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HCS SERVICES

At the At At the At Home Temple Services Temple Home Priest Services Temple Archana $5 ------Annaprashan $25 $151 Deva Dravya $5 ------Punyahavachanam ------$151 ------Special Puja for birthdays, Sah)HVWLYDORI&RORUVasranama Archana 'HYDOD\DP'D\$11 $51 $151 Anniversaries  6UL*D\DWKUL Daily Abhishek (Moola Murthy) $21 ------Vahana Puja $25  ------Daily6DWXUGD\-XQH Abhishek (Utsav MWKurthy) $10DKD\DJQD1 ------Mundan Ceremony $51 $151 Satyanarayan Puja 6XQGD\-XQHWK  Seemantham / Baby Shower x Purnima $25 ------$251 $251 Blessings  x Individual $51 $101 Vedic Havan & other Havans *

1. Samuhik - Sundays & Thread Ceremony $25 ------$251 $251 Special Days (Yagnyopaveet) $101 $151 2. Individual (any day) Kalyana Utsavam Engagement / Sagai / 1. Samuhik $25 ------$101 $151 Nischayatartha ceremony 2. Individual (any day) $101 $151 Maata Chowki / Maata Jagran Shashtiabdha Poorthy 1. Samuhik (sponsors) $101 ------$251 $251 ceremony 2. Individual (any day) $351 ------Vivah (Wedding) $501 $501 Graha Pravesh ------$151 Hiranyaka Shraddha $25 ------Parvana Shraddha $100 $150 For Non-Temple activities performed by Panditj: Sannidhy Religious Coordinator Phone Numbers Mrs. Mala Nemi 633-7924 Lord Ganesh, Sannidhi Mrs. Usha Kamisetti 688-4146 Mr. Krishna Mani Devarajan 650-4249 Lord Shiva Parivar Sannidhi Mr. Satya Ijjapureddy 783-6574 Mrs. Mona Lall 440-1977 Mata Durga Sannidh6HHSDJHVi Mr.Aswini Sood 812-666HHSDJH50 Mrs. 6HHSDJHSanjogta Rai 836-8198 Lord Ram Parivar Sannidhi Dr. Sudesh Kapur 631-3895 Dr. Vijayraghavan Chakravarthy 688-1635 Lord Venkateshwara Sannidhi Mr. Sridhar Balasubramanian 829-7296 7(03/(+2856 Mr. Deepak Shastri 636-1104 Lord Radha Krishna Sannidhi Mrs. Asha Divan 868-2050 Mrs. Pramod Pahade 688-2907 Lord Mahavir & Parshvanath Sannidhi Mrs. Usha Jain 634-3015 Mrs Anita Chahal 741-3638 Navagraha Sannidhi

Mrs. 1HHUX0HKWD  Vedic Havan Mrs. 6XGHVK.DSXU  Mrs. Meena Shastri 636-1104 Satyanarayan Puja (Poornima) Mrs. Anju Gupta 632-5878 Mr. Manohar Wagle 633-1596 Lord Dattatreya Mr. Ravi Rajagopalan 994-2898

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FACILITYFACILITY RRENTALENTAL HCS GIFT SHOP

Member Organization fee: $750.00

Security deposit: $250.00 is required at the time of reservation. This deposit is refundable on the terms that the hall is returned undamaged and clean.

The rental fee is discounted by 25% 'HYDOD\DP'D\Monday to Thursday. )HVWLYDORI&RORUV Chair Set-Up: (Additional charge): $50 (for6UL*D\DWKUL big hall) or $30 (for small hall) Please visit the HCS Gift Shop to WK  Please6DWXUGD\-XQH Note: Big Hall rental is not available0DKD\DJQD on Sundays until 3:00PM. buy spiritual/ religious books, CDs,  6XQGD\-XQHWK  and beautiful religious showpieces NNon-on-  RentalRental rratesates fforor FFridayriday - Sunday Member Rates member of Lord Ganesh, Krishna, etc. We RRatesates have a new shipment from India. Youth center (big hall) $300 $450 For more information, please Small hall $200 $350 contact: Dr. Dilip Sinha: (716) 634-9729 Changing rooms $50 $75 Surabhi Kakati: (716) 689-7315 Small hall once a week for a year N/A $2,000 per (4 hours per use, non--profitprofit year HCS Library organizations only) Please visit the HCS Library. We Small hall once a week (4 hours N/A $200 per per use, if an organization is month are adding new books and reserving for half year or a full year) magazines all the time! HCS will

soon be stocked with an amazing Arangetram ((practicepractice ssessionession - $100 each $175 each weekdays 3 hours per session) session session selection of new books magazines

