Lunar New Year proposed as Washington's next state holiday

OLYMPIA — When a group of residents set out to organize an inaugural Lunar New Year event in Edmonds in 2022, they anticipated a few hundred folks might attend.

More than 1,000 showed up.

“Touching for us,” recalled Karin Mei Butler, “was the reaction of many of our Asian-American neighbors who saw their cultural traditions represented and celebrated for the very first time in their communities.”

Butler, a business executive and president of the Multicultural Association of Edmonds, shared the story to members of a state House committee considering legislation to make the Lunar New Year a state holiday. She encouraged them to pass it.

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I'm sure there'll be some MAGA heads popping over this but why not?