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Plowing the Killing Fields The need to discuss after 40 years

By Greg Young Northwest Asian Weekly On August 29th, the SeattleSihanoukville Sister City Association held an event at North Seattle Community College, “Remembering the Past & Welcoming the Future: 40 Years Since the Killing Fields.� This year marks the 40th anniversary since the breakout of the Cambodian genocide conducted by the Khmer Rouge, a period of time which saw the deaths of nearly two million people. After 1979, over 140,000 refugees relocated to the United States, predominately in the Northwest; Washington State is the home of a third of the

who said, “There’s also been no other people who have gathered the confidence and exuded the spirit necessary to figure out of that kind of situation.� There was also a very special guest who spoke for the audience via Skype: American actor Sam Waterston.

nation’s Cambodian population.

Representatives of Washington State, including Governor Jay Inslee and Seattle Mayor Edward Murray, declared August 29th 2015 as a Cambodian Day of Remembrance.

Cambodians gathered to the community college to remember

Seattle on the list for President Xi Jinping?

the past, and some of the older gentlemen agreed to speak out about their experiences. These speakers included Sameth Mom and Buntham Oum. They spoke to an audience in the North Star room of the Baxter Center about their experiences as victims of the killing fields. When Sameth told

his story, he spoke with passion, with a fire in his voice that remained lit after so many years.

The event had a number of notable speakers, including Councilmember Tom Rassmussen, who spoke about his efforts with civil rights in Seattle, and Councilmember Larry Gossett,

By Staff Seattle will be one of the destinations for Chinese President Xi Jinping’s visit to the United States in September, according to a Taiwanese news website.

Rumors have been flying for the past six months that Seattle will be on Xi’s itinerary. However, no one has officially confirmed it, including Gov. Jay Inslee’s office.

In response to the Asian Weekly’s email, the Governor’s office said that it will leave the announcement to the White House.

According to the United Daily News’ interview with Cheng Li,

director of Thornton China Center at Brookings, Xi will arrive in Seattle and stay for two days. He will meet with Inslee, Bill Gates, and Mayor Ed Murray. There will be a big welcoming event for Xi. Details of time and place have not been revealed.

Xi will then travel to Washington D. C. to meet with President Obama and to attend the 70th anniversary celebration of the United Nations in New York.

Xi is not the first highest Chinese official to visit Seattle.

Xi’s predecessor, Hu Jintao, visited Seattle in 2005, and Premier Deng Xiao Peng in 1979. ď Ž

{see CAMBODIA cont’d on page 15}

Hookah bars get a reprieve Community reaction toward Murray’s reversed decision

By Assunta Ng Northwest Asian Weekly Within less than a month, Mayor Ed Murray reversed his decision to close down all of the city’s hookah lounges after lounge owners and supporters’ two protests at City Hall.

Murray’s initial reaction to shut down the lounges was in response to Donnie Chin’s slaying on July 23 near Kings Hookah Lounge in the Chinatown/International District. Now the city wants to work with lounge owners to ensure that they comply with the state’s indoor smoking ban.

Dean Leong who works in the International District, said, “The

President Xi Jinping

Telling their story: Sameth’s Mom Sameth remembered the Khmer Rouge when he was a young man and his father was in the military, involved with the Hok Teng operation. In the beginning, they look at the Khmer Rouge with

“Steam stones�

mayor has capitulated to higher solving Chin’s murder? These power. The city should regulate are two separate issues, he said. (hookah bars).�

Uwajimaya Chairman Tomio Bob Santos, a protest leader Moriguchi, said he was not against Kings, said too much attention has been focused on {see HOOKAH cont’d on hookah lounges. What about page 15}

More International District violence Shooting in vicinity of hookah lounge leaves man battling for life SPD GO 2015-294087 7 ((UPDATE) E)) Shooting 08/23/2015, 0313 hours 1200 S. Main St.

Suspect: Victim: Firearm:

Galma Adam WAQO (in custody) Tony NGUYEN (AT LARGE) Third unidentified suspect Jamal WOODS-HALL

Galma Adam WAQO B/M/4/2/94 LKA: 911 Alder St., #787 Holly Park gang IN CUSTODY

Tony NGUYEN Victim A/M/6/24/93 J Jamal R WOODS-HALL 5-9, 180, aka TC B/M/9/26/90 LKA: 1120 SW 126th St (Critical) Seattle, WA 98146 may be associated with Tuk Town Kings gang light blue 1994 Buick LeSabre, ARP3218 Holly Park gang

Investigation: On 8/23/2015, at about 0313 hrs, victim Woods-Hall was with his girlfriend and her sister, when three By Jason Cruz after heexit was shot multiple times suspects confronted them. Victim Woods-Hall refused to the car and the three suspects pulled out firearms and shot victim Woods-Hall while shouting “Holly Park�. Victim Woods-Hall was originally Northwest Asian Weekly in the backseat of a car in the thought/reported to have died, but he is still alive and is in HMC. The suspects are Holly Park gang members and the victim is a Tuk Town Kings gang member Analytic parking lot of a hookah lounge Judgment: Assigned: Homicide – Cloyd Steiger A man is recovering at in Detective the International District on SEATTLE POLICE DEPARTMENT Harborview Medical Center August 23rd. Galma Adam Waqo,

21, is being charged with First Degree Attempted Murder for his involvement in the shooting.

Waqo’s arraignment hearing is set for September 9th at the King County Courthouse according to the Prosecutor’s office.

On August 23rd, Jamal Rashad Woods-Hall received gunshot wounds to the head and torso {see SHOOTING cont’d on page 15}

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COMMENTARY Violence in the ID Âť P. 11

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■ names in the news Seattle AAJA awarded

Refugees get health care boost from PDA grant to ICHS

populations on the Eastside, through the B-CAPE program. 

Yay for Yees!

Fron left: Mai Hoang, Samantha Pak, Natasha Chen, Caroline Li, Sarah Wallace, Venice Buhain, Lori Matsukawa

AAJA Seattle chapter received two awards at the national AAJA convention held in San Francisco in August. Mai Hoang received chapter president of the year and AAJA received the chapter of the year award, beating 20 other chapters nationwide. Hoang is an award-winning reporter at the Yakima Herald-Republic.

Despite being a new mom and working from Yakima, Hoang is recognized for her

leadership, commitment to journalism, and building a strong Seattle chapter with meaningful activities. She focused on rebuilding the chapter’s financial health throughout 2014. She welcomes ideas from all AAJA members and has taken them on, even when they created more work for her and the chapter board. And she led the Seattle chapter while living in Yakima, a 2.5 hour drive away from Seattle. 

ICHS community advocates who will assist underserved patients and groups on the Eastside (from left): Miran Hothi, Duby Monteros, Alexandra Poseukova, and Blanca Lujan Westrich.

Eastside patients who are traditionally underserved when it comes to health care, including low income, non-English speaking, and uninsured and underinsured immigrants and refugees, will receive help thanks to a grant awarded recently to International Community Health Services (ICHS).

The ICHS Bellevue Community Advocacy Program Expansion (B-CAPE) program will benefit from a $208,638 grant from Pacific Hospital Preservation & Development Authority (Pacific Hospital PDA).

The grant provides additional resources to the program to help reduce health disparities and improve access to health care for low-income, limited English proficient (LEP), and uninsured/ underinsured Bellevue-area immigrants and refugees.

The grant will allow the hiring of Community Advocates who will provide group-level and one-on-one communitybased outreach, health education, patient navigation services, and referrals to target

Paper Angels

Paper Angels

“Paper Angels,” written by Genny Lin and directed by David Hsieh premiered in the Pacific Northwest this August. The script explores immigration, race, human trafficking, and relationships.

The production, SIS Productions, is a

member of Theatre Pugent Sound, and was funded by 4Culture and ArtsWA. SIS Productions is always receptive to referrals to Asian American acting talent. SIS was able to offer 24 local actors the chance to work on stage. 

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From left, Fred Yee (Seattle,outgoing Western Grand Vice President), Alan Yee (Southern California, outgoing Western Gran President), Bettie Yee (California State Controller), Peter Yee (Boston, outgoing Eastern Grand President), Gong Yee (outgoing Eastern Grand Vice President)

California State Controller Bettie Yee recognized out going top National Yee officers at the 25th U.S. National Yee Convention held on August 1 -5, 2015 in Boston.

