On October 22, 2000, U.S. Senator Harry Reid received the "Outstanding Democrat of the Decade" 1990's Award from the Paradise Democratic Club of Las Vegas (PDCLV) at the Skyview Room of the Bally's Casino and Hotel, Las Vegas. In the Program, the National Anthem was sung by Rose McKinny James. The Event was chaired by the President of PDCLV, John Ponticello. He introduced participants of all the elected officers, leaders of unions, persons campaigned for public service, among others. The Keynote Speaker was Senator Harry Reid. Special Speakers were U.S. Senator Richard Bryan, U. S. Congresswoman Shelley Berkley, and U.S. Senate Candidate Ed Bernstein. Comments were offered by Rory Reid, Nevada State Democratic Party Chairman, and Danny Thompson, Secretary/Treasurer of Nevada State AFL-CIO. Remarks were deliverred by past Honorees (who were in attendance): Charlie Waterman, 1980's; A.G. Frankie Sue Del Papa, 1990 (with a letter); Hon James H. Bilbray, M.C. Ret., 1991 (with response); U. S. Senator Richard Bryan, 1992; U.S. Senator Harry Reid, 1993; D.A. Stewart Bell, 1994 (with response); Congresswoman Shelley Berkley, 1995; County Commissioner Yvonne Akinson Gates, 1996; Senator Dina Titus (with response), 1997; Jan Laverty Jones, 1998 (with response); Mayor Oscar Goodman, 1999 (with a letter).
Grass Roots Awards were presented by John Ponticello to Barbara and Mike Aupperle, Pauline Goldmann, and San Lieberman. The heightlight of the Event was the presentation of the Outstanding Democrat of the Year Award to U.S. Senator Harry Reid by the President of PDCLV, John Ponticello.
Senator Reid graduated from Utah State University in 1961. He received Juris Doctor degree from George Washington University. In 1968, he was elected to Nevada State Assembly at the age of 28. After two years, he was elected as Nevada's youngest legislation in the state's history. In 1977, he was appointed as the Chairman of the Nevada Gaming Commission. In 1983, he was elected to the U.S. House of Representatives. After having served two terms in the House, he was elected to the U.S. Senate in 1980. On April 10, 1998, he was honored as Advisor and Vice Chairman of the Advisory Board of Washington Business and Technology Institute. In December of 1998, after returning for his third term in the U.S. Senate, he was unanimously elected by his Democratic colleagues to serve as the Assistant Minority Leader. He is now the Vice Chairman of the Senate Ethics Committee where he was asked to serve as a member since 1895.
"Senator Reid loves heartily this country and our people. His leadership is accentuated with practical knowledge and deligent effort through his intelligence. He has achieved many years accomplishments to improve the quality of life of all Nevadans and help people realize the American Dream, " said Dr. Tony Lei, President of Washington Business and Technology Institute, who was invited with his wife as guests to the Event by Congresswomen Shelley Berkley, County Commissioner Yvonne Atkinson Gates, and Jan Laverty Jones through the coordinating from the Corresponding Secretary cordially by the famous Club which was founded in 1962.
Senator Reid comes from Searchlight, Nevada, where in that rural mining town he learned the fundamental values of hard work and honesty that endure as his guiding principles. The Nevada's senior Senator was raised in a small cabin without indoor pluming and attended a two-room elementary school. His father was a hardrock miner with an 8th grade education, and his mother never finished high school, but the youngest of Harry and Inez Reid's four sons would go on to achieve the American dream. "Harry is now not just our senior Senator of Nevad in the Senate, he's one of the influential and important U. S. Senator for all our country in Washington, D. C.!" the Honorable U.S. Senator Richard Bryan pointed out during his short speech to the great awarding Event of the Club. "Senator Reid deserves special recognition for his continued leadership to the Democratic Party here in Nevada. His commitment to public service and distinguished record of fighting for the values we hold so dear has touched the lives of many in Nevada and across the country," wrote U.S. President Candidate and Vice President Al Gore. The distinguished accomplishments of Senator Reid has given he himself for us a successful model for people who wish to realize their American Dream.
