Spring has just arrived and we have much to be thankful for. We had a fantastic turn out for our Membership / Volunteer Ap­preciation dinner. We had almost 100 in attendance and it was great to see so many familiar faces and meet many new members. One of my main objectives, at the helm of CACS, is to try to incorporate programs our membership has an interest in. Brenda Fong, our membership chair­person, received many great ideas from our members in attendance, by way of the survey forms that were passed out at our dinner, and we will discuss their feasibility and try to incorporate many of your ideas at our very next upcoming CACS board meeting. Some things requested by our membership included educational, cultural or cooking classes and possibly some .eld trips, like the trip we did to the Angel Island Immigration Station a few years ago.

I am proud to share with you that your CACS organization showed its support to our Sacramento Asian community by sup­porting the Asian Resources Lunar New Year fundraiser last month. We are also supporting APSEA (Asian Paci. c State Employees Association) by sponsoring a $1000 scholarship to a deserving college-bound high school student from the Sacramento com­munity. I am happy and proud to share with you that our very own Linda Ng, CACS’s treasurer, is being honored with the Community Service Award at the APSEA Scholarship Dinner on April 24.

Congratulations Franc Martinez for receiv­ing the CACS Member of the Year award for 2011-2012. Franc has been helping CACS with its many programs continuously since 1998 and the larger Sacramento Asian community for the past 20 years. I wish I could give each of our CACS board members an award because they work tirelessly to make CACS continue to be a great and successful organization that we can all be proud of. As always, if you have any suggestions or thoughts, please feel free to contact me at home (916) 392-8524 or [email protected].

Respectfully,

Dr. Kingman Louie, 2012 CACS President