A Happy World Goa Day to all. Next week’s issue will be e-mailed a day earlier as I will be on holiday after that.

COMMUNITY NEWS

The Young London Goan Society has been re-launched. Check them out at: http://uk.groups.yahoo.com/group/ylgs2/ Aims of the Group: 1. Bring together the community of Goans aged 18 and over. 2. Give Young Goans an opportunity to make genuine friendships. 3. Provide an available support and resource network for Young Goans.

Eddie D'Sa reviews the Konkani Variety Show by the Goan Cultural Society, held at Merton Hall on Sun 11 Aug. http://groups.yahoo.com/group/goa-net/message/23760

GOA DAY IN PORTUGAL. The festivities, spread over three days, are being coordinated by Constantino Hermanns Xavier, a 21-year-old University student, together with a Committee formed with representatives of all six relevant associations in Portugal. There is expected to be widespread coverage of the events in the Press, Radio and TV. Check out the details at http://www.supergoa.com

A Level Results: 15 Aug, Hillingdon Times. Photograph of Dr Darrell DeSouza - Director of Uxbridge College Academy with Ajay Arora, the first student from there to be accepted at Oxford University following his fantastic A-Level results. [Darrell, the married father-of-two, lives in Uxbridge] http://www.hillingdontimes.co.uk/alevels/display.html?nwid=617366&nsid=604 15 Aug. Evening Press (York). Photograph showing Maneka Braganza after her A-level success. http://www.thisisyork.co.uk/york/news/YORK_NEWS_LOCAL1.html

Fr Augustine Mundackatt of the Vincentian Congreation, which has its roots in Potta, Kerala will be conducting a series of Healing Services/Retreats. All enquiries to Ben Vaz: 020-8286 0203 or Mr JoJo Alexander: 0208 948 4287. Fri. 16 Aug. 7.30 pm. Westminster Cathedral, London SW1 Sat. 17 Aug. 10am – 4pm. Retreat/Healing Service at St Josephs Church, Queens Road, Aldershot. Bring packed lunch. Sun 18 Aug. 5pm-10pm. St Anthony of Padua, 56 St Anthony’s Road, Forest Gate E7. Mon. 19 Aug 7pm -11pm. Christ the King Church, Bramley Road, Cockfosters N14. Tue. 20 Aug. 6.15pm. - St Anslems Church, Tooting Bec. Wed. 21 Aug 6.30-10pm St Peter the Apostle, 103 Woolwich New Road, Woolwich SE18. Thu. 22 Aug 6pm. Chiesa Del Redentore, 20 Brixton Road, London SW9. Fri. 23 Aug (6pm) – Sun. 25 Aug. (6pm.) Residential Retreat – A Weekend Of Prayer Meditation And Healing at Digby Stuart College, University of Surrey, 80 Roehampton Lane, London SW15. £100 inc meals. Tue. 27 Aug. 5-10pm St Mary’s Catholic Church, 70 Wellesley Road. Croydon.

Donations: £10: Alvira Almeida; Anne Fletcher; Bevinda Viegas; Christine Abreo; Dominic Correia; F.R. Pereira; Felix Rodrigues, J.A.B. De Souza, Lavender da Costa Fernandes, Lionel Vaz, N F Da Silva, Nelson Monteiro, Neville Moniz, Tony Lobo. £15 Olga Pinto; Patrick Gomes. £20: Bruno Baptista. Please make cheques payable to E. Fernandes and post to Eddie Fernandes, 1 Onslow Gardens, London N10 3JT. Thank you.

DEATHS

4 Aug. Moira-Pirazona: RAPHAEL CASMIRO JOSE LOBO, husband of Maria Vivian, father of Inocencio/Bridget (London), Clifford and Ronnie (London).

12 Aug: FR ALCANTRA CIRILO ARNAUT FERNANDES, son of late Antonio Romualdo/late Maria Malvina, brother of late Zemira/late Dr Jose Figueredo, Dr Teofilo/Celisa (Portugal), Ester/Alberto Sena (Portugal), late Luisa/Theo (UK) and Yolanda (Portugal).

13 Aug: Verna: ANUNCIACAO (ANCY) RODRIGUES, wife of Anthony, mother of Edviges/John Francis Fernandes (Ex-Oman), Effie/John D'Sa (Doha Qatar), Edmund/Blance, Elsa/Alfred (London), Fulgence /Maria, Elizabeth/Irineu D'Sa, Emma/Mumtaz Rahman (Oman)

FLIGHT INFORMATION

E Bookers has Kenya Beach Special Offer: 7 nights for £285 inc. Dep. now to 15 Dec. Details at: http://www.ebookers.com/products/city_breaks/Kenya_7nights_285.html Twenda Safari?

