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PUYO’s ANNUAL GM

This is going to be the meeting of the year! It’s our Annual General Meeting and if you haven’t RSVPed yet, do so NOW here!
Four critical things will happen at this meeting and it is highly recommended that all PUYO members attend!

1. Elections for the new executive team.
-VOTING MEMBERS must attend. Voting members are all the current executives, including project chairpersons, and team leads.
2. Constitutional amendments
- Important changes to the regulatory document of PUYO
3. Presentation of the new organizational and project structure (*NEW*)
- Find out how the revised organizational and project structure will look like for the coming year!
4. Presentation of Annual Awards
- In recognition of our distinguished PUYOers!

Date: Saturday, September 29
Time: 1pm – 4pm
Place: Markham Civic Centre, York Room
Attendance: ALL members are invited, and attendance is mandatory for voting members.
Mark this date down and don’t miss out!

 

Resume Service

We know it’s recruiting season for many and we want to help you guys succeed! When you submit your resume for review, we try to match you with a professional from your field of interest. Don’t forget to utilize our resume review service! Read more here!

 

Wrap up of Events

Just a week ago, 18 of our members and friends had an amazing time at the annual amazing talent show Kollaboration! ‘Maybe Refuge’and ‘Young’, who both performed at our past Night It Up!, took home the winning title!! More cheers to the celebration!

Although we weren’t able to run our beautiful ‘Cat-In-The-Hat’ game at the Milliken Children’s Festival, we took the opportunity to bring that game down to the Harbourfront’s Fortune Cooking event! That game was so popular among kids that a full bag of prizes and medals were gone by the end of the event.

Make sure to stay posted to our updates, events and contests on FB!

 

“Too Asian?” Book Launch

“Too Asian?” is a collection exploring race and representation on Canadian campuses with the infamous Maclean’s “Too Asian?” article as a flashpoint.Join us for the Toronto launch!

September 27,doors 6:30, program 7:00pm
Toronto Women’s Bookstore
73 Harbord Street
Toronto Ontario

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THANK YOU to every single one of you!

We did it, PUYO!  We were able to fulfil the wishes of Justin, our wish child from Make A Wish, and send him and his family to Disney World! The picture above was Justin and his sister in Disney holding a sign thanking us. Our hard work throughout the year had paid off! *BIG pat on all your backs!!

UPCOMING EVENTS

Our year is not over yet! We have 3 very exciting events coming up that you definitely do not want to miss!

(1) PUYO Spirit Event: Kollaboration

Our NIU! programming partner this year, Kollaboration, helped put on a great show for us this year at our event! It is a unique arts & entertainment non-profit organization that attracts tons of very talented performers!

Their annual show is one of the most anticipated talent shows in town! Previous special guests included Clara C and David Choi! A show not to be missed. Click here to RSVP to our FB event and obtain info on getting tickets!

 

(2) Harbourfront’s Fortune Cooking

PUYO is going to host a 20x20ft booth at Harbourfront’s annual Fortune Cooking Festival! It’ll be a lot of fun with painting, sugar art demonstration, paper doll making and our beautiful Cat-In-The-Hat game! Check here for more info!

We need help to run this event so if you are available on Sunday (10:30-7pm or even part of the day), please let Doly (Doly.Begum@power-unit.org) know! Hope to see you guys there!

 

(3) PUYO’s ANNUAL GM

It’s the meeting you’ve all been waiting for…! 

This is one meeting you should not miss as a member, as you’ll not only be able to vote on the constitutional changes and see who gets the PUYO annual awards, more importantly, you’ll also be able to witness the elections of PUYO executive team 2012-2013!

We are currently accepting applications for the executive team, so if you are interested, email ZZ atzhu.zheng@power-unit.org. Join the celebrations. RSVP now on FB.

 

CCNCTO

CCNCTO is seeking 30 Community Researchers for Chinese Workers’ Rights Project. If you are Mandarin speaker who is a newcomer, immigrant, migrant worker or person without status, or if you know of somebody who is, CCNCTO welcomes you to join our Workers Rights Project! Please see attached for more info.

Youth Career Forum by Vision Youth

Vision Youth is hosting their 5th annual Youth Career Forum – Kick Start to a New Career this Sunday, September 16, 2012 at North York Civic Centre from 12-4pm. Please visit www.visionyouth.ca/careerpath or see attached for more information!

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A Successful E3 2012!

Congratulations to Team Lead for bringing home the winning title to the E3 Challenge! Our event partners (Tim Hortons, Red Flag Deals) and the organizers are all very impressed and proud of every single one of our participants! In fact, Red Flag Deals was so impressed with us that they are offering a part time and full time position to our E3ers!

Thank you to our mentors, peer advisors and organizers for an amazing E3 year!

To revisit our E3 moments, visit http://www.flickr.com/e3challenge

 

Project Awards Ceremony!

It was a full day of celebrations this past Saturday! From E3 awards ceremony, Volunteer appreciation party at Woodbine Beach to our NIU! and PAT awards ceremony in the evening, all our organizers, participants and volunteers came together to celebrate the success of all our projects! Check out our photos on our Facebook page! Don’t forget to like and follow us on twitter if you haven’t done so already!

