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Over a hundred Yee Fung Toy members and their families, invited friends and community leaders attended the July 20, 2008 Seattle Yee Fung Toy Association open house celebration. The Association recently moved into newly leased facilities at the Eng Suey Sun Plaza (815 S. Weller's Street, Suite 210, Seattle, WA 98104) after over two years of temporary location at member De Sum Yee's family home. The new office of the Association is compact in term of space but is very functional and meets the current space needs of the Seattle Chapter.

Several association members have spent many hours arranging for the move, remodeling the office space and preparing for the open house celebration. Special thanks are to De Sum Yee and family, Yao Dong Yu, Kit Fung Yee, Uncle Hing Ng and others for their time and support for the success relocation of chapter office.

The open house celebration began at noon with the traditional ancestral ceremony of lighting candles and incense to pay respect to our Yee ancestor Yee Sheung Kung. Master Kwok Fung Leung's Kung Fu team performed the traditional lion dance and several wonderful acts of martial art skills and magic. The performance included the breaking of granite blocks, precision body balancing of small objects and body twisting through a metal ring.

A buffet lunch was served after the performance with wonderful help from several lady members of the association. Uncle Hing and Uncle James Yee gave thank you speeches in Chinese and English. The open house attracted many young families and children. All were invited to attend the July 27 Annual Seattle Yee Picnic at the Woodland Park Zoo.
   

    54th Seattle Yee Family Association Annual Picnic

    
   
 

Sunday, July 27th was the day of the Seattle Yee Fung Toy Association's 2008 Annual Picnic at Woodland Park, Seattle.

Western Grand President, Joseph Yu and his wife, two guests from Portland, 2 guests from Cincinnati, two guests from Hawaii, and four members from the Yee Fung Toy Society of Vancouver came to join the picnic.

A total of 29 scholarships were awarded at the picnic this year. It was very encouraging to see so many young Yees show interest in applying for these scholarships. They are the future of our association. We had a prize draw after the scholarship awards.

The day ended with about 30 members and guests attended an appreciation dinner at the Renton Seafood Restaurant in Renton.

        
      
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Eight members of the Seattle Yee Fung Toy Association spent Easter Sunday visited several Seattle area cemeteries to pay respect to our elders who passed away and were buried in Seattle.

Among the cemeteries visited were Holyrood, Lakeview, Evergreen-Wasali and Mt. Pleasant.

Easter Sunday was a windy and rainy day; however, the weather did not dampen the spirit of the group for the visits after paying respect to the Yee Ancestral Altar which is housed on the top floor of De Sum Yee's house.

The group met at De Sum Yee's house on Beacon Hill at 10:30 pm in the morning. They headed out to the cemeteries after a light meal and visited all four cemeteries until 3:00 pm.

Great thanks to Suey Yee and De Sum Yee for arranging for the cemetery visit supplies and the food for the day.



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