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by the Nationalities Council of Indiana, Inc.
NEXT
MEETING IS 7 p.m. Monday,10 JULY, in the Athenaeum!
President�s Message:
It is first-come, first-served this year for booth space at the International Festival. Each organization is urged to send a representative to the next meeting to sign up for a space We will have our people there to sign up those who haven�t already signed up and assign spaces on the spot!�
If you have not signed up your ethnic/cultural dance or musical group for the entertainment portion of the Festival, do so at this meeting as well.� It is important to get this part of our program completed early.� We will use it as part of our advertising campaign to get a more diverse attendance at this year�s Festival.� We need your help in assuring that we have another year of excellent entertainment at the Festival and you can help with that.
The last couple of weeks, I have been involved with veterans groups around the state as they have assembled to develop their leadership for the coming year.� One of the things which has impressed me at these sessions is the growing ethnic diversity in that leadership.� These are men and women who have answered the call for their country many times and are once again answering that challenge.� With your assistance, I will take our programs to that leadership and seek their support in our endeavors.� We can always use a little more help and these are an excellent place to find that support.
The Festival is just around the corner (19-21 October) and we will be calling on many of you to assist in helping to assure a successful year.� I am confidant that you will be there when you are needed.� Throughout this year, we have had some adversity that has created many challenges for us.� Each of you has responded well to those challenges.� As we move in to the new millennium, the challenges will continue to grow and it will take a diverse and dedicated leadership to meet those challenges.� We have many good people available within our organization.� New members are arising all the time and new opportunities as well, use your skills to help that leadership achieve success in the coming year.� Not for ourselves but for our posterity!� Our future is in the hands that we develop for leadership now!
[Charles A. Lindgren, CW4 (Ret), U.S. Army]
Speaking
of the Festival:
Come to the next meeting prepared to write �welcome� in as many languages as you know for use in Festival promotion � and I�ll need people to speak into a tape recorder of �welcome� for use in radio Public Service Announcements. Since this is a �do it ourselves� year for the Festival, we all will be asked to help promote our event. Places to send information (such as your company�s newsletter) are needed also � Susan McKee ([email protected], PO Box 68466, Indianapolis IN 46268 or 317:297-0502).
Oops! Some of the
events listed for June actually take place in July (sorry!). Swiss Days in Berne are 28-29 July
(information, 219:589-8080); Pierogi Fest in Whiting is 28-30 July
(information: Gayle Kasalko, 219:659-0292) and Serb Fest 2000 is in St. Sava
Hall, Hobart, 29-30 July (information: Mike Galich or Marcie Roknich Lash,
219:736-9191).
10 July
All are welcome to attend the 7 pm meeting of the Nationalities Council in the Athenaeum, 401 E. Michigan St., Indianapolis. Please join us!
13-15 July
Aloha International Hawaiian Steel Guitar
Fest in Willard School, Winchester: musicians from 26 states and foreign
countries. Information: 765:584-6845.
14-16 July
Scottish Festival in Mill Race Park,
Columbus: Highland dancers, clans, bagpipes, music, heavy athletics,
sheepherding, Scottish goods. Information: Bill Stewart, 812:379-2773.
22 July
Indiana Highland Games, downtown Fort Wayne:
A Scottish fair with dancing, athletics, pipe bands, clan tents,
sheepherding, merchandise, food. Information: (219) 486-1249.
DID
YOU KNOW�.
A glowing review of� Indianapolis� own Yummy in the June 29-July 6, 2000, issue of NUVO Newsweekly gave it five stars (out of five) for its authentic Hong Kong cuisine, featured a photo of Wilkin Yum, and raved about the dim sum?
Chalkies begins serving cask conditioned ales from English breweries on 6 July?
Nimit Moore of Bloomington offers adventure tours of Mali, his homeland, through Tenere Expeditions. Click on www.saharaadventure.com for more information.
A website from the Institute of International Education lists more than 5,000 overseas study programs for American students? Click on www.iiepassport.org.
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FOR SALE by the Polish Society of Indiana: 2 Stainless Steel Heating Ovens (12" high---12" diameter---24" long).� Asking Price: $50.00 each (cash & carry). Call Jane Misko, 317:577-0769 or Ed Tapek, 317:253-2578.
Questions
about NCI or the International Festival? Contact Chuck Lindgren, NCI president;
home phone: 317: 852-0569, e-mail [email protected].
Items
for the next �Ethnic Hoosier�? Call Susan McKee, 317:297-0502, e-mail [email protected], or call
Phil Hu,� 317:566-8838, e-mail [email protected]. Deadline is 1 August
2000.