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DINOSAUR DRAMA. Dinosaurs and other figurines stand in the backyard of the Flintstone House in Hillsborough, California, in this photo taken on April 1, 2019. The San Francisco Bay Area suburb of Hillsborough sued the owner of the house, saying she installed dangerous steps, dinosaurs, and other Flintstone-era figurines without necessary permits. In a yabba dabba dispute that pitted property rights against government rules that played out in international media, retired publishing mogul Florence Fang defended her colorful, bulbous-shaped house and its elaborate homage to “The Flintstones” family, featuring Stone Age sculptures inspired by the 1960s cartoon, along with aliens and other oddities. (AP Photo/Eric Risberg, File) HILLSBOROUGH, Calif. (AP) — Fred allow Fred and his friends to remain. house and its elaborate homage to “The highly visible eyesore” and sued Fang, Flintstone fought the law — and he won. In a yabba dabba dispute that pitted Flintstones” family, featuring Stone Age alleging she violated local codes when she Technically, the owner of the fanciful property rights against government rules sculptures inspired by the 1960s cartoon, put dinosaur sculptures in the backyard Flintstone House in a posh San Francisco that played out in international media, along with aliens and other oddities. and made other landscaping changes that suburb settled a lawsuit with the town of retired publishing mogul Florence Fang The town, however, called the towering caused local officials to declare it a public Hillsborough. But the agreement will defended her colorful, bulbous-shaped dinosaurs and life-size sculptures “a Continued on page 9

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Food of the future? EU nations put mealworms on the menu BRUSSELS (AP) — Dried yellow mealworms could soon be hitting supermarket shelves and restaurants across Europe. The European Union’s (EU) 27 nations gave the green light last month to a proposal to put the Tenebrio molitor beetle’s larvae on the market as a “novel food.” The move came after the EU’s food safety agency published a scientific opinion this year that concluded worms were safe to eat. Researchers said the worms, TOUGH TIMES. A transgender Kashmiri, Khushi Mir, right, helps her mother in the kitchen set up in the corner of a either eaten whole or in rented room on the outskirts of Srinagar in India-controlled Kashmir. Until the pandemic, singing and dancing at weddings powdered form, are a used to earn Mir enough income to take care of her family. Mir has now set up a charity, along with four friends, to distrib- ute food kits to members of the transgender community who are unable to afford living expenses. (AP Photo/Dar Yasin) protein-rich snack or an ingredient for other foods. Allergic reactions may occur Virus left transgender for people with pre-existing AP Photo/Ben Margot allergies to crustaceans and dust mites, the commission said. Insects as food Kashmiris “on our own” represent a very small market but EU officials said breeding them for food could education, and other basic resources. have environmental benefits. The U.N. Food and Agriculture Organization calls By Dar Yasin The Associated Press They are a tiny minority in a region that has insects “a healthy and highly nutritious food source with a high content of fat, been fraught with violence and political protein, vitamins, fibers, and minerals.” Following the approval by EU states, RINAGAR, India — Singing and instability and has known little but conflict an EU regulation authorizing dried yellow mealworms as a food will be adopted dancing at weddings used to earn since 1947, when British rule of the subconti- in the coming weeks. Khushi Mir enough income to take care S nent ended and Kashmir was divided between of her family. Until the pandemic. Xi congratulates Chinese astronauts aboard space station the newly created India and Pakistan. Lockdowns to curb the coronavirus in BEIJING (AP) — Chinese President Xi Jinping spoke with three astronauts Living in the shadows of conflict, coupled India-controlled Kashmir cancelled weddings who are making the country’s space station their home for the next three with the recent crisis of the pandemic, pushed and musical evenings. Bills for Mir’s rented months, called their mission an important milestone in China’s space industry. the community further to the margins. accommodation mounted. The crew consisting of former air force pilots Nie Haisheng, Liu Boming, and “We have been ignored by everyone,” said Unable to pay, 19-year-old Mir took a job as Tang Hongbo arrived at the Tianhe space station in June. Throughout their Chandini Shaikh, a matchmaker and singer a construction worker for 15 days. It paid $9.60 stay, they will carry out science experiments and maintenance, space walks, and who lost her job during the pandemic. “We a day but left Mir’s hands bruised and skin prepare the station for receiving two additional modules next year. Nie, Liu, and have been left on our own.” peeling. “I had no other option,” Mir said. “I Tang are carrying out China’s longest crewed space mission by far. Three more q needed to provide for my family.” crewed missions to the station are being planned. The main section of the Mir is transgender — belonging to a 33 COVID patients die amid Tianhe, or Heavenly Harmony, station was launched into orbit on April 29. marginalized community in India-controlled oxygen outage in Indonesia Cargo spacecraft sent up in May carried fuel, food, and equipment to the station Kashmir whose members are often only able to YOGYAKARTA, Indonesia (AP) — Dozens in preparation for the crewed mission. The space agency plans a total of 11 find work as matchmakers or wedding of coronavirus patients died after a public launches through the end of next year to deliver two laboratory modules to entertainment. hospital on Indonesia’s main island of Java expand the 70-ton station, along with supplies and crew members. The current Prolonged coronavirus lockdowns, preceded ran out of liquid oxygen amid a nationwide mission is the third of the 11 launches. by a strict security lockdown in the region in surge in COVID-19 cases, according to a Boy dies after being repeatedly slammed in judo class 2019 when India scrapped Kashmir’s hospital official. TAIPEI, Taiwan (AP) — A seven-year-old Taiwanese boy died after being semi-autonomous status, left many in the At least 33 patients with severe coronavirus repeatedly slammed by his coach and others at a judo class. The boy, identified transgender community with no work at all. infections died after the central supply of only by his surname, Huang, was taken off life support in late June after being in Left without livelihoods, some stepped up to liquid medical oxygen ran out at Dr. Sardjito a coma since the April 21 incident. The coach, identified in reports by his help each other. General Hospital in Yogyakarta city due to surname, Ho, has been indicted on charges of causing bodily injury and using Mir and four others made a volunteer group delays from suppliers, said hospital children to commit a crime. Ho reportedly ordered other students to throw to distribute food. So far, they have provided spokesman Banu Hermawan. Huang to the mat, then began to do so himself, even after the boy vomited and ration kits for nearly 220 people, many of them The oxygen shortage in the city’s largest pleaded for the abuse to stop. He eventually became unresponsive and was makeup artists, singers, and matchmakers hospital was due to an increase in patients taken to a hospital but never recovered consciousness. The official Central News who have lost their livelihoods during the arriving in deteriorating condition, Herma- Agency (CNA) said Ho had no coaching license and had been offering classes in pandemic. wan said. Hermawan said the hospital did the central Taiwanese city of Fengyuan for free. He has said the throws were Life has not been easy for many of Kashmir’s switch to oxygen cylinders, including 100 part of normal training, even though Huang was a new student and hadn’t yet transgender people. Most are ostracized by cylinders donated by the Yogyakarta regional acquired the skills to protect himself, CNA said. The decision to take him off life families and bullied in society. They face police. Indonesia is battling an explosion of support came after doctors were unable to stop Huang’s blood pressure and domestic abuse and end up running away from COVID-19 cases that has strained its heart rate from declining, the agency said. Ho is free on bail while the families at an early age. Some lack housing, healthcare system. investigation continues. Martial arts are popular in Taiwan, which has found international success in several forms, especially taekwondo. Asian Currency HK banning passenger flights from U.K. to curb virus Exchange Rates HONG KONG (AP) — Hong Kong’s government said it was banning all Units per U.S. dollar as of 7/02 passenger flights from the U.K. effective July 1 as it seeks to curb the spread of new variants of the coronavirus. 