As anxiety and confusion spread during the unprecedented pandemic.

Thank you for your invaluable and significant service to the community.including Continuing Education of Nikkei Widows.

GWEN MURANAKA / Rafu ShimpoFrom left: Yuriko Shikai.Yanase Shirota served as the first woman president of the East San Gabriel Valley Japanese Community Center and is currently an at-large board member.She marveled at her grandmothers sharp mind and memory.

We are truly humbled and greatly appreciative of this award.Barbara Kato Yanase Shirota and George Kita.

she has worked for many notable individuals.

Her granddaughter Alyssa Arnheim said that Yanase Shirota doesnt like to bring attention to herself for her volunteer efforts.She spent her summers volunteering for local camps and interning at a law firm.

Kane Kikuno of Torrance High School will be majoring in business finance at the University of Hawaii at Manoa.including CSF (California Scholarship Foundation).

volunteering and tutoring with the California Scholarship Federation and the English Language Multicultural Advisory Committee.She has served as president of her schools art club and also co-founded a nonprofit creative digital magazine.