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Friends and family of the missing Jackson County woman aren't giving up hope 27-year-old Alisha Sidie is still somewhere out there alive. Sidie's best friend says wherever Alisha is, she's fighting.

"It's been horrible. I feel like I'm missing something in my life,” says best friend Jessica Millis.

Millis and Alisha Sidie have been best friends for 17 years, but now the unthinkable has happened. Sidie's been missing for a week, and there's been no sign of her.

"We've been on the water today, we have dogs as well on the water today as we have dogs on land as well,” says Sgt. Pat LaBarbera with the Jackson County Sheriff’s Department.

On Friday, dive teams used underwater sonar in a canal looking for Sidie, but didn’t find anything. The Sheriff's Department says it still hasn't decided whether to let volunteer search parties back into the woods.

"We're feeling really helpless right now. We've realized we don't want to hinder their investigation at all. We do understand that. But it's just so hard to sit around. We know she's out there somewhere," Millis says

Millis says while Alisha’s twin 2-year-old boys have a hard time understanding what's going on, they still know mom isn't there.

"Every time she came on the news the boys would come up and kiss her on the TV. and it's just heartbreaking,” she adds.

Millis says Alisha would never do something like this.

"She would not leave those boys. She wouldn't ever. Those boys are her world," Millis says.

Millis says no matter what happens, family and friends will keep looking for Alisha.

"We'll never give up hope. Never. Never. Until she's found, period."

The Sheriff's Department says it's not singling out any particular person right now and is still treating it as a missing person's case. Anyone with any information about Alisha Sidie is asked to call the Jackson County Sheriff's Department. That number is 715-284-5357.

Millis says more missing person fliers have been made up. She says with the gun-deer season coming up, the fliers will be handed out around Jackson County when someone registers a deer, or stays in a hotel or at a campsite. Friends and family say they want to get Alisha’s picture and information out there, so hopefully hunters will keep their eyes open.

Family and friends gathered Thursday night to hold a vigil in the Jackson County town of Hatfield. Alisha's loved ones held onto each other, raising their candles, hugging, crying, and telling stories about the woman they’re so desperately hoping returns safe and sound.