Marguerite Lanthier/Daily News photo From left are Jodie Garver, Caring House; Ginger Crawford, Caring House; Heather Strauss, Caring House; Trisha Johnson, Caring House; Donna Fayas-Johnson, Caring House; Heidi Ford, Friend of the Court; Under Sheriff Aaron Rochon; Robert Sauld, board chair, Caring House; Sgt. Jeremy Maki, Kingsford Public Safety; Chief Patrick Wilke, Norway Police Department; Emily Gunville, attorney at Finch Law; Commander Jeremy Hauswirth, Michigan State Police; Officer Adam Ray, Iron Mountain Police Department; Kristin Kass, chief assistant prosecutor; Circuit Judge Christopher Ninomiya; Connie Larson, Dickinson County Prosecutors Office; Cheryl O’Neil, executive director, Caring House; Marti Swisher, Caring House; Pastor Steven Lehmann, Caring House board member/Mt. Olive Lutheran Church; Cherie Fila, Dickinson-Iron District Health Department.

Each year during October — Domestic Violence Awareness Month — the Caring House in Iron Mountain puts up a display of crosses representing the number of deaths from domestic violence in Michigan. The display — 79 crosses this year — gives the community the opportunity not only to remember the lives lost, but search for answers and raise awareness so domestic violence no longer is tolerated in the community.