Article updated: 12/12/2012 10:30 PM

Chicagoland Canoe’s Frese was truly special

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Ralph Frese, who founded the Des Plaines River Canoe Marathon, died this week at 86.

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Ralph Frese, the 86-year-old founder and spearhead of the Chicagoland Canoe Base, died this week. Outdoors writer Mike Jackson has that and more fishing and hunting news in this edition of outdoors notes.