5 million for Campaign BCA — The 21st Century from 2003-2011.

Coast Community College District; and Patti Hirahara.She is a great Japanese cook and can also speak Japanese.

This year marks the 50th anniversary of her becoming the first Miss Suburban Optimist/Orange County Nisei Queen to represent Orange County in Nisei Week in 1974.She felt bad about not becoming queen that year since she wanted to make Orange County proud.and her work with the Japanese American Museum of Oregon —just a sampling of her endeavors.

In knowing Patti for over 40 years.in 1907 from Wakayama Prefecture and she is a Yonsei or fourth-generation Japanese American whose family has been in the U.

she provided unique family artifacts that developed opportunities for exhibitions to be created when people said they couldnt be done.

and she is helping me to work with the Brigham City Museum in Brigham City.the odori sensei was seated close to my table

one with not only a keen visual sense.that were probably going to do a lot of books.

weve had such a tough go of it as a community in the last few years.noting that really the book is for anyone who has kind of struggled with feeling in a different culture or finding these issues that come up.