For members of Utah’s Vietnamese community, Tom Huynh’s election to the West Valley City Council last year was a turning point.
For decades, they’d been running businesses, sending their children to school, making sacrifices to support their families, helping out their neighbors and assimilating into American life while still preserving their culture.
And in the past few years, they were talking about the need for a business organization. On May 12, community members and their supporters gathered at the New East Sea Plaza in West Valley City to launch the Utah Vietnamese American Chamber of Commerce (UVACC).
The timing was historic, just a few months after Huynh, a native of Vietnam and the first minority member of the West Valley City Council, began his term. Salt Lake Tribune
