Lois Hanna's family is hoping a new website will help get answers to what happened the night the Kincardine-area woman disappeared almost 30 years ago.

And they're hoping an upcoming event in Lucknow might provide new information.

"It would make quite a difference if we found Lois's body, about what happened," brother Dave Hanna said earlier this week.

Lois Hanna left Lucknow's 130th anniversary homecoming dance at about 11:30 p.m. on July 3, 1988.

Dave Hanna said the last time he saw his sister was at the dance when she came to say goodbye, as she didn't want to be late for work the next day. And even now he remembers her in her youth, not the 50-something she should be today.

"I still see her walking away from me yet," he said.

Lois was believed to be taken from her home, Dave said. Her car, purse, keys and clothes from the night before were there. The television and lights were on. A half-cup of tea ws on the counter.

A coworker went to check on her after she failed to open the MacG's clothing store in Kincardine where she worked the morning of July 4.

"We don't believe Lois left on her own, no question about that," said Dave Hanna. "We believe she came to harm that night. If she wanted to take a trip and leave the country that night she had all kinds of ability, but we don't believe that was in her nature at all. I don't care if that house was on fire, she'd never have left that house without her purse and her makeup."

What followed was an family-driven search effort the Hannas said was hampered by what was then the Kincardine Police, who for the first few days told the family she had likely just gone somewhere unannounced.

Dave Hanna said the community rallied with the family and friends to search the area, joined days later by Ontario Provincial Police taking up the case, followed by region-wide posters circulating about Lois's disappearance. Since then her case has been the focus of numerous news stories and features, with hopes of revealing new information.

Now the Hanna family has been approached by Owen Sound's Nick Oldrieve and Matt Nopper, who are collecting cold case tips on their website pleasebringmehome.com in an effort to bring closure to the families of local missing persons. They started with the case of Lisa Maas of Annan and are now including Hanna, Neil McDougall of Durham and Jon Riley of Meaford. 

Tips can be submitted anonymously online, or by mail, to be combed over by the website's members who have a range of experienced dealing with runaway troubled youth, journalism, research and private investigation.

Oldrieve said any information they get can be treated anonymously, whether it's those who have information, to those responsible for her disappearance. Their goal is to gather enough information to bring Lois home and bring the family closure.

Nopper said 30 years is a long time, and those who have knowledge that could help the case have avenues to share it.

"Friendships change, you change who your alliances are with," Nopper said, adding the website has already revealed information for other cases that police had never learned.

"Hopefully we can do the same for Lois."

With the 2018 Lucknow Reunion marking 30 years since Lois's disappearance, the family is hoping some people who attended the 1988 dance will be back and able to shed new light on the cold case.

"Our biggest concern as a family was when all the investigators retire from this case, there's no chain of events or pathways to continue," Dave Hanna said. "Someone straight out of university isn't going to go, let's dive into Lois's case from Day 1. But there clearly is a direction and that focus hasn't changed."

The Hannas said they hope the renewed interest in the case, and the website, will help shed new light on the case and provide them with clues that could help them find Lois, and those who were last with her.

"If it's helping one thing it's keeping her name out there," said Dave Hanna's wife, Jodi. "It's nice to know people haven't forgotten about her."

Anyone with tips or information can submit them at pleasebringmehome.com