mayor of Monterey Park and councilmember representing District 1.

Gee was introduced by Aiko Matsumura Dzikowski.Her hobbies include basketball

For more information on Little Tokyos 140th anniversary.highlighting LTCC’s pivotal role in preserving this historic neighborhood.CA – One of the oldest neighborhoods in Los Angeles is celebrating its remarkable milestone of 140 years of rich Japanese American history.

Achieving an underground route for the Metro Regional Connector Transit project in 2011.the neighborhoods identity is continuously and chronically threatened.

urban renewal in the 1970s and threats of gentrification and displacement that has been on the rise for over two decades.

Little Tokyo has endured over a century of adversities.I was talking to my mother and we started to talk about Manzanar and she shared some new recollections about life there.

She described how people on a windy day who were in line for the mess hall would have to jump up in the air to let the rolling rocks pass under their feet! She said sometimes the people in the queue looked like pistons going up and down and I remember telling her.I began to wonder how he might have been had he grown up as one of my older brothers and it made me feel a sadness and melancholy – and I rarely ever feel melancholy.

My heart ached for my mother as I thought about my own daughter and how it would feel to have lost her at the age of 4.Bill Watanabe writes from Silverlake near downtown Los Angeles and can be contacted at billwatanabe@earthlink.