Ventura
County Chinese
American Association
VCCAA
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Greetings
from the President “The
Year of the Monkey” has been another happy year for the VCCAA. The
planned cultural events, including the Cultural Night - “Becoming
American: The Chinese Experience in Ventura County” - at Oxnard Pacifica
High School Performing Arts Center, which was well-attended and enjoyed by
a full-house of audience of over 750. A
wise person once said, “Feeling gratitude and not expressing it … is
like wrapping a gift and not giving it.” Let
me be a grateful person to unwrap a gift of “Thank you” to VP Tyrus
Goo and Vivian Goo, Secretary Andy Little, Treasurer Judy Schechter,
Membership and Newsletter editors Lloyd Ho, Lisa Fu, Sharon Chiang, all
the Board members and all the friends of the VCCAA for the enthusiastic
supports throughout the year. You, the gentle wing of “the butterfly”
can eventually cause a ripple-effect of warm feeling of our heritage and
culture among us and many others. A
big “Thank You,” to our major event sponsors for their generous
supports: Al and Petra Lowe of Al Lowe Construction, Inc. of Oxnard; Keith
and Cindy Kwan of Chester’s Asia Restaurant of Camarillo; Regional
Manager George Leong and Branch Manager Dr. Lawrence Lee of DCH Lexus of
Oxnard; Paul and Hsiu-Ling Lu of Camarillo Inn of The Best Western Inn. Of
course we are very thankful for the contributions made by all our other
many more business and professional advertisers in our website, newsletter
and cultural night program throughout the year. A
big “Thank You” to the people who helped make the major events
possible: Dr. George Yu and the Historical Society; Judge Kee Choo Ling
and Camarillo Kung Fu Club; Ray Chong, Lee-May Little, Irene Sy of the
Language School and the Youth Group; Edna Tanita, Alice Ginn and LaRaine
Kang, Sharon Mac Polin, Lesley Ling, Steve and Sylvia Shih; Tony Chen, Tim
Fu, Dolly and Leon Lee; Leslie Jue and family; Harry Lee, Sean Gao,
Barbara Chieu and Rob Heilman. A
new Board for 2004-05 is being developed and we welcome your
participation. Please step-up to the plate for our Association for the
coming year. Let us bring our Association to a higher level of service to
our members and the local community and to a higher level of pride and
self-satisfaction of our heritage and culture. The
motto of our Association is: “We Build Cultural Bridges.” In this
deeply troubled world there are many bridges in need of being built. Let
it begin with us. I wish you a good and safe summer! Stella and I thank you for allowing me to be your president for the last two wonderful years.
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Greetings
from the President - 會長致辭