The maturity of citizens society is the fundamental guarantee for the normal processing of a democratic community. In a citizens society, it depends highly on the team of public intellectuals to integrate people's opinions, to analyze rationally, and to point out wise persperctives and notice. A public intellectual plays an important and significant responsibility of mission to evaluate public activities, to reflect people's opinion, to lead citizens, and to predict crisis. Public opinion is therefore made through the effort of the public intellectuals by their wise investigation to the people's mind and willingness, and by their right understancing and analysis toward the facts. U.S. Americans W. Lippmann and J. Raston, German E. Noalle-Neumann are ideal representatives of such kind of persons as of the public intellectual. Community service is important to our people and society, but we wish individuals as our public intellectual may also encourage more volunteers, events, and projects to better the quality of life of all our Nevadans through community participation.

Mayor Oscar Goodman of Las Vegas was honored as the Kenote Speaker in a dinner party for a special tribute to him by the Asian community organized by CAN-DO (Concerned Asians for Nevada Developmental Organization). The event was held in the Harbor Palace Seafood Restaurant in Chinatown Plaza on October 17, 2000. The dinner party was crowded with more than 200 participants included Justices of the Supreme Court Myron Leavitt, Nancy Becker; District Judge Mark Denton; Las Vegas Municipal Court Judges Michelle Fitzpatric, Jessie Walsh, Besty Kolkoski, Clark County School Board Trustee Lois Tarkanian, government officials, community leaders, business owners, professionals, among others. Dr. R. D. Prabhu, Chairman of CAN-DO, chaired the event. Dr. Peter Lok was the Event Coordinator.
The Hosts included: David Amesbury, Anil Batra, Henda Chau, Steven Kwon, Dolly DeLeon, Leonie Domingo, Larry Espinueva, Clyde Hogan, Michael Khanna, Ben Kim, Sae Eun Lee, Steven Lee, Ann Melton, R. D. Prabhu, Tonie Sison, Ben Torres, Joey Villaflor, Rita Vaswani, Roddy Wong, and Saniel Yung.
The Mayor was accompanied by Ann Melton to shake hand with each and every one of the Asian people. Justice of the Supreme Court and Fellow of Washington Business and Technology Institute Nancy Becker, and Judges Walsh and Kolkoski also shaked hand and chatted with all the 40 Chinese people and others being invited. The whole party full with social warmth and good communication.
Besides the hosts being introduced one by one with each of their titles of organizations, every coordinator was also introduced with their organizations in representing the entire population of the pan Asian and Pacific communties. The event was successful under the emphasis both of the persons paying the money and coordinating the attendants by the ideal from Dr. Peter Lok and Dr. R.D. Prabhu. Dr. Joey Villaflor, Tonie Sison, Ben Toress, Dolly DeLeon, Ann Melton, Rita Vaswani, among others also played good roles to effectute the processing.
The Mayor was born in Philadephia and received his Juris Doctor degree from the University of Pennsylvania Law School. He has an extensive Record of defending the Constitutional rights of all citizens. The driving forces of his legal career are the principles of freedom and justice. He has spent his entire career assuring that government action is just. He has been recognized for his distinguished legal career by being named one of the "Fifteen Best Trial Lawyers in America" by the National Law Journal and listed annually in the "Best Lawyer in America." His leadership styles and skills impressed his peers and scholars who selected him to serve as past President of the National Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers, a Fellow of the American Board of Criminal Lawyers, Executive Advisor of Washington Business and Technology Institute, among others. His extensive knowledge of the law, brilliant legal strategies and charisma were profiled in a British documentary on his life as well as in numerous television programs, books, and films.
Elected as Mayor in June 1999, Goodman lead one of the fastest growing cities in the United States into the next millenium. He is committed to preserving Las Vegas' status as the "most Livable City in America." "I've raised a family in Las Vegas and built a successful law practice here. Now, I want my legacy to include building a community where future generations will have even more opportunities and advantages to live a prosperous life," said the mayor who moved to Las Vegas in 1963.
Mayor Goodman is a lifelong friend of the community. He and his family believe in education. He and his wife Carolyn helped created one of the finest educational institutions in Southern Nevada. Carolyn is the Founder and President of the Board of the Meadows School. It is the only non-profit, non-sectarian private school in Nevada.
