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Finally, some progress on Silver Alert Family of Shin Noh has been pushing for alert tools DiAne StrAnDberg The Tri-CiTy News
Five years have passed and not a day goes by without Sam Noh thinking about his father. Shin Noh went missing from his Coquitlam home Sept. 18, 2013 and his family is still seeking closure because the elderly pastor was never found, despite a huge community effort. “I try to remember the happy moments,” Sam Noh told The Tri-City News in an interview at his fitness studio in Port Moody. Indeed, Noh, 37, says he has a lot to be grateful for — from his marriage two years ago to his recently expanded business. As well, he said he appreciates how the community rallied around his father five years ago, partici-
pating in the search and helping to keep track of sightings. But there have been challenges along the way and Noh is speaking out now because he doesn’t want other families to suffer the trauma and grief his family has experienced. “It would give me some comfort for another family not to go through what we went through, that would be a comfort,” Noh said. “Around this time emotions are high and there’s a sense of disappointment that it hasn’t been accomplished.” That’s why he’s advocating for a province-wide Silver Alert program that would notify the public when elderly people with dementia go missing. Based on the current Alert Ready program tested recently to warn people about a tsunami, a Silver Alert would alert people in the immediate area where the missing person was last seen. see WITHOUT GOV’T, page 23
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Terry Fox became the youngest Companion of the Order of Canada, at a special ceremony at Port Coquitlam city hall on Sept. 18, 1980.
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