Michiko Kiyokawa, the 100-year-old matriarch of Kiyokawa Family Orchards in Parkdale, looks back on her life with Mamoru Kiyokawa, whom she met at Tule Lake War Relocation Center.
PARKDALE — Randy Kiyokawa stood amid blossoming pear and apple trees, bees buzzing amid white and pink flowers, and said he used to spend more time in his orchards.
The melting of the snowpack in the high Cascades has long been a predictable source of sustenance in the Pacific Northwest. But the old patterns are changing.