by neek00admin | Jun 13, 2019 | Uncategorized
ON THE WING: With Iranian New Year’s Day, Nowruz, coming March 21, Persian Canadians reportedly raised $125,000 at the Neekoo Philanthropic Society’s eighth annual soirée. The committee head and LaStella winery co-principal, Saeedeh Salem, said it will fund grants for...
by neek00admin | Apr 14, 2019 | Uncategorized
HAPPY NOWRUZ: Student scholarships were also the focus at the Persian community’s eighth annual Neekoo Soiree. Held around Nowruz to mark the first day of spring and the beginning of the New Year in the Persian calendar, the Lower Mainland’s Iranian-Canadian community...
by neek00admin | Mar 16, 0218 | Uncategorized
HAPPY NOWRUZ: Some Iranian expats will leap through bonfire flames March 20 to greet the following day’s Persian New Year, Nowruz. Others anticipated it less dramatically at the Neekoo Philanthropic Society’s recent soirée in the Rosewood Hotel Georgia. The seventh...