Kitchen $150 $200 and DVDs. More Yoga items to come. Rehearsals (3-hour session) 6HHSDJHV 6HHSDJH 6HHSDJH

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Semi Annual, Month Ending 2019 Executive Committee June 30, 2019 REVENUE (INFLOW) Dr. Bindukumar Nair MEMBERSHIP DUES $64,236.00 President 716-400-4599 CORE DONATIONS Priest Services $19,496.00 Hundi $16,768.00 Mr. Sibu Nair General Donations $12,567.00 Vice President TOTAL - CORE DONATIONS $48,831.00 716-242-1121 OTHER Donations Maha Shivratri'HYDOD\DP'D\ $1,703.00 Flowers/Garlands)HVWLYDORI&RORUV $2,863.00 Mr. Dinesh Parekh Color Festival $3,090.00  6UL*D\DWKUL Treasurer Devalayam Day $2,643.00 716-830-7260 Mata Chowki CollectionWK $1,525.00  Calendars6DWXUGD\-XQH  0DKD\DJQD $1,500.00 Sports Tournament $610.00 General Mr. Rajinder Bansal Lunch (Preeti bhoj)6XQGD\-XQH $440.00 WK  Building Cleaning $200.00 Secretary 716-465-4153 Gift Shop Sale $200.00  Book Sales $10.00 Paper Products $30.00 Mr. Mohan Natarajan TOTAL OTHER Donations $14,814.00 Secretary of OTHER REVENUE Religious Affairs Rental Fees $12,200.00 716-206-4084

TOTAL OTHER Revenue $12,200.00 Secretary of Dr. Anil Bhargava TOTAL REVENUE (INFLOW) $140,081.00 Education & Cultural Affairs 716-335-5043 EXPENSES ( OUTFLOW) INSURANCE Building $4,404.00 Secretary of Health $979.00 Mrs. Shailaja Kokil NYS Unemployment Insurance $920.00 Youth &Sports TOTAL - INSURANCE $6,303.00 716-298-4203 REPAIRS & MAINTENANCE Activities Repairs $14,629.00 Maintenance $9,071.00 TOTAL - Repairs and Maintenance $23,700.00 Secretary of Mr. Bhaskar Chatrath ForPROGRAM/PROJECT more information EXPENSES: Center Facilities Preeti Bhoj Preperation $1,469.00 716-807-8467 pleaseYouth Camp contact: $178.00 Color Festival $1,358.00 Devalayam Day $2,832.00 Secretary of Dr. Kishore Divan Mata Chowki $850.00 Planning & TOTAL - PROGRAM/PROJECT $6,687.00 716-689-2362 OPERATING EXPENSES Building Salaries $18,607.00 Utilities $16,183.00 TAXES Mr. Rakesh (Ricky) Taxes - Town of Amherst $2,246.00 Secretary of Verma Taxes - Payroll $4,874.00 Facilities Rental TOTAL -TAXES $7,120.00 716-870-6213 OTHER Expenses 6HHSDJHV 6HHSDJH Rent/Lease-Hopkins Court Apts $4,500.00 Payroll Expenditure (Worker's comp) $760.00 6HHSDJH Office Expense $3,331.00 Membership Statistics Cleaning Services $7,150.00 Dues and Subscription $812.00 Employee Gift $252.00 Patron for Life 2 Bank charges $389.00 Sectional7(03/(+2856 Stage expenses $1,710.00 Patron 1 Food Supplies $117.00 CPR Training $100.00 Booster for life 12 Stationery & Printing $1,021.00 Paper products $307.00 Flowers & Garlands $3,890.00 Booster 24 Supplies and Materials $4,315.00 Shipping Charges (Lunch/Dinner plates from India) $1,065.00 Family for Life 49 TOTAL - OTHER Expenses $29,719.00 Family  TOTAL EXPENSE (Outflow) $108,319.00

