president and CEO of LA Plaza de Cultura y Artes.

Dawn holds a doctorate in social work from USC and has dedicated 31 years of education as a teacher.Frank moved to Los Angeles with his brothers and opened a produce market on Figueroa Street in Highland Park.

Dawn Midori Rock first shared that she was of 100% Japanese ancestry.By PAUL ISOZAKI and CINDY YEESupporters of a grassroots campaign for the first Japanese American candidate since flamboyant George Ige served on the City Council of Monterey Park from 1972 to 1978 were recently invited for breakfast at the corner of Highland and Ridgecrest at the home of Robert and Christine Wong.just as it was when she was growing up in her hometown.

both families settled in Los Angeles.the Gotanda family was relocated to an internment camp for Japanese Americans in Rohwer.

please vote for and support Dawn Rock on Nov.

Dawn is a lifelong resident of Monterey Park who attended Hillcrest Elementary School.meant working long hours at the laundry and life became even harder after my fathers early passing.

After the war in 1947 my brother Benny immigrated to the U.We may not have been born if she had stayed in the village and had lived under communism.

By Bill YeeFrom Stettin in the Baltic to Trieste in the Adriatic.My grandma died the year I was born.