Weekend Listen: 4th graders in Tukwilia celebrate the end of school after a difficult year for immigrant students, 5 years after a deadly heat dome in the Northwest people prepare for increasingly hot summers, and Thousands in Oregon have turned old cars

In Tukwila, a class of fourth graders ended the school year with a big, public art show full of mixed emotions. It’s been five years since a record-shattering heat wave hit the Northwest, killing an estimated twelve-hundred people; a look at efforts to make our next heat wave less deadly. And an annual trash pickup event that’s more like a party in Oregon.

Weekend Listen: 4th graders in Tukwilia celebrate the end of school after a difficult year for immigrant students, 5 years after a deadly heat dome in the Northwest people prepare for increasingly hot summers, and Thousands in Oregon have turned old cars

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