Family Presses Search In Swift Water Friday, June 28, 2002   Greg Kofford, outfitted in diving and safety gear, braves the icy and swift runoff waters of Little Cottonwood Creek, checking under rocks and in pools for his son, Simon, 4. The boy was last seen near the creek on Sunday. (Photos by Rick Egan/The Salt Lake Tribune) Greg Kofford, the father of 4-year-old Simon Kofford, and three friends pause for a shared prayer in the middle of Little Cottonwood Creek before resuming the search for Kofford's son. Simon is lost and presumed drowned in the creek. BY THOMAS BURR THE SALT LAKE TRIBUNE     The father of a 4-year-old boy presumed drowned in Little Cottonwood Creek began searching the swift river himself Thursday after expressing concern that the Salt Lake County Sheriff's Office was not doing enough to find his son.     Greg Kofford crawled in the river, feeling with his hands under rocks in hopes of finding his son Simon, who disappeared Sunday afternoon during a family picnic near the rapid water. The boy's yellow shirt was found Monday morning some 200 yards downstream.     Before beginning the river search with friend Justin Taggert, Kofford said he felt the Sheriff's Office could do more to find his son. He said rescuers had done a "stellar" job Sunday and Monday, but he worried the search had dropped to a lower priority by Tuesday.     "For whatever reason, they [county searchers] are not willing to go in the water," the Sandy resident said. "We'll just have to go into the water and find him ourselves. I've got to find my son -- I've just got to."     Sheriff's spokeswoman Peggy Faulkner says the county's mostly volunteer search team scoured the banks of the creek Tuesday and Wednesday mornings, but did not enter the water because the current was too fast. She said the water was traveling at about 125 cubic feet per second.     Even so, more than 50 deputies and volunteers returned Thursday afternoon to comb the creek.     "We need to do this until we find him," said Sheriff Aaron Kennard, who had just returned from a National Sheriff's Association meeting in Oklahoma.     "No one wants to end this more than I," he said.     Earlier in the day, Kofford family members said they felt slighted by not having more searchers looking for Simon.     The boy's grandfather, Lew Kofford, said searchers told him they would continue until Simon was found.     "But now they're not here, I just don't know what happened," he said.     Marilyn Kofford, Simon's grandmother, said she wondered if the family could have done more to keep the public's attention, drawing a comparison to the massive search for Elizabeth Smart, the 14-year-old girl who was abducted from her Salt Lake City home June 5.     "Have we done something wrong?" she asked, tears welling in her eyes. "Smart has been missing for more than 20 days; Simon has only been gone for four."     Greg Kofford vowed to keep searching until dark and continue again today if Simon was not found.     "I don't know what else to do," he said.     tburr@sltrib.com         © Copyright 2002, The Salt Lake Tribune All material found on Utah OnLine is copyrighted The Salt Lake Tribune and associated news services. No material may be reproduced or reused without explicit permission from The Salt Lake Tribune.