Minaki Community Association Jan./Feb., 2020 Issue #14 MINAKI NEWS Minaki’s Annual Curling Bonspiel
Here we are again! with your team as includes chili din- Minaki Curling Bon- ner Saturday night soon as possible. spiel is just around ($10 for non- the corner beginning Volunteers and prize curlers) Friday February 14 at donations are greatly 7:00pm. The details appreciated so please cash bar and can- are as follows: teen open let us know if you are
willing to help out. $30/person or $120/
team Please contact Kelly
(204-797-3547) or Thank you and look- at least one member Roger (204-781-4603) ing forward to a great of the opposite gen- weekend! der per team Attention Business Owners! The curling league is up and running! For The Minaki Commu- and it is always a ment and in the nity Association hosts great turnout. anyone that wants to Minaki newsletter. an annual bonspiel check out the weekly every winter with the We are asking busi- If you are interested curling action, head help of volunteers nesses if they can do- in donating for this to the Community flooding the ice, or- nate for prizes to help tournament, you can Hall at 6:30 p.m. on ganizing the prizes, the success of the contact Kelly Beau- and helping the day of yearly tournament. Fridays, and enjoy a champ at 204-797- by selling food and All businesses that 3547 or Roger Beau- night out with friends keeping track of the donate prizes will be champ at 204-781- and community! games. Our small posted for advertise- 4603. town comes together ment at the tourna- Thank you! Page 2
Winter Fun in Minaki!
A big thank you goes out to all Themas Minaki Eve Skate, Curling and League Brunch is Withstill those who came out to participate takingSanta. As always sign -ups a huge for thank the you in the various activities going on 2019/2020goes out to theseason. organizers, Please set con--up tact Ben (text 807-407-0201) to around Minaki throughout the holi- crews, clean-up crews, shoppers, enter your team. Individuals may day season, including our Cookie cooks, and all those who made Decorating & Tree Lighting Event, also sign up to be placed on a team,these events and there possible! is no Your age contri- re- Christmas Movie Matinee, Christ- striction.butions are Games greatly are appreciated! six ends, be- ginning 7:00 p.m. on Fridays. Each team gets 5 games. A tenta- tive schedule for games is January 3, 17 & 31 and February 7 & 21. Bar is open game nights. Entry fee
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Words of Advice From Minaki Fire own. We do better as a community.
With the cold and snow, we also find other activities to do which often requires us to drive a distance in bad weather to get there. Ensure you have a few supplies in your vehicle in case you run into trouble. Blankets and a candle can keep a small space like a car warm as you wait for help. A small pot to warm We have all done well much. Keep an eye snow so you have for the holidays and out for those residents drinking water is nice. Share your special have been safe. We who might become Pack some snack bars are now into the announcements snowed in or at to help keep up ener- in the Minaki News: dreary part of winter risk. We all know who gy. Along with all the with loads of snow stays for the winter things to get your vehi- Birthdays and cold. Many of the and sees the regular cle out, make sure you Graduations people are great out- pattern of trails and have an emergency kit Anniversaries Weddings doors people or will be tracks as they do their in case you need to participating in winter Sporting Achievements business. If you no- wait. Special Events activities to avoid the tice someone without New Arrivals boredom, whether it is those signs, check on Be aware of the in- Obituaries going to the hockey them or let someone tense cold in the next arena in town, skating Submissions can be made to know so we can check couple of months. Our [email protected]. at the Igloo, curling at on them. Some of our youth will go outdoors The deadline for submissions the community centre neighbours live alone for extended periods for our upcoming issue is or enjoy the great out- and could use the of time so be aware of March 12th, 2020. doors for ice fishing company or just know- signs of frostbite or and snowmobil- ing someone is look- hypothermia. We have ing. Each of these ing out for them. A big not had that much ex- have some risks and shout-out and appreci- treme cold but with safety precautions ation goes out to the amount of usage that are of concern. those last year who of the Igloo and other check on our elders activities, we need to With the cold and and plowed some stay aware. We need snow, some of our el- driveways on their to take care when we ders and neighbours are going outdoors might not get out as Page 5 without places to warm up for block them. Make sure you signs of cold-related illness. If you have a few days of supplies are going out on the lake, ensure in case of a bad someone knows where and when storm. Please bring in pets to expect you back. An ounce of and animals inside during precaution is better than a pound severe conditions too. Be of cure. safe and think of safety before you do things, as Finally, winter brings the need for nature has a way of being heat and the risks in- unforgiving when we make volved. There are now chimney mistakes. sweeps in the area and kits for homeowners to clean chimneys Robert Creedon themselves. Check your heating Minaki Fire Educator and vents to ensure snow doesn’t Co-Chief
