Tell us a bit about your own AAPI heritage.
My mother is American, and my father was Japanese. I was born and raised in Tokyo as one of six kids in a bi-racial family. We grew up speaking Japanese with our grandparents but English at home and at the international school we attended. Both my parents were consummate volunteers alongside many other accomplishments, my father started an outreach food program for homeless populations, and my mother at 85 still delivers food every week to individuals at 4:30 in the morning! My dad also assisted the Asian Rural Institute, which brings scholars together to learn about sustainable organic farming practices. When I call my mom weekly, she tells me about her daily sweeping of the road in front of her home, (including her neighbor’s areas), and her hobby/mission of taking a bag out to her local park to make sure it stays weed-free. She was a daughter of an amateur rose hybridizer who was a founding member of the Rose Hybridizer’s Associa
The Martha s Vineyard Times
Trustees, Morning Glory win Katama Farm bid
FARM Institute will return this summer.
The Trustees of Reservations and Morning Glory Farm are teaming up at Katama Farm.
In a unanimous vote Wednesday afternoon, the Edgartown conservation commission chose the Trustees of Reservations and Morning Glory Farm to take over the 182-acre Katama Farm.
The Trustees and Morning Glory submitted separate Requests for Proposals (RFP) with the Trustees set to operate the educational programming portion and Morning Glory to run the agricultural farming portion. The collaborative effort includes Slough Farm, who will act as community partners with the Trustees, and The Grey Barn, who will share some farming duties with Morning Glory.
Randolph native is stunt double in Without Remorse - and other local entertainment news
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The Patriot Ledger
Stuntwoman Keisha Tucker, a Randolph native, swaps spears for assault weapons in Tom Clancy’s “Without Remorse,” the new Michael B. Jordon action thriller streaming on Amazon Prime Video.
Tucker, a 2002 graduate of Randolph High School, is the stunt double for Jodie Turner-Smith, who plays tenacious Lt. Commander Karen Greer. The movie centers on a Navy SEAL (Michael B. Jordan) who becomes mixed up in a revenge plot and CIA ploy after his pregnant wife is murdered.
Paula Vogler Correspondent
EASTON - Thanks to the Massachusetts Association of Arborists (MAA), visitors to the Governor Ames Estate in North Easton village will notice a big difference in the grounds.
More than 150 arborists donated their time, machinery and knowledge to prune, plant and clean up the property and its many trees. From fertilizing, planting new trees and digging out invasive species to chipping and cutting up downed trees and clearing dead branches, the daylong event attracted landscape companies from around the state to help.
“Their focus is tree preservation and to call attention to proper tree care,” said Virginia Wood, executive director of the MAA.