On January 16 at 1:40pm, we entered Granville Town Hall and saw the volunteers setting up the tables and chairs. In the kitchen, they were cutting the lamb， beef, chopping onions, cucumbers. Each volunteer was very hands-on. Venue are decorated with red lanterns, red spring couplets, putting up those decorations is thought to keep evil away and pray for blessing, longevity, health and peace.
On Saturday morning 6am President Dou & Vice President Yu has been shopping for food. They’ve been doing a lot of work to make the celebration a success. Yesterday, President Dou was exhausted from sorting out all the items for the Multicultural Seniors Association. He was admitted to the hospital at night with heart discomfort. Today, in order to arrange and set up the implementation the work of ” Chinese New Year Festival ” various tasks, he returned early from the hospital. I was really touched and he is a role model for everyone to follow.
In order to ensure that all work is completed ahead of schedule. The team of Wang An, Chen Jianqing, Li Peng, Zheng Baoying has bought items and delivered to Granville Town Hall. The spirit of selfless dedication shines brightly in the volunteer team and is worthy of praise.
In addition, this event actively responded to the call of the Association and the praise must be given to the volunteers who took the initiative to undertake on the task of providing cold salad dishes at the “Chinese New Year Festival”.
①President Ge & President Dou: Western-style salad.
②Yu Xiaoli: Marinated chicken wings.
③Yang XiuYing: 2 cold dishes: Celery & Carrot with peanuts, Shredded seaweed
④WenGuang: 2 cold dishes: Braised Wheat Gluten, A cool agar dish
⑤Xiao Shumin: Eggplant salad
⑥Song Chungee: Korean Mixed Vegetables
⑦Zhang Ping: Spicy Chilli green beans
⑧Jiang Xiuping：Providing 15 bags of Lebanese bread, 10 piece of Turkish bread and A box of Chinese cucumber
Two more ladies of Chinese and Russian descent has came to help, Veia and Happy Swallow brought association’s emblem and helped to set up the venue by assistance of ballooning. Thanks to the two beauties.
There were also two men who volunteered, Mija and Li Peng. Every time any task is done very well. Thank you for your contribution to the smooth running of tomorrow’s “Chinese New Year Festival” event.
Finally, I have to give praise to our Vice President Yu Xiaoli．She does her best to be the President’s right-hand person. All tasks are undertaken and implemented silently, and implement the work of the artistic team in advance. Good work XiaoLi, it’s great to have you.
