Sedona AZ (March 24, 2010) — Why settle for just one New Year celebration when you can have two? That is the attitude of the Rotary Club of Sedona when Magical Journeys ™ joins Rotary to present a Thai New Year celebration, Songkran.

The Thai New Year event offers the City of Sedona and the Village of Oak Creek an opportunity to dine in the culture of Thai at Tara Thai Restaurant, Bell Rock Plaza, Sedona Arizona 86351 on Sunday, April 11, 2010 at 5:00 pm.

The restaurant is renting a tent to ensure plenty of room for the celebration. In addition to feasting on a delicious Tara Thai dinner, celebrants can look forward to a papaya stand and lively entertainment with Thai music and outstanding dancers from Thailand. Along with a video of a Songkran celebration in Thailand, attendees will learn a bit about how Songkran New Year fills its place in Thai culture.

To make reservations for the Songkran celebration, visit Desert Hills Bank in either the City of Sedona or in its Village of Oak Creek to pay by check or cash; or visit SedonaRotary.org to sign up online. Price for the celebration is $55 of which $20 will be donated to Sedona Community Food Bank for purchase of food in bulk.

In the words of Sedona Rotary Club President, Gary Karademos, “People can come to eat and celebrate at our fundraiser so that more people in our community have something to eat.”

In February 2010, the Rotary Club of Sedona celebrated Chinese New Year at the Red Chopstick Restaurant where they feasted on an eight course Chinese Dinner (eight for prosperity) and owner Simon Ho demonstrated the traditional method for making Chinese noodles, without cutting or extrusion.

Rotary Club of Sedona is part of Rotary International, with 33,000 clubs worldwide working to combat hunger, improve health and sanitation, provide education and job training, promote peace, and eradicate polio under the motto Service Above Self.

Magical Journeys ™ is committed to creating a strong alliance between residents and the business community by creating, promoting and fostering events that will enhance community economic, social, and cultural well-being.

International projects of Rotary include: annual commitment to Polio Plus, Rotary’s program to eradicate polio from the face of the earth; sponsorship of youth study exchange students between Sedona and other countries (this year’s exchange student from Sedona will be Collin Heath going to Brazil); and the Kenyan water distribution project–providing water to a medical clinic, two schools, and a remote community.

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