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July 5, 2021 ASIA / PACIFIC THE ASIAN REPORTER n Page 3 Sherpa guide uses savings to help colleagues during pandemic By Binaj Gurubacharya SHERPA SUPPORT. Trekking guide Ang Phurba The Associated Press Sherpa, center, distributes rations to fellow guides in Kathmandu, Nepal. Most Sherpa guides in Nepal ATHMANDU, Nepal — The famed for their climbing skills have had little or no scenic Himalayan mountain trails work guiding foreign trekkers on Nepal’s mountains Kthat normally draw throngs of because of the pandemic, but trekking guide Ang foreign trekkers to Nepal have been empty Phurba Sherpa is spending his savings to help fellow for more than a year, with most of the guides and workers who are struggling for their liveli- country’s tourism industry still shut down hood. (AP Photos/Bikram Rai) by the pandemic. Kunjun Lama, who has been struggling to That means tens of thousands of Sherpa feed his family of six. guides have been left without the work “It has been two years and I have had not they depend on to feed their families. Ang had any trekking guide work. And the worst part is there is no other work Phurba Sherpa has been trying to help available at all right now,” Lama said. those struggling the most and hoping to He said the rice and oil he received inspire others to do the same. would help his family for a month. Sherpa has been loading his truck with As well as helping his fellow guides, for sacks of rice, lentils, cooking oil, and other the past three months Sherpa has been staples he has bought with his own money taking rations to a shelter caring for 57 and delivering the goods to dozens of disabled children. families in Kathmandu. Shelter operator Dendi Sherpa said the “I am trying to help in any way I can About 171,000 visitors went trekking in “The guides are facing lots of trouble and main source of income for the facility had because I thought I should give to our 2019 spending days hiking, eating in cafés, they are in pain and I can feel the been his own income from guide work and community so that guides who are staying staying in inns, and buying gear and suffering,” Sherpa said. “I am in a difficult without it he had been struggling to run idle are getting some help,” Sherpa said, equipment. In 2020 and again this year situation but I want to help fellow guides the shelter. adding that he hopes others will join him. there were hardly any. and hope they too will come out to help “But with help like this we are able to Nepal normally has two trekking While Nepal reopened to tourists in each other.” feed the children,” he said. seasons each year — spring and autumn — March, only a few hundred foreigners have That has been made worse by a fresh “One Good Thing” is a series that highlights when the majority of foreigners come to come and that is not to trek but to climb the lockdown that started in April amid a new individuals whose actions provide glimmers of hike the trails that cut through the country’s famed peaks, such as Mount surge in virus cases. joy in hard times — stories of people who find a country’s snow-capped peaks. Everest. One of those Sherpa has helped is way to make a difference, no matter how small.

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Sign up for e-alerts at ! Page 4 n THE ASIAN REPORTER ASIA / PACIFIC July 5, 2021 U.S. documents solve mystery of war criminal Tojo’s remains By Mari Yamaguchi CREMAINS LOCATION. Former Japanese Prime Minister Gen. The Associated Press Hideki Tojo is seen speaking into a microphone in Tokyo, Japan, in this undated photograph. Until recently, the location of the executed wartime OKYO — Until recently, the location of executed prime minister’s remains was one of World War II’s biggest mysteries in wartime Japanese Prime Minister Hideki Tojo’s the nation he once led. A Japanese university professor has now revealed Tremains was one of World War II’s biggest declassified U.S. military documents that appear to hold the answer. (AP mysteries in the nation he once led. Photo, File) Now, a Japanese university professor has revealed adamant about not letting the remains return to Japanese declassified U.S. military documents that appear to hold territory ... as an ultimate humiliation,” Takazawa said. the answer. The documents state that when the cremation was The documents show the cremated ashes of Tojo, one of completed, the ovens were “cleared of the remains in their the masterminds of the Pearl Harbor attack, were entirety.” scattered from a U.S. Army aircraft over the Pacific Ocean “Special precaution was taken to preclude overlooking about 30 miles east of Yokohama, Japan’s second-largest even the smallest particles of remains,” Frierson wrote. city, south of Tokyo. Here’s how the operation went. It was a tension-filled, highly secretive mission, with At 2:10am on December 23, 1948, caskets carrying the American officials apparently taking extreme steps bodies of Tojo and the six others were loaded on a 2.5-ton meant to keep Tojo’s remains, and those of six others truck and taken out of the prison after fingerprinting for executed with him, away from ultra-nationalists looking verification, Frierson wrote in a January 4, 1949 to glorify them as martyrs. The seven were hanged for war document. crimes just before Christmas in 1948, three years after About an hour and a half later, the motorcade guarded Japan’s defeat. by truckloads of armed soldiers to protect the bodies The discovery brings partial closure to a painful chapter of Hiroshima and Nagasaki. arrived at a U.S. military graves registration platoon in of Japanese history that still plays out today, as About a month after August 15, 1945, when then- Yokohama for a final check. conservative Japanese politicians attempt to whitewash Emperor Hirohito announced Japan’s defeat to a stunned The truck left the area at 7:25am and arrived at a history, leading to friction with wartime victims, nation, Tojo shot himself in a failed suicide attempt as he Yokohama crematorium 30 minutes later. The caskets especially China and South Korea. was about to be arrested at his modest Tokyo home. were unloaded from the truck and placed directly “in the After years spent verifying and checking details and Takazawa, the Nihon University professor specializing ovens” in 10 minutes, while soldiers guarded the area. evaluating the significance of what he’d found, Nihon in war tribunal issues, found the documents during The remains were then transported under guard to a University professor Hiroaki Takazawa publicly released research at the U.S. archives into other war crimes trials. nearby airstrip and loaded onto a plane that Frierson the clues to the remains’ location last month. He came The documents, he said, are valuable because they boarded. “We proceeded to a point approximately 30 miles across the declassified documents in 2018 at the U.S. officially detail previously little-known facts about what over the Pacific Ocean east of Yokohama where I National Archives in Washington. It’s believed to be the happened and provide a rough location of where the ashes personally scattered the cremated remains over a wide first time official documents showing the handling of the were scattered. area.” seven war criminals’ remains were made public, according He plans to continue research into other executions. Today, even without the ashes, bereaved families and to Japan’s National Institute for Defense Studies and the More than 4,000 people were convicted of war crimes in conservative Japanese lawmakers such as former Prime Japan Center for Asian Historical Records. other international tribunals, and about 920 of them were Minister Shinzo Abe regularly pay tribute at Tokyo’s Hidetoshi Tojo, the leader’s great-grandson, told The executed. Yasukuni Shrine, where the executed war criminals are Associated Press that the absence of the remains has long Tojo and the six others who were hanged were among 28 enshrined with 2.5 million war dead considered “sacred been a humiliation for the bereaved families, but he’s Japanese wartime leaders tried for war crimes at the spirits” in the Shinto religion. No remains are enshrined relieved the information has come to light. 