Expulsion of Tacoma’s Chinese Residents in 1885

On Saturday, Hundreds of people walked from Tacoma’s Tollefson Plaza to the Chinese Reconciliation Park for the annual Walk for Reconciliation Against Racism. The event was to observe the day about 200 Chinese residents in the Tacoma area were forcibly removed in 1885.  KBCS’s Yuko Kodama has this story.

Lotus Perry, Chinese Reconciliation Project Foundation Board Member and Volunteer

Rinrada Hui and father, Cho Ryong Hui

Rinrada Hui

Mak Fai Kung Fu Lion Dancers

Food prepared for walkers at the end of the walk

Chinese Reconciliation Park

Incarcerated Women: Cancer Walks in Prison

Relay for Life is an organization that organizes cancer walks, generating money to fight cancer. This donation fueled operation makes a positive impact on inmates who have choose to organize to fight cancer. Pamela Lorenz, an inmate at the Washington Correction Center for women,  participated in such a program while incarcerated and shares her experience with KBCS’s Yuko Kodama.

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Unmute the Commute: Walking Around Issaquah 

As the weather warms up, you may be considering walking around town more. And yet, some of our neighbours, like Angie Aldrich in Issaquah, walk all year ’round as their means of transportation. For this week’s Unmute the Commute, join us for a walk around Issaquah. Produced by Hans Anderson. 

Unmute the Commute is a weekly series highlighting commuter stories, supported in part by King County Metro’s Just One Trip.