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Big North Lodge & Outposts: Family operated fishing & hunting lodge located on Gun Lake, 8 km south of Minaki
Housekeeper/Waitress: May 16 to September 1, 2020 Wage @ $15/hour + Gratuities Cleaning Cabins & Serving meals in Dining Room
Camp Worker: May 15 to September 1, 2020 Wage @ $15/hour + Gratuities Camp & Grounds Cleaning & mainte- nance; Cleaning Boats & Dock are- as; Customer Service
Contact/email resumes to: Pat Rheault Big North Lodge & Outposts Box 24 Minaki, Ontario P0X 1J0 [email protected] 807-224-4318 Page 6
Cottagers’ Stories—Part II
We are delighted to hear that Finally, as the ropes were be- Garry Bolton on Gunn our first series of Cottagers' Sto- ing cast off, Margie asked if ries was both informative and Lake: she wanted her newborn son
entertaining. So, let's take an- back? I almost became a I am very fortunate to be a other trip down the memory Muncer! My maternal great fourth generation cottager, lanes of several of Minaki's cot- grandfather Thomas Henry Ver- tagers. arriving by train from Edmon- ner purchased our property on ton at 5 weeks of age. Mom Big Island, in 1912, for the was so excited to be back that This time, I will kick it off with princely sum of $10.00 per she handed me to Margie some of my family's history, and acre. In 1913 the trees were Muncer who was standing on a few early memories of the 71 cleared and the foundation the government dock, got set- years in which I have been and floor were built. In 1914, tled into the launch and pre- blessed to be part of this incredi- the workers camped on the pared for the trip to Big Island. ble Community. floor and built the cottage around themselves.
We have been told that several of the men, on completing the cottage, volunteered and went off to war. The cottage was built for $ 875.00 [not sure by whom], and after the war – in 1921 – my great grandfather received a quote of $ 170.00 from Dick Geroux to build a stone fireplace; however it was never built.
So many of the early cottage properties were selected, in part, for their magnificent sand beaches, and ours was no ex- ception. Unfortunately, most of them including ours became partly, or fully, flooded when Johnny Burns driving a boat with Wildedge in the background Page 7 the Whitedog Generating Station A workhorse for us for many years. the crashed airplane and its vic- came into operation in 1958. Walking on the sand beach, and tims in Sellers' narrows; the boat picking off the blood suckers and rides to Villineuves' dock and the Our first wood cook stove came putting them on a rock while intro- truck rides into Kenora for sup- from the GTP's railway construc- ducing them, for their first and plies; the Friday night eager an- tion, as it was smaller than nor- last time, to salt. Green frogs eve- ticipation on the station platform mal but had 4 steel rings in each rywhere; we are just now starting as we saw our friends and wait- corner to allow it to be easily to see more and more – a good ed for our Fathers to arrive – of- picked up by 4 men with a couple sign. Rowing our small outboard ten not knowing if he was on the of logs and moved along the line. boat, NOT trolling, so my grand- Campers' or the Super; finding mother could fish using a stick the sweet spot to hit on the In the early years, like many oth- and line; along with a butter box Lodge's jukebox machine so ers, the cottage was normally and the end of a paddle as a club. Johnny Horton's 'Battle of New opened at the end of June and Peter Barber, David Findlay and I Orleans' could play over and over closed up on the September long being taught by my Dad on how to and over again with only one play weekend. At the time when we make a fire with one match. Play- paid for; camping on a canoe trip only had canoes and rowboats, ing stretch with hunting knives at the north portage into Vermil- launches were utilized to bring with Doug Henderson. ion with Hugh MacDonald and the family and their gear out to Davey Bowles – watching a huge the island. In late 1960 we drove to the end storm approach from the west of the Minaki road that was acces- over Harbour Island – and seek- My great grandmother Verner was sible, at the north end of Trout ing shelter in the closed up PALA a noted soloist in Winnipeg, and Lake, and by May of 1961 we Camp; watching station agent there are reports of her perform- drove the entire way in. Watching Phil Mosher hold up