Allan Davis, Community Education Coordinator from the Seattle Neighborhood Group, presented 12 ways to increase personal safety and community center safety practices to the FCS Board March 14, 2010. 

Call 911 when:

1. fire, medical or police emergency

2. when there is a situation that poses a danger to life, propert, or both

3. suspicious activity involving persons or vehicle that appears to have criminal intent

any situation that requires immediate dispatch of an officer

Remain calm and patient while 911 calltaker asks you questions.

Any calls from pay phone are free when dialing 911

Police Non -Emergency number is 206 625 5011

Attention overseas absentee voters

Program description, information, downloadable registration forms can be accessed by going to the TOPMENU (under each respective heading).

September 15, 5:30pm, FCC, New Director Human Services Department Seattle City, Danette Smith, Reception sponsored by FCS and Senior Services Organization

 You are all invited.  RSVP Jilie or Myrna 206 722 9372 or This e-mail address is being protected from spam bots, you need JavaScript enabled to view it

September 17, FCSKultura Arts,  HYPE Hot Young Pinoy Entertainers (Event Producers Annabel Andresen and Lemar Mattox)

Oct 15 -- Alay Sa Beloved Community: Celebrating the 1st national and state Filipino American History Month (Partnership with Words Express and Seattle University). Invited Emerging Filipino Leaders Poster Seattle Public Library Sunday Films and will be inviting FANHS to have one combined poster to reflect month long activities.

October 29, 6pm, FCC.  Annual Fundraising Comedy Dance night. Filipino Domestic Violence Education COmmittee.

I was granted the privilege to join & represent ourcountry, Philippines at the Miss Asian Pacific Northwest Pageant. The mainintention for the program is to promote cultural awareness. Therefore, I am glad to announce that the program will not have a swimsuitcategory.

  I am really nervous, yet very excited & honor to have an opportunity to represent the Filipino Community.....Therefore, I am sending you this E-mailto invite you to support me by attending the event. Below is the linkto the event:

Miss Asian Pacific Northwest
Mountain View Plaza at Snoqualmie Casino
Snoqualmie, WA
Sat, Jan 16, 2010 07:00 PM

Sincerely Yours,

Vanessa Diego

Our medical alumni group is UPMASA (cangoogle to get more info) which is a 501 C3  non profit group comprisedof practicing physicians all over the US and Canada all of whom graduatedfrom the University of the Philippines College of Medicine. Our main goalis to support the Philippine General Hospital and the UP College fo Medicine.Proceeds from the convention and the fundraising activities of all 15 chaptersare utilized to finance the yearly medical missions, purchase medicinesand medical equipments, support programs like tuberculosis control, familyplanning, proffessorial chairs for UPCM, computerization of PGH and theUPCM medical library, scholarships and many more

In 2010, our class batch 1975 and theNorthern California chapter with the support of alumni in Seattle willsponsor the 25th Annual Grand Convention."Balikprobinsiya"- movie premiere,
The first day will be marked by a fundraiser variety show and social dancing which will be held atthe Ballroom at Westin. Attached below are details of the event. This awardwinning movie , produced by one of our alumni, has had very good reviewsand will never be shown in any of the regular theaters. More info on Google

Movies and Dancing” for BalikprobinsiyaII
Purpose: Scholarships for Filipinostudents from the provinces to train at the UP College of Medicine andafter graduation will serve in the province of origin for 5 years

“Concerto” is a truestory during World War II inthe Philippines where a special piano concert is held in the forests ofMindanao by concert pianist daughters of displaced Filipino military CommanderRicardo and his wife Julia. They became friends with Japanese officerswho provided the piano. The family treads the thin line between enmityand friendship with the occupying Japanese soldiers. Concerto celebratesa family whose reverence for life, expressed through their love of musicand friendship, can survive even war.

Venue: Westin Seattle Hotel ballroom
Time: gate opens at 6 pm; show startsat 6:30 pm
Variety show and social dancing afterthe movie till 12 MN
Tickets: $50 movie, variety show, snacksand dancing
                   $30 variety show,snacks,dancing    $20 movie only
Popcorn and soda for all tickets ; snacksfor the $50 and $30 tickets
      One free (movieonly) ticket for groups of 20
Contact persons: Drs Alex and Anet This e-mail address is being protected from spam bots, you need JavaScript enabled to view it   tel: (206) 571-7286
    Dr Evelyn Maddela   This e-mail address is being protected from spam bots, you need JavaScript enabled to view it   tel: (559) 313-957

I received a very sad letter from Ruth Tajon: Connie Tajon died peacefully on Friday morning, January 1, 2010.

Schedule:

January 8, Friday - Visitation 5-7 pm at Greenwood Memorial Park

January 9, Sat - 1 pm at First United Methodist Church of Renton at 2201 NE 4th Street, Renton, WA 98056; Tel 425-255-5403.

                           3 pm - Funeral Service at Greenwood Memorial Park at 350 Monroe Ave, Renton, WA 98056 (kitty corner from Renton Technical College).

There will be time for fellowship & refreshments at the church's social hall.  

Help me spread the sad news to everyone whose lives were touched by Connie Tajon. Thank you!

The United Filipino Club of Seattle University

C/O Office of Multicultural Affairs

901 12^th Avenue

P.O. Box 222000

Seattle, WA 98122

Contact: Erika Sanchez                                                                         December 8, 2009

               (206) 321-9275                                                            FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

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A CULTURE EXPOSED THROUGH THE WORDS OF WRITERS

“Words Expressed—Filipino Poets & Writers Reading”

Seattle, WA– The arts serve as a vital medium of capturing history, heritage, and universal truths. On Thursday, January 14, 2010, the United Filipino Club of Seattle University, the Filipino Community of Seattle – Kultura Arts, and the Seattle University English Department and Modern Languages/Women Studies Department will host “Words Expressed—Filipino Poets and Writers Reading.”Seattle University’s Le Roux Room (Student Center 160), located on 12^th and Cherry Street, and is free to the public.  Funding is provided by the City of Seattle’s Office of Arts and Cultural Affairs.  The reading will prelude “Words Expressed—Emerging Writers” which will showcase promising Filipino writers from the Pacific Northwest on Friday, January 15, 2010 at 7 pm in the Filipino Community Center on MLK Way.

The United Filipino Club strives to bring about awareness to our own Filipino community, but also to the wider community of Seattle. This two-fold reading strives to spur dialogue and connection to and about the presence of Filipino arts within the community.

The poets and writers include Oliver de la Paz, Donna Miscolta, Toni Bajado, and Rick Barot. Oliver de la Paz teaches creative writing at Western Washington University and published two books of prose and verse, “Names Above Houses”, the winner of the Crab Orchard Award Series from Southern Illinois University, and “Furious Lullaby.” Donna Miscolta, a local Seattle writer, is an Artist Trust Fellow, the 2008 recipient of the Bread Loaf/Rona Jaffe Foundation Scholarship in Fiction, a resident at Hedgebrook, and the 2009 curator for the Jack Straw Writers Program. Toni Bajado is a Seattle University alumni featured at Washington Poets Association’s Burning Word Festival and who received a Freehold Theatre Diversity Scholarship Program in Acting. Rick Barot teaches at Pacific Lutheran University and the low-residency MFA program in writing at Warren Wilson College. He was a Wallace Stegner Fellow in Poetry at Stanford University, and published two poetry books, “The Darker Fall” and “Want” by Sarabande in 2008.