10 Aug. Birmingham Post. All clear for Brits to head for Goa. Operators to Goa saw bookings plunge to barely ten per cent of the same period last year …

CANADIAN CORNER

The Quebec Goan Association have organised a Goa Day picnic on 17 Aug. 2002. Details: Felix De Sa fatsdsa@hotmail.com 450-676-8560 (home) and on Saturday call 514-830-3699 (Luiza's cell).

10 Aug. Toronto Star. In 1988, Joanna De Souza, 46 and Ritesh Das founded the M-DO (Multicultural Dance Organization) Centre…She calls the centre the seed of realizing a dream …It started with a visit to her friends in San Francisco in 1977 that was supposed to last a week… In 1988 she and Ritesh took posts at the University of Toronto and conceptualized M-DO, a centre for world music and dance…Eventually, De Souza hopes to set up a full-time institution with hired staff. She says, "This is the seed of the future, a sustained centre for world arts. I hope it will become a legacy of being inspired by the possibilities." 1169 words Click here.....

10 Aug. The Hamilton Spectator. Review of a new book for children - Eugenie Fernandes' delightful One More Pet (Scholastic Canada Ltd., $7.99). “Fernandes, who lives near Peterborough, tells the story in easy-going rhymes …” [Eugenie and her husband, Henry, also an illustrator, have two children, Kim and Matthew] Text at: Click here....

11 Aug. Montreal Gazette. Clarification: In last week's Milestones, it was reported that the Quebec Goan Association celebrated its silver jubilee on July 17. While the association was founded 25 years ago last July 17, the celebration will take place Oct. 12 with a dinner and dance at the St. James Club. The association has more than 300 members.
http://www.canada.com/search/site/story.asp?id=D18F9BFE-6FB6-4578-A65F-8B7FE CA0AB07

15 Aug. Toronto Star. Photograph of Natalie DeSouza who has profited from a night school commitment. She is a psychology graduate from McMaster and was working as a training co-ordinator at Nestle Canada. She gave up her Saturdays for five months ("Wasn't hard at all," she says) to complete the Certified Internet Webmaster program at the Institute for Computer Studies. Now she's an e-Business applications analyst at Nestle, with a leap in salary…

GOA NEWS HEADLINES

A fresh committee consisting of eminent lawyers will be set up by the government to amend the outdated Portuguese laws with regard to inheritance.
http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/articleshow.asp?art_Id=18692753

A history book on Women in Portuguese Goa: 1510-1835, written by Carmel College vice-principal Sr Emma Maria AC, has been recently published by Irish-Meshar at Mission Press in Pondicherry.

13 Aug. Times of India. Pizza Hut will be opening a Goa outlet by November this year. http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/articleshow.asp?art_Id=18891888

13 Aug. Times of India, Drop in overseas tourists to Goa last year. 291,709 in 2000 and 260,071 in 2001. http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/articleshow.asp?art_Id=18892335

GoaCom has decided to introduce a new division that will focus on real estate management since they have received numerous queries from Overseas Goans for professional services to look after their ancestral properties. http://www.goacom.com/news/news2002/aug/msg00032.html

Colfax Laboratories Ponda, Blue Cross Remedies, Verna, Electronic Condensors, Kundaim and Power Engineering, Tuem are the four manufacturers from Goa who will participate in the Kampala International Trade Fair, 3 - 12 Oct. 2002. [Colfax is a Division of Cosme Mathias Menezes]. http://groups.yahoo.com/group/goanet/message/22644

IN THE NEWS

8 Aug. The Gold Coast Bulletin (Queensland). Restaurant Review: Goa Restaurant, on Surf Parade, Broadbeach. Quote: “The vindaloo Goanese features diced beef and potatoes in a piquant sauce and the kangaroo marsala adds an authentic Aussie touch to a traditional recipe.” 477 words.

8 Aug. Independent Online. (South Africa) While it is virtually impossible to list all the festivals in India each year, here are just some of the better-known ones: The Goa Carnival held in mid February just before Lent. This week-long event includes processions, the strumming of guitars and graceful dances. http://www.itechnology.co.za/index.php?click_id=420&art_id=qw1028620440285T6 14&set_id=14

10 Aug. Daily Record (Scotland). Annie Brown recalls the night she and her partner spent in the dappled moonlight in a beach hut in Goa. “Perfect it was - until the next day he spotted in the corner of the hut two long grey spiders, lying leg to leg…a local pointed out it was one spider, the other was the skin it shed. I still look back on that night as one of the most romantic of my life while my bloke's memory is: "I can't believe we did it in a spider's nest!"

