Washington and the magnificent cruising waters of Puget Sound. 

Naturally, boat owners in the Ballard and Fremont area were most receptive to the proposal of forming a boating club in “the north end”. Mr. J.W. Lough, the founder and the second commodore of Queen City Yacht Club, inserted in a spring 1916 issue of the Fremont Colleague an item “calling a meeting for the purpose of forming a motor boat club at 8:00 p.m., Monday night, May 8 th , 1916, in the Fremont Hall.”  Fifteen enthusiastic boaters attended the meeting and completed the membership.  The initiation fee was one dollar.  The members were in complete agreement that this was to be “an average man’s boat club where each man would be equal to all others, where his family would be in proper surroundings, and an added opportunity afforded of getting acquainted with other boat men.”  A committee was appointed to formulate bylaws and to submit a design for a distinctive pennant.

The first official meeting was held May 15, 1916, and “The simple set of bylaws was fashioned somewhat after the old Elliott Bay Yacht Club.”  The matter of a name had been discussed at length, with most of the suggestions carrying the ending, “Motor Boat Association”.  It was Captain MacNichol’s suggestion that the club be named a “Yacht Club”.  Captain Lough’s second suggestion, “Queen City Yacht Club” met with favorable reception because Seattle was known at the time as “The Queen City of the West”. 

At the third meeting of the club, permanent officers were elected, resulting in the choice of William F. Herman as the first Commodore.  The members enthusiastically embraced the Club and eight days later, with Commodore Lough leading aboard his flagship Friendship, twelve boats cruised across the Sound to LaView, near Point Monroe, to enjoy an old-fashioned clambake.  “On this day, (Memorial Day, May 30, 1916) a new yacht club pennant whipped in the salt tangled breeze.”  The Club was a part of the celebration of the official opening of the locks and received the distinction as being the first Club to traverse the newly opened Montlake Cut.

With such a lively beginning and without a permanent meeting place, the infant yacht club soon began to experience growing pains.  A committee was formed, which submitted plans to the Port Commission asking them to build a meeting place on one of the stub piers of the Salmon Bay Dock.  The Port Commission gave their whole-hearted approval and thus Queen City “came to have a new fifteen hundred dollar clubhouse in less than six months from the date of organization”.  With some furnishings, the total cost came to $2028.20. The rental was fifty dollars per quarter.  “Making it a gala occasion, with the Port Commissioners and many friends present, the house warming of the new clubhouse was celebrated on Thursday evening, October 26, 1916”.

In early 1918, owing to the tremendous growth of the shipbuilding industry and the immediate dock needs for the war, the United States government issued an urgent request for space.  The Queen City Yacht Club willingly released their building and location at Salmon Bay to the war cause.  At a special meeting called for the purpose of determining the quickest and easiest way to relocate, the members decided to build a floating clubhouse.  In order to avoid every possible expense, several members volunteered their services as loggers and carpenters to construct such a clubhouse on cedar logs.

November of 1918 saw the Club “firmly” established in the clubhouse at a street end on Westlake.  The as-you-go design did not incorporate a great deal of stability, so it was necessary on meeting nights for members to be evenly distributed throughout the room to keep water from shipping in and getting the members’ feet wet.  Although the Westlake location was not ideal, it had one redeeming feature in that there was no rent to pay.  Funds accumulated in the treasury and within a few short years, the Club was able to purchase two lots in the vicinity of the southeast pier of the University Bridge (where the original Red Robin stood for years).  This location “was easily reached by automobile or streetcars which passed every few minutes”. 

With the rapid growth of the Club, it soon became obvious that the 150 feet of waterfront would not be adequate for future growth.  These parcels were used as leverage to purchase property at Edgar and Fairview on Lake Union.  In 1926, with notes subscribed to by the members, the Club purchased a large old building owned by the Seattle Rod and Gun Club on the Duwamish.  Commodore Ernie Wolfe came up with the solution for moving the building to the Fairview site, and in his own words, “we cut off most of the pilings, pushed a barge under the building at low tide so when the tide came in all we had to do was tow it away”.  This clubhouse served the Club for several years as the country entered into the Great Depression.

