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TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 14, 2017
142nd Year, No. 20
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Container ship service returning to Portland
Deal fi nalized during Gov. Brown’s trade mission to Asia
By CONRAD WILSON
Oregon Public Broadcasting
More than a year and
a half after the fi nal ship
sailed following a bitter
labor dispute at Oregon’s
only international container
terminal, container ship
service is poised to return
to the Port of Portland in
January.
It’s the port’s fi nal push
at demonstrating to global
carriers and the region’s ship-
pers alike both that there’s a
market and that labor condi-
tions have improved between
the International Longshore
and Warehouse Union and its
employer.
“Is this our last, best
hope? Probably,” said Port of
Portland CEO Curtis Robin-
hold. “I’d say it’s far from
hopeless. We have some
really good options. We just
need to make it work and
everyone needs to do their
part, from labor to the port to
the shippers.”
Starting in January, Hong
Kong-based Swire Shipping
will start calls at the Port
of Portland’s Terminal 6,
roughly every 35 days. The
route takes goods from
Portland to Australia and
New Zealand, and then onto
China, with a possible stop in
South Korea before returning
to Portland.
The deal was fi nalized
last month during Gov. Kate
Brown’s trade mission to
Asia. Brown and Robinhold
met with Swire executives in
Hong Kong.
The new container service
is “going to give more
options to Oregon companies
as we work to maximize
Terminal 6,” Brown said in
a statement. “Strong trading
partnerships and access to
global markets allow our
Oregon businesses to grow,
helping to sustain a thriving
statewide economy.”
In 2014, some 8,000
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EO Media Group fi le photo
A view of a cargo container ship at the Port of Portland
is seen in this fi le photo taken in April 2011.
Memories behind barbed wire
Interned Japanese
family lost home,
business, community
By KATHY ANEY
East Oregonian
George Nakata has idyllic
memories of his childhood in Port-
land’s close-knit Japantown.
The happy recollections screech
to a halt, though, at age nine when,
like some dark, dissonant, horror
movie, life took a hideous turn.
That’s when President Franklin D.
Roosevelt, in response to the Japa-
nese attack on Pearl Harbor, signed
Executive Order 9066.
“This particular executive order
was life-shattering for 120,000
Japanese,” Nakata told a packed
room Saturday at the Tamastslikt
Cultural Institution. “I happened to
be one of them.”
The order sanctioned the
relocation of Japanese Americans
living on the West Coast to remote
internment camps scattered in 10
locations around the country.
“American
concentration
camps,” Nakata calls them.
He described how his parents
had two weeks in May 1942 to sell
three businesses, home, cars and
family heirlooms and to close their
bank accounts.
“My mother wept as she sold
her silk kimono she had brought
with her from (Japan),” Nakata
said. “My father sold his pickup for
$35. My sister cried getting rid of
all her Japanese Festival dolls.”
The journey into oblivion
happened in two stages. First, his
family and 3,600 other Japanese
Americans from Portland boarded
yellow school buses and were taken
to the North Portland Livestock
yards. Nakata still remembers
the black fl ies, the pungent odor
of manure and the pigeons and
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HERMISTON
Toddler
shot in
head in
critical
condition
East Oregonian
Staff photo by Kathy Aney
George Nakata, right, who lived in a Japanese internment camp as a young boy, talks with audience
members after speaking about the experience Saturday at the Tamastslikt Cultural Institute.
“All we could see was a sea of sagebrush and
hundreds and hundreds of Army barracks.”
— George Nakata, on arriving at the Minidoka internment camp in Idaho
PENDLETON
Police offi cers shelve razors to fi ght cancer
Will wait tables at
Hamley on Dec. 1
By PHIL WRIGHT
East Oregonian
Pendleton Police Chief
Stuart Roberts usually
runs a clean-cut crew, but
this month the offi cers are
looking a little scruffy.
The department is
again participating in No
Shave November to raise
awareness and money for
the fi ght against cancer.
“Pretty much everyone
is sporting some kind of
hair if they can grow it,”
Roberts said.
Police
Sgt.
Paul
Wolverton is helping coor-
dinate the effort. He said
last year the department
joined the nationwide
No Shave November
campaign.
“Everybody had a good
time and it was a great
cause to serve, but this year
we wanted to do something
more local,” he said.
Donations from this
year’s effort are going to
the local chapter of the
American Cancer Society
and the Anson Fairbank
family of Pendleton. Matt
and Adrienne Fairbank
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Staff photo by Kathy Aney
Offi cer Mark Golter is among the Pendleton police
offi cers who are growing their beards during “No
Shave November” in support of the local chapter of
the American Cancer Society and two-year-old Anson
Fairbank who is undergoing treatment for leukemia.
A Hermiston toddler is in
critical condition after being
accidentally shot in the head
by a seven-year-old sibling,
according to the Hermiston
Police Department.
Longterm prognosis for
the boy, age 2, “cannot yet be
determined,” the news release
stated, and his name and other
details are not being released
in order to protect the identi-
ties of the minors involved.
The police department
was contacted by Good
Shepherd Medical Center
shortly before 5 p.m. on
Friday about a child with a
gunshot wound to the head.
After offi cers responded to
the hospital and learned the
location of the shooting, HPD
offi cers and deputies from the
Umatilla County Sheriff’s
Offi ce secured the scene.
Pendleton Police Department
also assisted by providing a
child forensic interviewer.
According to the depart-
ment, based on physical
evidence and statements of
family members it appears
the toddler was accidentally
shot by a sibling, age 7 with
a .25 caliber Beretta handgun.
The victim has since been
transferred to an out-of-area
hospital. Child Protective
Services is involved and the
case will be reviewed by the
Umatilla County District
Attorney’s Offi ce to deter-
mine if any charges will be
fi led.
“It goes without saying
that this is an incredibly
horrible incident for the
involved family, and the
offi cers who responded, the
medical professionals who
treated the child, and the
community as a whole,” the
department stated. “If you
own fi rearms, we urge you to
store them in a safe manner
to prevent unauthorized
access.”
Centers for Disease
Control estimated 77 children
died from accidental gun
discharges in 2015, but the
Associated Press counted 141
cases that year reported in the
media.
Gun locks are available
for free from Hermiston
Police Department. For more
information about the gun
locks call 541-567-5519.