Crazy Voda Fundraiser

Crazy Voda's CD fundraiser happened last week  at On Cue Billiards just North of Bloor West Village to support their upcoming CD. The band put on a great show and everyone had a crazy fun time!

Crazy Voda is a five-piece Afro-Latin Polka band based in Toronto. The group strives to examine and foster the surprising similarities between Eastern European and Afro-Latin musical traditions. Crazy Voda is a great advocate of music fusion, a concept that has had, for many years now, a strong presence in the folk music world. 

To view all the pictures taken that night click HERE for Ukrainian Credit Union's Facebook album, or HERE for Crazy Voda's Facebook album.

To Learn more about Crazy Voda click HERE for their Facebook page and HERE for their new website.

Congratulations UNF on your 80th

This Wednesday (July 17) UNF Toronto celebrated its 80th Anniversary. Hundreds of people showed up to the UNF Hall at 145 Evans to help celebrate this momentous event.

The evening featured music, food, photo displays, dancing, and the opportunity to tour the UNF building.

For more photos please visit our Facebook album titled UNF 80th Anniversary.

Happy Friday! It's Confirmed!

It's official music legend Oleh Skrypka will perform 4 shows over the three day Bloor West Village Toronto Ukrainian Festival! He'll be performing with Lviv Jazz with Vasyl Popadiuk & band and with VV!

Read the press release HERE and if you want to know more about VV click HERE for their Facebook page.

Defending the Ukrainian language

Anna Procio, Roman Mlynko and Kateryna Litvinjuk, all of the Wealth Strategies Group
 at Ukrainian Credit Union, came out to support the cause.

On Wednesday July 18, memebrs of Toronto's Ukrainian community gathered at the Consulate General of Ukraine at 2275 Lakeshore Blvd W in Etobicoke. They came out to voice their support for the mounting protests throughout Ukraine, where tens of thousands of citizens are demanding that the authoritarian Yanukovych regime in Kyiv respect the sanctity of the Ukrainian language as the single constitutionally mandated language of the country.

More photos are available on our Facebook page in the In defence of the Ukrainian Language photo album.

St.Joseph's Golf Tournament!

The 6th annual St. Joseph's Ukrainian Catholic Church Golf Tournament took place on a beautiful day. The recent Toronto heat wave broke the night before saving the golfers from sun stroke and heat prostration. Ukrainian Credit Union Limited is proud to once again be the lead sponsor of the event.

Vlad Karman, Branch Manager of Ukrainian Credit Union's BLoor West Branch tees off.

More photos are available on our Facebook page in the St. Joseph's Church Golf Tournament photo album.

The church website will also have some photos posted later. http://www.tserkva.ca/

Sts. Vladimir & Olga Golf Tourney in Windsor

This past weekend Fred Petruk Chief Risk Officer at Ukrainian Credit Union Limited and Mike Kryworuchko Windsor Branch manager participated in the Sts. Vladimir and Olga Ukrainian Catholic Church Second Annual Golf Tournament. There were nearly 80 golfers at the event held at Dominion Golf Course in Windsor.  

Fred Petruk (second from right) presents a cheque from UCU for $3,000
to Leisha Nazarewich, Church Council President and
Father Eugene Halitsky (far left). Mike Kryworuchko is pictured on the right.

The team from Ukrainian Credit Union, consisting of Mike Kryworuchko, Marty Pedersen, Mike Pyszniak and Greg Demers won the tournament with a score of 9 under par! That's some great golfing guys.

Volunteers from Sts. Vladimir & Olha Ukrainian Catholic Church prepare
to serve an amazing Ukrainian-themed meal to the golfers at the church hall.

Member Appreciation BBQ

This Saturday, members and staff at our Mississauga branch celebrated with some tasty barbeque.

Lining up for some roast piglet!

One of our member businesses, Croatia Meats, located not far from our branch at 918 Dundas St. E. in Mississauga showcased their excellent food and BBQ-ing skills by grilling up piles of cevapi (a type of ground veal and pork sausage) and serving roast piglet and burek (philo pastry rolls with spinach and cheese). Guests could make delicious sandwiches on fresh buns slather with adjvar a mildly spicy relish.

Inside it was business as usual...

...but with more balloons, gifts and prizes

We will be announcing winners of our prize draw shortly. For a lot more photos, please visit the Mississauga BBQ album on our FB page.

Turn Around Projects of the Arts

Turn Around Projects of the Arts (TAP) is a not-for-profit organization with the mission to create and maintain integrated arts projects, which promote reciprocal exchange in order to impact and strengthen communities.

Yesterday we received a wonderful thank you from one of our members Roxolana Chwaluk. This year we donated some Ukrainian Credit Union USB keys to help Roxy distribute information for TAP's projects. We wish Rox and TAP the best of luck in all of their future projects!

Are you interested in learning more about TAP? Click HERE to visit their website.

Crazy Voda Promo Video!

Next Friday is Crazy Voda's fundraiser on Friday July 20th at On Cue Billiards just North of Bloor West Village!

We still have a couple of FREE tickets left!

If you'd like a complimentary ticket to the event, email contest@ukrainiancu.com now (they will be available for pickup at our Wealth Strategies Group office at 2265 Bloor St. West). But hurry we don't have too many available.

Check out their promo video for the event here!

