55 PLUS GOAN ASSOCIATION CELEBRATES NEW MEETING LOCATION WITH LADAHINE – JUNE 19TH
 

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This day marked yet another year of Global celebrations held on Tuesday June l9th in honour of St. Anthony’s Feast day and Father’s day combined.

Our Fifty Five Plus Goan Association held a Ladahine at our new location, the Mississauga Seniors Centre, at 1389 Cawthra Road. We had 125 faithful members and out of town guests, from the U.K. in attendance.

Our Treasurer, Frank Fernandes and his wife Lucy did an outstanding job by articulating the Rosary and Litany in our “mother tongue”, (Konkani). Frank stole the show with his velvety voice,”-- cum Ol’ Blue Eyes Frank”… accompanied by his choir members and Cooty on the Violin. All pitched in and sang in Konkani all praises to our Saint. It intensified our longtime tradition of carrying out what our forefathers started!

This was followed by a scrumptious pot-luck spread, contributed by our members. Renee Fernandes and her team of volunteers worked hard behind the scenes to ensure the meals were replenished to everyone’s delight. The result, a delightful feast for all and a great sampling of everyone’s favourite recipe! A variety of desserts and coffee followed. Many thanks to Ed & Violet for helping brew the delicious coffee & last but not least to Stan Noronha for his assistance in the kitchen cleaning out the coffee urn!

To everyone’s delight- an auction was held of all the left over cakes to the highest bidder….so as you can see …nothing but nothing was wasted!!

Many thanks to Ed and Violet, for their expertise in keeping all the ladies in line – by giving us “on the spot” line dancing lessons – which was a great “after dinner workout” which was well needed by all.!! Some enjoyed a game of trouque, which was followed by Bingo! – Congrats to Celia Diniz who took home the Jackpot prize .

The Mississauga Seniors Centre, our new found location in Mississauga, is a “second home” to many of our members and we hope, as tradition will have it, an aura of Goa will always pervade the Club’s name. Therefore, we need more members to come out in support of future events held at this club. Hence, we need to “Keep the flame burning” by attending these monthly events whereby one can “meet & greet” in the evenings, or play whist, or line dance – a host of other in-door sport activities i.e. the use of the pool room or Billiards, thereby breaking the monotony of “office work” or house-work”

All in all a good time was had by all, on this, our first event, at this new venue. We trust you will join us in our upcoming Tuesdays as advertised on the website at www.goanvoice.ca 

Our thanks for putting all this together goes out to our Social Secretary Juliet Rebello and her sub-committee, who did an outstanding job from start to finish. Special thanks to all who came out and assisted in any which way possible.i.e. Monica Marques and Theo Fernandes for assisting at the Front Desk and to Mr. Uvy Lopes' strong support & camera shoots"! To Mrs.Millie Correa for conducting the line-up to the dinner table!

The evening wound up at 10.00 p.m. sharp with members pitching in to clear the tables and leaving the place tidy.

On behalf of our Executive Committee, we thank each and everyone of you who came out in support in making this all time traditional event, a day to remember!!.

Muriel Lucas
General Secretary,
55 Plus Goan Association.

Toronto 12th On List Of World's Best Business Cities

CityNews.ca Staff
When it comes to marketing power, we're number 12! That doesn't sound like much to be proud of, but considering Toronto is competing with 50 other large and famous capitals, it's really not all that bad. The city comes in just below the top 10 in a new ranking of the world's most important centres of commerce.

Economists looked at an area's economic stability, the flow of money, how easy it is to do business there and its political and legal framework to decide where it ranks on the scale of important places to do business in. Each city was given points based on those criteria, and then the numbers were added up to get the final total. And Toronto came in twelfth overall, ahead of Sydney, Australia, Copenhagen, Madrid and Stockholm. Montreal nails down the 27th spot, while Vancouver is the only other Canadian city on the list, right beneath it at 28.

But all three of the Canuck rankings were first in one area. Montreal, Toronto and Vancouver (in that order) were found to be the easiest places in the entire world to start a business. The report cites our health care system, a sold infrastructure and access to public transit as the reason we did so well.

But if we're not number one overall, who is? London, England remains at the top of the business heap, while New York and Tokyo garner not surprising second and third ratings. The survey was taken by Mastercard, whose researchers claim there's a decided movement away from traditional business forms and more towards a knowledge based industry that has changed the climate of what most think of when they ponder the financial industry.

Top 12 Business Cities of The World
1) London 2) New York 3) Tokyo 4) Chicago
5) Hong Kong 6) Singapore 7)Frankfurt 9) Paris
10) Los Angeles 11) Amsterdam 12) Toronto
Source: Worldwide Centres of Commerce Report
See the full rankings

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