Lethbridge

Between 1980 and 1983 there was a small convenience store operating in downtown Kelowna on Leon avenue next to a local nightclub. There were two girls working the counter along with a man who was the owner/operator. One of the girls was dating a local cop at the time and had become pregnant. She was young, only about sixteen years old. This group of people had involvement with several of the Kelowna police including the then plain clothed Tidsbury. Tidsbury was reported to be seen and operating between the night club location and the Kelowna Gospel mission at the other end of the block. This entire group left Kelowna in November of 1983 and were reported to have immediately set up in another convenience store near Hastings and Main in Vancouver. The fifth estate producer was informed that these were some of the people who had association with and could place  RCMP member Tidsbury in Kelowna  at the time that they were there. A young man named Tony Gallop had been living with them at the time.

The fifth estate producer Kathy Tomlinson, became interested in the owner of this convenience store after he surfaced as a suspect in the Vancouver missing women case. He had been arrested in Lethbridge Aberta sometime earlier. She called asking questions. I told her of the two girls who had been working for him in the store at the time and advised she find and ask them if they remembered Tidsbury..
see- suspect info     

                Convenience store owner

see- girl suspected of working at convenience store
The other girl was native or part native, claimed to have family in Ontario. She was older than Gina. 
see- Dynah Taylor

This became the latest location for a convenience store on Hastings and Main after this group left Kelowna in 1983.

Tomlinson went on to win the Webster award for investigative reporting on the Vancouver missing women case.  It was later learned that two of the female witnesses I had told her about who who could place Sgt. Tidsbury in Kelowna during the 1980's,  now appeared to be witnesses in the case against Robert Picton.