Although the mortgage on the Fairview property was not burned until 1935, the Board of Directors with great foresight purchased the present site on July 2, 1934, for the sum of $12,000.  Acquiring four hundred feet of waterfront during the height of The Depression was risky, but the gamble paid off.  The property sported three docks, two of which moored boats and the third mooring houseboats.  Fortunately, too, the land underneath the docks was dry land prior to the lowering of Lake Washington, so the Club owned the title to that property, as well.   

The Club set to work building a clubhouse and the new structure was dedicated on November 8, 1938.  This event is memorialized by a special brick centered in the fireplace on the third deck.  With raw materials not available, World War II limited expansion and development of the facilities and so the treasury slowly but surely built up.  Through careful fiscal management, the membership enjoyed another mortgage burning on January 4, 1944.  The end of the war brought rapid growth to the Club, as GIs returned from overseas and set about getting on with their lives.  Meeting minutes record one general meeting inducting nearly fifty members in one night.  This explosion provided much needed revenue and the Club added the present second deck to the clubhouse to include the caretakers’ quarters and the original lounge and snack bar.  Further, the Club set about rebuilding, rewiring, and extending all three docks. Ultimately, the houseboats and their residents on Dock 3 were removed to provide more moorage for members’ boats.

The early 1950s continued to see continued growth of the Club and one amusing event sparked the further expansion of the docks and the building of the covers.  At that time, many members provided covers for their boats by building Quonset hut-style covers over their slips.  The Club was ordered by the county not to build any more of these huts, especially double-slip covers.  In 1951, when the club ignored the county, sheriffs arrived at the Club, delivered a cease and desist order, and placed Commodore Ray Hacker in handcuffs and hauled him off to the hoosegow.  The Club realized it needed a more permanent solution to covers and began the process for extending Dock 3 and designing and building permanent covers.  Again, members volunteered their services and time, including architecture, project management, and electrical skills. The club negotiated the purchase of additional lake bottom outside Dock 3 from the state and private owners to ensure easy ingress and egress, and commenced the final extension of Dock 3.  By 1959, the first phase of the project covered 70 boats.  It was the culmination of nearly ten years of planning and devotion to the plan.  The second stage for an additional 78 slips was completed in 1963.  Dock 1 was rebuilt seventy feet to the north to provide a wider causeway between Docks 1 and 2.  The work slip that was originally positioned by the willow tree to the north of Dock 1 was repositioned to the south side of Dock 3.  The shore side portion of Dock 3 was rebuilt three feet north when it was discovered by survey that it extended into city property.  Dock 2 was slightly shortened on the landside to provide more parking space.  The purchase of the underwater lots, the dock extension, and the covers totaled $300,000 and was covered by an over-subscribed bond issue to the members. The bonds were retired in twenty years on schedule.

During the latter part of the 50s and into the early 60s, the second Lake Washington Bridge was built, and thanks to some great effort by a couple of very influential members, the bridge placement skirted our valuable property.  During this era, the present parking was effectively split into two lots, one to the north and one to the south, with a small, thin stretch of land connecting the two lots.  The lots were also narrow, with lake water lapping up to an area by the present-day light pole on the north lot, and approximately 50-60 feet into the present day south lot.  As part of the demolition projects for the building of I-5, Past Commodore Bob Burfitt, a construction company owner, filled in the gap between the lots with the excess concrete and dirt from the demolition projects. He also filled in the areas in front of Docks 1 and 2.  When you go onto Docks 1 or 2, you will notice that the slip numbers do not start at 101 or 201, respectively, due to the removal of those slips for this project.

For the first fifty years, events like Memorial Day, Independence Day, and Labor Day were celebrated with cruises to different places.  By the mid-60s, the Club decided it wanted an outstation where members could celebrate these events and also have a destination for members to gather at different times. In 1968, the Club purchased two lots in Eagle Harbor and members proceeded to build docks for their new outstation.  In 1970, member Cliff Roberts spearheaded the commencement of construction of a clubhouse on the property, with raw logs cut from the San Juan Islands and a design literally laid out on a paper napkin.  By 1971, through the efforts of scores of members, whether through manual labor or monetary contribution, the clubhouse was completed and dedicated.   Today, through the hard work of our forefathers, we enjoy one of the nicest outstations in Puget Sound.

By the 1980s, the boathouses on the end of Dock 3 were nearing the end of their lifespans, and the Club embarked on a program of purchasing these sheds from members who owned them.  The Club built replacement sheds in 1987 and you will notice their design is similar to that which the Club replaced – a requirement of the state and city ordinances.

