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■ OLYMPICS American figure skating takes Winter Olympics

By Jason Cruz NORTHWEST ASIAN WEEKLY

Fortunately, Zhou, whose parents are from China, was picked and will be making his first appearance in the Olympics.

As the U.S. Olympic team heads to the Pyeongchang 2018 Winter Olympics, the figure skating team will be one of the biggest reasons to watch.

Mirai Nagasu (Photo by Ben Margot/AP) Vincent Zhou (Photo by Tony Avelar/AP)

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Heading the list is Nathan Chen, who is one of the favorites for the gold medal in the Men’s Figure Skating Competition.

Chen completed five quadruple jumps in solidifying his spot on Team USA at the U.S. Figure Skating Championships in San Jose, Calif. last month. He scored 40 points higher than the next competitor.

Vincent Zhou, also of San Jose, took third place, but controversy surrounded the final decision on who would make the team. Zhou, 17, is the 2017 U.S. World Junior champion and looked to make his first Olympics. His score narrowly missed second place and the silver medal. But he had to wait until the next day to hear whether the committee picked him or another skater.

The U.S. Figure Skating Committee does not pick its athletes from the competition but from a ranking of four disciplines based on overall strength. Thus, even if you are in the top three of the competition, you are not guaranteed a spot on the team.

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Karen Chen made the women’s Olympic Team for the United States as she placed third at the national championships.

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Also, on the team is women’s figure skater Mirai Nagasu. The 24-year-old Pasadena, Calif. native made the Olympics in 2010, but was not on the team in 2014. This year, she placed second at nationals, earning her a

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spot on the team. Showing that the life of an Olympic athlete does not mean everything is paid for, she has set up an online fundraiser so that her family and boyfriend can travel to South Korea to cheer her on. U.S. Figure Skating estimates that it will cost $11,000 for one person to attend the event. She was only the second U.S. woman to land a triple axel in international competition and she hopes to do it again at the Olympics.

Here are other Asian American athletes on Team USA to watch during the Winter games:

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Madison Chock, 25 Figure skating Hometown: Novi, Mich.

Alex Shibutani, 26, and Maia Shibutani, 23 (siblings) Figure skating Hometown: Ann Arbor, Mich.

Alex Shibutani and Maia Shibutani (Photo by Ben Margot/AP)

Madison Chock (Photo by Tony Avelar/AP)

JR Celski, 27 Short Track Speedskating Hometown: Federal Way, Wash.

Aaron Tran, 21 Short Track Speedskating Hometown: Federal Way, Wash.

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Thomas Hong, 20 Short Track Speedskating Hometown: Laurel, Md. Chloe Kim, 17 Snowboarding Hometown: Torrance, Calif.

Hailey Langland, 17 Snowboarding Hometown: San Clemente, Calif.

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several executive and management positions within the department.

Prior to serving in Seattle, Lee was Consul General of Canada in San Francisco from 2015 to 2017. Previously, Lee worked in the private sector as a pioneer in online banking in North America and with large-scale telecommunications and IT management consulting firms. 

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Nonprofit launches fundraiser to bring back Seattle’s historic streetcars

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Shuko Hara celebrates 103 years

The Friends of the Benson Trolleys (FOBT) launched a fundraising campaign on Feb. 1 to restore Seattle’s historic waterfront trolleys to the streetcar line in downtown Seattle.

The goal is to raise $28,000, enough money to cover the initial costs of the engineering feasibility and design work, to begin in spring of 2018.

The trolleys first arrived in Seattle from Melbourne in the late 1970s. The cars operated for decades before being removed from the waterfront in 2005, when their maintenance facility was demolished to make way for the sculpture garden.

Tomio Moriguchi, former CEO of Uwajimaya and FOBT board member, said, “These trolleys will facilitate an important connection of our historic assets — MOHAI, the Pike Place Market, Pioneer Square, and the ChinatownInternational District.” 

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Brandon Lee was appointed as Consul General of Canada in Seattle in 2017 — he is the first Asian from Canada to be a Consul General in Seattle.

Born in Toronto, Lee has a background leading management and innovation, and he has held

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Mayor Jenny Durkan with graduates of the Chinatown International District Digital Storytelling class.

English Innovations is an educational model for adult immigrant learners that integrates English language learning, digital literacy, and community engagement.

Classes meet three times a week for 10 weeks, and students spend 2-3 hours studying out of class on tablets loaned to them for the duration of the course. A coach and volunteers support students. They engage in meaningful lessons designed to build confidence in English language learners, as they use a variety of digital literacy apps. 

Seeing red!

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The mother of former King County Assessor Lloyd Hara, Shuko Hara, a former Seattleite, celebrated her 103rd birthday on Jan. 31.

Lloyd Hara sent us a photo of his mom enjoying sushi and wonder if the sushi is what keeps her young.

The elder Hara now lives in Delaware. 

Stories of immigrants and community

Longtime International District residents shared their stories about the immigrant experience in a documentary mini series at the Wing Luke on Jan. 20.

All videos were created by English Innovations students from the Chinese Information and Service Center in collaboration with OneAmerica. They participated in the Chinatown International District Digital Storytelling class.

The event was the culmination of a yearlong project.

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On Feb. 6, staff members at International Community Health Services encouraged patients at its International District clinic to join them in wearing red for a national day of demonstration. The act sent a message to Congress to support renewed federal funding for health centers. 

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in time for the Year of the Dog For the first time ever, the Seattle Symphony and the Seattle Chinese Orchestra will play together on the same stage.

According to Elena Dubinets, vice president of Artistic Planning and Creative Projects at the Seattle Symphony, no other American symphony has played with a Chinese orchestra before.

To celebrate the Seattle Symphony’s 10th annual Celebrate Asia event, they are bringing back the event’s very first guest Warren Chang, director of the Seattle Chinese Orchestra and founder and president of the Chinese Arts and Music Association (CAMA). CAMA is a nonprofit organization whose goal is to disseminate the essence of Chinese culture in the United States.

