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Tuesday 27 sepTember 2022

Hiroshima bombing recalled in Oregon "peace trees" campaign

By ANDREW SELSKY Ashland, Oregon, obtained
SALEM, Ore. (AP) — Hideko the seeds from Green Leg-
Tamura Snider was a acy Hiroshima and germi-
10-year-old girl in Hiro- nated them. Oregon Com-
shima, Japan, when the munity Trees and the for-
United States detonated estry department collabo-
an atomic bomb over the rated in finding homes for
city on Aug. 6, 1945, during the trees. Communities all
World War II. over responded — coast-
On Wednesday, she de- al towns like Seaside, the
scribed the horrors of that mountain town of Bend in
day as the guest of honor central Oregon, Hood River
in a ceremony marking the along the Columbia River
culmination of a four-year- and La Grande in the east.
long campaign in Oregon A total of 51 trees were
to plant saplings grown planted around this Pa-
from the seeds of trees that cific Northwest state, the
also survived the atomic densest concentration of
bombing of Hiroshima. Hiroshima peace trees any-
An Oregon official involved where outside Japan, Gers-
in the campaign told the bach said. Most are ginkgo
audience that recognition trees along with a few per-
of the continued threat of simmons — both known for
nuclear weapons is espe- their hardiness.
cially relevant today, with Speaking at the ceremony
Russian President Vladimir Hideko Tamura Snider, a survivor of the atomic bombing of Hiroshima, Japan, bows on Wednes- in the Oregon Department
Putin making veiled threats day, Sept. 21, 2022, in Salem, Ore, before watering a ginkgo tree that came from a seed of a tree of Forestry headquarters,
to use them in his war that also survived the bombing. Tamura Snider said the ef-
against Ukraine. Associated Press fort and those behind it
"So, four years ago we symbolize "ways to come
were thinking that this was nity Trees board member still living. has been sending seeds together in peace, look-
us looking back at a past and spokesman for the "I believe the best way for and saplings of survivor ing with great hope for the
when atomic weapons state forestry department. me to speak about peace trees to dozens of countries future of this world, rather
were something that hap- In Hiroshima, arborist Chika- is through the A-bombed around the world, including than perishing in the God-
pened long ago. And to- ra Horiguchi started grow- trees. A-bombed trees are Chile, Ireland and Ethiopia. awful nuclear explosion."
day, I think it's much more ing saplings from the seeds the symbol of destruction Green Legacy Hiroshima She described the morning
relevant to us as we sit in this in 1995. A total of 170 trees and recovery," Horiguchi volunteers began collect- of Aug. 6, 1945, hearing an
room today," said Jim Gers- in Hiroshima that survived says in a video for Green ing the seeds in 2011. air raid alert and then an
bach, an Oregon Commu- the bomb are reportedly Legacy Hiroshima, which Arborist Mike Oxendine, of all-clear. q

Chief: Man shot by Chicago police infiltrated SWAT training

facility and then return- on a table during the train- Mount Sinai Hospital in sta-
ing to infiltrate it. He asked ing exercise and pointed ble condition with the an-
where to go to retrieve per- them at officers. He said he kle injury, according to the
sonal property at the facil- did not know if the man at- Chicago Fire Department.
ity on in Homan Square on tempted to shoot officers He was not shot, Brown
Chicago's West Side. Then with the guns, which didn't said. The suspect was ini-
he came back to the build- have live ammunition in tially described as being
ing and climbed the fire them at the time. in critical condition with at
escape to the fifth floor, Brown speculated on what least one gunshot wound.
where a door had been officers in the training room Later in the day, Brown said
propped open for ventila- saw as the man entered the man's injuries were not
tion. the room. life-threatening.
Brown said it has not been "These were guns that were The police facility is in a
determined if the man being watched," he said. large red brick building

Chicago police respond to a shooting near the CPD Homan went to the building to re- "Obviously, someone com- that houses evidence and
Square facility Monday, Sept. 26, 2022. trieve property, saying that ing from a stairwell outside recovered property on the
Associated Press the man had an extensive startled everyone. Who is first floor. Some of the po-
record. It wasn't immedi- this person? Is this person lice department's special-
By COREY WILLIAMS and police, the chief said. ately clear if property taken associated with the train- ized units also work out of
DON BABWIN Police Superintendent Da- from the man was stored in ing? We do have live ac- the building.
CHICAGO (AP) — A man vid Brown said the suspect the building. tors sometimes who come Early Monday afternoon,
climbed five stories of a fire was taken to the hospital He had no other informa- in plainclothes." crime scene tape was
escape to infiltrate a Chi- with injuries not considered tion about the man, other He also said that it was like- stretched across South
cago police facility Mon- to be life-threatening. One than to say he was a resi- ly the officers said some- Homan Avenue a block
day while officers were un- officer was taken to the dent of Waukegan, a sub- thing to the man when they south of the police station
dergoing a SWAT training hospital with a sprained urb north of Chicago spotted him, but that, "We and across the same street
exercise and grabbed at ankle. Brown said investigators just don't know what the of- just north of the building.
least two guns before he Brown said the suspect was believe the man grabbed fender said." A nearby school was
was shot and wounded by seen on video leaving the at least two guns that were The officer was taken to placed on lockdown.q