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<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'>Dearest
OCA Members and Friends,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'>Once
again it is the end of the year, we hope you are enjoying this wonderful
holiday season and we wish you and your family and friends a great journey
together toward 2010!<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'>In
2009, OCA Cleveland started its outreach initiative - OCA Image TV, a 30
minutes television programming that feature our Asian community in Northeast
Ohio with episodes about how we celebrate Lunar New Year, the different
celebration of Asian weddings, the health and wellness within the Asian
families and finally the AsiaTown Neighborhood Tour.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'>Although
we have only produced 4 episodes so far, it has received an overwhelmed
positive feedback, with supports and grants from our community and Neighborhood
Connections, the episodes aired on Time Warner TV20 to 800,000 households daily
and it is available on iTunes to subscribe as free podcast download. It
garnered OCA National’s attentions (appearing numerous times in OCA Image
Magazine) and about 300+ copies were distributed at the 2009 OCA National
Convention. I would like to take this time to thank the production members and
friends that helped made the TV project a success. We planned to continue other
episodes in 2010 and hopefully you can be part of our project and help us get
it on local channels like Channel 3 or Channel 5! Sponsorship and advertising is
available. Watch it online also at OCA Website at </span><a
href="http://www.ocagc.org"><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'>http://www.ocagc.org</span></a><span
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<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'>The
success of OCA Image TV brought us the opportunity of bringing all our Asian
Pacific community together. During past few months, we’ve been discussing an
idea that many of us have thought of for many years – our own Cleveland Asian
Festival!<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'>Cleveland
Asian Festival is a collaborative effort of all the different Asian ethnic
groups joining our resources to make it happen, for the first ever festival,
we’ve set the date to be Saturday May 22, 2010 starting from 11am until 8pm at
Asia Plaza’s area (Payne Avenue and East 30<sup>th</sup> Street) of our
AsiaTown Neighborhood.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'>The
goal of this festival is to foster the identity of the AsiaTown neighborhood,
educating and promoting Asian Pacific culture and traditions, and to celebrate
Asian Heritage Month. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'>This
festival will feature food and merchandise vendors, local and national
performing artists, a children’s activities area, games, competition, martial
arts demonstrations and a health fair that focuses on diseases and medical
conditions that affect Asians Pacific families.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'>We
believe that with the volunteerism and participation of many diverse and ethnic
groups including: Chinese, Korean, Japanese, Filipino, Indian, Vietnamese,
Laotians, Indonesian, Malaysian, Thai, and many others in addition to committed
organizations such the International Community Council, International Service
Center, Federation of Indian Associations, Vietnamese Community of Greater
Cleveland, MotivAsians for Cleveland, Asian Services in Action, Cleveland
Contemporary Chinese Culture Association, Cleveland Chinese Women Association,
Korean American Association, Japanese Americans Citizens League, Chinese
Benevolent Association, Filipino Associations, Friendship Foundation, St. Clair
Superior Development Corp., Asia Plaza Inc., Asia Town Neighborhood Merchant
organizations, and others, 2010 Cleveland Asian Festival will be the a start of
an exciting future for our generations to enjoy.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'>We
hope many of you will embrace our first festival, if you are interested in
sponsorship, donations, vendor booths, or even to volunteer your time, please
do not hesitate to contact us. Or you can visit the Cleveland Asian Festival’s
wevsite at </span><a href="http://www.ClevelandAsianFestival.org"><span
style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'>http://www.ClevelandAsianFestival.org</span></a><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'>Lastly,
OCA Cleveland Chapter needs you! Please become a member or renew your
membership before April 2010, it would help us immensely! Membership
application can be downloaded at </span><a href="http://www.ocagc.org"><span
style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'>http://www.ocagc.org</span></a><span
style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'> <o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'>See
you in 2010!<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";color:navy'>Johnny
Wu<br>
216.539.4634<br>
President<br>
OCA-Cleveland Chapter<br>
“Embracing the Hopes and Aspirations of Asian Pacific Americans” and OCA
Image TV Magazine on iTunes<br>
<a href="http://www.ocagc.org">www.ocagc.org</a></span><span style='font-size:
12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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