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Title: Rice ‘champion of many causes’
Post by: LostInTime on June 19, 2007, 07:44:25 AM
THE GARDEN ISLAND  (http://www.kauaiworld.com/articles/2007/06/19/news/news03.txt)
by Nathan Eagle

A civil rights champion. A veracious veteran. Martin Thomas Rice, 58, lived with courage and compassion, close friends said yesterday.

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Yaris said he met Rice over 14 years ago at a meeting to start a community organization. That group became Lambda Aloha, Kaua'i's only gay, lesbian, bisexual, transgender nonprofit social organization.