POSTON PRESERVATION PROJECT UPDATES: 2018

5/4/18

Here's a short video that film maker, Lane Nishikawa created on the 2018 Poston Pilgrimage.
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1FwolhX3lMTQdEuM08DYhSJ613rweba09/view

Photo credit: Kimberly Mayo
Kimberly Mayo taking a selfie with filmmaker, Lane Nishikawa at the Le Pera Elementary School Library.

Here's the news media coverage of the 2018 Poston Pilgrimage. The report missed Marlene Shigekawa's name who was the first to be interviewed, and Jim Namba (not Jim AZ Namba).....
Click on this link below:http://www.kyma.com/news/inside-the-poston-internment-camp/735378018

Photo credit: Kimberly Mayo
Marlene Shigekawa, Project Manager of the Poston Community Alliance and board member, shown with Miss Indian Arizona, Mariah Jordan Sharpe.

Photo credit: Marty Kobata
Jim Namba, former detainee from Poston camp 2 block 229 and the oldest in attendance at the 2018 Poston Pilgrimage and others from Sacramento arrived in a large van, with driving shared by his friend, John Guilday (show in the driver's seat) and camp 2 descendant, Glenn Kobata.

Photo credit: Marty Kobata
Jim Namba, former detainee from Poston camp 2 block 229 and the oldest in attendance at the 2018 Poston Pilgrimage was interviewed.

Photo credit: Manataba Messenger
Colorado River Indian Tribe Council chairman, Dennis Patch being interviewed.

4/26/18

REVIEW: 2018 Poston Pilgrimage

You can read Roberta Barton's article on the 2018 Poston Pilgrimage, published in the May 2018 Watsonville-Salinas J.A.C.L. Newsletter
(scroll down to pages 6-8)

Click here to read the newsletter:
https://wscjacl.files.wordpress.com/2018/04/may-2018.pdf

4/25/18

FINAL CHANCE to order a brick.....

THIS IS YOUR LAST CHANCE TO ORDER our fundraising brick(s).....

Do you need some ideas?

Photo credit: Janis Hirohama

-Memorialize a loved one...

-Honor someone born in Poston, Arizona.....

-Pay tribute to someone who served in the military....

-Recognize family members incarcerated at Poston, Arizona

-Document family history with name, Poston address & where they came from....

AND get a tax-deduction for your donation...

Two sizes of bricks are available:

4" x 8" brick for $100 donation (14 spaces /line, 3 lines)
8" x 8" brick for $1,000 donation (14 spaces/line, 6 lines)
****Please use spacing to make the brick legible---or WE will alter your inscription for you. ****
See examples below: