Here are the upcoming event dates for 2012. More details for each event will be available weeks before the event date. Hope this will help all of us to plan ahead.

Event	Venue	Date
Saraswati Puja	Masonic Temple, Troy	Jan 29th, Sunday
Basanta Utshava and Regional Drama Festival	Kasi Temple, Flint	May 12th, Saturday
MI-OSA Picnic	To be determined	July 14th, Saturday
Ganesh Puja	Masonic Temple, Troy	Sep 22nd, Saturday(actual)
Kumar Purnima 2012	To be determined	Nov 10th, Saturday

Dear community members,
We will be performing the Saraswati Puja on Sunday January 29 , 2012 at 11:00 am.
Venue:
Troy Masonic Temple 1032 Hartland Dr, Troy, MI 48083 (248) 524-1110
Date: Sunday, January 29th, 2012
Schedule:
Puja Setup: 10:30 am -11:00 am (Volunteers need to arrive by 10:30 am)
  Puja: 11:00 - 12:30 PM (Includes Pushpanjali, Stories and Bhajans)
Lunch 12:30 pm onwards and cleanup
New people Introduction.
Thank you Note
(All of you can feel free to bring fruits and flowers as offering to Goddess Saraswati.)
Food Contact: Sunita Mahapatra and Jhilli Subudhi.

Dear Friends I am happy to announce that the 43rd OSA convention is going to be held in Seattle, Washington from 5-7 July 2012. The yearly OSA convention is known as our annual pilgrimage where we all get together as an extended community, socialize with one another, renew our bonds and celebrate our odia culture and heritage. Once a year, we are so proud to come together in one spot where we create a memorable experience of love, fellow feeling and social bonding. Our friends from OSA Pacific Northwest ( PNW) chapter are already working hard to give the participants a wonderful cultural experience, showcasing our Odia heritage and tradition we have preserved in the Diaspora. Please visit the OSA website http://www.orissasociety.org. for further details. The chapter (PNW)I website for the OSA 2012 convention is in the making. Mr. Amulya Das has been nominated as the convener of the OSA 2012 convention by the Pacific Northwest chapter. My heart felt congratulations to Amulya Das for his willingness to come forward and help lead his chapter in organizing this convention. On behalf of OSA executives, I thank OSA 2012 Convener Amulya Das, OSA Pacific Northwest Chapter president Priyadarshan Patra, and all the volunteers of PNW chapter for their tireless efforts to have a successful convention. The local chapter officials are in constant contact with the OSA officials in planning the convention. On behalf of the OSA administration, I extend my invitation to all of you, your friends and extended family to save the date, 5-7 July 2012 and plan to attend the OSA 2012 convention. We will keep you posted; please continue to check our website for more news on the venue, cultural programs, seminar and other exciting activities planned for the 2012 OSA convention. You will receive separate message and update regarding our 2012 OSA convention from convener Mr. Amulya Das. Happy Holidays! With warmest wishes, Dr. Annapurna Devi Pandey President, OSA

2011-Financial statement has been uploaded in our office bearers section.Please find the details -Executive Team

We have more pictures capture from Kumara Purnima 2011 event by Subrat Mohapatra
Picture: Here is the KP2011 Pictures link of the Pictures we missed earlier.

Thank you for taking part in the survey for membership fee. Our new fee structure will effect from Kumar Purnima 2012.

Dear Community members,
We had a grand success and we are overwhelmed by our community's dedication , spirit of volunteerism and desire to help. All of us had a grand time and we had a huge participation with your help. We are grateful to all of you. You have made this a success.
There were so many people who pitched in to help and it was such a beautiful thing to witness our sense of camaraderie and group spirit. Once again thanks to all our volunteers. We would like to acknowledge their contribution.
Membership Renew/new Registration
Dr. Sisir Senapati, Supriya Mishra, Bijay Satpathy
Food Cordinator
Prunotoya Sarangi, Ranjita Das
Technical Coordinator
Biswajit Puhan, Subhendu Das
Master of Ceremonies(Comperes)
Parag Mishra, Ananya Pattanayak
Stage Volunteers
Sanjib Sahoo, Srikant Sahoo, Sidharth Maharana
Stage Decoration
Puspa Mohapatra, Puja Acharaya
Video Recording
Jyoti Nayak,Prabhakar Mishra
Photography
Jyoti Nayak
And a big thanks you to all our Cultural Coordinator: Geeta Sahoo and Swati Mishra.
We also had volunteers from our school kids and we have given out certificates to them. All the Performances were excellent and displayed the incredible talent in our community. We had a surplus of excellent and tasty food in spite of large attendance. This was our first Kumar Purnima of the new executive community.
We are truly happy and grateful at the support we have got from all of you.Also thank you for participating in the survey and giving us your decision on membership fee for 2012.
It was nice to see performances from the toddlers as well as the parents participating in the programs. It brought forward the festive and community spirit.
During the cleanup operation many of you helped ( Akshay, Raj Subudhi, Debashis Acharya, Hruday Mahapatra, Punyatoya / Sachi Sarangi, Subhendu / Ranjeeta, etc ). We apologize if we have missed out anybody's name inadvertently here.
Many of our senior Brothers and sisters in the community showed up and we are delighted at their presence. This Odia community includes all people from the young to the senior and we are happy at the involvement of all.
We could not end as per the time and we apologize especially to our seniors for that. Some of you had to wait a bit longer to get the food and we are sorry about that. We will improve on this.
We tried to ensure participation of all our community members this time. We will balance this need with the need to end on time.
Thank you for your cooperation and support.
Warm regards

Pitabasa Vivek Pramod