IACFNJ held their annual summer picnic on June 25, 2016

June 26, 2017

More than 400 people attended IACFNJ summer picnic at Mercer County Park on Sunday, June 25, 2017; IACFNJ Executive Committee elected for next two years:

Indo-American Cultural Foundation of Central Jersey - IACFNJ held its annual summer picnic at Mercer County Park on Sunday, June 25, 2017. The fun-filled eight hours outdoor picnic in a beautiful weather was attended by more than 400 people from the local communities of heavily populated Indian Americans in Central Jersey.

IACFNJ has been a leading community organization in Central Jersey and has been very popular among young generation of Indian Americans in South Brunswick, North Brunswick, Monroe, Princeton, Princeton Junction and surrounding areas of heavily populated South Asians in North Brunswick, Franklin Park, Princeton, Princeton Junction, Monroe, East Brunswick and East and West Windsor to have a successful Navratri Garba and many other community events for more than 15 years. IACFNJ has been successfully organizing summer picnic, Independence Day celebration, holiday party and spring festival to bring the community together for more than a decade. This year’s summer picnic was very well attended and enjoyed by young kids to all age groups throughout the day with so many fun-filled activities to include games for the kids, bingo, henna tattoos, cricket, live DJ and music and singing which were enjoyed by all the attendees. The breakfast, lunch and dinner were provided to all participants free of charge to all members. The delicious and mouth-watering menus included gota, fafda, jalebi, papdi no lot, bhel, tea, watermelon, corn, khichadi, kadhi, shaak and pasta and pizza for kids throughout the day. The live entertainment was provided by young and talented DJ Darshan and Ashish from Desi Experiment LLC for more than six hours.

The new executive committee was elected unanimously on May 20, 2017, for two years term. Hitesh Patel, Chairman and Dr. Tushar Patel was elected as President with Mahesh Patel and Deven Patel as Vice President, Mac Shah, Secretary, Rajesh Patel as Treasurer and Surabhi Agarwal as Joint Secretary to serve in the executive committee. Raojibhai Patel, Rewo Nawani, Murthy Yerramilli and Jadhav Chaudhary are the Trustees for the organization.

Dr. Tushar Patel appreciated all committee members and volunteers for their hard work and dedicated community services to make this event a huge success. IACFNJ continues to organize cultural events for the central jersey community to bring everyone together and celebrate cultural diversity and harmony.

The upcoming events of IACFNJ will be India Independence Day celebration in August, Navratri Garba in September and holiday party in November 2017. The details of these events will be announced in the very near future. For IACFNJ future events, please visit organization website at www.IACFNJ.org or e-mail at iacfnj@yahoo.com.