1946-1948 International Military Tribunal for the Far at Yasukuni. “If his remains were at least scattered in Japanese East. Twenty-five were convicted, including 16 sentenced After the seven executed war criminals were enshrined territorial waters ... I think he was still somewhat to life in prison, with two getting shorter prison terms. there in 1978, Yasukuni has become a flashpoint between fortunate,” Tojo said. “I want to invite my friends and lay Two others died while on trial and one case was dropped. Japan and its neighbors China and South Korea, who see flowers to pay tribute to him” if further details about the In one of the newly revealed documents — dated the enshrinement as proof of Japan’s lack of remorse over remains’ location becomes available. December 23, 1948 and carrying a “secret” stamp — U.S. its wartime aggression. Yasukuni also enshrines five Hideki Tojo, prime minister during much of World War Army Maj. Luther Frierson wrote: “I certify that I received other convicted wartime leaders and hundreds of other II, is a complicated figure, revered by some conservatives the remains, supervised cremation, and personally war criminals. as a patriot but loathed by many in the west for prolonging scattered the ashes of the following executed war Hidetoshi Tojo said his great-grandfather was the war, which ended only after the U.S. atomic bombings criminals at sea from an Eighth Army liaison plane.” consistently made a taboo in postwar Japan, never The entire operation was tense, with U.S. officials glorified. Black Pearl Acupuncture extremely careful about not leaving a single speck of ashes “Everything about my great-grandfather was sealed, Acupuncture and Herbal Medicine behind, apparently to prevent them from being stolen by including his speeches. Taking that into consideration, I are great for: admiring ultra-nationalists, Takazawa said. think not preserving the remains was part of the - Acute/Chronic Pain (i.e. neck, back, “In addition to their attempt to prevent the remains occupation policy,” he said. “I hope to see further sciatica & shoulder) from being glorified, I think the U.S. military was revelations about the unknown facts of the past.” - Treating & Preventing the flu and colds - Stress Relief Sita Symonette - Headaches/Migraines Licensed Acupuncturist Tourism boom pressures Tibet’s historic sites www.blackpearlacupuncture.com [email protected] By Mark Schiefelbein and Sam McNeil Call to schedule an appointment: (503) 308-9363 The Associated Press 505 N.W. Ninth Ave., Portland, OR 97209 HASA, China — Tourism is booming in Tibet as more LChinese travel in-country because of the coronavirus pandemic, posing risks to the region’s fragile environment and historic sites. The number of visitors is limited to 5,000 per day at the Potala Palace, the former home of the Dalai Lamas. Balancing tourist demand with the need to minimize wear and tear on the massive hillside structure is a constant challenge, said Gonggar Tashi, the head administrator. “The biggest challenge for us is the WEAR & TEAR. A Chinese tourist gets ready to take a photo atop a white yak being led by a contradiction between the protection Tibetan man in Namtso, in western China’s Tibet Autonomous Region, on June 2, 2021. Tourism is and usage of the cultural relics,” booming in Tibet as more Chinese travel in-country because of the coronavirus pandemic, posing Tashi told journalists in Lhasa, the risks to the region’s fragile environment and historic sites. (AP Photo/Mark Schiefelbein) Tibetan capital. an abortive uprising against Chinese he said. He spoke during a government- rule in 1959. Tourists are drawn to the organized tour that gave foreign Millions of visitors come to Tibet “mystique and myth of Tibet as a journalists rare access to Tibet, but every year, and 2020 saw a 12.6% remote snow-bound land,” said under the watchful eye of officials increase from the previous year, said Travis Klingberg, a cultural who set the agenda. Ge Lei, deputy director of the China geographer at NYU Shanghai. “But The growing numbers of tourists Tourism Marketing Association. He Tibet has become a place of beautiful appear unconcerned by political expects the amount of visitors to natural landscapes meaningful to the controversies long circling Tibet. roughly double by 2026. Chinese nation.” China’s communist forces entered the The glut of visitors, far exceeding Tibet has shifted its focus from region in 1951, and the Dalai Lama, Tibet’s population of 3.5 million international to domestic visitors as Tibet’s traditional spiritual and people, means caution is necessary to China’s middle class has grown, said political leader, fled to India during protect the environment and culture, Continued on page 8 July 5, 2021 ASIA / PACIFIC THE ASIAN REPORTER n Page 5 China turns on world’s second-biggest hydropower dam BEIJING (AP) — The first two MASSIVE DAM. In this photo released by Xinhua generating units of the world’s second- News Agency, water is released from the dam of the biggest hydroelectric dam were officially Baihetan hydropower station in Ningnan county, in southwestern China’s Sichuan province, on June 27, turned on last month in southwestern 2021. The Chinese government says it has turned China, the government announced. on the first two generating units of the world’s sec- The Baihetan Dam on the Jinsha River, ond-biggest hydroelectric dam. (Jiang Wenyao/ a tributary of the Yangtze, is part of Xinhua via AP) Chinese efforts to curb surging fossil fuel the ecology of rivers, threatening fish and demand by building more hydropower other species. capacity at a time when dams have fallen Despite criticism by environmentalists, out of favor in other countries due to Chinese leaders are building more dams in environmental complaints. an effort to reduce reliance on coal and to The announcement was released ahead curb surging demand for imported oil and of the ruling Communist Party’s celebra- gas. tion of the official 100th anniversary of its China is a leader in developing 1921 founding. ultra-high-voltage, or UHV, transmission Plans call for the 954-foot-tall Baihetan technology to move power from dams in Dam to have 16 generating units with a the southwest to Shanghai and other capacity of 1 million kilowatts each. That eastern cities. will make it second in size after the Three Once fully operational, the Baihetan Gorges Dam, opened in 2003 on the Hydropower Station should eliminate the Yangtze, with 22.5 million kilowatts of Three Gorges Group Corp., the world’s Hydropower is losing support in other need to burn 20 million tons of coal generating capacity. biggest investor in hydro, solar, and wind countries due to complaints dams flood annually, the official Xinhua News Agency Both were built by the state-owned energy generation. communities and farmland and disrupt said, citing Three Gorges Group. Japan’s SoftBank says Pepper robot remains “alive” and well By Yuri Kageyama “killed.” And Pepper’s latest gig involves The Associated Press The company acknowledged the computer programming education in contracts of 330 workers at the Paris Japanese schools. OKYO — Japanese technology division of SoftBank Robotics were being Robotics technology is widely used in company SoftBank denies it’s reviewed, but the move was routine and manufacturing production lines and the pulling the plug on its friendly, T did not spell a death knell for Pepper. transport of goods around the world. talking, bubble-headed Pepper robot. If anything, the need for social But SoftBank Group Corp. founder and “There is absolutely no change to our distancing during the pandemic has chief Masayoshi Son and other experts say Pepper business,” SoftBank Robotics boosted demand for robots like Pepper, Japanese have a soft spot for robots like Corp. spokesperson Ai Kitamura said. which are sometimes used to take people’s Pepper that look somewhat human and Pepper, introduced seven years ago, is temperatures in stores. sometimes appear to show emotion. centered around a rentals business, and Pepper robots, which have expressive Kitamura said the outpouring of production is regularly adjusted, the hands but move around on wheels, have reaction from Pepper fans was Tokyo-based company said. been cheering and dancing in the stands appreciated, and showed it has become a While production was halted for the home games of the SoftBank Hawks beloved icon. temporarily, Kitamura denied reports that Japanese professional baseball team in “So many people said they would be sad set off speculation Pepper might be Fukuoka, southwestern Japan. if Pepper is gone,” she said. 