John Eric Swing, a Filipino American community builder, dies at 48 | via nytimes
When Food & Wine magazine declared last year that “Historic Filipinotown is LA’s Next Great Dining Neighborhood,” an unseen player in this rise was neither a chef nor a restaurateur.
After Foronda opened HiFi Kitchen in February, he had at least one stream of steady customers: Swing’s weekly entrepreneurship class. “We’ve lost a community builder, at a time when we need community builders,” said City Council member Mitch O’Farrell. The council adjourned for a day in honor of Swing.
He earned a bachelor’s degree in ethnic studies from the University of California, Riverside, in 1995, and spent six years in the Marine Corps Reserves, serving as a personnel and administrative clerk, the family said.
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