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<p class=MsoNoSpacing><span style='font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'>FOR
IMMEDIATE RELEASE
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<p class=MsoNoSpacing><span style='font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'>June
22, 2010<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class=MsoNoSpacing><b><span style='font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'>CONTACT<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class=MsoNoSpacing><span style='font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'>Johnny
Wu, President<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNoSpacing><span style='font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'>OCA
Cleveland Chapter<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNoSpacing><span style='font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'>216.539.4634<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNoSpacing><span style='font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'>president@ocagc.org<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNoSpacing><span style='font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNoSpacing align=center style='text-align:center'><b><span
style='font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'>Cleveland’s
OCA Image TV Ohio receives <o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class=MsoNoSpacing align=center style='text-align:center'><b><span
style='font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'>OCA’s 2010
Chapter Excellence Award for Communications<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
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<p class=MsoNoSpacing><span style='font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'>Cleveland,
OH: The Organization of Chinese Americans (OCA), announced Saturday, June 19
that Cleveland’s OCA Image TV has received OCA’s 2010 Chapter
Excellence Award for Communications. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNoSpacing><span style='font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNoSpacing><span style='font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'>OCA,
a national organization dedicated to advancing the social, political and
economic well-being of Asian Pacific Americans, has over 84 chapters and
affiliates across the United States. This year at the annual OCA National
Convention held in Houston, TX, Chapter Excellence Awards were presented for
the categories of membership, economic development, programs & projects,
local community involvement, advocacy, and communications. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNoSpacing><span style='font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNoSpacing><span style='font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'>OCA
Cleveland Chapter’s President Johnny Wu and OCA Image TV co-host Vi
Huynh, gratefully accepted the Communications Award with a comedic acceptance
speech video that showed off some of their high-tech video tricks. On a more
serious note, Huynh said, “We would like to thank everyone involved in making
the show a great success for Cleveland’s Asian community.” OCA
Image TV was also nominated under the Program & Projects category. Both
acceptance speech videos can be found at </span><a href="http://www.ocagc.org"><span
style='font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'>http://www.ocagc.org</span></a><span
style='font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'>.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNoSpacing><span style='font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNoSpacing><span style='font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'>OCA
Image TV is a high energy television show that provides Ohioans with a better
understanding of their various Asian cultures.<span style='color:black'> Each
episode includes segments on a variety of diverse topics related to education,
culture, traditions, food, health and beauty, fashion, sports, arts and
entertainment, news, current issues and upcoming events. The first four
episodes have contained the exciting themes of Lunar New Year, Asian-style
weddings, health and wellness and Cleveland’s Asian town. <o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
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color:black'><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNoSpacing><span style='font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";
color:black'>OCA Image TV is shot in high definition at Creative House Studios
and on location in downtown Cleveland. Episodes are available on Time
Warner’s channel 20 (reaching over 500,000 households), </span><a
href="http://www.ocagc.org"><span style='font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'>www.ocagc.org</span></a><span
style='font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";color:black'>, Facebook, MySpace,
YouTube and as podcast on iTunes.</span><span style='font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'>
Along with the studio’s crew members, local members of the Organization
of Chinese Americans of Greater Cleveland (OCAGC) help with the show’s
production and marketing.<span style='color:black'><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class=MsoNoSpacing><span style='font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";
color:black'><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNoSpacing><span style='font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'>OCAGC
is a non-profit, non-partisan civil rights and educational organization. OCAGC
is part of the National OCA, working with other organizations and communities
dedicated to promoting cultural heritage, active participation in civic and
community affairs, securing justice, and equal treatment and equal opportunity
for all Americans of Asian Pacific Islander descent. More at </span><a
href="http://www.ocagc.org"><span style='font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'>www.ocagc.org</span></a><span
style='font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'>. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNoSpacing><span style='font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNoSpacing><i><span style='font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";
color:black'>OCA Image TV is funded by the support of Neighborhood Connections,
OCA National, OCA Columbus, Creative House Studios, Inc., MetroMix.com, Media
Design Imaging, International Community Council, Steam of Music LLC, Randy
Wagner, MotivAsians for Cleveland, Anthony Yen, Margaret W. Wong, Asian
Services in Action, Inc., Erie Chinese Journal Newspaper, St. Clair-Superior
Development Corp., City of Cleveland Ward 8 Councilman Jeffrey Johnson, City of
Cleveland Ward 3 Councilman Joe Cimperman, City of Cleveland Community
Relations Department, The Vietnamese Community in Greater Cleveland, Cleveland
Chapter Japanese American Citizens League, Koko Bakery and Li Wah Chinese
Restaurant.<o:p></o:p></span></i></p>
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style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";color:navy'>-----------------<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";color:navy'>Johnny
Wu<br>
216.539.4634<br>
President<br>
OCA-Cleveland Chapter<br>
“Embracing the Hopes and Aspirations of Asian Pacific
Americans” and OCA Image TV Magazine on TV20 & iTunes<br>
<a href="http://www.ocagc.org/"><span style='color:blue'>www.ocagc.org</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";color:navy'>Co-Chair
Executive Committee<br>
Cleveland Asian Festival<br>
www.ClevelandAsianFestival.org<br>
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