My friend David Wong sent me an invitation to join him attending a fundraiser dinner for Vancouver city council candidates Raymond Louie and George Chow.  I first met Raymond Louie when he attended the inaugural ACWW Community Builders Dinner organized by Asian Canadian Writers Workshop. 

He's been active as a city councillor pretty well since.  We both attended the opening of the Three Pioneer Canadian Families exhibit organized by the Chinese Cultural Centre Museum and Archives, since he is a descendent of H.Y. Louie, and myself from Rev. Chan Yu Tan.  In 2002, we were both active in helping to bring Taiwanese Dragon Boats to Vancouver, and Raymond raced Lori Fung in the very first flag grabbing race in Canada on Taiwanese dragon boats for a media demonstration race..

Below is David's message.

Two good friends of mine are running for Vancouver City office this Fall.  They are Raymond Louie and George Chow.  I am supporting both of these fine-upstanding-young-men, not because they are Chinese Canadians...but because they are long term Vancouverites, have real community experience and are intelligent – imagine that.

I’ve know George for over 30 years, and he was one of my first boss (along with Hayne Wai, Gordy Mark, and Fred Mah – all real leaders in our community now) whilst we were telling the world of this new community effort called the CCC (Chinese Cultural Centre).  

I was fortunate to spend a bit of time getting to know Raymond Louie during our recent trip to China with Mayor Larry to kick off 20 years of Sister Cities (Vancouver and Guangzhou).

I would like to invite all of you to join me in buying a couple of tables for these two long time Vancouver boys and support their bid in becoming  (and remaining) City Councilors.  Drop me a note and help me lose my voice cheering on Raymond and George...

I’ll also show you how to heckle some of those other wannabes, free of charge, from me the Bad boy from the East Side.  Email me soon and show your support, because I will be leaning on you with Guido, Luigi and Ho-Fat if I don’t hear from you soon, Capische?

not known to mince my words, respectfully yours,

Regards,
David H.T. Wong MRAIC

Check out David's own website at www.generasian.ca