As you all may know, Festival Nations (FON) celebrations period always coincides with ANCD October Events. This year October Event Gala will take place on October 1, long before FON celebration on October 23, 2016. Apart from showing up at the FON meetings, ANCD is now looking for a queen who will represent Nigeria at the ANCD Pageant. Parents of a teenage girl who may be interested should please call me ASAP. We will also be required to do a cultural dance and sell foods as well. Since we have done these things before, it should not be a problem. ANCD is still looking for an FON Program Coordinator. Although Chief Kaliku and I have agreed to attend the meetings, we want younger and smarter people to take over now. Thank you for volunteering!
As you also can recall, we just celebrated the best –ever Annual ANCD Picnic this past July 16, 2016. Many members even commented that they would like and wished to see the upcoming October Event Gala be as good or better than the Picnic. However, please note that we risk not measuring up to the Picnic standards and outcome, unless members would rally round the October Event Committee by getting involved and, showing interest and helping to sell event and raffle tickets. If you do not have tickets to sell, such as, please call me immediately at 518 669 4574, and I will bring the tickets to you in your own house.
Apart from selling tickets, there are many other things that you can do to help move this event planning forward. Again, you can now start selecting items you would like to give for the upcoming silent auction—please talk to Mrs. Olubunmi Erogbogbo about this. You should call up your friends and invite them to the event. I am told that there will be a fashion show, a cultural dance performance, and serving of the Nigerian food as well. I am appealing to you all to keep an open mind when a committee member calls on you to offer you a task. Members should feel free to call me for any question that they may have. I will pass those questions along to the right committee member who can answer them. Please come to the Monthly Meeting which will take place on Sunday, August 21, 2016, at 862 Third Street, Albany, NY 12206. The PRO has already sent out announcement requesting members to please bring some snacks/foods to this meeting. You all did a great job during the June meeting, while I was in Nigeria. Please try to do the same good job here. Thank you and have a great week.