A Make-Up Attendance

PP Megs Lunn (District Chair Rotary Volunteers RY 2010-2011) was warmly welcomed by RC Bacolod North led by Pres. Roy during her visit in the city.

PN Biboy Jocson usherred PP Megs to meet the rest of the members of the club, afterwhich, they visited the on-going RYLA hosted by the same club, led by PP Louie Gonzaga at Nazareth Retreat house. Met environmental enthusiasts and one of their speakers, Mr. Paul Lizares of Bacolod City.

It was a worthy fellowship as fortunately, guess who was in town, too? DG James Makasiar flew in to grace the unveiling of Public Image project of RC Bacolod North and visited the rest of the clubs, too while in the city.

Rotary Information - Jan. 29, 2011

Bill Gates webcast on polio next week

Rotarians are encouraged to watch a webcast featuring Bill Gates, cochair of the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, and a panel of experts including Pulitzer Prize-winning historian David Oshinsky, Monday, 31 January, at 9:30 a.m. EST at www.gatesfoundation.org. The webcast, titled “Polio Eradication and the Power of Vaccines,” will be moderated by ABC World News anchor Diane Sawyer.

Gates also will presenthis annual letter on Monday, in which he will mention Rotary as a key partner in the polio eradication effort. Rotarians are asked to promote this important recognition by sending the letter to their local media and highlighting Rotary’s commitment to eradicating polio. Read more about the webcast at www.rotary.org or

http://echo4.bluehornet.com/hostedemail/email.htm?h=bfd9a8dc3cb7d08e6ee69ece0232e31e&CID=12716572117&ch=C6D7AC38101F9885CA3D26FC1A6A3293

ROTARY AWARENESS TALK

Be faithful in small things because it is in them that your strength lies.”

- Mother Teresa

Mother Teresa is an inspiration from her personal commitment to social responsibility. It seems that her wide service to the poorest of the poor needs to be continued as most of the population anywhere in the world are still below poverty line. One organization who are socially responsible in doing service to the community for over a hundred years now is the international service organization - ROTARY INTERNATIONAL.

NEED TO KNOW MORE ABOUT SOCIAL RESPONSIBILITY?

PP MEGS LUNN - DISTRICT 3850 CHAIR ROTARY VOLUNTEERS, will speak about Rotary International's service organization as a model of peoples who are socially responsible during the 1ST REGIONAL COMMUNICATION AND LEADERSHIP CONGRESS, sponsored by Toastmasters International at the University of LaSalle, Bacolod City - January 28-30, 2011.

ROTARY INTERNATIONAL THEME FOR 2011-2012: "REACH WITHIN TO EMBRACE HUMANITY".

RI President-elect Kalyan Banerjee will ask Rotarians to Reach Within to Embrace Humanity during the 2011-12 Rotary year.

Banerjee unveiled the RI theme during the opening plenary session of the 2011 International Assembly, a training event for incoming district governors.

He urged participants to harness their inner resolve and strength to achieve success in Rotary.

"In order to achieve anything in this world, a person has to use all the resources he can draw on. And the only place to start is with ourselves and within ourselves," Banerjee said.

Once Rotarians find their inner strength, he continued, they can accomplish great things in their communities and around the world.

"Discover yourself, develop the strengths within you, and then unhesitatingly, unflinchingly, go forth and encircle the world, to embrace humanity," he said.

Banerjee emphasized the family as a starting point in serving others. "The communities we live in are not built of individual people but of families -- families living in homes together, sharing their lives and their resources and their common destinies. Good families lead to good neighborhoods, and good neighborhoods build good communities."

Rotarians can focus on projects that support families, such as those that provide safe housing or improve maternal and child health, he said.

Continuity in Rotary’s work, including polio eradication, is also important, Banerjee said. "There are so many things we are indeed good at: working for clean, safe water; spreading literacy; working in so many ways with the New Generations, our youth, in our newest Avenue of Service and assisting them to become the leaders of tomorrow."

Citing Mahatma Gandhi’s call to "be the change you wish to see in the world," Banerjee said Rotarians should also focus on change.

"If we wish for peace, we start by living in peace ourselves, in our homes and in our communities," he explained. "If we wish environmental degradation to stop, if we wish to reduce child mortality or to prevent hunger, we must be the instrument of that change -- and recognize that it must start within us, with each of us."

Courtesy of Rotary International, posted 17 January 2011 by Jack Selway
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Rotary Information

TO ALL ROTARY LEADERS CONCERNED:

Please take note of the following:

1. ASSISTANT GOVERNORS/DISTRICT TEAM TRAINING SEMINAR
- MARCH 5, 2011 (SATURDAY), ILOILO CITY (specific venue & program to be
announced later); NO REGISTRATION FEE; host: RC CENTRAL ILOILO CITY

2. PRESIDENTS-ELECT
- MARCH 18, 2011 (SATURDAY), BACOLOD CITY (specific venue, program &
host club to be announced)

3. DISTRICT ASSEMBLY (FOR ZONES IN PANAY & NEGROS OCC.)
- MARCH 19, 2011 (SUNDAY); BACOLOD CITY (specific venue, program & host
club to be announced)

4. DISTRICT ASSEMBLY (FOR ZONES IN MINDANAO)
- MARCH 31, 2011 (THURSDAY); ZAMBOANGA CITY (specific venue, program &
host club to be announced)

Please relay the said schedule to those who are unaware.

