President's Message
Mr. Sanjay Bajracharya, President FNA
Dear FNA members and friends,
We had a wonderful Nepali new year 2067 picnic on Saturday
April 17, 2010 in Orlando Florida. Our local host team from
Orlando put together a wonderful program and we had
participants from all over the state. We have 2 major
general gatherings in a year, one for the Nepali New Year
celebration (usually held in Orlando Florida) and the other
one for our great festival Dashain. The Dashain celebration
is rotated between Gainesville, West Palm Beach, Tampa and
Jacksonville. This year’s Dashain party will be held on
Saturday October 30th in Jacksonville. We have already
started preparation for the event. We will give out the
details in the very near future and will also be posted in
our website.
During the July 4 weekend, the 2010 ANA convention was
successfully held in Boston. During this event, we had local
participation from Florida. In football (soccer), West Palm
Beach trio Mr. Rajan Rayamajhi, Mr. Basant Thapa and Mr.
Deepak Gurung played from the team Boston Nepali Football
Club and won the Soccer championship. To top it off, Mr.
Deepak Gurung was named the MVP of the soccer tournament. In
basketball, Mrs. Sushma Manandhar from Jacksonville played
from team Nebraska Ekta and won the Women Basketball
championship. Similarly, Ms. Binita Devkota from Orlando
participated in the cultural program with a Nepali dance.
Congratulations to all winners and participants and thank
you for representing our state of Florida.
FNA is going green. From this edition onwards, all FNA
newsletters will be web-only edition. An email will be sent
when a new issue is published. One can download the PDF copy
of the newsletter from our website and print it. Or if you
want a print copy mailed to you, please send an email to
newsletter@floridanepal.org and we will mail the latest
edition of the newsletter to the address provided.
Hurricane season has already started. I hope everyone is
prepared for it. FNA is planning to prepare a hurricane
guide in Nepali for those who need it. We will keep you
posted on this.
Thank you.
Sanjay Bajracharya
President
FNA Florida-Nepal Association
