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Ballard North

  • Salahaldin Adam, outside the Trident North plant in Cordova. Adam is showing the swelling on his right hand, which he hurt after just a few weeks on the job.
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    High Risk Awaits Immigrants In Alaska’s 'Ballard North'
    In Ballard, a human resources manager for Trident Seafoods talks to a room of people hoping to be seafood processors – warning them of the dangers of the…
  • Sonny Nguyen outside of the auto parts store he owns in the town of Unalaska on the port of Dutch Harbor. He's a refugee from Vietnam who moved to Seattle in 1976 and then went to Dutch Harbor where he's lived on and off for 30 years.
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    You've Got Three Jobs? Welcome To Alaska's 'Ballard North'
    The yard in front of the CARQUEST Auto Parts store on this remote Alaskan island is crowded with old cars.Sonny Nguyen, the store’s owner, keeps them…
  • Silme Domingo, left, and Gene Viernes, right, were murdered at a union hall in Seattle. It took a determined group of people to expose an international conspiracy behind the murders.
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    A Seattle Murder Mystery Turned International Conspiracy
    On Monday, June 1, 1981, Seattle’s KIRO TV reported a shooting in Pioneer Square.KIRO: “The shots were fired right around a quarter of 5 this evening,…
  • Abdirahman Shire in his dormitory room. Room and board are free or cost less than $15 a day for seafood processing workers (depending on their contract and from plant to plant).
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    Following The Money Trail To Alaska's 'Ballard North'
    A few years after Abdirahman Shire moved to the U.S., he found work at a Tyson Foods chicken factory in Kentucky.That’s when he got a call from a friend,…
  • Ballard North
    00000181-fa79-da89-a38d-fb7f2b490000For generations, immigrants from Seattle have migrated north to seek their fortunes in the Alaskan fishing industry.Filipinos were among the first, and remain the largest group, but recently East Africans have joined the throngs.In this series we look at what life is like for this new wave of seafood processing workers."Ballard North" was produced with the support of the Program Venture Fund, in partnership with The Seattle Globalist. It was reported by Jessica Partnow, with additional reporting by Alex Stonehill, Sarah Stuteville, and Feliks Banel. The series was edited by Carol Smith.