Yee Fung Toy Society of Vancouver held a scholarship award ceremony via Skype on Saturday, May 7, 2022 from 10-11am.

Our scholarship committee Vice Chairman George Yee presided the meeting by introducing the scholarship committee members and the YFT board of directors in attendance.

He then explained the type of scholarship and the source of funding, the history of Yee Fung Toy Society had also been made known during the ceremony.

Then it is the students' turn to introduce themselves by telling the audience their names and schools, also their recent accomplishments and something they are proud of doing.

This year we had a total of 13 students receiving the scholarship award, 3 primary school, 4 high school and 6 university.

During the ceremony we also presented two essay contest awards to two students whose essays were chosen as the best write up by the team of YFT directors.

On Sunday, June 5, 2022, the Chinese American Citizens Alliance (C.A.C.A.) Seattle, in celebration of its 11th anniversary, held an in-person banquet, after cancelling the last two years due to the pandemic. Almost 130 attendees filled 13 tables at China Harbor Restaurant, representing Cathay Post #186, Chinese Information and Services Center (CISC), International Community Health Services (ICHS), Kin On, OCA Greater Seattle, Taipei Economic & Cultural Office, Wing Luke Museum, and many distinguished community members and friends.

This year, the Fred Yee Citizens Award honorees are: Ron Chew, community activist and author of "My Unforgotten Seattle", and Shawn Wong, UW Professor of English and author of multiple books, to honor them for their continued service to the Seattle community.

The Fred Yee Citizens Award was presented by Alex Yee & Andrea Yee, Fred Yee’s adult children. Also facilitating the evening event were Seattle YFT President Kevin Lee and Seattle YFT Auditor Warren Yee.

Photos courtesy of Chinese American Citizens Alliance.

Durian season was here again, and thanks to a surprise bumper crop in Malaysia, prices for the prized "Mao Shan Wang" or Musang King grade had dropped. Quality durians were cheaper now than in previous years. So we decided to organise a durian party for our Clan members on Sunday, July 3rd, 2022 .

Two huge baskets loaded with "Mao Shang Wang" durians were delivered to our doorsteps in the morning. Members started to arrive at the Association around evening time. There was a huge turnout. Our sub-committee members started to open the durians. The rich durian aroma attracted many passers-by and they stopped by to ask questions. Some inquisitive tourists even get to taste the fruits. The Germans called it "die stinkende Frucht" or the stinky fruit! But we loved its pungent aroma. We gave one whole durian to an Australian who said his wife will love to try it.

After Chairman Seng Ching Yu was awarded the highest "Glory Professional Medal Award" by the Overseas Community Affairs Council Committee of the Republic of China (Taiwan) two months ago, many Yu clan members of the Thailand Yu Clansmen Association proposed that "this is also the honor of our Yu clan, we should find a time to give the clan brothers and sisters an opportunity to meet and to celebrate with Chairman Seng Ching ".

The clan brothers and sisters decided to celebrate with Chairman Seng Ching with a luncheon on July 5 (Monday) at the "Ah Yat Abalone Forum Restaurant" on the second floor of Menam Riverside Hotel, Charoen Krung Road. Wat Phayakrai. Bangkok.

On Sunday, July 10, 2022 the Detroit Yee Fung Toy Family Association held its annual Summer Picnic and Scholarship Event at Capital Park, Redford Township, Michigan.

This annual event celebrates the academic accomplishments of our young scholars and promotes fellowship among all Yee family members in the metro Detroit area. The day’s events included games, quizzes, Chinese calligraphy, and a delicious lunch for all attendees.

Photos courtesy of Charles Yee and Ron Yee

The Yee Fung Toy Association of Houston annual summer party and scholarship awards was held at the Memorial Park of Sugar Land, TX on Saturday afternoon, July 16, 2022.

A nice turn out with mild Texas heat!

