Five blue balloons fluttered in light wind under cotton candy skies outside a Nova Scotia RCMP detachment on Wednesday evening as community members and friends and family of missing children Jack and Lilly Sullivan gathered for a candlelight vigil.

Children sat at a picnic table in Stellarton and decorated a card for Jack on his 5th birthday as the crowd of roughly 40 people listened to a prayer, poem and song for the siblings, who disappeared nearly six months ago.

Jack, 5, and Lilly, 6, were reported missing on the morning of May 2, when police received a 911 call from their mother, Malehya Brooks-Murray, saying they had wandered away from their home in Lansdowne, a sparsely populated community about 140 kilometres northeast of Halifax.

Despite extensive searches and a massive investi

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