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Fairbanks community members gather for vigil to raise awareness of missing people, ask for help, pray for answers
Author: Sam Ferrara, Fairbanks Daily News-Miner
FAIRBANKS Hundreds of community members gathered at the Chief Peter John Tribal Building on First Avenue in Fairbanks on Saturday to hold a vigil for an alarmingly high number of people who have gone missing in the Fairbanks area over just the past 10 months.
Community leaders and family members of the missing spoke to those gathered at the vigil, asking for support and awareness from the community and action from leaders and law enforcement. Family members of the missing repeatedly asked for people to come forward with any information they have.
There were also calls for more transparency with the community from law enforcement about missing persons cases and for local leaders and law enforcement to do more to help, including a specific request that local police try to enlist the help of federal law enforcement.
We are here to remind the leaders of the community that the community is hurting, said Rev. Scott Fisher while speaking to the crowd.
Jody Potts, one of the organizers of the vigil, told the people gathered that in an average year five people go missing in the Fairbanks area, but 11 people have gone missing in the area just since May 2020. Five of the missing people are from the Alaska Native community.
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