Middle schoolers create art for micro shelter residents in months-long project

John Marshall, a pastor at Salem’s Church at the Park, said local middle school students have had a conversation over the past four months that he never heard in 12 years of Salem-Keizer public education. 

He said Howard Street Charter School has encouraged students to think critically about what it means to be human and empathize with people who are suffering. Students spent each Wednesday morning since Jan. 19creating artwork to hang inside micro…