Several of Chang’s students will be performing at the event as part of the Seattle Chinese Orchestra Youth Ensemble.

In addition, the performance will also feature the up-and-coming conductor, DaYe Lin. Celebrate Asia will mark his debut at the Seattle Symphony.

To note, Lin won first prize at the 6th Sir Georg Solti International Conductors Competition in Frankfurt in 2012.

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“We always look for new opportunities to bring new faces to the symphony. He’s quite promising and we’ve been watching him for awhile… I’m hoping he’ll do well here and that he can come back in another capacity,” Dubinets said.

Dubinets said that last year’s concert incorporated Indian components, and they decided to continue to feature Indian music again this year since they hadn’t done enough in the past. She said that sitar

virtuoso Nishat Khan will be playing his own compositions with the orchestra.

There are about 80 members of the Seattle Symphony. The Seattle Chinese Orchestra is made up of 16 people who play the erhu (Chinese violin), four dizi (bamboo flute), eight pipa (big lute), two yangqin (Chinese dulcimer), two guzheng (Chinese zither), 12 cellists, four bassists, and four percussionists. In addition, the Seattle Chinese Orchestra Youth Ensemble

is made up of four erhu, one yang, two pipa, one guzheng, two dizi, and bells.

Patrons can look forward to the two orchestras playing side by side during the second half of the program. Dubinets said that both orchestras will be positioned next to each other and they’ll play a Mozart piece in different configurations.

In the final act, both orchestras will play commissioned arrangements of Chinese folk songs and a medley of music from notable Chinese films.

Attendees can also look forward to preand post-concert performances in the lobby.

Celebrate Asia will showcase dancers from Huayin Performing Arts Group, GDPT Lieu Quan - Co Lam Pagoda, Duoc Su Lion dance team, Rhythms of India, as well as drummers from CHIKIRI and the school of TAIKO. On the heels of last year’s participation, Aleksa Manila, prominent figure in Seattle’s LGBTQ community, will again host pre- and post-concert performances.

Dubinets encouraged attendees to wear festive attire to Celebrate Asia, as it is a great celebration of different cultures and traditions.  Nina can be reached at info@nwasianweekly.com.

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The City of Seattle is partnering with the Chinatown-International District (CID) to address a set of issues important to the neighborhood.

“I believe the community request for the partnership grew out of some frustration with the city,” said Gary Johnson, the Center City Strategy Coordinator.

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“There’s a perception that the city and governments tend to do to the neighborhood, rather than for or with it,” he said.

The Public Safety Task Force — which Johnson Chinese Gate in Seattle project managed — was borne out of Donnie Chin’s murder and the aftermath. It resulted in recommendations and is now in the implementation phase.

Then came a series of meetings where delegations from the CID met with various department directors with requests for city partnership to address a set of issues.

Now, five work groups have been formed to address: updates to the International Special Review District (ISRD) guidelines, community development and stabilization, assessing the potential of transitioning city facilities out of the Charles Street Campus property to free up the space for community use, public realm improvements, and coordinating capital projects.

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City-ID partnership to improve neighborhood Johnson said the Capitol Project Coordination work group will likely have an advisory role in two big projects coming up — the City Lights transmission line project, which has a proposed pathway through the CID, and the second downtown transit tunnel, which was passed by voters in the Sound Transit 3 (ST3) plan.

This group will serve “as a forum to look for ways that projects could potentially be combined or timing could be changed to try to lessen the impact.”

The Community Stabilization work group will address concerns about the potential for displacement of low-income residents because of market rate development, commer-

cial displacement, and price pressure on rents for nonprofits.

A community Advisory Committee cochaired by Maiko Winkler-Chin of SCIDpda and Pradeepta Upadhyay of InterIm CDA will oversee the five work groups.

Winkler-Chin said this will benefit the neighborhood because people can have a say on what happens, and what’s important here.

“It also opens lines of communication with the City,” she said. “It helps a broad range of individuals in both City government and the community discuss issues of importance, and develop ways to make things better, and to see C-ID on 19

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‘Mega Workshop’ for immigrants, refugees

My father came to this country in 1969, thus initiating my family’s “chain migration” to the United States. “Chain migration,” a term from the 1960s describing the familybased immigration process, has recently resurfaced in our national debate, but with a negative connotation. Unfortunately, this debate has added stress and fear to hundreds of thousands of immigrants, undocumented or otherwise.

As a sanctuary city, Seattle is in the forefront of protecting its people. On Feb. 3, the city once again showed its support.

The Office of Immigrant and Refugee Affairs (OIRA), partnered with community leaders, held its second Seattle United for Immigrants and Refugees Mega-Workshop at the Seattle Center. The workshop assisted attendees in understanding and navigating a rather daunting process. Over 800 volunteers assisted 1,026 people on immigration matters.

The free workshop provided two services — citizenship assistance to eligible individuals and consultations to anyone of any status searching viable routes to remain in the United States legally.

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Volunteers offered citizenship assistance and immigration legal assistance at Seattle Center Exhibition Hall on Feb. 3.

to thrive,” OIRA Director Cuc Vu said, with a sense of urgency at the beginning of the workshop.

“Every individual should have the opportunity to achieve their full potential, regardless of their immigration status and country of origin.”

Vu continued to assert that although no physical wall has been built, a virtual wall exists to keep people out. Since the current

administration took office, there is a 77 percent increase in the backlog of pending citizenship applications. Becoming a U.S. citizen is the best protection against the threat of deportation. Each year in Seattle, 15,000 become eligible to be naturalized. According to OIRA, in 2014, 18 percent of foreign-born residents in Seattle had a spending power of $4.4 billion. Foreign-born residents paid billions in state and local taxes.

Deputy Mayor Shefali Ranganathan, both a foreign-born and college graduate, shared her own story of becoming a U.S. citizen, which began 17 years ago in Washington, D.C. Her life, along with thousands of others, changed dramatically due to 9/11. Anxiety, fear, and doubt tested her faith and resolve.

The tragedy’s aftermath reminded her of the goodness and decency of this country. She witnessed people coming together to protect communities of color and immigrants. She remarked now is “once again upon that time.”

