Help Light the Town Purple!

Please join the Sudbury-Wayland-Lincoln Domestic Violence Roundtable to show your support for survivors of domestic violence, to honor those who have lost their lives at the hands of their abusers, and to help raise public awareness of this ongoing problem. This year the Roundtable cordially invites community members to shine purple lights in their neighborhoods by adding purple lights to indoor lamps, porches, or outside house lights. Invite your friends and neighbors to join you and shine a light in the darkness.

Thank you to Ace Hardware in Wayland and at Aubuchon Hardware in Sudbury for stocking the purple light bulbs. These bulbs fit regular sockets.

Each October, the Sudbury-Wayland- Lincoln Domestic Violence Roundtable partners with First Parish in Wayland and the Lauren Dunne Astley Memorial Fund to mark Domestic Violence Awareness Month. We do this by illuminating public, religious, and other significant buildings in Sudbury and Wayland with purple lights. Purple symbolizes peace, courage, survival, honor, and dedication to ending violence for survivors of domestic abuse. Won’t you join our efforts!

The traumas of domestic violence are harmful and long lasting, and the Roundtable continues to seek community support in building awareness of the signs and causes of relationship violence and sources of possible support and safety. We continue to work toward the creation of a more caring and equitable society that does not tolerate violence or any person’s domination of another, be it in relation to gender, race, religion, sexual orientation, geographic region, or economic status.

If you are concerned you or someone in your life might be experiencing relationship abuse, local support can be found on the Roundtable website at https://www.domesticviolenceroundtable.org/counseling.