ISSUE 21 VOL 56 | JANUARY 05, 2016 PROGRAMME January 05, 2016 12:30 PM Oasis Country Resort Sevilla Center, City of San Fernando, La Union Call to Order President Mark Singh Prayer, National Anthem Rtn. Marvin Lanuza & The 4 - Way Test LUNCH Welcome & Greetings Rtn. Carlos Ospina Birthday Celebrants January 8 PP Aldy Dy Friendship session Asst. Secretary Jerry Sharpe Intro of Guest Speaker Rtn. Fausto Liriano Guest Speaker Randy Christoph A. Berner Response PP Jerry Parlan President’s Time President Mark Singh Master of Ceremonies: Rtn. Fausto Liriano 1 PRESIDENT’S CORNER MAKING A MARK ISSUE 21 VOL 56 | JANUARY 05, 2016 alf of the Rotary year is over. We must be very thankful for our half-year accomplishments together. Nothing is impossible with our joint efforts Hof working together to create positive and lasting change for our communities. Having a common objective of being a gift to the world, the following are projects at San Agustin Elementary School (joint to show how much we care for the people, project with RC Wonju Jeil), Conducted were effectively carried out and considered Anniversary Motorcade, Conducted beneficial for their respective beneficiaries. 56th Charter Anniversary Celebration, Joint Project with RC Manila Centennial July 2015 – Donation of school (billboard), Conducted Anti Bullying supplies, Gift giving & Nutrition Program, Seminar Tree Planting project with RC Manila Centennial (sister club), Relief Operation December 2015 – Conducted Anti Bullying Seminar, Conducted Project August 2015 – Donation of orbit fans, DREAM (Drug Resistance Education Donation of wheelchairs, Medical Mission, Awareness Movement), Conducted Giving assistance to a cancer patient, Teenage Pregnancy Prevention, turnover of toilet block and hand washing Sponsored SPED School Christmas party, facility to Pagudpud Elementary School, Turnover of Mobile Police Assistance Box Hosted TRF Seminar in the Street. September 2015 – Two Medical Mentioned were just among the many Missions, Basketball donation, Coastal activities of our club. They were actions Clean-up, Donation of wheelchair and direct results of the goals we set beforehand. To take the necessary steps to October 2015 – Donation of achieve our goals takes ample willpower, wheelchairs, Sponsored prizes during dedication and perseverance to make our World’s Teachers Day, Turnover of Toilet organization what we’ve always wanted it Block and Hand Washing Facility to to be. Our organization’s goal can only be Tanquigan Elementary School, Sent reach through a vehicle of a plan, in which RYLA delegates, Medical Mission, Relief we must vigorously act upon. Operations, Donation of Nebulizer, Donation of Hose, Sponsored Rotaract & Evaluating the first half of our Rotary Interact Induction, Launching of Feeding Year, we can say that our teamwork Program accomplished great things because we had a great aim. Hoping that each and November 2015 – Monitoring of everyone will keep the motivation to serve Feeding Program, Welcoming and signing and that is in our hearts, just like what of sisterhood agreement with RC Wonju recently crowned Miss Universe said: ”We Jeil (sister club), Construction of comfort are all confidently beautiful with a heart”. room at Bangbangolan (joint project Let’s keep up being a gift to the world. with RC Wonju Jeil), Feeding Program 2 ISSUE 21 VOL 56 | JANUARY 05, 2016 EDITORIAL y the time this article sees print, it will was coaching won be January 5 of another new year, all the Jones Cup over the festivities should have been over an American team Band done with. The likelihood of one gaining that was considered a few pounds is not entirely far-fetched; after invincible. This all, delicious goodies abound during this time was during the of the year. time when Danding Cojuanco decided to bankroll a long term program that would But before the year ended, as a basketball compete internationally. The program included buff I was saddened by the departure of two searching for a coach that would be suited for icons of Philippine basketball. First was Lim international play. I won’t go to the entire story Eng Beng who crossed the great divide last how Jacobs ended up as the coach of the team, December 21 at age of 64 following a three but he successfully awakened further my interest year battle with liver cancer. For those who in basketball. I never knew how big a deal their grew up playing and following basketball victory was, not even their conquest of the ABC in the 70’s, they would know that Lim Eng tournament, which awarded the team a ticket to Beng was the