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.
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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.
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