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Peace Tree: Gingko seeds pass on legacy of peace
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She received seeds of
camphors, camellias, Asian
persimmons and ginkgo
trees from the international
nonprofi t Green Legacy
Hiroshima, collected from
trees that had survived the
atom bomb.
In the spring of 2017,
Tamura-Snider gave the
seeds to arborist Michael
Oxendine in Ashland to
germinate. Under Oxen-
dine’s care the seeds have
grown into seedlings. With
no facilities to care for
the seedlings in Ashland,
Oxendine appealed to Ore-
gon Community Trees and
the Oregon Department of
Forestry to help fi nd homes
for the trees. They pre-
sented the opportunity to
cities throughout Oregon.
“The story was amaz-
ing that they collected
seedlings after the bomb
dropped and they were fer-
tile,” Fleming said. “It’s a
message of hope.”
The board’s application
with the state was “quite
extensive,” Fleming said.
“We had to give them maps
of where we were going
to put it, we had to assure
them it was being taken
care of.”
The city got word they
had been accepted to the
Peace tree program in late
November.
Fleming picked the tree
up in Tillamook earlier this
month.
Right now, it’s about a
3 -foot tree in a 5 -gallon
container she said. While
they grow slowly, ging-
kos “do great here,” Flem-
ing said. “We have them on
Holladay and we have no
irrigation or anything. They
can take the salt.”
At its height, the gingko
tree could measure 30-feet-
high and 45-feet-tall —
which,
Fleming
adds
quickly, does not mean it
will do that on the coast
“because everything on the
coast doesn’t get as big.”
With Public Works
Director Dale McDow-
ell, Fleming walked the
grounds of Cartwright Park
to see where they could
put it. They couldn’t plant
in the park’s fi eld or near
the swings, or under power
lines — and sites by the side
of the road proved problem-
atic. They settled on a south
area of the park where a
potential row of trees could
be planted. Advantages
included a privacy barrier
for neighboring housings,
“something nice to look at”
and some diversity to the
existing evergreen canopy.
“If we add deciduous like
maples or gingko, which
is gold, it would be beauti-
ful here and it would have
plenty of room to grow.”
The plaque will arrive in
early March, Fleming said.
Seaside’s gingko is dif-
School sale: With price
reduction, interest grows
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Seaside School Dis-
trict will use the prop-
erty through the summer,
as Gearhart students begin
classes in the renovated
Heights Elementary in
September.
Even marked down
from $1.9 million to $1.2
million, the city is “not in
a position” to purchase the
school site, Sweet said.
Reserve funds are limited
to “a couple of hundred
thousand,” and an expendi-
ture of anything more than
$100,000 would have to be
approved by voters. “Right
now, our priority is the fi re
station.”
A proposal for a bond
for a new fi re station at the
High Point site on North
Marion is under discussion,
possibly for the May ballot.
But the recent price
reduction at Gearhart Ele-
mentary has stimulated
interest in the property,
Sweet said. “There’s start-
ing to be some activity with
that new price.”
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Oregon Department of Forestry
Hideko Tamura-Snider, center, brought seeds to Oregon that were collected from trees that
survived the atom bombing of Hiroshima in 1945. A bombing survivor herself, she got Oregon
Community Trees board member Mike Oxendine, left, to germinate the seeds.
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Oregon Community Trees
and Oregon Department
of Forestry solicited
applications and
determined recipi-
ents, verifi ed public
locations, and assisted
with the care of
and delivery of the
seedlings. The Green
Legacy Project in Japan
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Hiroshima bomb survivor
trees. The One Sunny
Day Initiative in Medford
initiated the propagation
of the trees, provides the plaques
and distribution.
ferent in one way from
other trees, Kristin Rams-
tad of the Oregon Depart-
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seedling is neither a natural
nor a cultivated variety; it is
genetically distinct from all
of the other gingko Peace
trees that will be planted
around Oregon this spring,
including those already
planted in Lake Oswego,
Hillsboro and Medford.
“It’s very symbolic,”
Lower, who is a candi-
date in the Republican pri-
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32 seat, said. “That was a
time in our past that we
don’t need to go back to.
We need to go beyond that
and bring peace and unity
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