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OPINION Page 6 n THE ASIAN REPORTER January 16, 2017 Volume 27 Number 2 January 16, 2017 ISSN: 1094-9453 The Asian Reporter is published on the first and third Monday each month. Please send all correspondence to: The Asian Reporter 922 N Killingsworth Street, Suite 2D, Portland, OR 97217 Phone: (503) 283-4440, Fax: (503) 283-4445 News Department e-mail: news@asianreporter.com Advertising Department e-mail: ads@asianreporter.com General e-mail: info@asianreporter.com Website: www.asianreporter.com Please send reader feedback, Asian-related press releases, and community interest ideas/stories to the addresses listed above. Please include a contact phone number. Advertising information available upon request. Publisher Jaime Lim Contributing Editors Ronault L.S. Catalani (Polo), Jeff Wenger Correspondents Ian Blazina, Josephine Bridges, Pamela Ellgen, Maileen Hamto, Edward J. Han, A.P. 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Back issues of The Asian Reporter may be ordered by mail at the following rates: First copy: $1.50 Additional copies ordered at the same time: $1.00 each Send orders to: Asian Reporter Back Issues, 922 N. Killingsworth St., Portland, OR 97217-2220 The Asian Reporter welcomes reader response and participation. If you have a comment on a story we have printed, or have an Asian-related personal or community focus idea, please contact us. Please include a contact name, address, and phone number on all correspondence. Thank you. he past year was a bad one for me, but I’m a lethargy.” Her hopes for others in 2017, the year of Fire Rooster and this is my year. I hope the fire and energy: “Learn all you can, be strong and Rooster Year is a good one for everyone else, confident, and strut your brilliant colors!” Allegri too. The lucky numbers are 5, 7, and 8 — which, also created the beautiful painting for this column. interestingly enough, I’ve always considered lucky, Ronni Lacroute, a teacher and arts enthusiast in especially 5 — my favorite number. I’m told to avoid McMinnville, Oregon, remains optimistic about the 1, 3, and 9; I’ve never liked those much, either. Fire Rooster, saying, “this feisty Rooster is In the Year of the Rooster, my trustworthy, with a strong sense of hopes are simple. I don’t want to lose timekeeping and responsibility at the health insurance I obtained work — he will get the job done!” through the Affordable Care Act. I A close friend since the ’80s, radio hope my family and loved ones producer Catherine Sifter, lives in maintain good health. I hope people Grass Valley, California. She re- living in the streets and those cently changed her life — in her 60th struggling to get by on a low income year — and she’s “firing up the deter- will be better cared for and the class mination to act when the timing is divide doesn’t increase. And as an right and conserve energy for when artist, as always, I hope people will it’s most needed.” She studied tai chi attend my three theater events and qi gong for 15 years. For 2017, scheduled in 2017. she has made a life change to teach so Roosters are confident, obser- Image courtesy of artist Kathy she can commit to “sharing these vant, hardworking, resourceful, Delumpa Allegri. arts for the benefit and wellbeing of courageous, and talented. I happen to know a great my students, my community, and beyond.” many people who exemplify these words. I asked a Porsche Ing, a writer and artist in Portland, few of them via Facebook about their wishes and responded the most enthusiastically, saying she’s dreams for the Year of the Rooster. been waiting for the Year of the Rooster “forever!” Simon Tam, the bassist and founder of The Slants She believes it’s a time of rebirth “for our hopes, music group, and Kat Templeton, a visual artist in dreams, and aspirations to all come true” and, on a Vancouver, Washington, are also Roosters who are scale of 1 to 10, with 1 being the best, she says this positive about their Rooster Year. year “marks a ‘1’ year of love, peace, and harmony,” Tam has been fighting for the right to trademark which is “refreshing from our ‘9’ year last year of the band’s name for years. He hopes it will be “a year endings and chaos.” Ing bought her sisters and of justice” for the group and mark the end of the mother a “good luck rooster amulet” and seven legal case. A Supreme Court oral hearing is sched- Chinese calendars from Chinatown for family and uled on January 18. He also believes 2017 will mark friends. She then offered the following poem. I could a drastic contrast in our government. “No matter not agree more with her joyful rooster wish. what happens,” he says, “I hope our communities May the Phoenix Rooster bestow upon our world will help inspire a path forward for all Americans.” New beginnings, like the sunrise brings Templeton hopes people will “courageously aspire the promise of morning each day … to be passionate and persevere to inspire others” As the Rooster cries out — may we too awaken while remaining imaginative and creative and to our fierce purpose and dynamic destiny. championing social change. She says, “Roosters like May magic find us living our dreams, myself challenge and question, analyze and not just for tomorrow — but forever progress forward with strong will and determina- in joy, peace, and harmony — with a tion, but we do it in style!” flock of true friends and loving family to encourage and surround us. Phil Duong, a Portland friend since the ’90s, bids farewell to the Year of the Monkey, a year that May our heart’s wishes take flight upon highlighted the Monkey’s “impetuous temper, its the wings of Infinite fortune, irritability.” He offers this wish for the new Lunar prosperity, and creativity … Year: “Bring the promise of rebirth, transformation, And may the most MAGICAL justice — a year of resting, waiting, watching, and of Immortal rebirth light a fire acting when able and when the time is right.” under, around, and within our Kathy Delumpa Allegri, a visual artist in Port- world to show us the way of land, wrote, “The Rooster crows to awaken us from Endless Love … T Opinions expressed in this newspaper are those of the authors and not necessarily those of this publication.