The After Party

From the very beginning, we can say that part of Cleveland Romanian community became a white-purple one, for Poli of America Supporters Group 3rd Convention. Why that? Just because of the incredible success we encountered during the Romanian Festival greatly hosted by St. Mary Orthodox Cathedral, where the organizers did an amazing job and took care of every single detail in order to make it an unbelievable experience.

The "Making it Working" Plan

Learning from our 2nd Convention from Minneapolis & Saint Paul, Minnesota, it was pretty simple to "make it working" in Cleveland. First of first, to reach here, the Organizing Committee for 2022 had to choose the most reliable option. And there were a few: Kitchener, the Canadian city with a lot of Banat fellows living there, came as a first, with the local Romanian Festival hosted mid August. Due to the organizational fees we couldn't afford it, therefore we considered the other ones, as Montreal (Canada), Miami (Florida), Phoenix (Arizona), St. Paul (Minnesota), Chicago (Illinois), Cleveland (Ohio) - all, USA, the project that capture the attention for this Convention was Cleveland and was voted by the Board with 100% out of the votes.

Three Magic Days

Everything started on Thursday night, for the first who arrived there: the president of the organization and the IT and website specialists. Still, Friday was the day with pretty much all our supporters arrivals from all over United States and Canada as this 3rd Convention of "Poli T" Supporters from North America was hosted in between August 19tg and 21st of 2022.

The Main Day

The main event for our organization happened on the 20th, obviously, warmly hosted by our fantastic friends from St. Mary Romanian Orthodox Cathedral from Cleveland - where we found during the entire three days plenty of delicious Romanian food, from the classical "mititei" and delicious home made sweets, up to Timişoreana beer and more.

In regards with the artistic part, besides our hosts' performers, we also invited our guys from Poli of America Music Project: Adrian Nechiti, Dan Rizo and Sorin Griza from Vox Maris Band, Chicago, featuring Raul Dudnic and Ramon Radosav, both ex Cargo, a well known Romanian rock band. The show ended up, as usual, with our "Poli of America" Anthem, proudly performed by lots of Politehnica Timişoara supporters who joined the performers, on the stage - check our Facebook, Twitter and Instagram social media profiles to watch it!

The Last Day, again.....

And, as nothing lasts forever, Sunday came. It brought up the departures. They all came after another successful day for the organizers and for Poli of America booth, where we've got a lot of visits, shared about us and about our goal: helping Politehnica Timişoara, as a Club abd Soccer Academy.

Media coverage

The most important moments of the event have been live broadcasted on our social media Facebook channel, ▶️ facebook.com/PoliofAmericaSG and also presented on our Twitter channel, ▶️ twitter.com/PoliofAmerica.

The Agenda

This was the Agenda for 2nd convention

Friday, August 19th, 2022

5:00 - 6:00 pm - guest arrival & cocktail hour. Location: 3256 Warren Rd, Cleveland, OH 44111.

6:00 - 10:00 pm - food and drinks during the Romanian Festival hosted by St Mary Romanian Orthodox Cathedral. Socializing, music, and other fun games activities - live on "Poli of America SG" Facebook. Expo exhibit Politehnica Timişoara.

10:00 pm - 12:00 am - message from Timişoara, from our Club reps & leaders. Live private mini repetition for the concert tomowwow with Poli of America Music Project Band: Ramon Radosav & Raul Dudnic (both Ex Cargo), Dan Rizo, Adrian Nechiti & Sorin Griza (all three, Vox Maris Band, Chicago). Bids for Politehnica signed advertising materials. All, with our airbnb location;

Friday, Aug 19th, Festival Hours: 4 PM to 10 PM

2:00 am Saturday - Meeting adjourned.

Saturday, August 20th, 2022

8:30 AM - coffee hour for Card Holders & Friends, "miuță" at Westlake Stadium, close to our airbnb & Cathedral;

11 AM to 1 PM - 3rd Convention for Poli of America Membership Card Holders and Supporters/Friends;

The Agenda of the meeting will not be disclosed here, subject of internal meeting

1:30 PM to 11 PM - afternoon fun at The Romanian Festival. Location: 3256 Warren Rd, Cleveland, OH 44111, hosted by St Mary Romanian Orthodox Cathedral;

Poli of America presentation booth - Politehnica & Romania promo materials, "on the spot" meetings and internal discussions for card holders, friends & local people - will be open throughout all day, Saturday & Sunday, August 20th & 21st, during festival hours;

8 to 9:30 PM, exclusive music show, with artists performing our Poli of America Antem and lots of other gorgeous songs. The Band is called "Poli of America Music Project", with Ramon Radosav & Raul Dudnic (both Ex Cargo), Dan Rizo, Adrian Nechiti & Sorin Griza (all three, Vox Maris Band, Chicago).

Saturday, Aug 20th, Festival Hours: 2 to 11 PM

Sunday, August 21st, 2022

9 AM to 10 AM: Breakfast & wrap-up Poli of America SG 3nd Convention & awards celebration. Location: our airbnb or breakfast at a restaurant, location to be provided shortly;

10 AM to 12 PM - Poli of America Members & Friends trip to Rock and Roll Hall of Fame;

12 PM to later: either departure home for Poli of America Members & Friends who need to go earlier, or attendance to the 3rd day of the Festival.

