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Tokyo Service Center News - July 2010 |
| An Office With a Great View by Bill Watanabe |
LTSC's 30th Anniversary Party!
There are corporate representatives who sponsor and attend many community fundraising events and I've been told by several of these sources that "LTSC's fundraising events are among the most enjoyable of the year!"
This is our 30th Anniversary - and we want to celebrate it in a way that should make our event even more enjoyable! In addition to our annual Sake-Tasting, we have an all-star lineup of Food Providers (see our 30th Anniversary website for details and tickets) and the venue will be the spectacular and brand-new Eco-Systems Pavilion at the California Science Center. |
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LTSC has been fortunate to have had 30 years of growth while providing community services- and while we want to recognize our accomplishments, the greater celebration will be to look ahead at a promising future where LTSC will continue to provide relevant community services to help ensure a better tomorrow for everyone.
Come and join us - and let's celebrate together! |
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| 30th Anniversary Celebration Restaurants |
Sake generously provided by
Mutual Trading Co. |
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Executive Chef
Andreas Nieto
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Hiro Obayashi |
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June Kuramoto
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The renowned kotoist from the band Hiroshima will open the festivities for the 30th Anniversary Celebration. Born in Saitama-ken Japan (just outside of Tokyo), and raised in the Crenshaw district of Los Angeles, June Kuramoto epitomizes America's evolving art and music culture. As a child, she longed to return to Japan and found comfort in playing an ancient Japanese instrument-- the koto. Almost by destiny, a renowned koto master, the madame Kazue Kudo, protege of Japan's most famous kotoist and composer, Michio Miyagi, relocated to the United States, and began teaching koto— in June's family home. Using her grandmother's koto, June, only six years old, found a 'connection' for her life in the instrument and Japanese music. |
For more information about June, please click here.
Ecosystems
| Guests of LTSC’s 30th Anniversary Celebration will have the opportunity to explore the new Ecosystems exhibit at the California Science Center. Discover environments that range from the most ordinary and domestic to the most remote and inhospitable. The exhibit features eight different zones that illustrates a different ecological principle. Click here for a video preview. |
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| IT’S YOUR CHANCE TO WIN THE LTSC 30th ANNIVERSARY RAFFLE! |
We hope you will support LTSC through our Annual Raffle. We have fabulous prizes this year.
Grand Prize: 2 Roundtrip Business Class Tickets to any American Airlines destination (excluding Italy & Spain but includes France, Japan, Germany etc.) Valued up to $10,000
2nd Prize: 46 inch Sony LCD HDTV
3rd Prize: 32GB iPad
The winner of the raffle will be drawn at our 30th Anniversary Celebration benefiting LTSC on Friday, July 30, 2010 at the California Science Center. Winners need not be present to win.
Raffle tickets are $10 each, $25 for 3 or 1 Book (6 tickets) for $50.
Send a check made payable to LTSC before July 25, 2010 and we’ll fill out the tickets for you.
Mail to:
Little Tokyo Service Center
Attn: Julie Itahara
231 E. Third St. G-106
Los Angeles, CA 90013 |
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| Did You Know? |
| Chor Chai Tan has been a United States national karate champion four times. LTSC would like to thank Chor Chai and his wife Marie for their Platinum Sponsorship of LTSC’s 30th Anniversary Dinner. |
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| LTSC is Turning 30! |
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To commemorate LTSC’s 30th Anniversary, we will be featuring a piece of our history each month in this space.
2003 — The Grace Iino Childcare Center Opens in Casa Heiwa
The Grace Iino Child Care Center provides care for 48 infants and toddlers up to 3 years old. This low-cost childcare allows the parents living in Casa Heiwa and the surrounding neighborhood the opportunity to work full-time and achieve self-sufficiency. |
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| Summertime means CAMP MUSUBI |
| Camp Musubi is a Japanese American heritage camp for entering middle school youth hosted by LTSC and the Ties That Bind committee. The week long camp on August 23-27th will be filled with fun activities that exposes the middle school youth to Japanese American history, heritage and culture. This year's camp field trip will be to Tanaka Farms in Orange County where campers will get to learn about a Japanese American family owned strawberry farm in addition to the history of farming in the Japanese American Community! |
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Registration fee is: $225 for the week (Deadline: Aug 13th)
For more information and to download registration forms, please visit to www.campmusubi.org. |
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| Asian Pacific Islander Small Business Program Receives $100,000 from Wells Fargo |
Despite continuing challenges in the economy, the Asian Pacific Islander Small Business Program (API SBP) received a $100,000 donation from the Wells Fargo Foundation as part of the company’s ongoing commitment to support the Asian Pacific Islander business community in Greater Los Angeles.
Formed in 1999, API SBP is a collaborative of five community organizations, the Chinatown Service Center, Koreatown Youth & Community Center, Little Tokyo Service Center CDC, Search to Involve Pilipino Americans, and Thai Community Development Center. Its partners have shared more than 140 years of service between them, are well known and respected for the quality of their work, the impact of their services and their standing in the community. API SBP assisted 3500 entrepreneurs in 2009. |
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Rick Lam (second from left), Wells Fargo California Business Banking vice president, and Roy Jasso (third from right), Wells Fargo Community Development representative, present a $100,000 check to API SBP board members – all whom are executive directors of their respective organizations, including: Chanchanit Martorell (center), Thai Community Development Center; Bill Watanabe (left), Little Tokyo Service Center; and Johng Ho Song (second from right) and Byron Shinyama (right), both from the Koreatown Youth & Community Center. Members of the API SBP, a collaborative of the five community organizations, received the $100,000 donation at a board meeting in
Los Angeles on Apr. 20. Also pictured is Ron Fong (third from left), the newly appointed API SBP director. |
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| June Donors – Thank You for Your Support! |
Ameriprise Financial Services, Inc.
Arthur & Jennie Hasegawa
Chester Hashizume
Ken Inaba
Tomio Ito
Yueh Bo Kuan
Daniel Mayeda
Lorene Miller
Kojiro Mizutani
David & Mary Noguchi
Cooke & Elaine Sunoo
Frank & Mable Takenaka
David Tanaka
Toyota Asian American Society in Alliance (TAASiA)
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In-kind Donations
Anita Morales
Gary & Marsha Watanabe
Please consider a donation. Your generosity will be acknowledged in next month's LTSCene.
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| Donate Your Old Car |
| Unwanted cars that are donated to LTSC bring critical funding to LTSC's services. We will pick up cars in almost any condition in LA and Orange Counties. Proceeds are tax deductible for the donor and can be significant even if the car is old or not running! The call takes less than 5 minutes and contributes to helping our many clients. Contact Mickie at (213) 473-1613 or MOkamoto@LTSC.org to donate. |
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| Ways to Help LTSC |
In making a donation to LTSC, you can:
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• Make a donation in memory of a loved one
• Make a donation in honor of someone’s birthday or graduation
• Make a stock donation
• Host a fundraiser to benefit LTSC |
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Donate Online, over the phone or via traditional mail.
Contact: Mickie Okamoto
MOkamoto@LTSC.org
(213) 473-1613 |
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