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Vigil honours overdose victim, supports family in Williams Lake

More than 200 people gathered outside an apartment building to show support

Tears were shed as more than 200 people gathered Thursday evening (April 18) in Williams Lake to remember a local 24-year-old woman, the lakecity’s latest victim of a toxic drug supply.

Photographs and a painting of the late Izaria Bowe holding her cat, along with candles and a bouquet of flowers, were placed on the lawn in front of a ground-floor apartment balcony at the corner of Borland Street and Seventh Avenue downtown, as friends and family held a candle light vigil with drumming and singing.

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Monica Lamb-Yorski

About the Author: Monica Lamb-Yorski

A B.C. gal, I was born in Alert Bay, raised in Nelson, graduated from the University of Winnipeg, and wrote my first-ever article for the Prince Rupert Daily News.
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