StoryCorps Northwest: Giving a Voice to the Yakima Valley
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KDNA, the country’s first Spanish-lanuage community radio station, was founded by Ricardo Garcia of Yakima. Garcia worked with Cesar Chavez, and established the Yakima Valley Farm Worker’s Clinic.
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