GRAND RAPIDS, Mich. (WOOD) — Since October is domestic violence awareness month, a nonprofit hosted a vigil event Monday night called “Their Light Lives On.”
The event, put on by The Domestic Violence Action Network of Kent County, started at the Eberhard Center, where the community could hear poems and spoken word from survivors. Then the group proceeded to the Blue Bridge, where a memorial was set to honor the lives lost to domestic violence in Michigan.
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“They may be in your families, they may go to your churches, they go to your schools. It’s all around us,” explained Micah Johnston, director of Domestic Violence Action Network of Kent County.
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