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Editorial: There’s strength in community

It is OK to reach out for help
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The search for a missing senior earlier this month saw RCMP and SARS teams combining efforts to find her. (Monica Lamb-Yorski photo) The search for a missing senior earlier this month saw RCMP and SARS teams combining efforts to find her. (Monica Lamb-Yorski photo)

The search for a longtime resident in Williams Lake was a good reminder our sense of community is still here, and it is very strong.

Senior Lori Rushton just seemed to vanish on a warm, sunny fall day last Thursday afternoon, Oct. 14, when she walked out her front door.

By 8 p.m. that night family, friends, neighbours, RCMP and members of Central Cariboo Search and Rescue searched South Lakeside, combing the dark streets and train tracks, calling Lori’s name and looking behind fences and down ditches with flashlights for any clue as to where she could have gone.

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