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Sexual
Assault Awareness Month and Child
Abuse Prevention Month were both acknowledged in a White Ribbon Day
event in the atrium of Fall River Government Center on April 4, 2012.
Mayor William Flanagan read a proclamation before a series of speakers,
including Chief of the Special Victims Unit of the
Bristol County District Attorney's Office Silvia Rudman and Children's
Advocacy Center Executive Director Michelle Loranger who both spoke about
the increasing numbers of reports of child abuse. Fall River Women's
Center Executive Director Pamela
MacLeod-Lima, CD-Recreation Wellness and Market Manager Annemarie
Sharkey and Wendy Garf-Lipp and Eitan Levine of
United
Neighbors of Fall River also offered remarks, a dramatic
reading and a White Ribbon Pledge. Click here for the Herald News
article and here
for a Letter to the Editor.
Click here for a
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(Top row) Director Pam MacLeod-Lima
and Marisol Soto, Melissa Dagher, and Meredith Duffy of
the Fall River Women's
Center and Claire Spaulding and Stephanie Joyal of the
Katie Brown Educational Program pose for photos in the atrium of
Government Center before the program begins. (Row two) United
Neighbors of Fall River Executive Director Wendy Garf-Lipp and Rebecca
Arruda of the New Bedford Women's Center give opening remarks before Mayor
William Flanagan proclaims April as Sexual Assault Awareness Month and
Child Abuse Prevention Month. (Row three) Chief of the Special Victims
Unit of the Bristol County District Attorney's Office Silvia Rudman speaks
before Annemarie Sharkey of CD-Recreation gives a reading entitled
"First Kiss" and Eitan Levine of United Neighbors announces the
White Ribbon Campaign pledge. (Bottom row) Children's Advocacy Center
Executive Director Michelle Loranger is interviewed by Fall River Herald
News reporter Kevin O’Connor
as Rev. Matthew Stewart talks with Dennis Zemba of the Chidlren's Advocacy
Center, and City Council President Linda
Pereira visit the exhibits. |
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