For clarifications and other details, please get in touch with DGE MELVIN DELA SERNA.

Thank you.

From the Editor

January is designated by the Rotary International as the Rotary Awareness Month. How can we be able to share our advocacy on making Rotary known in our community?

There is our friends from the media - (print, radio and tv). We can take the advantage of Public Service in between their programs to be able to share a quote or two, a brief information/details about Rotary event in your club or district and or share some pictures with caption and the project title as part of Rotary minute on air, print or tv.

In many provinces there is Ati-Atihan in Aklan, Dinagyang in Iloilo and Sinulog in Cebu that we come and visit and take part of the celebration. While we do street dancing, we can carry along our club banner, wear Rotary t-shirts or caps and share Rotary brochure along the way as a way of doing our share in making Rotary known in our circle of friends and the community that we serve.

How about you? Do you have any idea that you can share with us? If so, please share your comments here and we can all join together in sharing Rotary awareness where we are now.

One good example of Rotary Awareness is yourself. You are a walking Rotarian, wherever you are and whatever you do. Carry along a Rotary calling card, a Rotary pin in any of your attire during the day and many others.

Just today, I was at a shop and when they learned I am Rotarian, all of sudden, they blurted out, "Oh! Rotary!!! Is it an International Club? .." and the rest is history. It made my day great!

Do your share without efforts. It just comes out naturally to you when you know your organization well. See you around!

The RI president’s monthly message

January 2011

Test time!

We are at the halfway point in this Rotary year, and now is the time to test the strengths and weaknesses of our clubs. Perhaps a strange idea for some Rotarians, but how else will we learn how the activities and programs of our respective clubs match up to those of other clubs in our districts – and around the world? Therefore, I encourage all Rotarians – not only the club officers – to become involved in evaluating their clubs during the month of January.

The Presidential Citation program for 2010-11 has been designed as a score sheet for all the Avenues of Service. It also is a checklist for many of the activities and programs conducted by most clubs. Club presidents are required to complete the score sheets and submit them to their district governors by 31 March 2011 for their clubs to be eligible for the Presidential Citation awards. The scores should be shared with all club members either as written reports or as presentations at club meetings.

Starting work on the Presidential Citation test in January will provide an opportunity to correct any discovered deficiencies in club activities before the submission deadline of 31 March. It also will cause the club leaders to notice that a new Presidential Citation with Distinction award is available this year for clubs with a good balance of activities in all Avenues of Service.

This year I am recommending that all clubs review their practices and procedures to see if they are truly best practices or merely traditional practices. Annual evaluations of our clubs are certainly best practices, and more Rotarians than usual need to be involved in the evaluations for their clubs. The Presidential Citation score sheets are a good place to start the process. How else will we know if our clubs really are becoming Bigger, Better, and Bolder?


RI President
Ray Klinginsmith

www.rotary.org

JANUARY - ROTARY AWARENESS MONTH

Message from the chair


January 2011


Raising awareness of The Rotary Foundation

Awareness is an important part of The Rotary Foundation’s work. It is important that members are aware of The Rotary Foundation Goals 2010-11: polio eradication; the Future Vision Plan; Every Rotarian, Every Year; and the Permanent Fund.

We must also be aware of the Rotary Centers Major Gifts Initiative in support of our Rotary Centers for International Studies in peace and conflict resolution and our USD 200 Million Challenge.

It is important to know that we are 1.2 million Rotarians in approximately 200 countries or geographical regions. Also that we are divided in geographical zones, each of which has one or more regional Rotary Foundation coordinators, assistant regional Rotary Foundation coordinators, and Rotary Foundation alumni coordinators. Furthermore, that The Rotary Foundation finances are totally separate from those of Rotary International and that The Rotary Foundation has its own board of 15 Trustees, headed by a trustee chair. And there are seven regional offices in Argentina, Australia, Brazil, India, Japan, Korea, and Switzerland. Together with the headquarters in the United States, they are available to serve not only Rotary International but also The Rotary Foundation.

Another part of The Rotary Foundation awareness is the sharing of information outside our organization. We are a group of leaders with a superb network. It is time for us to let the world know about all good things that we have accomplished over so many years. Rotarians have the opportunity to create – and must create – awareness regarding world problems and how they can be solved by Building Communities – Bridging Continents through Service Above Self.



Carl-Wilhelm Stenhammar
Foundation Trustee Chair

www.rotary.org

HELP FOR THE HOLIDAYS!

Christmas is the season of hope and sharing, but for some people there is very little to hope for and even less to share with, like the orphans of St. Joseph of Our Lady Of Grace Academy at Brgy. Lonoy, Roxas City, Capiz.