A newly naturalized U.S. citizen from Bangladesh, Rumana Rahman participated as a volunteer lead. She attended OIRA’s smaller scale Citizenship Workshop in 2016 to get her application in order. In October 2017, Rahman was sworn in as a U.S. citizen at a ceremony in Tukwila. With a new status, she can “fully participate in democracy without fear.” And she wanted to empower others just as the process has empowered her. Rahman works in human resources and recently finished her masters degree in Cultural Anthropology.

OIRA data showed that 43 percent of the foreign-born residents in Seattle have a college or graduate degree. For Yennhi Le, education is of utmost importance.

“No education, no job,” she explained.

Le and her husband spent eight years in a refugee camp in Malaysia after see MEGA WORKSHOP on 19

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Year of the Dog

Do these public figures exemplify or defy their puppy traits?

Justin Bieber

Nicki Minaj

Anne Hathaway

By Stacy Nguyen NORTHWEST ASIAN WEEKLY Dogs are awesome! They come in so many shapes, sizes, and haircuts, and they have been working and living alongside humans for thousands of years. They do amazingly heroic stuff like jump into the sea to save a baby fawn from drowning off Long Island. They do heartbreaking stuff like going to the Shibuya train station to wait for their owner every day, even though the owner has died and is never coming back. They also do that cute thing where they huck your hand over their head when they want the pets.

People born in the Year of the Dog are also supposed to exemplify these traits of friendliness, faithfulness, loyalty, and bravery.

But do they really?

1994 Justin Bieber

Based on how often pop superstar Justin Bieber goes back to dating former Disney Channel alum Selena Gomez, I’d say he’s loyal. The pair met in 2010, when Justin was about 16. Selena was an older woman, at 18. Their first date was at IHOP in Philly. A year later, they were official and Selena had to deal with death threats from Justin’s legion of psychotic and hysterical fans. Justin told his fans to chill and to accept her, putting himself in the line of fire, which I think makes him kind of brave.

Other 1994 dog people: Halsey (a pop singer).

1982 Nicki Minaj

For the uninitiated, Nicki Minaj is an envelope-pushing Trinidadian American rap artist known for her often suggestive clothing choices, her suggestive lyrics, her ability to crossover into pop music, and her unique-cadenced flow.

Her upbringing was reportedly turbulent, with her father using drugs and abusing her mother. Nicki has admitted in interviews that the reason she is so protective of her mother — a dog trait — and defensive of femalehood is due to witnessing these early bouts of abuse.

Dog people are also known for not switching careers easily. While Nicki

Mariah Carey

Matt Damon Madonna Neil deGrasse Tyson

has been working hard on becoming a performer and artist for decades, a little known fact is that she once worked at Red Lobster. She was fired from that job because she was rude to customers.

Anne Hathaway

If there was a celeb on this list that is the embodiment of dog in human form, it would be Anne Hathaway. Her auspicious career kicked off with the Disney flick, “The Princess Diaries,” and progressed to her Oscar win in 2012 for her work in “Les Miserables,” after which we, the audience, started seeing her bright and happy face everywhere. And it drove us nuts.

Anne developed a reputation for being too earnest and for apparently wanting “it” too much — awards, accolades, roles, acceptance. When she accepted her Oscar, she cradled it in her hands, lovingly looked at it, and said, “It came true.”

Anne Hathaway seems to work really hard, is more than competent at her job, is beyond friendly and excited to see you, doesn’t seem to be hiding any secrets, isn’t “edgy” or “too cool for school” — and hey, some people don’t like her because of this, just like some people are inexplicably cat people.

Other 1982 dog people: Priyanka Chopra, Seth Rogan, Jessica Biel, Prince William.

1970 Mariah Carey

Donald Trump

Mariah was born in the Year of the Gold Dog — and this makes sense, because Mariah loves the bling, even though she likes to try and convince us she’s down to Earth. Reportedly, Mariah has her own personal limo for her dog, a Jack Russell terrier, because he needs to be places and she has so much money.

I’m not sure if Mariah exemplies conservative or cautious gold dog traits — she seems like she’s a risk-taker. However, during her marriage to Nick Cannon, she seemed to publicly grant him a lot of respect as a husband and patriarch, even as she massively outearned him year after year.

As for being always ready to help others, how can we forget the 1993 hit, “Hero,” a song about how we are all our own heroes, if we look inside our hearts and are not afraid.

Matt Damon

Matt Damon, oh Matt Damon. Matt Damon used to be cool and used to be crush-worthy, but then he got old and started talking over female directors of color to tell them what diversity be all about and started saying stuff about sexual harassment, telling women about rape culture and what that be all about.

He seems to have good intentions. Sometimes he’s sort of right, but not in like, a groundbreaking, novel way — just a normal way. His problem might be that he’s a bad listener.

And that’s like 50 percent of dogs we

George W. Bush

Bill Clinton

know, right? The dog that has attention deficit disorder and jumps on your faces to give you a slobbery kiss when you’re like, “NO! I DON’T WANT YOUR KISSES! GET DOWN!” and he’s like, “Whatchoo talkin’ about? Yeah, you want my kisses!”

Other 1970 dog people: Melania Trump, Queen Latifah, Taraji P. Henson, Melissa McCarthy, Tina Fey, Ted Cruz, Naomi Campbell, Uma Thurman, Kelly Ripa, Leah Remini, Tonya Harding. see CELEBS on 16

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Paolo Montalban in Seattle production of ‘Mamma Mia!’ at 5th Avenue Theatre

This is not your romantic comedy of the academic high-achieving Asian student.

Mind you, Paolo Montalban, Filipino-born and New Jersey-bred, stars in Mamma Mia!, a contemporary fairytale set to the music of disco supergroup ABBA, running at the 5th Avenue Theatre Feb. 9–25.

Montalban was that high-achieving student on his way to becoming a doctor. Thriving as a student at St. Peter’s Prep School in Jersey City, N.J., he earned academic scholarships to Rutgers University, one of the oldest universities in the country, in nearby New Brunswick.

