Awareness event for missing women in North Okanagan, Shuswap
VERNON, B.C. — Activists raising awareness about missing and murdered women will hold an event in the North Okanagan later today.
Spokesperson Meagan Louis says they will be dropping a banner on a washed-out bridge on Haywood Road near Salmon River Road in Silver Creek at 5:30 pm in honour of Ashley Simpson’s 33rd birthday this week.
“That’s not too far from where two women have gone missing, Ashley Simpson and Deanna Wurtz, so we just want to keep the community…keep their eyes open to the cause, as well as keep their missing presence relevant in the media,” Louis tells Kiss FM.
Louis says the banner that will be put up reads “No more stolen sisters.”