Man Minh Phan. known as Mr. Man. is receiving the 2007 Citizen of the Year award from the city for his outstanding community activism in the Canal neighborhood. This area has a large immigrant population. including 500 VietnameseAmericans. endeavoring to assimilate into our countrys culture. Now 73yearsold. Mr. Man is a former South Vietnamese army officer who immigrated with his wife to the United States in 1990 after 6 years of imprisonment in a communist reeducation camp and another 8 years wailing for relocation. They joined his son. a graduate of the University of California at Berkeley. who had arrived in San Rafael a year earlier after escaping Vietnam by boat. Mr.
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