Luncheon on politics

From left: Julien Loh, Theresa Pan Hosley, Phillip Sit, Michael Itti

On Aug. 7, The Greater Seattle Chinese Chamber of Commerce held a luncheon at New Hong Kong Restaurant to discuss the topic: Is Politics Good for Business? Julien Loh, Theresa Pan Hosley, Phillip Sit, Michael Itti talked about how they got into politics and gave insights on the benefits or drawbacks to businesses.

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JooWan Kim’s hip-hop ensemble comes to Seattle

By Andrew Hamlin Northwest Asian Weekly JooWan Kim, a native of South Korea and longtime resident of the San Francisco Bay area, doesn’t remember having a huge affinity for popular music as a youth. “I was a pretty typical academic student who enjoyed listening to classical music. It wasn’t until I was 18, I decided to pursue music seriously.”

Kim, who brings his Ensemble Mik Nawooj (spell it backwards) to Barboza and Neumos on September 5th, certainly started out with the classics. “Beethoven,” he remembers. “When I was 10, I listened to his 5th symphony in its entirety with my mother. I was struck with awe for its sheer emotional power and structural integrity.

Subconsciously, I think I knew what I wanted to achieve in my life from then on; to create something comparable to what I heard.”

After going to undergrad and graduate programs, Kim continues, “I went through the usual European avant garde, ‘concert music’ phase, thinking that it was the noblest cause. Then, N.W.A. happened.

As I said many times in other interviews, Dr. Dre baptized me into the river of hiphop, making me born again as a hip-hop composer.

“To be clear,” he continues, “I’m not doing classical music with elements of hiphop music or merging classical music and

hip-hop to bridge some sort of nebulous gap. I’m making hip-hop music using a certain portion of classical techniques which I feel are compatible with the genre.

Hip-hop speaks to me in a very special way. It is still relatively young and has great flexibility and enormous growth potential.

In addition, it is vigorous and replete with anti-establishment sentiment. I am pushing the boundaries of what we understand hiphop to be.”

For a student composers’ concert at the San Francisco Conservatory of Music, Kim wrote a novelty piece for chamber ensemble and an MC. He did it out of rebellion against the concert music

aesthetic and this unexpectedly generated a lot of interest, which led his MC at the time to suggest that they make an album together.

“After spending about six months writing an hour of music, I had to seriously think about what I did with my life. This process of re-examination of musical aesthetics and their implications in the modern world completely transformed me. Other than the MC Kirby Dominant who was my first MC, everyone else was pretty much from the San Francisco Conservatory.”

Asked about his current classical ensemble, Kim relates, “Our current lineup includes flute, clarinet, violin, cello, drum

set, bass, two MCs, and a lyric soprano.

To be clear, except the two resident MCs, everyone plays exactly what I write.

Of course, everyone is a consummate professional and a musician of highest order with a great sense of adventure and experimentation.”

And as for the two rappers, the composer enthuses: “Both MCs, Do D.A.T. and Sandman have a very different style of thymes. D.A.T. with more rhythmic flexibility and dexterity, and Sandman with percussive rapid firing of lyrics and at times, profound proclamations. They complement each other very well, which is especially evident in a performance setting; the MCs function almost as a ‘section’ of an orchestra as well as being soloists.”

The Ensemble recently recorded an album, “Ensemble Mik Nawooj: A HipHop Orchestra,” and plans to record another soon. Kim is excited to bring his hybridized music to Seattle for the first time.

“From the classical composers,” he explains, “I learned to think rigorously.

From the hip-hop producers, I learned to be free.”

Ensemble Mik Nawooj plays Saturday, September 5th, 7 pm at Barboza at Neumos, 925 East Pike Street in Seattle. For more information, visit http://thebarboza.com/ event/ensemble-mik-nawooj-early-show/ . 

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Sealed Bid Location Due: King County Procurement & Payables Section, Contracts Counter, 3rd Floor, 401 Fifth Avenue, Seattle, WA 98104 Engineer’s Estimate: $200,000.

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■ WORLD NEWS

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Japan scraps Olympic logo over plagiarism allegation

By Mari Yamaguchi Associated Press

TOKYO (AP) — Tokyo Olympic organizers on Tuesday decided to scrap the logo for the 2020 Games following another allegation its Japanese designer might have used copied materials.

Reversing their earlier support for designer Kenjiro Sano against allegations of plagiarizing the design, the organizers said the decision came after new accusations over the weekend.

“We have reached a conclusion that it would be only appropriate for us to drop the logo and develop a new emblem,” said Toshio Muto, director general of the Tokyo organizing committee. “At this point, we have decided that the

logo cannot gain public support.”

The logo has faced scrutiny since a Belgian designer took legal action saying it resembled one of his works that was created for a theater in Belgium.

Organizers had defended Sano during a news conference last Friday when they released his original design, which had been altered into its final shape, to stress its authenticity. That, instead,

Mothers, students join Japan’s protests over security bills

By Mari Yamaguchi Associated Press

TOKYO (AP) — Mothers holding their children’s hands stood in the sprinkling rain, holding up anti-war placards, while students chanted slogans against Prime Minister Shinzo Abe and his defense policies to the beat of a drum.

Japan is seeing new faces join the ranks of protesters typically made up of labor union members and graying leftist activists. On Sunday, tens of thousands filled the streets outside Tokyo’s parliament to rally against new security legislation likely to become law in September.

“No to war legislation!” “Scrap the bills now!” and “Abe, quit!” they chanted in one of the summer’s biggest protests.

Their cries are against a series of bills that would expand Japan’s military role under a reinterpretation of the country’s warrenouncing constitution.

In Japan, where people generally don’t express political views in public, such rallies have largely diminished since the often violent university student protests in the early 1960s. Anti-nuclear protests after the 2011 Fukushima disaster also petered out.

Smaller protests were held elsewhere across the nation Sunday.

The demonstrations started earlier this year but grew sharply after July, when Abe’s ruling party and its junior coalition partner pushed the legislation through the more powerful lower house despite vocal opposition from other parties — and media polls showing the majority of Japanese opposed the bills.

Whether the protests’ momentum signals wider social change remains to be seen. They could die out once the summer holiday is over and the legislation is passed, as is widely expected.

But grass-roots groups among typically apolitical groups such as mothers and students — aided by social media — appear to be growing.

A group called Mothers Against War started in July and gained supporters rapidly via Facebook. It collected nearly 20,000 signatures of people opposed to the legislation, which representatives tried unsuccessfully to submit to Abe’s office

last Friday.

“I’m afraid the legislation is really going to reverse the direction of this country, where pacifism was our pride,” said a 44-year-old architect who joined Sunday’s rally with her 5-year-old son. She identified herself only as A. Hashimoto, saying politics is still a sensitive topic among parents at her son’s kindergarten.

“I feel our voices are neglected by the Abe government,” she said.

The bills would permit the Self Defense Force to engage in combat for the first time since World War II in cases of “collective defense,” when Japan’s allies such as the U.S. are attacked, but Japan itself is not.

The upper house is currently debating the bills, and is expected to approve them sometime next month. But even if it doesn’t, the legislation will be sent back to the lower house for a second vote that, if passed, would make it law.

Abe’s government argues that the changes are needed for Japan to respond to a harsher security environment, including a more assertive China and growing terrorist threats, and to fulfill expectations that it will contribute more to global peacekeeping efforts.

The bills are based on the Abe Cabinet’s decision to alter the interpretation of Japan’s constitution, drawn up by the occupying U.S. military after World War II, and not the constitution itself, which prohibits the country using force for purposes other than its own self-defense.

Dozens of legal experts and other academics have questioned the bills’ constitutionality, saying they go beyond what’s written in the charter.

The presence of college students in the protests, including a group known as SEALDs, or Students Emergency Action for Liberal Democracy, has also captured media attention this summer in Japan, where student activists have been nearly extinct for decades.

Half a century ago, 300,000 students, many of them Marxist ideologues, staged violent protests, repeatedly clashing with police, over revising the U.S.-Japan security treaty. Those protests played a role {see PROTESTS cont’d on page 12}

triggered fresh allegations over the initial “T” design.

Sano, 43, stood by his design but offered to withdraw the logo during discussion with the organizers earlier Tuesday.

Muto said the organizing committee will have another competition to decide a new logo “as soon as possible,” though he did not give a schedule.

Prime Minister Shinzo Abe told reporters before the announcement that the organizing committee was making “an appropriate decision” and that the Olympic must be an event that is celebrated by everyone.

