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"Hundreds of people have called a southwest Edmonton school volunteering to help search for an eight-year-old girl missing since Tuesday afternoon.

Police and school board officials were hoping Cheyenne Myers would show up for school Wednesday at St. Boniface Elementary School at 118th Street and 40th Avenue in the Royal Gardens neighbourhood in southwest Edmonton.

When she did not, concern began to escalate.

Cheyenne is developmentally delayed."

http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/edmonton/story/2011/12/07/edmonton-missing-girl.html

Hey

And you know a hug from *me* really means something.

That's horrible.

Well, we don't know if it's horrible yet. But it did turn cold again last night.


The police say they have no evidence of foul play.

Yes you are right.

But it's horrible for everyone who cares and is close to her...that's what I meant really.

(You may have noticed that my posts are quite OTT emotional at present. Yes they are. But it won't harm this place to have a shot of that. Underneath we are all like that...and everyone really knows it).

I did a google news search and was excited by a news story that was only 7 minutes (14 minutes now) old on Radio-Canada (French CBC) . . .

but nothing new.


http://www.radio-canada.ca/regions/alberta/2011/12/07/001-cheyenne-fille-edmonton.shtml

I hope you hear some good news soon. It's always sad to hear of such things, especially when they are in your neighbourhood.

CBC has just confirmed that she's been found , apparently safe.

That's good to know.

Brilliant news

Good news indeed, but still there's something a little perplexing:

She was found at the diagonally opposite side of the city from her home and school, on the other side of the river. The only way I can imagine her doing that without "help" would be if she managed to get to the LRT ("tube" for you lot station -- across two very busy streets -- and took a train to the north end of the line, which is quite close to where she was found. And that only accounts for about 45 minutes of the 20 hours she was missing.

But, she's home and she's warm.

more is in the updated story: http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/edmonton/story/2011/12/07/edmonton-missing-girl.html

It looks like a walk to the LRT station, a ride to the end of the line, a walk to the Wal-Blech (open all night for holiday consumption).


Warm and safe pretty much the whole time and probably more worried about getting in trouble than her own safety.


The public response certainly was everything one could hope for:

"Hundreds of people called the school Wednesday morning volunteering to help search for the girl."

Everyone I talked to over the day was deeply concerned and hoping for any news I might have heard.







(I can't help but think that if Wal-Mart hadn't been open 24 hours, Cheyenne might have been noticed at closing time and slept in her own bed last night)