PORTLAND, Ore. (KOIN) – When Bryan Butcher Jr. walked into a packed gym at Beaumont Middle School, he thought it was just another assembly.
“I have my hands in a lot of things at Beaumont, so to know there was this impromptu assembly was a huge surprise,” he said. “Like, what are we doing? And why don’t I know about this?”
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