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Zant Newsnews ZANTZANT NEWSNEWS A Publication of Zoroastrian Association of North Texas www.zant.org April 2013 ZANT EVENTS & CALENDAR INSIDE THIS ISSUE 04/14: Children’s Religious 05/12: Children’s Arts & Craft Upcoming Events 2 Class and Vohu Manah Group Class meeting 05/25: Graduation and Ghambar Upcoming Events, Past Events 3 04/14: Children’s Arts & Craft 05/26: ZLC event Class Past Events 4 04/27: ZANT General Body Meeting 06/09: Children’s Religious 04/28: ZLC outing and museum Class and Vohu Manah Group Angels in the Background, ZANT visit meeting News, FEZANA Corner, 5 06/09: Children’s Arts & Craft 05/03 through 05/05: FEZANA Class AGM 06/30: ZLC Event Kid’s Corner 6 05/04: ZANT 2nd. Anniversary Cel- ebration Treasurer’s Corner, Miscellane- 05/12: Children’s Religious ous, ZANT Pledge Form 7 Class and Vohu Manah Group meeting BOARD OF DIRECTORS MESSAGE FROM THE ZANT BOARD President Jamshed Rivetna As we approach the second anniversary of our ZANT Center, the ZANT Board, in collaboration with the Education Subcommittee (ESC), are Vice President Farshad Bidanjiri working on our Center’s Library. If you have recently visited the Center, you have probably seen the cabinets and shelves that have been installed, with help from the Furnishing Subcommittee, in the Library. The ESC Treasurer Neenaaz Dilucci has also begun cataloging books and other items that were donated over the years to ZANT (please refer to detailed article on page 4). We hope to Secretary Ardeshir Mistry complete the Library in the next few months. Once the Library is open, we invite all our members to enjoy the facility and relax in this comforta- ble addition to the Center. Social Director Director Dilnawaz Rustomji Director Naazneen Johnson We welcome and encourage feedback from our community. For comments or suggestions please call the Board mem- bers, fill in the “Contact Us” section on our website (www.zant.org) or mail them to ZANT, 1605 Lopo Road, Flower Mound,TX 75028. ZANT April 2013 Newsletter 1 UPCOMING EVENTS SPECIAL ZANT GENERAL BODY MEETING 2. Presentation and approval of the corrected Date: Saturday, April, 27, 2013 General Fund Budget. Time: 2:00 p.m. 3. Approval of the monies requested in the Capi- tal Reserve Fund. Place: ZANT Center 4. Discussion of the Library Operating Guide- Some issues were left over from the January lines. ZANT Annual General Body Meeting. These will be addressed at this special General Body 5. Any other items. Meeting. The agenda for the meeting is as fol- lows: 1. Approval of the January 2013 AGM minutes. ANNIVERSARY CELEBRATION & FAIR Saturday May 4, 2013 at 6:30 p.m. Program: Tandarosti Prayers, welcome to FEZANA guests, food, fun and entertainment for all! Come and enjoy chicken biryani, chelo kebabs, aash, dhansak, shrimp pulao, tandoori chicken, khoresh, vin- daloo sandwiches, pizza, chaat, rus malai, ice cream, falooda, tres leches cake, and many more delicious dishes… Take home baklavas, batasas, bhakras, pickles and achaars, cakes, cookies and other surprises! Bounce house for kids!! Games and fun for the young at heart! Remember to bring cash for this ZANT Fundraiser. Special this year – Early Bird Discount! Send your check for $ 50 and receive 60 $1-coupons to be redeemed at the Fair. Check must be sent to the ZANT Treasurer, 1605 Lopo Road, Flower Mound, TX 75028 and received by April 27, 2013. This amount is non-refundable. ZANT April 2013 Newsletter 2 UPCOMING EVENTS (CONTINUED) Z L C - “The ZANT Ladies Club” Caring, Sharing, Daring – Living Life to the fullest! ZLC Family Picnic in the park and museum visit. This event is open to all family members. Picnic Time - April 28 at 12:45/1:00 p.m. We will meet at Klyde Warren Park, located at 2012 Woodall Rodgers Freeway Dallas, TX 75201 between Uptown and Downtown Dallas over Woodall Rodgers Freeway, bordered by Pearl and St. Paul Streets. We will have lunch in the park. You may bring a picnic basket or purchase from the gourmet food trucks parked there. After exploring the park and having lunch, we will walk over to the Tram- mel Crow building for a docent-led tour of the Crow Collection of Asian Art (http://www.crowcollection.com/ current_exhibitions.aspx). The tour begins at 1:45 p.m. and lasts for about an hour. Admission to the museum is free but donations are accepted. In case of rain we will have lunch at EL Fenix across the street from the park. Please RSVP Mary Tengra or look for an evite from the ZANT Ladies Club and RSVP to it. ZLC Coordinators: Mary Tengra & Rakshi Dhalla FEZANA ANNUAL GENERAL MEETING The 26th. FEZANA Annual General Meeting will be hosted by ZANT from May 3 to May 5, 2013. Delegates will be staying at the Hyatt Place Hotel