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Kayla Simmons, a student at Oregon City’s Hera Community School, points out one of the waterfalls fashioned from blue glass that decorates the birthday cake students are making to celebrate Oregon’s 150th anniversary of statehood.
Ellen Spitaleri / Clackamas Review
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Students and staff at the Hera Community School in Oregon City are giving the state a birthday cake in a very big way.
On Feb. 17, the cake, an elaborate, four-tiered mosaic affair that stands nearly 2-feet tall, will be installed in its permanent home inside the Clackamas County Public Services Building on the Red Soils government campus in Oregon City.
“The county was excited,” said Anna Meyrick, art teacher at the Hera Community School, adding that the Arts Action Alliance is sponsoring the project.
The colorful cake will “celebrate Oregon through the lens of Oregon City and the founding fathers,” she said, noting that the bottom of the cake “starts with older history and progresses up.”
The mosaics that make up each tier of the cake feature Oregon’s official colors of blue and gold, and waterfalls, representing rivers and lakes, are incorporated on one side of the cake in intense blue glass.
Meyrick said she was inspired to make the birthday cake by a poster of mosaic cakes celebrating the 12 signs of the zodiac.
“It was challenging to take a 2-inch picture as a model and make it into a reality. We took the photo and put it into a one-quarter inch grid, and we’ve been studying circumference and tying in a lot of math so as to build the cake and make it not too heavy,” she said.
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