Bethany’s Hope Suicide Awareness Walk draws over 120 participants over weekend

Photos by TIMOTHY WYATT

More than 100 people braved the rain Saturday to participate in Bethany’s Hope Suicide Awareness Walk in downtown Williamsburg. The walk is held annually to honor 16-year-old Whitley County High School student Bethany Faith Lawson, who took her own life in 2018. Event organizers said approximately 120 people signed up to walk Saturday, Sept. 24, with another 20 or so volunteers also walking. Walkers began at River Fog Park and continued down Main Street before turning onto Depot Street and looping around to Cumberland Avenue, Second Street and Main Street back to the park.