In the mid-90s, The Club recognized that its main station clubhouse was in serious need of a remodel after 60 years of use, so it embarked on an ambitious $2 million project to rebuild the clubhouse.  During demolition and construction, meetings were held in a trailer in front of Dock 2.  In 1999, the remodeled clubhouse was dedicated by Commodore Dick Timmerman and the membership.  Again, thousands of man hours were donated to the Club by members to assist in its design and implementation, and the membership again stepped up to subscribe to bonds and notes.  Those notes were retired in early 2017.

The 2000s saw the Club again reinvesting in itself, with the commencement of the replacement of the roof of the covers in 2005-2006, the addition of fire vents, and the addition of slips to the end of Dock 1.  More importantly, the electrical system on the docks, due to its age, required replacement.  The membership stepped up once again and approved a short-term mortgage of $1.3 million to replace the entire system and upgrade the power availability to members.

This history, if anything, demonstrates the resourcefulness and foresight of its members.  Throughout its history, members have stepped up when needed and made incredible decisions that have made this Club great.  It is a testament to the wonderful type of people this Club attracts to its rolls.

Narrated slideshow of the first 100 years

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Lagoon City

SLIPS STILL AVAILABLE FOR 2024 . Contact Sue Ferguson, Membership Chair at [email protected]

Welcome to Lagoon City Yacht Club

Premier Sailing Club on Lake Simcoe

The Lagoon City Yacht Club is a member-run yacht club located in a sheltered lagoon, a short canal ride from Lake Simcoe. We offer moorings, activities, and community for our members, most of whom own a sailboat or powerboat. The object of the Club is to promote and encourage boating and sailing on Lake Simcoe, while emphasizing racing, cruising, socializing and education, without financial gain. The club was founded in 1964 and celebrated its 55th anniversary in 2019. Contact us to find out how you can become a member of one of the premier sailing clubs on Lake Simcoe. 

• Sat, May 25 Local Brews on Board  /  LCYC RSVP May 25, 2024, 4:30 p.m. – 8:30 p.m. LCYC, Lagoon City, ON L0K 1B0, Canada “Local Brews on Board” featuring tips and tales from a brewmaster. Learn how each brew is crafted.
• Fri, Jun 07 Burger Night At the Club! Every Friday Jun 7th - Sep 20th!  /  LCYC RSVP Jun 07, 2024, 5:00 p.m. – Sep 20, 2024, 9:00 p.m. LCYC, Lagoon City, ON L0K 1B0, Canada Burger Night At the Club!
• Sat, Jun 08 2024 Sailpast  /  LCYC RSVP Jun 08, 2024, 11:00 a.m. – 7:00 p.m. LCYC, Lagoon City, ON L0K 1B0, Canada Sail Past is a ceremony of inspecting a fleet of ships, determining the readiness, capability to put to sea and showing respect to the Commander-in-Charge. Throughout history this ceremony has included royalty, heads of state and admirals, all inspecting fleets or entire navies.
• Sat, Jul 06 Italian Raft Up  /  On the Lake RSVP Jul 06, 2024, 4:00 p.m. – 11:00 p.m. On the Lake, Lake Simcoe, Ontario, Canada July 6th, 2024 – ITALIAN Raft Up - Progressive Celebrazione!
• Sat, Jul 27 Greekfest – Hawkestone Visiting LCYC!  /  LCYC RSVP Jul 27, 2024, 10:00 a.m. – Jul 28, 2024, 6:00 p.m. LCYC, Lagoon City, ON L0K 1B0, Canada Welcome our Hawkstone Yacht Club friends in celebration of the GREEKFEST at LCYC
• Sat, Aug 03 Hawkestone Cruise  /  Hawkestone Yacht Club RSVP Aug 03, 2024, 10:00 a.m. – Aug 04, 2024, 9:00 p.m. Hawkestone Yacht Club, Hawkestone, ON, Canada Celebrate 50th Anniversary of the Hawkestone Yacht Club!
• Sat, Aug 17 Mexical Potluck  /  LCYC RSVP Aug 17, 2024, 5:30 p.m. – 9:30 p.m. LCYC, Lagoon City, ON L0K 1B0, Canada Back by popular demand!
• Sat, Sep 14 2024 Octoberfest  /  LCYC RSVP Sep 14, 2024, 5:30 p.m. – 9:30 p.m. LCYC, Lagoon City, ON L0K 1B0, Canada Oktoberfest with Live Music
• Sat, Sep 21 Commodore's Reception  /  LCYC RSVP Sep 21, 2024, 4:30 p.m. – 8:30 p.m. LCYC, Lagoon City, ON L0K 1B0, Canada End of Season Party!
• Sat, Oct 05 Clean up Day  /  LCYC RSVP Oct 05, 2024, 10:00 a.m. – 1:00 p.m. LCYC, Lagoon City, ON L0K 1B0, Canada Time to clean up after the sailing season...
• Date and time is TBD Boat Launch - TBD  /  Lagoon City Marina RSVP Date and time is TBD Lagoon City Marina, Lagoon City, ON L0K 1B0, Canada The official boat launch dates will be announced.
• Date and time is TBD Group haulout - TBD  /  Lagoon City Marina RSVP Date and time is TBD Lagoon City Marina, Lagoon City, ON L0K 1B0, Canada Week of September 23rd 2024 - TBD

