Balloon launch calls attention to Domestic Violence Awareness Week

LISBON — Linda Cormany said she hears voices.

She said some are crying, whispering and screaming, often echoing her own story of a woman beaten and bruised, wounded and tormented by a man she had once loved and trusted.

The voices cause her to remember why she continues pursuing a passion of helping other victims of domestic violence.

“It’s about getting out, leaving, but it’s also about looking for a way to stay gone,” Cormany explained to a group of supporters gathered today at the Christina House here.

Cormany is program developer for Ozer Ministries of East Palestine, which provides Christian counseling and other services, and assistant to the chaplain at East Liverpool City Hospital.

She, along with about 100 other domestic victims, their loved ones and supporters, launched purple balloons into the skies over Lisbon Square as a way to commemorate Domestic Violence Awareness Month.

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