l. perez entertainment commissioner l press one of our celebration coaches. and amazing grace grace. hurry, keary. celebration co chairs. and a special shout out to tennessee who is heading up our awards committee. dennis thank you so much for everything. so our city attorneys talk about the rough and tough times that aapi community has gone through in the last few years, so we feel that when we think about our theme, we just feel that we really need to take the opportunity to continue to strengthen ourselves, and that's so to make it very simple. our theme this year is strengthening the fabric of our community. looking around, we might all be coming from different places. we have very different may have different culture history heritage, but you know, we are one api community and we hope that throughout, uh the month of may. that's what all the program is going to tell this story of our community. um thanks to again to co chair thomas lee was very, very creative this year. this is the hour event. this is our commemorative poster, and it's really a very intricate design of different

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