It was a hate crime. My daughter is very shaken up.

The hard part was after 22 years a lot of these people are like family, so it was more or less like a divorce, ... You go through the whole 12 steps of recovery. You are angry for a while, you blame people for a while and then you get over that and you are sad for a while, but now it is time to go on.

(We) grew up in the community together, went to school together. He seems to be doing a pretty good job.

We use the Whitman Massacre as a representation for a lot of the struggles between the incoming settlers and the Native Americans who lived here.

It's nice how they put it together and the people that came out. I just moved here from Pittsburgh, and in Pittsburgh they don't celebrate Martin Luther King Day. Not with a parade, anyway.