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Loomis honors Japanese American history; Ace Hardware donates $2,000 to local "Still Standing Guard" project
Summary
Local volunteers with Still Standing Guard gave a presentation on Japanese American history during the Feb. 11 Loomis Town Council meeting and received a $2,000 donation from Loomis Ace Hardware to support their outreach and educational events.
A group of volunteers from the Still Standing Guard project delivered a Japanese American History Month presentation to the Loomis Town Council on Feb. 11, tracing local Japanese American settlement, wartime incarceration experiences and postwar return to the community.
Mayor Pro Tem Jan Clark Krets introduced the group and invited Stu Kageta, a Loomis resident and volunteer with Still Standing Guard, to present. "Our family actually arrived in Loomis about 1907," Kageta said, describing multi-generation ties to local agriculture and schools. He outlined how Issei…
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