“猴年” 对华联会来说又是一个欢乐之年。我们在澳斯纳太平洋高中学术表演中心举行的，主题为“成为美国人：范杜拉郡华人的经历” 的文化之夜，取得了巨大成功。有超过七百五十名观众欣赏了我们的表演。 一位智者曾说：“心怀感激而不表达，正如包装礼品而不送出。” 请允许我在此表达我心中的感谢。我要感谢副会长Tyrus
Goo和Vivian Goo，秘书Andy
Little，财务Judy Schechter，会员录和通信录的
编辑们：Lloyd Ho，Lisa Fu，Sharon
Chiang，以及所有理事会成员和华联会的朋友们的热心支持。正是我们每个人扇动微弱的“蝴
蝶的翅膀”产生的“涟漪效应”
，让人们感到了来自我们的文化和传统的温暖。 我要衷心感谢我们所有赞助者的慷慨支持：Al
Lowe Construction, Inc. 的Al和Petra
Lowe，Chester’s Asia Restaurant的
Keith和Cindy Kwan，DCH Lexus的区域经理George
Leong和分行经理Dr. Lawrence Lee，Camarillo
Inn of The Best Western Inn的Paul和Hsiu-Ling
Lu。当然我们非常感谢所有为我们的网站，通信录和文化之夜赞助的商家和个人。 我衷心感谢所有为我们各项活动做出奉献的人们：George
Yu医生和历史协会，Kee
Choo Ling法官和Camarillo Kung Fu Club，中文学校的Ray
Chong，Lee-May Little和Irene
Sy，Edna Tanita，Alice Ginn 和
LaRaine Kang，Sharon Mac Polin，Lesley
Ling，Steve和Sylvia
Shih，Tony Chen，Tim
Fu，Dolly和Leon
Lee，Leslie Jue及其全家，Harry Lee， Sean Gao，Barbara
Chieu和Rob Heilman。 新一届的理事会正在酝酿当中，我们欢迎您的积极参与，请为我们的华联会挺身而出！让我们的华联会来年有更大的进步！让我们的 华联会来年能更好地服务于我们的社区，让我们为自己的文化和传统感到骄傲和自豪！ 我们的座右铭是：“我们架起文化的桥梁”
。在这个风云不断的世界，正有很多文化的桥梁需要建造，让我们“从我做起” 吧！ 我衷心希望您有一个安乐的暑期，我太太Stella和我感谢你们让我在过去的两年中为你们服务！
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Easter
Egg Hunt On
a lovely spring Sat. morning, April 3, 2004, over 100 members, families
and friends participated in the second annual Easter Extravaganza at the
Ling’s Ranch in Somis. Festivities included a tri-tip and chicken
barbecue, carnival games, face painting, tattoos, balloon animals, Easter
chicks and, of course, an Easter egg hunt! Thank
you to all who made this event a fun-filled success! Thanks to our hosts,
Stella and Hillary Ling. Thanks to Lesley Ling for overseeing the event,
to Edna and Karissa Tanita, LaRaine Kang, Sharon MacPolin and Alice Ginn
for organizing games and to Suzie and Leslie Jue and their gang for
providing REALLY GOOD food. Thanks also to all of those who stuck around
to help clean up, and also to all our enthusiastic party-goers! Vicky Chow
Lisa Fu
Irene Sy
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復活節彩蛋找尋 在今年四月三日，星期六的美丽的早晨，超过一百名会员、家庭和朋友参加了又一次在Somis林庄园举行的复活节的彩蛋找寻活动。节目包括了：牛肉、鸡肉烧烤，游戏等等。 感谢所有参与的人们！感谢庄园的主人Stella和Hillary Ling， 感谢Lesley Ling，Edna和 Karissa
Tanita，LaRaine
Kang，Sharon
MacPolin 和Alice
Ginn，Suzie和Leslie Jue。
Vicky Chow,
co-Chair
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Memorial
Day Picnic When:
Monday, May 31, 2004 Where:
Pleasant Valley Park Menu:
BBQ beef tri-tip or chicken Cost:
$6 Adults, $4 Children 10 years old and under Lunch:
Served at 12 noon Program: 1:00 pm Contact: Tyrus Goo, (805) 482-6074 If
you have not submitted your membership renewal form and/or ballot, *
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need your active participation in all association events and especially in
taking an active role as an officer or member of our board of directors.
