Five years have gone by in a flash more then 60 profiled cases young and old. Desert Thunder MotorSports and their partner agency the National Center for Missing Adults www.missingadults.org a division of the Nations Missing Children’s Organization www.nmco.org have worked together on a ageless horizon, profiling babies and others like this weekends featured missing person on the hood of their racecar.
Roger Lynn Ward, sixty-four years young from Ogden, Utah has been missing since April of this year. He’s described as a white male Five Foot Ten inches tall, 190 pounds with brown hair and Blue eyes. Roger was last seen wearing a red and white long sleeved shirt, blue jeans, and white athletic shoes. Circumstances are unknown, he was last seen between 3:00 AM and 8:00 AM walking away from his residence of the 600 block of N. Monroe blvd. Ogden, UT Further more a medical condition concerns his family and investigators. “Rogers family is devastated that he is still missing. Whatever reasons that caused him to disappear; it doesn’t matter to them. They just want him home.” Said Erin Bruno NMCA case worker.
The NASCAR “Elite Division” AutoZone Southwest Series has provided a great venue for the program “Racing for the Missing” the fan loyalty to the sport and fan support has been overwhelming. “ We know everywhere we go people are watching us not because we run up front but because of what we do in the community’s we travel” Said Darrell LaMoure
Darrell went on to say, “Racing for the Missing was designed as a awareness, prevention and Child safety program. Nascar racing is the perfect fit, they have the largest fan base ranging from life styles of the rich and famous to regular folks like myself, we have started plans for growth in the program branching out, and once its more organized then it is we will go public”
Six or sixty-four does it really matter? “Of course it does who in their right mind places another human life over another? Yes, the youth have their whole life ahead of them yet, the elderly have earned their place in society, it’s a matter of simple decency that we as people care for everything rather then subject each other to race and or age discrimination, Hell I am 73 and if were to disappear I hope someone comes looking” Said Roger LaMoure owner of the Napa Auto Parts Chevy
Saturday night August 21st Racing for the Missing blows into Colorado for their annual visit to the mile high Colorado National Speedway event, racing starts at 5:00 do forget your camera.
