{"id":308,"date":"2005-10-04T11:32:22","date_gmt":"2005-10-04T18:32:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.cacsweb.org\/council\/?p=308"},"modified":"2019-05-04T11:38:14","modified_gmt":"2019-05-04T18:38:14","slug":"october-2005-presidents-message","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.cacsweb.org\/council\/october-2005-presidents-message\/","title":{"rendered":"October 2005 President&#8217;s Message"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><figure id=\"attachment_306\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-306\" style=\"width: 240px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.cacsweb.org\/council\/wp-content\/uploads\/2006\/01\/Dr.-Douglas-Yee_.jpg?resize=240%2C300&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" width=\"240\" height=\"300\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-306\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-306\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Dr. Douglas Yee<\/figcaption><\/figure>Over the years, CACS has donated thousands of dollars to charities and scholarships. However, we knew we could do more for the community. The CACS Board has decided to create an entirely new program designed specifically to aid underprivileged children. This be appropriately titled \u201cCACS Cares for Kids\u201d. We have earmarked a major portion of our budget for this program. This month, funds are being used to purchase school supplies and sports equipment for two schools in the Lemon Hill area..<\/p>\n<p>In December, CACS will purchase Christmas presents for many families who are clients of the Sacramento Chinese Community Service Center. We like to call this \u201c Operation Santa Claus\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>Frankly, the shoppers on our board get a great deal of gratification buying the Christmas gifts and dinners for these kids.<\/p>\n<p>It is through your generous support that CACS is able to pro<\/p>\n<p>Dr. Douglas Yee <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Over the years, CACS has donated thousands of dollars to charities and scholarships. However, we knew we could do more for the community. The CACS Board has decided to create an entirely new program designed specifically to aid underprivileged children. This be appropriately titled \u201cCACS Cares for Kids\u201d. We have earmarked a major portion of &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cacsweb.org\/council\/october-2005-presidents-message\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">October 2005 President&#8217;s Message<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-308","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-presidents-message"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9XFNe-4Y","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cacsweb.org\/council\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/308","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cacsweb.org\/council\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cacsweb.org\/council\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cacsweb.org\/council\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cacsweb.org\/council\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=308"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.cacsweb.org\/council\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/308\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":309,"href":"https:\/\/www.cacsweb.org\/council\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/308\/revisions\/309"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cacsweb.org\/council\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=308"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cacsweb.org\/council\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=308"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cacsweb.org\/council\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=308"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}