He grew up across the street from the Juilliard School, the art conservatory at Lincoln Center in Manhattan’s Upper West Side, surrounded by immediate and extended family. Montalban has always been close to his family.

His parents came to the United States to pursue careers as chemists and with a passion for the performing arts when Montalban was a year old. His father played the piano. His mother studied theater at St. Paul University in Manila. Two aunts, who lived on the same floor of the Upper West Side apartment building, were conservatory students at the Juilliard School. One was a violinist, the other a pianist. Montalban learned from all of them.

Montalban breezed through the pre-med requirements by the beginning of his junior year. Killing time before medical school, he started taking voice, acting, and dance

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classes.

“Being the good Filipino American son, I got my pre-med [requirements] in the first 2.5 years out of the way,” Montalban said. “I spent the last two years taking the classes I wanted to take.”

While at Rutgers in 1993, a talent agent scouting conservatory students spotted Montalban. That’s when the would-bedoctor turned into an actor. With his parents’ blessings, Montalban signed with the agent shortly afterwards.

“My parents said, ‘Why not give it a shot.

If it doesn’t work out, you can go back to grad school,’” he said. “It doesn’t mean my parents haven’t reminded me I can still go back to school. I didn’t have any sense of theater as a job. It wasn’t my career plan. I was doing theater as an extracurricular activity.”

That summer, with very little formal training, he was cast in the tour of the Broadway revival of “Man of La Mancha.”

Life on the road was grueling, traveling non-

stop and performing daily.

“It was a great way to cut your teeth,” Montalban recalls.

He hasn’t stopped working since, at times declining coveted roles over existing commitments. Soon he would be cast in the Broadway production of “The King and I,” starring Lou Diamond Phillips, another Filipino-born actor.

In 1997 came his breakthrough role as Prince Christopher (aka, Prince Charming) in Disney’s production of Rodgers and Hammerstein’s Cinderella, opposite Brandy (aka Moesha) and also starring Whitney Houston and Whoopi Goldberg, which aired on ABC to an audience of 65 million viewers.

He would reprise the role in the Broadway revival opposite singer, songwriter, and actor Deborah Gibson and Jamie-Lynn Sigler of Sopranos fame.

“At that time, after Cinderella, my eyes were open to the world of non-traditional casting,” he said. “What the producers of Cinderella wanted to put out there was very appealing. If you can do a story, casted in a way non-traditionally, within the confines of a fairytale, and you put it out in the world, you are changing perceptions to the public, to critics, to audience members about how people of color should be represented in mainstream entertainment.”

Montalban has shattered stereotypes and crossed over audiences. He has been cast against type. In Mamma Mia!, he plays Sam Carmichael, an Irish American architect played by the Irish-born Pierce Brosnan in the movie version.

In 1998, the strapping 6-foot-1 Montalban see MONTALBAN on 19

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Education students design innovations to better serve immigrant youth

Winning team. First row, from left: Weija Wang (graduate student coach) and Abigail Sevilla. Second row, from left: Timothy Ro, Jordon Wong, Monica Vera, and Sara Cunningham.

From left: Judges Don Nielsen, Tina Orwall, Velma Veloria, Calvin Watts, and Janet Levinger.

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Jordon Wong, Monica Vera, Sara Cunningham, Chaltu Hussein, Abigail Sevilla and Timothy Ro, coached by doctoral student Weija Wang.

Through the BRITE app, teachers would be able to get real-time student feedback on their understanding of lessons, and students could share their personal biographies and interests. Meanwhile, caregivers could access the app to communicate directly with teachers and provide information about students’ home lives.

Kent School District Superintendent Calvin Watts called Ideathon an “absolutely

Over 24 intense hours, teams of University of Washington (UW) education students drew upon design thinking processes to craft new ideas for better addressing the educational needs of immigrant and refugee youth and families.

The UW College of Education’s first-ever Ideathon put undergraduate students into

the role of lean start-up innovators, with six teams each addressing the challenge from a different stakeholder perspective— from teachers to community-based organizations. Teams heard from Seattlearea community representatives during the event’s kick-off on Jan. 19, then spent the next day designing their solution before publicly presenting their ideas to a panel of judges.

Winning top prize and $1,500 to further develop their idea for creating the app BRITE (Bridging Refugees, Immigrants and Teachers through Education) were

amazing experience.” “I particularly enjoyed each team’s ability to process information and articulate a clear, concise and compelling vision in such a short time. The skill sets that they learned, communicated, and/or refined during this Ideathon process are transferable and will serve them well into their futures,” said Watts.

UW President Ana-Mari Cauce spoke about the significance of bringing an innovative mindset to the most pressing see INNOVATIONS on 19

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■ PUBLISHER’S BLOG Eat fish, luck will follow Fish traditions in my family

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Fish is a must when we celebrate the Lunar New Year. In Asian cultures, fish is a symbol of abundance and wealth. The challenge for many non-Asians is, how do you cook it to get the full benefits of being lucky? You can also try raising koi. In Chinese and Japanese culture, koi symbolizes fortune.

But before you become lucky, you must have

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Live fish at the Hong Kong market

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Harry Chan and Tommy Quan

a fortune to raise koi fish. It can cost thousands of dollars to buy a few big koi. It’s not sufficient just to keep one or two koi in a pond. You need at least a dozen of different colors — gold, red, and white, to maximize your luck. Perhaps eating fish is a less costly way to generate luck? You decide.

Is eating a fish fillet during the new year good enough for good luck? Not quite. The best way is to have the whole fish, which includes the tail and head. Decades ago, the sight of an entire fish, with the head intact, irritated my Caucasian friends. They didn’t want to try it. Hey, it’s just like when they go fishing, they would catch the whole fish, not just the middle part of the fish. They shouldn’t be afraid of seeing the whole fish cooked. They had no idea that fish head is palatable, and its soup with ginger is often served to women who give birth. Fish head soup contains many nutrients. But you need fresh fish head to prepare the soup, and it’s hard to find it in Seattle’s supermarkets.

