Jackie Mazeikas remembers walking around Haines, questioning people about something nobody here wanted to talk about.
Women were being assaulted and sexually abused by husbands, boyfriends and fathers who lived and worked and shopped here, who walked around smiling and laughing; their friends and neighbors unaware of what went on at home.
The town, she said, needed a domestic violence shelter – and it needed it desperately.
That was five years ago. People looked at…