Fallen teen's memory to be honored, with Stand Together's help

BEAVERTON, Ore. – When the volunteers arrived, the space in front of the build was barren, except for some tools, a table of drinks, and snacks. The concrete path to the back of the building had broken up by a jackhammer, producing what appeared to be around 200 new rocks, set to stacked into a wall. They’d build it behind the HELP office, around what would become part of a memorial garden. From street side and along the fence, to the property line at the back, it will become a space to remember Harley Rocher.

Rocher was an examples of what the Beaverton School District’s Homeless Education Liaison Program (HELP) could do. He had suffered from housing instability throughout the early part of…