During his bright speech on his administrative policy and development, the Mayor announced and emphasized his constructive perspectives that, "I promise you that you will have a voice in our government. Moreover, an Asian Center has been on scheduled to be built in Downtown, Las Vegas with beautiful design and good facilities." Thunders of applause from all the guests and Asian people brought a climax of this Event in greeting and tributing to our brilliant leader__ Mayor Oscar Goodman, who had his landslide victory as Las Vegas Mayor in the elction of 1999 with all these people of Asian Community through the great and cooperative effort and wisdom.

On October the first, a dinner party was held by Dr. and Mrs. Tony Lei for Attorney Cheryl Moss at the Gee Joon Chinese Restaurant of the Binion Horseshoe Casino and Hotel.
"It's really my honor to follow the Justice of Supreme Court Nancy Becker in having Tony and Judy celebrate my birthday ( I am glad because I may enjoy extra happiness though it will be on 1/12) with my appointment as an Associate Fellow of the Public Administration Institution (PAI) of Washington Business and Technology Institute (WBTI) on this October 1, 2000," says Cheryl. "I'm fortunate because there are several other applicants who are competing with very good qualifications for a long time," she adds with a smiling, which enlightened with horseshoes, in the most famous Gee Joon Chinese Restaurant downtown Las Vegas, for people who are looking for a good future through professional expertise and serving for others.
Cheryl received her Juris Doctorate degree from Catholic University of America , Washington D. C. in 1994. She graduated with Cum Laude. She had her B.A. in Political Science from George Washington University in 1989. She is a solo practitioner practicing primarily in family and plaintiff personal injury. She has owned the Law Office of Cheryl B. Moss, chartered. Her memberships include: Maryland State Bar Association, District of Columbia Bar, State Bar of Nevada, Clark County Bar Association, American Bar Association, etc.
"I recognize Dr. Lei's points that,'In this knowledge economy world, knowledge and personnel are our greatest assest for business. Money, natural resources, or even technology is not any of them our greatest asset. Technology may soon be outdated, because technology is renewable at any time. Moreover, we have only humanbeing and knowledge that can renew technology. In this new era, there are three ingredients to be successful for economy and business in the knowledge economy world: (1) continually advanced technology; (2) entrepreneurship; and (3) innovation.' I believe that we are the leading country in this area," says Cheryl.
"An academic institute may not necessarilly to have great mansion, but a good academic institute may not have no great scholars!" said Dr. Tony Lei, President of WBTI.
"I'm exciting to be a faculty member of the PAI, because we have Dr. Roy Adamson from Pepperdine University, Justice of the Supreme Court Nancy Becker, District Judge Valorie Vega under the bright and democratic leadership of our Director and Fellow Dr. William Thompson and President Dr. Tony Lei of WBTI," says Cheryl.
"Dr. Lei likes to remind us that, 'It's not too great a matter to have knowledge. Just build an univeristy and we may get knowledge. The important point is that in order to put the knowledge to economy or to business, we must have entrepreneurship.' I think that in this rapid growing and highly competitive world of knowledge economy, you may be very successful currently or in today, but your compititors can catch you up very soon. Therefore, you should be creative in each and every important sectors or functions," says Cheryl. "I agree with Dr. Lei's recognition that the American entrepreneurship is the most valuable spirit that all our Asian countries or our Asian-American business should have courage to learn and to follow. I think that to learn and to imitate is one of the practical way for entrepreneurship," Cheryl points out.
"I remember Tony said that, 'By the act of love itself, we are enriched. Love in action is service above self. Make service a part of your character and experience the abundant reward that comes from serving others. Let your heroes be the great servants who have given all for the betterment of others' lives. Let your candle fuel a fire that will fan out an ever-increasing circles. With these circles together we can close our eyes and envision a community that is safe, peaceful, and healthy.' As I'm one of the followers of Dr. Lei's everlasting idea on Community Participation Enchances Public Services, I believe also about what District Judge Vega's recognition that 'This position (Fellow of PAI) will undoubtedly provide me with avenues for exploring improvements in public services to which I'm most dedicated.' I wish that I may make a life by what I serve sincerely our community like Dr. Lei."
