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Center of Northern California JAPANESE CULTURAL AND COMMUNITY CENTER OF NORTHERN CALIFORNIA FALL 2008, CENTER VOLUME 21 JCCCNC 35th Anniversary Celebration “Salute to a Vision” to Feature Award-Winning Chefs and Exclusive Auction Items On Saturday, September 13, the JCCCNC’s 2008 Annual Event, “Salute to a Vision” will celebrate the 35th Anniversary of the Center and recognize Executive Director Paul Osaki’s 30 years of service to the the chefs community, including 20 years at the JCCCNC. A tribute and roast from celebrities, political officials and community members will highlight the gala event, which will be held at the Westin St. Francis Hotel in San Francisco. Beginning at 4:00 p.m., attendees will enjoy a cocktail reception with cuisine prepared by award-winning chefs, and the opportunity to bid on exclusive auction items. Delicious hors d’oeuvres will be prepared by award-winning Bay Area Executive Chefs and friends of the JCCCNC: Bruce Hill of Bix Restaurant and Picco Restaurant and Pizzeria, Alex Ong of Betelnut Pejiu Wu, Greg Dunmore of Ame and Sho Kamio of Yoshi’s Jazz Club and Restaurant in San Francisco. “Salute to a Vision” provides an opportunity to meet these legendary chefs and sample their incredible creations. Chefs Hill, Ong and Dunmore first became involved with the JCCCNC last October when they joined over 70 delegates from the restaurant and food industries on the JCCCNC-organized San Francisco-Osaka Culinary Tour in celebration of the 50th Anniversary of the San Francisco-Osaka Sister City Relationship. On the Picco Restaurant website, Chef Bruce Hill cites the experience of being a Culinary Ambassador to Osaka, Japan to be one of his greatest honors. The three Culinary Tour Alumni Chefs will join longtime friend of the JCCCNC, Sho 35th Anniversary Sponsors: Kamio of Yoshi’s Jazz Club and Restaurant in San Francisco, who the sponsors prepared the wonderful meal at last year’s “Asian Americans on (continued on page 3) Tribute Sponsors: A Warm Salad of American Wagyu Beef Visionary Sponsors: Tongue and Japanese Eggplant with Mizuna and Shichimi - Chef Greg Dunmore / ame the food Glen S. Fukushima “‘Field of Dreams’ is a 4-by-2-foot bed of wheatgrass with skewers of beets, avocado and figs stuck in the grass. Finished The Henri and Tomoye Takahashi Charitable with aged balsamic vinegar just before the guest plucks the skewer from the grass for a delicious bite!” Foundation Media: 3D Investments - Chef Bruce Hill / Bix Internship Program Builds 100+ Athletes Compete Money Matters: New Ways to Support Future Community Leaders in 2008 Track Meet ‘07 Expenses & Revenue Your Center PAGE 3 PAGE 4 PAGES 8 PAGE 9 MESSAGE FROM THE EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR When I firstSalute came to the JCCCNC to twenty a years Vision ago, there was no gym, no programs and no people coming through our doors for classes or events. What we did have was a huge debt and the need to raise millions of dollars Board Officers to complete the construction of the Center. Kaz Maniwa Chairman Rumi Okabe Today, it’s hard to imagine a Japantown without the JCCCNC. We have grown from zero to President serving over 185,000 annually and from zero to hosting over 100 programs each year. Today, Ted Yamasaki Senior Vice President we provide services for infants and our elderly and every age group in between. We have Kyle Tatsumoto brought over 1,700 people from all walks of life to Japan to experience its culture and its people, Vice President Sherilyn Chew building friendships 5,000 miles away. We have organized statewide, national and international Corporate Secretary conferences on issues concerning the Japanese American community. We have seen children Ted Yamasaki from our community become adults, we have seen the struggles and challenges of a community Chief Finance Officer Donna Kotake changing and trying to preserve it place in our future and we have witnessed the changing and Ex-Officio passing of the Nisei generation one by one. Directors Terry Akiyama As we celebrate 35 years of a community dream and a community vision, I would like to dedicate Dianne Fukami this anniversary to the Nisei generation, for it is they who gave the Center its first breath. It is the David Fukuda Nisei whose dreams we celebrate today and it is their vision that we salute. And it is the Nisei Scott Hayashi Yo Hironaka that first shared their dream of a community center with me 20 years ago. Lois Hunter Daro Inouye Andy Ishibashi Today the Center is full of life with the sounds of our generations and of our community. The Robert Kawamoto history of the JCCCNC is not only about the struggle and triumph of the Japanese American Donna Kimura Jeff Maruyama community to build a home that it could call its own, but it is also about the community itself – its Allen Okamoto past, its present, its dreams and how a community came together to build a permanent legacy Kurt Osaki Marilyn Oshiro for its future and for generations to come. Robert Sakai Charlene Shimada th Jon Shindo Our 35 Anniversary is truly a