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| | 21st Annual Naturalization Ceremony, Seattle, WA Photo Gallery by Jal at pbase.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01) |
 | | Over 500 people, from more than 70 countries, were sworn in by U.S District Court Judge Beezer, as new citizens of the United States of America. |
 | | While this was an especially important day for the many new citizens, coming from a variety of nations and cultures, it also served to reaffirm the deeper meaning of being a citizen of the United States of America. |
 | | In 1982 Assunta founded the Seattle Chinese Post, the first Chinese newspaper in the Pacific Northwest for half a century, where she has continued as publisher, and the Northwest Asian Weekly, the only English-language Asian weekly in the Northwest. |
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