Victim Assistance Program hosts its 29 annual Angel Tree Ceremony
“None of us should really be here today. We should be able to embrace our loved ones, spend time with them, enjoy that time with them and here we are mourning,” said Yalaunda Dortch.
Victim Assistance Program serves 5,000 people each year that have lost loved ones to violent crime. Leanne Graham is the president and CEO. “For her not be here, you constantly think of her, you constantly just want to call her, to go see, her but you can’t do that,” said Teyaurra Harris’ sister Dyani Harris. “Everything changes and you change the same moment that you lose somebody that is that close to you.”Mayor Dan Horrigan and his Youth and Community Opportunity director, Denico Buckley-Knight, attended the Angel Tree Ceremony.
“I, too, have suffered from incidents of violence in the community,” said Buckley-Knight. “Anytime that we lose a life, especially a young life, then all of us have to deal with the negative effects of that.”
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