By News Director, Katie Northcott
Cannon County will host its 2nd Annual Out of the Darkness Suicide Prevention Walk at the Arts Center of Cannon County on Oct. 11.
The event will begin at 9 a.m. with check in opening at 8 a.m. There is no registration fee. Participants who raise of $150 will receive a t-shirt at the event. Those who rais over $250 will receive an additional gift after the event.
Hope and healing resources will be available as well as honor beads. Honor beads are colored, beaded necklaces. The colors symbolize how the person wearing the beads has been affected by suicide.
Register or donate at https://afspwalks.donordrive.com/CannonCounty. For more information contact Grace Mathis at 615-995-2609 or gracemathis05@gmail.com.
Cannon County’s walk comes after Coffee County’s Out of the Darkness walk on Sept. 20 raised over $30,000. According to the registration page, Cannon County’s walk has raised about $1,300 so far toward its goal of raising $10,000.
The funds raised will go to the American Foundation for Suicide Prevention to fund suicide prevention research and evidence-based suicide prevention programs in local communities across the country.
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