 

Annual Awards…Nominations!

Want to show some appreciation to your fellow PUYO-ers? This year, the brand new PUYO Annual Awards Program is launched to recognize our superstars and unsung heroes who went above and beyond their roles. It is done through a nominations process, where any PUYO members can submit nominations and be nominated. Awards will be presented at our Annual General Meeting on September 29th.

Awards 2012 Categories:

1. PUYO Spirit Award

2. PUYO Most Improved Award

3. PUYO Above & Beyond Recognition Award

4. PUYO YOU-FILL-IN-THE-BLANK Award

Go ahead and nominate someone you think deserves some recognition! For Nomination Form, please  download HEREDeadline: Friday, August 31st, 2012. For more information or to submit completed nomination form(s), please email awards@power-unit.org.

UPCOMING EVENTS IN SEPTEMBER

PUYO @ RBC Markham- Milliken Children’s Festival

On September 8th, RBC Markham-Milliken Children’s Festival is celebrating its 15th year at theMarkham Civic Centre! It is Ontario’s largest annual children’s festival that features a wide variety of entertainment, play zones, crafts and other outdoor activities. The event attracts families from all across Markham. In the past few years, attendance has reached record highs of over 30,000! PUYO will be hosting a game booth at this event so join us in fundraising for Justin of Make-A-Wish to help send him to Disney World! If you can lend a hand, please email Cheryl at cheryl.ng@power-unit.org - see you all there!

LOCATION:
Markham Civic Centre,
101 Town Centre Blvd.
(northwest corner of Hwy. 7 & Warden Ave.)

TIME & DATE: Saturday, September 8th, 10:00 a.m. to 6:00 p.m.
Set up is at 8am.

Kollaboration (PUYO SPIRIT EVENT)

Sad that summer is coming to an end? Don’t worry, PUYO has got you covered!

We’ll be having our annual Spirit Event at Kollaboration Toronto on September 15th! Every year, Kollaboration celebrates the soulful Asian community in Toronto through Canada’s Largest Asian-Canadian talent show. Contestants have been preparing all summer for the chance to convert their dreams to reality. An all-star line-up of Asian-American stars from all across North America have been brought together, and are ready to deliver an exciting performance.

Date: Saturday, September 15th
Time: 7:30 p.m.
Place: The Toronto Centre for the Arts, 5040 Yonge Street, Toronto, ON M2N 6R8

6 finalist groups will be competing for a $1000 dollar cash prize and to open up for the Clara C and David Choi concert! Guest Performers Include: Joseph Vincent, Dumbfoundead & DJ Zo, KRNFX.

For further event and ticket information, visit their Facebook Event Page: https://www.facebook.com/events/387909371264545/

Tickets are available online at www.kollaborationto.org.

If you are purchasing a ticket, please email Cherry atcherry.cheng@power-unit.org to let her know you will be attending!

 

PUYO @ Harbourfront’s Fortune Cooking

PUYO is bringing our artistic flavour to Harbourfront via our Paint-A-Thon’s paper dolls, canvas painting, and sugar art demonstration!  We’ll be giving patrons attending Fortune Cooking an interactive artistic experience at our 20x20ft booth!  If you’ve missed this at our Paint-A-Thon event at Night It Up!, you better not miss it this time!

Join in on all the fun on September 16th at Harbourfront, from 12-6pm.  If you’re interested in helping out, contact Sunny at sunny.liu@power-unit.org.

 

Annual General Meeting

ALL members are welcomed to attend our Annual General Meeting! Not only will we be discuss new constitutional changes, the elections will be held at this meeting and we will be welcoming the new Exec team of 2013! The Annual Awards will be presented here as well!

Date: Saturday, September 29th
Time: 1-4 p.m.
Location: York Room, Markham Civic Centre

**Please note: this is mandatory for all team leads and exec team to attend.

 

PUYO @ TCCSA’s Longest Dancing Dragon to break Guinness World Record

Our community partner, TCCSA, is organizing aGuinness World Records’ breaking attempt for the“Longest Dancing Dragon” and PUYO has joined in on this historic moment! Come out onSunday, September 30th to Markham Fairgrounds and take part in this fun-filled event. Sign-up HERE and notify Cherry at cherry.cheng@power-unit.org if you are attending!

 

Website Redesign

Our web team is looking to redesign Night It Up! and E3 Challenge websites. If you have any feedbacks about the structural design and the layout, please send an email to our web lead, Mike at michael.lee@power-unit.org. Please note in the email if you are interested in joining the web team as well!

 

Research Intern Job Posting

CCNCTO is hiring a contract intern. Please see here for more details! Applications are due August 28th.

Don’t forget! PUYO has a resume service available to PUYOers! We believe that the knowledge of writing an effective resume plays a critical role in success and our mission is for our members to succeed by giving them opportunities to grow and self-explore. Visit here for more information!

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