Just for the record, Longview is 30 miles north of Portland/Vancouver. Perhaps the church is in Vancouver? I was thinking I'd participate in the counter-protest if it were indeed in my backyard.
Unless you grow your own food, weave your own fabric and manufacture just about everything else you need to get by day to day, you need a new crossing over the Columbia at I-5. Because what is there now was built without the conception of modern commerce. That's right, pretty much each one of us depends upon the West Coast corridor that is I-5, Portlanders included.
Celebrating japanese new year.