The logo scandal is another embarrassment for Japan, which scrapped the initial design of the main stadium for the Games

following public uproar over its skyrocketing cost estimate. The delay caused by that revision meant the new stadium won’t be ready for the 2019 Rugby World Cup as had been initially promised, and that organizers and builders will be struggling to meet the revised deadline of January, 2020 set by the International Olympic Committee.

Sano, who has faced allegations of plagiarism since the logo’s July debut, now faces a reputation of a habitual plagiarizer.

The latest suspicion surfaced over the weekend, when he was alleged to have taken a photo from someone else’s website in {see OLYMPIC cont’d on page 12}

Immigration shift shows India, China outpacing Mexico

By Jamie Stengle Associated Press

DALLAS (AP) — Siddharth Jaganath wanted to return to India after earning his master’s degree at Texas’ Southern Methodist University. Instead, he built a new life in the U.S. over a decade, becoming a manager at a communications technology company and starting a family in the Dallas suburb of Plano.

“You start growing your roots and eventually end up staying here,” the 37-year-old said.

His path is an increasingly common one: Immigrants from China and India, many with student or work visas, have overtaken Mexicans as the largest groups coming into the U.S., according to U.S. Census Bureau research released in May. The shift has been building for more than a decade and experts say it’s bringing more highly skilled immigrants here. And some

Republican presidential candidates have proposed a heavier focus on employmentbased migration, which could accelerate traditionally slow changes to the country’s ever-evolving face of immigration.

Mexicans still dominate the overall composition of immigrants in the U.S., accounting for more than a quarter of the foreign-born people. But of the 1.2 million newly arrived immigrants here legally and illegally counted in 2013 numbers, China led with 147,000, followed by India with 129,000 and Mexico with 125,000. It’s a sharp contrast to 2000, when there were 402,000 from Mexico and no more than 84,000 each from India and China. Experts say part of the reason for the decrease in Mexican immigrants is a dramatic plunge in illegal immigration.

“We’re not likely to see Asians overtake {see IMMIGRATION cont’d on page 12}

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■ COMMUNITY news Helping historically hidden communities State of undocumented APIs three years after DACA

By Marissa Vichayapai Special to Northwest Asian Weekly Three years after the start of Deferred Action for Child Arrivals (DACA), a federal program which provides certain undocumented immigrants protection from deportation, a social security number, a work permit, and other benefits, enrollment of eligible Asians and Pacific Islanders continue to be disproportionally low, while gaps in services and knowledge remain high.

After the release of data from the Migration Policy Institute in 2014 indicating a need among the undocumented API community, there has been a considerable amount of resources allocated to addressing this issue on the national level. States with a high population of undocumented APIs, such as California and New York, have quickly mobilized by

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increasing services and outreach efforts to the undocumented API community. From these efforts, the United States’ Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS), has

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India and Pakistan have seen a 57%, 11%, 39% and 42% growth rate, respectively.

While there is growth, the actual number of submissions totaled to just over 1,000 applicants.

While there is some improvement in the number of APIs who have DACA, the overall trend of applicants remain disproportionate.

Undocumented Chinese immigrants, one of the largest undocumented API ethnic groups in the U.S., and immigrants from Vietnam consistently do not appear on USCIS’ top 25 list of countries of origin that apply for the DACA program. In 2013, applicants from China, who are among the top three countries of birth with potentially eligible DACA recipients, has only had 5% of their total eligible population apply.

Comparatively, Korea has had 35% of their eligible population apply. {see DACA cont’d on page 13}

Speed dating draws millennials to local library

SUN 9/20 WHAT: Helping Link’s 22nd Anniversary Gala WHERE: Mercer Island Community Center, 8236 S.E. 24th St., Mercer Island WHEN: 6-8 p.m.

COST: $85/person, $125/VIP ticket INFO: www.helpinglink.org

SUN 9/22 - MON 9/23 WHAT: Chongqing acrobatic delegation WHERE: Chief Sealth International High School WHEN: 7-9 p.m.

SAT 9/26 WHAT: Guest speaker Lori Tsugawa Whaley WHERE: Dojo Room, Blding #2, JCCCW 1414 South Weller St. Seattle, WA WHEN: 1 pm- 3:30 pm

By Jocelyn Moore Northwestern Asian Weekly While speed dating may not be at the top of your list of date ideas, it may be a trending way to meet new people soon, at least at your local libraries.

The Beacon Hill Branch of Seattle Public Library hosted its first speed dating event on August 29, 2015, drawing a younger crowd to the library. The event was created in the celebration of the recent Chinese Valentine’s Day with millennial-aged singles as the target audience.

“It is a great opportunity to meet people,” said library associate Di Zhang. “This allows people to meet each other, make connections, maybe they find a friend.

That is what this is all about.”

“Each man has 3 minutes to get to know the girl,” Zhang said. “After they get through the speed dating rounds, they can mingle, follow up with each other, or talk to us about the event during the social hours.”

Jack Chen, 35, who attended speed dating the first time said he just intended to make friends at the event.

Chen felt that people in his generation are either busy working or getting their education, which sometimes leaves very {see DATING cont’d on page 13}

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Hong’s Garden closes Joy and sadness

From left: long-time staff Rita, Faye Hong and his daughter Melinda

After 59 years in the restaurant business, Faye Hong, a community leader, finally closed Hong’s Garden Restaurant in Renton on Aug. 29.

Many customers dined at Hong’s Garden during the last two weeks, packing the restaurant during lunch and dinner. The Lui family went to dine at Hong’s on Aug. 29.

All family members felt sad. The four siblings had worked at Hong’s Garden as hosts while going to college. Their mother also worked there as a waitress when Hong’s first opened in 1994.

Hong said it’s quite a challenge for Chinese restaurants to survive outside Chinatown and the International District.

“When people want Chinese food, they rather go to Chinatown.”

“Young people don’t eat Chinese food that often,” he said. Even his son doesn’t like Chinese food, he added.

Hong is a respected leader in the Chinese community.

Remorse, last evening at the lounge of Hong’s Garden

He was the fundraising chair for the Seattle Chinese Historic Gate and also led a campaign for the Lee’s Family Association to buy its headquarter on Beacon Hill.

Hong owned the House of Hong from 1983-1993 and the Atlas from 1956 to 1983. His father founded Atlas and asked Hong, a Boeing engineer, to quit his job to help the family business.

Hong was supposed to retire after he sold the House

of Hong in Chinatown. But his former employees urged Hong to open Hong’s Garden in 1994 so they could partner together. But the economy tumbled in 2008 and all partners left. Hong was stuck with the restaurant.

As of now, there is no potential buyer. Hong doesn’t want to work anymore, so he decided to close the restaurant before finding a buyer. The restaurant is for sale. Hong wants to retire before he turns 74 next month. 

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Be careful what you write!

Love letters never meant to be sent and taking on roles never anticipated—book recommendations for early Fall

By Samantha Pak Northwest Asian Weekly

Murder on Bamboo Lane

By Naomi Hirahara Berkley, 2014

Ellie Rush is a bicycle cop for the Los Angeles Police Department. And while she just wants to help those who need it, with a half-white, half-Japanese background but looks that can pass for white, she is not always welcome in the ethnically Los Angeles diverse communities she polices.

Although she has ambitions to become a homicide detective, she still can’t help being

disturbed when she comes across her first dead body — a former college classmate.

At the request of her Aunt Cheryl, who is the assistant police chief, Ellie finds herself embroiled in the investigation. She receives help (and interference) from her nosy best friend, an over-involved ex-boyfriend and the good-looking detective leading the investigation.

Hirahara’s writing will have readers constantly guessing who the killer is as she provides us with a number of possibilities that have Ellie riding around in circles on her LAPD-issued bike. But Ellie proves to be up to the challenge as she follows the various clues and does her best to earn possible witnesses’ trust and get them to talk to her — using her just-out-of-college youth and mixed background to her advantage.

In addition to the mystery of “Bamboo Lane,” Hirahara also showcases the diversity that exists in Los Angeles. In addition to Ellie and her biracial family, the story’s remaining cast of characters all have different backgrounds — from her Cambodian American best friend, to the murder victim’s Peruvian roommate, to various members of the local Vietnamese community.

