COMMUNITY SONG Rotary Club of New Manila Heights REGULAR WEEKLY MEETING 7:30 pm, November 9, 2010 (Tuesday) I WILL BE HERE th (Gary Valenciano) Mt. Carmel Shrine Parish, Peñafrancia Hall, 5 St., Quezon City Songwriter: Steven Curtis Chapman Tomorrow morning if you wake up and the sun does not appear P R O G R A M I, I will be here If in the dark we lose sight of love Hold my hand, and have no fear Call to Order Pres. Ma. Elisa “Baby” Allado Cause I, I will be here Invocation Rtn. Isidra “Inday” Nery I will be here when you feel like being quiet When you need to speak your mind, I will listen And I will be here when the laughter turns to cryin’ National Anthem Rtn Annabelle “Annabel” Jereza Through the winnin’, losin’ and tryin’ We’ll be together cause I will be here The 4-Way test PP Floro “Jun” San Juan Tomorrow morning if you wake up Rotary Information PDG Mario “Mar” Nery And the future is unclear I, I will be here As sure as seasons are made for change Community Singing PP Elsa “Elsa” Unson Our lifetimes are made for years So I, I will be here Finest Moments PP Roman “Boy” Escueta I will be here so you can cry upon my shoulder Introduction of Visiting When the mirror tells us we’re older Rotarians & Guests / I will hold you Announcements Sec. Bernadette “Badette” Redublo And I will be here to watch you grow in beauty Tell you all the things you are to me Recognition of Paul Harris Fellows I will be here & Sustaining Members Director Francisco “Pangkoy” Saavedra I will be true to the promise I have made To you and to the One who gave you to me PRESIDENT’S TIME Pres. Ma. Elisa “Baby” Allado (Instrumental) RCNMH Hymn PP Hector “Jodie” Moreno I, I will be here Adjournment Pres. Ma. Elisa “Baby” Allado And just as sure as the seasons are made for change Our lifetimes are made for years So I, I will be here Night Chair: We’ll be together Rtn Rosalie “Rhose” Montreal I will be here President’s Corner WHERE TO MAKE-UP Ma. Elisa “Baby” Allado Monday RC Metro Sta Mesa 7pm Rotary Center RC Tomas Morato 7pm Sulo Hotel WORLD Interact Week & TRF MONTH RC Ayala Heights 7:30pm Rotary Center RC Roxas 8pm Rotary Center This month we celebrate 2 important events. Wednesday RC Cubao EDSA 7pm Rotary Center The first week of November is World Interact week RC New Manila 7:30pm Rotary Center where Rotary Clubs are encouraged to conduct joint projects RC Mega EDSA 7:30 pm Rotary Center with their Interact Clubs. We are lucky because we do not have RC Tandang Sora 7:30pm Rotary Center to wait for World interact week in order to collaborate with our RC Bagong Silangan 8pm Rotary Center Interact Club at the Ponciano Bernardo High School (PBHS). We have had close coordination with them specially starting Thursday RC Capitol Hills 7pm Serye (QC Circle) this Rotary Year 2010-2011. Last July and August, the RC Commonwealth 7pm Heat EDSA Shangri-la Interactors joined us during our Oplan Linis Kontra Dengue RC Kagitingang Cubao 7:30pm Camp Aguinaldo (clean-up & spraying) at Sitio Matangtubig, Barangay RC Pag-asa 8pm Jollibee East Ave/V Luna Horseshoe and at the PBHS grounds. They helped pack the gift RC Paraiso 8pm Rotary Center bags during the “Christmas in July” gift-giving to 50 families also at Barangay Horseshoe. They were in-charge of the rd th Friday RC Cubao East 7pm Tang Kang Resto, Roces Ave program during the career talks for 3 & 4 year students at RC Cosmopolitan Cubao 8pm Rotary Center PBHS doing the emceeing, the entertainment numbers and RC Metro Diliman 8pm Rotary Center distribution of snacks. Of course, there is the ongoing much- RC Kamuning West 8pm Rotary Center expanded English Enhancement & Personality Development RC QC Circle 7pm DAR FAPSO program every Saturday afternoon. One time, the PBA players RC SFDM Central 8pm Rotary Center joined them in their activity there. From a handful students in the past years, this has grown four-fold to 60 students this Saturday English Enhancement & Personality Development Program year. 1-3pm at P. Bernardo High School, P. Tuason Blvd. QC We have invited them to join us during our next regular weekly meeting for fellowship and to apprise us of their present and future activities. President Jalline Pebres will make a report and Interactors will provide some entertainment. Certificate of Attendance As to the TRF month, we will invite a Speaker to enlighten us on the new developments in the Foundation This certifies that Rotarian____________________________________ during one of our weekly meetings this month. We will also attended the regular weekly meeting of Rotary Club of New Manila start collecting on the Paul Harris and