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THE SANDY CAMKRON MEMORIAL WRITING CONTEST ENTRY FORM Please print as neatly as you are able to.

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Guidelines for Wr,iting Contest 1. Writing must be originJl & not fiction (if plagiarism is recognised the work will be returned).

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2. Entry forms, for contact information, are available both at the Community Centre's front desk (Main floor) and from the Newsletter office (2nd floor).

3. Essays are the focus of the event. This means writing in sentences, with grammar and structure attempted. Not in the "free-form" of poetry.

4. Subject matter is open to the individual author. It can be about most anything relevant to readers. The only caveat is in this example: writing about having a pet while having a lowincome or living in a hotel/rooming house is fine; writing about nothing but what kind of food it eats o: its colour(s) is mostly just boring. Good examples of essay-writing are most anything by Sandy Cameron, reprints of which are in April & May editions.

5. The length of the essay can be 250-700 words, basically what can be printed on 1 page in the Newsletter.

6. Help with form, sentence structure or grammar, length, flow, etc. can be obtained in various writing venues. There are the Carnegie Firewriters (meeting on Wednesday mornings on the 3rd floor), the Thursday Writing Collective (meeting in Oppenheimer Park) and from tutors & staff in the Camegie Learning Centre.

7. Deadline for submissions is September 15,2017. Results will be announced at a special event during the Heart of the City Festival in October.

The Sandy Cameron Memorial Writing Contest ... and the deadline approaches with frightening speed! Procrastination is no longer a viable excuse.

The high points of entering this contest are too numerous to list and it'd be a crappy attempt at humour to make stuff LIp. Some stories are funny; some are tragic but as long as it's not made up yours has as much worth as anyone's.

The deadline is September 15,2017.

Between now and the deadline people are soliciting donations of prizes that can be given to writers. There will be cash awards of $25 for )'"", $50 for 2n", and a pi prize of $100. The money is coming through the DOIvlltOJVIl Eastside Heart of the City Festival. Other items being sought are good pens, stationary, journals & gift cards from bookstores, coffeeshops and more.

The guidelines are on the opposite page and the last day for handing in your entry is Friday September 15.

Sandy Cameron always encouraged individuals to tell their story, to write. Lisa David has been asking certain people to act as ajudge and so far there will be four, maybe five if the last person agrees. Each has a long-term awareness of & familiarity with the Camegie ewsletter specifically & the Downtown Eastside in general. The idea is look at writing for its heart/soul and make things like grammar, flow, clarity, presentation etc as secondary.

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DON'T LET THE THOUGHT OF PUTTING PEN TO PAPER DAUNT YOU. Respectfully, PAUitR TA YLOR, Volunteer Editol

Jenny Kwan, MP Vancouver East NDP Immigration, Refugee and Citizenship Critic 2572 E Hastings St Vancouver, BCV5KIZ3 T: 604-775-5800 F: 604-775-5811 Jenny. Kwa n@parl.gc.ca

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1952 I see a man with tremulous eyes his skin is parched, and ancient they say he had a disease he thinks he's Jesus the great Prophet he wants to kill himself so they lobotomized his brain took a chunk of it right out he stopped talking about Hitler after that he stopped believing he was a rolling stone RubyDiamond

Leadership Training

in Poverty Reduction

The Poverty Reduction Coalition is happy to announce that registration is now open for the Community Action Network (CAN) Leadership Training Program starting early October 20 I7. The program wi 11 run for six weeks with one workshop per week. For more information on CAN please check out the new website: http://www-.lctionnetwork.ca This new community-based leadership training initiative offered by the PRC targets people who have lived experience of poverty, live in the Downtown Eastside neighbourhood, and are interested in collaborating as advocates with the PRC to end poverty. Training includes public speaking, media spokesperson skills and more.

An Info Session will be held in September offering more information, a Q&A, and a chance for anyone who is interested in taking the program or supporting the program to learn more about CAN and the leadershi trainin 0 ortunit.

Leadership Training Program INFO SESSION Saturday, September 16, 1:00pm-2:30pm Carnegie Community Centre; Carnegie Theatre 40 I Main Street. All welcome.

