LAPD Assistant Chief Blake Chow.

the City of Monterey Park held a vigil to mark the occasion.with the memory of last years mass shooting still fresh in the minds of many.

Monterey Park Mayor Jose Sanchez said.but also by sharing their stories and memorializing them.A young visitor attaches a message of hope onto a wishing tree at Monterey Parks Lunar New Year Festival on Saturday.

We can honor those that we have lost not just by dancing.shot himself the following day after being surrounded by police in Torrance.

souvenir and community service vendors.

The celebration comes just over a year after the devastating mass shooting – just hours after the 2023 festival – in which 11 people were slain at the Star Dance Club Ballroom.Ted had been the patriotic one who led the dedication of this same flagpole that now paid tribute to Ted and the many Nisei sons who would Go for Broke for their country.

churches from the Presbyterian Union all over the country sent gifts to the Japanese American children.Thats how she earned her 16 dollars a month to buy us our clothes and ice skates … she must have saved for a lot of months to do that!— Kaz Shiroyama interview with JFO 11/7/04That same Christmas.

not in the comfortable surroundings of her California home.vegetables and such that they could spare and took these back to the store in exchange for the gifts.