CANADA Canada - Ryan Shtuka, 20, Kamloops, BC, 17 Feb 2018

[MagnoliaMountain]

Bumping for Ryan. Thinking of him and his loved ones.

 

[KryannaT]

Bumping for Ryan. Thinking of him and his loved ones.

I live quite close to Beaumont and there is very little in the news here about Ryan. 😢. Really hoping he comes home soon.

 

[siliconrod]

If Ryan was intoxicated when he left the house party maybe he walked past his home got lost and ended up in the woods and died of hypothermia. I hope this is not the case.

 

[Hazel]

Ryan Shtuka missing: $5,000 reward offered to find 20-year-old last seen at Sun Peaks
February 26, 2018 6:29 pm --- Updated: February 26, 2018 6:36 pm

A $5,000 reward is being offered to anyone who can provide information leading to the return of Ryan Shtuka, a 20-year-old who went missing in Sun Peaks earlier this month.

https://globalnews.ca/news/4048896/ryan-shtuka-missing-reward/

 

[dotr]

https://www.kamloopsthisweek.com/su...les-search-20-year-old-ryan-shtuka-continues/

 

[kelsie]

https://www.kamloopsbcnow.com/water..._find_20_year_old_man_last_seen_in_Sun_Peaks/

[FONT=&quot] A campaign to support the family and search efforts has now raised $41,276 and the #RibbonsforRyan initiative is spreading in cities in B.C. and Alberta, including Shtuka's hometown of Beaumont, Alta.
[/FONT][FONT=&quot]The green ribbons have become a calling card for the search, a grassroots effort to spread the word and collect donations.[/FONT]

 

[MagnoliaMountain]

I keep coming back to this thread. Where are you, Ryan?

 

[SunInTheWinter]

Hate to say this, but my gut feeling is that he got hit by a vehicle and the occupants of said vehicle have hidden his remains. I truly hope I’m completely wrong about this...


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[dotr]

Hate to say this, but my gut feeling is that he got hit by a vehicle and the occupants of said vehicle have hidden his remains. I truly hope I’m completely wrong about this...


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Welcome to Ws SuninTheWinter!

 

[dotr]

http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/british-columbia/sun-peaks-ryan-shtuka-1.4555411

[h=1]Sun Peaks bands together to find missing 20-year-old man[/h]
[h=3]'When tragedies happen like this in small towns, people really pull together'[/h]

The disappearance of the ski lift operator at Sun Peaks has changed the dynamic of the mountain town, which has a population of 616.

"Normally it is a very carefree mountain town, but there's definitely been a different mood over the past week and a half while we look for Ryan," Brandi Schier, publisher of the local newspaper, told CBC's Doug Herbert.

"The other day I was driving up to work and they had the small excavators out, moving big piles of snow around, and you get that terrible, sick feeling in your stomach."

Ryan Shtuka was last seen on Feb. 17, leaving a party on Burfield Drive, in what Schier describes as a nice part of the town, where families and seasonal staff live.

Residents and local businesses have also been doing what they can to support out-of-town searchers by providing accommodation and free hot meals, Schier said.

"You just want to do whatever you can to help the family and the friends that are affected by this."

 

[Whiskers16]

Hate to say this, but my gut feeling is that he got hit by a vehicle and the occupants of said vehicle have hidden his remains. I truly hope I’m completely wrong about this...


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Just watched a Black Mirror episode like this and holy moly. Relatable and heartbreaking.

 

[meowmix89]

Hate to say this, but my gut feeling is that he got hit by a vehicle and the occupants of said vehicle have hidden his remains. I truly hope I’m completely wrong about this...


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That has been a pretty consistent thought with me too. Absolutely horrible.

 

[kelsie]

http://www.leducrep.com/2018/03/01/ljac-fundraises-at-games-to-support-search-for-ryan-shtuka
[h=2]LJAC fundraises at games to support search for Ryan Shtuka[/h]

The Leduc Junior Athletic Association raised more than $5,000 in support of the Shtuka family and their search for Ryan.
Beaumontonian Ryan Shtuka, 20, went missing in Sun Peaks, B.C. where he was working for the winter season. He was last seen in the early hours of Feb. 17 leaving a home on Burfield Drive and didn’t show up to work later that day. He hasn’t been active on his phone or social media. The family is currently offering a $5,000 reward for any information leading to Ryan.
Ryan’s first cousin, Carson Schultz, plays for the Techmation Minor Midget AAA Oil Kings and with that in mind, some of the players’ parents organized a fundraiser on Feb. 24. Between the Minor Midget game, NCI Female Midget Elite as well as the Chrysler Midget AAA Oil Kings games that day, they managed to raise the funds. This was organized in under 48 hours.

 

[MagnoliaMountain]

http://cfjctoday.com/article/611351/search-missing-sun-peaks-man-passes-2-week-mark

Search for missing Sun Peaks man passes 2-week mark

"We are going on 16 days searching. We started off and we thought we knew what we had to do but we're not experts, we have no experience in search and rescue," Heather says.

"These sort of environmental conditions where you think you know what you're supposed to be doing at the very beginning but we didn't really have a lot of direction. Every day we seem to learn something different or more and now we're at the point where we are taking things section by section, trying to go one person deep and taking it from the top to the bottom and doing that same circle again from where he was to where he should have ended up."

