SEATTLE May is Mental Health Awareness Month, and as life returns to normal, many people are coming down from more than a year of anxiety. A Census Bureau survey found symptoms of anxiety or depression had increased among adults from 11% in 2019 to 41% in 2021. Dr. .
THE ISSUE
As LNP | LancasterOnlineâs Aniya Thomas reports in todayâs edition, a rally and candlelight vigil will take place at 6 p.m. Saturday in Penn Square in downtown Lancaster to show support for Asian Americans and Pacific Islanders in the face of a growing tide of hateful attacks against them. âMore than 6,600 hate incidents targeting Asian Americans and Pacific Islanders were reported to the Stop AAPI Hate reporting center from the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic through March 31,â Thomas reported. Rally organizer Julia Cao said Saturdayâs event will include speakers from organizations such as Church World Service, the Lancaster Interfaith Coalition and YWCA Lancaster.
Stop AAPI Hate is a national coalition that addresses anti-Asian racism across the United States.
A Lancaster city woman is calling attention to the alarming trend by organizing a rally and vigil to support the local Asian American and Pacific Islander community.
âAsians only make up about 2% of the current demographic in Lancaster (County),â said Julia Cao, who is Vietnamese. âBeing Asian is the very broad sense of who we are. We need someone to give us that opportunity, that voice. And this is one way of doing it.â
The rally and candlelight vigil will take place at 6 p.m. Saturday at Penn Square in downtown Lancaster.
Time for Congress to take action on hate crimes bill Murray Lee May 10, 2021
A bipartisan group of elected officials in Congress introduced legislation on April 8 designed to help fight back against hate crimes across the country. It’s not hard to understand why. Hate crimes are up – in Washington state and around the country. Just last month, the King County Prosecutors Office filed its tenth hate crime case this year targeting local Asian Americans. In February, a synagogue in Spokane was spray painted with swastikas, and last week, a neo-Nazi pleaded guilty in federal court in Seattle to threatening local Jewish activists and journalists. This problem is real, it’s current, and it has gotten worse since the start of the pandemic.
The YMCA of Greater Seattle Makes Additions to Leadership Team
Mr. L. Darrell Powell will join the organization as Chief Finance Officer and Norma Fuentes as Chief Development Officer
May 06, 2021 21:18 ET | Source: YMCA of Greater Seattle YMCA of Greater Seattle Seattle, Washington
Seattle, Washington, May 06, 2021 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) SEATTLE, WA – The YMCA of Greater Seattle (YGS) is pleased to announce the addition of two new leaders to the Senior Leadership Team: Chief Financial Officer Darrell Powell and Chief Development Officer Norma Fuentes. Powell comes to the Y with 30 years of experience as a strategic financial leader most recently as Chief Operating Officer for The United Way of King County. Fuentes brings considerable experience as a thought leader in philanthropy, most recently holding the position of Managing Director of Philanthropy for Seattle Foundation.