in Grapevine, where meetings will take place Friday, Saturday and Sunday. ZANT members will have opportunities to meet with the out-of-town guests. On Friday evening ZANT will host a home- cooked dinner for FEZANA delegates. ZANT members and non-members are welcome to attend. There is a nominal fee of $5 for ZANT members and $7 for non-members, ages 5 and older. Please RSVP with Dilnawaz Rustomji by Friday, April 26, 2013 if attending the dinner. Please send your check, made out to ZANT with FEZANA AGM dinner in the memo line, to the ZANT Treasurer by the above date. For more information on the FEZANA meeting, please contact Sherazade Mehta. CHILDREN & YOUTH SEWING & VOHU MANAH GROUP GRADUATION CEREMONY AND ART/CRAFT CLASS There will be no Vohu Manah GAHAMBAR We will meet at the ZANT Center meeting in April. We will meet On May 25, 2013 we will honor our gradu- on Sunday, April 14, 2013 at 1:30 again on May 12 when Firdosh ates at a ceremony and gahambar. Details p.m. For details regarding this Mehta will make a presentation will follow. Parents wanting their child to on using prayers for good class, please contact Dilnawaz Rus- be acknowledged, should email Delna tomji. health. Details will be in the May newsletter. Godiwalla by May 10, 2013 with the child’s name and the institution they are PAST EVENTS graduating from. GAHANBAR PANJEH Many of our ZANT community members gathered on March 16 and 17 to celebrate Gahanbar Panjeh. On Saturday, Mobed Sirous Hormozdi recited Tadorosti prayers. Our community members joined in the effort, preparing siroo, komach, and sir-se-dov, all traditional foods cooked during the Gahanbar. On Sunday, Mobed Homozdi recited prayers for the souls of our departed ones. Both events were fol- lowed by pot luck food shared by all present. We hope that at next year’s Gahanbar Panjech, all can participate by bringing ingredients of their choice and work as a team to cook and bake traditional foods such as aash or siroo. Special thanks to: Shirin Torki and Saghar Behroozi for organizing Saturday’s Gahanbar, and Parichehr Salamati, Norangiz Atashband, and Dilnawaz Rustomji for organizing Sunday’s event. Photograph courtesy of Dilnawaz Rustomji ZANT April 2013 Newsletter 3 PAST EVENTS (CONTINUED) VOHU MANAH EVENT IN MARCH The ZANT library is taking shape! While we wait for all the furnishings to be com- pleted, we are also excited to let you know that the southwest corner of our build- ing will soon be used as envisioned. Towards that end, the Vohu Manah group hosted two dedicated Zarthustis, Aban Rustomji and Yasmin Pavri, from Houston who spent the weekend with us and got us started with organizing and cataloging our collec- tion. Over the years as we have gone from “dream to vision to reality” for our ZANT Center, many of our members and friends have been setting aside books, maga- zines and artifacts that reflect our history. As we opened and organized many boxes, we saw that we have a small but significant collection. Being a professional librarian, Aban helped us catalog at least 50 books with standard Library of Congress call numbers, taught us how to generate bar codes and place labels on the books. But most important, the list has also been entered into “FIRES” – the FEZANA Information and Resource Service – which is an online data base for all books on Zoroastrianism or written by Zoroastrians. We feel gratified to know that the titles of our nascent collection are already available to the world! You can access it at www.Fires-Fezana.org. Assisting Aban and Yasmin on Saturday March 9, 2013 were ZANT members, Poras Balsara, Nina Kalianivala and Anahita Sidhwa. On Sunday March 10, at the regularly scheduled Vohu Manah meeting, Aban gave an overview of the FIRES project which helped the participants see the benefits of the data base. Aban also spoke about her grandfather, the value of books and libraries and their place in our lives. Next she presented an overview of garas – the heirloom saris owned by many Parsis. We were entertained by the many beautiful designs, their significance and our attempts to piece together the history of these heir- looms. Some interesting terms used for the designs are ka- rolia-no garo (flowery spider) cheena-chino-no garo (Chinese figurines), kanda-papeta-no garo (polka dots), dor patlo (less than full width). After being ignored as “old-fashioned” before the 1950’s, garas have seen a re- surgence thanks to people like Naju Davar who have re- produced the old designs on new fabrics. The afternoon ended with some of our members sharing their old and new garas. We could not control what we lost in the ancient past, but we can do our part to safeguard what we have now.
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