187th ARTICLE: Angles Awareness Network - Home for the Holidays

Project Jason - Angels Awareness Network

December 2009

Home for the Holidays

We Featured Your Missing Loved One in an Online Magazine

Project Jason announces the featured missing persons in the December 2009 issue of the CDLJobs.com Online Magazine - This month's ad is on page 18. The site receives thousands of visitors per day, and can be viewed at http://www.cdljobs.com/cdljobsonlinemagazine/DEC09.htm 

Each month, CDLJobs.com publishes a full color ad in their popular online magazine which will feature 5-6 of Project Jason's missing person cases from across the country. The ad has clickable links which take the reader to additional information about the missing person, and a link to their printable poster. Readers are encouraged to sign up for the AAN program and help with poster distribution. "You can be a Hero" is the theme of the joint venture.

Awareness Angels Network (AAN). AAN, begun by Project Jason in 2008, provides a way for the public to assist the families of missing persons. Missing persons posters designed specifically for the AAN program are disseminated via email to those enrolled in the program. Participants can then upload the posters to websites, print and place the posters in public areas, and forward them to their contacts. The program helps spread the word and increase the chances of finding the person.

In the December issue, the following missing persons were featured:

Jeramy Burt, missing from Boise, ID since 2/11/2007: http://www.projectjason.org/forums/index.php?topic=2133

Jessica Foster, missing from North Las Vegas, NV since 3/28/2006: http://www.projectjason.org/forums/index.php?topic=137.0

Roxanne Paltauf, missing from Austin, TX since 7/7/2006: http://www.projectjason.org/forums/index.php?topic=691.0

Shelva Rafte, missing from Pittston, PA since 5/29/2006: http://www.projectjason.org/forums/index.php?topic=464.0

Daniel Reeves, missing from Madison, IN since 5/30/2008: http://projectjason.org/forums/index.php?topic=2900.0

Jennifer and Adrianna Wix, missing from Cross Plains, TN since 3/25/2004: http://www.projectjason.org/forums/index.php?topic=88.0


You can read more about this program at http://projectjason.org/forums/index.php?topic=6319.0

Kelly Jolkowski, Mother of Missing Jason Jolkowski
President and Founder,
Project Jason www.projectjason.org 


Help us find the missing: Become an AAN Member http://www.projectjason.org/awareness.html 


All missing persons are loved by someone, and their families deserve to find the answers they seek in regards to the disappearance.

186th ARTICLE: Family, friends still searching for missing woman

The Cochrane Eagle

November 11, 2009

Family, friends still searching for missing woman

by Sarah Junkin

A Cochrane woman whose friend abruptly vanished almost four years ago is anxiously waiting to learn the identity of a recently found body.

When Jessie Foster, 21, first went missing in March 2006, friends and family members back in Canada were immediately alarmed, and her Cochrane friend Shannon Koyata said she was stunned to learn that she had simply vanished.

Foster had been living in Las Vegas, but kept in touch with her mom and sister in Kamloops so frequently that loved ones knew immediately that something was wrong.

In addition, the man she’d been living with, Peter Todd, claimed she’d simply moved out — something her mother Glendene Grant says is ridiculous, in part because she’d left her cosmetics and hair paraphernalia on the bathroom counter.

Her cell phone ceased being used as did her credit and bank cards.

The family hired a private investigator, who uncovered the disturbing fact that Foster had been working as a prostitute in the Nevada town, and that she’d once been so badly beaten she’d been hospitalized.

“I do believe Peter knows more than he has told us,” said Grant.

She spends virtually all of her time trying to track down new leads to keep her daughter’s memory alive and bring awareness about human trafficking to the front of people’s minds.

“I’m so absorbed in it I can’t remember what it’s like not to have a missing daughter,” she said.

“When she first went missing I realized then I would never again be the mom I was before.”

Shortly after Foster’s disappearance, her friend Koyata and Foster’s sister Crystal organized a fundraiser at the Texas Gate to help raise funds to pay for further investigative work.

But that seems like a long time ago, said Koyata, who has gradually moved on with her life.

“There’s a lot of wondering still if she’s ever going to come back,” she said.

“I hope she is but at the same time I’ve sort of gotten used to the fact she’s gone. It’s scary.”

Over the years, when a body turns up in the Vegas area, Foster’s family holds its collective breath until the identity is known.

“I don’t feel she’s dead,” said Grant. “I feel very much that she’s alive.”

She added she can’t imagine the point at which she’ll end the search for her daughter, once a straight-A student.

“I’ll never give up,” she said.

“I can’t stop because it hurts so much in the worst way. If I ever gave up it’s be like I’d given her up.”

But for Koyata, the silence has been discouraging.

“That’s the hardest part is the not knowing,” she said with a sigh.

“And now another DNA test. I don’t know how long that will take or what it will tell us.”

