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Good morning

I hope this is the right place to send my opinion. I was with a Welsh Group in Santa Barbara for nearly ten

years. It was started by a lady from North Wales whose first language was Welsh. It seemed to those North

Walians that was all that was important. When this lady left the group and I took over the program planning,

one of my ideas was to present all of the areas where Welsh people have excelled. For an example, those

North people never talked about the Welsh National Opera and it's productions. They wanted nothing to do with dance, gave no hint as to how to pronounce Welsh words, they were happy to talk among themselves and to add how "pure" was N. Wales because they spoke Welsh. In other words no warm welcome was given to newcomers. We cannot be that this in this multiculture country. I would appreciate

some reply from you and your opinion....................................Shanne Cano

I am so glad that you asked this question. During the time I was working, in LA, I would get up at 4a.m. to go to work in a hospital in West LA. Then

about 6 time a year I would drive 2.5 hours to get to Santa Barbara with my prepared programme for the Welsh Society . I wrote a few songs for them, we started some very basic language songs, I prepared some history and explanations of the Mabinogion AND I wrote a nrewletter

4 times a year. I refused to take care of the tea or milk. When I became ill and had to give up, I could find no-one to take care of the tea pots and of course no one took over the club.

One thing I will tell you is that no one brought their daughters to join the club. With this kind of apathy, what can you expect??? Shanne Cano