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Thursday, August 30, 1973
OLD PEOPLE'S CLUB OPENING TOMORROW
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The official opening of the Ki Lin Centre, a club for the elderly
living in the Wong Tai Sin district, will be held tomorrow (Friday) afternoon.
The ceremony will be attended by about 200 old people and more
than 100 guests.
The opening will take the form of a ribbon-cutting ceremony
by nine personalities and will be followed by a tea party.
Performing the ribbon-cutting will be Mr. Choi Kwok-ching, President of Ki Lin Centre; Mr. Choi Jun, Life Long President; Mr. Albert C. Wong, Wong Tai Sin City District Officer; Mr. Hui Yin-fat, Director,
Hong Kong Council of Social Service; Mr. Yu Pun-chak, Divisional Superintendent, Wong Tai Sin; Lt. Col. A.S. Barr, R.A.0.C., Composite Ordnance Depot, British Forces (H.K.); Rev. Dr. Andrew Chiu, Hong Kong Lutheran Church Missouri Synod; Mr. George Li Kai-fun, President, Lions Club of Happy Valley; and Mr. Kwok Ka-chi, Senior Principal Social Welfare Officer,
Social Welfare Department.
The Ki Lin Centre is a day club for old people. It is organised
by the Wong Tai Sin Federation of Welfare Services for the Aged, a non- profit-making, registered welfare body of 23 organisations in the district.
The Federation was formed on the initiation of the Wong Tai
Sin Community Centre which also promotes its activities.
Explaining the functions of the club, Mrs. Henrietta Chen, the
Warden of Wong Tai Sin Community Centre, said membership was open to any elderly person over 60 living in the Wong Tai Sin district.
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