185th ARTICLE: North Las Vegas News & Media Report - Jessie Foster - Missing from North Las Vegas $50,000 REWARD

North Las Vegas News & Media Report

October 27, 2009

Jessie Foster - Missing from North Las Vegas $50,000 REWARD

Jessie Foster, now 23, has been missing from North Las Vegas, Nevada since March 28th, 2006.

www.myspace.com/findjessiefoster

184th ARTICLE: Everywhere on the Internet but still missing

Calgary Herald

October 21, 2009
Everywhere on Internet, but still missing

by Sherri Zickefoose

CALGARY — Glendene Grant's days begin around 3:30 a.m. by typing her daughter's name into online search engines and monitoring dozens of websites devoted to missing women.

Daughter Jessie Foster may have vanished in the underbelly of Las Vegas in 2006, but her presence on the Internet is inescapable.

"She's to me the most well-known, unknown missing person in the world," said Grant, who has created nearly a dozen websites in her daughter's name. She adds Foster's photograph and story to every missing persons list and forum she can find.

Calgary-born Foster was 21 when she disappeared in March 2006, four months after moving to Las Vegas.

Grant believes her daughter is caught up in a human trafficking ring, lured to glamorous Las Vegas by a recruiter who helped turn Foster into a sex slave.

Before her abrupt disappearance, Foster painted a picture of happiness to her parents. She told them she was engaged to a wealthy man, Peter Todd, who drove fast cars and lived in a fancy house in north Vegas. She phoned often and came back to Canada for visits.

Grant eventually learned her daughter's so-called fiance was a pimp with a prior conviction for spousal assault, and that Foster was working as prostitute for an escort agency.

Foster had twice been arrested for solicitation in 2005.

Prior to her disappearance Foster travelled to Nevada, New York and Florida with high school friend Donald Vaz. She called home and said he asked her to earn funds turning tricks because he gambled his money away.

Despite her work in the prostitution trade, Foster kept in touch with family unfailingly, Grant says.

In March 2006, Foster called home to announce she was coming to Kamloops for a visit in a few days and on to Calgary for her stepsister's wedding.

She never arrived.

March 28, 2006, was the last day Foster was seen alive. Since then, Foster's credit cards and bank accounts haven't been touched.

Her frequently used cellphone hasn't been used.

All of these clues are leading Grant to the same horrible conclusion and she is doing everything she can to keep Foster's story alive.

"I want her to be Canada's poster child for human trafficking. It's a symbol of the whole thing. Human trafficking needs to take on a face so people will remember," says Grant.

"Whether she's back or still missing, whether she's alive or not alive, she's already helped a lot of other people start talking about this."

Her website, www.jessiefoster.ca, and YouTube montages offer a $50,000 reward for information about Foster's whereabouts.

She spends hours every day trying to track down leads.

"We're slowly getting Jessie's case saturated around the world. I write enough stories and tag her enough that her name is alive out there."

Grant says she doesn't want to think about her daughter's death, because she wants to focus on finding her alive.

"I think the absolute worst is knowing you're never going to see your child again. But I think I will see Jessie again. I know I will."

Calgary detectives have an average case load of 3,200 missing person reports each year, but "99 per cent of those people are found or find their way home," said Det. John Hebert of the Calgary Police Service major crimes unit.

Calgary simply doesn't have a number of unsolved high-profile cases of local women disappearing under sinister circumstances.

"We're certainly not seeing them. In terms of missing persons we're seeing resolutions of the vast majority of cases as opposed to having a great number of outstanding ones," said Hebert.

"The vast majority of our outstanding missing persons that are reported are resolved in one way or another in a reasonably timely manner."

szickefoose@theherald.canwest.com

© Copyright (c) Postmedia News

183rd ARTICLE: Tubing for a cause

Kamloops This Week

July 10, 2009

Tubing for a cause

KTW-BRIEF

Thompson River Tubing Adventures is holding a fundraising float today at 9 a.m. through Sunday at 6 p.m. for the Jessie Foster in trust fund.

Cost to take part is $15 an hour, which includes a shuttle from Riverside Park to the launch site, a tube, lifejacket and lifeguard; $5 from each tubing trip goes to the fund.

The fund was created for Jessie Foster, a Kamloops woman who went missing three years ago from her home in Las Vegas.

182nd ARTICLE: Missing Jessie Mom of missing woman lights a candle

The Vancouverite

May 9, 2009

Missing Jessie: Mom of missing woman lights a candle on Mother’s Day

by Salim Jiwa

Jessie Foster has been missing from Las Vegas since April 2006.

She is a native of Kamloops. Efforts to locate her have failed so far. Her mom, Glendene Grant has not let a day go by without searching for her Jessie. Here is her mother’s day message.

First off, I want to wish all my wonderful Mom Friends a very Happy Mother’s Day. Let’s all celebrate our children and remember how much they love us and of course, how much we love them.

Also, please say a special prayer for Jessie and remind her what a wonderful daughter she is and how much I love her, miss her and how very proud I have always been of her, as I have been of all my daughters.

