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In 2010, the Kansas City Chinese American Association (KCCAA) established an annual KCCAA Community Service Award to encourage primary and secondary school students in the greater Kansas City area to develop stronger awareness of public service and to participate actively in community service. In the past several years we have seen an increasing number of young students engaging in volunteer work, particularly under the leadership of KCCAA Youth Hope Fund. More and more of our young people have come to understand the personal satisfaction of helping others. In order to honor the unselfish efforts of these young people and, in hopes of encouraging others to follow their examples, KCCAA will offer recognition to some of the most outstanding efforts by the young people in our community to help others. There will be three level of recognitions, one first place, two second places, and three third places, evaluated based on the criteria below. To emphasize the intrinsic rewards of community service, the awardees will be given plaques, scholarships, and will be honored on stage at KCCAA’s Chinese New Year Gala.

This award may be offered to any primary or secondary school student in the greater Kansas City area and any qualified student may apply.

Requirements: an applicant must –

1. Be an elementary or secondary school student (grades 1 through 12).

2. Have participated in some form of voluntary work or community service (without compensation) during the past year.

Evaluation criteria for awards:

· Service activities that emphasize service to others in need will be valued over experiences that are designed primarily as learning experiences for the student. Quantity of hours of service will not necessarily be more highly valued than quality but consistent patterns of service to others will be valued by the judges.

· Initiative and (age-appropriate) leadership and organization in group efforts to serve others will also be noted. Fundraising activities to benefit others will be viewed as worthwhile, but (age-appropriate) direct service to others may, in some cases, may be viewed as having more enduring significance for the student applicants.

Application procedures: Submit an application letter by email to kccaa.award@gmail.com by January 13, 2020.

The application letter shall include the student’s name, school, and contact information for school; a list of the student’s community service experiences during 2019, with a description of each community service experience. The student shall also submit a one page essay to describe …

作者：胡荆茜

author: Jingqian Hu

真快！又近岁末年初。

2020，农历庚子鼠年的春节在那不远的拐角处，已是隐约可见。

再一次，堪城中美联合会KCCAA吹响了看春晚，过大年的集结号。

1月25日 — 大年初一，老地方：连续举办了十多年春晚的 JCCC Yardley Hall；老时间：晚七点；KCCAA的年度大戏 — 春晚，将正点拉开帷幕。

Time flies! It’s near the end of the year again.
2020，the Spring Festival of the Lunar Year of the Rat is around the corner.
Once again, KCCAA has started the rally to watch the Spring Festival Gala and celebrate the New Year.

January 25 — New Year’s Day, same Place: JCCC Yardley Hall, which has held more than ten years of Spring Festival Gala; same time: 7 pm; KCCAA’s annual drama — Spring Festival Gala, will begin on time.

去年，我们一起回顾了春晚舞台上的那些精彩瞬间；今年，我们来说说春晚幕后的那些人，那些事。

本期要推出的是堪城中美联合会KCCAA的几位主要组织者：春晚总导演，
第一副会长丘春燕女士；现任会长，车飞先生；主席、前会长，荣磊先生。

Last year we reviewed the wonderful moments of the Spring Festival Gala together. Now we will talk about those people behind the Spring Festival Gala and their efforts.

In this article, we will talk about three key figures behind the Spring Festival Gala,
First vice president, Ms. Chunyan Qiu
The current president, Mr. Che Fei
The chairman and former president, Mr. Rong Lei.

丘春燕，堪城中美联合会KCCAA第一副会长。

First vice president, Ms. Chunyan Qiu

十多年来，春燕女士一直致力于春晚的各项准备工作，尤其是负责设计春晚当天所有庆典活动的各个会场的布置；准备装饰材料，并管理组织人员将其在各会场安排妥当。自2016年起，春燕女士连续担纲春晚总导演。

For more than ten years, Ms. Qiu has been devoted to various preparations for the Spring Festival Gala, especially responsible for designing the layout of all the venues for the celebrations on the day of the Spring Festival Gala, preparing decorative materials, and managing the organization staff to arrange them properly in each venue. Since 2016, Ms. Qiu has been the director of the Spring Festival Evening

为准备社区的年度春晚“大餐”，每年四月，作为晚会总导演的春燕女士，就开始了她的筹划，收集和挑选节目的工作。

In preparation for the community’s annual Spring Festival Gala, Director Qiu began her planning, collecting and selecting programs in April each year.

为确保晚会的圆满成功，春燕导演做了大量的案头工作。在她历年的春晚备忘录里，从节目筹划到分工协作，从协调演出团队到安排制作节目背景视频；从构思设计演出流程到彩排检查舞台演出效果；从督促联系赞助商到安排各类广告在网络社交媒体上的发放；从售票点的确定到节目单、主持人稿件的把关；从聘请摄像摄影师到统计演职人员的餐饮……林林总总，大大小小，一一列出。准备工作是细致，且充分的。而将这些细节逐个落实于实处，则是一个很大的工作量。春燕导演为此投入大量的时间和精力。

To ensure the success of the Gala, Director Qiu did a lot of work. In her Spring Festival Gala memo over the years, from program planning to division of labor and coordination, from coordinating the performance team to arranging the production of the background video of the show, from conceiving and designing the performance process to rehearsal to check the performance of the stage performance, from urging contact with sponsors to arranging various advertisements on the network Distribution on social media, from the confirmation of ticket sales points to the control of program listings and host manuscripts, from the employment of camera photographers to the statistics of the catering of the cast members … The preparations are meticulous and adequate. Implementing these details one by one needs huge efforts. Director Qiu invested a lot of time and energy for this.…