re: #157 wlewisiii

It took me awhile to find this, but I’ll post it here because this one place that will actually care:

“In Eau Claire, Wisconsin in the mid 1970’s a group of concerned community women developed the idea of a Women’s Community Center. In 1976, before the Women’s Community Center opened, they received a call from the police department asking them to provide shelter for a woman and her children fleeing a domestic violence situation. The group opened the Refuge House in response to that call, and the Refuge House (incorporated in 1977) has been providing services to victims of domestic and/or sexual violence and abuse ever since, as the first domestic abuse shelter in the state of Wisconsin. In the late 1970’s the Refuge House moved into a church parsonage in Eau Claire. On October 6,1982 Eau Claire Police Officer Robert Bolton was killed when responding to a call for help from the Refuge House. Shortly after that the shelter was moved to a larger property in Eau Claire and the name of the organization was changed to Bolton Refuge House in his honor. In 2010 Bolton Refuge House acquired a much larger facility, which has been rennovated to provide comfortable living space for victims of domestic abuse and or sexual assault and their children.”

God be good to him, and may his name be for a blessing on the organization that carries it.

A good cop.