About Us

 ABOUT US - The Still Standing Guard Committee

The Still Standing Guard Committee was initially formed in 2022 under the auspices of the Loomis Library & Community Learning Center with a focus on “Month of Remembrance”. We remembered the 80th year anniversary of the signing of Executive Order 9066, which ordered the incarceration of approximately 2,000 Japanese Americans from Placer County (Revisiting internment camp history necessary, Gold Country Media, 2022.) We sponsored several events in May 2022, the highlight being a panel discussion with local people who had been personally touched by this history. When the group gathered again in 2023 our focus evolved as did our name. Our current goal is to still support the Standing Guard Project - conveying “through oral history narratives, the impact of WWII on Japanese-American residents of Placer County” .   The accompanying book was created by Sierra College Press in 2002. With the passage of time, our group, along with Sierra College is recognizing the importance of that work. In 2024 we are helping to sponsor a second volume of Still Standing Guard Stories from Sierra College Press with even more narratives that have been discovered in their archives.

Our committee includes:

Claire Camp

Sarah Comstock

Thaya Mune Craig

Jan Clark-Crets

Rebecca Gregg

Ed Horton

Stu Kageta

Barbara Leak

Bonnie London

John and Sarah Nitta

Fusae Miyamoto

Alaire Outlaw

Patricia Pickerel

Dot Shiro

Gordon and JoAnn Takemoto

David Unruhe