It was equal parts solemn and empowering for women in Penticton Wednesday night, as a few dozen people gathered in Gyro Park to Take Back the Night.

The annual walk, organized by the South Okanagan Victim Assistance Society and the South Okanagan Women In Need Society, brought mostly women, though several children and a few men showed their support.

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The event is in support of women who have been victims of violence outside at night, and demands safety for women in the streets at night.

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Scarborough scolded the societal tendency to point to the clothing a woman was wearing at the time of a sexual assault.

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Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women and Girls hearings with the federal government have started up again, recently holding hearings in northern B.C., and that has struck another poignant chord for Scarborough.

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dustin.godfrey@pentictonwesternnews.com
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