Donald Miralle

END OF AN ERA 🥍

Just like that, the last four years flew by. We watched our boy grow into a man with this team. Some of his best memories and friends are because of and for that we are forever grateful. Thanks to all coaches, especially Jimmy (who announced his retirement after 25+ years and was neighbor + family friend growing up in Village Park) the parents, and the players who made it a memorable journey. This was a special group and we will miss everyone.
Onto the next chapter… 🤘🏽

Chris Guerrero, Celebration of Life 🩵

Chris was one of my oldest friends, first meeting on the playground at St. Bede when I was in the 1st grade and he was in 2nd grade. I immediately liked him not only because he was funny and a little crazy but we were one of a just a couple of Filipino / brown kids in a mostly white school and town. I became best friends with his brother Norman who was my age, and his younger brother Kevin was like my little brother in my sister’s class. Our moms were both Philippine immigrants, so they quickly became best friends and we called each other’s parents Tita and Tito, because they were like family.

Over the years we spent weekends and holidays together, our parents bought homes near each other. I would bike up to the Guerrero’s house on the top of the hill after school and on the weekends, play 21 on their hoops court, go swimming, and get into some kind of trouble that Chris was usually the ring leader of. My brothers from another mother got me into GI Joes, transformers and comic books, a hobby that I passed into my eldest son Luke. We all went to together, we went to each others weddings and our mothers funerals. Chris and the Guerrero Family was a part of so many of my core memories growing up.

Chris loved to party and snowboard, and chased that lifestyle up to Santa Cruz, over to Tahoe and eventually landed in Bend Oregon where he spent the last 26+ years. Norman and Kevin followed their older brother up there, and both have made it home with their beautiful families. Chris lived a fun and fast life, was the life of the party and a free but stubborn soul that never settled down. He was diagnosed with Colon Cancer a couple years ago and finally succumbed to it this month.

I was so happy to be able to travel up to Bend to Celebrate Chris’ life, but It was also bittersweet to see the Guerrero boys again, the closest thing I’ve had to having brothers growing up… Love you Chris, saw hi to Tita Susan and my mom, I will see you all again 🩵