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{SPEAKER name="Wendy Lim (Interviewee)"}
It was um, I wanted people to get a sense of the community beyond the Chinese New Year Celebration, that people just come every year.

[01:46:10]
{SPEAKER name="Wendy Lim (Interviewee)"}
I wanted them to see, or to know about the associations which I was not involved with growing up since my last name Lim is not a very common one. I understand from my mom, she told me once that she thought there was an association out in San Francisco, a Lim association, so I was involved in a lot of what was happening in the other associations, the picnics and beauty contests, right?

[01:46:39]
{SPEAKER name="Wendy Lim (Interviewee)"}
I wanted them to know that we were involved in games. We were athletic, you know? There was this Chinese youth club with the volleyball tournament every year and the basketball tournament every year. They would go and play with other communities, Chinese community around the country and competed and also in Canada too.

[01:47:01]
{SPEAKER name="Wendy Lim (Interviewee)"}
I wanted them to know about some of the civic things that we were doing like with the church involvement and so there are a lot of other aspects I wanted people to see. And also it would help me because there were a lot of things that I certainly didn't know about especially the early years, so the whole premise was more of a very overview and also to get a sense of who was here earlier because we didn't know.

[01:47:32]
{SPEAKER name="Wendy Lim (Interviewee)"}
So it was very interesting to go through like the directories and find all these other businesses mostly laundrys around the city, not necessarily just in Chinatown and that although we were small there was a larger community outside. So, and I mean it was kind of frustrating in the sense that we couldn't find a lot of information early on.