Maryland Woman Dies When Canoe Overturns In Androscoggin River

Maine Public | By Ed Morin

Published August 15, 2019 at 11:41 AM EDT

A 75 year old woman from Silver Spring, Maryland, drowned early yesterday evening while canoeing on the Androscoggin River near Bethel in western Maine.Xiaolian Ding drowned when the canoe she was traveling in overturned and she became trapped underneath. Ding, her husband and daughter had rented a canoe in Bethel and had just started their trip downriver when the canoe got stuck on a rock.

In a press release, the Maine Warden Service says the canoe overturned when the husband and daughter tried to free the canoe. They were thrown in the water.

The father and daughter were able to get the canoe and Ding to shore, but attempts to revive Ding were unsuccessful.

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Ed Morin

Ed is a Maine native who spent his early childhood in Livermore Falls before moving to Farmington. He graduated from Mount Blue High School in 1970 before going to the University of Maine at Orono where he received his BA in speech in 1974 with a broadcast concentration. It was during that time that he first became involved with public broadcasting. He served as an intern for what was then called MPBN TV and also did volunteer work for MPBN Radio.

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