From left: Ethnic Heritage Council committee members Tino Salud, Rosanne Royer, Yasemin San, Bettie Luke, Jane Simmons, JoAnne Lee (president), Ann Wright, JoAnne Rudo, and Peter Lam.
The Ethnic Heritage Council held its Annual Dinner and Awards Ceremony on May 7, and honored Martha Golubiec and the Morovich family.
Golubiec got the Aspasia Phoutrides Pulakis Memorial Award for her contribution to preserve, document, or present her community’s culture as part of the ethnic experience in the Pacific Northwest.
The Morovich family received the Gordon Ekvall Tracie Memorial Award, which recognizes an ethnic performing artist(s) for excellence in ethnic performance and for their significant contributions to the development and presentation of the traditional cultural arts.