ZANT News - July 2012 1

www.zant.org July 2012

A Publication of Zoroastrian Association of North Texas

ZANT NEWSZANT NEWS

We welcome and encourage feedback from our community. For comments or suggestions please call the Board members, fill in the “Contact Us” section on our website (www.zant.org) or mail them to ZANT, 1605 Lopo Road, Flower Mound, TX. 75028.

ZANT Center: 1605 Lopo Road

Flower Mound, TX 75028-1306

MESSAGE FROM THE NEW ZANT BOARD

INSIDE THIS ISSUE

BOARD OF D IRECTORS

President Vice President Treasurer Secretary Social Director Director Director

Jamshed Rivetna

Neenaaz Dilucci Ardeshir Mistry Dilnawaz Rustomji Naazneen Johnson

ZANT EVENTS & CALENDAR

07/01: Jashn-e-Tirgan & pot-

luck

7/9-7/18: Kadmi Muktad

7/19: Kadmi New Year pot-

luck

07/27 to 07/29: Youth Camp

7/29: ZLC Bollywood dance

workout

08/05: Children’s Arts & Crafts

class

08/08 - 08/17: Shahenshahi

Muktad prayers

08/11: Anand Bazaar Mela

08/12: Shahenshahi Muktad

Jashan & dinner

08/18: ZANT Shahenshahi New

Year celebration gala

08/26: ZLC pottery painting

09/09: Children’s religious class

09/09: Children’s Arts & Crafts

class

09/30: ZLC function

The new 2012-2014 ZANT Board has been installed and

has met several times in the past few weeks. We are

thankful to have this opportunity to contribute and per-

petuate the growth of the DFW Zoroastrian commu-

nity. With our new Darbe Mehr and our ever-growing list

of community activities, it is truly an exciting time.

We are deeply indebted to the outgoing ZANT Board for

the foundation put in place over the past two years. They

left no stone unturned and have left us a thriving and vi-

brant community. We look forward to getting involved

and strive to continue meeting the spiritual, cultural, and

social needs of our community. As always, please feel

free to contact any of the board members with feedback

or comments.

Upcoming Events 2,3,4

Our Sincere Thanks 5

Angels in the Background 6

Kids’ Corner 6

Quick Points 6

Treasurer’s Corner 7

Past Events 8

ZANT Center Rental 8

Donation Form 8

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UPCOMING EVENTS

ZANT YOUTH SUMMER CAMP

Date: Friday July 27 through Sunday July 29, 2012

Place: ZANT Center

The ZANT Youth Subcommittee is holding its first event, a Youth Summer Camp, conducted by the

youth, for the youth. This is a structured event with

specific activities planned for each day.

Both Dallas AND Houston youth will be participating.

This is an opportunity to finally meet and talk to people

about their own unique experience as 1st generation

Zoroastrian Americans. This camp will take place

over the entire weekend of July 27 through 29. The

first day (Friday) will be for people to simply get to know one another, have pizza, and participate in ice-

breaker/teamwork games, like fort building, telephone,

etc. On Saturday, Porus Balsara and Charlotte Kharas

will hold religious discussions, followed by more per-sonal group discussions to answer questions the kids

may have. That night participants will watch a movie

and melt s'mores. Sunday will involve closing remarks, breakfast for the parents/kids and packing up. The

Camp will end with a brunch that morning. Throughout

the event, there will be food and there will be games, but mostly Zoroastrian youth are going to hang out and

meet other Zoroastrian youth. It will be for only one

weekend but will be an experience worth having. The

cost to attend is $30 per person and open to kids 13 or older. The entire camp will be conducted at the ZANT

center. The deadline to register for this event is July

22.

If you are interested, a detailed agenda has been pre-

pared and is available from Rustom Kharas. Please

RSVP Saghar Behroozi or Rustom Kharas.

KADMI NEW YEAR

Date: Thursday July 19, 2012

Time: 7:30 pm

Place: ZANT Center

Event Directors: Delnaaz Irani and Bakhtawar Roshan-

ravan

This year’s Kadmi Muktad days will be observed from

July 9 through July 18, 2012 and the Kadmi New Year

will be celebrated on Thursday, July 19, 2011. We

wish all our community members who follow the Kadmi calendar a Very Happy & Prosperous New

Year.

