Barb Scheff is now hosting the “Find Lisa Stebic Garage Sale” at her home at 682 Lily Cache Lane in Bolingbrook. She is running it the of weekend Oct. 4th, 5th and 6th …and needs donations, customers and volunteers to help!

If you would like to volunteer, get directions and/or donate items please get in touch with Barb at 630-453-8179 / teamscheff@sbcglobal.com Thanks !!

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Many, many heartfelt thanks to all who made last weekend’s benefit garage sale such a success! $1,081 was raised for the Lisa Stebic and Childrens Fund.

Tammi Watson held a “Find Lisa Stebic” garage sale at her home in Plainfield on August 10-11, 2007 ..and was helped by so very many caring people.

Here are the Raffle Prize Winner List:

Chuck Danbrauskas…….. backgammon game

Khara…………………….…..Tastefully Simple pack

Karen Ulicky……………….beautiful butterfly bag

(created by Lisa’s friend - Karen Jahnke )

Austin Johnson……………..perfume/Celine cd pack

Donations of items was greatly appreciated

Items Donated by - Denise Plummer
Sharon Bower
Lydia, Craig, and Victoria Brazeau
Carillon Lakes neighbors
Greg and Linda Chellino
Pat Chrisman
Denise and Erik Costantino
Margie and Ray Kosinski Family
Daniel Casillas and Family
Ryan and Carol Evers
Jerri Zimmerman
Tom Webb Family
Bob and Marilyn Guerrieri
Angelica Rameriz
Bob and Gloria Semmler
Christina King
Rachel Rimgate and Family
Gerrie Gorecki
Darice Evers
The Thomas Family
Jim and Ginny Rossi
Indian Trail School
Karen Jahnke
Rosemary Fontaine and her Boys
The Watson Family..and more!

Thank you so much to Tammi and all her volunteers for holding this wonderful fundraiser to help find Lisa!

Man-power - Kevin Watson, Rosemary Fontaine & her boys
Karen Jahnke, Laurrie and Jim Bingenhiemer
Cindy Evans and family & even “a few kind strangers”

Two of the billboards donated by CBS Outdoor Chicago were installed the this morning (July 24th.) 

The Third, and largest billboard, will be mounted on Monday July 30th - the 3-Month Anniversary of Lisa’s disappearance from her home in Plainfield. 

It will be located near the First Avenue exit of I-55, close to the junction of I-294 and is reportedly passed by nearly 100,000 drivers per day.

Melanie Greenberg, Lisa’s cousin,  appeared on FOX Chicago 32 at about 7:20 a.m. on Tuesday, July 24th to discuss the new billboards.

Later in the day, Debbie Ruttenberg, Lisa’s older sister, and Melanie  held a Family Press Conference in front of the US Highway 30 billboard (near the I-55 US 30 exit) at 4:00 p.m. Look for links to our coverage in most Chicago media outlets, on our Recent News/Press page.

Lisa’s family would like to extend again our sincerest gratitude to CBS Outdoor Chicago and its parent company CBS Corp. for the donation of these billboards.

We will not let Lisa Stebic become another statistic, and we will do everything we can to keep her picture and the Plainfield Police Hotline number in front of everyone in the Chicagoland community.

Many of you may have seen the newspaper article in the Naperville Sun, as to the “Find Lisa” garage sale, this past weekend was hosted by fellow dedicated FLS volunteer  - Lenore Long and her family.

The 3-Day benefit sale raised  $2,319 at Lenore’s home in Naperville. ..for the Lisa Stebic and Childrens Fund.

Lenore  put up a poster board showing the sale’s financial progress. ..and even she was surprised at the results!  

Reports of generous neighbors & strangers called to donate items, money and effort is making this first-ever “Find Lisa” Benefit Garage Sale - has led Lenore to exclaim  “I can’t tell you what a thrill and uplifting experience this has been for me!”

“I thought, what if one of my children disappeared? I would want everything in the world to be done.  I still hold out hope that maybe something, some kind of a miracle, that she’s just being held somewhere,” Long said. “This should just never be out of people’s minds, until something has come to a conclusion.  I just don’t ever want people to forget about it.”

We would like to sincerely thank Lenore and all those caring people who donated items to this unique benefit..and want to assure that all leftover items will be forwarded to a similar garage sale to be hosted by Lisa’s friend Tammi Watson, when she stages her own garage sale in Plainfield, next month!

If you would like to add your own items to the Plainfield garage sale, with the proceeds going to help find Lisa - please  e-mail us here at findlisastebic@gmail.com

Here is what Lenore wrote us, today.  Listed below are the names of the winners of the “Find Lisa” raffles:

 The garage sale was a HUGE success! Not only did we make our goal, We doubled it plus some! I just can not tell you how thankful I am to all those who donated items that made this possible.

