Grete Hale (1929-2022): 'Baker's daughter' was Ottawa's legendary business leader and a philanthropist
Grete Hale, who died Oct. 28 at age 93, was the second of Ottawa's legendary "Three Sisters".
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Grete Hale, who died Oct. 28 at age 93, was the second of Ottawa's legendary "Three Sisters".
It was just after dawn on Jan. 4, 1999, when Marlene Harris packed up her three children and drove to an East Hartford Stop & Shop, where she picked up a pay phone and dialed 211. On the other end of the line was Maria Mojica, then a crisis line operator with the Hartford-based non-profit Interval House for victims of domestic violence.
Sen. Richard Blumenthal, who joined the gathering of advocates on Monday, pledged to continue his fight against domestic violence: “Literally everybody has been touched by this,” he said. “Everyone is affected in one way or another.”
October is National Domestic Violence Awareness Month, and Connecticut advocates and elected officials gathered to discuss what they describe as a “shadow pandemic.”
IInterval House—Connecticut’s largest domestic violence agency—is set to observe Domestic Violence Awareness Month through its “Purple with a Purpose” campaign.