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you,” Boonstra said.
“Dr. King taught us, ‘when
we become silent about our
dreams we die inside.’ Now
take a long look around you
and feel the power of a room
full of dreams. Dr. King said,
‘Dreamers dare to take that
first step even when they do
not see the whole staircase.’
“He reminded us we are all
connected and we are all re-
lated. Remember his famous
words, ‘we may have all come
on different ships, but we are
in the same boat now,’” Boon-
stra said. “Tonight in our
turbulent waters, we share
the same boat, brothers and
sisters in the same boat,”
Boonstra said.
To a series of “amens,” he
listed Anglos and Hispanics,
straights and gays, undocu-
mented and legally protect-
ed, young and old, humans
and all threatened species
”all in the same boat.”
High school students
Charley Boonstra and
Christina Garcia spoke, and
Garcia tearfully expressed
her perspective as the daugh-
ter of immigrant parents.
“Why is there injustice?
Why does it exist?” she said,
noting that there are 12 mil-
lion illegal immigrants, most
of whom are in the U.S. for a
better life and the chance for
their children to gain an edu-
cation and advance beyond
menial existence. Garcia, an
HRVHS junior, noted that in
November 2014, voters de-
feated the ballot measure cre-
ating a driver card law for
undocumented residents, yet
Words of King,
words of youth
‘We’ve learned to fly the air
like birds, we learned to swim
the seas like fish, and yet we
haven’t learned to walk the
Earth as brothers and sisters.”
— Dr. Martin Luther King
“I have a dream I can make
a difference. It is to go to
Mexico and visit the place my
family left behind.” – Christi-
na Garcia
passed the measure legaliz-
ing sale and possession of
marijuana.
“How can this be possible?
How can a plant be more
legal than a human being?”
Garcia asked.
Blackburn called on the
community to work in
earnest to realize the ideals
of Dr. King.
“Dr. King spoke of what
he saw from the mountain-
top,” Blackburn said, “but in
the Haitian proverb ‘there
are mountains behind moun-
tains,’ and our climb and ef-
forts need to continue. Ours
is the work to do, to preach
morality, to stand up for the
marginalized, to speak for
the vulnerable, to remember
the lonely. It is a big, tough
world out there. Tonight as
we celebrate Martin Luther
King, we need to continue
meeting the challenge, to
keep going together, holding
hands if necessary, and
singing as often as possible.”
At the end of the service,
an offering supported the
work of GEM with children
and youth, including Peace
Village, a summer day camp
that teaches social justice
and sustainability.
Photo by Kirby Neumann-Rea
P IZZA P IZZAZZ
Pizza cook Caleb Rocha spins his way to victory in the third annual “Pizza Battle” between
cooks at Solstice Wood Fire Pizza on Jan. 13. Rocha tosses and twirls dough behind his back in
the “talent” portion of the contest, held at Springhouse Winery.About 60 people attended, sam-
pling unusual pizzas created by five cooks, including lead pizza cook David Jents. Zak Taylor pro-
vided commentary as the cooks demonstrated their dough stretching talents and performed a
musical number while tossing dough in creative ways. The
restaurant closed for the night and owner Aaron Baumhackl
manned the mobile oven outside Springhouse, turning out the
at Cascade Locks School
pizzas. Rocha won for his Mango Drop, employing mango chut-
300 Wa Na Pa Street
ney, ham, and finished with a lemon drop hot sauce. Jents said
the event gives the staff the chance to show their imagination
Intro to Yoga
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and expand their pizza mak-
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Photos by Kirby Neumann-Rea
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Oceana McQuade, 5, painted this picture of her dream, in a
Monday art project at Starshine Childlife Habitat, a Mt. Hood
daycare and preschool. Westside Elementary first-graders, in-
cluding Leah Sandoval, studied Dr. Martin Luther King and cre-
ated artwork depicting the civil rights leader on Jan. 16 in the
classrooms of Alyssa Greenwood, Stacey Doss and Amy Has-
sett. ‘We spent all day talking about Dr. King, and read a bi-
ography, and learned what his life was like as a child,” Green-
wood said. ‘I think it really resonates with first graders. They
live in a world of what’s fair and not fair, so developmentally
it kind of hits home with them. A lot of times they’ll look at
the kids around them and start to see the different skin colors
for the first time, and they think about what it would be like
for those kids with darker skin, and apply it to their own life.”
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