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CHEK News: Feb 17, 2021 Kendall Hanson "Exercise challenge aims to bring attention to missing Nanaimo woman's case" ^^source: https://cheknews.ca/exercise-challenge-aims-to-bring-attention-to-missing-nanaimo-womans-case-744835^^clip: https://lisamarieyoung.ca/n/cn20210217^^[Reproduced under Copyright Act (Canada) s.29.2 - Fair Dealing for the purpose of news reporting]^^----^^Exercise challenge aims to bring attention to missing Nanaimo woman's case^^Dozens of people are participating in a 40 day exercise challenge in advance of what would have been a Nanaimo woman's 40th birthday.^^Lisa Marie Young went missing in 2002 at the age of 21 after leaving a party with Christopher Adair in a Jaguar.^^Nanaimo resident Cyndy Hall is organizing the event and she's been raising awareness about Young's case ever since Young's mother died.^^What keeps me motivated is Lisa because she deserved much much more than what happened to her and honouring her with 40 days of fitness is just a small thing I can do, said Hall, who is among dozens of people who are taking part in the 40 days of exercise for Lisa.^^Lisa's aunt Carol Martin is also taking part in Tofino.^^It brings motivation to a lot of people and with myself, it pushes me to keep going forward in a positive way, said Martin.^^The fitness challenge comes on the heels of new developments in the case.^^In December police searched a Nanaimo Lakes Road property in relation to the investigation.^^There's also a new podcast episode in a series about Young's disappearance with a source close to the investigation.^^In the podcast, he takes me to the place he believes Lisa perished. A place we now know police have recently searched said Laura Palmer, who has published 10 episodes about Lisa's disappearance called Where's Lisa.^^Hall says she knows many tips have been coming into police and she's hopeful the mystery of what happened to Young may soon be solved.^^I feel in my gut that we are getting a lot closer to finding Lisa. I just want to say if you know what happened to Lisa or you have a tape of what happened to Lisa please come forward because we need people to come forward right now with information, said Hall.^^Police would only say Wednesday that the investigation into Young's disappearance remains very active.^^^^