New Year Greeting from the President

Dear HAPA-NA Members and HAKKA Friends,

This is belated New Year Greeting, and wish you and your family have a healthy year.

HAHA-NA has a few announcements as followings:
1. After the establishment of our blog (HAPA-NA.blogspot.com) and a trial run for 3 weeks, we have received a very good feedback. So, we will continue our blog as long as we can. This blog help us to document our activities, communication, present Hakka art, music and culture events as well as update Hakka affair. We welcome everybody's suggestion and input. For more information please contact hapasec@gmail.com. I would like to ask our ex-presidents of HAPA-NA and members to loan us your past photos or articles related to HAPA-NA activities to be posted in our blog as part of HAPA-NA history, Please contact Mr.Tom Shu our secretary at hapasec@gmail.com. I also would like to ask President Wang of THAA to announce our blog website to local Chapters of THAA.

2.Please reserve your vacation days from August 8-August 18 '09 for Hakka gathering ( 懇親會 ) in Toronto sponsored by THAA and Toronto HAKKA association. We will hold a HAPA-NA member meeting at the time of gathering. Expecting to receive the detail information from THAA soon. Please make your effort to attend and sign up early.

3.You may have received Dr. B-Chen Wen's ( our Treasure ) e-mail regarding update our membership's directory. Please check the list and response if any correction is needed.

Thank you.

My best regards,

Chanchi Lee, MD President, HAPA-NA