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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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