We invite everyone to join us at the ZANT Center on Thursday July 19 at 7:30 p.m. for Humbandagi prayers,

followed by a pot-luck dinner.

If you have any questions please call Delnaaz Irani

JASHNE TIRGAN

Date: Sunday July 1, 2012

Time: 6:00 p.m. (Water games)

7:30 p.m. (Pot Luck)

Place: ZANT Center

Please come & join in the fun on SUNDAY, JULY 1 to

celebrate JASHNE TIRGAN at the ZANT CENTER.

Water games for kids & adults. Please bring a towel to

dry yourself.

Please bring a dish to share!! It is a pot-luck!

If you have any questions, please contact our Event

Directors Afsaneh Samiya: or Azin Menguita:

HOSTS NEEDED: We need ZANT

families to host (for two nights)

some parents of the Houston

youth ac- companying them.

The Houston parents will

be stay- ing for two nights, Friday

July 27 and Saturday July 28.

If you are able to host some of these parents

please contact Saghar Behroozi or Rustom

Kharas.

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UPCOMING EVENTS CONTINUED

Z L C - “The ZANT Ladies Club”

Caring, Sharing, Daring – Living Life to the Fullest

On July 29 at 2 p.m. the ZANT Center will come alive with Bollywood Dancing. Instructor Ray

Hughes (photo on right) will guide us in a Bollywood dance workout. It is going to be a cardio-dance version

with Bollywood music and simple dance steps similar to Aishwarya Rai‘s performances in movies. Hip move-

ments are akin to belly dancing and leg and arm movements resemble Bhangra (Indian Sikh

dance). Armin Daroona and Pouroo Dastur are the hostesses for this uniquely different event.

Come for dancing fun and lite snacks.

In August pottery painting will be on tap.

VOHU MANAH GROUP

There will be no meeting of the Vohu Manah Group

in July and August. We will start meeting again in

September. For more information or questions, please

call Anahita Sidhwa.

CHILDREN & YOUTH SEWING & ART/CRAFT

CLASS

The Children & Youth Sewing & Art/Craft Class will

not be meeting in the month of July. We will have our class again starting in August 2012. Details will be in

the August newsletter.

Contact Dilnawaz Rustomji for more information.

MUKTAD PRAYERS

Date: August 08 - August 17, 2012

Time: 7:00 p.m.

Place: ZANT Center

ZANT will commemorate the Farvardegan (Muktad) days from August 8 to August 17, 2012. As has become our tradition, we will meet at the Center at 7:00 p.m. to recite short prayers together and end the evening with shared offerings of food.

To make it convenient for everyone, please call Anahita Sidhwa if you can bring the main dish for the day. Plans for the weekend days, Aug 11 & 12 are still being finalized, please check next month's ZANT News for details.

ANAND BAZAAR MELA

Date: Saturday, August 11, 2012

Time: To be announced

Place: Lone Star Park, Grand Prairie

Once again it’s time to sell Falooda at this year’s Anand Bazaar. Anand Bazaar is one of our biggest fundraisers and all proceeds go towards paying for various activities and events for community members. Costs for this event in-clude booth rental and supplies. In the past, this event has been subsidized by our ZANT families' donations. We look forward to your continued support and gen-erosity. Donations in any amount to support this event will be greatly appreciated. We also need vol-unteers to make and serve falooda. It’s fun and the food is always delicious.

Contact Khurshid Jamadar for information and volun-teering opportunities.

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Shahenshahi New Year 1382

This year ZANT will be able to celebrate our Shahenshahi New Year on the New Year Day as it coincides with our Shahenshahi calendar. Fravardin Mahino (month) and Hormazd Roj (day) happens to be on Saturday, August 18, 2012.

Please mark your calendars and plan to celebrate this auspicious day with your ZANT fam-ily. The details for the celebration are still being finalized by your Event Directors, Delnaaz Irani, Pearl Balsara and Keshvar Buhariwalla. We encourage you to party with us as it is sure to be a fun-filled evening!

The venue looks to be the Hilton Garden Inn Dallas/Richardson. The menu and entertain-ment plans will be finalized soon, keep an eye out for an E-Flash from ZANT soon which will have all the details.