We want to hear suggestions on events for the association, the program for
our next Chinese New Year celebration, and what your vision is for the
organization in the coming years. Please attend our board meetings that
are held at 7:30 pm on the third Monday of the month at the Camarillo Inn (295
Daily Drive, Camarillo, Calif., (805) 987-4991). You may also send in your
suggestions to the VCCAA (P.O. Box 806, Camarillo, CA 93011-0806). Remember,
our association can only be as successful as you want it to be. We need
your active participation! Looking forward to seeing and hearing from you
all! Sincerely,
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国殇日烧烤 时间：五月三十一日，星期一， 早上十一點到下午三點 地點：Pleasant
Valley Park Temple Ave. & Ponderosa
Rd., Camarillo 菜单：牛肉、鸡肉烧烤 价格：成人六圓﹐十歲及以下四圓 午餐：中午十二點開始 聯繫： Tyrus Goo, (805) 482-6074 * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * 我們需要您的積極參與﹐參與我們的各項活動和成為理事會成員。我們還希望聽到您對我們的活動﹐文化之夜以及華聯會發展等各方面的建議。請參加我們每個月第三個星期一在Camarillo
Inn (295 Daily Drive, Camarillo, Calif., (805) 987-4991) 舉行的理事會。您還
可以將建議寄到VCCAA (P.O. Box 806, Camarillo, CA
93011-0806) 。
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VCCAA
Historical Society The
Historical Society has finished production of the documentary “Courage
and Contribution: The Chinese in Ventura County.” The documentary is an
hour-long feature directed by George Sandoval of WestEnd Production. An
excerpt from the film was well received by the audience at the 2004
Chinese Cultural Night event at the Pacifica High School in Oxnard. The
documentary chronicles the history of the early Chinese settlers in
Ventura from the 1860s to the present day. The film also covers the
anti-Chinese movement in the late 1800s and the story of William Soo Hoo,
an Oxnard native, who was elected as mayor in the 1960s. It presents the
research of Linda Bentz, our historian, on the pioneer Chinese families in
Ventura and Oxnard. Our goal is to provide a copy of the documentary free
of charge to every public school in Ventura County for use in their
curriculum on immigration history. The
documentary will premiere at 7 pm on Sat., May 15, 2004 at the Rockwell Scientific Company
Auditorium (1049 Camino Dos Rios, Thousand Oaks). This exciting event is
by invitation only since seating at the auditorium is limited. If you
would like to attend this premiere, please email your request and mailing
address to vccahs@aol.com or contact
S.K. Leong at 805-484-4210. We
are working with the City of Ventura on the China Alley Memorial. The
Memorial will be a painted mural on a wall along the Figueroa Walkway. The
artists, Qi Pang and Guo Song Yuan, will need at least four weeks to
complete the mural. Please visit our website at www.vccahs.org
to see a drawing of the Memorial. This is the first memorial in Ventura
County dedicated to the legacy of the early Chinese immigrants. This event
has received considerable coverage in the Chinese language newspapers in
Los Angeles Chinatown and Monterey Park. We shall keep you updated on our
progress. The
Ventura County Museum of History and Art (VCMHA; 100 E. Main St., Ventura)
will hold a summer exhibit of paintings by Qi Pang to commemorate the
historic Ventura China Alley and the new Memorial. Mr. Qi Pang based his
paintings on images found in the VCMHA collection, the Santa Barbara
Historical Society collection, the Oxnard library and the National
Archives. If
you like to support our documentary or China Alley Memorial projects,
please send your tax-deductible donation to the VCCAA (P.O. Box 806,
Camarillo, CA 93011-0806) earmarked for the Historical Society or contact
us via our email address at vccahs@aol.com. George
Yu, m.d.
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華聯會歷史協會 歷史協會完成了紀錄片：“勇氣與奉獻：華人在范杜拉郡”
。本片共一個小時
﹐由WestEnd的George
Sandoval 導演。紀錄片的一些片段在“文化之夜”
的節目中得到了觀眾好評。紀錄片
講述了早期華人從十九世紀六十年代到今天的歷史。紀錄片還講述了十九世紀八十年代的“排華法案”﹐以及澳斯納出生的William
Soo Hoo在本世紀 六
十年代當選為市長的故事。
紀錄片是我們的歷史學家Linda Bentz 對范杜拉郡早期華人歷史的研究成果。
我們的目標是為范杜拉郡公立學校的移民歷史課程提供免費的教材。 紀錄片將于五月十五日﹐星期六﹐晚七時在Rockwell
Scientific Company 禮堂舉行首映(1049
Camino Dos Rios, Thousand Oaks) 。本活動座位
有限﹐請聯繫：S.K.
