The Lake County District Attorney’s Office, Victim-Witness Division would like to say “thank you” to all the agencies that helped facilitate all the events that took place during the week of April 10-16, 2011, National Crime Victims’ Rights Week.

A special thanks to Annie Barnes of the Sunrise Special Services Foundation for generously providing the funding for the Victim-Witness barbecue to honor law enforcement and all service providers that assist crime victim’s throughout the year.

We would also like to thank Sunrise Special Services, Inter -Tribal Council of California, Lake Family Resource Center and Victim-Witness for their collaboration on coordinating and setting up three individual trainings on “Reshaping the Future and Honoring the Past.”

The Lake County Office of Education, the Lake County Children’s Council and the Lake County Child Care Planning Council did an excellent job planning the successful event at Library Park called “Lake County Cares for Kids.”

Deborah Wallace is program administrator for the Lake County District Attorney Victim-Witness Division, based in Lakeport, Calif.