REGIONAL DIGEST—NORTH WEST Seattle Diary
This quarter's report comes to you from another one of our young Seattle Nagarathars. I am proud to introduce Arun Palaniappan (age 13, 8th grade, Odle Middle School), who is a very calm and quiet teen, but is very good at expressing his thoughts, when it comes time to do so. One can see it very well in his report.
Pillayar Nonbu 2011 (Reported by Arun Palaniappan, Grade 8)
For once, Mother Nature served up favorable weather—over here, that translates to light drizzles and temperatures in the mid forties. With New Year's Day looming, an impressing 31 families' worth of people, most clad in Indian garments, crowded the hall in the waning days of 2011 for our annual Pillayar Nonbu.
UW’s thrilling loss the night before didn’t pollute the event’s positive ambiance, as smiles were plentiful. First on our agenda was to sing Pillayar songs, led by Ram uncle. Then the elais, painstakingly made by the men, were given by the eldest person present. All the
Portland Diary
The 2011 Deepavali was celebrated at Karumbunathan & Laxmi's home on Oct 15th. There were many parents during the occasion and it made it special. Everyone enjoyed fireworks and great food.
On Thanksgiving day we met for a Turkey-less South Indian lunch at Muthu and Kavitha's house and spent a wonderful day filled with laughter.
seetha gandhi, or
families prayed and took them. It's surprising how little it hurts when you eat with fire, I tried it this time.
Afterwards we all settled down for a delicious dinner, prepared by the ladies. As usual, the food tasted
exceptionally good
(however, the food has been so consistently good, it isn’t exceptional anymore). I always devote myself to the idlis, so I never really fully enjoy the rich variety.
During the event, our young volunteers Sreya and Niveda conducted a survey to figure out if we should have three or four events during the year and which ones. The majority wanted to have three events, those being Tamil New Year, Deepavali and Pillayar Nonbu.
We then introduced the new families, and promptly continued to the social part of the event. After a good hour or so of talking, talking, and talking, Lakshmi aunty distributed the goody bags, in which a Pillayar and some fruits resided. After clean up everyone began to migrate out the door.
The expert architects behind this event are Muru uncle family, Lingeshwaran uncle family, and Selva uncle family. All thanks must go to them.
Pillayar Nonbu was hosted by Venkat and Priya at their home in Camas, WA, on New Years Eve. Kavitha and Muthiah co- ordinated the event very well. In addition to all the festivities we welcomed two new families Muthumeena & Muthukaruppan Sekkappan and Muthuvalli & Manikandan Chockalingam to Portland that day.
This year 15 families were in attendance. The chettiar youth
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