Light lunch and beverages provided with transit fare available to those who attend the info session.

Parent helpers and kids' activity corner on-site; all children welcome.

Karen Ward's resignation from the board of VANDU As a board member of the Vancouver Area Network of Drug Users, I have a clear responsibility to the members -- as a peer organization, given our history and goals, this responsibility is serious, and beautiful.

I mean it when r say that serving at VANDU is the most challenging and meaningful work I have ever done. That is how much it matters. That is how real it is. And members, people, I want you to know how strong you are. And your generosity. r know you've told me things you've never said to anyone, and your bravery means something and r get it.. I meant it when I said that I wanted to know what you think. I meant it when I said that all of us down here live lives that are realer and more honest and smarter than the people who look down on all of us. The people taking over our neighbourhood.

The ones we fight.

I walk up the street, every day, I get the engine revved. I am set for the fight. I love it, I'm good atit. I will fight for all of us every day. All night, any time.

Let's all go fight.

But that is It.~L;-o-o'k'-a¡-;-t C-;th-e-fi;O;-lg'IcLook at how the 1t-;-ing. workers are treated, look at how people treat each other. If this was happening at another organization, we'd be outside protesting it.

Today, I am resigning from the board ofth Vancouver Area Network of Drug Users. I do not want to hurt the membership - I am resigning to empower the membership; that is my responsibility I will not participate in a so-called leadership structure that enables, enforces, and rewards the ongoing and systemic exploitation of human suffering and experience. The raw needs of poverty and addiction makes bullying not only a standard practice, but an actual enforced and rewarded behaviour.

This is deeply, deeply sick.

Everyone, it's not ok. It's not ok that we talk about justice and liberation and then learn and see and become forced to believe that the way to express strength is through causing harm. And by making that act of harm a mark of authority, and strength, we become the thing we pretend to fight.

I reject that, and I am confident in that rejection.

Months ago, I said that only acts of bravery could stop the cycles of death that we are experiencing.

I see such bravery everywhere.

At V ANDU, the cowards are in charge at every level

I urge the members to reject that. I urge the workers to strike. Be brave -- because you are. It does not have to be this way.

Do no harm. Gentleness is not weakness. Arrogance is not strength. Justice is love. We must take care of each other, because no one else will.

Above, I said "we become the thing we pretend to fight." I am concerned with the actual fight. And what you need to know is that I can't do that at VANDU. I'm not a coward.

I have things to do.

Stay safe, be brave. Let's go.

She remains committed to the DTES. On facebook visit "DTES: Justice is Love" and stay tuned. #fortracey

VOLUNTEÂŁRS August 2017- Volunteers of the month

Tiffany Anderson- Pool Rocky Lolly-Pool Room

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Volunteer Committee Wednesday, September 6th @ 3 :30pm; Classroom Volunteer Dinner Wednesday, September 13th @ 4:30pm; Theatre

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Volunteering and its Surprising Benefits With busy lives it can be hard to find time to volunteer. However, the benefits of volunteering are enormous to you, and your community. The right match can help you to reduce stress, find friends, reach out to the community, and learn new skills. It can also help protect your mental and physical health. Learn more about the many benefits of volunteering & get started as a volunteer by coming to our weekly orientations held every Monday and Saturday at 2:30pm. .We have I~any different volunteer opportunities rangII1gfrom kitchen help, reception, learning center, computer lab, senior coffee seller, weight room and many more. Please come see us and we will help you find the right match for you Q No experience needed!'! Just the willingness to help others.

Sindy Bruno Carnegie Community Centre

HELLO DOLLY Feminist Zombie Rag Dolls

by Diane Wood 3rd floor gallery of the Carnegie Community Centre

September 4 - 30,2017 Artist's Reception Tuesday Sept 5, 4:30 - 5:30 When I started making witch, pirate, clown & Alice in Wonderland dolls a few years ago, I discovered that female pirates really had lived.