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In the right photo, Yokoyama dribbles Ttransgender — a revelation the ball during a 2020 Challenge Cup soccer game praised in the U.S. where they play in the against the Portland Thorns at Zions Bank Stadium National Women’s Soccer League (NWSL) in Herriman, Utah, on July 5, 2020. but an identity not legally recognized in that it would be harder to live closeted. “I Japan. would not have come out in Japan,” they The 27-year-old forward for the said. Washington Spirit said they felt more They thanked their teammates, friends, comfortable with their own gender and girlfriend for their support and AP Photo/Will Newtonr, File identity while living in the United States, courage. where teammates and friends are more The Spirit also expressed the team’s Yokoyama played for Japan at the 2019 open to gender and sexual diversity. support and pride in Yokoyama. “Thank Women’s World Cup in France and moved “I’m coming out now,” Yokoyama said in you for showing the world it’s ok to from Japanese club AC Nagano Parceiro to a video talk on former teammate Yuki embrace who you are!” the team tweeted, the Washington Spirit. Nagasato’s YouTube channel. “In the adding that the player uses they/them Yokoyama said they felt a strong future, I want to quit soccer and live as a pronouns. pressure to conform and remain closeted in man.” Support and awareness of gender and Japan but hoped to live as a man after Yokoyama’s revelation was praised by sexual diversity has slowly grown in retiring as a professional soccer player and AP Photo/Rick Bowmer, File U.S. President Joe Biden. Japan, but LGBTQ people lack many legal to help raise awareness for sexual “To Carl Nassib and Kumi Yokoyama - protections and often suffer discrimina- have their gender recognized on official minorities in Japan. two prominent, inspiring athletes who tion, causing many to hide their sexual documents — a requirement that human “More people in Japan are becoming came out this week: I’m so proud of your identities. An equality law pushed by rights and medical groups criticize as familiar with the word LGBTQ and it’s courage. Because of you, countless kids rights groups was scrapped recently due to inhuman and unnecessary and say should seen more (in the media), but I think around the world are seeing themselves in opposition from the conservative ruling end. awareness won’t grow unless people like a new light today,” Biden tweeted. Nassib party. Yokoyama said they weren’t enthu- myself come out and raise our voices,” is the first active NFL player to come out as Transgender people in Japan also must siastic about coming out but it was a choice Yokoyama said. gay. have their reproductive organs removed to made while thinking about the future and Creative summer activities Golf’s 60-player field set for the Tokyo Olympics available to youth By Doug Ferguson ranking. South Korea, the powerhouse in within the top 15 in the world for the 2016 Continued from page 6 The Associated Press women’s golf, again had all four, with Games. This time they will have four, caring. The podcast is available on Apple, elly Korda goes to the Olympics as Hyo-Joo Kim at No. 6 in the world getting including a pair of sisters. Korda, coming Spotify, iHeartRadio, and Amazon Music. the No. 1 player in the world, and the last spot. off her first major title in the Women’s To learn more, visit . player than they had in 2016. to win a second gold medal. The other sister Jessica, who is No. 13 in the world. Other free online content that sparks the The 60-player field for Tokyo was set medal winners from Rio de Janeiro, Lydia The other Americans are Danielle Kang creativity of young people is offered by both late last month. Countries were allowed Ko of New Zealand (silver) and Shanshan (No. 5) and Lexi Thompson (No. 9). OCT and NWCT. I urge readers to check two players until the field was full, with a Feng of China (bronze), also will be in Thompson is the only returning American them out. 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Photo taken before COVID-19 restrictions. Page 8 n THE ASIAN REPORTER SPORTS / U.S.A. July 5, 2021 Strom-Okimoto signs with Thorns FC as U.S. Mint to issue quarters honoring National Team replacement player notable American women Raisa Strom-Okimoto Poet and author Maya Angelou, Ameri- n Sally Ride, the first U.S. woman in has been signed by ca’s first woman in space, and a revered space Portland Thorns FC as a Cherokee Nation leader are among female n Anna May Wong, the first Chinese- National Team replace- trailblazers whose likenesses will appear American Hollywood film star ment player during the on the U.S. quarter. Cherokee Nation principal chief Chuck Tokyo Summer Olympics. The new four-year American Women Hoskin Jr. and Mankiller’s husband, Strom-Okimoto, a 5’3” Quarters Program celebrates women’s Charlie Soap, expressed gratitude for forward, joins the Thorns accomplishments and contributions to the Mankiller’s inclusion in the program, following a stint with KC United States’ development and history, saying her influence and leadership made NWSL to begin the 2021 according to the U.S. Mint. her a fitting choice. National Women’s Soccer Under the program, the mint will issue Mankiller became one of the United League season. up to five new designs each year from 2022 States’ most visible Native American Strom-Okimoto made to 2025. leaders during her 10 years as chief of the her professional debut with Honorees will be from a variety of fields Cherokee Nation of Oklahoma, from 1985 Utah Royals FC against and from ethnically, racially, and to 1995. She died in 2010. Thorns FC on June 21, geographically diverse backgrounds, the “We thank the U.S. Mint for recognizing 2019, and played two mint says. Wilma and the other recipients for such an seasons for Utah before the Those chosen for the first year are: honor,” Soap told Indian Country Today. club was sold to KC NWSL n NWSL 2021. Raisa Strom-Okimoto (#23, center right, wearing white) Angelou, celebrated poet and “Wilma was a humble, spiritual, great after the 2020 season. of KC NWSL challenges for the ball as Portland Thorns goalkeeper memoirist leader whose leadership was not only for Collegiately at the Adrianna Franch (#24, center left, wearing green) grabs it alongside n Wilma Mankiller, the Cherokee Cherokee people but for all women and University of Hawai‘i, teammate Simone Charley (#7, left, wearing black) during a National Nation’s first female principal chief races. The real value of this coin is the Strom-Okimoto logged 22 Women’s Soccer League Challenge Cup match on April 9, 2021 at Provi- n Adelina Otero-Warren, a leader in inspiration it brings to Indian people and goals and 13 assists in dence Park. Strom-Okimoto has been signed by Portland as a National New Mexico’s suffrage movement women everywhere.” 4,728 minutes across 67 Team replacement player during the Tokyo Summer Olympics. (AP appearances. She was Photo/Amanda Loman) Tourism boom pressures Tibet’s historic sites selected to the Big West 2017, and 2018), the first in West Conference Player of Continued from page 4 prayer flags, she said. First Team for three program history to do so, the Year in 2018, another Emily Yeh, a professor of geography at the The tourism sector reinforces consecutive years (2016, and was named the Big program first. University of Colorado Boulder. government propaganda, Yeh said. The Tibetans have at times complained ruling Communist Party says it liberated about Chinese tourists disrespecting hundreds of thousands of serfs when it cultural traditions, including stepping on overthrew the theocracy in 1951 and has since brought economic development to Golf’s 60-player field set the high plateau that borders the for the Tokyo Olympics Himalayas. Continued from page 7 “Rewriting of history is very much a part Park and Sei Young Kim return to the of the tourism landscape,” Yeh said. Olympics for South Korea. Hyo-Joo Kim Among the most popular natural sites is and Jin Young Ko, who had been No. 1 in Namtso Lake, ringed by snow-capped the world until Korda replaced her last peaks and Buddhist shrines, with yak month, are newcomers. herds and migrating birds on the horizon. Charley Hull of England and Lee Anne Further development of the site must be Pace of South Africa were the only players done carefully to avoid damaging what who chose to withdraw. Hull played in the makes it attractive, Ge said. last Olympics and said on Instagram she “It will be hard to protect the ecology and would not be returning because of culture of Tibet ... if we don’t have a scheduling and travelling. long-term plan,” he said. “So it is very Hull was replaced by Georgia Hall, a important to establish a set of values and former Women’s British Open champion. rules of behavior for travel in Tibet while Pace would have been the second South building the facilities.” African in the field. That spot went to Maha Haddioui of Morocco, the No. 418 Wondering when our player in the world. next issue is published? The men had 15 players choose not to play, compared with 22 withdrawals in Sign up for e-alerts at Think you’re Rio, when golf returned to the Olympic ! an organ and program for the first time since 1904. tissue donor? For timely updates and to read additional stories, visit Not if you haven’t . 