Xin Tien Ti 2011 Chinese New Year Celebration

Saturday, February 19^th 2011

Once a year the Chinese Senior organized and displayed their talent in the typical Chinese style on Chinese New Year as part of our traditional New Year family gathering to celebrate and greet friends and relatives’ prosperity and good health. Last year the group gathers at Mississauga Valley Community Centre on a smaller scale with about two hundreds people in attendances on Sunday February 21st., 2010. As usual, all three levels of governments and other ethnic group and association were there to help the Chinese Senior celebrate this lunar rabbit new year.

By two o’clock in the afternoon the crowd was already packing the small downstairs hall of the Saviour Of the World Chinese Catholic Mission on 30 Bristol Road, Mississauga with high expectation of this year feature performances by the senior. The only Progressive Conservative Member of Parliament for Mississauga Mr. Bob Dechert was on hand to show support for the leadership of the Xin Tien Ti Senior Association that was instrumental in helping the local Mississauga Chinese Senior live a productive and active life in Mississauga. The greatest supporter for the Xin Tien Ti Senior Association from the Ontario Legistrature and former Labors Minister Hon Peter Fonseca is no stranger to the group was there to wish the senior a happy and prosperous Chinese New Year. Last but not the least Mr. Victor Oh the honor man in Mississauga for 2010 and Chair of the SafeCity Mississauga as well as Honary President of the Mississauga Chinese Business Association was always there to lend a hand for the senior.

For more photos taken during today event see gallery below:-

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Canada/China Supply Chain, Logistics & Trade Forum 2011 presented by MCBA

Wednesday, February 16th. 2011

The Canada/China Supply Chain, Logistics & Trade Forum 2011 is jointly presented by the Mississauga Chinese Business Association (MCBA), Supply Chain & Logistics Association Canada (SCL) and East West Focus International Inc on February 19th. 2011 at Double Tree by Hilton Toronto Airport, 655 Dixon Road, Toronto, Ontario Canada.

For more photo from today event see gally below:-

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Mississauga Residences help Mayor Hazel to celebrate her 90th birthday at LAC

February 13th 2011at The Living Arts Center, Mississauga

Today thousand of Mississauga residences were invited to the Living Arts Center to Celebrate Her Worship Mayor Hazel McCallion ninetieth birthday. The event was hosted by none other than the popular Mr. Jake Dheer, Station Manager from Rogers TV Mississauga. This year chair of the birthday party planning committee, Mr. Ron Lenyk was trill to see the enthusiast’s residences out pouring of support for the event, he said he wasn’t at all surprised by the huge turnout, considering Mayor Hazel McCallion enormous popularity.

Mayor Hazel 90th Birthday Gala

She is ninety years young and like the energizer rabbit she show no sign of her slowing down. Hazel McCallion is the mayor of Mississauga, Ontario, the sixth-largest city in Canada. Mayor Hazel McCallion has been Mississauga's mayor for 32 years, holding office since she was first elect in 1978 after narrowly defeating the popular incumbent Eon A. Searle. She is affectionately called "Hurricane Hazel" by supporters as well as the media at large for her vibrant outspoken style of no-nonsense politics.

Hazel Journeaux better know to the world as Mayor Hazel McCallion was born in Port Daniel on the Gaspe Coast of Quebec. Her father's family traces their roots back to the island of Jersey. Jersey is where the Bailiwick of Jersey which is a Bristish crown Depency off the coast of Nornamdy, France. Her father Herbert Armand Journeaux who passed away in 1944 at the age of 65 owned a fishing and canning company. Her mother, Maude Travers was a homemaker and ran the family farm until 1955. Hazel McCallion the sole survivalof the family had two sisters, Linda Maude Adams, and Margret Gwendolyn Travers Capener and two brothers, Herbert Lorne Journeaux, and James Wilson Lockhart Journeaux who are now with the Lord. She graduated from Quebec High School and later attended a business secretarial school in Quebec City and Montreal. She has stated, especially while receiving university honours, that she would have wanted to attend university, but financially her family could not afford it. After working in Montreal, she was transferred by Canadian Kellogg company to Toronto.

It was in Ontario where Hazel Journeaux met and married her husband, Sam McCallion in an Angilcan Church. It was her Christian faith that is largely attributed to her concern for the public good. There is too many thing I could have written about this dynamic women however, today over one thousand friends of the mayor contributed three hundred and fifty dollars each to attend her birthday gala in her honour and raise fund for the new Seridan College in Mississauga.