Poli of America presentation booth - Politehnica & Romania promo materials, "on the spot" meetings and internal discussions for card holders, friends & local people will also be opened on this entire Sunday during Festival Hours.

Sunday, Aug 21st, Festival Hours: 12 to 9 PM

8 PM - meeting and 3rd Convention, adjourned. See you next year

Achievements

1. The local Romanians plus the non-Romanians visiting our booth rediscovered or found out about Politehnica Timişoara and what the role of Poli of America SG is;
2. The Romanian community was happy with hosting us and invited us again, for the future years, for a new collaboration;
3. Both Țăran Family - our local hosts - and Mihaela Hetruc - Main Organizer - all together with Father Grama, St. Mary Orthodox Cathedral - were amazingly helpful in their qualities as reliable local people and warm people. We hope they will be even more appreciated in the Community;
4. There will be either 1 up to 3 more Poli card memberships signed for;
5. The three Vox Maris Band Chicago Members featuring Ramon & Raul played an amazing role in a win-win situation for all the involved parties - thank you.

Our Gratitude and Appreciation

Subsequent to a new great feedback from all the involved parties and all the attendants, the organizers show gratitude to all those who made it possible, from our hosts, Răzvan Dorian Țăran Family, respectively St Mary Orthodox Cathedral in Cleveland, up to all our local supporters and, obviously, those who joined from Eastern to Western Canadian or American states. You, guys, made it happen again, you are those ones placing the white-purple Poli Timişoara flag in Cleveland through your donations - which are 100% deductible in the United States. For each of you, Poli of America SG will mail the proof of donation released by our Non-Profit Organization. The list, below:

Poli of America Family Supportive Donations

The local Poli T booth shoppers & donners
Father Remus Grama, Mihaela Hetruc & the local festival organizers team
Răzvan Dorian Țăran
Tudor Felea
Ovidiu Mara
Mircea Ciprian Matei
Narcis Drăgan
Constantin Lutaş
Andrei Ardelean
Adrian Arsene
Teofil Stănilă
Andrei Lozneanu
Cristian Liuba
Flavius Coşarcă
Dan Medeleț
Elvis Schmidt
Alin Romoniță
Marius Tomescu
Dan Octavian Pop
Romulus Stoian
Nicolae Talpiş
Marius Tomuță
David Lang
Claudiu Petrea
Vox Maris Band Members

We express our appreciation for our social media partners, especially for TV Noi Românii Montreal (Raul Dudnic), all the Facebook community groups who allowed our adverstising and "Ora României" Radio Station (Adrian Ardelean),

Feedbacks

DL:Organizers, you don't get enough recognition for all the hard work you do for Poli of America. Poli suntem noi!

MCM:
1. Great job everyone! Next year I’ll have to bring the wife.
2. Narcis, you nailed it again.
3. Great location, wonderful host Mihaela, good food, weather helped. Răzvan, you were a big help and contributor. Thank you.
4. Thank you Ramon & Vox Maris, great show.
5. Pop up tent/concession stand: well equipped, a variety of products, next time we’ll be even better.
6. Future events/Conventions:
*I’ll suggest same concept- Airbnb for housing and maximize the # of people especially if it’s just us guys. *I consider the best option to schedule our Convention during a Romanian festival for keeping the level of exposure and entertainment elevated. *If we ever come back to Cleveland (which I would) and we bring any entertainment we should ask the church/bar/organizing entities to take a share in the financial aspect. This time Poli of America covered the music and related costs, we recovered the money from sell of goods, however is not much left to be sent out to RO.

TF:With Răzvan's logistic support, we turned this Convention into a great success. Selling tshirts and other soccer dedicated or related things seems to be successful, too. Next time, we'll be even more prepared. And also collaborate with a local Romanian Festival. It would be ideal to share the artistic performance expenses. Otherwise, ladies and gentlemen, hats off.

OM:Thank you, Mihaela, for hosting. You guys have an amazing Romanian Festival, keeping the authentic Romanian traditions immortal. Besides gathering again with my Poli supporters and friends throughout North America, I met a lot of wonderful people. Meanwhile, I will keep the local Romanian community from Cleveland in my soul.

AA:Loving everything that you guys are doing! Go Poli Timişoara!

MH:Great group of supporters. It was an honor for me to work with them before and during their 3rd Convention in Cleveland this year (2022). They earned a great deal of respect from me for their kindness and dedication on helping the club, the young athletes, potential players in their home-town soccer team, Poli Timisoara. So, for this reason alone, I became one of the active supporters. If somebody cares, HELP THEM to HELP the unfortunate kids who have a talent but no money to develop their talent! Go Poli of America!

VMB:We felt amazing, really appreciate the incredible warm welcoming. Happy again that our music found a path to your souls. We will keep continuing our partnership with Poli of America for a long time.

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