Community Services Center

The Community Services Center is joining in with the Atayal Foundation, the TVFD (Taipei Volunteer Fire Department) and The English Library on a clothing, toy and computer drive for the Indigenous People in Taiwan. The project will be ongoing but we hope to put together a donation for Christmas in Wulai.

Your donation would be greatly appreciated. Donation items of children's clothing, toys and computers can be new or used ones. You can drop your donations off at the Center office before Friday, Dec. 16.

Last year it was “Steven Parker: Chauffeur” lending his services to help Rich Smith make his wife’s birthday one to remember. This year he re-invented himself as Barista Extraordinaire. Rich told his wife, Lucia, that they would be going out for a surprise breakfast outside but when she arrived in the lobby she was met by eight of her friends. Together they returned to the house to feast on lattes brewed by the Barista Extraordinaire and a variety of home-baked goods all prepared by the Center. A fantastic time was had by everyone.

From August 1942 until September 1945 more than 4,350 Allied prisoners of war were held in 16 POW camps on the island of Taiwan. In 1997, the Kinkaseki / Taiwan Prisoner of War Memorial at Jinguashi was built and dedicated, and every year since then a Remembrance Day service has been held on the site of the old POW camp. This year the Taiwan POW Camps Memorial Society and the Canadian Trade Office in Taipei are co-sponsoring Remembrance Weekend Friday, November 11 - Sunday, November 13.