By Amy Mitsuko Goo Exclusive to Northwest Asian Weekly Coping with a substance use disorder, and the mental illness that often accompanies it, is becoming all too common. I know firsthand. Newspaper headlines report on the crisis affecting everyone from celebrities to soccer moms. President Trump even declared a public health emergency. Last year, Seattle […]
Chinatown International District annual holiday gift drive
Seattle — InterIm Community Development Association (InterIm CDA) partnered with Sound Transit employees to purchase, donate and distribute more than 350 blankets to local elders and 50 children’s books. InterIm and Sound Transit have been partnering for more than 15 years on the annual holiday gift drive. Last week, InterIm and Sound Transit volunteers distributed […]
Summit Sierra High School student club gives to ARCS food bank
By Craig Kanaya The Little Saigon Ambassadors club at Summit Sierra High School in Seattle’s Chinatown-International District donated nearly 50 canned food donations to the Asian Counseling Resource Service (ACRS)’s food bank. The student driven club is dedicated to building positive connections with the local community. The club developed an outreach plan and collected donations […]
PICTORIAL: Welcome and Congratulations, Mayor Jenny Durkan
How to score points at your next family dinner
By Sun Lee Chang NORTHWEST ASIAN WEEKLY You have survived the Thanksgiving holidays with friends and family around a dinner table. Now, it’s time to look forward to other holidays and first of the year celebrations. If your family is like mine, it is a blend of folks of various ethnicities and nationalities. I know […]
“The Last Jedi” review
By John Liu NORTHWEST ASIAN WEEKLY The first part of my review will have no spoilers, and I will give a warning before the spoilers start. Episode 7: The Force Awakens was released in December 2015 and left us with a chaotic conclusion. Finn is seriously injured by Kylo Ren (Adam Driver), but fortunately Rey […]
New hope for endangered eels, Japanese delicacy
By SHERRY ZHENG Associated Press FUJISAWA, Japan (AP) — The Japanese delicacy of roasted eel, braised with a tangy sauce and sprinkled with prickly mountain pepper, is in question as the creatures with their mysterious migrations become increasingly endangered. Soaring demand for Japanese eel, or Anguilla japonica, helped put the creatures on the International Union […]
Top 10 reads of 2017
By Samantha Pak Northwest Asian Weekly Well readers, we survived 2017. And with the year coming to an end, it’s a time to reflect. So here, I give you the top 10 books I have read this year. Check them out for yourself or give them as a gift for the bookworm in your life […]
LETTER: SPD diversity dispute (Letter to Kathleen O’Toole)
Dear Kathy, I recently found out that you appointed three non-Asians to Assistant Chiefs positions. I felt blindsided and betrayed. You were aware of the Asian Pacific Islanders (API)’s community concerns that there were no APIs on your command staff. Based on your previous history, when you were the Boston police commissioner and appointed an […]
LETTER: SPD diversity dispute (O’Toole responds)
Dear Frank, Wow, that’s really hurtful. I don’t know how people can go from being great pals one day, to a message like this overnight. It really saddens me. I’m also disappointed that you invoked Al’s name. I certainly respected his role as an activist and listened carefully to his perspective during many meetings. One […]