Nanaimo Daily News - July 7, 2006

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Nanaimo Daily News: Fri July 7, 2006 (Paul Walton) Vigil remembers Lisa Marie Young

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Vigil remembers Lisa Marie Young

Four years after the suspicious and still unsolved disappearance of Lisa Marie Young, her family and friends refuse to give up hope.

Saturday at Swy-a-Lana Lagoon in Nanaimo, a vigil and potluck picnic (starting at 4 p.m.) will be held to remember the 21-year-old.

"There's always got to be a bit of hope," said Young's mother Joanne. Young disappeared on the Canada Day weekend in 2002 and police have said they believe she met with foul play. A police investigation has not yet yielded enough information to make an arrest.

Earlier this year, Staff Sgt. Randy Munro, head of the Nanaimo RCMP serious crimes unit, said investigators are still looking for that final piece of information that will solve the case.

"Anything that comes to our attention provincewide we're following up," said Munro. "So far, there's been nothing."

Joanne Young said that she was contacted last week by a man who found some women's shoes in Harewood. She said they have been turned over to police. Joanne Young has also been using the services of a psychic, who she continues to consult. In 2003, on the claims of a psychic, a private dive team searched the lower dam at Colliery Dam Park but found nothing.

Young was last seen the night of June 29, 2002* at a downtown bar where she had worked. She left with a group of people, but nothing more is known. When she failed to return home to move that weekend or start a new job that week, her parents called police.

PWalton@nanaimodailynews.com

[photo caption:] YOUNG: Missing since 2002.