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LT: Dr. Yaguchi, while you practiced as a chiropractor in Ontario for thirty-seven years, you were also very involved in your community. How were you involved?

KY: I was on the City Planning Commission for twenty years.

[Interruption]

KY: Then I was with the Boy Scouts for almost thirty years, not quite. I was awarded the Silver Beaver award, then I was a member of the Board of Governors of the community college, I was chairman of that twice. Going back... did I say anything about the Silver Beaver award? Yes, okay. Then the Chamber of Commerce, I was active and I was chosen as a Senior Citizens award. Let's see... so many awards I can't even think of it. [Laughs]

LT: You were in involved in judo?

KY: Oh, yes. I was in judo for seventeen years. I took the team all over the Northwest, Spokane, Yakima, Portland, Seattle. But when I was in Ontario, I also became certified lay speaker of the Methodist church. Did I say that before?

LT: You were involved with the football team at Treasure Valley?

KY: Yes, I was the team doctor for, gee, I don't know how many years. A good many years.

LT: You also served on the State Board of Chiropractic Examiners?

KY: Yes, two terms.

LT: And you were involved in the Shriners?

KY: Yes, I was a Shriner fifty-seven years, good many years.

LT: You know, I'm thinking, when you were a kid growing up, you worked on the farm, you worked at home, you participated in judo and Boy Scouts, you were involved in football, track, wrestling, and you also were the valedictorian of your class. So you were multitasking at that time. You seemed to do the same as an adult in your community. How were you so successful in doing all those things?

KY: I think I kind of took after my father; he was like that, too. I must have inherited his genes or something, because I was always interested in the community, to help it, develop it to be a better community, no matter what capacity I was serving in. And that's how my father was, and I'm the only one in the family that way. My other brothers and sisters, no.

LT: Well, it's a wonderful drive.

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