Maxine Fookson reports on a trip that she and others made to the San Diego - Tijuana border in mid-December as an action for immigrant justice and to oppose the policies of the Administration. Ms. Fookson is a retired pediatric nurse practitioner, currently involved in social justice work.
We present for your enlightenment and entertainment a talent show. Some people insist on calling it a variety show. Oh, well. It's drawn from the membership of HGP. It includes music from a variety of genres, along with poetry and a few amusing novelties.
Presentation by Bashar Al-Daomi. To protect water systems such as lakes and rivers, we need to make wastewater as free of phosphorus and nitrogen concentrations as possible. Microbes work to treat wastewater. Al-Daomi’s research involves supporting these microbes. Al-Daomi is a PhD candidate in Environmental Engineering at Portland State University. He focuses on using innovative bio-clean-tech ways to purify wastewater. He has designed, built, and operated three ways to do this.
Robert Sanford offers a continuing exploration of poetry. Starting with the three differences between poetry and prose, and reviewing five basic tools (Vocabulary, Speaker, Audience, Setting, and Structure), he looks at a poem that we probably all know, along with a mysterious poem that is surprisingly similar to the first, and then a lovely and elegant poem by John Ciardi. Sanford has taught poetry to high school students. He has been an active member of HGP since 1998.