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It is with great enthusiasm that I write this letter to announce my endorsement of Briana Spencer for the Pendleton School District Board Position 7 candidacy.
Ms. Spencer has served as a very reliable and dependable community organizer since my introduction to her work in July of 2020. We have accomplished much in a short period of time due to Brianaâs professional network and her dedication to racial equity.
Briana is an intelligent, hard-working team player. I know her to be an effective leader with a high level of computer skills and outstanding people skills.
As part of the Pendleton School Board, Briana Spencer would have extensive training and developed expertise to draw on. She is an accomplished public speaker and advocate for local policy change. She has developed, planned and delivered volunteer training. She has regularly been asked to facilitate social media engagement for various grass roots alliances, including Pendleton Community Action Coalition and Umatilla
The Pendleton School District needs solid leadership, and Briana Spencer is the right candidate to fill Position 7 on the board.
Briana is a strong leader. She believes in a community focus and investing in the future. She knows the issues, and she does not shy away from hard discussions. She would also bring some diversity and needed community engagement to the board.
Briana knows the community well and is invested in seeing it succeed. Sheâs grown up in the Pendleton community and attended Pendleton schools. She identifies with the community and its needs. She knows the challenges the community faces in educating its children in a changing world with limited state funding and a local economy where the hospitality industry and local businesses have been hit hard.
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More than 50 protesters gathered in Richland, Washington, on Feb. 27 to demand that President Biden close the Immigration and Customs Enforcement concentration camps, release the detained children and abolish ICE.
The “No Kids in Cages”
rally was hosted by two local organizations, Luchadores por Cambio and Community & Labor Against Fascism of Eastern Oregon and Washington. Members of CLAF include Luchadores por Cambio, Pendleton Community Action Coalition, Heal the Land Collective, and the Party for Socialism and Liberation, as well as individual community members.
This rally comes as a response to ICE’s continued deportations under the Biden administration, despite Biden’s promise to halt deportations for his first 100 days in office. In fact, not only have deportations continued, as of Feb. 16, more than 26,000 people have been deported from the United States.
PENDLETON â The Blue Mountain Community College Christmas Eve dinner has been canceled due to COVID. But the Pendleton Community Action Coalition, Altrusa International of Pendleton, Inc., Umatilla County Responds, Salvation Army, and Neighbor 2 Neighbor Pendleton are working together to provide a smaller version of this dinner, with in-person pickup or delivery for more than 250 people on Christmas Day for those in need or impacted by COVID in the Pendleton and CTUIR communities.
The dinner will be available for pickup or delivery on Friday, Dec. 25, from 11:30 a.m. to 1 p.m. at the Pendleton Salvation Army, 150 S.E. Emigrant Ave. A tentative menu includes turkey and ham, stuffing, mashed potatoes and gravy, deviled eggs, rolls, cranberry sauce, pies with whipped cream, mixed fruit and water or juice.