welcome everyone here on this occasion of the unveiling of the stamp buy as many as you can and in the celebration but at the same time recognize it that that is part of our history of the history of the itself not only for the asian-american but part of the united states history so thank you, again, for joining us>> (speaking foreign language.) (clapping) thank you very much for being here. (clapping.) >> thank you so much and i didn't pay him to talk about buying the stamps so such we appreciate that mayor ed lee before i introduce our dedicating official i want to mention we have a few honored gifts not that you're not honored gift but honor gift i want to introduce i'd like to

introduce cam can you please stand (clapping) cam is the artist who created this beautiful new stamp that we are dedicating today and in addition island i'd be remiss if i didn't thank the oc a for helping cam with the trip so thank you very much (clapping) and i'd like to introduce rossy ferry nasal a retired vice president of the human resources management for the postal service and her husband mr. hernandez thank you for coming today. >> i'd like to also introduce san francisco's first lady anita lee (clapping) thank you. i guess i shouldn't be clapping you're next to the microphone

i want to introduce commander garrett palm thank you (clapping) also like to recognize sherman president of the board of directors of chinese cultural foundation and ronda gil the assistant director thank you all so much for being here and now for a moment we've been waiting for the stamp dedication i'm very pleased to recognize the post master for the city of san francisco pr in this role he's roshlth for managing 44 departments and 5 hundred thousand employees in the delivery of mail to 3 hundred and 95 thousand homes

and businesses throughout san francisco she began her career in 1989 as a letter carrier in santa fe since then held positions including the manager of the services operations in is an sdwroes we we're happen she's here please join me in welcoming ms. m the lady. >> good morning, everybody. thank you deborah for that kind of introduction on behalf of the postal service i'm delighted to be here to recognize the forever stamp we're proud to hold this ceremony in beautiful san francisco in one the biggest asian-american communities and thank you to the honored gifts and customers and community officials and positively employees for millions of people

around the world license number in charge is one of the most important holidays and you'll hear about the tracing and leejdz so i'm to talk about this why the postal service regarding this as a tremor honor for the diversity of the great nation for the stamsz for more than one hundred and 20 years your come activist active stamp programs we highlight the culture and people that came together from every corner of the world reflecting the rich heritage of america the postal service is proud of the contribution to this country and do everything we can to provide the great nation together we'll continue to recognize the events and cultures that make america unique the license number in charge

competitive stamp program against in 1992 and ran through 2007 in 2008 the postal service began the the celebrating license number in charge stamp since them we've help to celebrate the year of the ram, the oxygen the tiger the rabbit the dragon the snake and last year the year of the horse today, we'll decade the year the ram competitive forest stoomg it's one of the wonderful colorful stamps ever issued i love the colors on the stockrooms work with the all over the cam our director was giving an illusion for the tray of togetherness filled with dried fruit and candies and other treats for a new beginning to the new year

starting today, this lovely illusion will be carried on letters and packages for millions of businesses and americans don't forget their forever stamps and like mayor ed lee says you got to buy a lot of them they're out on sale and in every city in the city of san francisco as you see them we'll hope the year of the ram brings you good health and great joy and bound also prosperity wu6d i'd like to ask mayor ed lee and our other honored gifts along with cam to come up as we join together in celebrating and dedicating the year of the stamp of the ram and in doing so i want to wish you a very happy new year>> (speaking foreign

language.) >> (clapping.) i'd like to introduce claudine changing the past national president of the chinese-americans during her team of the president as the chinese-american in the early 1990 she launched a national caption to advocate for the issues of the stamps honoring and celebrating the chinese-american communities good job since here release the license number 2345r stham has continued for all of her assistance and valuable expertise over the years for the license number in charge stamp series the postal service is enormously grateful give her a hand i can actual we couldn't have

done it without you (clapping.) currently mr. chiang that the president of the asian pacific islander foundation in san francisco on organization that is dedicated to promoting a difference cultural and heritage of the community and celebrating the asian pacific islander community every year ladies and gentlemen, please join me in welcoming california law deny chang (clapping.) thank you. good morning everyone this is my greater time of the year we started this talking about the postage stamp it is - since i see we have a lot of san francisco school children with us i want to thank you the story how you get a stamp it is not easy to get a stamp print bits united states postal

service a year and a half there are a lot of applications about ideas so it is competitive, however, we're lucky in this chinese asian community sometimes, we ask make a difference we have i believe we were fortunate many of our members a member of the chapter james is a person that came up with the idea and why not have something to commemorate and honor the history and contribution of the chinese-american in this country so you can could it, too so the ideas can work to bring people together so since 1990 and 91 we've worked on the idea about an postal service through a

national caption to bring together and since the year it was 9 that it was - actually, the new year's was celebrated in many, many countries we're very, very delighted to bring the stamps forward it brought together a lot of people around the country and it is a community event that brings people together out of the last several years so we're very proud of that and it is continued to be an event we come together we're happening happy to see the children this is our future and you really care for the school district to to those events to learn about our history some people traveled from beijing in addition to

people in san francisco that's great talking about the stamping service a vehicle of communication it was talked about how we'll be using the stamps throughout the country i know the stamp is, in fact a vehicle to continue promotion for the awareness of this very special of our cultural heritage of celebrating the new year so we hope you fellow through many more years of having this stamp thank you (clapping.) >> so talking about bringing communities together actually i was coming to this event i've seen people coming to this event since 1992 and sunnyvale california i saw people from there and people standing in

line buying the stamps and every year we have this ceremony we have organizations that supported this event first, i'd like to thank the nation. >> (speaking foreign language.) >> so i would like to at this point invite the proceeding president and the association wanting to come and give his briefing>> (speaking foreign language.)

