Protest march set for Saturday

People with concerns and picket signs can gather on Grand Coulee's Midway Avenue (SR-155) from noon to 1 p.m. Saturday, March 8.

The march will take place on the same day as a nationally advertised march for women, but it will be the fourth in a series of local, loosely organized events for expressing solidarity with others concerned about the recent changes in the federal government, including layoffs, forced resignations and coming RIFs, abolishing entire agencies established by Congress, and more.

The protests started with a crowd of one, Sheri Edwards, on Feb. 4, but has grown a little each week. Last week, 19 marched, garnering many approving waves and honks from passersby, and only one middle finger, several of them said.

Margie Gallagher showed up with her two granddaughters, all holding handwritten cardboard posters. "OUR COMMUNITY IS OUR POWER," Gallagher's read.

Edwards encourages those joining to park on public streets to avoid taking up space in business parking lots.

A poster for the coming event includes a quotation of John Lewis, a congressman who said at a 2016 sit-in in the House of Representatives, "We have been too quiet for too long.

There comes a time when you have to say something. You have to make a little noise. You have to move your feet. This is the time."