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10 community march21 2013 Anderson Art on Display Vernonia artist Dave Anderson displayed art from his exhibit “To Break a Butterfly” at the Vernonia Community Learning Center on Monday March 11, 2013. Photo courtesy of DeAnna Pearl. The exhibit is Anderson’s tribute to the children of the Terezin Concentration Camp. Through collage work Anderson reflects the art, writing and poetry created by the children who were imprisoned at Terezin. Eighth grade students from Vernonia Middle School visited the exhibit and had a chance to talk with Anderson about his work. Anderson’s exhibit was part of the “Columbia County Reads” program sponsored by several Columbia County Libraries. Anderson’s work was also on display at the St. Helens Library on March 13-15. Students Spend Spring Break in Vernonia continued from front page product that is harvested in Oregon. Its use is being championed by Oregon Solutions. (See sidebar story.) Alissa Bertsch Johnson is the United Methodist campus minister at Washington State University and is leading the trip. Bertsch Johnson leads a service project each year through the Wesson Foundation. “Last year we went to Los Angeles, this year we decided to do something more local in the Pacific Northwest,” Bertsch Johnson explains. She says that the service trip this year was entirely funded by a couple from Pullman, WA. The couple provided a $40,000 grant which paid for the students to come and attends the University of Idaho. “This is a really good way to bring mission work home,” says Hope. “Sometimes people assume that mission work is always done overseas.” The students receive no college credit for their time working in Vernonia. “This is just something they want to do,” adds Frederiksen. David Hawbaker is twenty- four, from Pullman, WA and attends Washington State University. Hawbaker says this is the second Seirra Service Project he has participated in and is an assistant ministry leader for the trip “This is a great experience for us as well as the people we are helping,” he says. “A lot of people go on vacations and have a lot of fun, but we’re having just as much fun and we’re making a difference.” to Vernonia this year and which will also fund twenty-four students next year who will travel for a mission trip to Nicaragua. The first two groups will be staying at the Vernonia Christian Church where they are able to shower and use the kitchen to since 1981 cook their meals. The larger group that arrives in April will stay in the school building. “A lot of these students are taking their spring break to do this,” says Frederiksen. “A lot of us have been getting Contract Logging text messages at night from our friends who are heading to 503-324-2422 Canada or Mexico or on a road trip across country with friends. 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