Vigil planned for missing Nanaimo woman
By Jenn Marshall - Nanaimo News
Bulletin
Published: June 19, 2010
Lisa Marie Young was last seen eight years ago.
Her family is holding a walk and candlelight vigil in honour of
the anniversary of her disappearance and to remind people she is
still missing.
Relatives, friends and the public are invited to join Joanne
Young, Lisa’s mother, in a walk around downtown Nanaimo, followed
by a candlelight vigil at Swy-a-lana Lagoon on June 30.
“I just feel it’s really important to keep the awareness out
there,” said Young. “There’s been a couple times when we just laid
low and didn’t do a whole lot.”
Lisa was last seen leaving a house party in Nanaimo on June 30,
2002. A man in a red Jaguar was going to give her a ride to Subway
and then home, but she never made it to the restaurant or home.
The walk, which begins at Diana Krall Plaza on Commercial Street
at 7 p.m., will pass by what was formerly the Jungle Cabaret on
Skinner Street that her daughter was at before she went missing.
The candlelight vigil in Swy-a-lana will include playing “Lisa’s
Song” by Nanaimo musician Allison Crowe.
“I really hope a lot of people come out,” said Young. “You wish
one day someone would come out and tell us what happened. We’ve
always believed that someone knows something.”
Last year, Nanaimo RCMP teamed up with Crime Stoppers and
Shaw TV to do a TV re-enactment of Lisa’s last-known
movements to help generate some fresh leads in the case.
Const. Gary O’Brien, Nanaimo RCMP spokesman, said the re-enactment
generated dozens of tips, many of which are still being
investigated and followed up by the serious crimes unit.
“It’s still an active investigation,” he said.
