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Archive Home > 2008 > November > 25 > Last Rogue Valley bracero lives on

Last Rogue Valley bracero lives on

By The Associated Press / The Bulletin
November 25, 2008

MEDFORD — George Ortiz didn’t get a warm welcome when he arrived in the Rogue Valley late in 1943.

“The pear trees were covered with ice,” Ortiz recalled. “It was so cold. You couldn’t even work in the orchards.”

But despite....

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