As the 30th anniversary of Lois Hanna’s disappearance nears, there is a renewed hope for the tip that leads to the missing Kincardine woman being found.

Nick Oldrieve, an Owen Sound man who has become involved in looking into a number of local cold cases in recent years, plans to be in Lucknow for the village’s 160th reunion event which runs June 29-July 1 to bring some awareness to the case. It was at the event’s shirt tail dance in 1988 that Hanna was last seen at.

“All it is going to take is that one tip,” Oldrieve said. “It could be one line: ‘You should go look here.’ Give us the address where we should go look.”

Hanna left the homecoming dance at about 11:30 p.m. on July 3, 1988. It is believed the Kincardine-area woman was taken from her home. Her car, purse, keys and clothes from the night were all there and the television and lights were on. A half cup of tea was on the counter.

A co-worker went to check on her after she failed to open the MacG’s clothing store in Kincardine where she worked the morning of July 4.

The family took up the search for Hanna after her disappearance. For the first few days what was then the Kincardine police told the family she had likely just gone somewhere unannounced.

The community rallied with family and friends to search the area, and were joined days later by the OPP. Eventually posters were circulated across the region to raise awareness about Hanna’s disappearance and since then the case has been the focus of numerous news stories and features, with hopes of revealing new information.

Oldrieve first immersed himself in the case of missing Annan woman Lisa Maas when he became aware of it more that two years ago. Since then he has been joined by others in his search and has added other cases to those he is collecting tips on, including Hanna, Neil McDougall and Joe Moore. Oldrieve has said his main goal with his initiative is to give some closure to the families by finding their loved ones, while at the same time honouring the wishes of those who provide them tips.

“If you want to remain anonymous we keep you anonymous,” said Oldrieve.

Oldrieve’s organization, Please Bring Me Home, will have a table set up at the homecoming event’s shirt tail dance on July 1 where they will have wristbands that include the words “Lois Hanna 1988” and their website, www.pleasebringmehome.com. On the inside of the bands is the phrase, “What did you see at 1988 shirttail dance.”

Along with Hanna, the searchers also hope to shine new light on the case of Moore at the Kincardine homecoming event Aug. 2-6. At that event they will have a table set up with wristbands with both Hanna’s and Moore’s names on them, along with the organization’s website address.

Moore, who is from Kincardine was last seen on Oct. 31, 2012. That day he was seen hanging around the Davidson Centre. A search of his home on Princess Street found no evidence that he was planning on leaving.

About a year later a black coat washed up just north of Boiler Beach at the end of Bruce Ave. While the coat was not confirmed to have belonged to Moore, the family believes it matches one he was wearing around the time he went missing.

Originally the Please Bring Me Home organization, which recently became a not-for-profit corporation, was going to pay for the wristbands and sell them at the events to recoup their costs and to raise a bit extra to cover some of their search costs, but Hanna’s brother Dave stepped up and agreed to pay for the wristbands so they could be given away.

“The more we get out there to the public is worth more than the money we can get in,” said Oldrieve. “By us being able to put out to the public something about Lois, and Joe now, that is going to be worth much more than any money could ever be worth.”

Oldrieve said with the 30th anniversary of Hanna’s disappearance coming up, they are hoping there is a chance new information will come out about her. They are also asking that anyone who has pictures of the dance in 1988 to send them their way.

“It is important to place certain individuals there at that Lucknow homecoming,” said Oldrieve. “If we were to get a picture that would place somebody there that is very important.”

Tips can be submitted anonymously at www.pleasebringmehome.com, PO Box 74, Owen Sound, Ont., N4K 5P1 or at pleasebringmehome@outlook.com.

Donations to the organization to help cover search costs can be made via e-transfer to pleasebringmehome@outlook.com, through a GoFundMe page, their Paypal account and their business account at CIBC.