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Early in 2020, as Americans baked their ORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. — The young family never went to a way through the uncertainty, Yeh’s older Somewhere between testing beet restaurant and rarely ordered takeout, cake recipes became popular again, and carrot juice, blueberries, and F cooking from scratch and finding delight in including carrot cake with hawaij (a mint in search of the precise hues for a Bernie’s milestones, despite monotonous Middle Eastern spice) and tahini caramel four-tiered rainbow cake celebrating her routines and seemingly endless household frosting; chocolate cake with halva filling daughter’s first birthday in spring 2020, chores. and tahini frosting; and mini pumpkin loaf Food Network star Molly Yeh was forced by “There were so many special moments cakes with cream cheese glaze and candied COVID’s gathering storm clouds to that were happening in this terrible thing bacon. abruptly cancel the party she’d spent six around us,” says Yeh, who recently caught The new mom admits she struggled months planning. up with The Associated Press while in when she realized she’s not the fun parent. The food blogger and author of Molly on town for the South Beach Wine and Food “It’s become clear that Nick is the fun one, the Range had already sketched the Festival. “Imagine your first time smelling dancing and singing and spinning her up tablescape, sent hand-drawn invites and tasting fresh bread, your first time in the air,” she says. incorporating the vegetable theme, and Photo/Scott Roth/Invision baking cookies.” But food has fixed that too. crafted cute marzipan carrots as cake The kitchen became the source of field harissa honey labne, hummus dumplings, “I get to see Bernie’s face when she eats toppers. trips and experiments. There was a fake kale matzo pizza, and bacon and egg drop my chicken noodle soup, and I get to fill the Since then, the 32-year-old Yeh has vacation to Florence, Italy, where the soup), and endearing habit of liberally house with the smell of mac and cheese balanced the daily frustrations and family pulled out the pasta maker and dousing desserts with homemade sprinkles when she wakes up from her nap,” she says. isolation of quarantine life with the many made homemade pizzas. There was a day or marzipan. Yeh met her husband when they were joyful firsts of her toddler, Bernie. The trip to the Italian Alps, a.k.a. a nearby hill Pretzel challah was among the first students at Juilliard, and made her debut constant that has held it together is food, or where they sledded on an inflatable recipes that gained traction on her blog, at Carnegie Hall as a percussionist at age in Yeh’s case, tahini. She’s fond of unicorn. And blissful spa days were “My Name is Yeh.” And she’s delighted to 17. Her father, John Bruce Yeh, plays incorporating her favorite ingredient in coconut baths with a face mask and book report that her daughter’s art canvas of clarinet with the Chicago Symphony original recipes that fuse her Chinese and during Bernie’s naptime. choice is painting egg wash on a braided Orchestra and was their first Asian- Jewish heritage. Yeh, the star of Food Network’s “Girl loaf. American member when he joined in 1977. “Food has truly taken on a different Meets Farm” show, has been a bright spot Yeh has experienced a rough pandemic One of her favorite moments on her show meaning, both in starting a family and also in a gloomy year for many viewers, with her year full of pitfalls and pivots like the rest was cooking chicken pot stickers, scallion in the pandemic,” says Yeh, who lives on a infectious smile, recipe mashups (think of us. She shacked up with her in-laws pancakes with maple syrup slaw, and, of while overseeing a massive home course, a sprinkle cake, before performing renovation, and started work on a new a Bach invention with the man she calls her cookbook, Where The Eggs Are, featuring biggest musical inspiration. easier, go-to weekday meals. “It’s that same creative, special, joyous While these recipes are less fussy, Yeh feeling that I get making cake and making has never shied away from celebratory and food for other people that I get from playing sometimes labor-intensive dishes. She music for people that I love,” said Yeh. “If grew up in the kitchen with her mother, life can be a lot of those moments strung making everything from scratch, finding together, that’s a life I want to live.”

YABBA DABBA DISPUTE. Florence Fang talks with reporters after a news conference outside her Flint- stone House in Hillsborough, California, in this April 11, 2019 file photo. Fang and her attorney say they’ve been fighting for the rights of property owners and Fred and Barney fans everywhere. (AP Photo/Eric Risberg, File) Yabba dabba dispute resolved. Florence Fang’s Fred Flintstone can stay. Continued from page one Hillsborough, previously said the town prides itself on its rural, woodsy feel, and nuisance. rules are in place “so neighbors don’t have An attorney for the town previously said to look at your version of what you would residents are required to get a permit like to have, and you don’t have to look at before installing such sculptures, theirs.” regardless of the theme. According to records, the settlement Hillsborough went to court in 2019 after stipulates that the town will review and Fang failed to comply with multiple stop- approve a survey of the landscaping work orders, as well as an order to remove improvements. In turn, Fang will apply for the features around the multimillion- building permits. The town will also pay dollar property with its 2,730-square-foot Fang $125,000, and she will drop the home. Fang counter-sued. The Daily Post lawsuit — which was dismissed in state in Palo Alto first reported news of the court on April 27. settlement in late June. No news on Barney Rubble’s role in the Mark Hudak, an attorney for matter. FREE Preschool! APPLY NOW for Head Start and Early Head Start 2021-22 School Year

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he elaborate pilafs, roasts, and other celebratory dishes of the Middle East often take time that Thome cooks don’t have. But they still can provide ample fodder for inspiration. At Milk Street, we’ve found ways to streamline these traditions into weeknight-friendly meals. One such dish is koresh-e tareh-ye kordi, a popular Photo/Milk Street via AP Kurdish braise of chives, white beans, and lamb or chicken. Usually, it comes loaded with a dozen or more spices, including cardamom, cumin, cinnamon, dried rose

Soy marinade makes Photo/Milk Street via AP petals, coriander, turmeric, dried limes, cloves, and more. weeknight steak simple For this version from our book Milk Street Tuesday include starchy liquid that we treat like a separate By Christopher Kimball Nights, which limits recipes to 45 minutes or less, we rely ingredient; it adds both body and flavor to the dish. Christopher Kimball’s Milk Street on a spice-cabinet shortcut, the Indian spice mix garam Every bit of this hearty braise is infused with allium masala, which already includes several of the spices on pungency thanks to four whole bunches of scallions. That perfectly grilled steak requires more time and that list. And since the finished dish tends to play up the may seem like a lot, but they give the braise flavor and a finesse than we can afford most weeknights. cardamom and turmeric, we added a bit more of each. vibrant color. Just remember to keep the green parts A Our solution: sirloin tips cut into quick-cooking Other simplifications included swapping canned white separate from the white parts; they’re added at different chunks. The smaller pieces also offer greater surface area, beans for dried and substituting easy-to-find ingredients times. Serve with rice, roasted potatoes, or warmed making it easy to add flavor with a gingery marinade (and for more traditional ones (such as fresh lime zest for dried flatbread. salty soy sauce ensures the meat absorbs as much of the Persian limes). Besides saving time, canned beans also Editor’s note: To view additional recipes, visit <177milkstreet.com/ap>. flavor as possible). In this recipe from our book Milk Street Tuesday Nights, Cardamom-Lime Chicken and White Beans which limits recipes to 45 minutes or less, we start with a Start to finish: 30 minutes w Servings: 4 15-minute soak in a ginger-garlic-soy sauce marinade. 