The Morning Press: Wrestling titles, priest’s new calling

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4A wrestling: Union’s Godinho, Berfanger cap season with state titles

TACOMA — When Noah Cuzzetto took his shot at a third title, Union’s Junior Godinho was ready.

The result was a special finish for the Titan senior and for his father, Union wrestling coach John Godinho.

Junior Godinho scored a takedown in overtime to beat Cuzzetto and claim the championship at 132 pounds on Saturday in the Class 4A tournament at Mat Classic.

Pushing for change in a facility as rigid as a jail has required the patience you’d expect from a retired priest, as well as persistence. There’s still a lot of stigma about mental illness, Greenwood said, and it has taken a long time to convince jail administrators that changes really need to be made.

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Lockout: one year later

It’s no anniversary to celebrate.

Nevertheless, Thursday will mark a year since United Grain Corp. at the Port of Vancouver locked out up to 44 union dockworkers after a simmering contract dispute came to a boil.

The fallout was extensive. Some of the impacts have ended or are quieter. Others, including legal proceedings, continue to ripple.

In October, the standoff appeared to ease when the International Longshore and Warehouse Union and the Pacific Northwest Grain Handlers Association publicly said they’d renewed negotiations over a labor contract and that the talks had been productive.

As the one-year anniversary of the lockout nears, neither party will comment in detail about the status of their negotiations.

“There are still meetings occurring,” Pat McCormick, spokesman for the Grain Handlers Association — whose membership includes United Grain — said last week.

The volunteers, some pedaling bicycles, others driving trucks, added about 150 trees Saturday to Vancouver’s tree canopy.

Portland-based nonprofit Friends of Trees organized Saturday’s tree-planting expedition as part of an ongoing effort to help the city accomplish its goal of 28 percent tree canopy in the city by 2030, said Ian Bonham, a Friends of Trees volunteer outreach coordinator.

The city currently has about 18 percent tree canopy, compared with about 30 percent in Portland, according to a city-commissioned study in 2011.

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Art theft hits home in Hough

For more than 30 years, Bob Bradley and his life partner, Sherry Mowatt, have collected art. One glance at their yard in the Hough neighborhood and you will spot myriad pieces, all which make them say, “There’s a funny story behind that.”

“What makes them so dear to us is the stories,” Mowatt said.

But when they woke up on the morning of Feb. 1, the couple found as many as 15 pieces of their yard art had been stolen.

“I am absolutely devastated,” Bradley said. “This is stuff that has taken a lifetime to collect. To me, it had great emotional and philosophical importance.”

Half of the treasures they bought, they found at the Recycled Arts Festival.

“A lot of what I collect is old or trivial in nature,” he said. “But you manipulate it just slightly and give it new meaning.”