When Yachiyo Hamada and Jeanette Rhamsey were born in March 1922, Warren Harding was president, Wallace Farrington was governor of the Territory of Hawai‘i and Babe Ruth had already signed a three-year contract with the New York Yankees at $52,000 a year. Later that month, the U.S. Navy’s first aircraft carrier, USS Langley, was commissioned and the first airplane landed at the U.S. Capitol in Washington, D.C.
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Opinion: A call to community amid uptick in anti-Asian crime and harassment
Updated Mar 17, 2021;
Posted Mar 17, 2021
Several Asian-owned businesses along 82nd Avenue and in Portland s Jade district were vandalized earlier this year.LC-
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Janet Hamada and Kathleen Holt
Hamada is executive director of The Next Door and vice chair of the Meyer Memorial Trust board of trustees. Holt is interim executive director of APANO.
As Asian leaders in Oregon, we are compelled to speak out in response to a recent spike in hate and bias incidents against Asian-American and Pacific-Islander communities on behalf of the populations we represent, serve and help to lead.