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	<title>Jon Council &#8211; The Catalina Islander</title>
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		<title>Of legacies and traditions for divers</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 21 Feb 2020 00:14:25 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Annual Avalon Harbor Underwater Cleanup celebrates its 39th year Thirty-nine years, by nearly any measure, that’s a while. When anything lasts that long, standing up against time, it’s either built, managed, maintained or preserved well for a reason. The Annual Avalon Harbor Underwater Cleanup is celebrating its 39th year of bringing hundreds of scuba divers [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>38th Annual Avalon Harbor cleanup set for Saturday</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Jon Council]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 22 Feb 2019 00:58:54 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Saturday, Feb. 23 will mark the 38th Annual Avalon Harbor cleanup on Catalina Island. The event, which typically attracts over five hundred scuba divers to the town of Avalon is a well-established tradition. Tom and Jill Boivin and their team of volunteers grabbed hold of the cleanup baton nineteen years ago and literally ran with [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>The ‘First Lady of Scuba’ visits Avalon</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 04 May 2018 20:56:32 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[This past week, Avalon was graced with a five-day visit of famed “First lady of Scuba Diving,” Zale Parry. Zale traveled from her home in northern Oregon to join a group of more than 100 divers who are part of the University of California Santa Barbara scuba program headed up by dive instructor Ed Stetson. [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>Feb. 24 harbor clean-up participants invited to dive into history</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Jon Council]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 23 Feb 2018 01:14:30 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[&#160; This Saturday, Feb. 24, will mark the 37th installment of the annual Avalon Harbor cleanup. For nearly four decades scuba divers have traveled to Catalina Island to don their gear, fix their breathing regulator in their mouths and taken to the depths of the bay to retrieve a myriad of items lost, tossed overboard [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>Helping a Honu</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Jon Council]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 19 Aug 2016 16:59:06 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[For The Islander For about a week leading up to Friday, Aug. 12, Marine Animal Rescue (MAR) field officers had been receiving multiple reports of a sea turtle near Lover’s Cove adjacent to Avalon which had been fouled with fishing hooks and trailing lines. For The Islander For about a week leading up to Friday, [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>Opinion: Fresh water resources on Catalina</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Jon Council]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 19 Dec 2014 19:15:09 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Water, essential to all life on Earth, both literally and figuratively, is in short supply in the Southwestern United States, as well as dozens of other regions worldwide. Here on Catalina we are separated, some would say insulated, from things affecting the mainland, but in this particular case we are in lockstep with the Southwestern [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>Diving legend ‘Cap’ Perkins memorialized with a plaque on the Avalon seawall</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Jon Council]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 13 Dec 2013 17:58:41 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Cap Perkins, Avalon resident for over 60 years, was memorialized this week with a commemorative plaque installed on the sea-wall on what was locally referred to as his &#8220;Office&#8221; just West of the base of the Green pleasure pier. For roughly 63 years, Cap and other islanders like George McElroy (also deceased) and Bruce Gelker [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>Avalon bids heartfelt farewell to Pat Jamieson:</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Jon Council]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 28 Jun 2013 23:17:54 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Early on Tuesday morning June 25th the text message came in two simple words. &#8220;She&#8217;s Gone.&#8221; The text was from Trisha Clayton, who was much too emotional to talk, but still wanted to relay the news that her mother Pat Jamieson&#8217;s battle with cancer was over. Early on Tuesday morning June 25th the text message [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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