Dear FACSS members,

Due to some technology failures, this month’s board report is written in English.

The board had its fifth meeting on Saturday Oct 5th. We have reviewed the events we had in the previous month.  We are satisfied with the mid-autumn festival party we had on Sunday Sept 15th.  We encourage our members to give us more feedback and suggestions on the event so we can do a better job in the Chinese New Year’s Festival event, which will be held on Saturday
Feb 8th, 2003.

We will start our community volunteer program this month.  We hope our members could participate in the volunteer trips as many times as possible to show your care and commitment to your community.  Our first trip is to help the seniors to clean the fall leaves at their houses.  We will release the announcement soon.

We had our fall trip last Sunday, and about 40 people joined the trip.  I hope all of you had a good time picking apples.  Our next trip will most likely be in the winter.  If any of you have any suggestions, please drop us a mail and let us know.

We will have two cultural workshops in the near future.  Please watch our event announcement.

We will conduct a member registration and Constitution amendment on Saturday, November 2nd.  For the current year, thanks to the hard work of our fundraising and marketing teams, there will be no membership due!  The number of members we have do have influence on the
result of our fundraising effort.  I hope to see as many of you as possible on that day.

Our New Year’s Festival Event will be held on Saturday Feb 8th, 2003.  Hong Ji is identified as the producer of the stage performance for this event.  If you have any suggestions for the event, or if you or someone you know wish to perform in the event, please contact her at jixx0031@umn.edu.

Wish you all enjoy the beautiful fall season and be well-prepared for the winter.

Yun Qing You
President of FACSS
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