Micah Smith joined the station in December 2018 and is Denver7's Social Equity Reporter
DENVER — Valeria Henrietta Tanaka, a founder of Colorado’s first Black ski club, the Slippers-N-Sliders, turned 100 years old on Sunday, March 10.
The barges helped the Allies win World War II. After the war, Tanaka eventually moved to Portland, Oregon, and fell in love with her first husband and skiing. “At that time, the Ebony magazine was doing their first article in their magazine about Black skiers in America. So I was in the first article,” Tanaka said.
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