Hood River will celebrate Presidential Medal of Freedom awardee Minoru Yasui, on Wednesday, March 28 at 11:30 a.m. at Georgiana Smith Gardens next to the downtown Hood River Library. The community is invited to attend.

Nowadays, when bipartisanship on Capitol Hill is a rarity, “Rights of Passage” filmmaker Janice Tanaka tells the story of a bygone era of human connection inside the Beltway — an unprecedented “American” moment in the U.S. Congress that the Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University called an achievement “against all odds.”