Mark E. Pfeifer, Ph.D.

AAP staff report

ST. PAUL (Nov. 19, 2011) — Mark E. Pfeifer, Ph.D. has returned to the Twin Cities to become the Director of Research and Evaluation at Hmong American Partnership and its subsidiary Hmong National Development.

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By Mai Hoang

ST. PAUL, Minn. (May 28, 2011) – The threat to the environment and controlling contamination of the air, land and water is the paramount issue facing the health and livelihood of people in Vietnam today.  This issue is not isolated to Vietnam, but is connected abroad to Southeast Asia and all the way to the source of water in the mountains of Tibet. It is also spread with the manufacturing and source items of food products.

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Hennepin County Library is offering hundreds of free programs for children and teens this summer as incentive to keep reading during the summer break from school. The summer program theme, “Bookawocky,” is a take-off on Lewis Carroll’s classic nonsense poem, “Jabberwocky,” in “Through the Looking Glass.”

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Hennepin County Library is offering hundreds of free programs for children and teens this summer as incentive to keep reading during the summer break from school. The summer program theme, “Bookawocky,” is a take-off on Lewis Carroll’s classic nonsense poem, “Jabberwocky,” in “Through the Looking Glass.” Performances, book clubs, workshops, and online programs are some of the activities scheduled – all free.

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Job and small business counseling – programs and one-to-one consultations – is scheduled at seven Hennepin County libraries in June.  All sessions are free.  For the complete schedule programs at Hennepin County libraries:  www.hclib.org

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Free computer classes are offered each week at Hennepin County libraries. Classes are hands-on and include “Computer Basics Workshop,” “Social Networking: Basics,” and various Microsoft workshops such as “Simple Budgets,” “Creating and Managing Lists,” “Powerpoint: Basics,” “Microsoft Word: Formatting Tips for Resume Writers,” and “Microsoft Publisher.”

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Hennepin County Library is offering hundreds of free programs for children and teens this summer as incentive to keep reading during the summer break from school. The summer program theme, “Bookawocky,” is a take-off on Lewis Carroll’s classic nonsense poem, “Jabberwocky,” in “Through the Looking Glass.”

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More than a dozen free programs on African culture and heritage will be presented at Hennepin County libraries in June.  Programs include drum, dance, and musical performances, original works of poetry, a discussion on freedom of the press, and traditional folk tales.  Other multicultural programs, such as stories in French and Spanish, a computer class in Spanish, and Latin American folk arts, also are scheduled.

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From left, Nguen Ngoc Bich, Phan Thanh Tam, Pham Tuan, and Nguyen Minh Lan, a panel presentation about Vietnamese Literature of the Institute of Vietnamese Studies last Saturday at the Vietnam Center. They discussed their recently completed “Demotic Script Dictionary”, collaborative project on the pre-17th century language that combines Chinese and Vietnamese. The book is important to help translate old Vietnamese literature that contain some otherwise unknown characters that is not available in Vietnam.

By MAI HOANG
AAP contributing writer

ST. PAUL, Minn. (May 7, 2011) – In the best spirit of Asian Pacific American Heritage Month, members of eleven Vietnamese community organizations gathered last Saturday afternoon at the Vietnam Center to celebrate their shared work in two major Vietnamese language and literature projects.

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Nguyen Ngoc Bao will be the guest of Hennepin County Library’s “Author Talk” on April 16, 2:00 p.m. at the Southdale Library, 7001 York Avenue S., Edina, MN 55435. Nguyen and his family escaped the Communist regime of Vietnam in 1975 and relocated to Houston, Texas. His book of short essays, journal entries and editorials “Chuyen Xa Gan” (“Stories Near and Far”) is described as “substantive research” on both classic and contemporary Vietnamese literature.

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