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Applications for grants of up to $5,000 from the SAN FRANCISCO JAPANTOWN FOUNDATION are due at 5 p.m. tomorrow, October 12. This will be the foundation’s initial disbursement of awards since being founded in December 2006. Grants will be up to $5,000 and provided to nonprofit groups with cultural, community and educational activities that the Foundation determines best promotes and supports San Francisco’s Japantown. For more info and to submit an application online: http://sfjapantownfoundation.org

The hilarious ALI WONG hosts the Onion Comedy Series’ presentation of The HECKAWEEN Show, featuring stand-up comics Mo Mandel, Mike E. Winfield, Yayne Abeba, Randall Park and special guests. The show is Monday, October 22, 8pm, at Punchline Comedy Club in North Beach. Learn more and buy tickets here. Click here to read more.. »

Join us at a happy hour to celebrate Dale Minami’s birthday! RSVP here on the evite or email keith@hapihour.org.

The event promotes Boalt Hall’s Asian Pacific American Law Student Association (APALSA) and its First Annual Dale Minami Boalt Alumni Fellowship Dinner on Friday, January 25, 2008. The Oct. 11 happy hour event is free, no-host and will take place at Louie’s Bar and Grill at 55 Stevenson Street in SOMA. Click here to read more.. »

The text below is from an email by Wayne Osako, forwarded to me by Diane Tanaka. The Postal Service announced on September 24, 2007, that the Citizens’ Stamp Advisory Committee will be reviewing the Japanese American WWII Soldiers Stamp proposal at their next (undetermined) meeting.

We are currently in a sprint, but the race for a Nisei WWII commemorative stamp is a marathon. This present campaign is really only a year old, though individually, members have been trying on their own for a few years. Campaign founder Aiko King has been trying on her own for about five years. Volunteers have been gathering steam alongside Aiko during 2007.

We are now sprinting to collect as much support nationwide before the Postal Service’s Stamp Committee fall meeting. We will let you know as soon as we hear the date of this meeting. But until then, we ask that you accelerate your efforts of support as much as reasonably possible. We were asked by campaigners to give a tentative deadline last week and did so reluctantly. Please note that the unofficial deadline of November 1st was just a guess, and one rumor in DC this week said that the Stamp Committee meeting may convene during the next few weeks. Due to this new information, we are revising our previous November 1st estimate, and ask that supporters send letters, petitions, and resolutions as they are completed, just in case the rumor proves to be true. It’s better to err on the safe side. Click here to read more.. »