CommunityLink Local news Top Stories Sports Features Business Opinion Obituaries Weather News of record News archives Recreation Golf Hiking, Etc. When it comes to housing migrant farmworkers, small successes are rare.
Repetitive success is rarer still.
This makes the continuing efforts near Pangborn Memorial Airport remarkable. The camp was popular with the workers who used it, popular for the growers who need those workers, and it caused almost none of the problems skeptics predicted. The most significant issue was the expense, which was very high, but its magnitude was slightly overblown. The camp equipment will be used again and again, and the cost per worker housed will drop. Now they are striking the tents and replacing them with trailers to house workers during the approaching apple harvest.