Dragon Boat (Duanwu) Festival Celebration and All Member Meeting

 

On June 04, 2016,  Peoria Chinese community members and friends gathered together to celebrate the annual Chinese DuanWu / Dragon Boat Festival with a successful BBQ picnic and a few fun activities at the Moose Shelter at Detweiller Park. There were about 300 community members, friends, and colleagues joined the event. Authentic Homemade Chinese foods including traditional festival food rice dumpling and on-site BBQ grill, as well as wonderful game activities of paper boat, tug of war, sand volleyball etc. were enjoyed by both adults and kids. The DuanWu Festival picnic and all member meeting has become an annual event that bond our community together more tightly, year after year. The event was jointly organized by Peoria Chinese Association (PCA) and Caterpillar Chinese Resource Group (CCRG).

 

Peoria Chinese Association, Caterpillar Chinese Resource Group

 

More pictures from the event are available here and great appreciate the volunteers whose hard work helped make this event successful.

 

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We would like to thank all participants who have attended the picnic.

 

As we all know that volunteers are the backbone behind all of our events, and this year is no exception. This picnic is only successful because of the great help from our volunteers. Volunteers helped planning the event, reserving the place, purchasing and preparing foods, grilling the meat, organizing the games and activities, and cleaning the place after the picnic. While it is not possible to have a completed list, we do want to thank the following volunteers for their great help this year. We also apologize as we may have missed some names as so many people have helped this event in so many ways.

 

Peoria Chinese Association, Caterpillar Chinese Resource Group

 

Volunteer Teams

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Shopping

Hong, Tao

Liang, Guanghui

Zhang, Hui

Li, Haifeng

 

Grilling

Pan, Jianping

Liu, Baoyong

Song, Xuefeng

Liao, Ming

Li, Weizhou

Site preparation

Zhang, Yanchai

Wency Rains

Xu, Yan

Ying, Huiyan

Jerrad Kaiser

Cleaning

Chen, Lijuan

Zhang, Yanchai

 

 

 

Party name tag / fees

Kuai, Yingying

Ba, Lu

Jennifer

Elena

 

Kids game & audio

Pan, Jianping

Zhang, Yanchai

Tian, Ming

Kuai, Yingying

 

Food order from ChinaTown

Chen, Lijuan

 

 

 

 

Send email to PCA list

Pan, Jianping

Tian, Ming

 

 

 

Photography

Zhang, Yanchai

Chen, Yanling