Windspeaker Sports Briefs - May

Event helps reward
Family and friends of a pair of Aboriginal teenagers that were last seen in Quebec three years ago are organizing a run/walk to raise funds for the reward to help find the girls. Maisy Odjick and Shannon Alexander were 16 and 17, respectively, when they were last seen in early September of 2008 in Maniwaki, Que. So far more than $16,000 has been raised for a reward to help find the pair. Further awareness about the girls’ disappearance will be raised thanks to the KZ Run/Walk for Maisy and Shannon that will be staged June 19 at the Kitigan Zibi Anishinabeg First Nation, a small Algonquin community in Quebec. A Web site, www.findmaisyandshannon.com, has also been set up to detail the case. The Web site also provides all registration details for the walk/run. Participants, who can walk or run the courses, can choose one of three distances to enter; two kilometres, 5K or 10K.