Over this last weekend my mother, Vickie Phy, ended up lost on Blue Mountain near Acme. My family would like to thank all the people who came out to help search for her.

Without all our family and friends and the volunteers with Search and Rescue, we might have had a different outcome.

I found out that all the people with Search and Rescue do this voluntarily and depend on donations to help fund operations like the search for my mother. My family and I wish to thank all those volunteers who spent all that time up there.

We cannot thank them enough for a job well done and would like to ask people to donate to that organization to help fund future searches. Again, thank you to all those volunteers who came out to help us search.

- Rodney Phy of Deming via Letters to the Editor