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•T he IFP• H alton H ills, Thursday, M ay 23, 2013 13 25th OF th Chico's BBQ has raised over $8,000 to support Jumpstart to help our local kids get in the game! This weekend a portion of all proceeds will be donated to our local Jumpstart Chapter! Buy a hotdog or sausage knowing you are helping our kids! Located at the Canadian Tire Front Entrance Peter Lowe showed up to Tim Bosma's house in an old sweatshirt and rain boots on May 9, prepared to pitch in a couple of hours of search time out in a field somewhere. Instead, almost by fluke, Lowe, 33, gained the trust of a woman who had every reason to trust no one, and became an instant member of the Bosma family. He'd learned of Bosma's disappearance on Facebook through a mutual friend a couple of days earlier. He and Bosma had known each other in their teens but had been little more than acquaintances, attending different high schools but the same church in Ancaster. After two days of hemming and hawing, he hopped in his car and made the hour drive from Acton to the Bosma house. He pulled into the driveway and trekked up to the volunteer-filled garage, where he spotted his friend Peter Lise, and asked to be put to work. When Lowe mentioned ca- sually that he had been working in social media, Lise gave him a look. "He said, 'Hold on a second,' and he ran inside the house," Lowe said. "Three or four minutes later, he came back and said, 'Do you mind taking a look at our Facebook page?'" Lowe grabbed his laptop out of the car. But as he sat down at the kitchen table, nervously, the house was get- ting crowded and it was decid- ed that everyone had to go-- only family would stay. Lowe turned to leave with everyone else, but Sharlene stopped him. "You. Stay," she told him. And he did and never left. Lowe became the driving force of the viral Find Tim Bosma social media campaign. That trust was uncomfort- able at first. This woman's husband was taken by strang- ers, yet she allowed Lowe-- a man she'd never met and he'd barely even known-- to stay on their couch. Lowe also convinced the family to talk to the media. But even when Hamilton homicide de- tective Matt Kavanagh came by the house last Tuesday with the horrifying news of Tim's gruesome murder, Lowe received the news with the family. He felt their pain. "There's no way to describe it, so I just decided I'm not going to try. It was a thou- sand times worse than anything I ever imagined," he said. • For more visit www.theifp.ca --By Hamilton Spectator PETER LOWE Acton man aided Bosma family