[Congressional Record Volume 166, Number 120 (Tuesday, June 30, 2020)]
[House]
[Pages H2679-H2680]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




                      RECOGNIZING KIM CHAMBERLAIN

  The SPEAKER pro tempore. The Chair recognizes the gentleman from 
California (Mr. LaMalfa) for 5 minutes.
  Mr. LaMALFA. Mr. Speaker, I rise this morning to recognize my good 
friend Kim Chamberlain for her service to Shasta County.
  Kim was born and raised in a pear orchard just out of Seoul, South 
Korea,

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during the Korean war. She is a refugee and a survivor of the war. Kim 
eventually married a U.S. Army medic, Paul Chamberlain, and came to the 
United States in 1971.
  As a new resident, Kim's goals in America were to learn English, 
drive an automobile, and get a job. After working as a strawberry 
trimmer at Lassen Canyon Nursery for several years, Kim went to school 
and earned her cosmetology license in 1978. In 1981, Kim opened a 
beauty salon, a shop she owned until 2012. I wish it were still open 
right now.
  In 2012, Kim was diagnosed with breast cancer, but she is a fighter 
and a survivor in getting through it--very admirable. After entering 
remission, Kim became a local cancer awareness activist, helping others 
and meeting with other breast cancer survivors for encouragement and 
support.
  As the wife of a veteran and a war survivor, you won't find a bigger 
champion for veterans' issues than Kim Chamberlain. I don't know of 
anybody who works harder to advance the causes for our veterans and be 
sure they are properly honored on Veterans Day and Memorial Day.
  She is one of the fiercest advocates for bringing a veterans clinic, 
a veterans cemetery, and a veterans home to northern California in 
Shasta County. She helped raise funds for an endowment that actually 
pays for landscaping at the Northern California Cemetery and served on 
a nonprofit board that built a memorial chapel there.
  A 29-year member of both the VFW Auxiliary and Northern California 
Korean War Veterans chapter, Kim hosts an annual luncheon to honor and 
thank Korean war veterans in the area. They come from far and wide to 
be part of this. I have taken part in several of those.
  2020 marks the seventieth anniversary of the beginning of the Korean 
war, and this year would have been the 30th annual luncheon Kim would 
have hosted to show appreciation for the Korean war veterans. 
Unfortunately, this is yet another event that has been wiped out by the 
coronavirus pandemic.
  Kim's work on behalf of veterans has been recognized by the city of 
Anderson, the Anderson Chamber of Commerce, Shasta County, and even the 
Prime Minister of South Korea.
  Kim's story embodies the American Dream. She has worked hard and is 
always working to help her community many, manyfold over.
  More than her contribution to local veterans or support of local 
cancer survivors, Kim is a wonderful friend to me, to many, all who 
come in contact with her. She, indeed, is a blessing to us who know her 
and those who have come in contact with her and have been helped by 
her.
  I wish her all the best, and God's blessing upon Kim in everything 
she does as a neighbor in northern California.

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