Moose Jaw Times-Herald: Candles lit in memoriam and for hope

Riverview holds empowerment workshops for young women

By Lisa Goudy


Not a word was uttered as the candles were lit.

Mayor Deb Higgins and W.J. Jones and Son continued care co-ordinator Della Ferguson each light a candle on Dec. 6, 2013, one for all young women affected by violence in Saskatchewan and one for hope, at the second annual Grandmother Moon Symposium on the National Day of Remembrance and Action on Violence Against Women for young women in Grades 7 to 12 in the Prairie South School Division at Riverview Collegiate.
Times-Herald photo by Lisa Goudy

The gymnasium at Riverview Collegiate watched on Friday as Mayor Deb Higgins and W.J. Jones and Son continued care co-ordinator Della Ferguson each lit a candle, one for all young women affected by violence in Saskatchewan and one for hope. They were lit at the second annual Grandmother Moon Symposium on the National Day of Remembrance and Action on Violence Against Women for young women in Grades 7 to 12 in the Prairie South School Division (PSSD).

Fourteen candles were lit in memory of the young female engineering students who were killed on Dec. 6, 1989 in the Ecole Polytechnique massacre. The event at Riverview featured a candlelit memorial in the morning and different workshops about empowerment in the afternoon.

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