2009 Amacon Mississauga Rotary Ribfest

A constant flow of delicious BBQ, and a smiling Ms. Rebecca at the counter serving their customer proved to be an award winning combination for Blazing BBQ, our People’s Choice Award winner at the 2009 Amacon Mississauga Rotary Ribfest. Kentucky Smokehouse took home the first place award for the best sauce while Gator BBQ was crowned the 2009 Amacon Mississauga Rotary Ribfest Best Ribs.

Crowds for this year’s Ribfest seemed to enjoy the festival, which offered a great variety of BBQ Chicken, and Ribs available from a wide range of style from hot to mild, dry rub or sauce BBQ. It was a great family fun pack and admission was free although attendees were encouraged to donate at the entrance.

Ms. Diana Chan who works and volunteers at the Living Art Centre attended this year’s Ribfest 3 days in a row and even ordered extra full Dinner BBQ ribs to take home on Friday. She informed me that she is hoping to savor the leftover ribs from today’s lunch on Monday.

Ribfest was well attended all three days with capacity crowds who thoroughly enjoyed this year’s Amacon Mississauga Rotary Ribfest. On Saturday evening, every vendor was busy serving their customers while people in the line waiting to be served kept growing. Apparently, the long lineup helped the undecided to choose the most popular vendor for their meal.

This year’s Amacon Mississauga Rotary Ribfest brought the best of the city’s diversity as people from all ethnic backgrounds came out to enjoy the Ribfest, not to mention the over 500 volunteers who helped. If you missed this year's Ribfest make sure you mark it in your calendar for 2010.

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M.C.B.A. 2009 Golf Tournament

There was a weather watch for Saturday morning in Peel and at one point it was so winding that trees were down blocking roads. However, the organizer for this year Mississauga Chinese Business Association golf tournament and Honorary President Mr. Victor Oh was able to order an excellent weather for the tournament. The tournament was held at Royal Ontario Golf Club in Milton. By 1:00 p.m. in the afternoon the sun was out ensuring the success of this year golf tournament.

Unfortunately due to the severe weather, the tournament was delay approximately an hour and finished at 7:00 p.m. in the evening. Even though the whether in the morning was severe, the turn out for the event were overwhelming and every year the event was well support by C.C.G.A members. In the evening the dinner was held in Emerald Chinese Restaurant where the winners for the event were announced.

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SMA Pasar Malam II! at Clarkson Community Centre

Selamat datang ke SMA Pasar Malam Dua. Welcome to the second annual Pasar Malam! organized by Singaporean Malaysian Association. It was advertise to start at 11:00 a.m. on Sunday July 5th 2009 but at 10:30 am peoples were waiting at the door to get in. Apparently during last year Pasar Malam they run out off food within the first hour after the start of the Pasar Malam. Not willing to take the chances of missing out on their favorite food many were out there waiting at the door by 10:30 a.m. More than 400 hundred attended this year Pasar Malam.

Hon Peter Foncesa M.P.P. for Mississauga East – Cooksville were on hand to greet many of the people attending the Pasar Malam and at the same time sample some of the Singaporean and Malaysian cuisine. Many of the who attended the Pasar Malam were at awe at how humble and friendly Hon Peter Foncesa.

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Mississauga Canada Day Firework display

Mississauga Canada Day Celebration

Happy 142nd birthday Canada as thousand crowded at Mississauga City Hall, Living Art Center and the Central Library to celebrate Canada Day. By 12:30pm they were long line at the wall climbing, and definitely where there is free food the line were even longer mainly due to the generosity of our Sikh community and a big thank you to Bhai Ghaniya Association of Canada Inc. The leader of the association told me that their mission statement are as stated by their founding leader Bhai Joginder SIngh Ji Talwara: -

“Exhortation of Guru Gobind Singh, the apostle of, "Treat all Human beings as equal" to Bhai Ghaniya Ji to continue providing medical aid along with serving water to the injured in the battlefield of Anandpur Sahib without any kind of discrimination between friend and foe became the foundation of service to the ailing humanity, some 159 years before the establishment of Red Cross Society. As a result numerous organizations christened after Bhai Ghaniya are now being run in the service of mankind by the Sikhs at the various places throughout the world.”

At 1:00 pm all three level of governments have representatives on the main stage to officially start the Canada day celebration MC by Mr. Jake Dheer. Followed by a short speech from our beloved Mayor Hazel McCallion. Our Mayor thanks all the volunteers for their dedication and hard work making this year celebration a success. She said, “not the Mayor, nor the council can do it without the volunteers and the sponsor” in making this year Canada Day celebration happen. She encouraged all who attended today function to participate in the community by volunteering their time.

At the same token Mr. Jake Dheer challenge everyone in attendance to respect our national anthem and flag. Jake may not be the Canadian idol but he plan to join Mississauga very own Ms. Michelle Madiera singing O’Canada.
This year Canada day committee chair Councillor Carolyn Parish welcome the crowd to this year City Centre Canada day celebration and thank all the sponsor for the generous contribution.
There were so many activities going on that it is impossible to detail them on paper. If you did not attend this year Canada day party you certainly missed a lot. Although the firework were slow to start but what a spectacular firework set to music presented by Metro Food at its best.

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Mississauga Sport Hall of Fame Golf Classic 2009

What a beautiful day for golf and many turn out at Brae Ben 18 hole Championship Highlands-Style Golf course for the 2nd annual Mississauga Sport Council Hall of Fame Annual Golf Classic. This is no ordinary golf tournament but one that promises an exciting game which include in each foursome an honored member of the Mississauga Sports Hall of Fame.

Mr. Brad Butt Chair of Mississauga SafeCity and Director for Mississauga Sport Council organized this year tournament. During the buffet luncheon Hon Minister of Labor Mr. Peter Fonseca and Mr. Bob Dechert was present to thank and detail the importance of the work by the Mississauga sport council.

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Toronto Dragon Boat Race Festival

In 1995, Mississauga Chinese Business Association has a team in the Dragon Boat Race. THe have won gold and also silver in the past years. Thru hard work and dedication from the team this year they won the silver medal in their category for 2009 21st. Telus Toronto International Dragon Boat Race festival again. This is a two days event held annually at Toronto Centre Island with thousands of people gather to watch. It took my wife and I, three quarter of an hour waiting in line to get to the ferry to reach the island. This is the first time I have witness such a long queue to for the Toronto Island ferry with the exception of the Chin Festival and Caribana. The line started at the Toronto ferry gate all the way almost to the CN Tower gate. With nice weather and June 21st 2009 being the father day it attracted a much bigger crowds to the island already crowded with participants and theirs supporters.

Expecting a huge crowd turn out both association sent representatives early to the island to pitch thier site along the water way where the race was held. The site were well shaded and perfect to watch the race as thier push toward the finish line. There was plenty of food provided by both associations. Although this is the first time Canadian Pintan Association has a team for the race they managed to win a silver medal in their category too. Congratulation to both M.C.B.A and the Canadian Pintan Association for the medals.

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