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Major search called off
Efforts to locate missing Boy Scout will be scaled back
Garrett Bardsley's family resilient and steadfast in the search for the 12-year-old spent time Sunday thanking many of the volunteers who scoured the rugged land for any sign of the boy, who is presumed dead.
Sunday marked the last day a full-scale, major search effort would be conducted by police and their crews. The search effort overseen by Summit County Sheriff Dave Edmunds and his trained search-and-rescue teams has been called off.
The sheriff's department will continue to search for Garrett but on a much smaller scale. Officials say they will continue to return to the area monthly and will ask hikers and hunters to keep looking as they traverse the terrain.
Yet even as volunteers vowed to return a few days a week, Garrett's parents, Heidi and Kevin, acknowledged they can't remain at the search site much longer.
"Unfortunately, we can't be here forever," said Heidi Bardsley.
On Sunday, the feeling at the camp set up by Garrett's family to serve as a home base for volunteer searchers was one of mixed emotion.
"I don't think (Garrett's father) will ever quit searching," said Lisa Blohm, a close family friend. "I don't think any father would quit searching."
And Kevin Bardsley doesn't intend to give up on his son, either.
But the grieving father says he has other responsibilities and children who require his time and attention. Because of this, Kevin Bardsley and his wife left the search temporarily to attend their son's Friday night football game.
"It's hard for us right now, and it'll always be hard for us," Kevin Bardsley said. "But (my other) children need me, too, and they need our support. We can't just put them aside."
The family is compiling a list of volunteers who want to continue searching for Garrett. Kevin Bardsley said he is considering continuing the search on Tuesdays, Thursdays and Saturdays until they can't search any more.
"We're not going to quit," Kevin Bardsley said. "We will find Garrett, but we also feel it's going to be on the Lord's time and by the Lord's will."
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