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2009 Asian Heritage Awards Nominations are closed
Each year, we ask the community to recommend the best and brightest in 15 categories, ranging from education to community service. This year, we received 119 nominations, more than double from 2008. Nominee’s names will be placed on a ballot and uploaded to our website www.AsianHeritageAwards.com midnight May 22 for members of the community to select someone in each category worthy of recognition. Those names will be announced during a gala, star-studded ceremony Saturday, July 25, 2009 aboard the USS Midway in San Diego. The event, this year titled “Legacy and Legends,” also pays special tribute to Major General Antonio Taguba, a profile in courage for revealing conditions at Abu Ghraib prison in Iraq. The topic of torture and mistreatment of prisoners has stirred debate throughout the country in recent days following the release of secret memos authorizing the CIA to carry out questionable interrogation techniques.
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Highlight of 2009 Asian Heritage Awards
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Date: Sun, Jul 26, 2009 at 5:18 PM
Last night the House of China won an award from the public's vote in the Asia, Journal of Culture and Commerce Asian Heritage Award program.
The award validates our 74 year history of preserving, promoting and presenting Chinese culture and friendship.
In the mid 1930's and into the 1960's we often stood alone in protecting the rights of Chinese Americans and strived to ensure justice.
As we are on the eve of our 75th birthday n 2010, the House of China will advance Chinese culture and friendship.
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July 31,2009
Dear Len and Roz,
Again, thank you very much for hosting Debbie and I during our short stay in San Diego on 24-26 July. The Asian Heritage Society dinner and awards event was truly spectacular! I am deeply grateful to you both for honoring me with a special recognition.
We are very impressed with your civic involvement in the San Diego community. Your leadership in Asia Media and Asian Heritage Society is indicative of your active concerns in having Asian Americans and Pacific Islanders being more assimilated and recognized in the greater San Diego community and beyond. Well done!
Debbie and I truly enjoyed our new association. We wish you and your family the very best. Let's stay in touch please.
Very Sincery
Tony & Debbie
Anthnio M Taguba
Major General, US Army (Retired)
P.S. An awesome weekend with great people like you! Please give our best to your mom and children and grand kids!
Aloha!
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Dearest Len & Roz,
Thank you thank you thank you ....
Michael and I had a marvelous time...
You did it again!!!
Next year, I want you both on stage, as award recipients ...
Again, Thanks and have a peaceful Sunday,
Gwen Coronado
www.fengshuisandiego.com |
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Thanks to you, Len and Roz, and the entire behind-the-scenes team for all of your hard work. I know you worked tirelessly to pull the event together
and it was a lovely evening.
It is always a pleasure and honor to be involved in the Asian Heritage Awards Ceremony!
Kind regards,
Marcella
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San Diego, CA – The Asian Business Association, San Diego, received the Business Enterprise Award at the Sixth Annual Asian Heritage Awards. ABA provides a strong voice on business, cultural and political issues of interest to San Diego’s Asian and Pacific Islander community. Over 500 attended this event on Saturday, which was held on the USS Midway. State Senator Leland Yee and San Diego County Supervisor Ron Roberts served as co-chairs of the event.
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Len and Rose,
You did an amazing job hosting the event. It’s my great honor to be one of the awardees. Thanks for putting this event together, and of course in the future I will try my best to contribute to The Asian Heritage Society.
I understand both of you must have worked extremely hard over the last months, so please relax and take some time to yourselves. You deserve it!
All the best
Maria
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Dear Asia Media Friends,
It was a superb gala event last Saturday. I heard many elogious comments, especially from Dr. Johnson who sat near our table. Thank you to Len and Rosalyn for the well-planned program from start to end. As I walked up the stairs on the ship, the statement of "Legacy & Legends" caught my eyes right away. Later, I saw the words on the front cover of the program also.
I was glad to see everyone, especially the members with whom we planned to have a monthly friendly get-together after the first meeting in Spring. Now that I have the personal statements from all the nominees, I can find many common interests among our group.
Binh Tran
Presenter of the Health and Medicine Category |
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Len: You and Rosalynn must be very proud! What a wonderful event you put on Saturday night. Lisa and I really enjoyed being there. I'm sorry you
didn't have a chance to meet my wife of nearly 50 years!
Bob Tarlton
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Dear Len and Roselyn,
CONGRATULATIONS on your fantastic Asian Heritage banquet. Mary and I really enjoyed the event and we are so proud of you for what you have accomplished, and hope that you are having a well deserved time off. .
I must thank you again for the Asia Heritage Award
you bestowed on me in 2007. As the only Asian consular representative in San Diego among 25+ consulates and honorary consulates representated here (though Korea, China and Japan have their honorary consuls in Tijuana), I hope to continue to promote your Asian Heritage and Asia publication
efforts.
What you ae doing with the Asian Heritage is tremendous. I believe that in trying to educate future Global Citizens, it is important to give paradigms,
heroes and heroines they can look up to and emulate. I would therefore like to use your Asian Heritage in my Keynote Address as an example of how such
paradigms can be created. your awards to transcend national boundaries in Asia and honor all worthy people regardless of their nationalities creates a
marvelous bonding. I hope, will open the door for
Asia to cotinue to be a part of this event in future.
Let me know if you are interested and if i have your permission to use your work as an example.
Regards,
Michael S. Inoue, Ph.D.
Honorary Consul General of Japan in San Diego
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