Jessie is really making a difference in the world, not sure why it had to be in this way, but no matter what, JESSIE FOSTER is known to many and her case is changing many things: how human trafficking is looked at; going to our nations capitol in a bid to try to get a national/international DNA database set up in Canada; helping others with a missing loved one in their family and trying to help them in any way possible as to the direction to go, people to contact and how to get active on the internet networking on every possible site you can; and much, much more. Without all the support we get from all of you, this would be all in vain, so THANK YOU ALL, for your continued support in our search for my international endangered missing daughter, JESSICA EDITH LOUISE FOSTER.

We will be honouring Jessie’s birthday in a couple of weeks…May 27th is Jessie’s 25th birthday. That is a milestone birthday and we all need to remember her and celebrate her life.

Please remember to light a candle for Jessie, say a prayer and remember her with a smile.

Jessie has always been a treasure - a kind, wonderful daughter who’s small things are still so vivid in my mind…like when she was trying to get me to smile when she was in trouble for something and if I even cracked the smallest one she would grin and point at my lips and say, “See, you are smiling…you are not mad” and from that moment on, Jessie was no longer in trouble (don’t get me wrong, the troubles Jessie got in were all minor and for the life of me, I can’t even remember one incident in particular). Or when she gave me her “Jessie-look”, which is a look that her younger sister Jennee (19) has down pat; I even tell her “wow, that is a look that Jessie gets on her face”.

All my daughters, Jessie, Jennee, Crystal (26) and Katie (22) have so much in common, and for the life of me, I could never get their names straight when they were younger - LOL. Just like my mom with us. I love all my girls so much and now I am blessed to have a new generation to love - Jennee’s daughter Maddie is now 16 months old and Katie’s son JJ is 4 months old - they are the cutest, most adorable, most precious babies and I love them so much. I love all my kids with all my heart.

- Glendene Grant, Jessie’s mom.

Follow this website: http://www.Jessiefoster.ca

181st ARTICLE: 18 WHEEL ANGELS - JESSICA FOSTER

TruckJobSeekers.com

May 2009 – Volume 7 * Issue 5

18 WHEEL ANGELS

If you have seen any of our missing persons, 
please call the law enforcement agency listed.

All missing persons are loved by someone, and their families deserve to find answers they seek in regard to their disappearance.

JESSICA FOSTER

Classification: International Endangered Missing Adult

Alias / Nickname: Jessie, Jessica Taylor

Date of Birth: May 27, 1984
Date Missing: April 9, 2006

From City/State: North Las Vegas, Nevada

Gender: Female
Race: White

Height: 5 feet 6 inches
Weight: 120 pounds

Hair Color: Blonde
Hair (Other): Could be dyed brown

Eye Color: Hazel
Complexion: Medium

Identifying Characteristics: Two piercings in left ear, three piercings in right ear, piercing in left nostril, piercing in right eyebrow, and caps on teeth. Hair may be dyed brown or have streaks in it. It may be worn long and straight or curly.

Jewelry: Possibly wearing small earrings or small diamond princess cut earrings, ring with round diamond and ring with a princess cut diamond.

Circumstances of Disappearance: Unknown. Jessica was last contacted by a family member via phone on March 29, 2006 while at her residence in the vicinity of the 1000 block of Cornerstone Place in North Las Vegas, Nevada. Police did not take the report until April 9 to ensure Jessie was not out of town with other family members.

Investigative Agency:

North Las Vegas Police Department

Phone: (702) 633-1773

Investigative Case #: 06-9384

For Case Updates: http://www.projectjason.org/forums/index.php?topic=137

Jessica is Project Jason’s 18 Wheel Angel Poster Campaign for May 2009, Week 3. Please visit our website, and download and distribute her poster, located at http://www.projectjason.org/18wheel.shtml.

My Jessie

May 27, 2009 will be Jessie Foster’s 25^th birthday. I have not seen her since she was 21 years old. I have four daughters and Jessie is my second oldest. She has been missing since March 29, 2006. Jessie is an international endangered missing person and she is likely a human trafficking victim.

Jessie made a trip to Las Vegas on May 13, 2005, and was going to celebrate her 21^st birthday there. Ten months later I had to report Jessie as a missing person.

We hired a private investigator that found out all kinds of terrible things. There were hospital records showing my daughter had been badly beaten and there were arrest reports. It turns out her prince charming was nothing but a pimp who forced Jessie to work at an escort agency. Jessie was scared of this person, I was told this directly from the woman who ran the agency and who was so worried about Jessie. Many times she saw bruises on Jessie and that she had tried to convince her to go back to Canada. She would say, “Little Girl, go home. You do not belong down here.” Jessie always said the same thing, she was too afraid to leave.

I had reported Jessie missing in the USA and in Canada on April 9, 2006 after trying to reach her, her then fiancé and her friend whose number I had for months.

Jessie’s story has been told nationally and internationally – but it needs to be told worldly. If, as suspected, Jessie is the victim of human trafficking, then she literally could be anywhere in the world. If Jessie is not alive, then someone, somewhere, knows something. If this person comes forward, they would be eligible for our $50,000 reward.

For more info on Jessie’s case – http://www.jessiefoster.ca

28 MAY 2009