Community Events
It’s another year of great success for raising over $5,000 (click here for the latest figure) by the WYKAAO team in the annual Terry Fox Run that was held on Sunday September 16th, 2012. We are one of a handful of teams, as announced by the organizer, which contributed to about half of the funds raised in the Markham-Unionville run site. Thank you all for your generous donations and continuing support! Click here to see the pictures taken in the sunny and refreshing morning event. Click here for the warm-up exercise. Check out the event Facebook page as well. Our team also appears on the SNAP Markham community website. Click here to view a short video.
WYKAAO table tennis team participated in the 4th Annual Charity Table Tennis Tournament presented by the New Horizon Lions Club on Sunday September 16th, 2012. Our Team A finished as the second runner-up among the six teams from three schools that include Ying Wa College Old Boys’ Association (Toronto Chapter), DBS Old Boys’ Association (Toronto Chapter) and WYKAAO. All players have had a good time, fought hard in matches and made a few friends along the way. Click here to see the pictures. More pictures are posted here in the website of the table tennis club. Click here to see the picutres posted in the New Horizon Lions Club website.
WYKAAO will once again participate in the Terry Fox Run this year (Sunday, Sept 16). The run site chosen is our favourite Markham-Unionville location, a major part of the route inside the Toogood Pond Park with breath-taking scenery.
For a number of years, we have been proudly supporting The Terry Fox Foundation in its ongoing work to fund innovative and progressive cancer research programs. Please support our team by joining, or making a donation. Your kindness will impact the lives of so many people living with cancer.
Dominic Lam of Hong Kong Wah Yan College was invited to be a featured artist of the 2012 London Olympic Games. His Millennium Olympic Odyssey II: From the Great Wall to River Thames - Embrace the World was awarded a gold medal among the 500 exibits. The whole story was reported by Hong Kong Tiger Standard.
He wore his Gold Medal received in London on August 3 to attend the International Students' Visual Arts Prize Giving Ceremony on August 4. It was a great encouragement to the young talents. Click here to view the album.
Our table tennis team will be entering the 4th Annual Charity Table Tennis Tournament presented by the New Horizon Lions Club. Please come out and show your support for our team.
Place: | My Table Tennis Club at 80E Centurian Drive |
Date: | Sunday, 16th September 2012 |
Match Time: | Starting at 12:00 noon |
Check-In Time: | 60 minutes prior to scheduled match time, ie 11:00 am |
Equipment: | players must use ITTF approved racket |
Clothing: | appropriate shorts, short sleeves shirt (non-orange, non-yellow and non-white) and non-marking shoes NOTE: we have to wear our WYKAAO forest green golf shirt |
Rules: | All rulings and decisions made by the referee are final and cannot be contested (details here) |
"Canada Men Team to face Japan in first round (single elimination) this Saturday, July 28.
Format is 3 players on the play sequence. Top player plays 2 singles. The other two one single and one double.
If close games are expected, 2nd strongest player will play #5. and win 3- 2.
Japan likely will field top 3 guys to win 3 - 0 since the spread between Japan
and Canada is pretty big.
Rest of individual and team draw see below:
http://2012.sina.com.cn/cn/tt/2012-07-25/221419093.shtmlIn badminton, Michelle Li (Canada) is in Group IA with only Wang Yihan (China), on first round this Saturday.
http://www.london2012.com/badminton/event/women-singles/groups.html",
Wilffred Wei (69) reports.
Date: Saturday, May 5, 2012
Place: Chester Village
3555 Danforth Ave.,
Scarborough, Ontario M1L 1E3
(Danforth/Warden)
Time: 1 p.m. - 5 p.m.
lots of goodies for everyone, young and the ‘not-so-young’; hand-made knitwear and accessories, FERI line of jewellery, SEM line of jewellery; Greenfield line of golf products, quilts, souvenirs and decor items, healthy low fat suger free bakery goods and more.
Click here to view the pictures.
2012 Mon Sheong Volunteer Appreciation Dinner was held in a Scarborough restaurant on Saturday April 21. The Mon Sheong Foundation 孟嘗會 is a Canadian registered charitable organization, dedicated to the promotion of Chinese culture, heritage, language and philosophy through caring for the elderly, encouraging the young and providing programs and services in response to the needs of our communities.
A number of WYKAAO members are also volunteers for the Foundation. Click here to see the pictures of our members who attended the event.
Maryknoll Convent School Former Students (Ont.) are organizing a bazaar at Chester Village on Saturday, 2012 May 5, from 1:00 - 5:00 pm. All proceeds will go to Maryknoll Motherhouse in New Year where all their retired Sisters are staying. Please click the image for full details.
As WYK students are well known as very successful organizers of Caritas Bazaars in Hong Kong, MCSFS has asked for volunteers to help setting up tables at 11:00 am and providing assistance at the Fair.
Members who can spare a few hours to help in this caring project please email us at
Philip Lee (60) was in town to give the key note speech at the Awards Gala of The Association of Chinese Canadian Entrepreneurs (ACCE). The President of ACCE is Alan Kwong Kwok Hung (78).
The event was held at Hilton Suites Hotel, Markham on Saturday, April 14, 2012.