Mr. PG is flying a flag for the Red Dress Campaign, and will be bathed in red light for the next two weeks.
The movement uses red dresses to raise awareness for missing and murdered women.
Local organizer Tammy Meise lost her childhood friend Kari Ann Gordon in 1997 to a homicide, “it wasn’t along the Highway of Tears, but nevertheless the end result is the same.”
She first saw the campaign in Vancouver in 2014, where an array of red dresses was hanging from the ceiling of a conference centre, “and I’ve been kind of mulling it over and I decided, I really need to do this. I need to give Kari Ann her voice.”
Meise says the local campaign is dedicated to missing and murdered women of all races, and that everyone is welcome to attend Sunday’s events.
Things will start at the Beaverly Petro-Can (11480 Carmel Dr) at 1:30pm, where participants will spend 20-30 minutes along Highway 16 with their red dresses on hangers.
Then at 5pm in Lheidli T’enneh Memorial Park, a vigil will be held and the dresses will be hung in the trees around the bandstand. Meise notes that people that want to participate do not need to donate their dress, they can bring it home afterwards.
The flag on Mr PG was developed in collaboration with input from several individuals that have been impacted by the issue. Meise says she knows the flag may be a little controversial to some, due to it’s likeness to the Canadian flag, “however we are talking about Canadian women.”
Event details can be found on Facebook here.
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