Date: 04/27/2013

Venue: Bellevue University

1.     Hosts

Jay Prakash Rijal (Denver)

2.     Stage Manager

2.1. Supervisor

Bimal Adhikari, Ajit Adhikary, Udzwol Satyal

2.2. Sound System

Ayush Pant, Bishal BK and Bikash Shrestha

2.3. Kalakar Preparation:

Sanchita Sharma, Bishnu Adhikari, Manisa Maharjan, Sumitra Newpane, Sanjay Shrestha, Purna BK, Nirajan Mani, Binay Regmi

3.     Cooking Help

Head Cook: Tika Ram, Bobby Upadhyaya, Anil Kumar Dhungel

Assistant: Dev Raj Kendal, Santosh Kumar Risal, Amrit Kendel, Bhakta Bhatta, Raghu Sapkota, Nita Koirala, Bamsi Koirala, Purna Bishwokarma, Sanchita Sharma, Manisa Maharjan, Bishworup Maharjan, Basanta Shrestha, Bishnu Pun Adhikari, Binaya Regmi, Mana Bishwokarma, Bishnu Sapkota.

4.     Sound Systems....

4.1.  NNS’s Sound System :

Auditorium Hall –

Coordinator Ayush Panta , Udzwol Satyal, Bimal Adhikari and Bikash Shrestha

4.2.  Bishal’s Sound System

Auditorium Hall –

Coordinator Ayush Panta , Udzwol Satyal, Bimal Adhikari and Bikash Shrestha

4.3.  Bimal’s Sound System

Student Center –

DJ - Lead Bishal BK and Biraj Pokharel

Assistant: Ayush Panta , Udzwol Satyal, Bimal Adhikari and Bikash Shrestha

5.     Food

5.1.                     Alcohol Department

Serve hour: 6:00 PM to 12:30 PM

Location: Bellevue University Student Center (ONLY)

• Coordinator: Kishor Karki
• Assistant: Bobby Upadhyaya, Indra Rai

5.2.  Liquored Licensed by Tandoor Restaurant

5.3.  Security Gaud – 2 Bellevue Police

5.4.  Bar Tender – 2

• • Bud Light –                        $2.00 for $5 and 1 for $3.00
  • Corona –                           $2.00 for $5 and 1 for $3.00
  • Wine Red/White                $3.00
  • Hard Drink Shot                 $3.00
  • Jack Daniel                        $3.00
  • Coke (Regular) (60)           $1.00

5.5.  ICE

Little King 114^th and Dodge

Little King 90^th and Fort

Tandur Restaurant 175^th and West Center

5.6.                     Food transportation

Biraj Pokharel, Ajit Adhikary, Puru KC, Bhim Subedi

5.7.                     BU Student Center Setup

5.7.1.  Initial setup

Setup Time: 1:00PM

Location: Bellevue University Student Center

Udzwol Satyal, Bimal Adhikari, Puru KC, Nirajan Mani, Mitra Bhattarai

5.7.2.  Final setup

Setup Time: 4:00PM

Location: Bellevue University Student Center

Purna Bishwokarma, Nirajan Mani, Mitra Bhattarai, Purna Bishwokarma, Basanta Shrestha, Ajit Adhikary

5.7.3.  Food Handler

Serve hour: 5:00 PM to 7:30 PM

Location: Bellevue University Student Center

Tika Ram Sapkota, Purna Bishwokarma, Basant Shrestha, Bhim Subedi, Raghu Sapkota, Krishna Kandel, Nirajan Mani, Bhim Subedi, Sanjay Shrestha

5.7.4.  Water

Jaganath Sharma, Purna BK, Bimal Adhikari, Ajit Adhikary

6.     Photographers

• Bishworup Maharjan
• Nirakar Rajbhandari
• Krishna P Shakya
• Ananta Man Shakya
• Umesh Parajuli

7.     Front Door

7.1.  Door Keeper (2)

7.2.  Data Entry

• Nirajan Mani
• Mitra Bhattari

7.3.  Ticket and Money Collection

• Bishnu Adhikari
• Manisha Maharjan
• Sanchita Sharma
• Sumitra Newpane
  

7.8.  Badge (Wrist Band) 2 Colors

9.    Back Door – NO ENTRY

• Puru KC
• Biraj Pokharel
• Jagnath Sapkota

On behalf of the NNS Organizing committee, we would like to invite you to the Nepali New Year’s Event on 27th of April 2013 at Bellevue University (Bellevue, NE). All performances MUST be registered before April 15th. No performances are accepted after the due date or during the event.

