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| PorchlightUSA | Jun 30 2009, 12:03 PM Post #1 |
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http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/31640790/ns/lo...ws-billings_mt/ Lund Billboard More local links from KULR-8 KULR-8 Home Page Montana News By Katie Ussin KULR-TV updated 36 minutes ago BILLINGS - A Billings family takes their search for their missing son to new heights. A billboard visible off the King Avenue overpass is of Garrett Lund. The 15-year-old was last seen swimming in the Yellowstone River near Worden June of 2008. He is presumed drowned but his body has yet to be recovered. Friends and family worked to put up the billboard. Lamar Advertising donated the space. |
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| PorchlightUSA | Jun 30 2009, 12:03 PM Post #2 |
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| PorchlightUSA | Jun 30 2009, 12:03 PM Post #3 |
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| PorchlightUSA | Jun 30 2009, 12:05 PM Post #4 |
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http://www.kulr8.com/news/local/49047291.html Family Remembers Son Tools 7 Comments Email this article Print this article YouNews™ Digg this! Save to Delicious Post to Facebook Close By Katie Ussin Story Published: Jun 24, 2009 at 7:26 PM MDT Story Updated: Jun 25, 2009 at 7:04 PM MDT Multimedia Watch The Video Related ContentLost Friend Inspires Life Change BILLINGS - Garrett Lund should celebrating his 16th birthday, taking driver's ed, and practicing for the upcoming season with the West High football team, but he is not. His life was cut short last summer, June 20, 2008 when he drowned in the Yellowstone River near Worden. "As soon as we found out we all raced out to the river and they were just about done with the search for the night," said Garrett's mother Donna. "We stayed out there for three days. We've looked and looked and looked, our friends have looked, my boss's family has looked," she said. "That day started this whole, awful year." Garrett's body has yet to be recovered. "It seems like everybody who's gone missing has been found, except for my baby," she said. They said closure is just a word, but that they are coping with the loss the best they can day by day. "I go into his room and talk to him from time to time, tell him what happened Wednesday and stuff," said Garrett's dad Mike. "It helps me know that he doesn't think I forgot." The family said they want Garrett to be remembered for the way he lived. "He was always the funniest person in the room," they said. "He was very caring," said his mom. "He wanted to play football for the Miami Dolphins and he was just sure that he was going to live on South Beach," laughed his sister, dad and mom. Laughter tied to memories does not replace having Garrett in their lives. "There are days you forget; you come home, open the door and expect to see him and it just slaps you in the face all over again," said Donna. The Lund family said they hope all parents can take something from that fateful day they lost their Garrett. "As far as I knew he was at the mall, that's where I thought he was," said Donna. They said he had asked to go to the river earlier, and they said no, it was too dangerous. "You can't always know what your kids are doing especially if you both work, but ask them, find out what they're doing," said Donna. "We were having some tough times you know, 15, and getting a little rebellious, dad would have to put him in his place once and a while, but, I always thought no big deal because some day we're going to be fishing buddies and be best friends," said Mike. "If could say anything it's just to relish the time you have because you may never get to grow up and be best friends." The family said they want to thank all the people who have helped them search for Garrett and who have provided support during this tough year |
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| PorchlightUSA | Jun 30 2009, 12:06 PM Post #5 |
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an older article http://www.kulr8.com/news/local/24284499.html Story Published: Jul 9, 2008 at 8:58 PM MDT Story Updated: Jul 10, 2008 at 9:59 AM MDT Multimedia Watch The Video BILLINGS - A Billings family waits with bated breath as their teenage son remains missing. Garrett Lund, 15, went missing almost three weeks ago while swimming with friends on the Yellowstone River near Worden. The Lund Family is not alone in their grief. The mighty Yellowstone River; it gives so much to help sustain life in and around it, but it has also taken so much from too many. "It changed my live and everyone's lives in my family, losing someone that close to you," said Riley Patterson. It was a hot summer afternoon on July 14, 2002, and Riley Patterson's dad just wanted to cool off in the river. "Him and my mom were just wadding out and he just got out a little too far and got sucked in and he drowned right there by that tree," said Patterson pointing off the river bank just west of Billings. Rescue crews scoured the river for his father. Family and friends stared into the water praying they would see him surface. "It's indescribable how bad I felt," said Patterson. "It just happened and there's nothing you can do about it and nothing you can do after it happens, it's just over." The body of 46-year-old Shane Patterson was recovered four days later almost four miles down river. "That was probably the most painful thing that his body had drifted that far," said Patterson. No strangers to the river, the Patterson family home sits within a hundred yards of it. Riley said his father always warned him and his siblings to be extra careful around the river, "One day just changes everything, one little mistake in this river and you're done." "A lot of our calls turn into rescue operations," said Shane Weinreis, a public safety diver with U.S. Water Rescue Dive Team. Weinreis knows the deadly power of the Yellowstone River. "What we'll see a lot is people out on inner tubes or rafts and capsizing or falling off and not being able to swim and keep up with the current," he said. There is also a lot of hidden dangers in the Yellowstone said Weinreis, "Things like debris, sharp objects, cars, glues, barbed wire, fence posts, things that could trap somebody or severely injure somebody." In the past five years, the Yellowstone County Sheriff's Office has assisted in 27 river rescues, two have been fatal. Back up stream, Riley Patterson said he will never forget the day the river washed his life right out from under him, and hopes people will respect the river's power. "I think about it every day, and I hope nobody else has to go through something like that," he said. Weinreis said the proper response should you get caught in a current is to float on your back traveling down stream, feet first and angle you body towards the shore. |
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