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President: |
Thank you, everybody, for such a wonderful Chinese New Year's Celebration. We have started the year with such success that we are bound to have a wonderful year ahead of us. I would like to personally thank all of the volunteers who helped make our New Year Celebration so magnificent. There are so many that I cannot name each one. But to all who helped in the hundreds of jobs, including the performers, thank you, thank you. Without the active participation of so many members, we cannot put on such a large and successful event. Don't forget to join us for the Day Under the Oaks at Santa Rosa Junior College on May 4th. At 1:00 PM, our lion team leads a procession around the campus and to our performance location where our cultural dancers will perform. This will be a fun day for all. We need a large audience to support our performers and enjoy the various booths and activities of this event.
The Rose Parade is coming up on May 24th. On this day, we need more than 30 people to help with our dragon. We need 27 people just to move it down the street, and then we need people to relieve those 27 people when they get tired. We also need volunteers to hold our RECA banner, carry water from the truck to the costumed performers, and to carry messages from the front to the back of our line, which usually has more than 100 participants. This is the primary, yearly appearance of our dragon, accompanied by our lions and cultural dancers. Please call me at 576-0533 if you can help. We look forward to winning our twelfth first-place award in cultural dance this year. See you there!   RECA CLASSES By Judy Cheung We have expanded! The final language classes of the 2002-2003 school year are fast approaching. This has been our most successful year yet. Starting out with 72 enrolled students for the first semester, we continued with most classes full during the second semester. We even had to turn people away from our continuing level class. Our biggest boost to attendance was the addition of three Tuesday classes in Mandarin. May 17th is our last day of classroom instruction for the year. May 24 is an additional class day where everyone is expected to participate or watch the Rose Parade. Summer Camp: July 14-25, 9:00 AM-4:00 PM, ages 5-17 years, $200.00 per camper (additional charge for early drop-off or late pick-up) Our summer culture camp programs have been successful for the past two years. This year, we will be combining the youth and children's culture camp to promote a big/little brother/sister opportunity. Many of the scheduled activities will be held together, with younger and older campers working together for mutual benefit. Other activities will be held separately. Activities will include language (Mandarin), calligraphy, cultural dance, arts, crafts, hikes, cooking and lots of fun. English as a Second Language: Survival English for adults, Saturday 11:45 AM-12:30 PM This is a new class, started in March of this year. We have three adult students who are learning basic, functional English conversation skills. This class is free. Cultural Dance Classes: 11:30 AM-12:30 PM each Saturday that has language classes This class is free and open to all interested people who want to participate in cultural dances. Classes focus on children, but adults are welcome. Many adult sessions are held at other times and places, but Saturday, 11:30-12:00 is the time to find out when and where. Tai Chi: Saturday 10:00-11:30 AM on our Center lawn, taught by May Li Leung, $60.00 per month, begins April 12th. Many people have requested Tai Chi classes. May Li Leung specializes in Tai Chi and Qigong for health and energy. For additional times and places for classes, contact May Li Leung at 707-535-2078 or mayll_qigong@yahoo.com or www.sonic.net/~leung. Language classes for 2003-2004 school year: New tuition rates will include membership fee. Language classes will be held Saturdays, 9:00-11:30 AM and Wednesday, 4:00-5:30 PM. Prices will be $190.00 for one person for one semester or $300.00 per person per year; or for 2 people in the same family, $300 per semester or $500 per year; for 3 members of the same family, $400 per semester or $700 per year. Classes will be in Beginning, Continuing and Advanced Mandarin and Cantonese. Please note the increase in price will include your RECA membership. Also, please note the change of classes from Tuesday to Wednesday. We hope to better serve you with this change of weekday. We invite people of all ages who want to learn Chinese to come and join us as we learn and enjoy. Many activities are discussed at school. Come and be a part of the group. Saturdays will continue to have additional class and event opportunities. Wednesdays will continue to be concentrated language study. For more information, call Judy Cheung, (707) 528-0912 (English), Nancy Wang, (707) 576-0533 (English or Mandarin), or Azy Heydon, (707) 575-9541 (English or Cantonese). RECA YOUTH GROUP By Azy Heydon In the past couple of months, our RECA Youth