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2023-05-17
The youngest pioneer was a three-week-old premie The completion of the Owyhee Dam in 1932 provided irrigation for row crop faming in Eastern Oregon and Western Idaho in an area called the Treasure Val...
2023-05-08
As we gathered at the Panama Hotel this first Sunday in May2023, we had a surprise visit with Jamie Ford. He shared that he has purchased a DARUMA for each of his books. He blackens in the pupil of th...
2023-04-28
HEAVEN is every expanding goodness! Hell is “stagnation”. According to many visionaries we can think ourselves into heaven or hell. We all have free choices, living in America; but I like some of Japa...
2023-04-24
Seattle’s MOHAI (Museum of History and Industry) in collaboration with Seattle’s JACL (JAPANESE AMERICAN CITIZENS LEAGUE) debuted the PRIDE AND SHAME exhibit early in 1970, chaired by Tomio Moriguchi,...
2023-04-11
If you want to know about the history of Michi Hirata North, google https://www.seattletimes.com/entertainment/classical-music/ Michi is a “best friend” and has been for over 50 years. What I’m able t...
2023-04-07
Fred, my brother-in-law, was 94 years old and passed this week. The three remaining sibblings were there to bid him farewell to this human world! Fred now has the peace that he sought. We gather and c...
2023-03-29
Its a lot of fun to see our grandchildren participating in such events and learning the values of practice and discipline. The best part in watching the video is that they are a team and all of them ...
2023-03-24
This is March and what a treat to drive home along West Mercer way and be greeted with the Cherry blossoms every day. We used to live on Seattle's Capitol Hill and there is a block between Aloha and P...
2023-03-21
Born in 1939, I was the Sansei (third generation of Japanese heritage) of the three-layer sandwich, with a widowed Japanese immigrant grandpa, his three Nisei (second generation) children and a son-in...
2023-03-03
One of the stories featured at the OMOIDE STORIES AT THE REP last Sunday was written by Nancy Iishi Martos. Nancy wrote about her Grandmother Tameno creating Cherryland Florist in Seattle on Jackson S...