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March 20, 2017
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Beaverton School Board honors Sato family
with new elementary school name
The board of the Beaverton
School District has named the
34th elementary school in the
district the Sato Elementary
School. Built for children in
kindergarten through fifth grade,
the new school is scheduled to
open in the north Bethany area in
September.
The school was named in honor
of the Sato family. Yoshinosuke
and Asano Sato moved to the
Bethany area from Washington
state in 1926. They were Japa-
nese Americans who lived and
successfully farmed on Brugger
Road, growing strawberries,
blackberries, youngberries, and
vegetables on their property. The
couple’s four children — Lois,
Marie, Shin, and Roy — attended
Bethany School and Beaverton
High School.
After the attack on Pearl
Harbor, the Sato family was sent
to the Minidoka Relocation
Center in Idaho from May 1942
through August 1945. The two
sons, Shin and Roy, enlisted in
the U.S. Army with the 442nd
Regimental Combat Team of
American-born Japanese. The
442nd
suffered
tremendous
casualties, with 28 percent of the
soldiers killed or wounded. Shin
died in combat in 1944. Roy was
wounded twice and received the
Purple Heart.
After Roy was discharged from
the army in 1945, he returned to
his parent’s farm with his wife.
However, the farm was never the
same because it had not been
SATO ELEMENTARY SCHOOL. The board of the Beaverton School District has
named the 34th elementary school in the district the Sato Elementary School. The school
was named in honor of the Sato family. Yoshinosuke and Asano Sato moved to the
Bethany area from Washington state in 1926. The new school is scheduled to open in the
north Bethany area in September. (Renderings courtesy of the Beaverton School District)
maintained properly in their
absence. The Sato family is
buried in nearby Bethany
Presbyterian Cemetery.
The new school is located on
former farmland and will provide
enrollment relief to nearby
Springville
K-8,
which
is
experiencing overcrowding due to
record growth in the area.
The construction of Sato
Elementary School is funded by a
$680-million
bond
measure
passed in May 2014 to relieve
district-wide overcrowding.
The Beaverton community
passed the bond to build three
new schools — a high school, a
middle school, and an elementary
school — as well as demolish and
rebuild four existing schools —
Vose, Hazeldale, and William
Walker elementary schools in
addition
to
the
Arts
&
Communication
Magnet
Academy. Also included in the
bond
are
repairs
and
improvements to current school
facilities as well as investing in
technology infrastructure and
learning tools over an eight-year
period.
The district acquired 10 acres
of land for Sato Elementary
School in March 2006 from
Sharon and Bruce Hosford for a
purchase price of $4,000,000.
To learn more, call (503) 356-
4360 or visit <www.beaverton.
k12.or.us>.
Researchers say air pollution and lack of physical activity pose competing threats to children in China
Children and adolescents in mainland
China are facing two serious and
conflicting public health threats: ongoing
exposure to air pollution and an
increasingly sedentary lifestyle with little
regular physical activity outside of school.
Health workers and policymakers need
to find ways to address both of these issues
so children can be more physically active
without suffering the health risks caused
by exposure to air pollution, Oregon State
University (OSU) researcher Brad
Cardinal and Zhejiang University scholar
Qi Si suggest in a commentary published
in the December issue of The Journal of
Pediatrics.
“The question is: ‘How do we balance the
virtues of physical activity with the
hazards of air pollution?’” said Cardinal, a
kinesiology professor in the College of
Public Health and Human Sciences at
OSU and a national expert on the benefits
of physical activity. “Ultimately, we have
to find ways for people to stay active
despite the air pollution.”
According to Cardinal, although many
cities and countries around the world
grapple with air pollution issues, there is
particular concern for children growing up
in China, in part because they tend to
commute more on foot or bike and their
playgrounds and sports fields are often
found near busy streets or highways. He
said the impact of air pollution contributed
to 1.2 million deaths in 2010.
At the same time, very few Chinese
children today are participating in
moderate or vigorous physical activity
outside of school, and the number of
overweight and obese children in China
has more than doubled in the last 25 years.
Cardinal says children are particularly
susceptible to adverse health impacts from
both short- and long-term exposure to air
pollution, in part because they have higher
rates of respiration and tend to take
shallower breaths. Air pollution has been
associated with increases in asthma,
chronic cough, and other respiratory
problems in children that are likely to be
exacerbated by heavy breathing from
vigorous exercise.
In their paper, Cardinal and Qi Si
suggest the two problems should be
addressed together in order to approach
the competing challenges using four
urgent steps for health officials and
policymakers who are grappling with the
issues:
1) Increase awareness among parents,
children, health workers, educators, and
policymakers on the causes and impacts of
air pollution on children and adolescents,
as well as the potential harm when coupled
with outdoor physical activity
2) Add air quality systems at school
sites, so pollution can be measured when
and where children are engaging in
physical activity
3) Adjust the intensity of outdoor physi-
cal activity during the school day on the
basis of air pollution monitoring results
4) Educate children about exercising in
polluted environments, including instruc-
tion to stop activity when they notice
problems such as coughing, chest
tightness, or wheezing
“Since schools are the base for much of
the physical activity of today’s children,
they are a critical piece in addressing both
issues,” Cardinal said. “Monitoring the
micro-climate at a school would provide
better, more localized information for
school officials making decisions about
whether children should be outside
exercising or at what level of intensity.”
The goal of the authors is to get people
thinking about the complex problems and
real-world solutions, in the hope others
build upon it to innovate appropriate
solutions for addressing both problems.
To learn more, visit <www.jpeds.com>.
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