Remembering those who have passed

Times Reporter

 

On November 4 the Community Crisis Society and students in the community will be delivering 150 roses to businesses in town. Paul Thomas with the Crisis Society said November is Family Violence Prevention month, which is why the roses are delivered and displayed in local businesses. 

“The kids from Storefront school help us almost every year, and the last couple years I’ve been getting a few other kids from different schools, just so more kids get the opportunity to do it,” said Thomas. 

“We basically want to raise awareness, because November is Proclaimed the Prevention of Family of Violence Month in the province of Alberta. That’s what we do at the shelter, we try to do that every year. It’s great getting the kids involved and they are always really eager to do it. To get the roses all out it usually takes us a full morning to do it.”

Thomas said he and the kids drop off roses and cards to be displayed in local businesses. The cards explain that the roses are for the men, women, and children in Alberta who have died victims of domestic violence. 

Family Violence Prevention Month began in 1986 in Hinton, Alberta, after concerned residents began a education and prevention campaign. The effort reached the ears of the Alberta Legislature, who support the campaign as a provincial initiative, and to date hundreds of Alberta communities are actively involved in trying to prevent family violence through education.