Interested Performers, Please Contact:
Ayush Panta 402.517.1127 ( This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it )
Ajit Adhikari 563.505.6674
Bimal Adhikari 402.880.8578

Ticket Price: $5 (10 and Under: Free)

Date: Saturday night, 6pm, April 27th, 2013
Location: Bellevue University Student center and Criss Auditorium

 Nepali Kalakar

Dear Board of Trustees of Nebraska Nepalese Society.

The Board of Executive of NNS cordially invites the members of Board of Trustee for the New Year program on April 27th 2013. Since the BOT informed to the BOE that all the members of BOT are planning or going to resign on New Year Party if BOE positively responses the Open Letter to BOE from BOT on April 9th 2013. BOE is heartily accepts all positive inputs given by BOT and do so. The BOE has made a formal decision to honor the members of BOT during the New Year Eve Program upon the acceptance of resignation from the members of BOT.

Thank you very much and see you all in the program.

Thank you,
Board of Executive
Nebraska Nepalese Society

To Board of Executives
Nebraska Nepalese Society,

With attached statement, the current Board of Trustees will relieve themselves of their duties as the Board of Trustees of Nebraska Nepalese Society. We trust the current Board of Executives to understand that this is an official NNS communication and the statement will be posted on the NNS public site in a manner visible to the community.

Sincerely,
Board Of Trustees
Nebraska Nepalese Society

http://www.nnsociety.org/Version15/images/BoardOfTrusteesStatement_4-26-2013.pdf

The current BOE is legitimately formed for the welfare of its society and its people. It neither did have any ill intention to any individual nor bring about conflict and enmity to one another or amongst the general public in the past or at present or future. Right after the formation of BOE, kind of discussion arose between the BOE and BOT witnessing general public. However, our bottom line was to redefine the Life Time Trustees including the areas to be reformed and amend the Bylaw as needed to change as per the changing phenomenon of time. To get it result oriented, several efforts for the meetings and dialogues were performed and most notably the one organized in the UNO. As a result of all these efforts, we believe now that we finally have come together to the point of negotiation – which we value greatly.

A combined meeting of BOE, BOT and general public decided to form an Independent Committee dated March 13, 2013 at Jenkins Room Milo Bail Student Center, University of Nebraska (UNO) in order to solve the problem of current circumstances. But, by the time of forming the committee, the BOT made another decision. BOT evaluated all the circumstances and its role in the Nepalese community and decided to resign if the BOE corrects the mistakes and focuses to its mission. The BOE highly welcomes the decision of BOT and assures to correct its mistakes and wants to step ahead according to the mandate of the community.

In the process of making NNS democratic and transparent; I, Bimal Adhikari, President, on behalf of NNS BOE would reiterate our collective commitment along with the vote of acceptance that I sincerely apologize for the inconvenience may have caused to community members due to any misunderstanding concerning the approach of dealing during the meetings, removal of the bylaws and not publishing the past meeting minutes. The BOE sincerely believes that one and only principal objective is to revitalize NNS a creative way.

We extend our sincere gratitude in the recognition of the commendable contribution you all have made to Nebraska Nepalese Society from its inception to now. We all definitely agree that one and only interest of BOE is to serve the community and help the needy community members residing in Nebraska. We always give priority to unite the community members together and work towards the common goal of accomplishing the mission statement of Nebraska Nepalese Society as we are genuinely aware of the fact that unite we stand and divide we fall.

In connection to the bylaw amendment, we feel that the proposal of amendment initiated from BOE may not be thought fair enough and likely to be guided by the current board’s self-interest. Therefore, a proposal of amendment committee is proposed. We agree that the BOT wants to make bylaw transparent, clearly defined executives’ roles and their duties such as Founders and Co-founders. These all concerns are very important and useful for moving community ahead. Therefore, BOE is going to form a bylaw amendment committee in which founders, co-founders, students, NNS supporters and representatives from BOE and BOT will be included. The committee will amend the bylaw that will incorporate all the items and sub items addressing the inputs received from BOT dated 9th April, 2013. The committee will be tasked to amend the bylaw the earliest the possible.

What an Exciting Day! NNS Board would to thank you all for coming and supporting the “NNS HOOPS DAY” We started at 3 pm with Seven Teams and ended with Four Teams at 10:30 pm. The excitement does not stop here. The Best four teams will fight for the place in the final on Sunday at 10 am. Schedule for Semi-Final, Final and the result From Saturday’s game are below.

