For over two decades, the Westminster Tet Parade in Little Saigon became a vital festival to ring in the Lunar New Year for thousands in Orange County.
But now, Westminster City Council members are questioning if the city can afford to celebrate the Vietnamese New Year in the future as officials wrestle with a $2 million budget deficit.
The parade at the heart of Little Saigon has become a staple for the nearly 40,000 Vietnamese-Americans that reside in Westminster, one of the largest Vietnamese communities outside of Vietnam…