FAPAC Picnic at Wheaton Regional Park

On July 13 the Federal Asian Pacific American Council (FAPAC) held its Annual Picnic at the Wheaton Regional Park for members and friends. Several local officials, including Montgomery County Executive Ike Leggett, Council Member-at-Large George Leventhal and Lily Qi, stopped by to participate in the happy occasion. FAPAC has been having a great year with the National Training Program held at Long Beach in May and the more recent  one day Congressional Seminar held at the Rayburn Building on Capitol Hill. The latter afforded an opportunity to hear from members of the Congressional Asian Pacific American Caucus and staff on issues of interest to the AAPI community.

This year’s theme for the Asian American Heritage Month is “Building Leadership: Embracing Cultural Values and Diversity” highlights s the increasing diversity of America. Montgomery County and indeed the entire Maryland Virginia and DC Metropolitan Area reflect that. FAPAC is promoting its Pipeline Initiative to make sure AAPI are represented adequately in the Federal and DC workforce.

FAPAC was founded in 1985. It is a nonprofit, nonpartisan organization representing the civilian and military Asian Pacific American (APA) employees in the Federal and District of Columbia governments.  For further information and donations, please visit www.fapac.org