SBCC Pagoda Post Newsletter - August 2025 Edition

In this issue:

Upcoming Events
- September 20, 2025 - SBCC 60th Anniversary Celebration

News
- July 13, 2025 - Make and Take Joong (粽) Wrapping Workshop

SBCC 60th Anniversary Celebration

Saturday, September 20, 2025 5:30 p.m. - 9:00 p.m.

Diamond Dynasty Casino Night

Buffet Dinner, Poker, Black Jack, Roulette, Craps and More

Date and time:
Saturday, September 20, 2025
5:30 - 9:00pm

Location:
Age Well Center South Fremont
47111 Mission Falls Court
Fremont, CA 94539

Ticket cost:

$68 Early Bird until August 31, 2025
$88 after August 31, 2025

Click HERE to visit the 60th Anniversary Celebration web page for more information and purchase your tickets or become a sponsor.

Additonal Sponsorships from
Hon. David Haubert, Board of Supervisors, District 1

Make and Take Joong (粽) Wrapping Workshop

July 13, 2025

On July 13, 2025, a group of Club members participated at the annual Zoong (粽), aka Zongzi, making workshop. This is the first time we had a recent Mission San Jose High School graduate, Ester Leng, recipient of the Robert & Gladys Lee Memorial Scholarship for Excellence in Performance Arts, join the group, learning how to make the Joong and taking her creations home to enjoy with her family.

Ester Leng and her creation.

The process is tedious, but the products were satisfying!

Socializing after the work was done.

The workshop participants with their final products.

2026 Scholarship Program

We are now accepting donations for the 2026 Scholarship Program and the Mentoring Program. If you would like to donate, please click on the button below to go to the DONATE page of our website.

You may designate your donations to the “2026 Scholarship Fund” or one of the other scholarship related funds such as the Mentoring Program using the dropdown menu from the donation form online.

One of the new funds we have started in 2026 is the “2026 Mentoring Scholarship Program”. We started this pilot program in 2025 to extend the scholarship program to provide mentoring support to the scholarship award recipients during their first year in college as well as additonal financial support for their second year in college. As with the annual scholarship awards program, the minimum scholarship amount for the Mentoring Program is $1,000 and will be awarded to the students who successfully complete the mentoring program during their freshman year. This mentoring program has limited availability due to limited resources. Only the 2026 scholarship recipients are eligible to apply (after the 2026 Scholarship Awards Banquet).

DONATE TO THE 2026 SCHOLARSHIP PROGRAM

If you have a “Members in the News” story that you would like to have included in future issues of the Club’s newsletter, please submit it to Joe Woo at sbcc@southbaychineseclub.org.