“It was my first trip,” to the nation’s Capital and Krause said she met with various elected officials and their staffs, but the “Highpoint for me was meeting up with the students from Isbell Middle School,” touring Washington. “They are the future of Santa Paula. They also learned that Washington is not just about history” but also that they can put a face on a community’s name through their visit.Krause asked each in the crowd that “You dedicate your day to the repressed people and how to win their freedom...”During Krause’s visit to Washington she visited the FDR Memorial, and found that it was “very moving...”Krause noted that in a 1941 address to Washington correspondents, President Roosevelt said that “Unless the peace that follows recognizes that the whole world is one neighborhood and does justice to the whole human race, the germs of another world war will remain a constant threat to mankind.”Susan English and Peter Krause - respectively the stage manager and star of the Santa Paula Theater Center’s “The Drawer Boy” - read the Declaration of Independence which brought cheers from the crowd.Pancake Breakfast organizer Ron Merson said that the event would not be possible without the help of “All my friends and members of the Optimists and Oddfellows...a lot people came down and helped. It’s a great event but what’s hard is not knowing how many will be here, but we always manage to take care of everybody.”