Sunday: March 24th
1st Semi Final: 10:00 am -11:00am Dunkin Hanuman Vs Wichita
2nd Semi –Final: 11:15am - 12:15 pm Colorado Vs Himalayan Hoops (Dallas)

12:30pm- 1:30 pm: 3 Pointers
2:00pm-3:00pm: FINAL
3:00pm -3:30pm: Prize Distribution
4:00pm: Refreshments

Saturday’s Result:
3:00 pm -3:50 pm- Colorado (40) v/s Minnesota (29)
4:00 pm -4:50 pm- Dunkin Hanuman (56) v/s Himalayan Hoops (53)
5:00 pm- 5:50pm- Nebraska (21) v/s Killa (32)
6:00 pm – 6:50 pm Colorado (36) v/s Wichita (34)
7:00pm – 7: 50 pm Nebraska (38) v/s Dunkin Hanuman (54)
8:00 pm – 8:50pm Wichita (44) v/s Minnesota (37)
9:00 pm – 9:50 pm Killa (26) v/s Himalayan Hoops (67)

The Excitement continued from previous day and Sunday’s games were exception. The First Semi-Final Game was between Dunkin Hanuman (DH) Vs Wichita , even though DH only had just Five players in the team they showed real character and took the game to overtime. In Regular time the score was tied at 37 but Wichita turn around the game and Beat DH by just 2 basket. The Total Score was DH 43; Wichita 45. This game had everything you look forward in a tight Semi-Final Match: We see a lot of passion, determination, Team co-ordination, supporters on their feet and so on….

The second Semi-Final Match was between Himalayan Hoops Dallas Vs Colorado and what a cracker of a game this was too. Intensity was at the max, even there was a lot of passion and intensity, the # of fouls committed was comparably low. Both the team showed really a good team spirit but Colorado came on top to win this one by 8 baskets. The total score was Colorado 45; Himalayan Hoops 37.

Right before the final, Binay Regmi organized the free throw competition and it was fill with fun and laughter.

The much awaited Final was between Colorado and Wichita, the previous game between these two was a buzzer beater. The final shot from Colorado decided the outcome in that match and everyone was hoping for the same in this one. The final between these two team was very tight, both teams showed aggression, passion, determination & willingness to outscore the opponent. The first half ended with Wichita scoring 20 & Colorado was on top with 28 points. The second half started the same as the first half, Colorado was on top for a brief moment, Wichita came back with couple of points. After a while the game change when Sharad Robertson who was outstanding the whole tournament took matter into his own hands and started scoring freely. Once Sharad started scoring it was a one way traffic. It seemed as though Wichita gave up in 2nd half, they seemed tired. The number of players in Colorado was 12 compared to 7 for Wichita. Numbers does matter when it’s a 2 day event, more players you have less tired your team going to be. The decision making process becomes harder when the team is tired and team Wichita was showing that at the end of 2nd half. The final score was Colorado 52; Wichita 41.

No matter what the circumstances were, Colorado were the BEST team and they deserved to be champion. Sharad Robertson won the MVP two years in a row, remember the name, :”Sharad Robertson” # 5. He and Team Colorado will be back next year to Win this Tournament Again! Let's see who will try to stop them...

Prize Distribution: Tara Pokharel (Life-Time Trustee); Gyanendra B Chettry (Founder); Sunil Acharaya (Trustee); Bimal Adhikari (President); Ujjwol Satyal (Sports Co-ordinator); Ayush Panta (General Secreetary).

A big thank you to all the Sponsors, Volunteers and supporters who made this event a Grand Success.

Some Quotes from the Team

“ It was a wonderful event ujjwol dai... thank you so much for such a great organization....We definitely hope to see u next year....”
Arpan gauchan : Team Wichita

“Thank you and everyone from Omaha for hosting another successful, well-run event. We definitely look forward to seeing you all again next year!”
Rasheeb : Dunkin Hanuman

“Thank you. It was very good. Very well organized. We will see you next year. “

Pasang : Team Colorado

Dear Trustees,

The board sent an email to you on Feb 4, 2013 to seek trustees’ approval to dissolve the ‘Life-time Trustees’. Our executive members collectively purposed to dissolve the ‘Life-Time Trustee’ to give a great opportunity and encourage to new commerce to continue The NNS in a high level during an executive meeting on February 2, 2013. Moreover, we had the same respond from the members of NNS and Founder members on our last NNS General Meeting held on Feb 10th. We have sent a letter in accordance with views of the executive board, and more importantly consensus among the community that we have the privilege to serve. The board has decided that it is the best interest of our NNS members to dissolve the ‘Life-Time Trustees.

