Work Continues on Highway of Tears
By 250 News
Saturday, April 29, 2006 04:00 AM
It has been a month since 500 people gathered at CN Centre to talk about the murders and disappearances along Highway 16 west.
The two day Symposium brought forth four main reccomendations:
1. Develop emergency readiness, which may include a version of an amber alert.
2. Community Support
3. Prevention
4. Counselling and Support
In the wake of those recommendations, what has been done? Symposium organizer, Rena Zatorski says a meeting has been set for late next week to talk about the next steps, which she believes will include the need to contract out the job of recording all the minutes from the two days of submissions and break out sessions. "Most of us who organized the event have full time jobs " says Zatorski who says she wishes she could look after it "But there just aren’t enough hours in the day". She says there will also need to be a small task force established to follow through on the recommendations.
There is still some of the funding left over "There is a chunk of money left" says Zatorski "But this was supposed to be just seed money to get things rolling."
That seed money came in the form of $50 thousand dollars from the Solicitor General and the Ministry of Children and Families. There were also significant donations made by the Carrier- Sekani Family Servics, and the Lheidli T’enneh.
Zatorski is counting on the momentum wave from the event to carry on "There was a much greater response than I anticipated" she says, "These were all people who were willing to work hard to bring about change."
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