For more photos see gallery below:-

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Black History Month celebration at the Mississauga Valley Community Centre

If you're out in Mississauga on Thursday, February 24th, Citizens for the Advancement of Community Development will be holding a Black History Month celebration at the Mississauga Valley Community Centre, located at 1275 Mississauga Valley Blvd. This is a free day-long event which will have an afternoon family skate, children's activities, exhibits and several guest speakers from 7 - 8 p.m., including Peter Fonseca and former Toronto Argonaut Bruce Smith.

The celebration runs from 9 a.m. - 9 p.m., so if you have a chance, stop by to check it out! It'll be a great time

Mississauga Chinese Business Association celebrate Chinese New Year at City Hall

Thursday Febuary 3rd 2011

Not surprisingly another year has gone by and once I am invited to photograph the ceremony and celebration. This year the world is celebrating the year of the rabbit.

People born in the Year of the Rabbit are articulate, talented, and ambitious. They are virtuous, reserved, and have excellent taste. Rabbit people are admired, trusted, and are often financially lucky. They are fond of gossip but are tactful and generally kind. Rabbit people seldom lose their temper. They are clever at business and being conscientious, never back out of a contract. They would make good gamblers for they have the uncanny gift of choosing the right thing. However, they seldom gamble, as they are conservative and wise. They are most compatible with those born in the years of the Sheep, Pig, and Dog.

For more photos from todays event see gallery below:-

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Sorry for missing the MCBA Chinese New Year City Hall Celebration

Thank to my dedicate reader, I was reminded that I forgot to update this blog for the Mississauga Chinese Bussiness Association Annual Chinese New Year Celebration at the City Hall. My sincerer apology and I will try to update it as soon as possible.

New Beginnings (Fund Raising For Credit Vally Hospital)

Every year the Mississauga Chapter of the New Beginning will organized a fund rising Chinese New Year gala. Each year they will pre announce their designated charity or Hospital foundation. This year the New Beginning will work with the Credit Valley Hospital foundation in the hope to raise Canadian ten thousand dollars.

Many of the volunteer for the evening event paid for their own tickets and donated large amount of items to be auction off during the diner. Many of the young and older Chinese members of the community even paid for a chance to serenade the dinners from a huge selection of karaoke songs available for the evening.

Many of the Chinese immigrant are traditionally family centric and hopefully with the encourage of the New Beginnings they will encourage the new Canadian to be more civic minded.

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Mississauga City Employee celebrate CHinese New Year

Canadian is truly blessed with multiculturalism and the Mississauga City Civil servants help the Chinese Colleagues to organize the annual Chinese Lunar New Year Celebration at Emerald Chinese Restaurant during lunch time on Friday February 11th 2011. Fortunately, the restaurant is only a short minutes away from Mississauga City Hall making the hour long lunch feasible.

Local Chinese business were glad to acknowledge the great contribution of the City workers that many contributed some items to the New Year Celebration as door prizes to an encourage the staffs and at the same time to show appreciation for the city staffs.

For more photos for todays event see gallery below:

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Mayor Hazel Celebrate Chinese Lunar New Year at Chinese Temple on New Year Eve

Every year on Chinese New Year eve the Fo Guang Shan Temple in Mississauga on 6525 Millcreek Drive, Mississauga open its door to the thousand of worshippers coming to the temple to prayer for blessing for the coming year. This year the temple was honour to have her worship the Mayor of Mississauga Hazel McCallion celebrating the festivity with the citizens of Mississauga at the temple and ringing the bell to usher the new year along with Councilor Pat Saito from Ward 9 and MPP Mr. Bob Delaney, Mississauga, Streetsville as well as Mr. Victor Oh the current Chair of SafeCity Mississauga.

According to eastern traditional horoscope the coming 2011 year of the White Rabbit should came with more or less tranquil nature, but definitely must be delicate and sensitive to the word around. Of course on the surface the 2011 year of the Rabbit is sensitive, sophisticated and confident period, but... Anyway balanced and calm conditions of the 2011 year of the Rabbit may be easily weakened by only one unpredictable situation after which only titanic effort may return all developments of the 2011 year back on track. So make sure you don't ask too much and don't expect too much from the year of the White Rabbit since 2011 year has something to show us and even the best intellect could hardly imagine what the 2011 year of the White Rabbit got in store for us.