THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 11, 2016 VOLUME 7 EDITION 6 SERVING SELKIRK, LOCKPORT, ST. ANDREWS, ST. CLEMENTS, WEST ST. PAUL, CLANDEBOYE, PETERSFIELD, WINNIPEG BEACH, GARSON, DUNNOTTAR & TYNDALL Asante choir wows Selkirk RECORD PHOTO BY DAVE BAXTER The Asante Children’s Choir, made up of children who live in impoverished conditions in Uganda, put on an energetic performance at the Comp in Selkirk last Friday. Many in the choir are looking for sponsorship for the chance to live a better life. news > sports > opinion > community > people > entertainment > events > classifi eds > careers > everything you need to know WE ARE NOW Doubling your RRSP PROVIDING contribution isn’t magic. To Better Serve Win a chance to double ® your RRSP/TFSA Our Community contribution 326 Main Street, Selkirk up to $5,000* 2 The Selkirk Record Thursday, February 11, 2016 Police still searching for clues in woman’s disappearance Project Devote seek public’s help in solving 1988 missing person’s case By Austin Grabish Raymond Johnston, a 31-year-old welder who She vanished under mysterious circumstances on a late had proposed to Cathy a year prior, was reported summer night and hasn’t been seen in almost three de- to have found the note. cades, but police insist the case of Cathy Lynn Williams Four months after Williams vanished, Thelma hasn’t fallen cold. said she thought her daughter was living in Win- The St. Andrews woman was just 22 when she went nipeg, but couldn’t understand why she didn’t missing after a day trip to Winnipeg on August 22, 1988. contact her, especially since she had been blind Police highlighted the case in a hasty ad campaign in the for over a year and relied on her daughter’s help. weeks leading up to Christmas last year, but details of it St. Andrews Mayor George Pike was Williams’ are being kept close to the chest. neighbour on Mitchell Bay, and remembers see- Both the Winnipeg Police and RCMP have been oddly ing her grow up. mum when pressed for information about the case. Williams is one of 28 missing or murdered persons be- “She was going to school and playing sports at ing investigated by Project Devote, a provincial task force the community club,” Pike said. made up of investigators from Winnipeg Police and RCMP. The former Winnipeg Police offi cer didn’t RCMP HANDOUT Project Devote team commander Sgt. Rob Lasson said work on Williams’ case, but remembers the door Cathy Lynn Williams has been missing police are still treating Williams as a missing person, and knocking by police that happened when she since 1988. Police are asking anyone with are not ruling out the possibility she’s alive, though it’s went missing. information about her disappearance to unlikely. “They had rumours where she was or where “It’s not a cold case, it’s an active investigation,” he said. she went, but nothing was ever fi nalized,” he said. come forward. Lasson said Williams was last seen at the Santa Lucia Pike said he didn’t know if Williams had any “People need to understand that even the small- restaurant on St. Mary’s Road in Winnipeg, and that in- family members that are still alive, but he re- est bit of information can link two huge pieces formation is different from what police fi rst told media in called that her home was sold many years ago together, so anything is important,” he said. 1988. and has changed hands a few times since. “It can even be as simple as somebody phoning Newspaper archives reviewed last week by the Record Lasson declined to say if Williams left behind in saying they last saw her with a certain person say Williams went missing near the 200 block of Furby any other relatives, but said police are searching or they last saw her wearing certain clothes.” Street in the city. for answers. Tips can be left with Project Devote by calling Her adoptive mother Thelma Williams, who was 86 when “She hasn’t been forgotten, we’re actively work- 1-888-673-3316. her daughter went missing, told the local paper Cathy was ing on this case.” If you have information about Williams, the Re- in Winnipeg to apply for a job as a parking attendant on He said anyone with information about Wil- cord would also like to speak with you. the day she went missing. liams is encouraged to come forward even if they Austin Grabish can be reached at austin@sel- She told a reporter a note was found after her daughter’s think the information may be hearsay. kirkrecord.ca. disappearance that sounded like she was ‘saying goodbye.’ FOR YOUR HEALTH Ask the Denturist EventEv Sponsors Are Partial Partial Dentures Dentures Essential? 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Between Jefferson & Inkster 204-482-4235 The Selkirk Record Thursday, February 11, 2016 3 St. Andrews principals get messy for I Love to Read month School fi nds unique ways to get kids reading By Dave Baxter “We thought it was the perfect time Staff at St. Andrews school are fi nd- of year to use that to encourage kids ing fun, unique and even messy ways to read, and there are so many great to get kids excited about books and books and so many people interested reading during I love to Read Month. in reading sports- themed books.” At an assembly to kick off I Love to The month of February may be a Read Month at the school last Thurs- way to get kids into reading, but both day, principal Harold Freiter and vice- Koop and Brand said it is important principal Chad Whiteside got messy for kids to read all-year-round, and after making a prom- important for parents to ise to kids and sticking get involved with their to that promise. kids when it comes to The staff asked kids reading. if they could reach a “Kids should be read- goal of buying a cer- “THE KIDS JUST ing, or even just listen- tain number of books LOVE IT, AND ing to stories every day,” in their book fair. Brand said. That goal was OUR PRINCIPALS Grade three student reached and both Fre- ARE VERY Trinity Doornbos said she iter and Whiteside let reads a lot, and can get RECORD PHOTOS BY DAVE BAXTER a few staff and student HANDS-ON AND fully immersed in a book. St. Andrews school vice-principal Chad Whiteside gets oatmeal dumped dump buckets on their “I love to read because on his head during an I Love to Read kick-off assembly. heads with things like INVOLVED.” it’s adventurous,” Doorn- oatmeal, cake mix and bos said. “I can read a ice water, while the kids at the assem- book and get into the story and go on bly laughed and cheered them on. an adventure.” St. Andrews School teachers and I Grade four student Carley Catellier Love To Read committee members said she can also get really involved in Natalie Koop and Megan Brand said it what she is reading. has become tradition for the school’s “I can get so into a book that I can get principal and vice-principal to do lost in it,” Catellier said. “I forget that something fun during the kick-off as- I’m in my room or that I’m in school. sembly. I’m right in the story.” “The kids just love it, and our princi- Grade fi ve students Quinn Borgfjord pals are very hands-on and involved,” said he has lost track of how many Koop said. “The kids get really excited books he has read. for sure.” “I can read for hour and hours with- Every year the school picks a theme out noticing,” Borgfjord said.