Leong 805-484-4210或vccahs@aol.com。 我們正在與范杜拉市合作“中國紀念牆”
的項目。紀念牆沿于Figueroa步行
街。藝術家Qi
Pang和Guo
Song Yuan﹐還需要四個星期方可完成繪製工作。從我們的網站www.vccahs.org可以看到紀念牆的藍圖。這將是范杜拉郡第一個專為早期華人移民的紀念物。這一事件被眾多中文報紙給予報導。我們將告知大家各項進展。 范杜拉郡歷史和藝術博物館將與紀念牆竣工時舉行Qi
Pang的個人夏季畫展。
Qi Pang先生的畫基於范杜拉郡歷史和
藝術博物﹐聖巴巴拉歷史協會﹐和國家檔案館的資料。 如果您要支持我們的項目﹐請將捐款寄給VCCAA
(P.O. Box 806, Camarillo, CA 93011-0806)﹐
並注明歷史協會。或于vccahs@aol.com聯繫。
George Yu 余志誠
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Chinese
Language School
The students
saw a tiny room with a wooden bed, the medicine room containing many
drawers of herbal medications, and many pictures of Chinatown from the mid
1800s to modern times. I am sure that the students learned a lot about the
earlier Chinese immigration to this country. The highlight
of the trip was an authentic Chinese lunch and shopping in Chinatown. A
big “Thank You” to all of the people who helped by providing
transportation. Our annual
speech contest will be held on Fri., May 14, 7-9 PM, at Monte Vista
Intermediate School (888 Lantana St., Camarillo). Everyone is welcome to come see our students’ great
achievements this school year. There
is a need for new teachers for the coming school year, starting in
September 2004. We need help from our members to find qualified
candidates. If you know of someone who is very familiar with the Pin Ying
system and who is willing to devote two hours per week each Friday night,
please either refer them to me or contact Lee May Little at (805)
484-5222. We are
attempting to determine whether there is enough interest to hold a summer
school for the kids again this year. If you are interested in attending,
please let Irene Sy know as soon as possible. Contact Irene at 482-4765.
Lee May Little, Principal
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中文學校 三月十三日﹐星期六﹐中文學校參觀了位於洛杉磯中國城的美籍華人博物館(425
N. Los Angeles St.)。共有三十三名學生和家長參 與此活動。我們非常有幸得到Albert
Lew先生的講解﹐他的家人曾于十九世紀居住在博物館旁邊的最早的雜貨店中﹐為當地的中國人
家庭提供從食品﹐雜貨和藥物﹐還提供與中國家鄉的郵件來往服務。 學生們參觀了有個木床的袖珍房間﹐有眾多存放草藥的抽屜的藥房﹐和從十八世紀到目前的許多關於中國城的照片。我相信他們一定學到許多關於美國早期華人移民的知識。
最畫龍點睛的當然是正宗的中國午餐和在中國城購物。我們非常感謝為我們提供交通車輛的人們。 我們今年的演講比賽將于五月十四日﹐星期五﹐晚七時至九時在Monte
Vista Intermediate School (888 Lantana St., Camarillo) 舉行。我們熱烈歡迎所有的人們來傾聽學生們今年取得的成勣。 We are
attempting to determine whether there is enough interest to hold a summer
school for the kids again this year. If you are interested in attending,
please let Irene Sy know as soon as possible. Contact Irene at 482-4765. 在九月開始的新學年﹐我們需要更多的老師。我們希望會員們能幫助尋找。如果您知道任何人熟悉漢語拼音﹐並願意每星期五奉獻兩個
小時﹐請與Lee
May Little(805 484-5222)聯繫。 我們正在決定是否要為孩子們舉行一次暑期學校。如果您有興趣參加﹐請儘快與Irene
Sy(805 482-4765)聯繫。
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Memorial
Day Picnic |
May
31, 2004 Monday, 11:00 am |
Pleasant
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Installation
& Award Dinner |
June
26, 2004 Sunday, 11:00 am |
Location
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On
Sat., March 13, 2004, the Chinese Language School took a field trip to the
Chinese American Museum in Los Angeles Chinatown (425 N. Los Angeles St.).
A total of 33 students and parents participated. We were lucky to have Mr.
Albert Lew explain to us in person how his family, who lived in the
original 19th century general store on the site of the present museum,
provided local Chinese families with everything from food to general
supplies to medicine, as well as providing mail service to hometowns in
China.