On May 30, La Plaza Cultural Armando Perez Community Garden, on Ninth St. and Avenue C, hosted three members of an expedition that had re-enacted a portion of Lewis and Clark’s journey across America. For their journey, the group hand-carved two canoes, one from a 27-foot ponderosa pine tree, the other from a 25-foot western red cedar. The canoes were supposed to be at the event, but didn’t make it. But there was a cookout with 100 pounds of Chinook salmon caught in the Columbia River and FedExed by the chief of the Klickitat tribe. Afterward, they hung a screen in the garden and showed slides of the expedition. “There’s no other story of America as grand as that of Lewis and Clark.” Willow Bill — a.k.a. Sergeant Willow — declared.
