{"id":228,"date":"2019-01-12T15:14:00","date_gmt":"2019-01-12T20:14:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/stcoba-canada.com\/?p=228"},"modified":"2019-01-12T15:14:00","modified_gmt":"2019-01-12T20:14:00","slug":"agm-oct-27th-2018","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stcoba-canada.com\/index.php\/2019\/01\/12\/agm-oct-27th-2018\/","title":{"rendered":"AGM Oct 27th, 2018"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<div><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-369\" src=\"https:\/\/stcoba-canada.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/agm2018-300x160.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"160\" \/><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div><span style=\"font-family: tahoma, sans-serif; font-size: large;\">Thank you to the approximately 40 staunch Thomians who attended the AGM on Oct 27th. Among the attendees were a few of the inaugural members, 1st President Wimsy Sinnatamby, 1st Secretary and Past President Chico Guneratna, 1st Social Secretary and Past President Malik Candappa (also returning current exco member) and Shantha Jayasekera. Past Presidents Thamal Perera, Trevor Fernando, DR Weerasinghe, Kumaru Wijesundera, and David Jayaweera also bore witness to the proceedings.<\/span><\/div>\n<div><span style=\"font-family: tahoma, sans-serif; font-size: large;\">Those in attendance witnessed the appointing of your 2018\/2019 executive committee.<\/span><\/div>\n<div><span style=\"font-family: tahoma, sans-serif; font-size: large;\">As the Protem Chairman David Jayaweera mentioned in his speech, the membership must have been extremely happy with the job that President Jehan Ahamed and his committee did in 2018 as there were no nominations received to replace any of the positions on the committee.<\/span><\/div>\n<div><span style=\"font-family: tahoma, sans-serif; font-size: large;\">Congratulations to President Jehan Ahamed on his unanimous vote to return as president for a second term.<\/span><\/div>\n<div><span style=\"font-family: tahoma, sans-serif; font-size: large;\">The President thanked out going committee members Prasad Jinesena, Trevor Fernando, Varuna Indraratne and webmaster Sathish Gnanakumar for their invaluable service last year and welcomes three new additions Sajeewa Peries, Duwaid Ismail and Thaya Thevathasan.<\/span><\/div>\n<div><span style=\"font-family: tahoma, sans-serif; font-size: large;\">\u00a0<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-368\" src=\"https:\/\/stcoba-canada.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/2019-EXCO.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"914\" \/><\/span><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div><span style=\"font-family: tahoma, sans-serif; font-size: large;\">2018\/2019 Executive Committee:<\/span><\/div>\n<div><span style=\"font-family: tahoma, sans-serif; font-size: large;\">President: Jehan Ahamed, Vice President: Sumith Samarasinghe, Secretary: Rajit Kadirgamar<\/span><\/div>\n<div><span style=\"font-family: tahoma, sans-serif; font-size: large;\">Treasurer: Ram Thirugnanam, Sports Secretary: Sachithananthan Suresan,\u00a0<\/span><\/div>\n<div><span style=\"font-family: tahoma, sans-serif; font-size: large;\">Social Secretary: Dulsri Weerasinghe, Asst. Secretary: Thaya Thevathasan,\u00a0<\/span><\/div>\n<div><span style=\"font-family: tahoma, sans-serif; font-size: large;\">Asst. Treasurer: Priyanthan Gopalapillai, Asst. Sports Secretary: Gamini Kumarage<\/span><\/div>\n<div><span style=\"font-family: tahoma, sans-serif; font-size: large;\">Asst. Social Secretary: Sajeewa Peries (Webmaster)<\/span><\/div>\n<div><span style=\"font-family: tahoma, sans-serif; font-size: large;\">Committee: Daya Ginige (Webmaster), Malik Candappa, Riyaz Rauf, Duwaid Ismail<\/span><\/div>\n<div><span style=\"font-family: tahoma, sans-serif; font-size: large;\">Honorary Accountant: Sathish Somalingam<\/span><\/div>\n<div><span style=\"font-family: tahoma, sans-serif; font-size: large;\">Past President: Thamal Perera<\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div><span style=\"color: #38761d;\">Next event: Family Christmas party, December 1st,2018 6.30pm (Simeon Park Chalet, Gormley. Ontario)<\/span><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div class=\"m_2859814901295601866gmail_signature\" dir=\"ltr\">\n<div dir=\"ltr\">\n<div>\n<div dir=\"ltr\">\n<div>\n<div dir=\"ltr\">\n<div>\n<div dir=\"ltr\">\n<div>\n<div dir=\"ltr\">\n<div>\n<div dir=\"ltr\">\n<div>\n<div dir=\"ltr\">\n<div>\n<div dir=\"ltr\">\n<div>\n<div dir=\"ltr\">\n<div>\n<div>\n<div><span style=\"font-size: small;\">Esto Perpetua!<\/span><b><br \/>\n<\/b><\/div>\n<div><b>\u00a0<\/b><\/div>\n<div><b>Rajit Kadirgamar<br \/>\n<\/b><b><b>Secretary, STC OBA- Canada<\/b><\/b><\/div>\n<div><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone  wp-image-386\" src=\"https:\/\/stcoba-canada.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/0.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"219\" height=\"39\" \/><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><b><a href=\"mailto:secretary@stcoba-canada.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">secretary@stcoba-canada.com<\/a><\/b><\/p>\n<p><b><a href=\"http:\/\/www.stcoba-canada.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" data-saferedirecturl=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/url?q=http:\/\/www.stcoba-canada.com&amp;source=gmail&amp;ust=1547390437147000&amp;usg=AFQjCNF8FQtt6WT2_2DU-IKUhbabPvz1Ow\">www.stcoba-canada.com<\/a><br \/>\n<\/b><a style=\"color: #1155cc;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/groups\/170263746922159\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" data-saferedirecturl=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/url?q=https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/groups\/170263746922159\/&amp;source=gmail&amp;ust=1547390437148000&amp;usg=AFQjCNEru8UFcvCzGU9zxtvd_bdOyaW1QQ\"><b>https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/<wbr \/>groups\/170263746922159\/<\/b><\/a><b><br \/>\n<\/b><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Thank you to the approximately 40 staunch Thomians who attended the AGM on Oct 27th. Among the attendees were a few of the inaugural members, 1st President Wimsy Sinnatamby, 1st Secretary and Past President Chico Guneratna, 1st Social Secretary and Past President Malik Candappa (also returning current exco member) and &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-228","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-agm","column","twocol"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-04-23 08:50:25","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stcoba-canada.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/228","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stcoba-canada.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stcoba-canada.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stcoba-canada.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stcoba-canada.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=228"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/stcoba-canada.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/228\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stcoba-canada.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=228"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stcoba-canada.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=228"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stcoba-canada.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=228"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}