11 Aug. The Observer (UK). Drinks that should be kept as a holiday memory and should never, ever, be brought home... Palm vodka from Goa drinkable when diluted with Fanta under a hot sun and utterly foul as soon as it hits British air. http://www.observer.co.uk/foodmonthly/story/0,9950,770699,00.html

11 Aug. The San Diego Union-Tribune. Headline: The evolution of Susie Coelho. 1709 word article and photograph of her at: http://www.signonsandiego.com/news/uniontrib/sun/homescape/

12 Aug. BBC. Mother Teresa of Calcutta has been voted the greatest Indian since the country's independence in 1947 in a magazine survey in Delhi.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/south_asia/2188643.stm

15 Aug. The Gold Coast Bulletin, (Queensland). Review of Bangles Cuisine Of India Restaurant.38 Frank Street, Labrador. It is run by Stephen Fernandez “born in India's former Portuguese colony of Goa and raised in Malaysia, studied agricultural science at Latrobe University in Melbourne and his wife, Punjabi-born Gunwant studied computer science in New Zealand where she also completed a Masters in Economics.”

Environment And Planning Section D (Society & Space) Vol 20; Part 4 (2002) p. 477-498. Travelling East as Walter Kurtz: identity, performance, and collaboration in Goa. By Dr Paul Routledge, Department of Geography, University of Glasgow. This paper (23 pages), examines the author's collaborative critical engagement with two organisations -- the Goa Foundation and the JGF involved in resisting tourism development in Goa. Collaboration took several forms, particularly the author masquerading as Walter Kurtz, a tour operator, in order to elicit information concerning the contravention of Goan environmental laws by hotel developers. Comprehensive bibliography. Fuller summary of the paper at: http://www.pion.co.uk/ep/epd/abstracts/d20/d322.html Info. about the author at: http://www.geog.gla.ac.uk/~proutledge/

FORTHCOMING

Sat. 17 Aug. 'World Goa Day' Gala Lunch. Goan Community Centre, Keston Road, N17. Aperitifs followed by 4 Course Meal. Entertainment by Goan Cultural Society. Be prepared to sing- Goan style. Tickets £10. Advanced booking necessary. Ring Nina 020 8767 0663/Candy 020 8493 0958. Dress code: Jacket & Tie essential. George Pinto of California, President of Goa Sudharop, who is visiting London is expected to be there.

Sun 18 Aug. Bastora Social Archbishop Lanfranc School - Music by Mustang. Konkani Medley by the Goan Cultural Society. Details at: http://www.bastora.com/ Contacts: Peter De Souza 020 - 8672 3232 John Coutinho 020 - 8361 6061. A Goa Day event.

Sun. 18 Aug. Goan Community Centre, Keston Road N17. Day of Prayer & Mass. Candy Fernandes 020 9493 0958. A Goa Day event.

Fri. 23 Aug. YLGS (Young London Goans Social - free membership 18 - 40+). Monthly Social - 5.30pm - late. Venue: Los Locos Bar/Restaurant, 24/26 Russell Street, Convent Gardens, London WC2.New members welcome. Contacts marie.pereira@talk21.com (07958 373 076 ), alisonbraganza@hotmail.com (07799 586 793), dsouzajj@hotmail.com (07957 395 811 )

Sat. 24 Aug. Goa Day celebration by The Goan Community Care Society, Leicester. Sacred Heart Church and Hall, Mere Road, Leicester. Mass at 12 noon, by Father Tavares. This will be followed by a traditional meal of sorpotel and pilau, and a Konkani song session. All welcome. For further information, contact :- Mrs M. D'Mello 0116 210 9736; Mr A. D'Souza 0116 266 3257; Mr J. Monis 0116 266 6874; Mr R. Fernandez 0116 291 2283.

Sat. 24 Aug. Chorao UK. Annual social (feast of St Bartholomew). Venue Merton Hall Kingston Rd. London SW19. Tickets £9.00 Adults and £5.00 for 12-16 year olds. Mass at 4.30p.m.followed by social. Contact Claver 020 8672 4562/ Mervyn 020 8689 2970.

Sat 24 Aug. 7.30-11.30pm. Elvis Dance. Bishop Douglass RC School, Hamilton Road, East Finchley, London N2. Live music by Silver Star Dust playing Elvis and Konkani. Prizes for the best Impersonator. Before 15 Aug.: Adults £8; children <14 - £5. Later: £10 & £5 Info/Tickets: (Ricky) 07958930012 or (Ellie) 0208 3469993 or email Anrickco@aol.com

Sun 25 Aug. Goan Association UK. SPORTS DAY at Archbishop Lanfranc School, Mitcham Road, Croydon. Followed by Free Disco. Contact: Glyn Albuquerque 020 - 8680 2401. For offers of help: Contact Peter Rodrigues 020 - 8399 4883 For stalls: Contact Juliette de Menezes 020 - 8765 0258

[Anything happening 1 Sept?]

Sun 8 Sep. G.O.A. TROOK TOURNAMENT at ATC Hall, South Wimbledon. Contacts: Jacinto Fernandes 020-8542 5427, Diego Pinto 020-8767 0663.