For archaeologist Chuimei Ho and husband Ben Bronson, Asian American history is not only about understanding the past — it’s about giving value to the present.
Archive | Vol 28 No 38 | 9/12 – 9/18
Weekend symposium to celebrate 100 years
Posted on 10 September 2009.
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Multi-Cultural Center in Kitsap County looks to the future while keeping an eye on its past
Posted on 10 September 2009.
Having a place to encourage diversity and fellowship has been important to many Asian American groups throughout the decades. This has been especially true throughout Washington state. Opening such a place is an entirely different matter and requires perseverance.
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Museum of Chinese in America gets a new home
Posted on 10 September 2009.
NEW YORK (AP) — In cramped quarters in Chinatown, staff at the Museum of Chinese in America had to be careful not to step on any schoolchildren as they taught a class about the role Chinese immigrants played in building the Transcontinental Railroad.
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Dieter Cui: Pioneer in Music
Posted on 10 September 2009.
“I want to spend more time teaching, have more performances or concerts in Asian countries, and prepare more songs to enrich my program,” Cui said. “[I want to] introduce more sounds, not only to the Chinese community [but] to all Asian people.”
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Editorial: Obama says kids should stay in school — Why is there controversy in this?
Posted on 10 September 2009.
On Tuesday, Sept. 8, many kids were waking up before noon for the first time in months. They were going back to school. This year, however, their first day started out a little differently. Many watched and listened to President Obama on TV as he delivered some remarks about getting an education and doing well in school.
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Commentary: “Back to school” means making immunization a priority
Posted on 10 September 2009.
Every summer as school approaches, a common theme rings: Make sure your child is fully immunized. One reason for the plea is that children who are not immunized may not attend school. In fact, we’ve heard the cry to immunize so often that the tendency of some is to simply ignore it.
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Women of Color Empowered to speak about politics and government
Posted on 10 September 2009.
The Women of Color Empowered luncheon will be held at China Harbor Restaurant in Seattle on Friday, Sept. 25, at 11:30 a.m. The event honors women who are accomplished in their careers, who have contributed significantly to local communities of color, and who have inspired others to follow their lead.
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Aug. 7: Chen, Gee, and Nguyen to the Federal bench
Posted on 10 September 2009.
In August, President Obama nominated Federal Magistrate Judge Edward Chen and Los Angeles lawyer Dolly Gee to the United States District Court bench in California. Their nominations follow the nomination of Los Angeles Superior Court Judge Jacqueline Nguyen for the position of United States District Judge.
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Aug. 24: Choi is Beijing bound
Posted on 10 September 2009.
Chloe Choi, 16, a recipient of the National Security Language Initiative (NSLI) scholarship, left for Beijing High School No. 80 to study Mandarin.
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Aug. 22: Aki Kurose Middle School gets cleaned up
Posted on 10 September 2009.
The Japanese American Citizens League (JACL) sponsored the 9th annual Aki Kurose Middle School Beautification Project. Mori Kurose-Rothman, one of Aki Kurose’s grandsons, organized the clean up for the second year. Rothman is a sophomore at New York University.
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Aug. 20: WongDoody is number 3
Posted on 10 September 2009.
Marketing ideas agency WongDoody, founded in 1993 in Seattle by Tracy Wong (executive creative director/chairman) and Pat Doody (president), was ranked third on the Puget Sound Business Journal’s “Best Workplaces” list at an awards ceremony held at Safeco Field.
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Aug. 25: Yip to lead ICHS Foundation
Posted on 10 September 2009.
The International Community Health Services (ICHS) Foundation announced Andy Yip as its new interim executive director.
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Aug. 29: TAPS dinner raises funds for good cause
Posted on 10 September 2009.
The Taiwanese American Professionals Society (TAPS) hosted more than 100 people at its dinner and raised $11,274 through dinner & raffle ticket sales and donations. Donations will benefit the Social Relief Fund of Kaohsiung County and Morakot Typhoon Rescues Fund.
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Businesses upset as break-ins increase in the ID
Posted on 10 September 2009.
More than seven stores were broken into during the week of Aug. 17. With the help of May Wan, the Greater Seattle Chinese Chamber of Commerce’s senior adviser, the Seattle Police Department (SPD) summed all related complaints and appointed an officer to deal specifically with them.
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Relatively unknown Javanese gamelan music becomes an emerging art form
Posted on 10 September 2009.
Do you know what the soundtracks of the sci-fi show “Battlestar Galactica” and the video game “Sonic Unleashed” have in common with certain works of classical music composers John Cage and Lou Harrison?
They all contain the haunting, bell-like sounds of gamelan, an Indonesian musical ensemble.
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Kopi coffee, truly a scat-ter-brained idea
Posted on 10 September 2009.
In the last year, I wrote about tea leaf plucking monkeys in China that supposedly know how to pick tea leaves when they are good and ready. With my active mind, I immediately conjured up thoughts of the training process involved in training monkeys to pluck and deliver tea leaves and not other things like, say, a pair of shoes hanging from a telephone wire, an errant hub cap, or an old TV Guide from the 1970s.
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