1 1/2 pounds boneless, skinless chicken thighs, trimmed and cut into 2” chunks Then the sirloin tips go under the broiler for a quick sear. Kosher salt and ground black pepper The rich, beefy steak is balanced with a cool salad of 3 tablespoons salted butter sliced cucumber and pear dressed with a tangy 4 bunches scallions, thinly sliced, white and green parts reserved separately vinaigrette. And no need to hunt for the elusive, perfectly 2 tablespoons tomato paste ripe pear. We like slightly under-ripe fruit for their firm, 1 tablespoon garam masala crisp texture; any variety will work. 1 1/2 teaspoons ground cardamom Sirloin tips are sometimes labelled steakhouse-style 1 teaspoon ground turmeric steak tips; the cut also goes by “sirloin flap meat.” If it isn’t Two 15 1/2-ounce cans cannellini beans, drained, liquid reserved available, flat iron steak is a good alternative, but make 1 cup low-sodium chicken broth sure it is about one-inch thick. And don’t marinate the 2 teaspoons grated lime zest, plus 1/4 cup lime juice steak longer than 30 minutes or it will be too salty. Season the chicken with 1 teaspoon salt and 1/4 teaspoon pepper. In a large pot over medium-high heat, melt the Editor’s note: To view additional recipes, visit <177milkstreet.com/ap>. butter. Add the chicken and scallion whites, then cook, stirring once or twice, until both the chicken and scallions Ginger-Soy Steak with begin to turn golden brown, three to five minutes. Add the tomato paste, garam masala, cardamom, turmeric, 1 1/2 Pear-Cucumber Salad teaspoons salt, and 1/2 teaspoon pepper. Start to finish: 40 minutes Cook, stirring constantly, until fragrant, 30 to 60 seconds. Add the bean liquid, broth, and lime zest and juice, Servings: 4 then bring to a boil. Reduce to medium heat and cook, uncovered, stirring occasionally and adjusting the heat as 1/2 cup soy sauce needed to maintain a simmer, until the chicken is opaque when cut into, five to seven minutes. 2 tablespoons finely grated fresh ginger Stir in the scallion greens and the beans, then cook until the beans are heated through, another two minutes. 2 tablespoons white sugar, divided Taste and season with salt and pepper. 1 tablespoon toasted sesame oil 4 medium garlic cloves, finely grated Kosher salt and ground white pepper 1 1/2 pounds sirloin tips, cut into 2-inch pieces GRASS-FED Killingsworth Station 6 tablespoons unseasoned rice vinegar 1 English cucumber, quartered lengthwise, thinly Food Cart Pod sliced on the bias BEEF FOR SALE Experience a collection of 1 firm pear, quartered, cored, and thinly sliced food carts featuring a variety crosswise 1 tablespoon toasted sesame seeds of international flavors! OUTDOOR SEATING IS OPEN! 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Caramel Chicken Start to finish: 45 minutes Servings: 4 1/2 cup plus 1 tablespoon coconut water, divided 1/4 cup white sugar 3 tablespoons fish sauce 2 medium shallots, peeled, halved and thinly sliced (1/2 cup) 2” piece of fresh ginger, peeled and cut into 1/8” matchsticks (1/3 cup) 2 pounds boneless, skinless chicken thighs, trimmed, cut into 1 1/2-inch chunks 1/4 cup chopped fresh cilantro leaves and tender stems 1 small jalapeño chili, stemmed and sliced into thin rings 1 tablespoon grated lime zest, plus 1 tablespoon lime juice Steamed rice, to serve Lime wedges, to serve In a 12” skillet over medium-high heat, combine the 1 tablespoon coconut water and the sugar. Bring to a boil and cook, stirring occasionally, until the mixture turns golden at the edges, about 3 minutes. Reduce to medium heat and continue to cook, swirling the pan but without stirring, until the caramel is mahogany in color and smokes lightly, another 4 to 5 minutes. Off heat, add the fish sauce and stir; the mixture will steam and bubble vigorously. Set the pan over medium heat, pour in the remaining 1/2 cup coconut water, and stir until fully incorporated. Add the shallots and ginger and bring to a simmer, then cover, reduce to low, and cook for 5 minutes. Stir in the chicken. Cover and cook over medium, We’re here when you need us stirring once or twice, until the chicken is cooked through, 15 to 20 minutes, adjusting the heat as When uncertainty clouds your way, you can count on needed to maintain a steady simmer. Uncover, Banner Bank. Our superheroes have helped people increase to medium-high heat, and simmer dream big and reach their goals for more than 130 years. vigorously (the sauce will form large bubbles), So call us when you need a Portland-area banking hero. stirring occasionally, until the chicken is glazed and We’re here to help. the sauce is syrupy, about 8 minutes. Off heat, stir in half of the cilantro, the jalapeño, Learn more at bannerbank.com, or call us at: (800) 272-9933 lime zest, and lime juice. Top with the remaining cilantro and serve with steamed rice and lime wedges. Page 12 n THE ASIAN REPORTER COMMUNITY / A.C.E. July 5, 2021

Live Chinese music at Events calendar Lan Su Chinese Garden July 10 & 24, August 14 & 28, September 11 & 25 11:00am to 1:00pm w Lan Su Chinese Garden Please note: Policies on face coverings and social Visitors to Lan Su Chinese Garden this summer are distancing vary for venues. Please read the guidelines invited to enjoy live Chinese music on Saturdays from for each organization and proceed accordingly. 11:00am to 1:00pm while strolling along the garden’s Diana Lo Mei Hing: pathways. The featured musician is Louis Lim, who plays “Visions of Diana” traditional Chinese instruments such as erhu, ruan qin, Currently on view w Portland Chinatown Museum and pipa. The music performances are included with paid View “Visions of Diana,” the first solo exhibit in the admission. Lan Su Chinese Garden is located at 239 N.W. Pacific Northwest by Diana Lo Mei Hing, who was born in Everett Street in Portland. For more information, or to Hong Kong and spent her childhood in Guangzhou during purchase advance tickets (recommended), call (503) the volatile run up to the Cultural Revolution. The display 228-8131 or visit . features photographs and mixed-media paintings that “4 Days of Aloha” takes place July 22 to 24 in Vancouver, Washington. Calligraphy demonstrations illuminate and choreograph the pleasures and longings of Japanese American Museum of Oregon at Lan Su Chinese Garden transitory nature. The Portland Chinatown Museum is The Japanese American Museum of Oregon is July 11 & 25, August 8 & 22, September 12 & 26 located at 127 N.W. Third Avenue in Portland. For more presenting “Grace, Grit and Gaman: Japanese American 1:00pm to 3:00pm w Lan Su Chinese Garden information, or to purchase advance tickets, call (503) Women through the Generations,” an exhibit that shares Visitors to Lan Su Chinese Garden are invited to watch 224-0008 or visit . the rarely revealed story of the grace, grit, and gaman calligraphy demonstrations from 1:00pm to 3:00pm on “Painting Paradise: (perseverance) of Japanese-American women. Visitors Sundays this summer. The featured artist, Dr. Jiyu Yang, Art of Daisuke Nakano” learn about multiple generations of Japanese-American is a classically trained scholar from Wisdom Arts Through July 18 w Portland Japanese Garden women and the unique challenges they faced — in their Academy who shares techniques of the ancient art. The The Portland Japanese Garden is presenting “Painting own ways, on their own terms, and in their own times. demonstrations are included with paid admission. Lan Su Paradise: Art of Daisuke Nakano,” a display by the “Grace, Grit and Gaman” is curated by Linda Tamura and Chinese Garden is located at 239 N.W. Everett Street in avant-garde visual artist, who uses the centuries-old Marsha Matthews. The Japanese American Museum of Portland. For more information, or to purchase advance Nihonga-style painting technique to capture the Oregon is located at the Naito Center, which is on the first tickets (recommended), call (503) 228-8131 or visit elusiveness of light and vivacious spirit of wildlife through floor of the Old Town Loft building near the corner of N.W. . his screen paintings of imaginary botanical landscapes. Fourth Avenue and Flanders Street (411 N.W. Flanders Lan Su Chinese Garden artist talk Nihonga is a traditional style of Japanese painting Street, Portland, OR 97209). For more information, or to July 14, 2:00pm to 3:00pm w Virtual created using only organic materials such as pigments buy advance tickets, call (503) 224-1458 or visit Join the Lan Su Chinese Garden for an online artist from vegetables, minerals, animals, silk, wood, and gold. . talk with Wayne Jiang, the garden’s featured artist for The Portland Japanese Garden is located at 611 S.W. Aki Onda: “A Letter from July and August. Jiang is a Portland-based fine art Kingston Avenue in Portland. For more information, or to Souls of The Dead” painter and teacher specializing in teaching acrylic to buy advance tickets, call (503) 223-1321 or visit July 10 through September 4, 2021 everyone from beginners to professional artists. The talk, . Portland Institute for Contemporary Art (PICA) which addresses his latest series of floral paintings, “FISH-MAN: Tatsuki Masaru” After decades of a twinned music/visual-art practice, Asian restaurant paintings, and genre paintings related Through July 18 w Portland Japanese Garden the first major solo exhibition in the United States by Aki to Asian-American lives, includes the influences, meaning, symbolism, and techniques behind the pieces. The Portland Japanese Garden is presenting Onda is commissioned by PICA and curated by Kristan The virtual event is a free program on Zoom with a $5 “FISH-MAN: Tatsuki Masaru,” a display of works by Kennedy. “A Letter from Souls of The Dead” features suggested donation. For more information, or to register Japanese photographer Tatsuki Masaru. Masaru tells the collections of found objects such as bells, surplus electronics, photographs, and old-fashioned slide (required), call (503) 228-8131 or visit story of the Tohoku people and their landscape that projections. The soundtrack for the exhibit was composed . reflects ancient Japanese culture. Through his photo- by Onda in collaboration with vocalist Charmaine Lee and graphy, the artist captures the interconnectedness of the “4 Days of Aloha” musician Zach Rowden. An opening day event, scheduled land and its inhabitants. The Portland Japanese Garden July 22 to 24 w Vancouver, Washington for Saturday, July 10 from noon to 4:00pm, features is located at 611 S.W. Kingston Avenue in Portland. For Attend the Ho‘ike & Hawaiian Festival and more as intermittent performances by Onda and Marcus Fischer. more information, or to buy advance tickets, call (503) part of “4 Days of Aloha.” The four-day celebration The Portland Institute for Contemporary Art is located at 223-1321 or visit . features a pa‘ina (July 22, 6:00pm to 10:00pm); workshops 15 N.E. Hancock Street in Portland. The exhibit is free (July 22 & 23, 8:00am to 3:30pm); a “Concert in the Park” “Grace, Grit and Gaman” and open to the public. For more information, call (503) (July 23, 4:00pm); the Ho‘ike & Hawaiian Festival (July Through December 31, 2021 242-1419 or visit . Continued on page 13