And because the process is so thorough they could use as many volunteers as they can get.

"As a mother I want the whole place flowing with volunteers. I recognize that we are so many days in and that there is a possibilty that we could be here a lot longer...but I just want everybody here so that we can find him today."

 

[MagnoliaMountain]

http://www.merrittherald.com/shtuka-family-hopes-dog-team-can-assist-search-missing-man/

Shtuka family hopes dog team can assist in search for missing man

Shtuka said she has heard rumours in Sun Peaks and on social media that her son could have met with foul play or left the community, but she has no reason to believe them at this point.

The Alberta chapter of the Canadian Search and Disaster Dogs Association agreed to assist in the search for Ryan. CASDDA will be arriving to Sun Peaks on March 6, and will begin working through to Friday.

“There is no evidence that Ryan left the Sun Peaks area,” she said. “There’s nothing to indicate he left. It’s easy to speculate, but I don’t put stock in that.”

According to Shtuka, volunteers are working non-stop looking for Ryan.

 

[Hazel]

Wednesday, the Canadian Search and Disaster Dogs Association deployed five highly trained canines into the woods, to scour the area where it's believed Ryan 'should' be. The not-for-profit - volunteer organization - will search from dusk to dawn, until Saturday.

"We know that if he's out in the elements, it's recovery and recovery only."

"It's just unlike him, he would never worry the people that love him the most by not getting in contact, and there's really no reason for him to go off the grid," says Heather Shtuka, Ryan's Mother.

Nearly three weeks later, a renewed search effort. Five canine specialists from the Canadian Search and Disaster Dogs Association, along with their handlers, have arrived in Sun Peaks for an intense three day hunt.

"They have a sense of smell which is really really strong, by air scenting it allows them to isolate the other scents which is better in this case," says Silvie Montier, Canadian Search and Disaster Dogs Association Team Leader.

The dogs are trained to find human scent in wilderness, rubble and water searches. With a sense of smell a million times stronger than ours, they can detect any human trace from a distance, be it live or deceased.

"They will catch a scent from far enough and it's very important for a situation like this where the snow is so deep the dog can't go everywhere, so he has to be able to get the scent from far enough, so that he can go in the deep snow only where it's needed," says Montier.

Trudging through nearly two metres of deep snow, the canine unit is focusing on the Burfield area where Ryan was last seen. If he is there, they are confident the dogs will find him.

VIDEO of dog searching at link:
http://cfjctoday.com/article/611802/specialty-dogs-take-search-man-missing-sun-peaks

 

[Hazel]

Salmon Arm’s Victoria Skofteby was at Sun Peaks Resort the day Ryan Shtuka went missing.

She was attending a wedding there that Saturday so the weather was on everyone’s minds. It was to be an outdoor wedding and the temperature was hovering around -18 C. They woke up to snow that morning.

Skofteby contacted Heather Shtuka, Ryan’s mom, to provide information about the weather and has been in touch the last while. The family was seeking volunteers, dogs and snowshoes to help with the search so, on Monday, March 6, Skofteby headed to the resort with her black lab Stella.

Stella, who sniffs constantly, would find spots where volunteers with shovels would come and dig, or a backhoe would dig, or she and Stella would search an area where the backhoe had just dug. Many volunteers were there using poles to poke in the snow.

Ryan’s dad Scott was digging around the house where Ryan lives, she says.

“There’s a lot of snow– it’s so deep up there, there’s so much.”

A command centre is set up in Hearthstone Lodge where volunteers sign in.

picture of Stella at link: https://www.saobserver.net/news/search-for-ryan-shtuka-goes-on/

 

[CrysBella]

Reward has been increased to $15,000.

I pray they find him soon.

 

[Clouddown]

Thoughts and prayers to family and friends. I feel that if he is in the area the dogs will find Ryan... there's no doubt there... I also pray that this is not the case but when I hear of the Kamloops area the "Bad Santa" comes to mind and it would take an army of dogs to track him.

 

[dotr]

Thoughts and prayers to family and friends. I feel that if he is in the area the dogs will find Ryan... there's no doubt there... I also pray that this is not the case but when I hear of the Kamloops area the "Bad Santa" comes to mind and it would take an army of dogs to track him.

Oh my, thought you were talking about the ( alleged ) bad " Santa " from Toronto, ie Bruce McArthur. Think i will post this on his thread too, thanks!
Although this article is from 2011, hmmm.
http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/british-columbia/bad-santa-strikes-again-in-kamloops-b-c-1.1025992

'Bad Santa' strikes again in Kamloops, B.C

Man fits the description of suspect in attempted abduction in April

CBC News · Posted: Oct 11, 2011

https://www.kamloopsthisweek.com/has-bad-santa-returned/

There have been a number of similar reported incidents in 2011, but none since the spring.

They began on April 1, when a 20-year-old woman called police to say she had been attacked by a Santa Claus-looking man on Highland Drive near Valleyview Arena.
She said she stopped to help the man, who appeared to be having vehicle trouble on the side of the road.
When she got out of her car, she said he attempted to force her into his gold-coloured pickup truck.

Aird said investigators believe the suspect, if it is the same man, might be from out of town, which would explain the sporadic sightings in Kamloops.