the bamboo ing at the wartime [The Great Tommy Murray, at maybe 5 ft. 6 loop with an order that would be War] benefit concerts held in sup- in. and 150 lbs, pull starting his grabbed by the passing train's port of the Red Cross at the Mina- brand new 40 HP Evinrude at the conductor in the crook of his ki Inn. Minaki Marina. I was very fortu- arm; lying on the dock on a clear, nate to have worked on the lake cold evening and watching the One of the biggest challenges ear- for Les Muncer and with Johnny Russian Sputnik I go silently ly on was how to house and cook Burns, and then for two summers overhead on the Thanksgiving for the large crowds of visitors Grant Boden and I ran the Lodge weekend of Oct. 1957; watching who would arrive each Friday pro shop for Rod Carey and Currie in absolute awe the July 20, night on the Campers' Special. MacMillan. 1969 moon landing and walk at Often there was no notice given Ralph and Katie Douglas's cot- as to who and how many were Other memories, to name but a tage up the river, then driving arriving, putting the challenge of few, include; rushing to the station back to the cottage on Gunn food storage, cooking and sleep- to see if there was a telegram set Lake and looking up at the moon ing arrangements in the hands of in the wire mesh in the window; and marvelling that man was my great grandmother and then putting a penny on the track and there. my grandmother; I do not know feeling how hot/crushed/curved it why telegrams were not used was after the train passed; trading Lots more stories for another more often. comic books with the Burns fami- time, including the cook chasing ly; seeing the long fire hoses set the Lodge's Chef with a knife, One of my earliest memories was out on racks to dry at the Lands and the Chef responding with driving back to cottage in the old and Forest base after the last fire one of my golf clubs! Wait to find Kawartha cedar strip with a very fought; hearing stories of the out who won. big box; which housed a brand many sturgeon seen on the river new green 10 hp Johnson motor. bottom by the U.S. Deep Sea Navy School divers as they searched for Page 8
Helen Corbould on Gunn tered Accountant, and he would so Mother and I went to stay at close his office for the summer the Mulocks on Pistol Lake for a Lake at Corbould Narrows and be at the cottage; except for 1 month, as Mrs. Mulock was a [next to the Hydro trans- week in the middle of the summer teacher. They had two kids, Fran- mission lines]: when he went back to the office, cis who was my age, and Bill, and Mother and I would spend a who was a year older.” I was fortunate to have been able week at Holst Point while my sis- to connect with Helen in 2015; ter Mary stayed at the cottage Helen told me what an enjoyable she was 94 and living in southern with friends. They would paddle experience it had been walking Ontario. Helen was a good friend into town to visit, and for supplies, down memory lane and answer- of my Mom's, and on her last visit and would stop off at the Frem- ing my questions. She concluded to Minaki several years ago she mings to stretch and change plac- by saying “I envy you there now, was given the grand tour by Wen- es. My Dad sold the cottage to Bill and I WISH I could visit Minaki dy Reid. Her love of the place is and Maria Sigurgeirson around once again but my travelling well shown by the several hand 1956, as my sister was travelling days are over.” I did take several written pages of memories that the world and I had moved to photos of landmarks she would she sent. Her family cottage was Washington where I worked at the recognize and mailed them to built by her father Charlie Cor- Canadian Embassy for the next 25 her. bould, she believes in 1910; but it years. I later learned that Mother might have been as late as 1915. hated it, and only went for my sis- Eleanor [Nora] Hodgson In either case, one of Minaki's cot- ter and I. Our boats included a on Parker Island in Little tage pioneers. The cottage was launch which only Dad could run located where Steve and Robin because you had to turn a big Sand Lake: Toni built their own place; and to wheel, rowboat, canoe, and a sail- be clear it is Corbould Narrows – boat with 100 ft of silk sail. While Nora Hodgson is one of our his- not Cobalt Narrows. In speaking serving in the Canadian Navy dur- tory project's most staunch sup- to her, she told me that they were ing WW II I did visit the cottage porters, and she has provided often broken into, losing paddles, once, in 1945, while in uniform. many detailed memories of her fishing gear, and life jackets. So We drank the water directly from summers spent in Minaki, as her Father built a false wall where the lake, with a pump in the kitch- well as a detailed overview histo- they stored as much as they could en and 8 layers of cheesecloth ry of the area. Her memories are each winter. clothes-pinned as a filter over top clear and extensive, so let's hear of the water pail; and did not get a few