美国新冠疫情日记5/28 We Are Proud Of Our Service To The Community

  We Are Proud Of Our Service To The Community

  Management Districts Fill Gaps In City Service

Five Houston area management districts sent a letter to the Houston Chronicle last week to let the general public understand how all these districts have been working to enhance public safety, business opportunities and other forms of quality of life issues for several years.

When the coronavirus pandemic attacked our city, we felt more privileged to be a part of the  helping hand.

As centers of Houston’s Asian population, the Southwestern District and International District have partnered with local civic associations to provide more than three million dollars worth of food, protective medical supplies and laptop computers to local residents, first responders and frontline health care professionals.

When Mayor Turner said we might have to cut some city services because of the shortfall in tax income revenues, this became a critical time when we could fill in for some city services.

Even though the whole nation is open for business, we still can’t effectively control the pandemic in some big cities because unemployment rate is so high. Plus, with police brutality being so prevalant, there is a lot of unrest in many of our communities.

We also want to express our appreciation to all our colleagues working in the different cities. Because of your sacrifice and hard work in the last three months, we have never suspended any issue of our newspaper. We are publishing daily and all those colleagues still have to come to the TV studio to broadcast news, and our pressmen still have to come to the pressroom every night to print and deliver the daily newspaper.

We are so proud that our team can be of service to our community and to the nation and let you be informed on what is going on around the world.

One day history will definitely record our stories. As the 26th President of the United States, Theodore Roosevelt, once said, “Do what you can with what you have where you are.”

                 社会责任 关怀社区   

            ------    我们始终坚守新闻最前缐

德州休斯敦地方五个区区长日前投书休斯敦纪事报，向市民阐述在新冠疫情时期我们如何帮助市政府为市民服务，投书中指出，各区市民有感于市政府之服务不足，各区在商家之共同支持下，在加强警力、整顿市容、增加市民服务做了大量工作，就以过去两个月来，为了筹措捐款近三百万元，支援医护人员捐赠各种医疗用品，为贫困儿童购买平板电脑，送午餐给前线救灾人员，举办各种联邦贷款讲座，这些服务都让市民得到即时援助，文中更提到华亚裔群聚的西南区及国际区，更是积极动员加入救灾行列。

市长唐纳在最近一次的谈话中警告，因为市政税收之锐减，下年度市府之预算将大大削减，其中包括基本的救火，警察等服务。

目前全国各地已经重启商业活动，遗憾的是我们还未见到疫情能全面撑控，病毒仍然不断传播，失业人口造成之社会动荡不安，近日来在明尼苏打州之警察暴力事件已经在三大城市发生骚乱，星星之火可以燎原，不可不慎。

新冠疫情开始蔓延至今已经有近三个月，我们要特别感激在各个岗位上日夜奋战的全美各地工作伙伴，过去九十天来，我们各地的报纸出版从未停止，我们的网站天天更新，我们的电视节目每天照常播出，在编辑台上及播音室的同仁必须每天上班，深夜裡在印报厂的印刷同仁仍然每天要开动机器，把报纸送到读者手中。

在此艰难时刻， 面对社会和国家付託，我们感到无比之骄傲，我们在全美之工作团队的贡献将会载于历史之篇章，我们是当之无愧， 正如第二十六任美国总统罗斯福所言 “我们当尽所能贡献社会”。