BJAA NEWSLETTER NOVEMBER 2013 Issue #

BJAA Newsletter November 2013

INTRODUCING… SAVE THE DATE!!! th: Saturday, November 30 The 2014 BJAA Cabinet! 10:30 am What: BJAA Turkey Shoot!

President: Diane Dible Civic: Dennis Kitayama Where: Colorado Clays

Vice President: Richard Programs: Nicole Brookman Brookman th Sports: Josh Tashiro Saturday, December 7 : Treasure: Donna Noguchi 11:00 am – 3:00 pm Membership: Sandy Publicity: Bob Kagohara Brookman What: BJAA Book Release!! Property: Stuart Tashiro Refreshments: Barb Tashiro Where: The Brighton Armory and Eileen Heath Recording Secretary: Naomi Tashiro Please RSVP to Nicole Corresponding Secretary: Brookman at 303-717-4751 Lindsay Auker

Congratulations to all of our new cabinet members, I look forward to working with, and getting to know you all! BJAA NEWSLETTER NOVEMBER 2013 | Issue # 2

BJAA TURKEY SHOOT! It’s Turkey Time! That means it's time for our annual Turkey Shoot. The Turkey Shoot will be taking place on November 30th at 10:30 am at Colorado Clays. If you don't have a rifle, they can be rented at the clubhouse. The BJAA will pay for clays for members, but please bring your own shells. This event will be pot luck style, so please bring a dish for everyone to enjoy. If you are not familiar with Colorado Clays, please find their Please RSVP to Nicole address and phone number below. Brookman if you plan on Colorado Clays attending the Turkey Shoot. 13600 Lanewood St, Brighton, CO 80603 You can reach Nicole at: (303) 659-7117 303-717-4751

BJAA BOOK RELEASE!!

We have an EXTREMELY exciting event planned that I

encourage everyone to attend (and spread the word to other members and friends as well!) On December 7th we will be celebrating the premier of "Our American Journey: A History of the Brighton Nisei Women's Club and the Brighton Japanese American Association" by Daniel Blegen. Our history published! What an amazing and inspiring event! Daniel Blegen will also be at the release, so make sure to get your book signed! This event will be pot luck style and we thought it would be fun if everyone tried to make something from our "Yellow" cookbook (I apologize for my dish in advance! Haha). Both our cookbook and "Our American Journey" will be available for purchase on December 7th! The book premier will take place at The Brighton Armory Performing Arts Center from 11:00 am to 3:00 pm. Not only will we be celebrating our new book, but we will also be conducting our officer installation for the 2014 BJAA Cabinet members!

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History Project Update

Joanna Sakata

The History Committee is proud to announce that During this process, the committee as it was reviewing

our history book “Our American Journey” is his drafts, decided to broaden the scope of the book completed! beyond the history of BJAA and NWC. Because of the length of time and the additional work we asked Dan The books will be available for sale soon! Blegen to do, we asked the members at a general

This has been a long process. We first started meeting held on April 27, 2012 to approve an increase thinking about writing the history of the Brighton of $1,500 payment to Dan making a total of $4,000 for JAA and the Brighton Nisei Women’s Club back in writing this book for the club. 2008. A notice was printed in the BJAA newsletter in The next step for us now will be for the members to October of 2008. decide how many copies should be ordered. It was

The first step taken was to save as many of Emi discussed at a committee meeting held on October Chikuma’s pictures on computer disks. This has been 4th that books could be sold at the Chow Mein Dinner, completed. Some of these pictures are included in perhaps Pacific Mercantile would like to sell copies and the book. Because of the cost, we were not able to also various Japanese organizations may be interested include all of her pictures. in purchasing copies. The History Committee set up various meetings A special Member’s price will be $10.00 per copy up to giving the members the opportunity to participate the Chow Mein Dinner. From that point forward the and share their stories. On July 10, 2010 a luncheon price will be $13.95 per copy. was held at the Brighton Recreation Center to discuss To place your order, please let us know how many this project. We invited Dan Blegen as a guest copies you would like to have. speaker to explain the process of writing and publishing a book. After several more committee meetings the committee decided to ask Dan to write our history book. He gave us 2 options. One option HISTORY COMMITTEE MEMBERS was that he would offer his services as a consultant Naomi Tashiro on a $25.00 per hour basis and the second option was to do the project for a set fee of $2500.00. The Diane Dible committee chose the second option. He estimated Linda Kline that it would take about 3 to 6 months for the writing, editing and layout work. Donna Noguchi From that point forward Dan read all of the written Richard Brookman material that was submitted by members, he did follow-up interviews, did additional research, and Sandy Brookman sent drafts of his writing to the committee members Bob Sakata to review and proof. Dan designed the book’s pages and general layout and selected the publisher for our Joanna Sakata

book. Little did the committee realize that it would take over 3 years from the time we started working with Dan to complete this project. . During this process, the committee as it was reviewing his drafts, decided to broaden the scope of BJAA NEWSLETTER NOVEMBER 2013 | Issue # 4

Members Lost, but Never Forgotten

It is with an extremely heavy heart that I report the passing of two of our members. Please send your thoughts and prayers to both families during this difficult time.

Don Tanabe Don Tanabe passed away. His funeral services were Tuesday, November 19 at Tabor-Rice Mortuary at 2pm. It was requested by the family that no visitation be made to Rose as she is having a difficult time. Please send love and hugs to their family.

Colton E. Richter Colton E. Richter of Greeley, passed away November 14, 2013. Infant son of Ryan and Samantha (Nishimoto) Richter; grandson of Gerhard Richter of Johnstown and Sandy Richter of Loveland; Sharon and Kevin Nishimoto of Platteville; great-grandson of Allesandra Angel of Wisconsin, Erika Williams of Arizona, Joyce Tashiro of Brighton and Shigeko Nishimoto of Julesburg. A Celebration of Life was held on Monday, November 18, 2013 at 11:27am at Faith Baptist Church. Memorial Contributions can be made to Children's Hospital Colorado Foundation, 13123 E. 16th. Ave., Aurora, CO 80045 or National Kidney Foundation, 650 S. Cherry St., Denver, CO 80246.

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YONSEI

YAK!! FLCL By: Kyle Knoop We will refrain from diving in to all the works created by Studio Ghibli so we will just stay on the surface and take a look at their feature films. Founded in June 1985, the studio is headed by the directors and and the producer . Other directors who have worked with Studio Ghibli include Yoshifumi Kondo, Hiroyuki Morita and (Son of Hayao)

Studio Ghibli has produced eighteen feature films, beginning with in 1986. It was followed by (1988), (1988), Kiki's Delivery Service (1989), Only Yesterday (1991), (1992), (1994), Whisper of the Heart (1995), (1997), My Neighbors the Yamadas (1999), (2001), The Cat Returns (2002), Howl's Moving Castle (2004), Tales from Earthsea (2006), (2008), (2010), (2011), and The Wind Is Rising (2013). Note: The Studio has also released a video game titled - Wrath of the White Witch which features their animation style. It is a fantasy RPG game from LEVEL-5 that tells the tale of a young boy named Oliver, who embarks on a journey into a parallel world in an attempt to bring his mother back from the dead. 9/10 - Gamespot, 9.4- IGN,

Ni no Kuni - Wrath of the White Witch