To give grateful thanks to the support given to us by all the individuals and organizations in the past year, and to encourage more people to join the cause of ACCEF, ACCEF helds its annual Thanksgiving Dinner Banquet at a local restaurant.

More than 100 adults and children attended the banquet. According to the ACCEF policy, the banquet was funded entirely from the attendee's own funds and not that of donations toward ACCEF. The Young Care Club (YCC) Outstanding Community Service Award was presented to three young girls at the party for their outstanding contributions to the local community and the association. New ACCEF boardmembers were introduced to the audience. All the people had a wonderful evening with a excellent summary of ACCEF's accomplishments this year: the moving stories of Linda and Mimi's recent trip to Guangxi , China , wonderful art entertainment and delicious food etc. Weiwei, Shaoyi, Flank and Lucy developed the poems for expressing their feelings and appreciations. Here are photo reports (by Daniel H Chang and James Q. Zhao).