MKA News Update

Family Picnic

This year's family picnic is on June 23, 2007. The flyer is attached below. There will be a lot of sports and games and great food. Here is a sample list of events for various age groups that are planned by our sports sub-committee:

  • 3-legged race for Couples
  • Wheel-barrow race for parent/child
  • Boys' Running Race: age range to be determined based on interested people.
  • Girls' Running Race: Age possibilities: 1 - 4, 5- 8, 9 - 12, 13 - 17, 18+
  • Water Balloon Toss: Pairs
  • Musical Chairs
  • Dodgeball - Males: boys/men
  • Dodgeball - Females: girls/women
  • Tug-of-War: teams of 10
  • Golf:open to all
  • Volleyball:teams of 6
  • Candy Picking: kids under 5
  • Suntharike Pottu Thote: open to all
  • Spoon/Lemon: Ladies
  • Sac Race:men,women
  • Cricket will be on-going throughout the day...not an event we will be encouraging people to take part in.

Trophies will be awarded on the same day for the individual events. For team events the prizes will be awarded during Onam celebrations on August 26, 2007.

There is going to be a good variety of food. Here is a sample of menu items from our food committee:

  • Lunch - Stew and idiyappam, Hamburgers, hotdogs and green salad.
  • Dinner - Pork chops, chicken, Macaroni salad, Poori baji.
  • Soft Drinks - Sprite, Coke, Water
  • Desert - Cherupayar Payasam

Please make an effort to attend the picnic with your family and friends ... it is a great opportunity to meet members of our community and have some good out-door fun. Please forward this to your friends.

Congratulations to the Fokana Regional youth competition winners.

Even though the notification went out late, a few of our members participated in the competition on April 28,2007 and we would like to congratulate the following winners:

  • Philcy Sara Arangattu : First in song and 2nd in dance.
  • Ashwin Menon: First in Song
  • Venesa Walsan: 2nd in Song
  • Ann Kalapurakal: 3rd in song.

Trip to Casino Rama

The trip to Casino Rama was a big success. The bus was fully loaded with 55 people making the trip.

Folks boarding the bus from Mississauga

We are in the early stages of planing another trip, a cruise to 3000 islands. If you are interested please let us know as it would be helpful for planning. The time frame would be in August and cost around $75.

Future Events

Onam celebrations are on Sunday Aug 26, 2007. It will be held at the Polish Community Center in Mississauga. There will be an Onam feast followed by a variety of cultural events.

We are planning a formal news letter for publication prior to Onam celebrations. We are inviting contents for that from our folks for publication. Details will be provided later.

Another event which we are pursuing is a joint celebration of Kerala Piravi, among the regional Kerala Associations. This would be in the first week of November.

If you have any suggestions please let us know.

mka@MississaugaKeralaAssociation.com .