Often in my family, we have to “fight” for the head in Hong Kong, as I did on my recent trip to Hong Kong. I shouldn’t use the word “fight.” It’s more like a courtesy. Our method was to ask first to indicate interest, “Does anybody want the head?”

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It actually implies the asker wants the head. And I know there are other members who want it. “You go ahead,” others would reply.

“No, you take it,” I would push for others to take the head. “No, no, you have it,” my other relatives would counter.

After a few minutes of this back and forth, we come up with a way to divide the bait.

“You can have the cheeks,” I would suggest, “I will take the rest.”

Another would jump in, “You take one cheek and I will take the other.”

But if you take the head, you should also have a little of its fish tail. It symbolizes having a beginning and end, which is good for luck. To make it sound auspicious, the waiter usually says, “Ma’am, you should have the dragon head (fish head) and the phoenix tail (fishtail).”

Even when the head and much of the meat are gone, the whole backbone of the fish still remain.

You could say my family members were cats in our past lives. Our family cleaned up the whole fish — including the bones.

My cousin’s sister was waiting for the tailbone.

The rest of us politely refrained, waiting for someone to eat the rest. My aunt finally said, “Little sister (her nickname), go ahead with the tailbone.” I did not expect her to say yes because there was hardly any meat left. But she responded, “Very well.” She chopsticked the whole piece on her plate and chewed every bit of bone.

I had many wonderful fish meals in Hong Kong restaurants last December.

There were live fish of all kinds from deep seas. One live fish can cost as much as $90 at the market. Eating live fish in a Hong Kong restaurant see FISH on 18

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Legacy of peace and hope?

“The Olympic Games show us what the world could look like, if we were all guided by the Olympic spirit of respect and understanding,” said International Olympic Committee President Thomas Bach.

This year, during the 2018 Winter Olympic Games, both North Korea and South Korea have agreed to march under one flag for the opening ceremony on Feb. 9, and to field a joint women’s ice hockey team.

The united women’s hockey team will be the first time the two Koreas will have joined together in Olympic events.

They will play under the Olympic code of “COR” — the French acronym for Korea — and hear the song “Arirang” as a pre-game anthem.

The hockey players, who only began practicing together a week ago as a combined team, showed plenty of fight in their first competitive test on Feb. 4. The team lost to Sweden in Incheon, but the outcome didn’t seem to matter

to the capacity crowd of 3,000 at the Seonhak International Ice Rink. Fans waved miniature white-and-blue flags showing a unified Korean Peninsula — the same mark on the players’ uniforms — and chanted “We are one,” while screaming whenever the Koreans got on the break.

Kim Won-jin, a 33-year-old who made a several-hour trip to the game with his wife and 3 1/2-year-old son from the city of Daejeon, said, “If we ever get unified again, these young players of the South and North will be able to look back and be proud that what they did contributed to a historic change.”

The Winter Games will run from Feb. 9 to Feb. 25 in Pyeongchang, a city just 50 miles south of the Demilitarized Zone separating South Korea from North Korea. It has been pitched as a chance to bring harmony to the Korean Peninsula.

Among the South Korean public, the Olympics as a force

for peace has been appealing, with two-thirds in favor of the idea in a Korea Press Foundation survey released last week.

In recent years, “Korea has meant tension, a war atmosphere,” said Samuel Koo, who recently served as chairman of the Presidential Council on Nation Branding.

The Olympics, in contrast, can “deliver to a large segment of the population, domestically and also abroad, a message of hope and peace.”

The joint Korean team highlights a series of conciliatory measures the war-separated rivals took for the Pyeongchang games, which South Korea sees as an opportunity to revive meaningful communication with North Korea following an extended period of animosity and diplomatic stalemate over the North’s nuclear program.

And if North and South Korea can do it, maybe there’s hope for the left and right, right here at home. 

■ COMMENTARY

Reader responds to A-pop column

Dear Editor, This is regarding the December 2017 A-pop column.

The Kanji that appears in the movie Blade Runner 2049 could be Japanese, as the writer assumes — though being that Kanji means “Chinese characters,” it could also be from China, the most populous nation in the history of the planet — if the writer of the article wishes to imply that the use of Chinese characters means a future without Asians, it’s a bit of a stretch.

I have not seen the sequel except for the trailer and in the trailer, the only writing that appears is in Korean (not Japanese, not English.) Does that imply a future without Asians? I am not so sure of that. In fact, the vision of Ridley Scott in the first Blade Runner was of a very multiethnic Los Angeles, where even the language being used in the city had become an amalgamation of different languages (hence the character played by James Edward Olmos speaks in “CitySpeak,” a blend of different languages).

Furthermore, the women appearing on the blimps in the original Blade Runner were clearly not Japanese, but looked Chinese, including their outfits and the Kanji used was not accompanied by anything clearly Japanese Hiragana or Katakana — it could have been either Japanese or Chinese.

One doesn’t need to know that to write for the Northwest Asian Weekly, but one shouldn’t write about what one doesn’t really understand, nor make bold conjectures

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I don’t even know if the article would be an appropriate Facebook post, as one might have Japanese or Chinese friends who would clearly understand the problems with such assertions. In fact, if anything, the use of Chinese characters implies that the future will not be all-white — though sadly the casting department doesn’t quite follow along with that. (The opportunity to cast Harrison Ford in the original was not surprising though — he was in the middle of the original Star Wars films and was immensely popular. Hollywood, like a lot of things, operates on what is popular — what will draw in profits — and at that time, Ford was a good bet. The role of Olmos — no, not an Asian, but neither is he white — was a classic. He was highly memorable, as well the Chinese eye doctor’s role.

