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South Bay small business advisory council! Discussed my bill AB 2510 to give a tax break to small businesses. With Torrance Chamber Chair and Red Car Brewery owner Laurie Brandt, Palos Verdes Chamber President Eileen Hupp, Gardena Chamber President and business owner Wanda Love, and Hermosa Beach Downtown Business Association leader and Gum Tree Cafe owner Lori Ford.
Torrance Firefighters Association hosted their 47th Annual Spaghetti Dinner and Bake Sale to benefit the Alisa Ann Ruch California Foundation Summer Camp for burn patients. I talked with Torrance Firefighters Association President James Duarte, Torrance School Board Member Teri Ragins, Mayor of Torrance Pat Furey, and many philanthropic Torrance families.
I met with the Asian Pacific Policy and Planning Council (A3PCON) regarding priorities in the Asian Pacific Islander community at the Gardena community center. Representatives from Pacific Asian Consortium in Employment (PACE), South Asian Network (SAN), Empowering Pacific Islander Communities (EPIC), A3PCON, Little Tokyo Service Center (LTSC), Pacific Asian Counseling Services, and I discussed addressing the housing crisis, challenges to non-profit companies, disaggregation of data, and general community concerns.
Shared an informative afternoon with The Nature Conservancy, Heal the Bay, LAANE, Friends of Madrona Marsh and Senator Diane Feinstein’s office learning about multi-benefit ecosystem like the Henrietta Basin in Torrance. In addition to collecting and naturally filtering storm water, the site acts as a haven for birds and native plants, and as a natural classroom for students. Multi-benefit sites like the Henrietta Basin are excellent examples of how we can use public spaces to address concerns like storm water treatment in sustainable ways while educating the next generation of conservationists and creating much needed habitat in the south bay.
I was honored to be a part of the Grand Opening of the Torrance Aquatic Center. Standing with my former colleagues on the Torrance School Board, the Torrance City Council and Superintendent George Manon we celebrated the culmination of years of hard work. Thank you again to the people of Torrance for voting to make this project possible. From my conversations with parents and student athletes, I know how important this facility will be generations of Tartars, Spartans, Saxons, and Warriors.
I was honored to meet with the new Consul General from Japan, the Honorable Tomochika Uyama, and discuss issues of mutual interest to California and Japan.
I introduced Assembly Concurrent Resolution 143 to declare February 19th as a Day of Remembrance throughout the State of California, to remember the historical lessons of the World War II Japanese American incarceration in American concentration camps. Thanks to camp survivors Kanji Sahara of Torrance and Nancy Oda of the San Fernando Valley for educating legislators and staff at the State Capitol about the Tuna Canyon Detention Center and life in the camps.
Honored to speak at the Japanese American National Museum over the weekend about my Assembly Concurrent Resolution 143, which would declare February 19th as a Day of Remembrance throughout the State of California.