I unearthed a hidden herstory of notorious bad girls, rebel queens, writers and freedom fighters. I followed in the footsteps of Judy Chicago's Dinner Party for strong independent women who challenged the status quo of their times. Their accomplishments have been swept under the rug,and out of the HIStory books. Did you learn the names of cross-dressing pirates, bandits & soldiers, warrior queens who resisted the colonization of their land, and artists who created in a world where women were only exhibited in galleries if they were nude models for some man's painting? . My biggest challenge to myself is to research women who I know very little about, write their stories, and create dolls of them that will encourage people's interest and discussion. Re-writing these inspirational women back into history is essential for the generations to come. I want to bring these heroines out of obscurity, for adolescent and teenage girls, to counter Ithe Barbie doll and rock video images of femininity they are bombarded with. I want to challenge the patriarchal view that for women to be recognized they I must be Beauty Queens and Sex Symbols.

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I would like to thank the Vancouver Foundation for the small Arts Grant I used to buy art supplies.

A Mental Patient You said I have catatonic eyes and a broken brain I am told I am a murderer a deviant, crazy I see to the other side but you do not understand me you put mein generic cotton clothes make me eat generic dinners give me generic pills

Photo credit: Diane Wood

surround me with generic walls do you know compassion?

I crave beauty, not metal toilets I am made to feel like a criminal you force me to take your treatment I want out!

I want out!

I want out!

I want out! but you caught me.

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MY SCfUZOPHRENIA

phrenia is long overdue. There are many of us out there, some us hiding and stigmatized. We need to claim our madness and take pride in who and what we are in the eyes of our Higher Power. I see my schizophrenia as a gift, not a liability.

By Ruby Diamond I am a "high-functioning" depressive schizophrenic who has struggled with her diagnosis for many years.

No one wants to be told they have a mental disorder, especially in a society that values thinking above all else. In Western culture, we associate disorders with the brain, with the value of our humanness. I know what it is like to live in the Downtown East Side strung out and addicted, paranoid and alone, alienated, feeling hopeless and in pain. It has only been because of my cornrn itment to staying drug free that I have had some semblance of manageability in my life. But this is not a popular message in the poorest postal code in Canada. I believe that having a dual diagnosis and being a woman of colour is a gift. Even before my diagnosis, I was fascinated with "the mad", and have taken refuge in my creativity as a way of dealing with the lived experience of being crazy.

I don't propose to have all the answers by any stretch of the imagination but what kept me from stopping the revolving door of psychiatric hospitalization was coming out of denial and accepting my diagnosis. I started to take up running and I stopped punishing myself by rejecting psychotropic medication and accepted that I needed to be on some sort of regiment. I don't see medication as a crutch, I see it as a vital part of my daily routine. In my mind, medication was a constant reminder of the fact that there was something 'wrong . with me'. The lesser the medication, the more proof of the stark facts of my normalness. Changing my attitude about medication, and accepting that it didn't make me a zombie but made me able to function was a personal choice I had to make.

I am totally against the way the system often treats us crazies. Electro-shock, forced treatment, restraints and throwing you into a tiny, bare room with a metal toilet is a cornpassionless way of dealing with those of us who suffer from a biochemical imbalance. You wouldn't treat a cancer patient that way. Being believed is a basic privilege that ought to be extended to all who suffer from schizophrenia. Being committed to fighting the stigma of mental illness which pervades the deepest parts of our society is essential to living a life of dignity. Schizophrenia knows no class, gender, sex or race. In India, they still chain schizophrenics to trees.

Finally, having positive imag_es of people with schizo-

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Walk for Reconciliation September 24 The CCCA Board invites you to join Camegie Community Centre Association at the Walk for Reconciliation on September 24th!

On Sunday, September 24, join thousands of Indigenous peoples-allies and all Canadians in the Walk for Reconciliation in Vancouver. We will meet at 650 Cambie (at Georgia) at 9:30 am and walk to Strathcona Park, 857 Malkin Ave. The Walk for Reconciliation is an invitation for all peoples to participate in the reconciliation movement.

We are walking because we want to show our commitment to the reconciliation movement as we work together to create a vibrant inclusive Canada where all peoples achieve their full potential and shared prosperity. Reconciliation starts with us and reconciliation belongs to all of us. We hope you will join us and support this movement.