chief gunner of the De La Salle the world championship. The EDSA revolution Green Archers during their title romp in 1971 prevented our team to participate in the world when he was still a rookie, and 1974 during championship, but boy do I remember that his senior year, those were the years when the team. Dennis Still, Jeff Moore, Chip Engelland Archers are still competing in the NCAA. and still barely out of their teens Allan Caidic, Lim, who played for Chang Kai Shek Samboy Lim, Hector Calma, Yves Dignadice et College during his secondary education, al. was one of the most coveted prospects to Coach Ron, continued coaching. He enter college during his time, the other one revolutionizes coaching in the Philippines. He was Fortunato “Atoy” Co, who played for introduced the concept of roles and defined what Philippine Cultural High school. During a point guard, off guard, small forward, power their HS Battle, Lim steered CKSC to the title forward and center would do. He was a master in 1970, while Atoy Co romped away with the of the match up zones and used little tricks to MVP title. get a leg up on opponents. He introduced the Lim ended his NCAA career with a 30.9 concept of scouting and video preparation, two points average- a record that still stands till elements now considered standard practice in the present. He had an all-time NCAA high the game today. of 55 points in a game against Letran and It’s quite sad that Philippine basketball lose another 54 points against Trinity College in two icons who had trail blazed and left indelible a back-to-back effort that is unparalleled till marks in the sports, but still and all, life goes today. He later played professionally in the on; I cannot help but sigh a relief that another PBA with similar success, his name is still year is ending, that the promise of another year among the top players in several categories, is up coming, with it the promise that a better something the PBA couldn’t ignore and year could be in store for all of us. 2016 may yet named him one of PBA’s 40 greatest players. be a defining year for the country, for it is also The other was Coach Ron Jacobs who the year that we get to choose our next leader. quietly passed away in his apartment on For the sake of the Filipino people, I do hope Christmas Eve. Coach Jacobs name came that our next leader would be the one who to prominence during the time I began would and could pull the Philippines out of the appreciating basketball. I remembered vividly doldrums it is muddled today. how the nation rejoiced when the team he 3 GOOD VIBES PN KHENRIK TAN ISSUE 21 VOL 56 | JANUARY 05, 2016 The new health center Pres: teka pakiss nga muna Heart melting hugs Paki abot please Sped christmas party with manong pulis 4 ISSUE 21 VOL 56 | JANUARY 05, 2016 GOOD VIBES PN KHENRIK TAN Gusto ko ng apple ni eve Your next candidate mark singh Hand in hand, foot with foot Give a little love with slippers Food for the soul 5 WEEKLY DEVOTIONAL ISSUE 21 VOL 56 | JANUARY 05, 2016 good Christian woman read we are doing something hurtful. They the Bible every day and help keep us in one piece. When our treasured a favorite passage friendships are out of order, when Afrom Isaiah: “The lion will lie down they are not life-giving, we suffer with the lamb.” One day she went greatly. And the same is true when to the zoo and came upon the lion we are wasting our lives and investing cage where something incredulous our hearts in what cannot give life. was taking place. Inside the cage was Pain, great pain, always follows, a huge, ferocious lion and sitting sooner or later. right next to it was a lamb! In total amazement, she called over the Those pains are not punishments. guard. “How long have you had a lion They are gifts from God, who doesn’t and a lamb in that cage together?” she want us to stay lost in a terrible place. asked. “Oh, more than a year,” said the Through those pains God is telling us guard. “That’s amazing. How do you a truth we need to hear: “What you do it?” “Easy,” said the guard. “Every are doing is not working,” he says. morning we just put in a new lamb.” “There is no life in it. So isn’t it time to change?” And our pain gives the Lambs are not the only creatures answer. “Yes, it is time to change.” that get wounded and gobbled up by life. We all bear our own wounds In the gospels, Jesus promises he and none of us are strangers to pain. won’t leave us orphans, and indeed We stub our toes and cut our fingers; he has not. (Jn 14:15-21) At every we get cancers, strokes, and heart hour of every day he walks at our attacks.