(clapping) (clapping)>> (speaking foreign language.) >> (clapping.) i see that our district that 3 captain has joined us thank you for being here. >> (clapping) and the appointed commissioners supervisor breed and others

supervisor supervisor, of course, you talking about the joeshgsz they've been supported the organization tirns since 1990 and the operation for the chinese chamber and since them many of the members have been part of the san francisco celebration they have a booth from there that is coming up we want to thank the chinese chamber for the ongoing support and the president of the preceding board. (clapping.) >> mayor ed lee, post master and distinguished groifts and

looej on behalf of the postal service i irrational you a good new year and there's a better way to serve than that beautiful stamp it is a wonderful job co-rating the year of the ramp it is stands for creativity and the ramps sign prove in it stamp may the ram gym give you many opportunities every year the champs orientation this china's new year this principle excluding the coming we've got a far market we have the usa form

and the largest chinese new year parade in the u.s. please come i wish everyone happy and health new year thank you thank you very much (clapping.) i'd like to introduce my friend of mine ted lee from atlanta, georgia just arrived yesterday he was living on the east coast canning has spent many years with the national organizations of chinese-americans serving in many, many capacities as the wanting and massachusetts as our national president and now as i understand on our program it says he's an acting ceo just conformed i was informed the

executive director of the great organization kenny (clapping.) thank you claudine i appreciate it i love coming out here this is any hometown i was born and raised years ago how won't tell you how many what's nice alleyway defining deny mentioned that gene chang with the people who come up what the idea i was actually out there with the georgia charter still a member and have a vibrant chapter i've met her numerous times she's proud she's one of the ones that came up with the idea of the stamp it spread obvious wings out we went to the from 2002 and with claude depends help we were

to consider to get the started we're in the eight year and that's great so being a current ceo of oc a with the organizations we have one hundred chapters across the country and all our charters are proud of the stamp go we really feel good about it it represents the community tremendous you can recognize it i'll make the statements i'll take the liability it is also a very, very professional stamp for the postal service there are many collectors this is would think of the higher collected stamps out there i know for myself i have we've stamps going back years and years that means more profit did i say that right so it is a forever stamp if you

have a need for this you can. >> it into the future it is i think american people stent way to recognize the community and awning people collect it to worldwide to cam thank you for scouting cam is a great artist so let's give cam a round of applause please (clapping) so some people don't realize it took him quite a bit to get out here he had to get 3 legs of his flight so southwest airlines flew him to nashville to las vegas and 3 legs to come out here 3 hours it's a long time so

thank you very much (clapping) so with that i want to let you know i'll proud to represent occ and claudine left i think i've been talking for two minutes but oc a will have their national conference in july please come out and celebrate it's a great celebration we're celebrating the political side we're asking mayor ed lee to be part of our team speakers so you may not have gotten that letter it is in the cycle but no way that celebrates did nukes number of apologizing asians that have been elected to prominent positions it's a great way to celebrate and, of course we have a great political you know election president of 2016 we're

getting prepared we've worked on the area of making sure our community is represent when it comes to politics by electing and registering to vote and articulating a right to vote as the citizens are learning their citizenship it's the power of america so thank you very much (clapping). >> thank you as mentioned i was in a many, many asian community career meetings i want to recognize chow the representative of our industry thank you. >> well, thank you all so much we had somebody join us someone in our room let's see she's

beautiful we're i'd like to recognize tiffany anything she's many powell thank you for joining us i love our terry are a it's beautiful i'd like to thank each of the organizations claudine chang for all the support over the years, leakage that concludes today is stamp ceremony before we adjourn i'm to once again thank the community organizations throughout this great city that support of the license number in charge stamp event i especially want to thank 3 organizations that have been recommend at today is event the chinese chamber of commerce the chinese consolidated benefit haven't society and the oc a thank you all very much

(clapping) we can't do it without you those organizations have participated every year annually with the license number in charge stamp ceremony since 1993 when the postal service unveiled it's license number in charge stamp for the year of the rooster here in san francisco in 1992 we actually start but 1993 was the first unveiling i want to thank the line dancers and the police department color guards their in their support as partners in celebrating the license number in charge year from the beginning i'd like to thank i'm looking for any notes we have the sponsoring for the dancers claudine the sponsoring. >> the i would like to thank the chinese sxhoeltd consolidated benefit haven't

society for the line dancers on a housekeeping note i want to let everyone know 16th century minutes after the ceremony you'll have your programs autographed right here over to the left this is our auto graphing area you can go to our lobby i strongly suggest please purchase our items outside and you can get the signatures of the people on stage and some of the honored gifts you've been a wonderful audience on behalf of the united states postal service thank you for coming today and enjoy the rest of your die thank you very muchverymuchmuchamuchymuchmuchymuchvery much thank you very

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