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NORTH AMERICAN Newsline                                            DECEMBER 17, 2021  |      The Indian Eye 22


                     lohana association of Greater Chicago




          celebrates its Golden anniversary with a grand



                                              musical diwali event





























        ChICAGO IL
                                                                                                              and Leela Ben, Suresh Bodiwala,
                                                                                                              Tushar Vyas, Dr Sanjay Thakkar,
              ohana Association of Greater                                                                    Jesse Singh, Anil Bhai Thakkar,
              Chicago organized its annual
        lDiwali celebration gala on De-                                                                       Mahesh Bhai Thakkar, Mohan Bhai
                                                                                                              Chaudhry, Altaf Bukhari and many
        cember 5th at Manav Seva Mandir,                                                                      other community members. Media
        Bensenville, IL.                                                                                      was represented by Asian Media
            The master of ceremony Prachi
        Jaitly started the event with a brief                                                                 Broadcasting team.
                                                                                                                  Kirit Thakkar thanked all the
        introduction of the organization, its                                                                 guests for attending the events and
        founders and the journey of the or-                                                                   explained how the association has
        ganization for last 50 years. LAGC                                                                    been working hard to bring the com-
        was founded in 1971 by Jayanti Bhai                                                                   munity together. He talked about all
        Thakkar, Prahlad Bhai Thakkar,                                                                        the events that LAGC organizes ev-
        Arvind Bhai Thakkar and Vinod                                                                         ery year. Pinky Thakkar in her speech
        Bhai Thakkar. The current President                                                                   congratulated Kirit Bhai Thakkar,
        Kirit Thakkar with his wife Bhavna                                                                    President Lohana Samaj, Vasudev
        Thakkar and Vice President Vasudev                                                                    Thakkar, Vice President and all the
        Thakkar with his wife Nisha Thakkar                                                                   team members  who  have  kept  this
        welcomed all the guests and thanked                                                                   organization growing, congratulated
        all the sponsors and supporters.                                                                      them all for their hard work.
            The event started with tradition-
                                                                                                                   “Diwali is the festival of lights
        al lamp lighting by the LAGC exec-                                                                    which brightens everything. May this
        utive board and other special guests                                                                  festive season fill your life with hap-
        and devotional singing by Rita Shah                                                                   piness and brightness. Last but not
        and chanting by Gina and Suhani.                                                                      the least, I would like to say thank
        National Anthems were sung by                                                                         you to my dear Husband and my
        Dhir, Dhruvi, Neil and Nysa.                                                                          three sons for their love and support.
            The event was full of musical
        surprises with beautiful singing by a                                                                 Once again huge thanks to Kirit Bhai
                                                                                                              and Bhawna ben and Sunilbhai and
        variety of melodious singers.                                                                         Rita Ben for the support and respect
            Well known vocalists Bhupinder
        Singh, Pavithra Anand and Rama                                                                        they have given to me”. Said by Pinky
                                                                                                              Thakkar.
        Raghuraman  filled  the  dance  floor                                                                     The scintillating music kept the
        with the music enthusiasts. Beautiful                                                                 guests dancing through the entire
        surprise singing by Kirit Thakkar with                                                                evening and the event concluded
        Pinky Thakkar and Rita Thakkar add-  special guests. The chief guests of the   Dinesh Thakkar, Jayanti Bhai Thak-  with a vote of thanks by the master of
        ed additional charm to the evening.  event were Vasudev Bhai and Leela   kar, Sunil and Rita Shah, Hitesh   ceremony and the LAGC team.
            All the executive board members
        along with their spouses presented   Ben. The sponsors and special guests   and Dimple Gandhi, Phani Krishna   --Asian Media USA
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                                          present at the event were Pinky and
                                                                            (AANA), Ashok Potdar, Haribhai
        bouquets to the sponsors and the
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