of those stories that ill. Refrigeration started with a demonstrate her deep love for “My Father built our cottage him- cool pit under the cottage that we Minaki. self, and Elmer Reid helped to bought ice for; eventually a pro- build the fireplace with rocks tak- pane fridge. On Friday nights “Our cottage, named 'White en from the shore. Our property when we heard a boat approach- Pines', was built for Mr. George was selected as it had a point, ing there was great excitement, as Munro in 1907. Mr. Munro was a where we often had bonfires and it meant Father was arriving and trust company manager from toasted marshmallows. The Cana- bringing groceries. My friends and Winnipeg, and he bought 'White dian Ensign flag was always I would often take the rowboat Pine Island' in 1906. While the flown, except in high water. Boats and tie it up to the buoy in front of builder is unknown, the exten- would go through the Narrows our place, and float and play rec- sion was built by Dick Geroux. At and, over the noise of the out- ords on the gramophone. We of- some point in time White Pines board, someone would shout to ten dreamed about being able to was purchased by Horace Or- the other 'That's old Charlie Cor- drive to Minaki. When I was age 8, mand, and then passed it to his bould's place!' Its name was around 1926, the polio epidemic son Stewart. My Father, Byron 'Birchmere'. My father was a Char- closed down the Winnipeg schools William Parker, first rented the Page 9
Group photo on the porch of the Munro cottage, 1913
cottage in 1932, and always ki Lodge for meals, to see a mov- member listening to the rain on wanted to buy it. In 1946 he pur- ie, play tennis and attend dances. the roof, before I went to sleep. A chased the cottage and half – 10 We also went to PALA Camp for lovely, soothing sound. And the acres – of the island for $ 1,500 dances. In the early 1930's, in my not so soothing sound of the from Stewart's widow. I first ar- earliest memories of Minaki, I pic- mosquitoes buzzing outside the rived at Minaki when I was 18 ture being put to bed in my little mosquito netting Mother placed months old. Like most cottages room while it was still light out- over the top of my head. To this then, we would open up on the side. I would lie there listening to day, I find the buzzing even May 24 th weekend and spend the frogs trilling and croaking worse than being bitten. A regu- the summers, closing on or after down by the shore, and hear the lar visitor to our dock was Mr. the Labour Day weekend. The mumble of my parents' voices Herb Billings, the vegetable man. May long weekend was important from the veranda. Dad would of- He lived in a log house on Pistol as we celebrated my husband's ten lie on the swing and Mother Lake, which he built himself, and birthday every year. We would boil sat beside him in a rocking chair, was a bit of a hermit. He came the river water for drinking, later sometimes sewing or knitting, but around once a week to sell what purchasing bottles of water from often just holding his hand. I re- was ripe from his garden. He had the marina. We would go to Mina-
Page 10 an old red wooden boat with an narrows to Orde Island without open engine in the middle. In the Rod Chapman on Placid getting their feet wet. Our family beginning, the boat had a high also owned Belle Island, where Bay, Little Sand and Pistol top with a fringe around it like a Belle Brown – my Father's aunt – surrey. He called it the 'Queen Lake: had her cottage. The father of Mary' after the British ocean liner Pete Soderman built a log cabin, that had been launched in 1934. I was fortunate to be able to con- boat dock and trolley system for In the middle of summer, we wait- nect with Rod a couple of years my grandfather Ephram Chap- ed expectantly for his 'Golden ago and he has provided infor- man in about 1922 on Chap- Bantam' corn to be ready. It was mation and recollections of his man's Island, as he liked the ar- the best corn I have ever tasted, family's long tenure in Minaki. ea and his wife wanted to be but unfortunately, once he per- Over the years Rod's extended near her sister. The island was fected something he never grew it family had four properties around sold to the Rutherford family, again. He ended up trying to grow Minaki. and tragically the cottage burned grapes and cherries and his busi- down years later. My grandmoth- ness failed. We went over to his “The family cottage in Placid Bay, er Margaret Watt [nee John- th place several times and I remem- the small bay along the 9 hole of stone] had a brother Charlie ber picking my own strawberries the golf course, was built by Dr. Johnstone [member of the 1896- in a patch he had given up. He W.L. Watt in 1912, as per a ship- 1902 Winnipeg Victorias and a would show us where the deer ping ID on the ship-lap on the liv- very skilled sculler] who owned a and other animals had got into his ing room ceiling 'to be shipped to cottage at the south end of Pistol garden, despite the chicken