Credit: Keely Damara
Mia Hladysh, 16, speaks to a crowd of students during the National Walk Out event held at Unitarian Universalist Fellowship on April 20, 2018. At 10am, students across the nation participated in the National School Walkout to end gun violence. Credit: Keely Damara
Students from Pacific Crest Middle School and Summit High School wrote letters to state representatives, urging them to take action to end gun violence in schools during the National School Walkout on Friday, April 20, 2018. Credit: Keely Damara
Students from Pacific Crest Middle School and Summit High School wrote letters to state representatives, urging them to take action to end gun violence in schools during the National School Walkout on Friday, April 20, 2018. Credit: Keely Damara
Students from Pacific Crest Middle School and Summit High School wrote letters to state representatives, urging them to take action to end gun violence in schools during the National School Walkout on Friday, April 20, 2018. Credit: Keely Damara
The Bend Kindness Rock Project donated art supplies to the National School Walkout event at Unitarian Universalist Fellowship on April 20, 2018. At 10am, students across the nation participated in the National School Walkout to end gun violence. Credit: Keely Damara
Find out more about the Bend Kindness Rock project CLICK HERE Credit: Keely Damara
Credit: Keely Damara
“Mr. Walden, students are afraid.” Credit: Keely Damara
Giorgi Taylor, 12, a 6th grader at Pacific Crest Middle School, spoke to a crowd of students at Unitarian Universalist Fellowship on April 20, 2018. At 10am, students across the nation participated in the National School Walkout to end gun violence. Credit: Keely Damara
Angela Chisum, who has two children attending grade school in Bend, thanks a crowd of students for attending the National School Walkout at Unitarian Universalist Fellowship on April 20, 2018. Chisum created the “Parents, Students, Teachers, Friends of Bend-La Pine School District Against Gun Violence” Facebook page, which grew to two thousand people strong within the first week following the Parkland, Fla. shooting on Feb. 14. Credit: Keely Damara
Credit: Keely Damara
Students from Pacific Crest and Summit High School wrote letters to state representatives, urging them to take action to end gun violence in schools during the National School Walkout on Friday, April 20, 2018. Credit: Keely Damara
“Dear Senator Wyden, in this day and age it has become vital for older generations to heed the warnings and messages of the youth.” Credit: Keely Damara
Credit: Contributed by Angela Chisum
Credit: Contributed by Angela Chisum
Bend High School students rally at First Presbyterian Church in Bend during the National School Walkout on April 20, 2018. Credit: Contributed by Morgan Schmidt
Bend High School students rally at First Presbyterian Church in Bend during the National School Walkout on April 20, 2018. Credit: Contributed by Morgan Schmidt

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