Last December 18, at 4:00 a.m.; while the Sisters and some of the orphans were in Church, the orphanage was completely burned down by fire. Thankfully, all of the 27 orphans were safe including three babies. Some good Samaritans were also quick to offer and donate basic needs like food, beddings and cribs. To this date however, the orphanage still desperately needs a lot of things and a place that the 27 orphans and the sisters has come to call as “Home”.

Because of our desire to help and give hope to these orphans, my group – the Sinadya Glee Ensemble, who performed at the recent Coronation Night of the Fiesta Queen 2010, and my club, the Rotary Club Of Roxas, will organize a fundraising event on December 30, 2010 at the JAVVA Bar & Grill, Grandville, Roxas City. One of our performers at the Sinadya Glee Ensemble and a very talented singer is Gereberne Lozada. She is an orphan at the St. Joseph Orphanage. Proceeds of this event will be used for the immediate needs of the orphans and in rebuilding the orphanage.

We will also be accepting pledges and donations in cash and in kind before and after our December 30 fundraising event. We will be announcing and confirming your donations during the fundraising activity from 6:00 pm to 12:00 midnight. You can course your donation through our Rotary Club treasurer, Rotarian Rodolfo Arce (0917-3120422) or through Rotarian Cheryl Anne Lastimoso (0917-3120277 / 0928-5544007). Donations will also be published in a local daily newspaper, and aired in local radio and TV.

Please help us help these orphans. Your donations will surely go a long way in giving these children something to smile and hope for this Christmas and the years to come. Thank you and may your Christmas be truly happy and meaningful.

Yours in Rotary Service,

Sec. Che-Che Lastimoso

Pres. Jerry Lames

Christmas Greetings!

TO RC ROXAS FAMILY AND FELLOW ROTARIANS,

We wish everyone this Christmas Season a Happy Christmas and a Spirit-filled and Health-filled New Year!

May we continue to burn the fire of Rotary within us, wherever you are and whenever you can.

Always look for that opportunity of service to others and that we may be able to feel how it is to be a TRUE ROTARIAN.

Whatever you do, and wherever you are, always remember, YOU ARE ALWAYS A ROTARIAN, and that is for life!

Stay well everyone, have fun and may this season be a reminder of always giving back the thanksgiving, honor and glory to God.

Cheers!

STAC Christmas Party

RC Roxas Outreach Program for the handicapped with Stimulation Activity Center - (STAC Kalibo) joined its annual Christmas Gift Giving last December 13, 2010, represented by PP Megs Lunn.

PP Megs Lunn received a cash donation from an Anonymous to buy one of the wishlists of the children - 6 UNITS OF DOCTRON ELECTRON to serve the handicapped CP cases children of STAC.

Donation was received by STAC Manager - Rtn. Joanna Tay-Meren of RC Kalibo.

Likewise, Rtn. Frank and Spouse Tess of RC Kalibo played the usual Santa and Mrs. Claus to give cheers to the children. Recently, the couple donated books for the reading program.

STAC accepts benefactors to sponsor one handicapped kid every Christmas every year, to bring glad tidings to them each Christmas season.

Congratulations STAC and Merry Christmas to all its benefactors. May the light of God continue to shine on you this Christmas season and the years to come.

Christmas Announcement

See you at our club Christmas party on Dec. 19, 2010 @ 8 PM, PP Pip's residence. Please bring potluck and your Php200 JOKE gift for exchange. Please coordinate with PP Pip soon.

Thank you!

Editorial, Ang Bag-O Nga Patiyog December 3, 2010

December is Family Month

At the outset, congratulations to PP Sany for facilitating our Voice of the Youth Zone contest (watch for the pictures and winner information from the District to be posted soon) and to Rtn. Che-Che and Rtn. Toto for the FHM in Roxas City. Keep it up folks!

Ahhhh December breeze!!! We celebrate it with Family Fellowships and Christmas Party. This is the time of the year where we religiously gather our family members, relatives and Rotary friends to join us have fun and experience once again the season with laughter and cheers.

Rotary International has the thrusts on Family on this month. Perhaps because of the Christmas season. Not only because of this, it's also time for bonding and vacation away from home.

How can we be able to reach out to other members of our family thru Rotary?

Send them a Rotary Christmas or Holiday Greetings with the Rotary Logo visibly designed in any of your cards, letters or better yet, send them the Philippine Rotary Magazine subscription. Experience the power of Rotary Image. You can even give them a gift by registering their names on the Rotary Foundation Program. More resources or guide items you can find at shop.rotary.org.

1. 2010-11 End Polio Now Calendar
2. Shop Rotary bag
3. End Polio Now notecards
4. Rotary Video Magazine
5. Every Rotarian, Every Year poster

These and many more ideas on how to be able to reach out to prospective future Rotarians.

However, the usual activity that we look forward to is the Outreach Program/Handog Pamasko of each of our members of the club in the whole D3850. It's the time of Sharing, Loving and Caring to the poorest of the poor and the oppressed. Happy Gift giving to one and all!!!

A Peaceful Christmas to all and looking forward to a bountiful members comes New Years Day!!!!