If you have any questions, please feel free to contact Delnaaz Irani, Pearl Balsara or Keshvar Buhariwalla.

UPCOMING EVENTS CONTINUED

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EVENT DIRECTORS

In the absence of a Social Director, the board decided to assign each of the social and fundraising events to EVENT DIRECTOR(S).

To our pleasant surprise, we had an overwhelmingly positive response from our community members. The board is very grateful to the following individuals who have graciously volunteered their time and creativity:

Our Sincere Thanks

Event Event Directors

Youth Camp Rustom Kharas

Jashn-e- Tirgan Afsaneh Samiya and Azin Menguita

Kadmi New Year Delnaaz Irani and Bakhtawar Roshanravan

Muktad Paryers & Pot Luck Anahita Sidhwa

Anand Bazaar Khurshid Jamadar

Shahenshahi New Year Pearl Balsara, Delnaaz Irani and Keshvar Bu-hariwalla

Mehergan Armin Daroona, Azita Kiumarsi and Rubina Jamshidi

Sports Day Barjis Ghadially

ZANT Garage Sale Keshvar Buhariwalla and Darys Reyes Irani

Gujarati Mela Khurshid Jamadar

Jashn-e-Yalda Farzeen Cama and Saghar Behroozi

Jashn-e-Sadeh Mahnaz Irani and Zenobia DadyBurjor

Nourooz Celebration Sherry Raghani and Ruth-Dinaz Sarkari

ZANT Center 2nd Anniversary Anahita Sidhwa, Kash Mistry and Nina Kaliani-vala

Graduation & Ghambar Delna Godiwalla and Saghar Behroozi

. If you would like to help out please contact Naazneen Johnson.

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Eric Engineer and Veera Sidhwa. Most of the present board members have not yet met either of them but, for us, they are truly

our angels in the background! Eric Engineer maintains our ZANT Website and Veera Sidhwa updates our calendar on the Website. The Board would like to sin-cerely thank both of them for being our silent partners behind the scenes.

QUICK POINTS

** A few copies of our “ZANT Gets Cooking” cookbook are still available for $5.00 per book. Please

contact one of the Board members if you would like to purchase one. All funds will go towards ZANT.

**The XVI North American Zarathushti Congress 2012 will take place on August 2-5, 2012 in New

York. This congress is sponsored by Zoroastrian Association of Greater New York with the theme of “

Zarathushti Existence in the Contemporary World”. For more information and to register, please refer to

www.fezana.org or www.zagny.org.

**To volunteer for subcommittees, clubs, newsletter or any other events, please contact the ZANT Volun-

teer Coordinator, Ruth Dinaz Sarkari.

**For questions regarding key card access please contact Arbez Patel.

KIDS’ CORNER

We won’t be having any kids’ religious classes for the months of July and

August 2012. Kids, enjoy your summer! We will see you again in Septem-

ber 2012.

AngelsAngels in the Backgroundin the Background

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Keep this stub Please detach and return this side Accept my contribution of: for your records. with your contribution payable to: “ZANT" and mail to: ( ) $10 ( ) $20 ( ) $30 ( ) $40 ( ) $50 ( ) $_____ To: ZANT ZANT Treasurer 1605 Lopo Road For: Check # Flower Mound, Texas 75028

Date ( ) General Fund ( ) Building Fund

Amount $ ( ) ZOMF ( ) Other_______

FROM:____________________________________

“Without a sense of caring, there can be no sense of community.”

Help us pass on the good religion to future generations.

PAST EVENTS

CHILDREN & YOUTH SEWING & ART/CRAFT CLASS

We had some belated Mother's Day activity and a few crafts completed just in time for Father's Day. There was a flowery pen to take home for mom, made out of fabric flowers and green sticky tape. For Dads, the first project was a rocky frame, since, you know, Dads ROCK! The second was a mushroom made with play dough and a special message for the dads, they being such awesome fun-gis! Crafts were completed in a jiffy with time left to play outside while the projects dried.

ZANT CENTER RENTAL

The ZANT center is available to rent for your private events and special occasions.

For rental requests please contact our Rental Coordinator, Dilnawaz Rustomji. ZANT Rental rates are $300 for members and $600 for non-members. For more information and to view the Agreement Form, please go to the ZANT website, www.zant.org.