No, they weren’t the stars of the film, not every film is a perfect rainbow coalition of ethnicities – but neither is it as deserving of critique as say Matt Damon in Zhang Yimou’s The Great Wall. It is what it is, and the writer might have plenty to critique if the actors were in fact Asian — as the actors are playing the role of non-humans pretending to be human — the “replicants” that dominate the film. In fact, all of the main cast in the first one, it could be argued, are replicants and not real humans. More films with Asian actors are needed, but it shouldn’t be a requirement that each and every film have an Asian actor. It is an industry

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Finally, it is a fictional movie, at best a prediction of the future (a bleak prediction, not a hopeful one… a bleak vision where progressive politics has not won out — it is a vision of dystopia, not utopia). An argument that there is not enough Asian actors in Hollywood is not only an accurate one, but an important one. This review, unfortunately, is all over the place and does not make a whole lot of sense — it reads as a rambling diatribe full of holes and also reeks of a first draft with not a lot of thought put into it, nor much background knowledge on the part of the author. In fact, the author seems to be practicing exactly what she is attempting to criticize — a superficial uninformed view of what is and isn’t Asian.

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1958 Madonna

Madonna is Madonna! She is worth $500 million, is the reigning queen of pop, and still has abs harder than the biggest diamond in the world! She also suffers from brontophobia — an intense fear of thunder. Just like our canine best friends!

It’s been reported that Madonna often requires regular weather reports when she’s on the road touring.

Neil deGrasse Tyson

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re-release. He almost became an exotic dancer because he was short on cash in grad school and had killer dance moves, being a Latin ballroom dancer who won a gold medal in 1985. And he was recruited by Carl Sagan while he was still in high school.

How does this make him a dog? I don’t know. I just wanted to write about how cool he is. You can force your own parallels. Like, Neil deGrasse Tyson’s been married to his wife, Alice Young, who has a doctorate in mathematical physics, for more than 28 years. Loyalty, right?

Other 1958 dog people: Angela Bassett, Jamie Lee Curtis, Mark Cuban, Michelle Pfeiffer, Joan Jett, Sharon Stone, Drew Carey, Anita Baker.

1946 Donald Trump, Bill Clinton, and George W. Bush

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guys were born in the Year of the Dog? Is it a coincidence or a conspiracy? (FYI, Obama was born in the Year of the Ox.) Let’s revisit dog traits: Dog people have a strong sense of justice. They are brave, forthright, friendly, and they have a drive to right wrongs. They are also fiercely loyal to the ones they love. They have great leadership ability.

Shortcomings include being easily angered and irritated. Dog people can also be stubborn and are fond of criticizing others, but can lack action and the ability to make judgements based on reality. They are sometimes suspicious, fussy, and short-tempered. And they love to use Twitter as a platform to complain and moan about how they are constantly getting mean-girled by the liberal press like they don’t have better things to do, like run an entire freaking country in between the tea party breaks they take with their bff, Vlad.

It should also be noted that people are thought to suffer bad luck, when it’s their zodiac year.

Other 1946 dog people: Dolly Parton, Sylvester Stallone, Steven Spielberg, Cher, Sally Field, Pat Sajak, Tommy Lee Jones, Susan Sarandon, Liza Minnelli, Danny Glover, Diane Keaton.  Stacy can be reached at stacy@nwasianweekly.com.

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Astrological predictions for 2018 Year of the Dog

By Sun Lee Chang NORTHWEST ASIAN WEEKLY It’s time to roll up your sleeves as the serious work is about to begin in the Year of the Dog, which is set to begin on Feb. 16. The Dog is in the eleventh position of the Chinese Zodiac, which consist of 12 animals. Of the five elements of wood, fire, earth, metal, and water associated

RAT

There is a price to be paid for predictability. Keep them guessing by doing something out of character for a change.

Work Your personality shines through in the bit of artistry and flair that you incorporate into what you do.

Love It’s not what you say, but rather what is unsaid that could mean the difference between harmony or conflict.

OX

Simply knowing the recipe isn’t enough. As you continue to learn by doing, your ability to improvise should improve as well.

Work Are you yearning to try something different? First, decide whether you are in it for the experience or the outcome.

Love Old desires fade, but don’t go away completely. A stroll down memory lane should remind you why you chose to forgo it.

TIGER

Your ambition could cause you to risk more than you are willing to lose. Controlling that impulse is key to long-term stability.

Work Whether it is real or feigned, your confidence should convince others to come on board with your plan.

Love While it is no accident that opposites attract, you may be better served with a more compatible match.

RABBIT

Once you have started the process of expanding your horizons, there is no going back.

Work Where there was once doubt, a newfound strength of purpose will take hold of you and inspire you to reach great heights.

Love As new influences enter, it could prompt an evolution of how you see your current relationship.

DRAGON

As you attempt to make sense of a series of recent events, the initial confusion will dissipate until you reach a point of clarity.

Work Simply going through the motions isn’t enough for you. The search for something more could take you down an unexpected path.

with the Zodiac animals, the upcoming year will be the Year of the Earth Dog. The Earth Dog does away with the extraneous and gets down to the heart of the matter.

Committed to the core, the Earth Dog is all about heading diligently down a chosen path. One must be careful about misplaced loyalties, as they may not be necessarily beneficial to the ever faithful Dog. Be sure that trust is given only to those who are truly deserving.

Love If you usually rely on your partner to organize an adventure, take the initiative this time and show what you can do.

SNAKE

Honest almost to a fault, the Dog’s message can be offputting to those who are not accustomed to such frankness.

However, most will grow to appreciate the Dog’s direct nature, as well as its lack of artifice.

As the curtain closes fast on the Year of the Rooster and makes way for the Year of the Dog, here is a taste of what is in store for you in the areas of work and love in the New Year.

ROOSTER

A distant glimmer is now a bright light that can no longer be ignored.

Let it illuminate all that you do going forward.

The first round goes to you, but don’t forget that the prize at the end goes to the one who is able to set the pace.

Work An old idea is valuable insofar as it informs how you should deal with a timeless situation that is unfolding.

Work As challenges mount, so do the potential rewards.

The latter is not guaranteed, so you must pay attention to the price you are willing to pay for success.

Love Something that once seemed solid is actually quite fragile, which means that you should handle with care.

Love Rather than the occasional grand gesture, the consistency of your affection is a far better aphrodisiac.

