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Thursday, March 21, 1974
COMMUNITY CENTRE CELEBRATES ANNIVERSARY
The Social Welfare Department's Community Centre in Tai Hang
Tung, Kowloon, will be celebrating its 8th Anniversary tomorrow (Friday).
Opened in 1966, the Centre provides a variety of community,
group and wolfare services for people living in the surrounding areas.
It also has a library with a membership of 3,500, a club for the deaf
and a nursery run by a voluntary organization which caters for small
children.
The department's Rural Mobile Service Unit which organizes
activities for young people in the New Territories as well as providing
a library on wheels service, is also attached to the Centre.
To mark its anniversary, members of the Centre will be holding
an evening of celebration tomorrow at which there will be entertainment
in the form of songs and dances, dramas and demonstrations of Chinese
boxing and a gymnastic display, Winners of various competitions sponsored
by the Centre will receive their prizes together with volunteers who
will be given souvenirs in appreciation of their services during the
past year.
It is expected that some 400 people will attend the ceremony which
will be officiated by Mr. Kwok Ka-chi, Principal Social Welfare Officer
of the Group and Community Division under which the Gommunity Centres
are operated.
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