An annual music festival that's the wrap-up for Suicide Prevention Awareness Week is getting bigger.
Cainerfest 2017 is the 3rd year for the event at Average Joe's September 16.
Organizer Andrea Milne says they started the festival in memory of Jordan Caine — known as Cainer — who took his own life. Milne says part of the goal is to help those who are suffering in silence.
"The symptoms of mental health disorders are often felt silently and they're not apparent from the outside so we're hoping that by providing some resources and some program availability that people can access help," says Milne. "Unfortunately he took his life due to mental health disorders that he was experiencing and he did access help, unfortunately sometimes these illnesses and disorders can be debilitating and people just want, they're looking for a way for their pain to end."
Milne says Caine was just 27 at the time and was a well loved person in the community who played bass in bands and was an awesome cook.
Cainerfest includes 14 bands along with several information displays.
To date the event has raised $16,000 for suicide prevention.