Dear Friends,               How can we be a voice of peace at a time when the military is being told to be harsher and are being placed in our cities?  How…

Dear Friends, Currently, it is difficult to listen to or watch the news.  When we do, we sometimes wonder whether people are feeling empathy for one another, particularly when it…

 I hope you all are well.  This coming Sunday (August 10) is supposed to be a very pretty day for our picnic in Moore Park (on the lakeside of the…

Read about the current state of poverty and food security in Oregon through the Herald and News Hunger rates plummeted in Oregon in the years leading up to the pandemic,…