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Events calendar NORTHWEST JOB MARKET Continued from page 12 DIVERSITY & INCLUSION SPECIALIST Find general information about the The Oregon State Bar is looking for someone to city and employment opportunities at: support the Director of D&I and the D&I External Coordinator on D&I Department initiatives that meet the Oregon State Bar mission and goals; serves as a representative and liaison to internal and external stakeholders. SECURITY GUARDS For job details, visit No experience needed; we will train. Equal Opportunity Employer Ace Private Security, (503) 335-1417. Call today!! “Bells,” by Aki Onda, 2021. (Photo/Marcus Fisher) 24, 10:00am); a Multicultural Celebration (July 25, DIRECTOR FOR THE CENTER OF 10:00am to 6:00pm); and more. Festival events take place at Esther Short Park and Groove Nation Performing Arts EXCELLENCE FOR SEMICONDUCTOR Center; please check the weblink for the location of AND ELECTRONIC MANUFACTURING specific events. 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Vancouver, WA 98663 “Phuket sandbox” (360) 992-2105 w AA/EO employer program to save tourism OREGON LAW FOUNDATION Continued from page 16 and elsewhere have been fully vaccinated. EXECUTIVE & FINANCE EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR AND CHIEF Bars and clubs remain closed, but visitors will be able to OFFICE ADMINISTRATOR ACCESS TO JUSTICE OFFICER go to restaurants and take in shows — once they’re up and running again. The Collins Foundation in Portland, Oregon, seeks The Oregon State Bar is looking for someone to pro- At the Phuket Simon Cabaret, a 600-seat venue that a full-time Executive & Finance Office Administrator to vide leadership and oversight for the Oregon State Bar has been closed for more than a year, some crew returned provide executive support to the CEO and CFO, as Referral and Information Services and Legal Services in late June to start checking lighting and other systems, well as office administration and grantmaking sup- Programs. 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JOURNEYMAN ROOFER INVITATION TO BID LEGAL NOTICE Maintenance Department 2021-24 INVITATION TO BID FOR Portland Public Schools (PPS) Maintenance De- BUILDING DEMOLITION SERVICES partment is looking for a Journeyman Roofer who pro- vides expert level, skilled roofing work in the repair SMALL WORKS & Clark County Public Transportation Benefit Area and maintenance of District facilities. We invite you to (dba C-TRAN) has issued an Invitation to Bid (ITB) for apply if you are able to prepare surfaces for applica- PROFESSIONAL SERVICES the 2021-24 Building Demolition Services Project. tion of undercoats and finish coats of roofing adhe- This ITB may be found at sives and coatings using the full range of application ROSTERS, PUBLIC WORKS & VENDOR LIST REGISTRATION storage of roofing materials. Under general supervi- sion, performs journey level work in the repair and Bids will be accepted until Consultants, Contractors and Vendors are hereby maintenance of a wide variety of roofing surfaces and 3:00pm on Tuesday, July 13, 2021. notified the Port of Vancouver is seeking updates to its structures; may direct the work of other classified staff rosters on ProcureWare. ProcureWare registration in the area; and perform related work as required. PPS places companies into categories used for notifica- is committed to eliminating systemic racism and its HOUSING AUTHORITY OF tion of upcoming solicitations and provides approved adverse impact on student learning, we seek candi- accounts with access to solicitation documents. dates who bring a commitment to racial equity, inclu- WASHINGTON COUNTY ProcureWare includes Professional Services Archi- sion, and social justice. WAITLIST OPENING tectural and Engineer (A&E) and Small Works rosters Salary Range: $25.81/hour as well as Public Works and Vendor lists. Users of ProcureWare are encouraged to log in annually, at How To Apply: Please our visit The Housing Authority of Washington County minimum, to provide updates and maintain an ap- and use job #21832. (HAWC) will accept applications for the Housing proved account status. Idle accounts may be placed Choice Voucher (HCV) program, formally Section 8 in inactive status or deleted. between July 26 and August 4, 2021. HAWC is funded The port maintains a Professional Services Archi- BIDS, SUB-BIDS & PUBLIC NOTICES through the Federal office of Housing and Urban De- tectural and Engineering (A&E) Roster. The require- velopment (HUD), and administers several housing ments for A&E services comply with the scope of the assistance programs that can help low-income general definition of professional practice in chapters METRO households secure decent, safe and affordable hous- 18.08, 18.43 or 18.96 and 39.80.030 of the Revised ing in Washington County. HCV is HAWC’s largest METRO REGIONAL CENTER Code of Washington (RCW). Services include, but are housing assistance program. This program assists not limited to, disciplines in architectural and engi- families earning less than 50% of area median income, EXTERIOR COATING neering services like construction administration for which amounts to approximately $48,350 for a family port projects. Consultants currently registered must ITB 3946 of four. In the HCV program, participating families pay log in at least once annually to verify information and about 30% of their income towards their housing Metro is inviting bids for exterior coatings for the ensure licensing requirements are current. costs, and the Housing Authority pays the rest. The Metro Regional Center. The Small Works Roster invites contractors bidding Housing Authority receives enough funding to serve The work includes furnishing all labor, tools, equip- on public works projects with an estimated value up to about 3,000 households. $299,999.99. The port will make a reasonable effort to ment, materials, temporary staging, protection, inci- HAWC will accept applications for its HCV waitlists contact all contractors approved on the Small Works dentals, personnel, coordination and mobilization to beginning at 8:00am on Monday, July 26, 2021 and Roster and those qualified for particular projects on a perform Water Repellent and Exterior Painting work in- ending at 11:59pm on Wednesday, August 4, 2021. rotating basis. Availability of work is not guaranteed. cluding all related preparation work to the exterior of Applications will not be prioritized by date, and people To qualify for this roster, contractors shall be regis- the Metro Regional Headquarters Building located at may apply at any time during the opening. tered and licensed to do business in Washington, 600 NE Grand Avenue, Portland, OR. A random lottery will be used to select 2,000 house- meet responsibility criteria as defined in RCW Bids are due no later than 2:00pm, July 27, 2021 in holds for the HCV waitlist. Only one application per 39.04.350, and upload a current insurance certificate Metro’s business offices at 600 NE Grand Avenue, household will be accepted. Duplicate applications and signed small works contract. Portland, OR 97232-2736, Attention: Julie Hoffman, will be removed before the lottery. All applications re- Registration for the Public Works list is for contrac- Procurement Analyst, ITB 3946. Responses will be ceived during the waitlist opening will have an equal tors bidding on public works projects with an esti- opened publicly at that time. chance of being added to a waitlist. mated value of $300,000 and over. Port staff notifies A voluntary Pre-Bid Conference is scheduled for all Applications can be submitted online at registered contractors of solicitations through the potential prime and sub-contractors on July 8, 2021 at between ProcureWare system. 