Remembering Michael Roger….

Michael Roger

It was sad to hear of Michael Roger‘s passing on the 20th, last week. Special memories of Michael can be shared at a gathering of friends, neighbors, and family on Wednesday, November 2, 5:00-7:00 pm, at Duck Soup Inn on Roche Harbor Road.

The day he died, Charlie Anderson wrote a few words for our friend:

Today we lost a true friend. We lost one of us who cared. We lost one of us who stood up to the challenges that we as a community face and wouldn’t let go. Today we lost Michael Roger.

We knew him as a champion of affordable housing, as a dedicated advocate for our new Peace Island Medical Center and as a public servant as our elected Public Hospital District Commissioner. Michael worked tirelessly to weave together the fabric of some of our most important institutions, often under the most difficult of circumstances.

So let us not let this moment pass without taking something of Michael with us in our everyday lives. Let us be strong where we need to be and not shy away from the conflicts to challenge our principles and our path. Let us be wise and choose the path which we know, in our own hearts, is the one that is just for all. And in the end let us dedicate ourselves to making this a better world whether it be a new hospital or affordable housing or one of the millions of simple things that would make someone else’s life better.

That was Michael’s way and that is the right way.

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