And while highlighting these diverse characters was great to read, Hirahara’s writing also adds nuances with the way they interact with each other that could only come from firsthand experience. As an

Asian American, I was able to see myself in various characters at various points in the stories and was even able to recall when I have had similar conversations with my family and friends as Ellie and her inner circle has throughout the book.

To All the Boys I’ve Loved Before

By Jenny Han Simon & Schuster BFYR, 2014

In her room, in a teal hatbox, Lara Jean Covey has a box of love letters. But these letters are not sent to her. They are letters she has written to the boys she has loved.

There are five in total. She doesn’t write the letters to be sent to the boys in question.

The letters are just for her — a way for her

to get over them and move on with her life.

But then, the letters get sent out by mistake and before she realizes what’s happening, Lara Jean — who is half Korean and half white — is dealing with confused boy after confused boy as they confront her about the letters.

Needless to say, things begin to spin out of control and hilarity ensues.

Despite the title and premise of the book, “Boys” is not all about Lara Jean going boy crazy. In addition to dealing with all these boys who never really noticed her before suddenly taking an interest, her older sister Margot has just moved away to Scotland for college. Suddenly, Lara Jean finds herself in a more motherly role, taking care of her younger sister Kitty as well as their father — a role Margot assumed after their mother died when they were younger.

Family plays a large role in this story and Lara Jean’s life and I really enjoyed that as it showed that she was more than a silly teenaged girl. It made her struggles and triumphs more realistic as teenaged girls are multifaceted and multidimensional.

Han shows her readers that it’s also ok to be the kind of girl who prefers staying home on the weekend to going out and partying as Lara Jean is more on the quiet and introverted side. But just because she prefers keeping to herself, doesn’t mean Lara Jean isn’t strong or that she doesn’t know how to speak her mind. She does.

And when she does, watch out. 

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■ Community news

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Making more than a monetary contribution

Compiled by Andrew Kim Northwest Asian Weekly The Women of Color Empowered is proud to honor women in the Pacific Northwest who have made significant contributions to our communities.

We are honored to present the nominees for “Women and Money” at the China Harbor Restaurant, Seattle, Sept.18:

Fawn Sharp

Fawn Sharp is the President of the Quinault Indian Nation, serving since 2006. She is an attorney with an academic background in Criminal Justice who also holds an advanced certificate in International Human Rights Law from Oxford University. Ms. Sharp formerly served as Managing Attorney and Lead Counsel for the Quinault government as well as Associate Judge and Administrative Law Judge for the Washington State Department of Revenue Tax Appeals Division.

Lacie West

Lacie West is the Area Development Director for the United Negro College Fund (UNCF). As the Area Development Director, Lacie is responsible for all fundraising and outreach efforts in the Pacific Northwest Region. The UNCF Pacific NW office has raised nearly $2 million dollars and supported over 3,000 local UNCF students and scholarship recipients. Lacie is a University of Washington graduate and has been heavily involved in several local community organizations including serving on the Board of Directors for the Accounting Career Awareness Program (ACAP) and the Mercer Island Youth and Family Services.

Carmen Gayton

Carmen Gayton is a realtor in

Seattle who continues to make incredible contributions to the Seattle community. Carmen was appointed by Governor Inslee to the Seattle Colleges Board and is currently board chair. She also serves as Gala and Auction Co-Chair for the Achievement Rewards for College Scientists (ARCS) Foundation, Inc. Her past board memberships include YWCA, PONCHO (Patrons of Northwest Civic, Cultural and Charitable Organizations), and The Lakeside Board and Northern Trust. In 2014, Carmen was presented with the Dorothy Stimson Bullitt Community Service Award by the Junior League of Seattle.

Professor Marinilka B. Kimbro received her PhD in Accounting from the University of Maryland in College Park and has held research appointments at numerous academic institutions.

In addition, her research has been recognized by publications such as the Wall Street Journal, Roosevelt Institute, and the Atlanta JournalConstitution. Dr. Kimbro is currently a Director of the WSCPA’s and she has been actively involved in executive training at WSCPA, SFC Hong Kong, and Goldman Sachs Asia among others. She has received numerous teaching awards and her students rave about her passion and ability to “bring real-world contemporary issues to the classroom” and by making accounting “relevant, intellectually challenging and fun”.

Chrissy Yamada

Barbara Banon

of the Pacific Northwest where she attended the University of Puget Sound and received her undergraduate degree in Psychology and Business Administration. She also attended Antioch University where she earned her graduate degree in Education. She began her career in business and has worked for major corporations such as New York Life, Allstate Insurance, and Reliance Insurance. Patricia has been involved with various community programs such as the First Hill Improvement Association where she served as a board member and has actively directed an inner city youth golf program in Seattle.

Rosario Carroll

State University (WSU), Bellevue College, Bellevue Lifespring, North High School (Des Moines, Iowa) At WSU she supported scholarships for first generation students, single parents, Future Cougars of Color, all in the college of education. At Bellevue College she supported scholarships for first generation students, single parents and veterans.

She is also active in the Seattle community, where she contributes to the Wing Luke Museum, the Seattle Men’s/Women’s Chorus, Bailey Boushay, Seattle Rep, ArtsFund, Washington Women’s Foundation, and the Holocaust Center for Humanity.

Meredith Parker

Meredith Parker is an enrolled member of the Makah Tribe and

Rosario Carroll was born and

Barbara Banon is an Associate Vice President and Financial Advisor at Morgan Stanley.

With over 20 years in the financial services industry, she is a seasoned professional that brings years of experience and knowledge in managing assets as well as providing guidance that helps clients preserve and grow wealth. Ms. Banon is currently involved with Invest in Youth as an afterschool tutor, and as a board member of the Washington Rhinestone Club, an organization that provides mentoring, cultural experiences, and college scholarships for young women.

She is also an active member of the Historic 1ST A.M.E. Church in Seattle and has roles in the Stewardess Board as well as the Aids Care Team Ministry.

Marinilka B. Kimbro

Chrissy Yamada is currently Senior Vice President and Chief Financial Officer for EvergreenHealth.

She is responsible for directing EvergreenHealth’s fiscal and facility construction operations.

Yamada earned her Bachelor of Science degree in accounting from Central Washington University, and has been a Certified Public Accountant since 1985. She is a member of several national and state organizations, including the Healthcare Financial Management Association, the American Institute of Certified Public Accountants and the Washington Society of Certified Public Accountants. She serves as a board member for the King County Project Access and Hospital Shared Services Association.

Chrissy was also recognized as one of the Puget Sound Business Journal’s 2015 CFOs of the Year, being honored as one of the “financial super-strategists of Washington companies and organizations.”

Patricia Edmond-Quinn

Patricia is currently the Chief Clinical Officer at Therapeutic Health Services.

As the Chief Clinical Officer, Patricia provides administrative oversight to Therapeutic Health Services psychiatric and medical departments and has responsibilities for achieving and maintaining the agency’s accreditation with CARF International. She is a native

raised in Lima, Peru. She started her banking career in 1984 at the Greens Family Peoples Bank, two years after she immigrated to the United States. Peoples Bank was later acquired by US Bank where she had the opportunity to be part of their credit-training program.

In 2006, she was recruited to Plaza Bank as a Commercial Relationship Manger as one of Plaza Bank’s founding employees.

She later became the Senior Lending Officer in 2011 and at the beginning of 2015, due to the introduction of an initiative she developed, became their Director of Diversity Banking. Rosario has devoted many years volunteering in the Hispanic Community advocating financial education.

Her efforts in the community were recognized when she was awarded the 2014 Small Business Administration Financial Services Champion of the Year award.

Debby Killinger

Debby Killinger was born in Des Moines, Iowa, but her lifetime of service has not been isolated to Iowa. She has supported scholarships for Morehouse College, Washington

lives in Neah Bay. She worked for 25 years in the forestry sector and retired after serving 13 years as CEO of the Makah Forestry Enterprise. She now serves as General Manager at Makah providing administrative, programmatic, and operational supervision to all tribal departments, programs, activities, and business enterprises. She is very actively involved in her community serving as the President to the Makah Cultural and Research Center, President of the Neah Bay Chamber of Commerce, and Vice-President at the Potlatch Fund. She has a passion for photography and captures the moments in history that take place at Makah and west coast potlatches and other cultural occasions like the annual canoe journeys and Makah Days. Her images have been featured in a number of regional, nationa,l and international exhibits.

