Search continues for swimmer, 20, missing in Pembroke area

Emergency watercraft and a helicopter continued their search Saturday for a 20-year-old man who disappeared Friday night in the rapids in the Ottawa River in Whitewater Township.
The man, from Petawawa, had gone for a swim with another Petawawa man shortly after the dinner hour, police reported.
“Both men became caught in a section of rapids on the Ottawa River adjacent to Grants Settlement Road and were swept away,” police said in a release.
The second man was eventually able to mak