The Out of the Darkness Walk route took participants from Trinity Lutheran Church, past the gazebo on Fountain Lake to New Denmark Park and back Saturday in Albert Lea. To learn more about how to prevent suicide, visit afsp.org. - Kelly Wassenberg/Albert Lea Tribune

Darcy Nielsen addresses a crowd of about 175 people at the Out of the Darkness Walk in 2019 in Albert Lea. Nielsen organized the inaugural walk after becoming involved with the American Foundation for Suicide Prevention after her cousin, Tommy Aldrich, took his own life. - Kelly Wassenberg/Albert Lea Tribune

Participants of the Out of the Darkness Walk could write the name of someone they loved who survived or was lost to suicide on a leaf and add it to a memorial tree. - Kelly Wassenberg/Albert Lea Tribune

Volunteers and participants of the Out of the Darkness Walk listen to Darcy Nielsen, organizer of the event, and Laurie Squier, a member of the American Foundation of Suicide Prevention, speak prior to the official start of the event Saturday outside Trinity Lutheran Church in Albert Lea. - Kelly Wassenberg/Albert Lea Tribune

A participant in the Out of the Darkness Walk views memory boards of those lost to suicide. - Kelly Wassenberg/Albert Lea Tribune

Laurie Squire, a member of the American Foundation of Suicide Prevention, speaks to the participants of the Out of the Darkness Walk Saturday about her own personal experiences with depression, which led her to attempt suicide, in hopes of ending the stigma surrounding asking for help. To learn more about how to prevent suicide, visit afsp.org. - Kelly Wassenberg/Albert Lea Tribune

Members of the Albert Lea Radio Emergency Associated Communications Team were at each intersection to ensure Out of the Darkness participants could cross safely. - Kelly Wassenberg/Albert Lea Tribune

Many of the participants of the Out of the Darkness Walk wore colored mardi gras bead necklaces. The colors of each of the necklaces signified the walkers' relationship to someone who had attempted or completed suicide. - Kelly Wassenberg/Albert Lea Tribune

Participants return from the Out of the Darkness Walk to have a light meal. - Kelly Wassenberg/Albert Lea Tribune

Aaron and Ariel Winter perform Saturday outside Trinity Lutheran Church prior to the Out of the Darkness Walk in Albert Lea. - Kelly Wassenberg/Albert Lea Tribune