"I've confidence in my juridical knowledge, but in mordern management I follow the philosophy and doctrine of Dr. Lei's both in practicallity and theoreticallity. I recognize his emphasis of public administration on effective management and research methodology through information management system. I respect his direction for power in public service that 'Power based on knowledge is the power of righteousness.' In extending these to juridiction, I will bring to the bench a commitment to ethics, fairness, justness, modern management with good work habits, humanity, and impartiality," says the young and intelligent lady full with American dream equal to everybody which makes this country the most prosperous heaven in this world.

Nadia Contreras, General Manager of Nevada Examiner (NE) in Las Vegas wrote a letter to the public: "Nevada Examiner, an affiliate of the Philippine-American Exposition Convention, Inc. wish to invite you to come and join the 12th Millennium Celebration of the Philippine-American Convention Exposition, Food & Auto Show, the biggest, longest-running and most successful exposition ever held in the United States. The said convention will be held at the S1 -Hall of the Las Vegas Convention Center, Las Vegas, Nevada on September 30, October 1, 2000, from 9:00 a.m. to 9:00 p.m. We enjoin you to take advantage of this excellent opportunity to meet almost 400 exhibitors with different products and/or services to this multi-million dollar market and enjoy the fun and entertainment." Interesting people please call 671-4050 for entrance tickets.
Inspite of the invasion of electronic technology to the media, the traditional publication of newspaper is still important through thier improvement with modern policy. One of the creative idea is the emphasis of having more columns by famous professionals in order to add both of them to the paper as the features to the good magazines. This direction has made New York Times, Los Angeles Times, Las Vegas Review Joural, among others the most important and famous paper in each area. The performance character of Examiner Nevada is also a vivid evidence of this direction. Under the leadership of its President & Publisher Oscar Jomacion, Executive Vice President Aurora Abayan, and Editor Wilhelmina Espiritu with the sincere and diligent efforts of Nadia Contreras and Contributing Editor Dr. Tony Lei, Nevada Examiner has been advanced as an Ansian and American paper welcomed widely by large populations of Asian and American people including most of ranks of officials in Nevada through WBTI and Seniors United from their fliers and reproduction of this column. We appreciate sicncerely all our readers, writers, supporters, friends, and mostly to clients of Nevada Examiner who are paying generously for their ads in this paper.
Dr. William Thompson, Fellow and Director of the Public Administration Institution of WBTI states in his book that, "Investments in customer service are activities in a positive-sum game, or what can be called a win-win game." Bill is Chairman and Professor of the Department of Public Administration of UNLV achieved with lots of publications. Under good management, the customer wins better enjoyment of products offered, and the business wins with renewed and repeated patronage. entrepreneurial spirit enhanced with this strategy is an everlasting value important to the people with full commitment to the business community for profit and social responsibility.
U.S. Senator Harry Reid's Office in Washington, D. C. faxed Dr. Tony Lei, President of WBTI on September 22, 2000 that, "On Tuesday, by a vote of 83-15, the Senate showed its support for establishing permenent normal trade relations with China and passed the China PNTR legislation. Also on Tuesday, the Senate turned to 2045, the H-1B Visa legislation." Awards from the Senator to the Thai Cultural Arts Association's Supporters in 2000 are for: Dr. Raj Chanderraj, Dr. Bashir Chowdhry, Mr. Romeo & Mrs. Nadia Jurani, Mr. Steven Lee, Dr. Tony T. Lei, Dr. R.D. Prabhu, Mr. Tonie Sison, Mrs. Rita Vaswani, Dr. J.A. Villaflor, Mr. Jerry Wang, Mr. Tim Wong, and Mr. John Zeigler.
Cultural Richness for Las Vegas: From left: Dr. Tony Lei, Mrs. Care, and awards presenters Senator(Nevada State) Terry Care, District Judge Mark Denton, Deputy Attorney General of Nevada Ann Zimmerman, and Elder Law Attorney of SCLPLV Natalie Tyrrell, Las Vegas Municipal Court Judge Betsy Kolkoski (late ok to crown Young Miss Thailand with Senator Care), U.S. Senator Harry Reid's Representative Nancy Diaz (the pictures for the last two persons and others in details are coming), in the Thai Performing Arts-Appreciation Day 2000 on September 16, at the Charleston Height Arts Center, which was presented by the City of Las Vegas and TCAALV.