If you can't walk, you can meet us at Strathcona Park for a Reconciliation Expo that runs from 10:30 to 3pm The Walk for Reconciliation is requesting that participants register in advance. By computer go to "Walk Team Kit Reconciliation Canada," click on "How to Register" and sign up under "Join a Team". CCCATeam is our team name. For more info, Google Vancouver Walk for Reconciliation, or phone 604-7704434.

Or just show up -- we'd love to see you!

relations. The reverberations of this exhibition are felt throughout Oppenheimer Park, the Downtown Eastside neighbourhood and beyond.

Join in the fun on Friday, September 8th for the opening and community celebration with musical performance by The Carnival Band. Come out to mingle at the Meet the Artist event on Thursday, October 12th.

Visit the gallery during open hours: Wednesday to Sunday from 12-6 pm.

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The 10th Annual Oppenheimer Community Art Show

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September 8th-October 22nd, 2017 Opening Friday, September 8th, 6-10 pm Join the parade with The Carnival Band, from Oppenheimer Park (488 Powell Street) to Gallery Gachet (88 East Cordova Street) at 5 pm. Fun! Meet Artists Thursday October 12, 6-8 pm, a casual afternoon of art and conversation at Gallery Gachet.

Oppenheimer Park and Gallery Gachet are pleased to present Reflections an exhibition showcasing artwork from the Oppenheimer Park community. To mark the 10th anniversary, artists are taking this moment to reflect on the legacy of our annual exhibition. More than thirty-five participating artists will share their personal reflections of how the Oppenheimer Park show has nourished relationships & built community through art Through the years this collaboration has played an integral role as a bellwhether for community, lifting up the neighbourhood's mood, struggles and triumphs. It presents an opportunity to celebrate the neighbourhoo and its residents who draw on a rich history to deepen

ABOUT THE SHOW The Oppenheimer Park Community Art Show began a decade ago in anticipation ofth changes, challenges, and loss in a pre-Olympic city. Oppenheirner Park is "one of the few green spaces in the area and one of the oldest surviving parks in the heart of the city". It is often referred to as "the Backyard of the Downtown Eastside" and is also one of the few inclusive spaces left for people who are homeless, or living without adequate and safe housing. The Park hosts many programs, festivals and special events, and is the busiest park, per capita in the city. Oppenheirner Park is located in the DEOD (Downtown Eastside Oppenheimer District).

For more info contact Kristin Lantz 60468724681 programming@gachet.org or visit www.gachet.org

Downtown Eastside Centre for the Arts presents

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September 6 - 30, Wed-Sat, 1-4pm Opening reception Sept 6111, 5:30-8:30pl1l 1 E Hastings

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Led by Kelly White, the Downtown Eastside Centre for the Arts has been working with community partners & workshop participants to create quilts inspired by their life journey.

Our community partners for this project: • Downtown Eastside residents • Carnegie Community Centre • Kitsilano Neighbourhood House • Gruppo Ferninile Italiano • Kimberley Quilters Guild, Kimberley, RC. • Pender Health Clinic • Sew Creative Quilt Closing reception & Sale: Sep 30, 5:30-8:30pm

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As the first library in Vancouver to have a Chinese collection some thirty years ago, the Camegie branch had to create a unique system to browse the material subject. Nowadays we are able to catalogue the books and adopt the Dewey Decimal system no matter the language! We will be switching to this system in September, and any new books received will be searchable on our website. Thank you for your patience Chinese readers!

It also happens to be the Mid-Autumn Moon Festival in September, Asia's harvest and thanksgiving celebratiorr, Check VPL's "Event Highlights" for programs like Chinese harp music, and feature author readings for the LiterASIAN festival! Look out for these authors: Shadows of the Crimson Sun (2017) by Julia Lin. A rare, personal account of the little-known histories of Manchukuo and Taiwanese immigration to North America. This literary nonfiction work follows a physician named Charles Yang who became one of the first Taiwanese Canadians in Vancouver.

Scarborough (2017) by Catherine Hernandez. The setting is the culturally diverse neighbourhood of Toronto, and the many voices who either sink or swim.

