WINONA, Minn. – With the birthday of missing Winona woman Madeline Kingsbury on Thursday, a new kind of memorial is planned. Maddis’s friend Michaela Riepl invited people to decorate their porches in blue, her favorite color, to mark her 27th birthday. “Everybody is always asking how can we get involved and what can we be doing even if we’re not physically able to search,” Riepl said. “It’s another opportunity to bring awareness to Madeline’s situation.” There also will be ribbon and porch lighting event. “‘Good Morning America’ and all of these places are doing it. it’s not just in Winona community,” Riepl said. “It’s reaching all over.”
