Category Archives: Community Events
- 14-6-2013
Thai CDC Hosts Culmination Ceremony at Los Angeles City Hall for ACTION Program Graduates
The Thai Community Development Center (Thai CDC) hosted a Culmination Ceremony for its graduates of the sixteen-week long Advocating Change Today Internship and Outreach Network (ACTION) Program at Los Angeles City Hall on Friday, June 14th. Thai CDC launched the ACTION Program earlier this year and selected ten community members to receive intensive training in Continue Reading
- 27-5-2013
City of Los Angeles and Bangkok sign an agreement officially recognizing the friendship between the two cities named, “City of Angels.”
Bangkok City Hall 173 Dinso Road Bangkok 10200 Los Angeles City Councilman Tom LaBonge arrived on Friday May 24, 2013 in Bangkok. His mission was to continue and solidify a friendship agreement that began last year with a trip from the Bangkok Metropolitan Council President who traveled to Los Angeles. During that trip, Tom LaBonge Continue Reading
- 23-5-2013
Los Angeles City Councilman Tom LaBonge Presents Thai Airways with a certificate to commemorate the historic trip to Bangkok where Los Angeles and Bangkok will become Friendship Cities.
Los Angeles Councilman Tom Labonge and members of his delegation , Thai Community Development Center and the Royal Thai Consulate General will make a historic trip to Bangkok to celebrate the unity and friendship that exists between Los Angeles and Bangkok. The bond between the two cities has existed for decades and now that bond Continue Reading
- 7-4-2013
Unveiling of the Kinarra
April 7th, 2013 marks a monumental day as the Thai Community Development Center unveils the first pair of Kinarra Lamp Post Monuments on Hollywood and Hobart Blvds. The almost five foot tall statues erected to a 17 foot tall lamppost arrived in Los Angeles on March 5th. These mythical figures represent the latest effort by Continue Reading
- 22-3-2013
Thai CDC Breaks Ground! The Kinarra Are Landing Soon!
Friday, March 22, 2013 marked a monumental day as the Thai Community Development Center (Thai CDC) broke ground to install the first pair of Kinarra Lamp Post Monuments on Hollywood and Hobart Blvds. The almost five foot tall statutes erected to a 17 foot tall lamp post that arrived in Los Angeles on March 5th Continue Reading
- 29-1-2013
Thai Community Senior Citizen Has Her Say at the Candidates’ Forum for Los Angeles Council District 13
On January 29th 2013, at the Blessed Sacrament Church, 84 year old Pattarin Thongchua delivered a speech to hundreds of people. Among those hundreds, 12 are candidates running for the position of councilmember in Council District 13. On that stage, Pattarin flexed the influence that an individual, a Thai American, can have on their elected Continue Reading
- 29-3-1999
Thai Health Fair Provides Free Medical Screenings
VALLEY ROUNDUP | North Hollywood March 29, 1999|ANDREW BLANKSTEIN The crowds began forming at Wat Thai Temple hours before the start of the first Thai Health Fair Sunday. And before the event ended in late afternoon, nearly 1,000 people had turned out. As with many cultural events at Wat Thai, people were treated to a Continue Reading