We had total of 53 adults and one 1 year old child in attendance, we also had 6 Scholarship recipients, with two graduating High School Seniors, Karissa Lew and Noah Tien; 3 high schoolers, Kyle Lew, Kailee Yee and Remy Yu; and 1 middle school student Sophie Yu.

The Chinese BBQ " Siu Lap" lunch was a huge hit! Everyone had a wonderful time.

Our Thailand Yu Clansmen members celebrated Zhongyuan Jie Festival at the clubhouse on Tuesday, August 2, 2022.

YFT’s Boston Chapter had another successful summer outing at AmVets Post 79 in Natick on Saturday August 13.

The weather was perfect and more than 100 members and friends attended the event. Some of the food served were chicken wings, sausages, hot dogs, pizza, rotisserie chicken,pasta salad (made by Mrs. Winston Yee). For dessert watermelons and ice cream cups were passed out.

Everyone (young and old) participated in games like bean bag toss and putt-putt golf. Thanks again this year to Elder Peter and Grand President Kenneth who donated the cash for all our prizes. President Paula donated all the game prizes. Member Pamela donated and passed out Pokémon cards to all the kids. YFT friend Paul Lee donated the grand prize which was a pizza oven. We also raffled over 40 prizes to all our members and friends.

Many thanks to all the volunteers who drove, purchased and cooked the food and coordinated the games and activities. Everyone left happy and with a full stomach!

The Selangor Yee Association and Persatuan Keturunan Yee Malaysia hosts a Mid-Autumn Festival party on Saturday, September 3rd. The Yee family clan does not forget the Chinese traditional festival, bringing grandchildren, women, and old children together to celebrate the Mid-Autumn Festival

The President of the Persatuan Keturunan Yee Malaysia, Yu Bao Chun, welcomes the participation of the relatives and the children.

The President of Selangor Yee Association had high praise for the overseas Chinese who never forget their Chinese traditional culture, and he is looking forward that this tradition be continue to pass down from generation to generation, and at the same time he was thanking the relatives for attending this evening event, and wishing happiness to the families!

President Yee Kai Yon of Selangor Yee Association expressed his gratitude to the members of the youth committee for their hard work, arranging the venue, providing all kinds of delicious food and moon cakes for the participants to taste. Another fun part of the Mid-Autumn Festival is solving riddles, these riddles are like brain teasers. Some can be so hard to figure out. But the answer can be so fun to know. General affairs director Michael Fuh Wen Yee carefully prepared these riddles, so that the attendees could answer, and there were plenty of prizes to give to the riddle solvers.

The weather was clear, the half-moon was already shining high in the sky. We sat on our chairs on the fourth floor of the balcony relaxing, and view the beautiful night around the capital, and the boys and girls carry lanterns and enjoy walking around the field, leaving happy memories of their childhood!

YFT of NE celebrated the annual August Moon Festival this past Sunday September 4. This is the first celebration post-Covid and many of our members attended.

We were joined by our friends from Taipei Economic & Cultural Office in Boston, Director General Jonathan C. Y. Sun and Director of the Culture Centre of TECO of Boston, Chao-Jung Pan. They brought a delicious mango mousse cake. City Council President Ed Flynn and City Councilor Erin Murphy also stopped by.

All our members got to enjoy a delicious lunch with President Paula making a homemade ham and mushroom dish, followed by 4 different types of mooncakes and of course TECO’s mango mousse cake.

Thanks to the Women’s Group who helped set up and served the food. We also want to give credit to Learner Liu of the Epoch Times who took all the pictures for us.

It's another beautiful day for the Sacramento YFT Chapter’s annual Mid-Autumn Festival, honoring our senior members and scholarship award ceremony on Sunday, September 4th.

At noon after paying homage to our ancestors, honoring our senior members and awarding scholarships and assistance tuition to the qualified students.

Our Mid-Autumn Festival evening dinner was held at the Ming Hui Dim Sum 2 Chinese restaurant.