Rakhi Samant

Rakhi Samant is a District Manager for Wells Fargo Bank {see WOMEN cont’d on page 12}

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■ PUBLISHER'S BLOG

OPINION

Managing growth and respecting the past Nikkei Concerns will soon be Keiro Northwest

By Assunta Ng Northwest Asian Weekly

“To improve is to change, to be perfect is to change often.” –Winston Churchill

On Jan. 1, 2016, Nikkei Concerns, founded in 1975 by second-generation Japanese Americans to serve Japanese elderly, will change its name to KEIRO Northwest.

Nikkei Concerns (NC) means the concerns of second generations. Five units are under NC, including Seattle Keiro (a nursing home; Nikkei Manor (an assisted living facility); an adult day program for seniors living in the community; and a continuing education classes for active seniors.

Why the name change? It’s about embracing change since healthcare reform.

Jeff Hattori, NC’s CEO, said, health care reform and a growing Asian community are truly “game changers” for NC. “The “concerns” of 40 years ago are different than today, however, both presented significant challenges.as well as opportunity.”

NC has researched, analyzed, and developed strategic initiatives over the past three years based on the work of the “Blue Ribbon Committee” and through the Board’s very deliberate strategic planning and rebranding work. NC has been expanding, launching, and testing services

Jeff Hattori

Courtesy of Nikkei Concerns

that support the health and wellness and “needs/wants” of our community while meeting the mandates of healthcare reform, Hattori said.

Tomio Moriguchi, one of the NC seven founders in 1975, said he is for it. It’s appropriate to change NC name to expand services to serve the Asian community.

Bill Tashima, former president of the Japanese American Citizens League said he is excited about the name change. “Keiro is widely recognized in the API community as a high quality compassionate provider

of health care. Keiro means “care for our elders,” a value that moved the Japanese community to establish the original Keiro Nursing Home and a value held by all API communities. Adding “Northwest” to the name emphasizes the vision to broaden services beyond Seattle, needed by the changing demographics of the local JA/ API community.

The fact is, the Seattle Keiro nursing home has been serving other Asian groups for years. In King County, the Japanese population is about 31,000 less than the

other Asian ethnic groups such as Chinese (58,000), Koreans (38,000), Filipino (53,000) and Vietnamese (44,000).

“Respect for Elders” is truly the essence of who we are,” said Hattori. “It is a name that most recognize and have a connection to. It signals change as we transform and grow. It honors our legacy and is a value that all communities embrace.”

What a wonderful way to honor the past and bring it to an assuring future! 

33 YEARS YOUR VOICE

■ editorial The headline above may be a somewhat misleading statement because the International District (ID) has recently received a lot of attention, due to the death/ homicide of Donnie Chin, hookah lounge controversy, and very violent neighborhood crime.

The attention we are receiving is not flattering.

It is hard to evaluate when you are judging what you are already immersed in, but there is that painful, often depressing point where you have to make concessions that well, things are just wrong and you have to analyzed the points and selfevaluate, if that is objectively possible.

So, a neighborhood evaluation

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OPINION

What does the ID need?

(and please note obviously community-paper biased): What needs to be addressed?

What can we do to make this small but important part of our world…more attractive…safer… inviting…?

There are more questions than answers. What is going on with the crime? The ID now feels unsafe, even more so than other crimeridden neighborhoods. We do not have the resources to compile all the recent statistics, but what we can do, yet again, is recap what happened recently—and what seems to be popular on Seattle police blotter. Those unfortunate reminders include: Local hero, ID stalwart, and figurehead Donnie Chin was

Attention

murdered, shot during the evening when he was on his standard route, in which he served as watchdog and lookout for the neighborhood.

This traumatized the community and will continue to do so. This summer will not be forgotten.

In case you didn’t read about it on page one, approximately 30 shots were fired into a car with alleged intent to kill? Maim?

Who knows? But we do know is the victim was from Tukwila, the alleged shooter is from Holly Park.

But the shooting took place here in our International District. A million dollar bail is requested for the alleged shooter. Gang violence is involved in our neighborhood.

To the police: What does it take to receive the attention we need?

Aside from this recent violence?

Crime has been the unfortunate highlight, but there are also other issues the neighborhood should consider and take its own responsibility for. This is not a reprimand, just a small call to action on everyone’s part.

The ID should be more attractive. We are grateful for the flagships in our neighborhood (shout out to Uwajimaya, Lam’s, and Viet Wah!), but how can we do more to promote character and culture? Small businesses should be promoted and encouraged.

Of course we love our amazing grocery stores and mega-star restaurants, but what about the tea shops, specialty book stores, bakeries, and even the little place

that will sell you a tiny sprig of bamboo, or the new cute dresses from Japan?. The windows the visitors to our neighborhood peer into should offer an opportunity to invite and explore. We should be supporting both our large and small businesses.

Last point:. Please, let’s clean it up, and let’s make an effort to do so. We have character, charm, and it should be respected. We should see that instead of trash and graffiti.

We love the ID and we want everyone else to love it too. 

■ Commentary

Ever-changing headlines

Maybe priorities should be gun control Donnie Chin was murdered from shots fired by a gun. That is the damn issue here, another human life lost by a gun-toting killer. The Asian Pacific American communities need to step up to the National Rifle Association (NRA) and demand that they support GUN CONTROL. To NRA members, keep guns to protect your family—don't allow gang members to acquire guns to kill our family.

Hidden from the public is that justice isn't being done in the

murder of Donnie Chin by gunfire.

The International District violence didn't just happen with this shooting. If the public only knew the daily violence that occurs down here throughout the daylight hours into the morning mist, they would be shocked.

Oh! How nice to close up hookah lounges, Oh! Just a minute, they're open again. Oh! The King’s Lounge is closed, Oh!, just a minute, they are open again.

Every day the headlines highlight the problems of the

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owners of hookah lounges who claim they are being targeted because they are black. The NAACP jumps on the issue of racial discrimination. DONNIE CHIN was shot by gunfire while in his car. Where in the hell are the suspects? That is the issue.

Donnie gave his life to keep his neighbors in his neighborhood safe.

That did not work, the International District Neighborhood is not safe. The man who patrolled his neighborhood 24/7 died because there isn't and there hasn't been the

proper attention paid by the Seattle Police Department presence in his neighborhood. Donnie, while on patrol would be confronted by street people trespassing in the Danny Woo Garden. He would alert the patrol offices if he saw one of the many car break-ins in the Inter*Im parking lot, the break-ins and looting of offices in the non-profit organizations, the assaults on unsuspecting victims to the district, the fights, the stabbings, the gunfire. Oh! By the way! Donnie got shot to death,

where are the shooters?

As of this moment there are plans under way to draft a resolution to be presented to the board of directors of the National Coalition of Asian Pacific Community Development (CAPACD) calling for tougher gun control laws to be signed by member non-profit organizations that produce housing in Asian ethnic communities throughout the country.

CAPACD will meet Sept. 28Sept. 30, 2015, in Washington DC.

Bob Santos

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{IMMIGRATION cont’d from page 5} Latin Americans anytime soon (in overall immigration population). But we are sort of at the leading edge of this transition where Asians will represent a larger and larger share of the U.S. foreign-born population,” said Marc Rosenblum, deputy director of the U.S. Immigration Policy Program for the Washington-based Migration Policy Institute.

The national trend is evident even in Texas, where the number of Mexican immigrants coming to the border state each year has dropped by more than half since 2005, according to the Office of the State Demographer. In that time, the number of people from India coming to Texas has more than doubled and the number from China has increased more than fivefold, though both still comfortably trail Mexican {Women cont’d from page 9}

immigrants.

Asian immigrants have flocked to Texas’ large urban and suburban areas, including the Dallas suburb of Collin County, the home to many major businesses.

Laxmi Tummala, a real estate agent in the area and a U.S.-born child of Indian immigrants, has witnessed a buildup in Indian restaurants, grocery stores, clothing outlets and worship centers.

“All of that is extremely accessible now,” Tummala said.

While much of the discussion among GOP candidates this summer has centered on illegal immigration, they have also touched on immigrant skill levels. Donald Trump has proposed kicking out the estimated 11 million people who are in the U.S. illegally before allowing the “good ones” and “talented” ones back in. Jeb Bush and Marco Rubio both have said that

the legal immigration process should focus more on letting in workers the country needs rather than reuniting families.

Increasing the flow of highly skilled immigrants would likely have a big impact on those coming from India and China.

