Candlelight ceremony planned for missing Stevenson senior

Friends and loved ones of a missing 18-year-old from Buffalo Grove have scheduled a "We Miss Lee" candlelight ceremony as a way of coping with the emotional case.

Lee Cutler, a senior at Stevenson High School, disappeared Oct. 20. His car was found two days later near a river outside Baraboo, Wis. Searchers found Cutler's pants, wallets and car keys in the river, and his backpack and favorite yarmulke on the shore, but no sign of the teen.

A large support group has been using www.facebook.com to share information and feelings about the case. The latest posting notes the candlelight ceremony "is most definitely not a memorial of any kind," but simply a way of proclaiming, "We do not know where he is, and we miss him."

The ceremony is scheduled from 5:30 to 6:30 p.m. Sunday in the park near the Buffalo Grove Park District's Golf & Sports Center, 801 McHenry Road. Flames aren't allowed, but 500 flameless candles have been donated for the event.

A Find Lee Fund -- Harris Bank, 500 Half Day Road, Buffalo Grove, IL 60089, Attn: Valbona Ceci (847) 876-8408 -- offers a reward for information about the missing teenager.