Two weekend searches northwest of La Conner for a woman missing since Sept. 10 were not successful, but family and friends of Laynee Westbrook have not given up hope.

“The searches this past weekend did not bring Laynee Westbrook home, but they did get the word out,” said Emily Pepper, Westbrook’s sister-in -law, who helped organize search efforts Saturday and Sunday in the Reservation Road and Lake Erie areas.

About 30 volunteers met Saturday at the corner of Reservation Road and SR 20 to launch a search party. Searchers met again Sunday across from Lake Erie Grocery on Heart Lake Road.

Those were the two locations where Westbrook was last seen.

Volunteers were considering expanding their search areas to include Kiket Island and the area around the Thousand Trails campground on Swinomish Reservation.

“Our thanks,” Pepper said, “go to the amazing people who volunteered. Please keep looking.”

Family and friends became concerned when Westbrook had not been seen for three days, an absence Pepper said was “not normal.”

In the first seven days she went missing, there was a “maybe sighting” of Westbrook, but nothing reliable came from that tip.

“It’s not like her not to contact her mom,” said Kelly Pina-Forstner, who has extended pleas for people in Seattle and King County, Oregon, and California to be in search for Westbrook.

Contact the Anacortes Police Department (360-293-4684) or Westbrook’s brother, Thomas Carrillo, at 360-982-0275 if you believe you have seen Westbrook or have information about her.