Anna King
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236 appearances
35 recordings
1 series
first heard Oct 2025
last heard 6 Aug
Anna King’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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Near Hood River, Oregon, Leslie Tamura grows pears like her father, grandfather, and great-grandfather, who immigrated from Japan.
But like a lot of pear growers throughout Oregon and Washington, Tamura is going into debt.
There are the rising costs of labor, a closed pear cannery, and the consolidation of supermarkets that drive down farmers' prices, she says.
I may not be in this much longer.
Oregon Governor Tina Kotek sent a letter to the U.S.
Secretary of Agriculture requesting a federal disaster designation and market relief for Columbia Gorge pear growers.
For NPR News, I'm Anna King.
Firefighters are trying to break fire lines with dozers, dig trenches, and warn home and livestock owners.
The Juniper Dunes fire is a particularly tough one to fight.
It's north of Pasco, deep, sandy terrain, and few roads.
That's Ben Shearer with the Southwest Washington Incident Management Team.
He says with a statewide drought and already high temperatures, this could be a tough and long fire year.
For NPR News, I'm Anna King in Burbank, Washington.
Winds up to 30 miles an hour are expected, with gusts up to 45.
Firefighters are being tested to get progress on multiple large fires in the Columbia Basin that started over the weekend.
An American flag whips just outside of a fire station in Benton City, Washington.
Dennis Bates is the chief there.
He says this is gonna be a very long season.
He says it's August fire weather already, and Fourth of July is just weeks away.
For NPR News, I'm Anna King in Benton City.
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