SALISBURY — According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, someone in the United States takes their life every 11 minutes. With such a staggering frequency, it’s likely that most people have been impacted in some way by suicide.
Several of those people gathered before day break on Saturday at Catawba College’s Shuford Stadium for the Into the Light Suicide and Mental Health Awareness Walk. While everyone there probably has a story to tell, one individual, Katelin Rice, offered testimony about her life following her father’s suicide.
Rice, a former city of Salisbury employee and Lexington native, was 19 when she lost her dad, Johnny Rice…