Its been two years since Aki Ito and her family were released from Manzanar and resettled in Chicago with other Japanese Americans.

to share a day of fun through the Rising Stars alumni buddy program with the children in their program.The predicted rain for Saturday.

and Selah Shimazaki were the top two finishers in the youth division.Rising Stars 20 members joined sub-committees that were each in charge of organizing various aspects of the event.prepared the prizes and announced the winners.

where they enjoyed an all-you-can-eat pizza lunch.emcees Audrey Nishida and Mason Oku presented their thoughts about their experiences in the program and what they learned in the past five months.

The role of our committee was to plan out the tournament.

I look forward to seeing all the friends that I have made and improving myself.I always appreciated how he wouldnt let the guys from the bigger media outlets push us around.

Ohtani now looms large on First Street and that big swing depicted on the Miyako Hotel finally came to life on Wednesday as he slammed his first home run as a Dodger at Chavez Ravine against the S.and the unveiling of Robert Vargas amazing mural and still hit our daily deadline.

We had lunch at Mitsuru Grill a few weeks ago as we have so many times before.Most notable is the sense of betrayal.