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Fox went to YouTube to
research the teacher, Christa
McAuliffe, watching interviews
of her students.
“She’s a really bubbly, happy
character,” Fox said. “Her stu-
dents just seemed to love her
so then I started looking at my
teachers that I loved and their
bubbly and interactive people.
I’m a lot like that, I think, so
it was easier for me to fi nd my
place. I defi nitely looked at my
teachers and how they acted.”
McNary senior Ryver Na-
kayoshi has been cast as Monet,
who he says is nothing like him.
“He’s a watcher, someone
who is out of place, obviously,
and leaves remarks on the char-
acters when he’s talked to but
doesn’t really take a step to
talk to anybody but Elizabeth,”
Nakayoshi said. “That is differ-
ent from me because I’m obvi-
ously a very interactive person
and whenever I see somebody I
talk to them so it’s really hard to
play a restrained character.”
But Nakayoshi is enjoying
the oddness of the show.
“This show enticed me be-
cause, for lack of a better term,
it’s just weird,” he said. “And I
mean that in the best way pos-
sible.”
The rest of the cast includes
Madelyn Hurst and Josiah
Henifi n, playing Betty and Ed,
a retired couple who drive their
Winnebago across the coun-
try to see the launch; Ashton
Thomas, playing C.B., a NASA
mechanic and Annie Pur-
key, who portrays a bartender
named Donna.
Defying
Gravity
opens
Wednesday, Nov. 2 at 7 p.m. in
the Ken Collins Theater with
additional shows through Sat-
urday, Nov. 5. A matinee is Sat-
urday at 2 p.m. All tickets are $5
Street opened just over a year
ago and serves youth ages 10
to 24 years old with dedicated
spaces for males, females and a
fl ex room for transgender and
questioning youth.
“There’s a lot being done,
but it’s still not enough. (Youth
homeless services) continue to
be very low funded and there
is a much bigger need than
there are beds,” Phillips-Neal
said.
Even operating at a below-
optimal level, one HOME
youth, Michael Jones, said the
services have made a huge dif-
ference in his life.
“I was skeptical because,
from my point of view, nobody
cared,” said Jones. “I started
showing up day after day and
they handed me resources.
They helped me get back in
school, I was thinking about
doing drugs and I didn’t do it
because of HOME. They’ve
done nothing but help.”
• The task force also heard
from Buzz Brazeau, super-
intendent of Central School
District in Independence, Ore.
Central School District is
home a trauma-informed care
pilot program with a health
center offering everything
from check-ups to dental care
and even mental health servic-
es, each of the fi ve schools has
its own mental health work-
ers. Trauma-informed care is
a treatment framework that
involves understanding, rec-
ognizing and responding to all
types of trauma.
Brazeau said the foundation
of the approach was, in part,
a response to the sometimes
misguided emphasis on absen-
teeism.
“Sometimes we have what
I call the ‘Heisman approach’
KEIZERTIMES/Derek Wiley
McNary junior Bella Fox is playing the teacher who died in the 1986 Challenger Space Shuttle
explosion. The play, Defying Gravity, centers around the teacher and her daughter, Elizabeth.
and available online at mcn-
arytheatre.weebly.com or at the
door.
“We’re looking to get a big
crowd out,” said Dallas Myers,
McNary drama director. “The
kids will always preform bet-
ter with a bigger crowd and the
straight shows are just as good
as the musicals. I’m really happy
with this one. We’re doing some
cool things movement wise
with it, which I’m really ex-
cited about. I’m pumped to see
them do it. I’m interested to see
how they’ll react when a crowd
is here and a crowd reacts.”
The show is rated PG-13 for
strong language.
“It’s not for lewd purposes,”
Myers said. “There’s some lan-
guage in it that we couldn’t
get permission to edit out. It’s
Fox said there’s something in
the show for everyone.
“It’s got everything, the love
that I share with my daugh-
ter, the love of a couple, and
worries and doubts, just an ar-
ray of emotions and I think it
will leave the audience feeling
something special. That’s what I
hope they will take away from
it.”
“I think it will
leave the
audience
feeling
something
special.”
— Bella Fox
McNary Junior
nothing that you wouldn’t hear
in a PG-13 movie. There’s no
sex or anything. It’s a real tame
PG-13. There’s one time a
character says something and he
even apologizes for saying it.”
grads &
grades
The following students re-
cently graduated from East-
ern Oregon University in La
Grande: Roger Comer, Ashlie
Menzie and Kraig Moisan.
of pushing students away who
return to classes,” said Brazeau
referencing the stance por-
trayed in college’s football’s
most widely known trophy.
“When a student comes back
after too many absences, we
lecture them or send them to
a principal’s offi ce. We need to
have a model with the proper
supports so that when a staff
member is ready to care, they
are able to welcome back a
student and provide medical,
dental and counseling services.
That means when the window
opens up between when stu-
dents are listening to us and
wanting to learn that they are
able to learn.”
• Jayne Downing, execu-
tive director of the Center
for Hope and Safety (CHS),
also spoke to board members
about the need to keep victims
of domestic violence in mind
when they make their fi nal
plans and recommendations.
“Last year, our program
alone had more than 20,000
contacts with victims of do-
mestic abuse,” Downing said.
“They often are not going to
be the people on the corner. If
they are not with us, they are
in other shelters or doubling-
up with other individuals and
we don’t want to see resources
taken away from the survivors
of domestic violence.”
Downing said the answer
may be as simple as dedicating
a few beds of any new shelter
to victims of domestic vio-
lence.
CHS recently completed
fundraising for a new confi -
dential emergency shelter and
purchased the old Greyhound
building in downtown Sa-
lem. CHS’s goal is to turn the
Greyhound site into a mixed
use building with resource
services and job-training pro-
grams on the ground fl oor and
two levels of transitional hous-
ing above it.
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