Last night we gathered as a community to ‘Raise a Toast’ to the Tokyo Olympics and fundraise for the Society’s programs at our 98th Holiday Celebration and Auction.
Thank you, thank you, THANK YOU to everyone who joined our 98th Holiday Celebration & Auction live event last night! It was a big success and we sincerely hope you enjoyed it! Whether it was by playing our AM/PM games, watching the live stream, bidding on auction packages, or buying last-minute raffle tickets, we cannot thank you all enough for the support!
Our program featured incredible musical performances from the Evergreen Glee Club, Okinawa Taiko, Jazz featuring Society board member and past chair Chris Helm, and a special performance by Jake Shimabukuro.
We received special messages from three different Japanese Olympic Athletes. Ryo Kiyuna discussed how he prepared for the 2020 Olympics amidst the uncertainty of COVID. Misato Nakamura shared her experience as a torchbearer for the Tokyo Olympics and about her new project “Stand Up Judo”. Finally, Mika Sugimoto shared a message of encouragement and hope.
An extra special shout-out to all of our sponsors and donors who helped make this event a huge success! We couldn’t have done it without you all! Arigato gozaimashita!
If you didn’t get a chance to watch the event live you can watch the recording on YouTube:
In case you missed it, here are the winners from last night’s raffle draw!
Raffle Draw Winners
Gold – iPad 9th Generation 64GB: Maki Kawamura
Silver – $150 Westin Seattle Gift Certificate: Sara Sandford
Bronze – $100 84 Yesler Restaurant Gift Certificate: Akiko Sato
And here are our AM and PM Game winners!
AM Game Winners
Gold – Starbucks Coffee Gift Set: Takashi Morikubo
Silver – Storyville Coffee Gift Set: Akemi Sagawa
Bronze – 84 Yesler Rest- 2 12oz VI Camp Cups: Ken Farmer
PM Game Winners
(We have two gold medal winners for this game!)
Gold – $365 Wine Collection: Masako Kodama
Gold – $365 Wine Collection: Kosei Yamada
Bronze – $107 Wine Collection: Tek/Hiromi Nakajima
Notes about the PM Game:
As there was a typo in the English/Japanese translation for Question 4, all participants received 1 point for this question. Please see the correction below:
Q4:
Question in English: How much wine (in value) did the State of Washington export to Japan in 2020?
Question in Japanese: アメリカは、２０２０年、ワインをドルにしてどれぐらい日本へ輸出しましたか？ (How much wine (in value) did the US export to Japan in 2020?)
Congratulations to all the winners and thank you to those who participated!
A Special thank you to our Sponsors!
