Friday, September 21, 2012

September 20, 2012


Secretary’s Corner_09202012

Today we welcome Atty. Ferdinand Topacio as our guest of honour and speaker. Atty. Topacio is a cousin of our PP Noni Topacio. Aside from being a lawyer with high profile clients, our speaker is known to be a very good singer. So, do we make him speak or sing, or both?

Last week, we enjoyed the company of Senator Teofisto Guingona III who gave us insights on the news behind the headlines. We invited other Rotarians to join us in our meeting and we were able to fill up the Centennial Room of Club Filipino. As always, photos of Rotarians with our guest speaker circulated in Facebook soon after the meeting.

Next week our District Governor Lirio Sandoval will visit our club. Preparations are underway for this special occasion. Don’t forget to come in our green barong.

Cheers and enjoy Rotary J

Sec./PP Jovie 

September 13, 2012


Secretary’s Corner_09132012

Today we welcome Senator T.G. Guingona as our guest of honour and speaker.

Last week’s meeting was the first Club Assembly for this Rotary Year. We were so happy to have our Assistant Governor Sam Alvarado present as he listened to our Club Plans and status of projects. When it was AG Sam’s turn at the rostrum, he showed that he is a man of few words, an admirable trait. In fact we received more comments from our “visiting member” Past President and former Asst. Governor Jimmy Ortigas who was making his presence felt by his comments. Thank you AG Sam and PP Jimmy, the Club Assembly will lay down the ground work in preparation for our coming District Governor’s visit on September 27.

We were also advised by PDG Pepe Peralta to think of a project or projects that will require funding of about USD 30,000 and to submit project write-ups to our District for approval and funding.
‘FDG’ Benny Pe has confirmed that on October 18, we will have a guest speaker on the subject, “How to invest in the Stock Market.” Let us invite other Rotarians to join us for this meeting.

Cheers and enjoy Rotary J

Sec./PP Jovie

September 06, 2012


Secretary’s Corner_09062012

Today we welcome our Assistant Governor Sam Alvarado as we conduct our Club Assembly in preparation for our coming District Governor’s visit.

We held an evening meeting last week and we were happy to see our “Rotarians of the Night.” 
Important dates to remember for the month of September were presented and discussed as follows:

September         06 –        Club Assembly with A.G. Sam Alvarado
                                                12:00 noon, Green Barong, Jasmine Room

                                13 -         Regular meeting with Senator TG Guingona as guest speaker
                                                6:00 pm, Blue T-shirt, Centennial Room

                                20 -         Regular meeting with Atty Ferdinand Topacio as guest speaker
                                                12:00 noon, smart casual, Jasmine Room

                                27 -         Governor’s visit by District Gov. Lirio Sandoval
                                                12:00 noon, Green Barong, Waling Waling room
Club officers and directors will be required to come by 10:00 am for the
one-on-one meeting with DG Lirio Sandoval.

Our evening meeting for the month of September will be on Sep. 13 and not on the last Thursday of the month.

We have a full month of activities ahead because another continuing project will be launched today, the WOW-City Harvest Project that is expected to run till the end of Pres Jojo’s term (or while donations lasts).

We enjoin you to support our projects and attend our meetings for this month of September.

Cheers and enjoy RotaryJ

Sec./PP Jovie