REGIONAL DIGEST—WASHINGTON DC AREA Pillayar Nonbu 2011
Pillayar Nonbu was celebrated in the DC Region on the 30th of December 2011 at Lakelands Park Middle School in Gaitherburg, Maryland. Despite being a work day (Friday) lot of enthusiastic DC Nagarathars were on time for the event. In total there were 215 attendees representing 72 families. The event was organized by Nagappan Palaniappan & Revathy Nagappan, Chidambaram Kandasamy & Alagumeena Chidambaram, Manoharan Chidambaram & Muthulakshmi Manoharan. The DC Nagarathar Teens were an active participant, they were in charge of MC'ing & other volunteer activities for the event and did a wonderful job. Once again the DC Nagarathars showered their generosity during the Yelam resulting a whopping collection of $15,100. DC region has been one of the forerunners in Yelam money collection and have always sent the entire amount collected to NSNA for the charitable causes, this year will be no different. The DC Nagarathars savored the authentic delicacies prepared by the Achis and the event concluded on time with all the Nagarathars helping out in the final cleanup. DC Nagarathars would like to wish their fellow Nagarathars a Healthy, Happy and Prosperous New Year!
New Regional Secretary
Saravana Sundar is the new regional representative of DC region. He is practical and a fun loving person. He is proud to belong to Nagarathar community and an active person who would like to
REGIONAL DIGEST—OHIO
get associated with activities that would foster the rich tradition and culture of Chettiar community.
meena thenappan
sudha kumarappan
Ohio Nagarathars celebrated Pillayar Nombu on Jan 7, 2012 at Alagappan and Sathu’s residence in Plain city Ohio. The event started around 4.00 P.M with tea and snacks. As usual chettiars took care of preparing the Ellai while our Achis were busy in making the garland. After all the prep work was done, the bhajans were sung by the kids and adults. Manickam annan handed out 51 ellais with Mani Periakaruppan’s help. We had Yelam with 5 items and it was a huge success this year too! Following the family introduction the dinner was served with the delectable assortment of chettiar pallagarams and kudos to all our achis. The games were the big hit and I bet everyone on their way back home must be talking about the games .We had a variety of games
..Nagarathar quiz, curtain raiser, 90 second pure Tamil competition, dumb charades. Adair stole the show with his 90 second talk about chattier pallagarams. Everyone had a very good time and looking forward for the next gathering!
24 March 2012
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