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<\/p>\n\n\t\t\t\tBy Aaron Sousa<\/p>\n
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\n\t\t\t\t\tPosted August 26, 2025 5:54 pm\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n
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A group of Manitoba-based searchers have arrived in Alberta to scour the North Saskatchewan River for an Edmonton teen who has been missing all summer.<\/p>\n
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Samuel Bird, who is 14, was last seen in June, when he left home to visit a friend in the city\u2019s west end and never returned.<\/p>\n
\t\t\t\t\tFamily and friends of 14-year-old Samuel Bird have spent weeks seaching the Edmonton river valley for any signs of the missing boy.\t\t\t\t <\/p>\n
\t\t\t\t\tCourtesy: Alanna Bird\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n
George Robinson, who lives in Winnipeg, says he and at least two others have arrived in Edmonton to search for the boy.<\/p>\n
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Robinson is one of several members of the public who have taken it upon themselves to look for the boy.<\/p>\n
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Edmonton police have recently been asked by the Confederacy of Treaty 6 First Nations and Samuel\u2019s family to designate Bird\u2019s case a search and recovery operation.<\/p>\n
\t\t\t\t\tEdmonton police continue to ask anyone with information on 14-year-old Samuel Bird\u2019s whereabouts, to please give them a call.\t\t\t\t <\/p>\n
\t\t\t\t\tCourtesy: Alanna Bird\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n
Alanna Bird, the boy\u2019s mother, says she feels so grateful that Robinson and others are coming down to look for her son and is hopeful she\u2019ll be able to \u201clay him to rest.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cSamuel, we are going to find you. I feel good about this,\u201d she writes on social media.<\/p>\n
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