We were anticipating a response from the Trustees regarding this matter within 2 weeks. However the trustees might not have had an opportunity to discuss this important matter yet. As result of our last meeting, which was held on Feb 24, 2013, we have purposed a response deadline of March 5, 2013. We are hopeful the Trustees will give us a great opportunities responding in positive way by the deadline to make and bring all the NNS members under ONE ROOF without involving in any further hassles.

Thank you
NNS Board

Dear Trustees,
We appreciate your continuous contribution to our organization. We respect current Bylaws and will abide to follow it. However, the current executive board would like to redefine some terminologies in Bylaws as per current demands.

The executive council with the 2/3 of the majority proposes to modify the definition of ‘Life-time Trustee’. The decision came about at the executive committee meeting on February 2, 2013 (also included in our minute). Please find below the reasoning for the proposed modification of the definition of ‘Life –time Trustee’’.

1) In the democratic system, no one is assigned as lifetime trustee for his/her whole life period in the world.
2) A general worldwide concept: As the time goes by, the output level of a person decreases by which his/her contribution decreases.
3) Opportunity should be given to the new qualified ones to generate new ideas.

More informaiton please click here

http://www.nnsociety.org/Version15/images/docs/proposallettertoboardoftrustees.pdf

Dear Respected NNS members,

     I am honored and humbled to begin as president of  Nebraska Nepalese Society (NNS). Thank you all for giving me an opportunity to serve our community. I would like to unite, extend strong brotherhood, as well as peace and harmony within our community. I am expecting all the support I need to lead the NNS and bring it to a newer height of prosperity. I will never forget the aspiration and my responsibility to the community.

     As we move on, my team and I will do our best to respect every member of the community and honor your ability to make the desired change in the society. In the meantime, you will see some structural changes in the organization, which will bring the society to a different level. When we initiate important work, We will always keep in mind that we will work together to prosper our cultural heritage, Nepalese identity and social harmony in the society.

     Furthermore, I heartily like to thank and acknowledge all NNS members, former executives, Volunteers and NNS founders who have been a part of the society for over 11 years.

     Finally, I request you all to join with me renewing your commitment to serve this great community with love and respect which will bring us together on the same platform: unite our community, and bring us peace and harmony. With your valuable help, support and suggestions we will continue to shine on the days to come with the way the vision that our founding members have envisioned and the extra value that past executives have added  every year to bring the society in to new height.  

Thank You,
Bimal Adhikari

NNS President

(2012/2013)

NNS is having a fundraiser on Jan 12 2013 from 12:00 - 2:00PM CST
Location: Tandoori Fusion (2537 South 175th Street Omaha, NE 68130)

Free Lunch will be provided with $50.00 donation which will benefit Help Nepal charity organization in Nepal. We are encouraging as many people as possible to come out and enjoy their awesome India and Nepali Foods.

Dear Community Members, You are invited to the Annual General Meeting which is to be held on Sunday, 10 February 2013 at 1 p.m. at the Bellevue West University.

We would really appreciate if you can attend the NNS General Meeting. Your comments/concerns are highly valuable to us and we would definitely consider the suggestions you bring as we move ahead with our agendas.

Date: February 10, 2013 (Sunday)
Time: 1 pm to 5 pm
Venue: Bellevue West (2810 North 118th Street, Omaha, Nebraska 68164 )

Room: 930

All Members

Special Shivaratri Puja and Bhajan will be performed on Saturday, 9th 2013. You and your friends are cordially invited to participate in Bhajan programmer and obtain the blessings from Lord Shiva. 

Location:- 11233 Decatur Plaza Omaha, NE 68154  (Vanderbilt Apartments)
Date:- March 9th 2013
Time:- 10:00 AM-6:00 PM

NNS cordially invites you to puja of Saraswati Mata
( goddess of wisdom and art).

Hope to see you all at the event!

Where:-The Hindu Temple ( 13010 Arbor St, Omaha NE. 68144)
When:- Feb 14th, 6:00 PM ( We understand it is Valentine’s day. Nepali calendar marks Feb 15th as Basanta Panchami, but the priests at the temple suggested that Feb 14th evening is auspicious time for the puja)

We are looking for volunteers for Prasad. Please contact Sami Vasistha at 402-350-9397 if you are willing to contribute prasad for the event.