The majority of them who are 25 and older who arrived within three years of the 2013 numbers had a bachelor’s degree or higher, according to the Migration Policy Institute.

Mexican immigrants only had 15 percent, up from 6 percent in 2000.

China and India’s growing economies have given immigrants access to travel and the ability to pay for an education abroad. Hua Bai came to University of Texas at Dallas from China last year to work on a master’s degree in marketing and information technology management.

The 25-year-old said that given the right opportunity, she’d like to stay in the U.S. biotechnology scientist. Her research results have been published in many scientific journals. She has also has helped launch the Seattle Biotechnology Foundation.

Mei-Ling’s community involvement includes serving as a past board member of nonprofit organizations including the Organization of Chinese Americans and the Wing Luke Asian Museum, as well as serving as a past national board member of 80/20 Initiatives and a coproducer of a PBS documentary.

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Nobie Chan who oversees nine banking locations and approximately 100 team members in the North Puget Sound area. Rakhi moved to the U.S. in her mid-twenties from Bombay, India. Two years ago, she joined the board of directors for the Red Cross of Snohomish County and immediately made an impact by volunteering her time in call centers during the Oso mudslides and also spent countless personal hours reaching out and thanking donors. Her dedication immediately shined through to the Red Cross and this past year, she was elected to the executive board. She is a strong leader

{OLYMPIC cont’d from page 5} materials used in Olympic logo presentations, including one at its launch, apparently without permission.

Sano allegedly lifted a photo of a Tokyo airport lobby, posted on the Internet, and superimposed his logo on banners and

Mei-Ling started her State Farm career as an agent in 2006 in Redmond, WA. She quickly became a “who’s who” among her peers. In ten years, Mei-Ling qualified for nearly every State Farm award, including those for excellence in life insurance and mutual funds. She was also an aspirant for the Million Dollar Round Table - an international, independent association that represents the world’s best sales professionals in the life insurance-based, financial services industry.

Prior to joining State Farm, Mei-Ling earned a Master of Science worked as a signposts in the photo to show how it would look. Details in the two photos, including people on the floor and the size of the banners, were identical in footages shown by NHK. Sano has previously acknowledged that eight of the 30 designs used for a brewery’s promotional tote bags included copies

“If I get sponsorship I’d consider living here and working here,” she said. “It all depends on the job opportunities.”

Without revisions in immigration policy, experts say the change to the overall immigrant population will be slow. One reason is that the number of Mexicans who become legal permanent residents is about twice the number of Indian and Chinese people who do, according to Michael Fix, president of the Migration Policy Institute.

But a rising number of Chinese and Indians will become permanent residents, given the current rate of about half of people here on temporary work visas obtaining that status, Fix said.

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By Sun Lee Chang

Rat — If you are less than satisfied with what you are getting, then perhaps it is time to speak up and ask specifically for what you really want.

Dragon — Training yourself to adjust to a new routine can be difficult. Add little rewards in along the way as a motivator.

Monkey — Is a coworker being more defensive than they should be? Their heightened level of sensitivity could indicate that something is amiss.

Ox — There may be a drawback to being gone too often. Check in regularly to avoid being left out of the loop.

Snake — Some old baggage could be holding you back from a rewarding experience. Leave the past behind you where it belongs.

Rooster — A misunderstanding can easily be rectified if you are willing to talk things through with the other side.

Tiger — Are you in the enviable position of having more invitations than you can accept? If you cannot accept, try to decline in a gracious and timely manner.

Horse — Does your schedule seem to be growing busier by the day? Carve out some breaks for yourself for as long as it makes sense to recharge.

Dog — It might be a hassle to get an assignment done earlier than usual, but the benefits of doing so far outweigh the extra effort expended.

Rabbit — When you are on vacation, there is not as much of a need for an orderly approach. Embrace spontaneity for a change.

Goat — While you don’t necessarily need to answer the call for volunteers, there are other ways that you can help.

Pig — Take a moment to show kindness to another.

They will in turn show you the same in a time yet to come.

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 Rooster 1921, 1933, 1945, 1957, 1969, 1981, 1993, 2005 Dog 1922, 1934, 1946, 1958, 1970, 1982, 1994, 2006 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.

{DACA cont’d from page 6} Locally, trends in Washington State’s applicants are harder to measure. Latest figures from the Brookings Report (2013), indicate that APIs make up 4.6% of Washington State’s DACA applications.

Recent findings from USC’s Professor Tom Wong show just how large this disparity actually is. According to Professor Wong’s (2014) findings, 23% or 5,416 of the DACA eligible community in Washington State is API—a much higher figure than what was originally estimated and shows a larger distinction. The latest data also indicates that Washington State’s undocumented API community comprises of individuals whose country of birth is India (25%), Korea (22%), China (18%), Philippines (13%), and Vietnam (9%). A larger percent of APIs (13%) are from other countries of origin.

Washington State has also seen an increase of services and outreach efforts to the undocumented API community.

Fearless Asians for Immigration Reform (FAIR!), a campaign by 21 Progress launched in April 2015, has since provided training to over 100 services providers, with a potential reach of over 44,000 APIs in the community. Additionally, tabling and workshop events throughout the state have resulted in nearly 2,000 direct interactions with APIs or API-serving individuals.

While results of this added outreach and increased awareness among service providers and the API community have yet to be seen or measured using national data sets, some insights regarding enrollment and cultural shift can be made.

Through FAIR!’s outreach, training {DATING cont’d from page 6} little time to get to meet new people.

On the other hand, Sam Kwan, 29, whose cousin works at the Seattle Public Library, felt there are plenty of opportunities to make new friends.

and consultation with community service providers and community leaders, FAIR! has assisted over 65 undocumented API identified individuals access information and immigration-related services. Over 10 DACA eligible youth are currently working on applications, while three are waiting for DACA approval. For the first time, undocumented APIs are able to identify a single organization who can provide direct service and connection to legal resources they desperately want and need.

While statistics are one portion of the picture, there is much information and insight to be gathered from working with such a historically hidden community. The following collection of observations are based on FAIR!’s recent work.

1.

APIs who are undocumented have limited awareness of the DACA or the proposed Expanded DACA and DAPA program*.

Nearly 70% of individuals had never heard of the DACA program prior to interacting with a FAIR! community advocate or FAIR! trained individual.

When a DACA eligible youth and their parents learn about the program, their reaction is near disbelief and sometimes, even shock. I once received the phone number and name of a potentially DACA eligible youth from a community leader.

I called him that same day, and after prescreening the youth for DACA and explaining the program, he went quiet for a while. I asked him, “What do you think? Are you interested in applying?”

He responded with, “I’m sorry, I just can’t believe this. This is freaking amazing.”

On another occasion, after telling a mixed-status Chinese family about DACA’s

history and its three year existence, the family was downright angry. For them, it was three years of lost work, income, and potential that was left untapped. Every person’s income is essential, and three years of lost work makes all the difference.

2.

APIs are interested in applying for federal programs.

Nearly 92% of DACA eligible APIs are actively moving forward in their DACA applications, after learning about the temporary program. 65% of Expanded DACA or DAPA eligible APIs have opted to provide their personal information so that they stay connected with the FAIR! program and receive expedited services.

There is some hesitation when people learn that the program is temporary and there are questions about risk involved.

However, this period is often short lived.

Typically, eligible APIs start working on their DACA applications right away, and will schedule an appointment with Northwest Immigrant Rights Project (NWIRP), which offers free weekly DACA legal clinics, within two weeks of learning about the program.

After screening applicants, I always ask them, “What do you think? Are you interested in applying?” The responses I receive generally indicate that people are tired of their current living conditions. The opportunity to make more money, avoid deportation, and access certain benefits far outweighs the risks—even if the opportunity is a temporary one.

3.

APIs who are undocumented need increased support and culturally competent services.

55% of undocumented APIs were referred to FAIR! by a FAIR!-trained

community leader, 28% by a FAIR! ad posted in an ethnic newspaper, and 6% by a FAIR!-trained community service provider.

Even though most of the undocumented APIs we’ve worked with have interacted with various systems to receive state benefits, many have come to the program through our direct work, indicating a possible lack of knowledge and support.

Increasing the community’s awareness and advocacy of the undocumented API population could add great potential in ensuring undocumented API people are receiving the right resources.

As the FAIR! campaign continues to do our work, we still need participation from API serving advocates, leaders, service providers and allies. The FAIR! campaign offers free trainings and consultations.