SURPLUS (INFLOW - OUTFLOW) $31,762.00 Single 15 Interest Income - Key Bank $4,096.00 Interest Income - Evans Bank (Estimated) $700.00 Student  TOTAL SURPLS including interest $36,558.00 Organizational  Dinesh Parekh, Treasurer Binukumar Nair, President Total 

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11 12 13 14 15 16 17 Pradosham Rig/Yajur Navagraha Shiva Upakarma6.3 India Abhishek Abhishek 0AM-8.00AM Independenc 11.15AM- 7.30PM to e Day 12.00PM 9.00PM Raksha Bandhan Gayathri Sunderkand Japam Path Sravanam 12.00pm- Balaji Special 2.00pm Puja 10.30- 11.30AM

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Sunday Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday Friday Saturday

1 2 3 4 Shukla 5 6 7 Samaveda Sri Ganesh Sashti Navagraha upakarma Chaturthi Lord Abhishek 6.30am- Murugan 11.15AM- 8.00am Ganapati Abhishek 12.00PM Vedic Havan Navaratri 11am-11.45 11.30am- Prarambh am 12.15pm 'HYDOD\DP'D\Lord )HVWLYDORI&RORUVLabor Day Murugan  6UL*D\DWKULSkandasashti Ganapati Kavacham  WK  6DWXUGD\-XQHHomam 8.00- 0DKD\DJQD6.45pm - 9.15am 7.30pm 6XQGD\-XQHWK  Pradhanamurt  hy Abhishek 9.15am- 10.00am Siddhivinayak Puja and Vrata Katha 6.45pm- 8.00pm

8 9 10 11 12 13 14 Ganesh S Ekadashi Sravana Pradosh / Satyanaraya Jain Puja Visarjan Ram Dwaadasi Shiva na Puja 11.30am- Utsavamurthy Sri Vamana Abhishek 7.30pm- 12.30pm Abhishek Jayanthi 7.30PM to 9.00pm Pitrapaksh 7.00pm- Hayagriva 9.00PM Begins 7.45pm Jayanthi Onam Balaji Utsavamurth y Abhishek 7.00-7.45pm Archana, Arati, Prasad

15 16 17 18 19 20 21 Sankatahara Navagraha Chaturthi Abhishek Ganesh 11.15AM- Abhishek 12.00PM 6HHSDJHV10.00am- 11.00am Sunderkand6HHSDJH Sahasranaa 6HHSDJH Path ma Archana 12.00pm- 7.00-7.45pm 2.00pm

227(03/(+2856 23 24 25 26 27 28 Krishna Pradosham Ekadashi Shiva 7.00-7.45pm- Abhishek Special Puja 6.45PM to 8.00PM

29 30 Devi Navaratri Begins Dussera Begins

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6HHSDJHV 6HHSDJH 6HHSDJH Friday, August 23rd, 2019 7(03/(+2856 Moola Murthy Abhishek: 7.30 pm Kirtan followed by Aarti 8.15pm Abhishek for Laddu Gopal 11.30pm Aarti/Jhoola (Laddu Gopal) 12.00am Midnight

HCS FOCUS (CREATED BY KARTHIK KUMAR) 7 ISSUE  VOLUME  $8*867– 6(37(0%(5 2019 Happy, Healthy and Safe Arya Laungani, Age 8

Namaste! My name is Arya Laungani and I live in Atlanta, Georgia. My mom, Anjeli Gupta Laungani was born and grew up in Buffalo. )HVWLYDORI&RORUV 'HYDOD\DP'D\ We visit my grandparents Neeru and Ramji Gupta (Nana and  6UL*D\DWKUL Nani) two to three times every year. During our summer visit for 6DWXUGD\-XQHWK 0DKD\DJQD   one month, my fi ve-year-old brother Aayan and I love to come to 6XQGD\-XQHWK  the Mandir and sing bhajans every Sunday. My Nani helps me learn and practice bhajans and she plays the Dholak when I sing during Children’s Time.