In defence of the Ukrainian language

The member organizations of the Canadian Conference in Support of Ukraine have called on the Ukrainian Canadian community of greater Toronto and surrounding communities to gather on Wednesday, July 18, 2012 at the Consulate General of Ukraine, (2275 Lakeshore Blvd. W in Etobicoke) to rally in defence of the Ukrainian language and against Russia’s imperialist ambitions. Ukrainian Canadians and friends of Ukraine will voice their collective support for the mounting protests throughout Ukraine, where tens of thousands of citizens are demanding that the authoritarian regime in Kyiv respect the sanctity of the Ukrainian language as the single constitutionally mandated language of the country and for an end to Russia’s imperialist designs on Ukraine. Russia is intent on re-imposing its colonial control over Ukraine similar to that of Czarist and Soviet-Russia from the 17th through the 20th centuries, when speaking the Ukrainian language contravened government policy and was punishable with ostracization and even arrest. See CHRONOLOGY OF PROHIBITIONS OF THE UKRAINIAN LANGUAGE at: http://www.lucorg.com/UserFiles/File/Prohibitions.pdf 

Matura Class of 2012 sends a thank you.

Yesterday we got a great gift from the graduating classes of local Ukrainian language heritage schools.

Thank you very much and we all wish you the best of luck!

You can read a bit more about the Matura 2012 Ball here: Баль Матурантів - 2012. You can also see some of the videos that students created for the contest we held in cooperation with Western Union ON OUR Youtube channel.

Member Appreciation Day in Mississauga

Come join us Saturday July 14th 2012 from 11am to 2 pm at our Member Appreciation Day Barbecue at our Mississauga Branch location and enjoy some great food from Croatia Meats and some great prizes and giveaways!

Real Estate Seminar

Buying a home requires you to make important decisions fast and many times right on the spot. So it’s important that you should know what to expect when buying a home for the first time.

In this seminar we’ll outline the whole process from beginning to end, so when it’s time for you to purchase you’ll know how the home buying process works, what expenses to be prepared for, the benefits of going with a realtor, and much more.

This seminar will take the stress out of buying a home and saves you time and money.

The seminar will take place July 26, 6:30pm at 2265 Bloor Street West at the UCU Wealth Strategies Group office. It will feature:

Sandy Bodnar Re/Max Professionals Inc. Sales Representative

Mobile 416-697-7093

E-mail sold@sandybodnarhomes.com

Olena Pyankova, Ukrainian Credit Union Commercial Accounts Officer

Phone 416-922-2797 x301

E-mail opyankovo@ukrainiancu.com

If you would like to join us please RSVP prior to July 23rd as limited seating is available.

For more information please call Anna Procio at the Wealth Strategies Group Office
Call: (416) 763-5575 x 200 or
E-mail: aprocio@ukrainiancu.com

Crazy Voda Performing at On Cue Billiards

Join Crazy Voda fundraiser Friday July 20th at On Cue Billiards just North of Bloor West Village to support their upcoming CD!

Free tickets!

Ukrainian Credit Union is proud to be a sponsor of this event. If you'd like a complimentary ticket to the event, email contest@ukrainiancu.com now (they will be available for pickup at our Wealth Strategies Group office at 2265 Bloor St. West). But hurry we don't have too many available.

Crazy Voda is a five-piece Afro-Latin Polka band based in Toronto. The group strives to examine and foster the surprising similarities between Eastern European and Afro-Latin musical traditions. Crazy Voda is a great advocate of music fusion, a concept that has had, for many years now, a strong presence in the folk music world. 

Crazy Voda wishes to invite everyone to experience the unique and high energy of their music, with plans to continue investigating the connecting points between Eastern European and Afro-Latin music.

To Learn more about Crazy Voda click HERE for their Facebook page and HERE for more about the CD Fundraiser.

New Traditions Island Music Festival

June 30th 2012 brought us The New Traditions Island Music festival that was a collaboration between three local arts organizations—Whippersnapper Gallery, Fedora Upside-Down, and Artscape Gibraltar Point—New Traditions was 12 hours of indie music, installations, dance workshops, performance art, face painting, a “puppet slam,” fresh food, swimming, fireworks, and bonfires.

Taking place on Gibraltar Point on Toronto Island, the sold out festival was a day-long adventure in musical discovery, beach-side relaxing, and folk workshops. 

Many of the highlights from the day were Ukrainian focused. Box Outside Storytelling Collective presented a performance piece based on the traditions of Ivana Kupala and Tangi Ropars conducted a Ukrainian folk dance workshop. 

The ladies of Kosa Kolektiv had their “Kosa Kafe” setup where one could relax and enjoy some home brewed tea made from locally grown herbs and flowers, or participate in their wreath making workshop.

Check out the rest of the event photos HERE in our Facebook album.

Picking Winners Stocks Seminar

Last night was a great evening learning all about how to identify great stocks. We learned everything from identifying what a value stock is to how to avoid buying into a "value trap".

Mike Zienchuk showed us a whole bunch of techniques on identifying stocks and how it doesn't always have to be a complicated process. We also were able to apply all of our knowledge right there with the great charts Mike provided to everyone.

Interested in learning more about Stocks? Contact Mike Zienchuk at the Wealth Strategies office in Bloor West Village for a meeting 416-763-5575 x 201 or mzienchuk@ukrainiancu.com.For more pictures from our Stocks Seminar CLICK HERE to see them on our Facebook page!

Happy Canada Day!

The best country in the world celebrates its 145th birthday! Have a great day off tomorrow and we'll see you on Tuesday.