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President's Message

July 2010


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