Spring is here and our Board Officers have been kept very busy with community networking and outreach. I extend my personal thanks to the Board for this first quarter to continue the excellent programs to engage and collaborate with our community. We have continued to meet many friends and community leaders who make a difference in the Greater Sacramento area. My board and I attended a number of social fund-raising and educational programs and we share those feature stories in this newsletter. I hope you will enjoy reading these stories and let me know how you can help with serving CACS’ mission and attend our next event.
On March 21st, we hosted a very successful Membership and Volunteers Appreciation Dinner at the Holiday Villa. I thank Cathy Wei, VP, for chairing this event. We met new friends and gained some new members. In addition, Mr. Jim T. Chong joined the CACS board recently and he is a very talented writer for the APA Newspaper, among, his other professional interest as a financial consultant.
I would like to thank the following organizations who included the Chinese American Council of Sacramento in their programs and where we reciprocated in financial and other support to the Japanese American Citizens League (JACL) Sacramento Florin Chapter – “Time of Remem- berance” – Candle Light Ceremony at the California Museum on 2/15; Asian Pacific Islander American Public Affairs Association (APAPA) – 15th Annual Scholarship/Internship Dinner where CACS’ contribution supports the educational, internship and civic engagement programs on 4/6; Asian Pacific State Employees Association (APSEA) where CACS provided a $1,000 scholarship to Albert Lui, Mira Loma High School student on 4/22; Sacramento Florin JACL and CAIR – Greater Sacramento Chapter (Council of American-Islamic Relations) 9th Annual Pilgrimmage to Manzanar on 4/25-27; OCA Dragon Boat Celebration on 5/3; My Sister’s House where CACS donated $2,000 to support its efforts to provide a safe haven for Asian women and children who are experiencing domestic violence on 5/19. In all, we have been busy at the above outreach programs to support those organizations that shared mutual interest with the mission and goals of CACS.
If you have any suggestions about the programs for CACS, please call me at (916) 261-2118 or at [email protected]. All the Best,
Honey Lum, President