Even though my family goes to the Mandir in Atlanta, I like the Buffalo Mandir very much. I think it is the most special because all the Murtees here are so pretty and there is Sunday Kirtan. I love to listen to the beautiful music, sing with everyone and play instruments. My mom loves to come back to this temple because she saw this temple from when it was fi rst built and how hard everyone worked to create this Mandir. I also love that everyone knows each other at the Mandir and if you are new, you introduce yourself. There are many special events at the temple. I enjoy the Havan in the beginning of the month. We have participated in this the last couple of years. I enjoy watching Panditji do the Havan and I enjoy reading the prayer book.

I love to learn about the Hindu religion. My Nana teaches me about the Hindu deities. He told me that just like we have different people doing different jobs, we have Gods who are experts in different areas. I have learned that Lord Ganesh makes us wise and keeps bad things from happening. Lord6HHSDJHV Ram teaches us doing what is right. Lord Krishna teaches us how to 6HHSDJHlove and also how to solve problems. Mata Laxmi is the6HHSDJH Goddess of wealth. Mata Durga uses her many weapons to destroy evil. She is also Mata Parvati. Mata Parvati is my favorite deity because I am named after her and she destroys evil. 7(03/(+2856 I pray to God because I need blessings every day. I also pray for everyone in my family. I pray every night before going to sleep. I think praying keeps us out of trouble and helps us stay protected.

The Mandir in Buffalo is one of my most favorite places. It is a place where all of my family looks forward to going to every Sunday. The people who join us at Mandir are also like family to us. The Mandir is a beautiful place that allows us to pray, sing and start every week happy, healthy and safe!

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HCS OCUS • We will have a magic show workshop by )HVWLYDORI&RORUV 'HYDOD\DP'D\ Dr. Kruti Parekh.CLASS TuesdayES COND AugustUCTED A27,2019T HCS and  6UL*D\DWKUL WednesdayRELIGIOUS CL AAugustSSES 28,2019.  6DWXUGD\-XQHWK 1 CM B0DKD\DJQDAL VIHAR   6XQGD\-XQH• AquariumWK  of Niagara  2 SAI CENTER TouchBAL VIKAS Tank Thursday August 29,2019. YOGA CLASS • Devotional songs / Bhajan and LANGUAGE CLASSES PoojaHINDI CpracticeLASS daily.

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Namste all, On behalf of the HCS Executive committee let me express the deep sense of gratitude to the devotees who are supporting the Temple. We are half way through the year and are blessed to have such generous and supportive devotees without whom nothing could be achieved . Even though this year started with problems including the $11000 shocker, disruption of the water supply and the required replacement of the back flow preventer, we have still had an excellent rest of the year so far. Things continue to go extremely well due to the grace of god and the sincere efforts from volunteers. The go green and zero waste effort is moving forward with great success, truly serving as a role model for future projects to come. In the coming months the executive committee is planning to organize many new events including Ganeshotsav, Balaji Utsav, Maha Chandi Homam, Summer camp, Kruti Parekh show etc. Additionally, with the temple being over 25 years old, there needs to be maintenance completed to preserve the integrity of the building. The roof repair is an inevitable fix that needs to be completed before winter with an estimated cost of $40,000 to $70,000. To further prevent deterioration from the cold months, the building must also be insulated with appropriate materials like stucco in consultation with experts. We started the process and the estimated cost for its completion can be anywhere from $200,000-$400,000 depending on what we decide. All these goals can only be achieved with the wholehearted support financially and through volunteering with the realization that the existence of the temple is very important to the our large demographic of devotees from South east Asia, especially the people from India, ,Sri Lanka, Bangladesh Nepal, Bhutan and Burma. We request you to provide support, by joining as a member of HCS within one of the categories listed such, Patron, Booster, Family etc. The membership dues are used to pay for the building maintenance, utilities etc. If you haven’t yet become a member, please use the link below to become a member. https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSep7aw1dVieUlqiRPFNhp40cB-0PCtO5jp7Ne0- QDev9eUkzg/viewform.

Thank you and God bless  Bindukumar Nair President, HCS