Our grand total came to $ 2,319.02

Winning names for the raffles:  

Hose handler wall mount

Michelle Wrobel of Naperville

Mary Kay basket Gail of NapervilleThomas Station SetAntonio Castillo of Woodridge,ILHershey’s Kisses Maker

“Last but not least I wanted to give you a preview of the decorative egg I created in Honor of Lisa. It is called “Butterfly kisses for Lisa“ which features five different butterflies and a dove carved on it and is topped with a gold plated filigree crown surrounded with purple and green Swarovski rhinestones.  The egg sets on a gold plated stand on a light box that changes colors to illuminate the egg.”

Hugs, Lenore Long

We would like to say a few words about former WMAQ NBC 5 news reporter Amy Jacobson after the recent news reports concerning her visit to the Stebic home following an invitation by Craig’s sister.

From my perspective on behalf of Lisa’s family, Amy Jacobson has given 1000 percent and never done anything but deliver the most responsible and caring job of journalism during this extremely difficult situation for our family. She has shown compassion to us and always kept Lisa’s children’s welfare uppermost in her mind, which is also our main concern.

Her sensitivity to Lisa’s sisters - Jamie Bouma and Debbie Ruttenberg - during her several one-on-one interviews with them over the past 2 months have been exemplary. This was appreciated beyond words by all of us, Lisa’s relatives.

She has been nothing but professional and extraordinarily caring with us. Through Amy’s frequent reports on the case, we have been able to reach thousands of people in our search for Lisa, and we owe her a huge debt of gratitude.

We are saddened that she lost her job, and that this sensationalistic story by her competitors distracts from the ultimate goal here – to find Lisa and bring her home to her children and her family.

Melanie Greenberg

Lisa’s Cousin and Family Spokeswoman

Former NBC 5 Reporter Amy Jacobson on WLS Roe Conn Show (Lisa’s cousin Melanie Greenberg phoned in to comment)

Amy Jacobson Talks with WGN Radio

 _{(Photo courtesy of the Naperville Sun Staff   Photographer -Beck Diefenbach)}

“The family of Lisa Stebic would like to send out our most sincere thanks to all those who braved the sweltering temperatures and difficult terrain, yesterday, to join us in our desperate search for our missing loved one.

We had originally hoped for 200 volunteers to come to Silver Springs State Park to look for Lisa - nearly 700 answered our plea, with an additional army of professionals to oversee this massive operation!Words cannot express the depth of gratitude we all feel for the outpouring of support and physical effort the Chicagoland community gave us on 7-7-07. 

Despite the fact that luck was not with us, this day, in finding a solid lead as to her disappearance…we will not give up the search.We did have a victory, yesterday…in that we have now eliminated this wild & difficult area where the Stebic family was know to often frequent.  

Our attention will now be turning to other locations where Lisa and her husband’s family were also known to vacation.  We will not rest until every possibility is examined and then exhausted.

Thanks to the generosity of the Community of Plainfield, Illinois & the nation - her reward fund is now well above $60,000.

We hope and pray that someone - who posesses even the smallest clue will come forward & help solve this terrible mystery, which is so painful to so many….

For we, her family, and the World - want to know where to Find Lisa Stebic.”

Lisa’s Family

The reward for information leading to finding Lisa Stebic has been increased to more than $65,000!

 We have had many donations since we announced the creation of the Lisa Stebic and Childrens fund.  The Plainfield Jaycees’ carwash brought in nearly $1000, and the Jaycees’ Pancake Breakfast on Sunday, July 1 has brought in $3240.

The many Find Lisa Benefit Garage Sales in Naperville,  Plainfield & Shorewood brought in over $4,ooo.

The Jagged Edge, Create Your Style & Other generous sponsored FLS benefits have increased the reward even more! 

Thanks to the support of the community, family and friends we are able to increase the amount of the reward to over $65,000.  If the money is never claimed as a reward, it will be converted to a federally-protected 529 fund for the college education of Lisa’s two children.

For details, please see “The Lisa Stebic and Childrens Fund“page.

The Pancake Breakfast for the Lisa Stebic and Childrens Fund raised  $3240 on July 1!

There were almost 300 adults served and as many children, as well.  We were so glad to see so many people from the community come out to show their support.

Thank you so much to the Jaycees, and to all who came to volunteer! 

The donations of food and supplies were simply amazing.  Lisa’s family cannot fully express the extent of our gratitude to everyone.

Big Thank You’s

go to the

Plainfield  Jaycees,

Applebees,

WalMart,

Starbucks, McDonalds, Sara Lee,

Jimmy Dean’s, Coca Cola,

Culvers, Jewel, Fetco, Sodexho, Baci’s,

Ken’s Beverage, Larry’s Diner,

Marriott Springhill Suites in Bolingbrook 

Principal Ed Boswell & staff of the Ira Jones Middle School (for giving our Benefit a HOME!)

..and Ass’t Chief Jon Stratton

& the Plainfield Fire Department for helping

to make this benefit possible!

 Special thanks also go to friend Lori Jewell of lorijeanscandles.com whose “Light a Candle For Lisa” soy candle sales at the Breakfast Benefit generated $456 for Lisa’s Reward Fund.