Moon Festival Celebration at New Century Fest, NewYork, Sep.21-22, 2024

My name is Jojo Huang. If you watch this, you have to know me. I'm the Program Health 1 plus 1 host Jojo. So I would invite everybody to join today's Moon Festival because we, for the Chinese people, why we celebrate Moon Festival is because today is a full moon. But because if you want to come here, you can have this program. We're going to tell you why Chinese people celebrate Moon Festival. And also, actually, Ganjin Wards give us very wonderful QR code. You can accept and then you can get $100 for the coupon for today's wonderful authentic food and so many interesting programs. And actually, today we have a wonderful show. Chinese classical dance, Western Night Dragon Dance, well, including all Moon Festival. Okay, so let's enjoy today's Moon Festival exhibition. Welcome. of Corrections and Community Supervision. I am a recruiter for the department and we are here at the Moon Harvest Festival. This wonderful, very diverse with amazing food and vendors here at today's the last day. Also here for America the Beautiful, which was great. That was back in July. And we look forward to coming to any winter festivals they have coming. Thank you. So my name is Joe Rogiewicz. I have a fifth generation family farm in Pine Island, New York. We grow everything here and then some. We grow over 100 different varieties on our farm. I'm here to help promote our local farm stand that we just opened last year. We do many farmers markets in New York City, Westchester, Bronx and Manhattan. And we decided we want to grow our customer base closer to us. So everything here was picked yesterday. I use a lot of organic methods and I also use conventional. So I like to use the best of both worlds. Everything here is completely safe, clean, and I can promise you're getting our best quality that we can offer. Hello everybody. My name is Smitty. I'm a Neo Soul R&B and Jazz singer-songwriter from Middletown, New York. And I'm absolutely honored to be here at the Moon Festival. It's been a wonderful day. It's a beautiful day for great unity, for great love, for great food, for great music. I just performed my single, Cup O' Joe. It was an awesome time. And thank you very much to Stephanie for this awesome opportunity to let the people know that this has been an awesome experience. I hope you have a wonderful day and thanks very much. All right. Hi, my name is Assemblyman Carl Brabadeck. I'm the assemblyman for this area here in the town of Deer Park and also in the 98th Assembly District, which is Western Orange County and Northwestern Rockland County. But it's awesome to be here at the Moon Festival. We're happy to welcome it back for another great year. It's a beautiful day outside. Everyone here is enjoying themselves, which is great to see. A lot of good vendors and great food. And it's such a gem for the area to have this every single year. It gets bigger every year. And we're really, really proud to have it here in the town of Deer Park on this great property that held many festivals for many years. This is something enjoyable for the community and we are excited and happy to host it every single year. So please, if you get a chance, come on down to the Moon Festival. We're here off of Neversick Drive at Route 209 in the town of Deer Park, right by Port Jervis, in the city of Port Jervis. Come down. It's a great time and you'll meet a lot of wonderful people. Northern Academy Dragon and Lion Dance. This is going to be absolutely wonderful. So folks, of the Moon Festival. And the Moon Festival is like American Thanksgiving. It has a 3,000 years tradition. We celebrate in China and other Asian countries. And, you know, we eat the delicious mooncake. It's time for family reunion. So we're, you know, so glad to see everybody here, everybody's faces, like happy family faces. Thank you so much for coming here. So we hope you enjoy the festival. We'll have more beautiful performances and delicious food today and also tomorrow too. So happy Moon Festival. Thanks, Jean. My name is Liam and I help out a little bit here, but actually I helped out a lot more in the beginning, about nine years, well it was nine years ago. I was one of the founders of the original Moon Fest and we started it in Otisville, over the mountain. And the first year we had a thousand people. The second year we had 3,000 people and we outgrew the facilities over there. So we moved it over the mountain to here at this beautiful property owned by New Century. And I just want to say a little word about the background, why we started the Moon Fest. Jane just says that, tells us that the Moon Fest is actually the second most celebrated holiday in the world. And it's because in East Asia, so many billions of people celebrate the Moon Festival. And it is like Thanksgiving. It's a time where people come together, it's a time of harvest, it's a time of banquet and goodwill towards one another, families and neighbors. And we thought that is a wonderful event to bring to Western Orange County. So thank you for being here. I also want to thank the hundreds of volunteers that make this possible, including Jane who bears the brunt of it. And please on your way out, give a special thanks to the Deer Park Police. They've worked tirelessly under the baking sun to help facilitate all the parking this year. A wonderful improvement from last year. If you were here, we had some snaffles there. But thank you all for coming and enjoy the rest of the day. Appreciate it. and Chinese culture. And I'm so happy to be out here with all of you. This is a wonderful day for all of us to come together, celebrate everything that makes us one, regardless of our backgrounds. And I'm happy to be here. You guys have a wonderful space here and I would love to represent you up in Albany next year. So please come out in November and exercise your right to vote so that we can keep festivals like this going. It's a wonderful day today. what a great event here. Bringing the community together, the Chinese community, we all got to be one. You know, our communities has changed. We all got to come together and work together to make our community that much better. We all have different cultures and we all come together and create a community where everyone's included and everyone has a great time. Here we are and so many vendors, food. I think I gained already a couple of pounds from some of the foods and the dumplings. Great event. If you want to come out, please stay here. I believe to six o'clock today. So please come out. Great weather. Great time here. Hi guys, I'm Michael Goodyear with Empire Solar and I'm going to separate a little bit of fact from fiction today in the solar world. 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