One rainy November night, while sitting on the side of the Highway of Tears by herself just outside of Quesnel, Val West heard her mother yelling at her.
“My mom, Lillian Squalian, had died of cancer seven years ago by then.”
West distinctly heard her mom tell her, “I raised you better than this.”
It was those six words that inspired the Williams Lake woman to get sober for her three children.
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