From a Black artist harassed by Police, an Indian restaurant owner trying to run his business, a gay Filipino boy with a mentally ill father, to an Aboriginal girl struggling to find shelter. They are all connected.

The Conjoined (20 16) by Jen Sookfong Lee. A social worker, Jessica Camp bell discovers the two bodies of teenaged sisters after the funeral of her mother, in her mother's deep freezer. The girls were assumed to have been runaways, although were briefly fostered in the family. A psychological thriller!

Stu mbling through Paradise (2016) by Eleanor Guerrero-Campbell. The journey of one Filipino family who leave it all behind to start a new life in Canada. A classic story of struggle, hope, determination, family loyalty, and overcoming adversity.

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Like North Korean Monopoly sets with little nuclear houses & hotels how many aerosol cans of Fabreeze will it take to mask that radioactive smell have you noticed we have been surrounded by burning forests each day is a horror unto itself, like bus drivers wearing crash helmets gotta love that non-sense of Security like the spokesman for Alzheimer's United asking its members to note that all future gatherings will be on the 3,,1 Tuesday of every week if that month has 31 days it's the 2nd & 41h Wednesday (how much more can you define clarity?) do you ever think you almost know how the illiterate boy who called Wolf may have felt, like not knowing your way around a 21 si century phone it actually talks&berates you then alienates you from the only normal you've ever known the Minister of Disillusionment is on Line Eleventeen ...

Like unsecured creditors who promised many a people both a sense of heaven & hell you may as well rent out an entire tloor of the Cobalt just tell them bootprints on every door is art & that urine scent is common only to Vancouver Yeah every horror show is swell when your name suddenly becomes resident does not exist it is time to scream, like a maternity ward bet on 'which will do well' work long hours for almost nothing & who gets to grow up on the DTES Hey Lifeline (welfare&disability) payments are going up one hundred bucks a syringe of celebration should cut short quite a few No Worries! if god exists hell has a waiting room the size of the Sun other than at most everything, life does not suck like twelve angry men dining for one of their own's last meal, during lunch at CanFisCo (Canadian Fishing Company) at the foot of Gore (that is its address) & walking between parked cars on Main there is a dead man the first I had ever seen as a couple ran across the street later I saw it on Newshour death is why we watch the news for people are killed just because someone wakes up knowing that is the only way their mood will change let alone feel, - such feelings only grow in the darkness like the experience of life being thrown at someone who has had no life to live, like a ice cream truck selling skin cancer we all have had our chance to make our mark & give parts of E3Iih are a living hell yet I whine about too much sun Oh God Robert what shalll do?

Like LOVE letters written on the knuckles of DTES tough guys fists fuck-off die or bow down to them? [ do not think so r know knowledge I was never taught I know how to resist the Complaint Department has

burned down a land without a heart still has a soul, like an Inuit antifreeze milkshake at McDonald's always expanding their universe how pretty&pristine their global efforts are brought to you second-class almost clean so many pictures destroying young lives you may not be able to bring it with you that is the way life&death are, once again all good boys drink their Methadone hey [ want out like ordering death-toga if you can afford pharmaceuticals & liquor plus liquid handcuffs (Scottish for methadone) you're on a roll YOLl try to escape from your life but once again you cannot get very far, Like writing the last line for a story using nothing but the truth & writer's block with working titles this is enough very moody people declaring there is too much negativity out there (actually everywhere).

Life is never fair. Its harsh reality is tough. Forget about what I say about life go out enjoy our moon & music most definitely bring an acoustic guitar.

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Dick Gregory, 1932-2017 "Mayor Daley and other government officials during the riots of the' 60s showed their preference for property over humanity by ordering the police to shoot all looters to kill. They never said shoot murderers to kill or shoot dope pushers to kill."

"When white Christian missionaries went to Africa, the white folks had the bibles and the natives had the land. When the missionaries pulled out, they had the land and the natives had the bibles."

"The way Americans seem to think today, about the only way to end hunger in America would be for Secretary of Defense Melvin Laird to go on national TV and say we are falling behind the Russians in feeding folks."

"What we're doing in Vietnam is using the black man to kill the yellow man so the white man can keep the land he took from the red man."

