‘Remember My Name’ Candle Lighting Ceremony
Brings Community Together to Honor Victims of Domestic Violence
The community is invited to join the annual gathering remembering the victims and honoring survivors of domestic violence at A Safe Place’s 12th Annual Candle Lighting Ceremony. Keynote remarks will be made by The Hon. Jane Waller, Presiding Judge of the Family Court in Lake County, and former Chief of the 19th Judicial Circuit.
The hour-long ceremony will be held on the steps of the Lake County Courthouse in Waukegan October 7 at 5 p.m.. Thoughts and poems of survivors will be joined with remarks from members of Lake County’s law enforcement and judicial community who collaborate with A Safe Place in providing services to victims of domestic violence and in holding batterers accountable for their actions against the victim and the community.
The ceremony is the first event during October which is observed nationally as Domestic Violence Awareness Month. A display in the courthouse lobby the week preceding the ceremony will include the Silent Witness Exhibit, life-sized silhouettes of Illinois residents who died as a result of domestic violence, artwork created by the child witnesses of domestic violence in A Safe Place’s children’s counseling programs, and the Clothesline Project, t-shirts decorated by survivors of domestic violence which illustrate their hurt and feelings of betrayal as well as their dreams for a future without violence.
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