wire Minaki c/o E. Reid'. Dr. Watt only Lake near the Charlesworth fence he kept raising in height. used the cottage until he signed farm; it passed to his son Charlie The deer always managed to go up with the Canadian Forces in and was sold around 1970. My over it and the small animals bur- WW I and went overseas. Having grandparents witnessed the rowed under it. He would just been gassed he recovered in Eng- burning down of the original shrug his narrow shoulders and land where he married the nurse Minaki Inn in June of 1925. On grin his toothless grin, He had a looking after him; she had lost her the island immediately west of very laissez-faire attitude about husband in the War. After the War the Lodge was a tea house and life. If one took the path that cir- Walter was not able to suffer Win- band stand, and music was cled our island, on the Ormand's nipeg winters due to the loss of played each weekend by bands side, there was a grave down by one lung, so he moved to Victoria, brought in on the Friday train, the shore, marked by a cairn of and left the cottage in care of my and they returned to Winnipeg rocks. Amid these rocks was a grandfather Jack R.L. Watt. The on the Sunday train. The 1950 white cross that read: 'K.C. Larsen cottage passed to their daughter flood washed away the band – 1900 -1925 – R.I.P.’ Mr Larsen, Irene and son in law Daryl Chap- stand. One summer during the I was told, had been a Swedish man, my Mother and Father. After construction of Whitedog G.S, log roller who was brought to the passing of Daryl in 1976 the 1955 to 1958, there was a brawl Minaki to work on the building of cottage was sold to an owner in in the Holst Point pub. Bob the new Minaki Lodge. He had Kenora. Subsequently it was sold Gauthier, one of the two OPP po- drowned, and Mrs. Ormand had to John Newsome who demol- licemen stationed in Jackfish found his body on the shore of the ished the cottage to build his Bay, was in hospital in Kenora island the next spring. Discovering home. Before the Whitedog Gener- from another encounter. So, Al- that he had no known relatives ating Station in 1958, the water bert Sveinson of the OPP was by back in Sweden, she had had him level was lower and there was a himself. He arrived at the pub, buried there. I quite accepted the nice sand beach of about 20 ft. went to see what the problem fact as a child, but some of my out into the bay. My Mother relat- was, and a few seconds later his friends thought it a bit spooky.” ed that in one of the 1930 years hat came flying through the door they were able to walk across the with Albert following close be- Page 11 hind onto the parking lot. He can be told! For the next 3 years I the west side of Little Sand picked himself up, walked over to guided at both the Lodge and about a mile north of Chapman the police car, got the police dog Holst Point, enjoying the company Island, had a cannon on the out and leashed him to the car, of the other guides as there was edge of the cliff in front of the rolled a handkerchief around one always something to talk about. cottage. Every day at noon he hand, slipped the handcuffs on Some of the notables were Joe would fire the cannon to that hand, drew his baton and re- Perron, Willy Fisher, Ray Chicago acknowledge twelve noon, and turned to the fray. Within minutes and Eddie MacDonald. My brother such was the noise we could he returned from the pub with Chris and I would caddy on the hear it at our place next to the one man in each hand, threw golf course in order to get a dollar Lodge.” them in the back seat of the car -- or two, so we could visit other - with the dog, and drove away. train stations along the CNR. In We hope you continue to enjoy Roy Grellier owned the Esso gas those days there was the local memories from the past. Believe and boat storage business just train, the fish train, the milk run, me when I say, there is lots more west of the Government docks. I plus one or two passenger trains to come. I also continue to en- think he quit the business around going between Winnipeg and courage those we have contact- 1950 and his house was sold to Sioux Lookout where the round- ed, but not responded, to partici- the Kastner family [Jim and Lil] house was located. You could pate. Every memory and story is who converted part to a small res- leave early in the morning, go important, and time is quickly taurant with hamburgers, ice wherever your money would take running out to be involved. cream, etc. At the age of 15 and you east or west, and return to Thank you. 16 I worked in the kitchen at Minaki in time for dinner. Three Minaki Lodge; Bill Blanchette was dollars would get you a long way Garry Bolton the Chef – of whom many stories and return. Mr. T.T. Bower, who Minaki History Society owned the cottage Wildedge on
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MINAKI Business Directory
Minaki Marina & LCBO
Greg Omeniuk & Shelley Christie Phone: 807-224-2581
Re-opening March 13, 2020 Happy winter!
