By Staff Northwest Asian Weekly On the night of Jan. 3, Bellevue City Councilmembers unanimously voted for fellow Councilmember and Deputy Mayor Conrad Lee to serve as the city’s mayor. Lee is the first person of color to serve as mayor of Bellevue. Lee was also the first person of color on the city council, [...]
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Conrad Lee, Bellevue’s new mayor
Posted on 05 January 2012.
Posted in Features, Profiles, Vol 31 No 2 | 1/7-1/130 Comments
Community-minded new immigrants are wanted for jobs in lawmaking
Posted on 05 January 2012.
By James Tabafunda Northwest Asian Weekly The year of 1957 stands out in the history of Asian Americans. Dalip Singh Saund, an immigrant from India, became the first Asian American to be elected to the U.S. House of Representatives on Jan. 3 of that year. A Democrat, he represented the state of California and served [...]
Posted in Features, Profiles, Vol 31 No 2 | 1/7-1/130 Comments
Top 10 local API community achievements
Posted on 29 December 2011.
By Stacy Nguyen Northwest Asian Weekly You don’t have to look farther than your own neighborhood or city to see amazing things happening for Asian and Pacific Islander Americans. Here is a list of people who are working hard or who have worked hard (or both!) to make our immediate world a better place.
Posted in Community News, Features, Vol 31 No 1 | 12/31/11-1/6/120 Comments
NWAW’s top 10 favorite stories of 2011
Posted on 22 December 2011.
For the end of the year, we wanted to run our top 10 favorite stories of the year — the stories that we are the most proud of. Some of the stories are even award-winning. We are afraid that these stories didn’t get enough attention the first time around, so we’re giving them another chance [...]
Posted in Community News, Features, Vol 30 No 52 | 12/24-12/300 Comments
Chess leads to more thoughtful children?
Posted on 15 December 2011.
By Nan Nan Liu Northwest Asian Weekly ”Daddy, I won! I won!” exclaimed Jaden Gao.
Posted in Features, Vol 30 No 51 | 12/17-12/230 Comments
Paz makes looking for love delightful in ‘Rodgers & Hammerstein’s Cinderella’
Posted on 08 December 2011.
By James Tabafunda Northwest Asian Weekly The world’s favorite fairy tale about a young orphan’s dream to live a life without her abusive stepmother (Suzanne Bouchard) and obnoxious stepsisters Joy (Nick Garrison) and Grace (Sarah Rudinoff) makes its appearance this holiday season in downtown Seattle.
Posted in Community News, Features, Profiles, Vol 30 No 50 | 12/10-12/160 Comments
Persons of interest sought by police in Vega homicide
Posted on 08 December 2011.
By Jason J. Cruz Northwest Asian Weekly Hair stylist and business owner remembered as “gentle soul”
Posted in Features, Vol 30 No 50 | 12/10-12/161 Comment
Multicultural families with special needs children empowered through Open Doors
Posted on 08 December 2011.
By Janelle Wetzstein Northwest Asian Weekly Raising a child with special needs can be extremely difficult — especially when English is not your first
Posted in Community News, Features, Vol 30 No 50 | 12/10-12/160 Comments
Please take off your shoes when you enter my house (for Thanksgiving!)
Posted on 23 November 2011.
By Stacy Nguyen Northwest Asian Weekly Yeah, a Thanksgiving article about etiquette is pretty exciting and cutting-edge stuff. But before
Posted in Community News, Cultures, Features, Food, Vol 30 No 48 | 11/26-12/20 Comments
What is Halloween all about, anyway?
Posted on 28 October 2011.
By Betty Wang Northwest Asian Weekly I still have no idea what Halloween is all about. And it’s not because this holiday has no Asian roots. My family is made up of fast learners and, so far, has had little trouble adapting to American holidays and traditions. We’re not religious, but we totally get Christmas, and [...]
Posted in Cultures, Features, Vol 30 No 44 | 10/29-11/40 Comments
