July

July 26, 2008.  Join VABAW on July 26 as we participate in the Seafair Parade. Please contact Thuy Nguyen-Leeper at leeperthuynguyen@yahoo.com or Thi Huynh at thi@huynhlaw.com if you want to walk the Parade route with VABAW and the Xe Hoa Cong Dong Viet Nam floate.

August

August 6, 2008, Asian Counseling and Referral Services Grand Opening and Community Celebration, 3 pm to 6 pm, 3639 Martin Luther King Jr. Way South.  Please rsvp to Alice McLean Barnes at aliceb@acrs.org or at 206-774-2462.  Parking and Shuttle available at Blaine Memorial United Methodist Church, 3001 24th Avenue South, Seattle, WA 98144.

August 7, 2008, VABAW Board Meeting, hosted at the law offices of Garvey Schubert and Barer at 1191 Second Avenue, Floor 18, Seattle, WA, from 6 pm to 8 pm. Members are invited to attend. Please contact Thuy Nguyen-Leeper at Thuy.NguyenLeeper@expeditors.com if you would like to attend.

August 15 and 16, 2008, Third Annual National Conference of Vietnamese American Attorneys in San Francisco, California.  Go to www.ncvaa.org for more information.  VABAW has arranged for and received approval for 6 hours general and 1.5 hours ethics CLE credit for Washington attorneys! Rates for the conference are: Full Conference Package - $275; Friday Night Welcoming Reception Only - $75; Saturday Conference Only - $150; and Saturday Night Banquet Only - $150.  We have at least eight VABAW attorneys attending, so join us in San Francisco on August 15 and 16.

August 21, 2008.  Helping Link 15th Anniversary Dinner at the Brockey Conference Center at South Seattle Community College, starting at 6 pm. "Helping Link: 15th Anniversary Celebration - Helping Transition, Honoring Tradition."  See attached flyer.  For more information, contact VABAW member Walter Impert at impert.walter@dorsey. com or at 206-903-2439 or visit http://www.cityofseattle.net/helpinglink/  For free seats with the VABAW table, please contact Thuy Nguyen-Leeper at Thuy.NguyenLeeper@expeditors.com if you would like to attend.

September

September 4, 2008, VABAW Board Meeting, hosted at the law offices of Garvey Schubert and Barer at 1191 Second Avenue, Floor 18, Seattle, WA, from 6 pm to 8 pm. Members are invited to attend. Please contact Thuy Nguyen-Leeper at Thuy.NguyenLeeper@expeditors.com if you would like to attend.

September 10, 2008, TET Trung Thu (Autumn Festival), location and time TBD.  If you have any questions about our social events, please contact Social Committee Co-Chairs Alice Wong  at alice.wong@nordstrom.com or at 206-303-4025 or Tien Nguyen at 425-743-8800 or at tin_win@hotmail.com  To learn more about the Tet Trung Thu celebration, click here. 

September 13, 2008, 8 am to 4 pm, Legal Workshop for Vietnamese Community to be held at the Chinese Information and Services Center (611 South Lane Street, Seattle).  Click here for the flyer. For further information, contact VABAW President-Elect Thi Huynh at thi@huynhlaw.com

September 13, 2008 Asian Counseling and Referral Service's 35th Annual Dinner, with festivities to begin at 5:30 pm.  For more information, go to www.acrs.org

September 19, 2008, The Asian Pacific Islander Coalitions (APIC) of King, Pierce, Snohomish, and Spokane Counties, APIC of South Puget Sound, APIC of Southwest Washington, coalitions in Yakima, and associations, groups and organizations throughout Washington State, are holding the Asian Pacific American Community Summit: Celebrating Unity & Civic Engagement, at the Tacoma Dome Exhibition Hall in Tacoma.

October

(early October) Mentor-Mentee Reception.  Details coming soon.  For more information, please contact Ty Ho at ty.ho@hoassociates.com

October 2, 2008, VABAW Board Meeting, hosted at the law offices of Garvey Schubert and Barer at 1191 Second Avenue, Floor 18, Seattle, WA, from 6 pm to 8 pm. Members are invited to attend. Please contact Thuy Nguyen-Leeper at Thuy.NguyenLeeper@expeditors.com if you would like to attend.

October 28, 2008, Fourth Annual Banquet.  Venue: Triple Door, 216 Union Street, Seattle, WA.  Reception to start at 5:00 pm, and Dinner & Program from 7:00 pm to 8:30 pm.  For details, please contact VABAW Banquet Chair and President-Elect Thi Huynh at thi@huynhlaw.com  For information about sponsoring the Fourth Annual Banquet, please click here.

November

November 6, 2008, VABAW Board Meeting, hosted at the law offices of Garvey Schubert and Barer at  1191 Second Avenue, Floor 18, Seattle, WA, from 6 pm to 8 pm. Members are invited to attend. Please contact Thuy Nguyen-Leeper at Thuy.NguyenLeeper@expeditors.com if you would like to attend.

November 20-22, 2008 National Asian Pacific American Bar Association Convention in Seattle, WA.  For more information, go to www.napaba.org  Please contact Social Committee Co-Chair Alice Wong  at alice.wong@nordstrom.com or at 206-303-4025 if you are interested in joining VABAW for the Saturday dim sum brunch at Jade Garden.   

December 4, 2008, VABAW Board Meeting, hosted at the law offices of Garvey Schubert and Barer at  1191 Second Avenue, Floor 18, Seattle, WA, from 6 pm to 8 pm. Members are invited to attend. Please contact Thuy Nguyen-Leeper at Thuy.NguyenLeeper@expeditors.com if you would like to attend.

Past Events 2008

February 2 and 3, 2008: TET in Seattle’s Celebration at Seattle Center. More details at //http://tetinseattle.org/ 

VABAW's TET Celebration, February 11, 2008.  The TET Celebration is hosted at and sponsored by Christensen O'Connor Johnson and Kindness, whose offices are located at 1420 Fifth Avenue, Suite 2800, Seattle, WA.  To learn more about the Tet holiday and its traditional celebrations, click here.  For photos from the event, click here and scroll down to the pictures from the event. 

April 19, 2008.  Little Saigon Spring Clean-Up with the Seattle Chinatown International District Preservation and Development Authority (SCIDpda).  For photos from the event, click here and scroll down to the pictures from the event.