finding creative ways to maintain and revitalize community engagement.

along the way sharing all sorts of stories and regular complaints about everything under the sun.and a couple of former Rafu staffers for the visit.

and hope you can do something meaningful.in her custom sport-stock 1975 Chevy Nova.She said her only regrets are that she never married and never traveled to her parents homeland.

Maggie also asked if if would be okay to resume writing her column on occasion.Photos by MIKEY HIRANO CULROSS / Rafu ShimpoMaggie Ishino laughs at a photo shown by former Rafu Shimpo editor Gwen Muranaka last week at Kei-Ai Los Angeles in Lincoln Heights.

Maggie joined the Rafu staff in 1999.

she has outlived everyone in her family.Uyesugi and Darlene Kinuko Kuba; State Sen.

Patricia Sookdet and Amy Tambara.Maria Elena Durazo (D-Los Angeles).

Judy Chu; honorees Jean Kodama and Heidi M.treasurer of the Japanese American Bar Association.