Upcoming Events - Season 2024

Lagoon City Marina As previously announced the Brechin Dry Dock has now changed to Lagoon City Marina and operates under new management. Stay tuned for Marina's news regarding haul-out dates and repair arrangements.

  LCYC Racing & Cruising:

  New Mark Coordinates: ‣ A North 44°32.200’ X West 79°13.300’ ‣ B North 44°32.200’ X West 79°14.430’ ‣ C North 44°31.518’ X West 79°13.855 This gives us the distance of 0.8 nautical miles between marks, without changing any mark to mark bearings. Should make for some quick Friday races.        

LCYC Sailpast

​Excitement was in the air on Saturday as we gathered on the grounds to prepare for our first Sailpast in 2 years to honour our Commodores. Boats were dressed for the occasion and at 2 p.m. they left the dock to follow Commodore Doug Hunt in Private Dancer out the channel to the Lake. 

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​​Slips still available for 2024

If you are looking for a new home for your sailboat (up to 31') in the 2024  season and beyond, contact us a.s.a.p. at Sue Ferguson, Membership Chair [email protected] - we still have few slips available.

New Club Regulation

Members and their families are welcome to use dishes provided for members and their families. Guests are to use disposable dishes (provided by the club) or bring their own dishes.

This includes cups, dishes, cutlery. All social events, members will be responsible for cleaning up their dishes and table and putting them in the dishwasher and ensuring their guests are assisted to do the same.

Successful Dock Work Party

March 6 saw a keen group of 12 sailors led by Larry congregate at the Club for a work party to refurbish our docks. Punky boards were marked and then the removal began with pry bars & hammers being wielded to remove the deck boards, the side boards and the rubber bumper rail. ... READ MORE

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The Lagoon City Yacht Club is open to both residents and non-residents of Lagoon City and offers both “Senior” and “Social” family memberships.   There are no additional fees for spouses and dependent  children. Our mission is to promote yachting, seamanship and fellowship among members. The clubhouse and grounds boast safe, clean and environmentally friendly facilities. Our fees are amongst the best you will find in southern Ontario! So have your family join our family, join our club, welcome aboard!

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3 bodies in Mexican well identified as Australian and American surfers killed for truck’s tires

MEXICO CITY (AP) — Relatives have identified three bodies found in a well as those of two Australian surfers and one American who went missing last weekend, Mexican authorities said Sunday.

Baja California state prosecutors said the relatives had viewed the corpses recovered from a remote well about 50 feet (15 meters) deep and recognized them as their loved ones.

Thieves apparently killed the three, who were on a surfing trip to Mexico’s Baja peninsula, to steal their truck because they wanted the tires. They then allegedly got rid of the bodies by dumping them in a well near the coast.

The well was located some 4 miles (6 kilometers) from where the foreigners were killed, and also contained a fourth cadaver that had been there much longer.

Three suspects are being held in connection with the case, which locals said was solved far more quickly than the disappearances of thousands of Mexicans.

The three men were on a camping and surfing trip along a stretch of coast south of the city of Ensenada, posting idyllic photos on social media of waves and isolated beaches, before they went missing last weekend.

Chief state prosecutor María Elena Andrade Ramírez described what likely would have been moments of terror that ended the trip for brothers Jake and Callum Robinson from Australia and American Jack Carter Rhoad.

