January 16, 2020 Dear fellow Rotarians Pit Senyor! In celebration of Sinulog 2020, Prosperity Celebration Inc., in cooperation with Il Corso Mall, City of Cebu, Cebu Landmaster Inc. and Virginia Food Inc. will present a Fireworks Competition on Friday, Jan. 17 at 6PM entitled Sky Symphony. It will showcase the pyrotechnic skills of companies from Luzon, Visayas and Mindanao. In this regard, PP Jonie Gesalem would like to offer every RCC member a pair of VIP tickets for access to a premium spot in the mall to watch the pyrotechnics competition. This month of January, we will be expecting two visiting Rotary Clubs. On Jan. 23, Thursday, 3 members of RC Okayama Marunouchi will be attending our luncheon meeting. We will also be hosting a fellowship dinner that evening at Chikaan in Salinas Drive 6:30PM. The second club is RC Yotsukaido, our partner in the Community Scouts Project, which will be arriving this coming 31st January. We look forward to this visit hoping we can do new big projects with this club. We will ask Rotarian Shige Onda to brief us later of the itinerary so members can join us in these activities. In the effort to help the communities in the northern part of Cebu affected by the last Typhoon Ursula last Christmas, District 3860 thru Disaster Management Chair - Troy Bumagat, donated Php30,000.00 in addition to our fund-raising activity whereby raising the amount to more than Php600K already. Congratulations RC Cebu for this new feat. We just donated on the first weekend of January 2020 materials for the six temporary classrooms in Población National High School, Daan Bantayan Cebu. We shall be donating as well to Paypay National High School to fix some of their classrooms. Another island community - Kinatarkan, shall also be receiving some of these assistance thru the effort of Rotarian Bobong Castillo. Lastly, this is to remind everyone that deadline for early bird registration of our DisCon 2020 at Cebu Grand Convention March 5-7, 2020 is on the 30th of January. To avail this P4,500 fee, enlist now. Our club will pay in advance for this registration. Michael P. Torres Thank You. Cheers! PRESIDENT, RY 2019-2020 P a g e | 1 OFFICIAL NEWSLETTER OF RC CEBU www.rotarycebu.org RY 2019-2020 24th Weekly Meeting & S U G B U A N O N Fellowship January 16, 2020 Issue No. 24 RY 2019 - 2020 INVOCATION Lord, Creator and Sustainer of all that is or will ever be. Accept our thanks for this day Rtn Aris Kintanar and all its blessings. Please be our teacher RCC Member since June 2013 and speak to our hearts. Teach us that our Rtn Mike Edenburn days on Earth are numbered. Teach us that EMCEE you are the source of life and the Giver of I. Call to Order life and the great Healer. Help us make a Pres Mike Torres difference. Help us make the rotary II. Invocation, Nasudnong foundation make a difference in these Awit & The Four-Way numbered days. Teach us how to be good Test stewards of all you have entrusted to us, III. Introduction of Visiting our time, treasure and talents. Help us be Rotarians and Guests good managers. We ask for your presence in this meeting and fellowship. Amen. IV. Fellowship Singing Copacabana by “Barry NASUDNONG AWIT Manilow” Yutang tabunon, mutya nga masilakon. Putling V. President’s Time bahandi, amo kang gimahal. Mithing gisimba, Pres Mike Torres yuta’s mga bayani; Sa manlulupig, pagdapigan VI. Election of RCC Board of ka. Ang mga buntod mo ug lapyahan, sa langit Directors mong bughaw. Nagahulad sa awit, lamdag sa VII. Introduction of Speaker kaliwat tang gawas. Silaw sa adlaw ug bituon VIII. Speaker’s Talk sa nasudnong bandila. Nagatima-an nga "A. Kintanar - the man and his buhion ta ang atong pagka-usa. Yutang 2020 Economic Forecast” maanyag, duyan ka sa pagmahal, landong sa IX. Open Forum langit ang dughan mo. Pakatam-ison namo nga X. Adjournment nagatukaw kung mamatay man sa ngalan mo! P a g e | 2 OFFICIAL NEWSLETTER OF RC CEBU www.rotarycebu.org RY 2019-2020 ,sndsadnsa Gary C.K. Huang Trustee Chair 2019-20 January 2020 Something amazing happened in Vienna in October. A runner from Kenya named Eliud Kipchoge was the first person in history to run a marathon distance — 26.2 miles — in less than two hours. For many years, experts thought this would be impossible. They said the human body was not capable of achieving this feat. But Kipchoge succeeded because he had an incredible team working with him. He had pacers who ran with him every step of the way, and people who made sure that he had the proper fuel and