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Zontian's Husband Convicted
of Her Murder

UPDATE  On 2 December, Keith Landers, 74, was sentenced to 109 years in prison for murdering his wife, Zontian Evangeline Landers and for the attempted murder of Zontian Joerene Hout. Evangeline's murder highlights the epidemic nature of domestic violence, which crosses all race, class and age boundaries.  

"There is a need for a sentence to speak to deter others, I shouldn't give Mr. Landers a break just because he is a 74-year-old," said Superior Court Judge Philip Volland.    

Evangeline Landers, a member of the Zonta Club of Anchorage, Alaska, USA since 1993, was shot to death in her home in November 2004. Saddened and shocked, Evangeline’s friends in the Zonta Club of Grants Pass, Oregon, USA, wanted to honor her by providing women a way out of domestic abuse situations before it is too late.

In January 2005, the club started a project that prints a domestic violence hotline number on grocery register tapes, a non-threatening way to provide women contact information to abuse hotlines without their abusers knowing.  

Originally named the E Project, Zonta Club of Grants Pass board members voted to re-name the project The Evangeline Project following the conviction of Evangeline's husband.

Since the project's inception, the domestic violence hotline has appeared on more than 15 million grocery receipts, thanks to the hard work and networking of Grants Pass members and the kindness of Janice Hennings, CEO of Register Tape Advertising, Inc. and member of Zonta Club of Everett, Washington, USA. Grocery receipts containing the hotline have been distributed throughout 50 communities in four states, at a value of US$82,675.

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