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December/January Executive Director’s Report

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•  Happy Birthday: to NPIEN Event Staff Member and LA Island Radio Host David Brown, to Tui Letuli, Speaker at our Annual Conference at Lakewood High School where they taught the fire knife dance, Martha Maldonado, California Credit Union Manager, Dio Brache, member of the Aloha Ukulele Ensemble, Eugene Mafi, Honorary NPIEN Board Member, Rynette Labostrie-Barr, our Accountant from Lagniappe Accounting, Dan Varner, Sponsor, the late Representative to American Samoa, Manua Islands,  Faufano Autele, and to  retired Superintendent Leslie Lockhart of the Culver City Unified School District. 

•  Sympathy: Our sympathy to the family of Francine Blacksher, NPIEN Inland Empire Chapter Liaison who lost her mother-in-law recently and to the families of the students at Oxford High School in Michigan. 

•  Holidays Cards: We received a Holiday Card from Los Angeles County Supervisor Janice Hahn. Long Beach Mayor Robert Garcia, past Golf Tournament Chair Ray Vincent who now lives in Texas, the Teacher’s Association of Long Beach (TALB), former California Senator and current Insurance Commissioner Ricardo Lara, Long Beach City Councilwoman Dr. Suely Saro, and Amy and Omar Sloan of Amy’s Trophies.

•  NPIEN members worked at the City of Lakewood’s Project Shepherd Holiday Food Bank and the Broken Loaf Food Pantry.

•  We Are Samoa, A Diamond Gala Evening https://e.givesmart.com/events/oZW/   Please mark your calendars for March 26, 2022 in Costa Mesa and submit your ticket registration.  NPIEN is a sponsor of this event to honor the musical career of Jerome Grey.  

•  Our Phone Banking continues, sponsored by the Southern California Pacific Islander COVID Response Team.  Interns and Staff have been calling friends and colleagues recommended by NPIEN board and staff members to educate them about the vaccine.  Phone Banking ends in January 2022.

•  The California Credit Union Toy Drive is over, and we donated six bags, four at the Downey Branch and two at the Carson Branch.  California Assembly Speaker Anthony Rendon had a Holiday Book Fair and Book Drive on Thursday December 16th and we donated 1 bag of new books. Lakewood Mayor Jeff Wood, Councilwoman Vicki Stucki and Councilman Ariel Pe were there.  Thanks to Zobedia Castillo, retired teacher from Cabrillo High School, Long Beach USD and her husband for their toy donations!

•  Giving Tuesday:  We earned $4, 370 thanks to major donor Dr. Siona Motufau, and nine others!  Some of the funds will go to the Northern California Chapter, who had three donors.

• NPIEN’s In-Person and Virtual Golf Tournaments April 16-22 and April 25, 2022

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