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Hunters may conduct informal search for Calayca
By THE CHRONICLE-JOURNAL
Saturday, September 1, 2007

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Volunteer searchers may take another look for Toronto‘s Christina Calayca this fall, but there appears to be no plans for the type of massive organized search that took place last month.
“A few of us (hunters) might take a walk through during moose season,” Schreiber‘s Pat Halonen, one of the organizers of an earlier two-day civilian ground search, said Friday.
Calayca, a 20-year-old day-care worker, was last seen Aug. 6 going for a jog at Rainbow Falls Provincial Park just west of town.
Police conducted an intensive air, water and ground search for more than two weeks, but were unable to find a trace of the petite, dark-haired woman.
Despite the aura of mystery surrounding Calayca‘s disappearance, police did not suspect her fellow young travelling companions, nor did they believe she had been the victim of a bear attack.
Halonen, a Schreiber town councillor, said visibility in the rugged park might improve this fall when birch and poplar leaves have are off the trees.
“There were lots of leaves on the ground floor because we got so much rain,” he said.
He said the leaves were so dense in places that when he heard the police helicopter overhead, he couldn‘t see it when he looked up.
Early in the organized search for Calayca, about 200 volunteers took part in a grid search close to the campground so police could concentrate on more remote sections.
Halonen said that area has been pretty much been covered. He said he wouldn‘t recommend inexperienced searchers to venture into the park because it‘s easy to get lost.
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