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Obituary: James Harmon Unthank
PHOTO BY SUSAN FRIED
September 3, 1938 - July 12, 2018
Africatown Pop Up
Artists Melvin Freeman, Jasmine Brown, and Takiyah Ward pose with Seattle Mayor Jenny Durkan
and Africatown visionary Wyking Garrett in front of one of the Murals at the Africatown Pop Up Plaza
and Art Installation Aug. 3 at Midtown Center at the corner of 23rd and Union. The small businesses
there are scheduled to be demolished in 2019. Before that happens, the space is being utilized as a
community gathering space to celebrate the rich African American history of the area. The Mayor
was their for the official ribbon cutting for the Africatown Pop Up Plaza and Art Installation.
Jobs
founder of a farm share
company, said his party
members are rallying
around their staunch op-
position to gun control.
“Our No. 1 motivating
factor,” he said, “is Sec-
ond Amendment issues.”
Kohser, 41, drives a
white pickup truck,
smokes cigars and views
America as being jagged-
ly splintered along ideo-
logical lines that make
it hard to find common
ground. Democratic calls
for stricter gun control
in the aftermath of mass
shootings, he said, are
fueling more zeal among
his Republican volun-
teers than are the $1.5
trillion in tax cuts that
Trump signed into law
last year.
Since May 2017, Beaver
County has lost 191 jobs.
With the warmer sum-
mer weather, hiring is
now on an upswing. But
employers have fewer
job applicants available
as the labor force has
shrunk by roughly 1,000
workers in the past 12
months, the result of
decades of population
AP PHOTO/GENE J. PUSKAR, FILE
cont’d from pg 6
In this May 1, 2018 file photo Republican Rep. Keith Rothfus sits
outside a coffee shop in downtown Beaver, Pa. A congressman since
2013, Rothfus faces a tough re-election battle in Pennsylvania’s
newly created 17th District against Democrat Conor Lamb, who won a
special election House victory earlier this year.
loss that hit former steel
towns such as Aliquippa,
Beaver Falls and Mid-
land.
The tax cuts haven’t
stopped the outflow of
people. Chatting over
eggs, bacon and home
fries, Kohser estimated
that the tax cuts have
added perhaps $1,200 to
his annual household
income and roughly the
same to many others
in the area — not likely
enough on its own to re-
juvenate the local econo-
my.
The United States is
full of places like Beaver
County. They are areas
where the currently ro-
bust national economy
and job market obscure
long-standing woes that
generations of politi-
cians have struggled to
reverse. There are the
long-shuttered
facto-
ries, stagnant incomes
and the departure of col-
lege-educated workers to
cities and surrounding
suburbs.
Many of those forgot-
ten men and women
might cheer the presi-
dent for slapping tariffs
on imported goods to
defend U.S. factory jobs
or his vow to build a wall
on the Mexican border
James Harmon Unthank
Preceded in death by his
(Jim) passed away the eve-
parents DeNorval and Thel-
ning of July 12, 2018 Due to
ma Unthank, siblings DeNor-
the complications of Diabe-
val Jr, Thelma U Brown and
tes.
Nephew Peter Unthank. Jim
Jim was born in Portland,
is survived by his son Greg-
Ore. to Thelma Raimey
ory D. Unthank Sr (Domi-
Shipman and Dr. DeNorval
nique) of Upper Marlboro,
Unthank, MD September 3,
Md., Greg’s mother Shirley
James Unthank
1938, the third of five chil-
Nesbitt -Barzar (Oklahoma)
dren.
Grandchildren Gregory D
Jim graduated from Ulysses S. Grant Unthank II ( Aiza) of Hawaii, Tierney
High School in Portland and attended D. Unthank, Tai Matthew Devyn Un-
Howard University in Washington thank, Carrington D. Unthank (Mary-
DC and Lewis & Clark College in Port- land), two Great Granddaughters
land. His Military career began with Arianna and Audrianna (Hawaii),
ROTC at Howard University. Jim was Brother Thomas C. Unthank; sister,
active for many years in the Air Force Lesley Unthank, Nieces and Nephew;
National Guard at the Portland Air Libby Tower, Amy Unthank, Marsha
Base.
Jordan, Lisa Brown, Wendi Brown,
Jim’s lifelong career was in the so- Andre Unthank.
cial service field; working at various
In lieu of flowers the family suggest
agencies including Model Cities pro- donations in memory of Jim to:
grams, PMSC; Portland Metropolitan
N/NE AARP local chapter #5264,
Steering Committee, Job Counselor at c/o 3236 NE Liberty Court, Portland,
Job Corps; Tongue Point (Astoria) and OR 97211, or the Unthank Memorial
Ogden Utah. In 1977 he moved to Cali- Scholarship, c/o Piedmont Rose Con-
fornia, for counseling positions in the nection, P.O. Box 4265, Portland, OR
San Francisco/ Oakland area, includ- 97218.
ing the Bay Area Urban League, Inc.
A Celebration of Life was held Au-
upon his return to Portland in 1996, gust 7, 2018, 2:00pm at St Philips the
he was a counselor and job develop- Deacon Episcopal Church, 120 N
er with Portland Private Industry Knott, Portland, Ore.
and employment Specialist with IAM
Arrangements by Terry Family Fu-
cares programs, before working with neral Home.
the National Council
on aging and Easter
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Jim had a love of
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young adult, he mas-
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Baritone Saxophone.
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was a life time enjoy-
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ment for him.
to block illegal immigra-
tion. But for struggling
communities
waiting
for jobs to be restored,
Trump’s tax cuts — which
were skewed toward cor-
porations and wealthy
individuals — have yet to
deliver.
During the past year,
the healthiest job gains
have been in counties
containing such vibrant
cities as Houston, Dallas,
Los Angeles, Las Vegas
and Seattle, all of them
places that have favored
Democrats.
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