HORSE

DOG

Struggling to reconcile the pull in two divergent directions? No matter the result, it is important to stay true to yourself.

You are no stranger to pushing the envelope and the bigger the audience, the better. A period of introspection could yield a surprising discovery.

Work Are you simply going along because you believe it is the next logical step? You have more power than you realize.

Work Having laid the groundwork for what is to come, you are ready to take your craft to another level.

Love Although it may not seem so to the casual observer, your actual contrition to the stability of the whole is significant.

Love During the process of self-discovery, you realize that what you need is far different from that which you had been gravitating towards until now.

GOAT

Mastering the basics requires additional time, but it will prove to be well worth the effort when you come to rely on it again and again.

Work Recognizing that a particular pattern has emerged enables you to predict and overcome the obstacles that could hinder your advancement.

Love Too much game playing can be a turnoff for you, it could be a sign that you should seek other compatible company.

MONKEY

Relying on your own sound judgment is preferable to hanging your hopes on something that might not come through.

Work Use the experience of another to inform you on how you should approach your own journey.

Love Waiting for someone to catch up to where you are?

Allow them to catch their breath before proceeding on together.

PIG

A mere feeling can provide valuable intuition where you don’t have access to concrete tallies and figures.

Work About to enter some unchartered territory? It can give you a chance to sharpen the skills that had been dulled over time.

Love Two aspects of the same thing can look very different depending on your perspective. Comparing both views is important to minimize discord.

WHAT’S YOUR ANIMAL SIGN? RAT 1912, 1924, 1936, 1948, 1960, 1972, 1984, 1996, 2008 OX 1913, 1925, 1937, 1949, 1961, 1973, 1985, 1997, 2009 TIGER 1914, 1926, 1938, 1950, 1962, 1974, 1986, 1998, 2010 RABBIT 1915, 1927, 1939, 1951, 1963, 1975, 1987, 1999, 2011 DRAGON 1916, 1928, 1940, 1952, 1964, 1976, 1988, 2000, 2012 SNAKE 1917, 1929, 1941, 1953, 1965, 1977, 1989, 2001, 2013 HORSE 1918, 1930, 1942, 1954, 1966, 1978, 1990, 2002, 2014 GOAT 1919, 1931, 1943, 1955, 1967, 1979, 1991, 2003, 2015 MONKEY 1920, 1932, 1944, 1956, 1968, 1980, 1992, 2004, 2016 ROOSTER 1921, 1933, 1945, 1957, 1969, 1981, 1993, 2005, 2017 DOG 1922, 1934, 1946, 1958, 1970, 1982, 1994, 2006, 2018 PIG 1923, 1935, 1947, 1959, 1971, 1983, 1995, 2007 *The year ends on the first new moon of the following year. For those born in January and February, please take care when determining your sign.

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on microwaving fish to make it taste like steamed fish

Shanghainese deep fried fish with pine nuts

Sole whole fish steamed with green onion

can cost over 1,000 Hong Kong dollars ($150), just for the fish. In Asia, seafood enthusiasts are willing to pay thousands of dollars just for an exquisite seafood meal prepared with those live animals, just like Americans pay for expensive piece of steak. What I miss most in America is that Asian supermarkets don’t offer many choices of live fish. The most common kind that is available is tilapia (not from deep seas).

Its meat is coarse.

I was fortunate that my friends and relatives treated me to the most delicious fish meals. From Cantonese steamed rock cod, to Shanghainese deep-fried fish with pine seeds, to grilled eel Vietnamese-style, we had them all. Even among rock cod, there are variations. The most expensive was pumpkin-seedshaped rock cod, which my friend treated me to, at a private club. The not-so-expensive was the black rock cod and sole.

All these live fish tasted so yummy, and I savored all of those delicious moments while I was in Hong Kong.

So the question is, do I eat fish because it may provide good fortune or do I simply enjoy it? The truth is, I just love to eat fish, period. I don’t really believe it will bring me much luck, although I could be wrong. The number of awards we received last year was amazing. Some of these awards were unexpected, like the City of Seattle’s Cultural Ambassador award and the Washington State Generals Association’s award. If it wasn’t luck, I don’t know what we should attribute it to!

Research has found that eating fish provides many health benefits. It contains omega 3 fats, which prevents aging.

Seafood is so much better than meat. It has less fat, more protein, and all kinds of valuable nutrients.

Some of you might dismiss fish benefits and are concerned about mercury. A professor agreed with me that fish do contain mercury, but the benefit outweighs the harm. Okay, that’s a wise argument!

What if you don’t like fish? You can train yourself to eat it — one bite at a time. It’s not hard. After much persuasion from friends and family, my friend Jane, who hates seafood, is trying to change. The other day, she was eating lots of salmon.

Bravo!

From fish heads to bellies

As I said earlier, it is hard to find fresh fish heads in Seattle, so I had to improvise. Now, I am hooked on fish bellies, the fattest part of the fish. It is so smooth and soft. Many of my friends shun them because of the fat content. To me, eating bellies is heaven. I have to warn you that it is an acquired taste.

People often wonder how I can hang around the International District (ID) for 36 years. Food and friendship. Recently, I ate one of the most exquisite bellies in the ID. Sorry, they were not from the menu. Sometimes, the best food is off the menu.

It’s what the chefs and owners are eating! Last November, I meandered into Tai Tung Restaurant. Brothers and owners Harry Chan and Tommy Quan were about to have lunch.

What caught my eyes were a couple of steamed tilapia over the counter.

“What perfect timing!” I chuckled.

“Want to join us? Harry asked.

“Sure, I am not going to be polite,” I said. Harry was about to get me silverware. “No, I can do it myself. May I have the

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1. Defrost fish 2. Put shredded ginger and green onion on top of the fish. Sprinkle a teaspoon of oil and a teaspoon soy sauce around the fish.

3. Cover the fish completely with another plate before putting it in the microwave.

4. If it is a big fish (over 1 pound), microwave it for 88 seconds. For small fish, 77 seconds.

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Go ahead, the brothers said. Those bellies entered my stomach and warmed me up the whole afternoon, physically and emotionally.