8:30am at the Metro Regional Center, located at 600 July 26 and August 4, 2021. Households who are al- Lists including Vendor or others are also estab- NE Grand Avenue, Portland, Oregon 97232. Because ready on the waitlist do not need to re-apply. HAWC lished on the ProcureWare website. The Vendor List is of the State of Oregon’s social distancing policy, a lim- will exhaust the current waitlist before selecting clients for companies proposing on personal services, mate- ited number of people are allowed to tour the site at who submit a new application. rials, supplies, equipment, IT, purchased services or one time. Each potential bidder is limited to one atten- All Washington County library locations have com- companies interested in “notifications only”. dee. Attendance will be per RSVP. If the first confer- puters with internet access available for public. Due to New registrations are reviewed for approval ence fills up we will hold another at 9:30am. ongoing changes in Washington County’s COVID risk throughout the year. Use of the system is free and can All bidders submitting a bid for public improve- status, please check with your local library for the lat- be found at the following website: ments over $50,000 certify that they will pay and com- est information on services and access. Information ORS 279C.800-279C.870 and if applicable 40 . In addition, HAWC staff will be The Port of Vancouver highly encourages participa- U.S.C.276a. available to answer questions and provide assistance tion of Minority and Women’s Business Enterprises, Solicitation documents can be viewed and down- in submitting online applications. Applicants unable to and Disadvantaged Business Enterprises. loaded from Bid Locker, . submit an application online should contact HAWC Port of Vancouver Title VI Policy assures that no per- Metro may accept or reject any or all bids, in whole and a staff member will take the application over the son shall on the grounds of race, color, national origin, or in part, or waive irregularities not affecting substan- phone. or sex, as provided by Title VI of the Civil Rights Act of tial rights if such action is deemed in the public inter- REASONABLE ACCOMMODATIONS 1964 and as amended, and the Civil Rights Restora- est. If you need special accommodation tion Act of 1987 (P.I. 100.259) be excluded from partic- Metro extends equal opportunity to all persons and to apply, write or contact HAWC at: ipation in, be denied the benefits of, or be otherwise specifically encourages minority, women-owned, E-mail: subjected to discrimination under any program or ac- emerging small businesses and service disabled vet- Mail: tivity receiving Federal financial assistance from the eran owned businesses to access and participate in Attn: Waitlist Opening Washington State Department of Transportation. The this and all Metro projects, programs and services. Housing Authority of Washington County Port of Vancouver further assures every effort will be Metro Local Contract Review Board Rules require all 111 NE Lincoln Street, Suite 200-L MS 63 made to ensure nondiscrimination in all of its pro- Bidders to follow and document a specific outreach ef- Hillsboro, OR 97124 grams and activities, whether those programs or ac- fort to State-certified Minority, Emerging. Women- Requests for special accommodation should be tivities are federally funded or not. In the event the Port owned and Service Disabled Veteran owned Busi- made before the opening window if possible. The ap- of Vancouver distributes federal aid funds to another nesses. Certification of good faith compliance and a plication window may not be extended. governmental entity or other sub-recipient, The Port of declaration of any actual utilization pursuant to both There is never a fee to apply for HAWC assistance. 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The Thailand government is forging HUKET, Thailand — Somsak ahead with a program known as the “Phuket sandbox” Betlao covered the outboard motor to reopen the island to fully vaccinated visitors. It Pon his traditional wooden longtail hopes it will revive tourism — a sector that accounted boat with a tarp, wrapping up another day for 20% of the country’s economy before the pan- on Phuket’s Patong beach where not a demic. (AP Photo/Sakchai Lalit) single tourist needed his services shuttling additional restrictions if more than 90 new them to nearby islands. virus cases are reported per week in Since Thailand’s pandemic restrictions Phuket. on travel were imposed in early 2020, Lark said he anticipates a lot of travel- tourism has fallen off a cliff, and nowhere lers will take a wait-and-see approach and has it been felt more than the resort island that his expectations are “tepid.” off the country’s southern coast, where “The floodgates are not opening,” he nearly 95% of the economy is related to the said. industry. To visit, adult foreign visitors must So, despite spiking coronavirus provide proof of two vaccinations, a numbers elsewhere in the country, the negative COVID-19 test no more than 72 government is forging ahead with a hours before departure, and proof of an program known as the “Phuket sandbox” belongings, and fish for food to put dinner their apartments for 16 months, the idea to insurance policy that covers treatment for to reopen the island to fully vaccinated on the table for his wife and two young fly to Thailand where there’s a beach and the virus of at least $100,000, among other visitors. It hopes it will revive tourism — a children. you’re a normal guest, yes you’re being things. Once on the island, visitors have to sector that accounted for 20% of the “If it does not work we will just have to quarantined here but this is more than 500 follow mask and distancing regulations country’s economy before the pandemic. try and stay alive,” Somsak said. square kilometers of quarantine and and take three COVID-19 tests at their Instead of the hotel quarantines The first two months of 2020, before you’ve got national parks, golf courses, you own expense — about $300 total — and required elsewhere in Thailand, tourists travel restrictions were put in place, were can go diving — it’s really not a show negative results. on Phuket will be able to roam the entire among Phuket’s best ever, and the island quarantine,” said Anthony Lark, president They also have to come from countries island, but not travel to other parts of the saw more than 3 million visitors in the first of the Phuket Hotels Association. considered no higher than “low” or country for 14 days. Skeptics question five months of the year, including more There is already some international “medium” risk — a list currently including whether people will be willing to accept than 2 million foreigners. For the first five interest, with the first flight arriving from most of Europe, the U.S., and Canada — multiple restrictions including repeated months of 2021, there have been fewer Qatar, followed by one from Israel and and fly directly to Phuket, though plans virus tests and mandatory tracking apps, than a half million visitors, and all but then Singapore. are in the works to allow carefully but officials hope the allure of the island’s about 5,000 were domestic travellers. Still, some hotels and other businesses controlled transfers through Bangkok’s famous beaches — and the idea of a beach Under the sandbox plan, visitors to have decided to wait to see whether the airport. holiday following lengthy lockdowns — Phuket will be subject to most of the same tourists appear before they reopen, and After 14 days, visitors are free to travel will be enough. controls faced by those to the rest of the there is skepticism in Thailand that they further in Thailand without other For islanders like Somsak, there is a lot country, but instead of being quarantined will. restrictions. riding on the tourists’ return. in a carefully monitored hotel room for 14 The Bangkok Post newspaper wondered In preparation, some 70% of the island’s Once he could count on earning more days they’ll be restricted to Thailand’s in an editorial headlined “Welcome to your approximately 450,000 residents have had than $100 a day taking them out on his largest island, where they can lounge on prison vacation?” whether tourists would at least one vaccine dose, and the boat, but this month he has taken home the white beaches, jet ski off the coast, and bother going through all the hoops for a hospitality industry reports that all only $40 from a single customer and has enjoy evenings eating out in restaurants. holiday, especially after the government’s frontline workers in restaurants, hotels, been forced to do odd jobs, pawn family “For people who have been closeted up in announcement that it would impose Continued on page 13