Group has done a few activities such as helping to keep our center clean and the yard neat. Once again, we had our fun, from skiing and snowboarding, to going to the SRJC for their planetarium show on Volcanoes in our Solar System and watching movies and making Chinese food at our center. I taught everyone in our group how to make our favorite Chinese foods, spring rolls and potstickers. Most of our youths knew and eat these kinds of food, but we all thought that making them together was a good lesson and we all should learn to make them. Besides, it was fun to eat the food that we made together. I told the group that someday they could show off their Chinese cooking talents when they are in college. With all these practical and educational activities, our youths certainly will have wonderful memories in their lives. We plan to go to bowling again sometime in April, perform volunteer work in the Day Under Oaks at SRJC on May 4, march in the Santa Rosa Rose Parade on May 24, and go to Marine World Africa USA in Vallejo sometime in June. We're going to have lots of fun in the coming months. If you are interested in participating in our RECA Youth Group, please call Azy or Bryce at (707) 575-9541, or Judy Cheung at (707) 528-0912. COHOUSING COMMUNITY FORMING IN SANTA ROSA By Michael Black Yulupa Cohousing is hoping to interest members of the Asian community in joining other families from diverse backgrounds in this unique opportunity to live a life in community. Twenty-nine homes are planned for completion in 2004 and future residents are beginning to meet to make decisions about how they will co-create their community. Cohousing includes sharing some meals, childcare, gardening, social activities, and more in an intergenerational, residential experience. A balance of private and common space ensures both neighborly support and preservation of personal family life. First-time home buyers may qualify for low Fannie Mae 3% down payments. On February 20, the Santa Rosa City Design Review Board said the plans "are very exciting and very encouraging to the human mind and heart" and are "humane and superior architecture.". An orientation to present this relatively new lifestyle, which originated in the mid-twentieth century in Scandinavia, will be held in Sebastopol on May 17, at 1-4 p.m., at Two Acre Wood Cohousing. The orientation includes a tour of this completed and lived-in cohousing community. For more information, visit their website, www.yulupacoho.org, phone (707) 829-8586, or email yulupacoho@aol.com for a reservation and directions. Childcare will be provided during the meeting RECA MEMBER RECEIVES PARTNERSHIP IN LAW FIRM
O'Brien Watters & Davis, LLP has served Sonoma County in the areas of business, real estate, estate planning and administration, and complex civil litigation since 1982.. To congratulate our RECA member on her prestigious advancement, or to ask for her services if you are in need of legal advice, you can contact Ms. Corlett by the following means: voice 707-545-7010, fax 707-544-2861, www.obrienlaw.com, or mail to Fountaingrove Corporate Centre I, 3510 Unocal Place, Ste. 200, Santa Rosa, CA 95402-3759. SR APPOINTS ASIANS TO LOCAL BOARDS Congratulations to Elee Tsai and Teejay Lowe for their appointments by Santa Rosa City Council members. Elee Tsai was appointed to the Design Review Board by Sharon Wright, while Teejay Lowe was appointed to the Board of Public Utilities by Jane Bender. It is good to see Asians having a greater role in our local government. RECA CHINESE NEW YEAR A SUCCESS By Mary Lowe It usually rains the evening of RECA's annual New Year celebration, but it was clear skies this year for our February 22nd event. Not that the weather makes much difference for the several hundred guests who showed up for this festive event held inside the Veterans Memorial Building in Santa Rosa. But no rain puts less wear and tear on RECA's equipment, namely our cavorting lions made of paper and bamboo, and our 250-foot-long dragon made of cloth and bamboo. Dry weather also makes it easier for our runners picking up the numerous trays of entrees catered from Royal Garden, ABC and Genghis Khan restaurants.. This year the food was the best ever, the program ran smoothly, and there were no outstanding behind-the-scene glitches! Terry Hilton, President of the South and West Area Business Association (SWABA) was our surprise grand prize winner for the $500 cash drawing, a night's stay at the tower suite at the Petaluma Sheraton Hotel and dining in the exquisite Jellyfish Restaurant. Special thanks to the Chinese Language School, Families with Children from Asia, and Chinese New Year committee members, volunteers and performers for another wonderful event. The fundraiser brought in over $11,000 to be divided among the building fund, scholarship and operating expenses. Those of you looking ahead, mark your calendars for next year's party on February 28, 2004. POTLUCK SOCIAL FLAVORFUL & FUN! By Mary Lowe After dinner, entertainment was interspersed with raffle prizes. The popular