Williams Lake Royal Purple and Women’s Contact Society marked Purple Thursday, Oct. 19, with an appreciation breakfast for service providers who work with people experiencing interpersonal violence.
Around 30 people attended the event which was held at the Seniors’ Activity Centre.
“You do a lot of amazing, hard work,” said Irene Willsie, executive director of Women’s Contact Society as she spoke to the guests. “You are the silent heroes out there.”
Willsie said it is exciting when community groups, such as the Royal Purple, that are not employed in the anti-violence sector step forward and want to raise awareness about violence and how it damages the community.
“This has been an excellent week for me. We have Purple Thursday and yesterday there was a group of young women from the secondary school that decided to do a protest walk to raise awareness about gender-based violence.”
Darlene Doucette, a member of the Royal Purple said every three minutes someone suffers a brain injury in Canada.
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