FAIRFAX, VA: Sikh Foundation of Virginia (SFV) celebrated the birthday of the Khalsa (Vaisakhi) on April 1316, 1989. There was a special diwan on the thirteenth at evening. More than 250 people attended that program in the evening. It was followed by Sri Akhand Paath Sahib on Friday morning.
After the bhog of the Akhand Path, on Sunday, AsaDiWaar had started. Following the AsaDiWaar, the main program started with kirtan Isha Kaur Manku, Satnam Singh Mankuand Gobind Singh Sethi. Giani Kuldeep Singh Deep also performed Kirtan.
The children, Sharan Sandhu, Arjun Singh Sethi, and Isha Kaur Manku, Anureet Kaur and Sukhdeep Kaur Eleu with Navdeep Manku, Harpreet K. Hansra, Natasha Kaur Sethi and Pammi K. Gill recited four shabads. After the children’s group, SFV ladies recited three shabads.
The Haroori Ragi Jatha of Labh Singh, from Sis Ganj Sahib, Delhi performed kirtan. After the Ragi Jatha, there was a speech by Gobind Singh Sethi, who is young Sikh, then a poem was recited in Punjabi by Harjap Singh Khalsa to the sadh sangat, After them, there was a shabad by children, Amarjeet Kaur Manku and Navdeep Kaur Kathuria.
New management committee members were announced. They are: Chairman: Tara Singh, Secretary: HarbansS. Matharoo, Treasurer: Surendra P. Singh, P.R.O: Permvir Singh, and Education Coordinator: Dr. Kamalject K. Sethi. At the end of the program, a sorapa was given to S. Sirmukh ‘Singh Manku SFV secretary from 19881989, in the token of his sewa of the sadh sangat. Over 1300 people had attended the Gurpurb. Gur Ka Lungar was served all day.
Earlier the SFV had a special Sunday diwan on April 2, 1989, that was organized by the Washington Metropolitan Area Sikh children. Over three hundred had attended that program. It was organized by Sanjey Lamba, a high school student. The secretaries of the children program were Amrita Madan and Harchet S. Hansra. The children who participated in the program were: from Sikh Foundation of Virginia Gurdwara; Harpreet K. Hansra, Navdeep Kaur Kathuria, Monica Singh, Isha Kaur Manku, Natasha Kaur Sethi, Anureet Kaur and Sukdeep Kaur Deu, Amarjeet Kaur Manku, Kamaljeet K. Mathar100, Sahiba Kaur Rathore, Sharan K. Sandhu, Arjun Singh Sethi, Ricki Singh, J.J. Singh, Gobind Singh Sethi, Arvinder Singh, Sukhedeep Singh Kaisth, Bela Kaur, Sandeep K.
Kaisth. Ardas was rendered by Balpreet Kaur, a granddaughter of Dr. Gurbaksh Singh Gill.
Other children who participated were American Sikh children from Great Falls Virginia, children from North Carolina Gurdwara, who drove about 5 to 6 hours to participate in the program, Guru Gobind Singh Foundation Gurdwara, from Maryland, Guru Nanak Foundation of America, from Maryland, the Washington Sikh Center Gurdwara from Maryland, and from the Sikh Temple Gurdwara which is in Washington D.C.
Following the program the langar, which was organized by Nisha K. Lamba, was served.
Article extracted from this publication >> May 5, 1989
