I understand the importance of supporting Little Tokyo’s vibrant artistic and cultural ecosystem.

didnt yet consider himself to be a senior citizen (he was in his late 60s).over the 50+ years our senior member population has changed.

We will be donating the remaining GPP funds to Little Tokyo Service Center (LTSC) and Save Our Seniors Network (SOSN) to be used to assist them in providing their important community service function.GPP formed an Issei Board to assist and provide counsel to the volunteers.Nisei and Sansei in the South Bay area about the possibility of starting a community service organization for the Issei (the senior population at that time).

we coordinated with the federal Social Security Administration and the L.County Department of Public Social Services to have bilingual workers from the SSA and DPSS stationed at our office to provide intake and informational services to our community.

I asked for help from my grandfather.

thereby allowing GPP to continue to serve the community.000 and relied largely on assessments of members.

And mainstream newspaper staffs remained exclusively white and male.I had journalism professors tell me that I wouldnt be able to get a job out of college.

But he graduated with a bachelors degree in journalism from Fresno State University in 1956.I was very fortunate to do an ‘internship under Rev.