Not much is happening in an obvious way with further developments in the Asha Veil double homicide. Michael McClish is to be sentenced August 3rd in the rape trial.
While researching for awhile, I came across The Valley Post's reporting of the case. I think they've done a pretty darn good job.
There is still talk of a candlelight remembrance for Asha and her daughter, but this date has not yet been set. I would also like to propose some sort of permanent memorial in Ben Lomond--maybe on the order of the streetlight on the Pacific Garden Mall which memorializes the earthquake victims (it's kind of a lantern/carved iron thing), or perhaps a memorial bench. It would be a place for people to at least go.
It is sadly poignant to me that Asha touched so many people in life with her kind heart, and so many people are deeply affected by her death and that of her baby--a senseless, unneccesary thing.
I hope at some point someone does a story on ASHA'S loved ones, her husband left behind to grieve, her parents in Poland, and I believe a mother-in-law. I wish I knew how these people are bearing up and I do hope someone in the local media does a story on this at some point.
My name is Joan McMillan and this blog is, as Emily Dickinson says, "my letter to the world." I am currently working on a nonfiction book about the murder of a young woman, Asha Veil, born Joanna Dragunowicz, and her unborn daughter, Anina, on September 9, 2006. My book is meant to honor her life and illuminate the need to create a safer world for women and children.
To read an excerpt from the book, please click on the following link:
ashaveilbook.blogspot.com
An excerpt from The Pleasure Palace, my romantic comedy, can be found here:
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