She theorized the killers drove by and saw the foreigners’ pickup truck and tents and wanted to steal their tires. But “when (the foreigners) came up and caught them, surely, they resisted.”

She said that’s when the killers would have shot the tourists.

The thieves then allegedly went to what she called “a site that is extremely hard to get to” and allegedly dumped the bodies into a well they apparently were familiar with. She said investigators were not ruling out the possibility the same suspects also dumped the first, earlier body in the well as part of previous crimes.

“They may have been looking for trucks in this area,” Andrade Ramírez said.

The thieves allegedly covered the well with boards. “It was literally almost impossible to find it,” Andrade Ramírez said, and it took two hours to winch the bodies out of the well.

Australian Treasurer Jim Chalmers expressed sympathy for the Robinson family. “I think the whole country’s heart goes out to all of their loved ones. It has been an absolutely horrendous, absolutely horrific ordeal and our thoughts are with all of them today,” he said at a news conference Monday in the capital, Canberra.

The site where the bodies were discovered near the township of Santo Tomás was near the remote seaside area where the missing men’s tents and truck were found Thursday along the coast. From their last photo posts, the trip looked perfect. But even experienced local expatriates are questioning whether it is safe to camp along the largely deserted coast anymore.

The moderator of the local Talk Baja internet forum, who has lived in the area for almost two decades, wrote in an editorial Saturday that “the reality is, the dangers of traveling to and camping in remote areas are outweighing the benefits anymore.”

But in a way, adventure was key to the victims’ lifestyle.

Callum Robinson’s Instagram account contained the following slogan: “If you’re not living on the edge, you’re taking up too much room.”

At the news conference, Andrade Ramírez was questioned by one reporter who expressed approval that such a massive and rapid search was mounted for the foreigners, but asked why, when local people disappear in the area, little is often done for weeks, months, or years.

“Do you have to be a foreigner in Baja California in order for there to be an investigation if something happens to you?’ asked the reporter, who did not identify herself by name. “Every investigation is different,” Andrade Ramírez replied.

As if to underscore that point, dozens of mourners, surfers and demonstrators gathered in a main plaza in Ensenada, the nearest city, to voice their anger and sadness at the deaths.

“Ensenada is a mass grave,” read one placard carried by protesters. “Australia, we are with you,” one man scrawled on one of the half-dozen surf boards at the demonstration.

A woman held up a sign that read “They only wanted to surf — we demand safe beaches.”

Gabriela Acosta, a surfer, attended the protest “to show love, solidarity and respect for the three lives that were lost.” Acosta said that surfers in Baja are aware of the dangers.

“We are women and we would sometimes like to surf alone,” Acosta said. “But we never do that, because of the situation. We always have to go accompanied.”

“I think that what happened to them is just an example of the lack of safety in this state,” she said.

Surfers later performed a “paddle-out” ceremony where they formed a circle on their boards in the ocean.

Baja California prosecutors had said they were questioning three people in the killings, two of them because they were caught with methamphetamines. Prosecutors said the two were being held pending drug charges but continue to be suspects in the killings.

A third man was arrested on charges of a crime equivalent to kidnapping, but that was before the bodies were found. It was unclear if he might face more charges.

The third suspect was believed to have directly participated in the killings. In keeping with Mexican law, prosecutors identified him by his first name, Jesús Gerardo, alias “el Kekas,” a slang word that means “quesadillas,” or cheese tortillas. Andrade Ramírez said he had a criminal record, and that more people may have been involved.

Last week, the mother of the missing Australians, Debra Robinson, posted on a local community Facebook page, appealing for help in finding her sons. Robinson said Callum and Jake had not been heard from since April 27. They had booked accommodation in the city of Rosarito, not far from Ensenada.

Robinson said Callum was diabetic. She also mentioned that the American who was with them was named Jack Carter Rhoad, but the U.S. Embassy in Mexico City did not immediately confirm that. The U.S. State Department said it was aware of reports of a U.S. citizen missing in Baja, but gave no further details.

In 2015, two Australian surfers, Adam Coleman and Dean Lucas, were killed in western Sinaloa state, across the Gulf of California — also known as the Sea of Cortez — from the Baja peninsula. Authorities said they were victims of highway bandits. Three suspects were arrested in that case.

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A US company is fined $650,000 for illegally hiring children to clean meat processing plants