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VOL 40 NO 25 JUNE 19 – JUNE 25, 2021
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API chefs demand accountability, change from restaurant industry
Men’s health
matters
Melissa Miranda
By Stacy Nguyen NORTHWEST ASIAN WEEKLY These days, Christine Wu primarily spends her workday with infants, in her daycare job. She is a single mom and has two kids of her own, and while she enjoys what she currently does, her real passion
Photo by Stacy Nguyen/NWAW Photo by Jennifer Bastian
Photo provided by Scott Sato
Zachary Pacleb
June is Men’s Health Month
Wil Yee
Photo by Madeline Rachel K.
Kristina Glinoga
Photo by Lauren Max
Photo by Emma Elise Photography
Edouardo Jordan sexual misconduct allegations
Diep Tran
in life is food. For years, Wu worked as a restaurant cook, working in the kitchens of Seatown Market & Fish Fry, Shaker + Spear, Quinn’s, and Monsoon. She left the industry in 2019, because after years of suffering abuse and sexual see CHEFS on 12
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International Community Health Services opens an expanded Bellevue clinic for integrated health care
Scott Sato, physician assistant-certified, with a patient.
By Nina Huang NORTHWEST ASIAN WEEKLY The global pandemic has brought increased awareness to physical wellbeing and mental health. This Father’s Day, two fathers and a medical professional share their perspective on the importance of taking health more seriously. Samuel Sim, executive director of Puget Sound Labor Agency, turned 40 this year and is a father of two children, ages 6 and 4. Since turning 40, Sim has started to realize that he’s not as healthy as he used to be and his body isn’t adjusting as well to the normal wear and tear. He knows that there are more routine screenings that come along with the milestone, but it’s not front and center. He thinks that there needs to be more marketing and promotion around it. “When something is painful, I wait and wait, thinking that it will
International Community Health Services (ICHS) held a ribbon-cutting ceremony on May 28, to celebrate the
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expansion of ICHS’ Bellevue Medical and Dental Clinic. The new space will be used to provide behavioral health and substance use disorder services to ICHS patients see ICHS on 11
Setting health reminders
Sim uses a wearable device to monitor his high blood pressure. When his blood pressure is slightly elevated, it alerts him to step back and breathe. He’ll set up reminders to go out for a job and try to attain certain goals. He credited his wife for reminding him to go get checked out by a doctor and will even make appointments for him. “Getting healthcare for kids is automatic and immediate. There’s no cost, but for us, there’s a cost,” he explained of his kids’ healthcare priorities. Sim said that he hasn’t done much for his mental health because it hasn’t been on his mind, even see MEN’S HEALTH on 11
THE INSIDE STORY
Washington state elected officials and ICHS President & CEO Teresita Batayola at a ribbon cutting at ICHS’ Bellevue Medical and Dental Clinic. From left: Bellevue City Councilmember Janice Zahn, King County Councilmember Claudia Balducci, State Sen. Manka Dhingra, State Reps. My-Linh Thai and Roger Goodman, State Sen. Patty Kuderer, Bellevue Deputy Mayor Jared Nieuwenhuis, Teresita Batayola, and Bellevue City Councilmember Conrad Lee.
By Theo Bickel ICHS
correct itself, but it doesn’t. I need to be more cautious, instead of waiting for my body to show me a sign before I go to the hospital.”
NAMES IN THE NEWS New Morisawa art on traffic boxes 2
AT THE MOVIES Centuries and Still: A short film about the history of anti-AAPI racism 6
WAYNE’S WORLDS To jab or not to jab, that is the question 7
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