Japan Society of Fairfield County
Pre Thanksgiving Banquet, Nov. 15, 2009
For the
16th 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 15, 2009. We
all enjoyed a delicious Thanksgiving turkey dinner
provided by Ms. Ann Summerville and her crew from Union Baptist Church
in Stamford. Japan Society members served all
the food this year. Our members
supplied an abundance of Japanese delicacies
and desserts:
Nancy
& Vernon Beck - Pumpkin
Pies,
Halloween
candy,
and a box of clementine oranges,
soda, milk, ice, whipping cream, and hand sanitizer; Diane &
Perry Caminis - Herb cookies; Keiji & Kazumi
Inoue - Pecan and cheese cakes; Lucy Maire - Apple tart-aLa Normandy,
France;
Naomi
& Joe
Manning - Salmon sushi; John &
Hannah McGettigan - Tiramisu; Keiko, Sayaka
& Shoen Mitsui - Chirashi-sushi;
Jim
& Marilyn Moore - Apple cake and a very generous cash donation;
Nina Streitfeld
- Apple and pumpkin pies; Harry & Hiroko
Sakamaki - California rolls, table cloths; Madeleine Sullivan - Cake;
Aye Aye Thant - Cupcakes,
Corn muffins and apples; Junko Uezumi - Salmon sushi.
A
special note about Madeleine Sullivan: she is a long
time members and long time contributor for this event who lives in
Queens.She comes at the event all the way taking
subway, train and taxi.
Japan Society of Fairfield County is the only Japan Society known to
reach out to its community in this way.
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