Techniques

Steamed fish requires a lot of skill. If overcooked for even one minute, the fish meat becomes coarse. And the diners would grumble, “Wasted (the fish).” Timing is critical.

Cantonese folks like me prefer steamed fish, not deep-fried, stir-fried, or grilled. However, if we don’t have a choice, I would go with other alternatives because I enjoy eating fish.

Other ingredients for the steamed fish include green onions, ginger, soy sauce, and hot oil. Since we don’t have a reliable steamer, my husband can fool you with his microwaving skills — you’d think you were eating steamed fish. I could never do it the way he does — it is never overcooked.

In the Year of the Dog, you now know what foods to eat for the Lunar New Year. More fish, more surplus! More fish, more health! Why not?  Assunta can be reached at assunta@nwasianweekly.com.

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FEBRUARY 10 – FEBRUARY 16, 2018

C-ID from 8

MEGA WORKSHOP from 10

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The Advisory Committee meets monthly in the neighborhood. Its meetings are public and are open to all.

The first citywide open house will be held on Feb. 28 — and Johnson anticipates quarterly open houses to give updates to the neighborhood about how the work is progressing. 

after escaping Vietnam. The English she learned at camp proved invaluable when they were eventually accepted into the United States. Le has two associate degrees from South Seattle Community College, one in Business Information Technology, the other in Accounting. She works as a naturalization case manager at Refugee Women’s Alliance. Fluent in Vietnamese, Le volunteered to help others complete immigration forms.

A language barrier didn’t matter for volunteer-attorney Faith Li Pettis. Fresh from screening two Spanish speaking clients with the aid of volunteer-interpreter, she “felt invigorated.” Born in Seattle, Pettis considers herself one of the lucky ones. She is indebted to the immigration process since her parents emigrated from China and Hong Kong. She wanted to spread her good fortune to others by giving back. A founding member of Pacifica Law Group, with an undergraduate degree in Russian studies from the University of Washington and a law degree from Harvard, Pettis epitomizes immigrants’ dreams for their children. There were 300 attorneys volunteering at the workshop, but not all are immigration lawyers. The workshop provided training to those who weren’t. Pettis learned just how complicated the process is. She sees it as a challenging process, especially for someone who speaks little or no English.

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INNOVATIONS from 13 challenges in education during the opening of Ideathon.

“Often when people think about innovation, they think about gadgets,” Cauce said, “but we need innovation in things like school, outreach, how do we design communities, absolutely as much as we do in science or technology.”

Cauce also encouraged the design teams—which included students majoring in Early Childhood and Family Studies and Education, Communities and Organizations, as well as those minoring in Education, Learning and Society—to explore the connection between inclusion and innovation during their work.

“Whether it’s in the school or in the community, inclusive innovative is all about understanding that, if we’re going to come up solutions that actually work, you can’t come in as the expert from above, you have to work with the community and draw from their expertise, because they’re experts too,” Cauce said.

Members of the College’s Ambassador Board provided funding for Ideathon. Joining Ng as judges for Ideathon were Janet Levinger, community volunteer and leader; Donald Nielsen, former Seattle Public Schools board member; Calvin Watts, superintendent of Kent School District; and Velma Veloria, former member of the Washington legislature. 

A CHANCE TO WIN

MONTALBAN from 12 was selected among People Magazine’s 50 Most Beautiful People, a recognition rarely afforded to people of color.

“After Cinderella, I don’t know if I was foolish or just proud. I told my reps I would like to avoid going in for shows that play a racial stereotype” he said. “When I was younger, I would keep my mouth shut more and I would listen. It is nice to be able to speak up as an artist.”

Montalban has seen progress in multiracial casting since the beginning of his career. He points to the Broadway smash hit Hamilton, featuring a diverse cast playing the founding fathers, as the latest touchstone in diversity in entertainment.

The Hamilton tour runs through March 18 at The Paramount Theatre.

“You look at that show, it is clear that the founding fathers were not people of color,” he surmised. “Why can’t we tell the story? Why can’t we as a public engage in the story? Why

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Danwei Tang, an engineer from Shanghai, China, has been in the United States for 13 years and doesn’t speak English. Tang arrived at the Seattle Center 90 minutes before the 10 a.m. workshop to ensure entry. He sought assistance in filling out a stack of citizenship forms.

Besides the Mega-Workshop, which took four to six months of planning, OIRA holds periodic language-focus seminars to help non-English speakers. The much smaller seminars generally serve 25 to 50 in various languages.

In Shanghainese-accented Mandarin, Tang said he enjoys the lifestyle, freedom, and democracy in the United States. He acknowledged wanting to be close to his only child, a daughter, who lives in Bellevue. Tang was grateful for the sincerity and thoroughness of the volunteers. When asked if he would vote if he was successful in obtaining his citizenship, Tang emphatically said, “Of course.”

Like my father, Tang has embarked on a chain migration journey, one made easier with the Mega-Workshop.

However, if the virtual wall continues to grow, it may be awhile until he can vote. Ranganathan said Mayor Jenny Durkan “is prepared for a legal fight with the current administration.” Through these workshops, perhaps the chain will strengthen. Perhaps the wall will crumble, and perhaps Tang will get to vote.  Becky can be reached at info@nwasianweekly.com. can’t we suspend disbelief and be moved?”

Through his success, Montalban has remained modest and, in his words, “the good Filipino American son.” He remains close to his family. When he called one recent afternoon, his mother’s name flashes in the caller ID. “We are on the family plan,” Montalban explains sheepishly.

“It was the best deal.”

His parents, as they have for the last 25 years, continue to support Montalban, traveling the country to watch him perform, including plans to attend the opening night of Mamma Mia! on Feb. 9. And playfully, they remind him that he could still become a doctor, not just play one on TV. “Early on, I would have stopped acting and I would have gone back to medicine or psychology, if I had stopped getting work,” an introspective Montalban said. “It never stopped.”  Chris can be reached at info@nwasianweekly.com.

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