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On September 9, 2006 under beautiful blue skies, LACAAEA held its 23rd Annual Fish Fry
at Mother’s Beach in Marina del Rey. Nearly
130 members and their families and friends
enjoyed the abundance of good food and good
company on this “thanksgiving day”. LACAAEA
President, Henry Yee (Sheriff’s Dept),
stirred up the BIG POT of seafood chowder,
as did Fish Fry co-founder, Phil Ow (retiree
CAO), who cooked up the steamed fish, sweet
and sour fish, and deep fried fish filets.
As usual, crafts were provided for the
children. However, this year, the grown ups
wanted to participate and make the beautiful
colorful sand and candle bowls too. Thanks
go to Susan Kudo-Lee (County Counsel) for
the craft ideas. Excitement is always in the
air when the prizes are raffled off to
adults and children, as well as cash prizes
to LACAAEA members. Thanks go to Lorraine
Sunday Brown (CAO) for picking out the
fun-filled raffle prizes. For the first
time, BINGO was played at the Fish Fry and
it was a BIG HIT for all who played for cash
awards. Calling out the BINGO numbers was
Fish Fry co-founder, Ralph Hamada (retiree
ISD), and assisted by President Henry Yee
and LACAAEA Correspondence Secretary, Mary
Lam (Assessor’s Office). LACAAEA Vice
President and Chair of the Scholarship
Committee, Irene Hamada (Superior Court)
awarded the Howard Takata Trade/Vocational
Scholarship to Leanne Oda, daughter of Peter
Oda of Public Health Department; the Ed Lee
Continuing Education Scholarship to Kathryn
Tokushige, daughter of David Tokushige of
the Assessor’s Office; and the Shirley
Bolinger Four-Year Undergraduate Scholarship
to Aaron Mayeda, son of Kenji Mayeda of the
Fire Department. The all day fun music was
provided by DJ Evan Brown (husband of
Lorraine). The 2007 Fish Fry is tentatively
scheduled for September 8th. So mark your
calendar to save the date because there’s a
winning BINGO card waiting for you. See you
then!
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