JACL's children's taiko drummers performed invigorating sets. Then FAARP really wowed the crowd with various acts - a solo singer, two couples folk dancing, a troupe of eight lovely ladies in traditional Filipino dress singing and dancing while balancing candles on their heads and hands. Three youngsters, particularly a five-year-old girl nicknamed "King King" stole the show with clever dance antics to the Latin pop tune "Asereje." You know they're good when you hear RECA members comment, "I want to join that group!" RECA displayed our members' talents with mesmerizing solo tai chi performances by experts Sean Fong and May Leung, and martial arts acts by Jacqueline and Justin Young and swashbuckling Olympic hopeful 13-year-old Jimmy Fong. The program concluded with aborigine folk singing in Mandarin by a small church group of RECA members. The socials just keep getting better. See you at our upcoming functions! P.S. FAARP will have a "Filipina Night" July 12, 6:30 p.m. at the Rohnert Park Community Center. For ticket information, contact their President Lorraine Datu at 585-3964. ASIAN DANCERS IN THE SAN FRANCISCO BALLET By Judy Cheung Recently, I had an opportunity to go to the San Francisco Ballet and was pleasantly surprised to see diversity represented in the dancers. I watched people with last names such as Mangosing, Yamamoto, Sugano, Low, Chung, Choi and Young. The star principal dancer was Yuan Yuan Tan, born in Shanghai. She joined the company as a soloist in 1994 and became a principal dancer in 1997. Tan's performance in Nanna's Lied was breathtakingly exquisite, a heartbreaking story of a passage from childhood into being a woman, set in the bleakness of a 1930's city. Before the performance, ticket holders can attend a discussion session with a dancer. On the night that I went, Megan Low, born in San Jose, CA, talked about growing up Asian and having a passion for dance. The San Francisco Ballet has always been a wonderful experience. With its increased diversity in dancers, it is even better. If a group would like to get together and purchase tickets for the next series of performances, you may contact any of the ticket sales agencies. Ticket prices starts at about $8.00 for the upper balcony and increases the closer you get to the stage. If a group would like to go as an RECA function, contact Judy Cheung at (707) 528-0912 (English) and we might be able to get group rates.
For his ongoing kind and generous support to RECA, this certificate of appreciation was presented to Bob Gong, owner of G & G Markets. L-R, Bob's daughter Connie, Bob Gong, Nancy Wang, RECA President. NEWSLETTER SUBMISSIONS All members are invited to submit articles or photos that may be of interest to other RECA members for publication in this newsletter. Please mail your submissions to RECA's post office box (see back page), or send them via email to reca_news@yahoo.com. Articles are subject to approval and editing by the editor, and will be printed as space permits. WUSHU
Sean Fong has over 10 years of martial arts teaching experience. He has won several championships and 2 Grand Champion titles. Sean is also well respected by youths and other wushu enthusiasts for his exceptional ability in training children and teenagers. Sean has been very involved in RECA and community services. He has been coaching the RECA Lion Dance and Dragon Team for many years. Jimmy Fong has been very successful in a number of wushu competitions. Recently he won the junior All-Around Grand Champion title at the US National in Orlando, Florida. Anyone who is interested in learning more about the programs can call 528-4820 or send email to jsfong707@yahoo.com. Wushu classes are held on weekday evenings and taichi classes are on weekend mornings.
MEMBER ADVERTISEMENTS Advertisements in the newsletter are available to all members. The fee is $30 for a one-time advertisement, or $100 for advertisements in all issues for one year. Please send a check for the advertising fee along with your ad to RECA at P.O. Box 7854, Santa Rosa, CA 95407.
Redwood Empire Chinese Association
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November 2001
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O'Brien, Watters & Davis, is pleased to announce that Deborah G. Corlett, Esq., has become a partner
with the firm. Ms. Corlett has practiced with O'Brien Watters & Davis, LLP since 1993. Her practice
emphasizes estate planning, probate and trusts.
Sean and his son Jimmy Fong have established the Fong Wushu Studio at 1764 Windrose Lane in Santa Rosa. Come learn
Wushu with the championship boy and have fun, or practice taichi to improve your balance, flexibility, muscle tone and
coordination. Most important, learn how to relax your body. Contemporary wushu is a dynamic, fast-paced, and
aesthetically pleasing art form and competition sport with a foundation in the traditional martial arts.
Taichi emphasizes breath control and relaxation while developing a healthy body and self-defense techniques.
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