Find out how you can get involved, join the movement and support the hard working undocumented APIs in our community by going to www.ItshouldBeFAIR.com can signing our pledge. Contact us at info@ itshouldbefair.com or call (206) 578-1255.

they were all excited to try something new,” Xue said. “I think nowadays young people are doing more online dating but I think meeting someone new in person still interests people. Plus speed dating allows you to have multiple dates at one event and is less awkward than a blind date.”

speaking community is one of her top priorities as the Chinese language librarian.

“I feel job searching is also an area where some of the younger Chinese new immigrants need help, such as how to write a resume, apply for a job, and where to find job opportunities,” Xue said.

Librarian Nonie Xue who led the event planning said the speed dating event turned out to be a success with great participants.

Last year for Chinese Valentine’s Day, the Central Library did a dating event that involved more than 100 attendees with more group activities. Xue received some feedback that suggested more one-on-one conversation opportunities, which inspired the speed dating idea for this year’s theme.

“I actually didn’t know much about speed dating myself,” Xue said. “It was sort of a new concept to me and probably a lot of the Chinese people.”

“Several participants told me they loved the speed dating format and felt it was a more efficient way to get to know each other,” Xue said.

“Some of them seemed a bit shy but

Xue said that serving the Chinese-

“They gotta go to more parties,” Kwan said. “I just come out and have fun.”

“We offer free ESL classes and conversation group for English learners and we’ve also been working with Chinese information and service center to present life-skill workshops to help the new immigrants to get to know the American society, financial and healthcare systems,” said Xue who works mostly with Chinese seniors.

She feels that language is a barrier for a lot of seniors as they did not have the chance to learn English when they were younger. She also provides regular instruction and cultural programs for the Chinese-speaking community such as the weekly Chinese computer class and techhelp sessions.

*Expanded DACA and DAPA, or Deferred Action for Parental Accountability, are two proposed federal programs that was scheduled to launch in February 2015.

However, anti-immigrant judge from Texas who claims that DACA and DAPA are unconstitutional and a burden to their state filed a lawsuit. Decisions from that lawsuit are still pending. Expanded DACA and DAPA would allow approximately 4.9 million eligible undocumented immigrants temporary protection from deportation along with other similar benefits as the DACA program. 

Currently, Seattle Public Library does not have set-in-motion plans for future speed dating events but it is definitely one of the ideas to bring people to the local libraries.

“We do wanna have different audiences in the future, maybe senior, same-sex,” Zhang said. “But we are still in the testing phase.”

The next upcoming event in celebration of the Chinese culture is mid-autumn moon festival concert con September 13th at the Central Library. For more information, visit spl.org. 

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{CAMBODIA cont’d from page 1} high hopes, that they would bring happiness, “food, freedom, and unity.”

Soon, he and his family were separated and given various relocation assignments; the elderly were separated from the middle aged and the young. Sameth was assigned to build automobiles. But still, at this time Sameth had high hopes. He saw the new burgeoning auto industry as “a driving force of the new economy.” But soon he longed to reunite with his family, only to discover that only a few of his 56 known members had been murdered.

Very soon after, he found himself in the army, fighting against the Khmer Rouge and later against Vietnamese occupation.

He received asylum in the United States in 1994.

Telling their story: Bunthan Oum Bunthan was an elementary school teacher in the province of Battamband when the Khmer Rouge took him and his family away. At the time he was an idealistic, enthusiastic, young man, looking forward to the future. Over the period of a few months, cities slowly emptied out, and schools and private property were {HOOKAH cont’d from page 1} surprised that the mayor reversed his decision. His guess is that there are too many legal ramifications that the city has to deal with if it closes all of them.

Santos said from the beginning of Chin’s death that he only wanted Kings to shut down. “I don’t know the other hookah lounges. Based on Chin’s reports to the International District Emergency Center, he cited (Kings) problems of shooting and violence after the lounge closed and disruption of lives (of the residents and seniors across the street).”

International Community Health Services (ICHS) in the neighborhood, supports closure of two hookah lounges (Kings and Medina) in the International District because of its “close proximity to our health clinic and to a fragile and vital residential pocket of our neighborhood,” said Ron Chew, executive director of the ICHS foundation.

These hookah lounges “have provided a haven for gun violence, rowdy behavior, fights and car races that have taken place up through the early morning hours, disrupting the safety, peace, and health of our residents,” said Chew.

“The mayor is trying to be sensitive to the needs of the legitimate owners who are trying to make a living in their new country while cracking down on those establishments that have been problematic,” said Dorothy Wong, executive director of Chinese Information and Service Center.

“Mayor Murray’s response shows that the City needs to make sure that it uses its resources and tools, like the Racial Equity Toolkit, when creating policy,” said Andrea Akita, executive director of InterIm. “The tools are in place to promote a vision that eliminates racial inequality.”

“By regulating these businesses, thereby allowing the City to monitor their operations, it will help those owners know what they need to do make their business work,” said Wong.

City needs to resolve Chin’s murder

Mark Okazaki, executive director of Neighborhood House, said he has mixed feelings about hookah bars. “But I am pissed off about Donnie’s death and want whoever is responsible brought to justice as soon as possible.”

“The City needs to address its persistent neglect of the ChinatownInternational District,” Akita continued.

“Our neighborhood has been vocal about challenges we continue to face. We have

eradicated. The religious voice of the country was extinguished.

Bunthan was assigned to the rice fields and spent 12 to 16 hours per day in the fields. When he wasn’t harvesting rice, he dug canals and built dams.

One day, Buntham was sent away to see the commune leaders. He was so certain of his fate that he said his goodbyes that night. He was interrogated for an hour. He was lucky to have been sent free; not many were so lucky.

Buntham applied for asylum in various countries; USA, France, Australia, and Sweden. He arrived in the US July 31, 1980.

A special guest speaker: Sam Waterston Sam Waterston is an American actor who played the leading role in “The Killing Fields,” the 1984 drama about a New York Times correspondent and his translator and friend, a Cambodian citizen who is later sucked into the titular killing fields Waterston played opposite the Cambodian actor Dr. Haing S. Ngor, a survivor of the genocide. Waterston appeared for a brief talk about his experiences working with Dr. Ngor and his attitudes towards war and genocide.  shared our ideas about changes to community policing and about the need for investment to make the ChinatownInternational District as healthy and as safe as other Seattle neighborhoods.”

“What are the roles and responsibilities of club owners and the City in ensuring that neighboring residents are not impacted by afterhours crowds? “ asked Maiko W. Chin, executive director of the SCID Preservation Development Authority.

On the violence issue, Wong said, “These owners have said that the violence is outside their establishments, although it is unclear if the perpetrators are also their clients. Regulating the hookah bars may identify the owners’ responsibilities around this matter.”

Moriguchi suggested that the International District Special Review board revise its guidelines for the new businesses located in the area, since they were created 30 years ago.

Community leaders would like to see the owners use a more neighborhoodconscious approach in their businesses.

Wong said the lounge owners as licensed businesses have a responsibility to call Seattle police and report on the noise and violence.

Hookah lounges’ role

Questions remain in the Asian community although some community members are unaware that the City has changed course.

What role should hookah lounges, (which cater mostly to African Americans) play in the Asian community now that the City allows them to operate?

Franklyn Smith whose life was saved by Donnie Chin, said at one of the African American community meetings with hookah lounge owners, there was too much focus about the pros and cons of hookah lounges.

The issue instead, he said, should be, “How are you (business owners) going to enhance the community?

How are you going to enhance safety?”

The owners are directly and indirectly responsible for their patrons, he added.

“How are you going to help or educate your patrons” and “develop higher understanding” of the community your business is in? Smith asked.

“It’s tragic that it took the death of our beloved leader Donnie Chin to draw attention to this longstanding problem,” said Chew.

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{SHOOTING cont’d from page 1} allegedly from Waqo and another individual. Woods-Hall survived the shooting despite initial reports and charging papers which indicate he passed away. Woods-Hall was with his girlfriend and her sister on the night of the shooting.

The three had been at Skyway Bowl earlier in the night and were dropping a friend off at a hookah lounge near Boren Avenue and S. Main St. around 3:00 a.m. in the morning. One of the females had to use the restroom and got out of the car for a brief time.

When she returned, there were three males that approached the car on the passenger side. The males were dressed in “hoodies” with the hoods pulled up. She identified two of the three suspects. One was Waqo and the other was believed to be Tony “TC” Nguyen, an “Asian/Black male in his 20’s” according to police records.

