LACAAEA Fish Fry Scholarship Potluck
Date: Saturday, September 16
Time: 11:00 AM - 2:00 PM
Location: Hacienda Heights Community Center, 1234 Valencia Avenue, Hacienda Heights, CA 91745
Back by popular demand, after a 3 year hiatus due to the pandemic, we are bringing back our Scholarship Fish Fry!
LACAAEA has held the Fish Fry event for over 40 years starting out at Mother’s Beach in Marina del Rey, where LACAAEA members would fish and cook the fish on a propane stove sharing their catch with their friends and family who would join them later in the day. Over the years, LACAAEA moved the event indoors and bought fresh fish from Asian supermarkets. We also added seafood stew to our main dish offerings and encouraged attendees to bring dishes from their culture. It became a multicultural event. Later we moved the event to Dockweiler Youth Center gradually moving east to Whittier Narrows Park and now to Hacienda Heights Community Center, a County park in the east San Gabriel Valley, with a kitchen.
This event is FREE to attend, but we do ask that you RSVP by September 13, 2023, so we can get an accurate headcount for the seafood stew (aka cioppino) and the fried fish we will be serving. We also ask that you bring a side dish or dessert to share if you feel led.
The fish fry and stew will be prepared by Peter Luong, Compliance Analyst for DPW and our LACAAEA Scholarship Chair who happens to be our chef extraordinaire, and there will also be a variety of sides and desserts available. This is a family friendly event, so kids activities will be available indoors. A basketball court, playground and walking path surrounds the park. We will also be awarding our annual scholarships to deserving students.
This is a great opportunity to come together as ONE family and enjoy some delicious food. We will also make available resource tables for the County departments to share information about their programs to outreach to the community about their services. I hope to see you there! Please feel free to invite any of your County friends or your family to attend, just let us know by September 11 how many people will be coming.