To all Acadian & Cajun Cousins Whether or not you are planning to attend CMA 2004 in Nova Scotia, your family association is greatly in need of your contribution. The Canadian government is not being very helpful [if at all] to the family associations needing funds to be able to establish monuments to the first Acadian Ancestors or to help run the family reunions. For instance, the LeBlanc Family Association needs $1,500 to put up a stone with plaque as a monument to our first Ancestor, Daniel LeBlanc and so far they have received very little. People just dont understand the need to support their family associations. With all of the Acadian descendants living in the United States alone, if everyone donated even a few dollars to the cause, there would be more than enough to cover some of these needs. If you can help in any way, please contact me privately. Would you please give this some consideration? Thank you. Lucie LeBlanc Consentino Acadian & French Canadian Ancestral Home <http://www.acadian-home.org> www.acadian-home.org CMA 2004 - <http://www.cma2004.com/> www.cma2004.com Grand-Pré - <http://www.grand-pre.com/> www.grand-pre.com/ <http://www.umoncton.ca/etudeacadiennes/centre/cea.html> www.umoncton.ca/etudeacadiennes/centre/cea.html <http://www.umoncton.ca/etudeacadiennes>