hydration. Every few miles, fresh runners were sent in to keep up the pace and help him reach his goal. Like Eliud Kipchoge, Rotary has a great support team as we approach the final mile in our marathon journey to rid the world of polio. So many amazing Rotarians have helped pace this effort along the way, donating their time and energies to bring us close to our goal. The World Health Organization has certified type 3 of the wild poliovirus as eradicated. This is big news! We have also gone three years without any wild poliovirus on the continent of Africa. It may soon be certified polio-free. …..continue next page P a g e | 3 OFFICIAL NEWSLETTER OF RC CEBU www.rotarycebu.org RY 2019-2020 The final mile of our journey is a difficult one. Pakistan and Afghanistan are great challenges for us — but we have met so many great challenges before. Every time a goal has seemed out of reach, Rotarians have stood together and answered the call. This is no time to lose our focus or to think the race is already over. Can you imagine what would have happened to Eliud Kipchoge if all of the pacers had gone home for the final 2 miles? He might never have reached his goal. It takes a special character to pursue a difficult task all the way to the end. These are the times that we need each other most. In the Tao Te Ching, Laozi wrote that the journey of 1,000 miles begins with one step. But it also ends with one step. And those final steps take just as much courage as the first. Let's make history, Rotary — the finish line is within reach! January 2020 VOCATIONAL SERVICE Jan 17 Sky Symphony : 6PM Il Corso Mall Jan 23 WEEKLY MTG Fellowship Dinner with RC Okayama Marunouchi: 630PM Chikaan Lahug Jan 30 WEEKLY MTG February 2020 PEACE AND CONFLICT PREVENTION Feb 06 WEEKLY MTG Feb 11 8th BOD Meeting Like and Follow us: Feb 13 WEEKLY MTG Feb 20 WEEKLY MTG Feb 23 Rotary Anniversary Feb 27 WEEKLY MTG Rotary Club of Cebu March 2020 WATER AND SANITATION Mar 05 WEEKLY MTG Mar 5-7 DisCon 2020: Grand Convention Cebu Mar 10 9th BOD Meeting Mar 12 WEEKLY MTG rotaryclubofcebu Mar 12-18 World Rotaract Week Mar 19 WEEKLY MTG Mar 26 WEEKLY MTG April 2020 MATERNAL & CHILD HEALTH MOM @rotary_cebu P a g e | 4 OFFICIAL NEWSLETTER OF RC CEBU www.rotarycebu.org RY 2019-2020 Apr 02 WEEKLY MTG Apr 09 WEEKLY MTG Apr 14 10th BOD Meeting Apr 16 WEEKLY MTG Apr 23 WEEKLY MTG Apr 30 WEEKLY MTG May 2020 YOUTH SERVICE May 07 WEEKLY MTG May 12 11th BOD Meeting May 14 WEEKLY MTG May 17 Run for Gift of Life Year 4 May 21 WEEKLY MTG May 28 WEEKLY MTG June 2020 ROTARY FELLOWSHIP Jun 06 WEEKLY MTG June 6-10 RI Convention: Honolulu Hawaii Jun 09 12th Joint BOD Meeting Jun 13 WEEKLY MTG Jun 20 WEEKLY MTG P a g e | 5 OFFICIAL NEWSLETTER OF RC CEBU www.rotarycebu.org RY 2019-2020 WHAT HAPPENED LAST WEEK… By: Walter Cang Our first luncheon meeting of the calendar year went off to a good start. Sinulog was just around the corner, so we invited the Sinulog Foundation, Inc. Exec. Director Jojo Labella to be our guest speaker. Despite his busy schedule, we were honored by his presence. BTW 2 of our members PP Ricky Dakay and PE Ed Gaisano are the Pres. & Acting Chairman of Sinulog Foundation, and Trustee & member of the Sinulog Governing Board respectively. We invited him to brief us about the activities being planned around Sinulog. He shared some aspects of Sinulog parade & competition that had changed this year as compared to previous years. Now on its 40th year, he credited the Board of Trustees for the great work they have done to not only preserve the event, but to make is prosper. Estimates for attendance this year is expected to hit 4 to 5 million people! This year, we will see more contingents (26 vs. 22) taking part in the contest, the reintroduction of the carousel concept that allows each contingent to perform in a circular route rather than from one point to another. He also announced the return of many teams that had previously won and stopped taking part in the contest for one reason or another. There appears to be a deliberate effort to expand the event by a series of first such as They also have 10 Barangay and 6 Lalawigan contingents, as well as a contingent composed of street children, and a drum and bugle competition. What’s more surprising is the 35-member strong contingent from Wongju, South Korea! Word is out too that our El Presidente might be showing up, and after several years’ absence, our city Governor Gwen Garcia will be taking part in the dance as part of the contingent from Alcoy.