Barber’s Take and Bake Pizzas REsort Call Alana @ 204-557-1602 till 10 p.m. daily Year-Round Accommodations Phone: 807-224-6411 For information on pricing and options, call or Email: [email protected] check out the community bulletin board. Website: barbersresort.com
Pine & Paddle Wilder Woodwork & Carpentry Cabin Rentals Joshua Rheault Joshua Rheault Owner
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Emergency Numbers Ambulance – (807) 468-3311 OPP – 1-888-310-1122
Hospital – (807) 468-9861 Fire – (807) 224-1100 Forest Fire – (807) 310-FIRE (3473) Poison Control – 1-800-268-9017
Minaki Nursing Station—(807) 224-3531 Clinic Hours: Mondays – Fridays, 9 a.m.–4:30 p.m. Please call (807) 224-3531 or (807) 467-8770 to schedule appointments.
Telehealth Ontario—1-866-797-0000 Telehealth Ontario is a free, confidential service you can call to get health advice or information. A Registered Nurse will take your call 24 hours a day, seven days a week. When you call, a Registered Nurse will ask you to answer questions so they can assess your health problem and give you advice. Telehealth Ontario nurses will not diagnose your illness or give you medicine. They will direct you to the most appropriate level of care or may put you in contact with a health professional who can advise you on your next steps. The nurse will help you decide whether to: handle a problem yourself visit your doctor or nurse practitioner go to a clinic contact a community service go to a hospital emergency room
We are now on Minaki Landfill Site Operation winter hours!
Summer Hours – Sundays or Holiday Mondays 4 to 8 PM Winter Hours – Sundays or Holiday Mondays NOON to 4 PM
Tippage fees will be collected at the time of dumping and are: $3.00 per bag $25.00 per ½ ton truck or small trailer
FOLLOW SIGNS FOR DESIGNATED AREAS:
Brush – no exceptions Domestic Garbage Fish Guts Metals
Due to demands from the Ministry of Natural Resources (MNR) and the Ministry of Environment (MOE) restrictions are as follows: ABSO- LUTELY NO: Wood of any kind, fibreglass insulation, shingles, plastics, tarps, styrofoam, glass, furniture, mattresses, tires, appliances, elec- tronics, paints, batteries, or hazardous chemicals. There is a $500.00 fine for anyone caught dumping these items at the Minaki site. These items must be taken to the Kenora Waste Transfer Station for proper disposal. Non-compliance will result in the rescinding of dump- ing privileges. All fees go towards the costs of operating the site in accordance with MNR and MOE guidelines. The Minaki Waste Manage- ment Board is a volunteer group working for the benefit of the community to keep the landfill site open. We appreciate your co-operation in maintaining the Minaki dump site. Minaki Roads Local Services Board of Minaki Board
Barbara Mach—Chairperson Bryan Rheault—Chair Benjamin Barber—Secretary/Treasurer Malcolm Reid—Trustee Kelly Beauchamp—Member Mike Turcotte—Trustee Roger Beauchamp—Member Rachel Taylor—Member Jennifer McPhearson Secretary/Treasurer
Minaki Community Association
Kelly Beauchamp—President Minaki Waste Benjamin Barber—Secretary/Treasurer Management Board Lara Barber—Member Barbara Mach—Member Lorraine Muncer Rachel Taylor—Member Bryan Rheault Kane Turcan
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