Sustaining member Heights held at Peñafrancia Hall, Mt. Carmel Shrine, Quezon City on pledges to achieve our commitment of 100% per capita November 9, 2010. Sustaining membership. We will also step up on our End Polio fund campaign – one of the other commitments we made to Bernadette Redublo TRF this year. Dir. Pangkoy Saavedra is this month’s Officer-in- Club Secretary Charge, being TRF committee chair. Let us all support him and our Club! Prayer A Toast to our Birthday Celebrants! Nearly half the Rotary Year is over and yet so many opportunities exist so that our cups can be filled to overflowing through the November 12 – Alex Arrojo November 18 – Lea Laforteza service we give others. Continue to guide our footsteps so that we November 19 – Boyet Alfonso can bring the good news of hope to others You lead us to. November 23 – Ponchit Miranda May our service bring You delight and pleasure, Lord for it is not our will but Yours that matters. This November, we ask You also to remember those in our club who have gone ahead of us as with those we love who also have CALENDAR OF ACTIVITIES entered the new life You have called them to. We pray also for NOVEMBER – ROTARY FOUNDATION MONTH those who are ill and in distress that You may comfort and heal November 2 – Start of World Interact Week them by Your love and power. Classification Talk – Rtn. Rhose Montreal November 4 – Vocational Awards night We pray all these in Your Mighty and Glorious Name. Amen. 6:30 pm Tejeros Hall, AFPCOC, Camp Aguinaldo November 6 – Ballroom Dancing Fundraiser 6:30pm 4th floor, Rotary Center November 9 – RCNMH Paul Harris Recognition Night QUOTE OF THE DAY Distribution of Nomination Forms November 14 – Pacquiao- Margarito fight Fundraiser 8:00am Mark Horan Hall, Mt Carmel Shrine "Encouragement is oxygen to the soul." November 16 – Interact Night November 10 – Rotaract Orientation, Informatics Marikina ~George Adams November 23 – Rotary Foundation Talk THOUGHT OF THE DAY November 25 – ‘Magsimula Ka’ Fundraiser Music Museum November 26 – PBHS students at PBA Games, Araneta "Nothing can stop the man with the right mental November 30 – Classification Talk – Edward Aquino attitude...nothing on earth can help the man with the wrong mental attitude." ~Thomas Jefferson From Motivation in a Minute Crossroads club members invited Interactors of other religions to participate in PDG Mario R. Nery their activities. 2. "What an experience Rotarians have gained by observing ON MEMBERSHIP DUES these Interactors of different faiths and backgrounds team-up to plan and execute these events," says Mukerji. "It's a great example of Today we pause from our series of quotations about various how people can break down the barriers and rise above differences to aspects of our organization from the wisdom of the Founder of improve the lives of others." 3. Interact clubs in Guyana organized a book drive and donated Rotary, Paul Harris. them to a library center that gives books to underprivileged children. After dropping off the boxes of books, Interactors read to some of We will take a little detour and talk about a very basic, but the children at the library. extremely important responsibility - that of paying our 4. Members of the Interact Club of Pasto Valley de Atriz, membership dues. We thought this might be the best time to talk Colombia, and their sponsor club created an ongoing project called about it because I only learned last night during the Board Mejorando Vidas (Improving Lives). Interactors partner with local Meeting that the club is in a very precarious financial condition. businesses to help improve the lives of disadvantaged seniors in the The members are in arrears by about P40,000. One would be very community by helping them meet some of their basic needs, such as hard put to understand why a club composed of community food and clothing. leaders would be in arrears with such a huge amount, when our obligation is only P600 a month, among the lowest in our district. In any organization anywhere in the free world, the payment of dues is a necessary condition to membership. The only qualification to this condition is that the dues are just, and not Interact Video Contest oppressive. The dues are just when it is reasonable, contributes to Hey, Interactors! Here's your chance to be famous. We're the growth of the organization and there is 100% transparency in holding our second annual Interact Video Contest. So grab a its expenditure. There is no question that in our case, our dues camera, make a short video telling us how you Interact, and would qualify with flying colors based on the above conditions.