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Funding for the DODDS Far East High School Journalism Conference has been restored, Department of Defense education officials announced Tuesday.

The journalism conference, which brings students and teachers from as far away as Guam each year, had been postponed by DODDS Pacific administrators amid the government shutdown.

The conference has been rescheduled for Feb. 3-6 at the New Sanno Hotel in Tokyo, they said.

More to come on this breaking news story.

ornauer.dave@stripes.com

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Dave Ornauer has been employed by or assigned to Stars and Stripes Pacific almost continuously since March 5, 1981. He covers interservice and high school sports at DODEA-Pacific schools and manages the Pacific Storm Tracker.

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