Award Presentation-the 7th Canada Multicultural Creative Festival&16th Giving Heart Community Feast

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On November 28, 2021, WS Immigration and Multicultural Services Society hosted the Award Presentation for the 7th Canada Multicultural Creative Festival, then followed by the 16th Giving Heart Community Feast. Prior to the award event and community feast, we had the annual general meeting.

Welcome speech by Sophia Zhang, Chair, WS Immigrant & Multicultural Services Society.

Warm congratulations from Taleeb Noormohamed, MP for Vancouver Granville

Greetings from Malcolm Brodie, Mayor, City of Richmond

Greetings from James Wang, Acting Mayor and Councillor, City of Burnaby

Greetings from Chak Au, Councillor, City of Richmond

Special thanks to Taleeb Noormohamed, MP for Vancouver Granville and Mike Hurley, Mayor, City of Burnaby for signing the award certificates for this event, which made the award certificates more precious.

Mike Hurley, Mayor, City of Burnaby

Award Certificate Sample - for Ed Vinicio

Awards presented by Acting Mayor, Councillor James Wang & Councillor Chak Au

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As we currently have Omicron, the New Covid-19 Variant, we provided face shields and masks for each and every participant to wear onsite, we also encouraged everyone to take as many as they want home for their extended families, friends and anyone in need.

Lucky Draws - Malcolm Brodie, Mayor, City of Richmond

Sincere thanks to Selina Lau, who donated thousands and hundreds of face shields and masks to WSIMS, then WSIMS re-donated all to churches, schools, school boards, other organizations and individuals in need.

Selina Lau, President, Sure York International Consulting Inc.

Gary, the lucky guy received one box of 2,000 face masks, he said this was his first time to feel he was really lucky.

Dr. Sang, Chair Yu and Emilie, the 3 lucky ones received one box of 400 face masks each.

This lucky girl received a painting from the famous artist Joanne Wing. Her painting is normally around $2,000 value minimum per piece.

Some lucky winners received the famous wines: the Fort Wine; while some lucky winners received the famous wines: Sanduz.

We prepared small gifts for each and every participant, from the very famous wines for this holiday season to our cherished books with authors' signature such as Lo-Fu and Cheonhak Kwon; from essential face shields and masks to environmental friendly items; from fresh flowers to classic paintings...

Appreciation from Yue Huang (middle), President of The Fort Wine

Appreciation from Bruce Liang, President of Goose King

Culture sharing from Dr. Qian

Hui Zheng, was at the award presentation, representing Vancouver Ballroom Dancing Enthusiasts as one of the Member Organizations of WS Multicultural Services Society

We celebrated the birthdays in October, November and December

Precious awards, delicious food, lucky draws and lucky prizes, people gathering face to face especially at the simi-end COVID-19 pandemic, what a fun-filled night!

Time and space limited, sorry if you missed this award presentation and this Community Feast; we always will have the next opportunity.

Sincere thanks to all volunteers that made this happen: Megan, Sonia, YanYan, Anu, Gary, Tina, May, Annie, Baiyu, Koyo, Will, Chris, Xiaozhen, etc.

Ed Vinicio's new digital here: https://smarturl.it/edgratitude

The physical CD we can order here: https://www.edgarmuenala.com/music/

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