News brief: Emergency dispatchers to put spotlight on missing children with balloon release

By Sharyn  L. Decker
Lewis County Sirens news reporter

CHEHALIS – Lewis County 911 dispatchers will gather at a Chehalis park today and do a balloon release to bring attention to the issue of missing children.

Saturday is National Missing Children’s Day and employees of the county department recently became certified with National Center for Missing and Exploited Children.

“Putting that highlight back on missing kids is what we’re trying to do,” said employee Laura Hanson.

They’ve scheduled a news conference from 1:30 p.m. until 2:30 p.m. at Stan Hedwall Park on Rice Road in which representatives from the Washington State Patrol and Lewis County 911 will discuss what more folks can do about missing children.

Gordon Trucking will bring one of its semi trucks which features a poster-sized face of the missing Lewis County girl,  Kayla Croft-Payne, Hanson said.

Croft-Payne is among those on Washington state’s missing children list. She was 18 and living outside Chehalis when she was reported missing on May 5, 2010.
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