"We are all ready to be savage in some cause. The difference between a good man and a bad one is the choice of the cause." - Wi IIiarn J ames (1842-1910)

So many empty houses ... so many homeless people - Is this the way a market economy is supposed to work?" wi 11iambi um.org

Oppenheimer Memorial Pole - Remembered Another day of searching for a wife I'd lost to drugs.

My mind lying to me so I don't kill myself again hiding from the truth of her death. "It's a conspiracy," I lie to myself, "she's not dead." I walk through the park looking for anything to dull my memories. As I walk up to the old field house I can see a couple of old men inside where a log is propped up on two saw horses, they are talking and just glance at me as I walk past them into the room where the pole is. I spot some pieces of cedar wood in the corner, "probably cut offs from the log," I think to myself, as I bend down and pick up a block of it and begin to walk out. "Hey!" say's the bigger of the two old dudes, "Where you going with that?" he asks. ''It's mine," I say trying to walk past the two of them, but they are standing by the door, and I stop. "I'm a carver and this is my wood." The huge old dude looks familiar to me, but I'm too sick to think. I need a drink, food, sleep, a bath, and probably a hospital, I don't know this at this time, I'm lost in depression, sick of malnutrition, and ulcers, broken legs and ankle, dislocated shoulder, hip, teeth missing, heart attacks, pleurisy, asthma. With the fear in my voice, I apologize to both of them and try another lie. "I left this wood here so I could get something to eat and buy some tools today." "HA ha ha ha!" They both laugh at me, and then look at each other and laugh harder yet. I'm fuming, but I can't say anything, because I'm afraid of being hit, losing the wood, and mostly confused. Then the bigger one speaks to me in a kind voice, "I know who you are, you did a pole with a carver from Alert Bay in Stanley park some years back, (90). "You're Kim!" I shook with shock, my name! I hadn't heard it in a long while. Like most ego less, selfless welfare throwaways I didn't get close to a lot of people, too ashamed. A Iways put all of my love eggs in one basket, eodependent behaviour I learned later, one of many diagnosis doctors like to give you, along with the pills.

"Kim, I want you to do something for us both.Tell me the truth and maybe I can help you." I hesitated for too long and the tall lanky old dude spoke to me, "you're lucky he's asking, in the old days you'd be picking up teeth, and his hands would still be in his pockets". I whispered hoarsely, "it's not my wood, I am just sick, and need it for money." "For booze?"

The bigger one say's. "Yes," I answer. "Ok good!" he says happily. "Now, this is what you can do, you can

ask for help from us, but you have to do something for us." I think I'm about to get lucky and step up in the street world, when he says something I thought I'd never hear. "Kim I need your help too, if you can come back here tomorrow sober, you can carve here, and I will support you until you can support yourself.

Paul and I are carving a pole to honour and remember the people who have been lost to violence and drugs in the DTES of Vancouver, especially here in Oppenheimer Park." I cried, sobbing like a beaten rain soaked puppy. All the memories flooded in, my wife, family, friends, I'd lost too many. I returned the next day to find them waiting for me with food, and a five dollar bill. "You only need this much money to eat each day down here, eat at the Carnegie, or the 44, it's not for booze!" It took a month to graduate to a ten dollar bill. Long story shorter, I got sober, been sober for 19 years less 6 days, (fucking depression stole them). I remember them everyday, they gave me life, the community a spirit, Oppenheimer a voice. Two old men and a recovering drunk, along with any carver sober enough, free enough to help us. The pole went up. People raised it with blessings, cheers and tears. WE matter is what those two old dudes taught me, no matter where we come from. Richard (Dickie) Baker, Paul Auger, along with Alex Weir, Dallas Hunt, Cal Maltipi (B.C.), Eagle, Georgina James, et al. WE did it. Today as I grow old, I wanted to remember them, and share them with you all. I love you, just as they loved me. Please remember them this September 2017, they saved my life 20 years ago when they let me help carve the pole in Oppenheimer Park for all our lost ones. Peace and Love, all my relations, Ay Siem Kim D. A. Washburn - Cheyat-Chuk

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