celebration of how far we have come and what we have to Keith Tsuchiya look forward to. The dream of the JCCCNC was built upon the foundation of generations. Staff Generations past, present and generations yet to be born. And it is these generations, each with its own adversity, determination, commitment and dreams that shall write new chapters for our Paul Osaki Executive Director Center and our community. Marjorie Fletcher Executive Assistant Lori Matoba Sincerely, Deputy Director Ruby Hata Director of Finance and Paul Osaki Membership Services Executive Director Joy Iwasa Director of Development Jennifer Hamamoto Program and PR Manager Ken Maeshiro Mission Statement Special Events and The JCCCNC is a non-profit organization which strives to meet the evolving needs of the Japanese American Facility Manager Alicia Kagawa community by offering programs, affordable services and administrative support and facilities for other local service Program Associate organizations. The JCCCNC also provides educational, cultural and recreational programs that meet and address Bara Kawasaki Development Associate the interests and concerns of the community. Our goals remain rooted in preserving the Japanese American Courtney Okuhara cultural and historical heritage as well as fostering the foundation for future generations of Japanese Americans. Membership Associate Mika Shimizu Office Manager and 2 Fall 2008 - Japanese Cultural and Community Center of Northern California Receptionist JCCCNC COMMUNITY Nikkei Community Internship Builds Future Community Leaders “SO, WHAT DOES THE JCCCNC ACTUALLY American community, who will inspire future and I want to encourage more NSU DO?” Burlingame native Edward and peak their interest in the work of members to get involved in the coming Kobayashi, a third-year psychobiology community organizations and creating school year. Hopefully this will translate student at UCLA, remembers asking on an energy and desire to continue to into stronger youth representation in the his first day as a summer intern for the participate in the Japanese American greater Nikkei community.” Programs Department. community. Interns spend four days per As the two make plans to return to Now having completed the eight-week week working in a nonprofit community school, they will both stay involved in Nikkei Community Internship (NCI) organization, with the fifth day reserved the JCCCNC as members of the Youth sponsored by the California Japanese for meeting community leaders and Advisory Committee for a new and American Community Leadership discussing issues concerning the innovative family documentary project Council (CJACLC), Edward and fellow Japanese American community. called Reel Nikkei Stories, (originally the intern David Oda have experienced and “During my short time here at the Nikkei Family Legacy Project), which is learned more about the JCCCNC and Center I have realized first-hand being managed by Programs Associate San Francisco’s Japantown community how much work goes into planning a Alicia Kagawa. “I am thrilled that we are that they, David jokes, “can hardly community event,” said Edward, who able to utilize today’s technology to keep imagine a weekend without volunteer focused his efforts on the Shinzen Nikkei connected so that I can stay involved service.” Youth Goodwill Sports Program, a cross- even from Los Angeles,” says Edward, David — a UC Berkeley student cultural exchange program that fosters who once asked what the Center does — majoring in political economies of U.S.-Japan youth friendships through and will now play a part in the planning of industrialized societies with a minor basketball. “But after all of the hours of this exciting youth-initiated program. in Japanese language — and Edward planning and preparation, there is were among the 14 students chosen to nothing more fulfilling than to see the participate in the 2008 NCI Program. outcome of your hard work. For me, This statewide program, which just success was seeing the friendships completed its seventh year, offers form between the US and Japan kids college students an opportunity to and knowing that my contribution in obtain experience supporting the work planning and organizing activities will of various community organizations benefit the Shinzen Program goal of while increasing their understanding building stronger relationships at a of contemporary issues affecting grassroots level.” Japanese Americans. The goal of the Interning under the Development NCI program is to support and foster Department, David learned JCCCNC ASSOCIATE STAFF AND INTERNS MET WITH the development of the next generation organizational skills and techniques that JAMES HATTORI, JOURNALIST AND FORMER CNN of community leaders. The program he plans to utilize in his new position NEWS CORRESPONDENT, AS PART OF THE JCCCNC ASSOCIATE TRAINING PROGRAM. FROM LEFT TO does this by giving the interns exposure as Social Chair of the UC Berkeley RIGHT: BARA KAWASAKI, JCCCNC DEVELOPMENT to opportunities and needs in the Nikkei Student Union (NSU).
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