Racist Incidents Get Media Attention

DAYTON - One of the lead stories on Tri-Cities TV station KEPR's eve- ning news broadcast on November 13 was about two potentially racist incidents that occurred in Dayton reently. The Walla Walla Union-Bulletin reported on the same stories on its front page that day.

On the night November 6, firefighters from Colum- bia County Fire District 3 responded to a small fire that was set in the lawn near Day- ton Elementary School. The fire had been burned into the grass in the shape of a swas- tika, which was once the symbol of the German Nazi party and is still sometimes used by white-supremacist...