The men reportedly asked the front passenger if he was from Tukwila and he said no. Woods-Hall was in the back seat asleep. When he awoke, he was asked if he was from Tukwila.

Woods-Hall indicated that he was from Tukwila.

The three told Woods-Hall to get out of the car but he refused. The suspects reportedly yelled, “Holly Park!” and then started firing at the car with handguns. According to Seattle Police, there were more than 30 shell casings recovered from within 20 feet of the driver’s side of the vehicle.

Seattle Police deduced, based on the ammunition, that there were only two shooters.

Waqo was arrested in Yesler Terrace later that night. When interviewed by police officers he claimed he was at other hookah bars in Burien and downtown and then changed his story claiming he was “at a bar in Chinatown.” He first denied being involved in the shooting but changed his story multiple times about the shooting finally stating that he was not the shooter. There is no word if Nguyen and the other individual at the scene

The impact of steamed smoking

In compliance of banning indoor-smoking, hookah lounger owners will use steamed stones rather than flavored tobacco or turning their businesses into private clubs.

According to Sharon Bogan of SeattleKing County Health Department, a limited research is available on the health impacts of steam stones.

“Preliminary information suggests there may be negative health impacts,” said Bogan.

“There are multiple types of steam stones made with different additives that can impact health. We do know that some steam stones have nicotine which is addictive and harmful to health. Currently, there is no federal oversight of these products. Because of this, there are no safety checks for what goes into steam stones so a consumer ultimately doesn’t know what they are inhaling.” For any smoking in public places violation, the

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President Edmonds Community College have been arrested by Seattle Police.

King County Prosecutors request that bail be set for $1 million despite no criminal history. Waqo was charged in Seattle Municipal Court for possessing stolen property, forgery, and attempted theft. Records indicate that he did not show up for a hearing in that case. However, prosecutors state that the defendant “is a certain danger to community safety.”

Prosecutors cite to Waqo’s bold act of shooting Woods-Hall as the reason.

The shooting is another example of the issues voiced by community members that have lobbied for the closure of hookah lounges in the city in the wake of the death of Donnie Chin. A community safeguard, Chin was shot in the early morning hours of July 23rd in the International District.

On August 3rd, Seattle Mayor Ed Murray announced that the city would “step up” enforcement against smoking lounges which would have effectively closed all hookah lounges in the city since smoking is prohibited indoors in Seattle. However, Mayor Murray backed off the decision to close down the hookah lounges amid protests from hookah lounge business owners, patrons and supporters. (See related story.)  place of business receives a warning. If they are in violation of the smoking ban on the follow-up inspection, the Health Dept. will issue a Notice and Order, plus a $100 fine. Violators also receive a $170 re-inspection fee.

Ahmed Ali, executive director of Somali Health Board, who opposes hookah lounges, said he has never been to any hookah lounges. “It (hookah lounge) attracts folks I feel uncomfortable to be with. I don’t know anything about steamed-stone smoking. Hookah lounges are not part of Somali or East African culture. It’s Middle Eastern and Turkish.”

Ali is concerned about uneducated youth meandering into hookah lounges, including steamed-stone smoking.

Even in the African community, the issue of hookah lounges is controversial and divisive. 

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■ Visionary award honoree

Lorraine Yu’s Vision Developing Asian Pacific Business Leadership

By Ador Pereda Yano Northwest Asian Weekly For Dr. Lorraine Yu, the best response to the difficulties of growing up in a small Midwest community -- more specifically, in a small predominantly white community in Illinois --- was to excel. This year, she is being honored by the Northwest Asian Weekly as one of the Visionaries in the Seattle Asian Pacific community.

One of three daughters of an immigrant Chinese American family, Lorraine remembered that “my childhood was challenging. We were made fun of because we were different. There were a lot of things I didn't understand until later on -why people didn't like me just because of what I looked like.”

In common with many children of immigrant parents, the three Yu children were pushed very hard with their academics. "We excelled -- maybe [the challenges] helped us excel as kids," she recounted. Not only was she driven in academics, she also was an accomplished flutist and performed well in sports. It was no surprise that Lorraine and her sisters graduated from their Illinois high school as valedictorians in their respective classes.

Lorraine attended the University of Illinois, then went to the University of Michigan where she completed her Masters and Ph.D. in Physical Chemistry. Following a career in the chemical industry working for BASF and Lear in Michigan, Dr. Yu moved to the Pacific Northwest with her husband, where Microsoft beckoned and presented a new challenge for her -- to make a career change in another industry.

Leveraging her project management skills from her previous scientific career, she started as a project manager and advanced to become a group program manager at Microsoft during her ten-year service at the software company.

Leaving Microsoft in 2009, Dr. Yu then founded and built a multi-million dollar company, Sirius 6 Corporation. Initially providing consulting services, her company has expanded to include training and brand advocacy and now also offers a Learning Management System(LMS) which can

reach many learners for relatively low cost.

During her tenure in both the chemical and computer industries, she observed and encountered larger challenges, especially for Asian Pacific Islander employees like her that echoed the difficulties of her childhood in the Midwest. In spite of performing well in her work in both chemistry and IT, she discovered that excelling in a job was not enough.

She remembered that in spite of her doctorate, "working for BASF, which is a German company, I realized that I was not going very far because of what I looked like – not German." Then later, in an aggressive IT environment at Microsoft, her Asian upbringing kept her from "tooting her own horn" and created misperceptions of inadequate performance. Lorraine recognized that cultural and racial biases were unavoidable social factors.

She took on the mission to address these personal and social challenges. At Microsoft, she promoted the leadership development lessons she learned from the Executive Development Institute (EDI) program.

Yu expanded her mission beyond mentorship and worked with a group of Microsoft Asian colleagues to develop and hold the first Asian Pacific Leadership Development Conference (APLDC) at the software company in November 2006. She obtained the sponsorship of two high-level Asian executives for the conference, which presented panels of Microsoft corporate leaders, various seminars and workshops on leadership skills, and numerous networking opportunities for thousands of Asian Pacific Islander employees.

Now, many years after APLDC and after she left Microsoft, she applauds the appointment of the current CEO, Satya Nadella:"I think it's important that we have Asian leadership at the table. I'd like to see more Asian women at the table. But at least we now have a voice."

Of the success of her own company, Dr. Yu said, "What I learned is that I didn't get here on my own; I got here on the shoulders of others." This modesty is characteristic of her leadership style. Vanna Novak, a co-founder of EDI, described Dr. Yu as

"someone who in spite of her success in business and the impact she has had on the lives of so many of us, continues to be one of the most humble, down to earth people that I know. She is a leader who would never call attention to herself and has no need or interest in having the spotlight on her."

Like a good mentor, Dr. Yu provides pragmatic advice for entrepreneurs who are thinking of starting their own businesses: "I think it's an individual choice – it’s not for everybody. If you have a good idea and believe you can make an impact, you should try it. You should also know what your strengths are and if your strengths do not support the full ability to start up and run a business, get some help. That's one of the things that I wish I had done earlier -- ask for help."

When asked what advice she would give to the young Lorraine, growing up in her small Midwest community, Dr. Yu offered this: " Make time to enjoy your life." She said, "From an early age, I have been driven to be successful in the eyes of others which has come with some sacrifice; I sometimes feel that I missed opportunities to do more of what brings joy to my life. Perhaps my advice would be along the lines of what I believe Confucius said “Choose a job you love, and you will never have to work a day in your life”.”

How does she enjoy life now? "Our Labrador Retrievers keep us very busy but I can’t imagine life without them. My dogs are the best kind of therapy." Lorraine and her husband Toni are AKC Breeders

of Merit and have bred dogs with many titles in show, hunt, obedience, and therapy. They also support the breeding program of Warrior Canine Connection (WCC), a pioneering organization that helps wounded Warriors reconnect with life, their families, their communities, and each other. Lorraine and Toni share their joy of Labradors by publishing their online magazine "Retriever Life" (tag line "It’s more than a game of fetch") and building a community of like-minded folks who share stories and training tips. 

A Fresh Start

Welcome back to school. Please remember – you are not alone on your journey. Your family, your friends, your teachers, advisors: all around you are people who want to help you. Take advantage of all these connections, and then turn around and help others when they are in need.

—Mark A. Pagano Chancellor, University of Washington Tacoma

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