Dear members:
It is my pleasure to announce to you that we (UCS) won the 2011 CACA Fun Day fun games and tug of war competition champion and also won $500.00 cash award because of this championship. It is totally beyond my imagination because I only wish to win $100.00 (5th place) for UCS but eventually we become the 1st place. Our members come to MJCS (the Fun Day place) more than I have expected. Thank you for all the players for the tug of war and fun games and also for those parents who come to the place as 'cheerleaders' for our players.
Some parents said to me if we could win the $500.00 award then we should celebrate it by buying the players a meal. I said O.K. (since I did not believe we could make it). Now since it is more than what I have expected, I think we should celebrate it. I would like to use $200 from the cash award ($500.00) to distribute to those players who won the tug of war and the 1st place of the fun games (I think it is 'water balloon tossing). However, I would not give you the 'cash' but instead, will allow those players to 'eat free' in our up-coming teachers and volunteers appreciation luncheon on 6/12/11 (Sunday). For adult players (two or three) that are already counted in our volunteer list you will not be counted free another time (and sorry it can't transfer to your kids) (since you are free anyway -- to save a little bit money for UCS). For those 'student' players (no matter you have graduated or not), you are free for this luncheon, no matter whether your parents are volunteers or not. In other words, if a player's parent (father or mother) is a volunteer then your family can have 3 people free for the appreciation luncheon.
Karin and Chang, Chong-Hsi, please help me to identify those 15 people who played the tug of war and 2 young boys who won the 1st place of 'water balloon tossing' game. I only remember some of them but do not remember (or even recognize) all of them. Thank you.
By the way, just let all the members know that we have gained almost $2000.00 income from various sources for the past two or three weeks. These include the following items:
1. Karin Wang's company 'match' of $500.00.
2. CACA new year gala 'profit sharing plan' -- $518.00 (due to the sales of gala tickets and the ads obtained from UCS) -- basically this is my personal contribution (for selling all the tickets and got 3 sponsorships of ads).
3. Tug of war & fun games cash award for 1st place -- another $500.00 (today).
4. United Way contribution of more than $230.00 from Merck (Ming Liu, Inhou Chu, James Wang, etc.).
5. More than $100.00 from the 'earnings' of UCS T-shirt sales and donations (exact numbers to be disclosed later on).
6. Several hundreds of surplus from the ads of vendors for our 'yearly book' printing (exact amounts to be disclosed later) (we have more than $1000.00 of income from the ads but the expense is only several hundreds) -- I have contributed 60% to 70% of all the ads.
Finally, I appreciate all the parents who attend today's event, without your support, we can't win the tug of war and fun games competition. Another thing is, I feel very proud that 'most of you do read the UCS newsletter every week' and respond to my 'requests' (ask you to come and support us in the Fun Day competition). I feel my hard working (putting all the news together every week, and sometimes worked very late -- till 1:00, 2:00, or even 3:00 A.M. on each Friday (ie., after midnight of Thursday) morning) is worthy and have a return now. I hope every family can give me this kind of support next year. This will become my strongest motion to serve UCS for another year. Thanks everyone and next week we will celebrate together in the park for the annual BBQ (have more than 70 people sign-on now).
Johnny
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