Japan Society of Fairfield County
Pre Thanksgiving Banquet, Nov. 16, 2008
For the
15th consecutive year
our Japan Society members celebrated this quintessential American
holiday by feeding about 100 individuals from the Stamford area at St.
Luke’s Lifeworks’ Woodland Campus
on Sunday, November 16, 2008. Just after 1 PM there was a major fire
just a block south of St. Luke’s Lifeworks at an unused warehouse and
adjacent buildings on Cedar Street. St. Luke’s Lifeworks was within the
police cordon around the fire area so some residents may have
experienced difficulty getting to the banquet. We
all enjoyed a delicious Thanksgiving turkey dinner
provided by Union Enterprises. Robert King lead the contingent
from Union Enterprises which brought a generous
supply of turkey and fixin's. Japan Society members served all
the food this year. Our tables were graced by arrangements of
origami this year made by Junko Uezumi, Etsuko Fujii, and Kazumi Inoue
along with paper candles made by a nearby school. Our members
supplied an abundance of Japanese delicacies
and desserts. Nancy and Vernon Beck brought
pumpkin pie; Eric Chabot, Brownies; Etsuko Fujii,
Japanese fried noodle; Atsuko & Mike Giampaoli, California rolls;
Kaiji & Kazumi Inoue, Steamed cake; Hiroko and
Harry Sakamaki, Inari Sushi; Nina
Streitfeld, Japanese sweets, cake, and fruit; Madeleine Sullivan,
chocolate cake; Aye Aye Thant & Nanda, Halloween cookies; Junko
Uezumi, Sweet rice; and Union enterprises brought a large sheet cake.
The
Japan Society of Fairfield County is the only Japan Society known to
reach out to its community in this way.
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