Let's talk crap. Seriously.

Welcome to the Global Kalinga e-Rotary Club for the week of Sunday, September 20 through Saturday, September 26, 2015. We are an Internet based Rotary Club based in Quezon City, Philippines with core groups of members in Southern California and elsewhere. We serve our local and nearby communities as well as projects in the Philippines.

Invocation

As we gather here this week as members of Rotary, we pray that we are ever mindful of opportunities to render our service to fellow citizens and to our community. Keeping in mind always the enduring values of life, exerting our efforts in those areas and on those things upon which future generations can build withconfidence. Let us continue to strive to make a better world. Amen.

Rotary 4-Way Test

Of the things we think, say or do: 1. Is it the TRUTH? 2. Is it FAIR to all concerned? 3. Will it build GOODWILL and BETTER FRIENDSHIPS? 4. Will it be BENEFICIAL to all concerned?”

By building your team's self-esteem and encouraging them, the entire team becomes stronger.

Sing-Along Song - Dancing Queen

In anticipation to our anniversary dinner/dance coming up on November 7. Take your time and sing-along (wherever you may be).

Program

Our member, Frank Adamo, recalls visiting his mother's relatives in Kansas and Eastern Colorado. They didn't have toilets. Fortunately, they had outhouses and at night, if you had to go, they had bowls under their beds. And this was as late as the 1950s.

Most of us take toilets for granted. We do our business, flush the toilet, and that's it. We can travel most everywhere and there will be a toilet--thanks in part to Rotary.

This project also helped to generate more business downtown because shoppers would not have to rush home to use their facilities. Even though business increased, Paul Harris was pressured by both the saloon keepers and lady's garment stores not to install such a convenience.

We've come a long way since 1907 in Chicago and the '50s in Colorado and Kansas in the U.S. many other countries; yet, as late as just two years ago, 2.5 billion people, i.e. 2,500,000,000--more than 1/3 of the world's population, have no access to a basic sanitary facility--not even an outhouse.

And "when there's no loo, where do you poo?" In the street, probably near water and food sources -- causing untold death and disease from contamination. Get ready for a blunt, funny, powerful talk from journalist Rose George about a once-unmentionable problem: Rose George: Let's talk crap. Seriously.

Club Business

Our next Monthly Meeting will be next Saturday. Our guest speaker will be the president of the Temecula New Generations Rotary Club (check the Calendar for details). Please invite your younger friends, members of any new generation groups, fellow Rotarians and Filipinos. This will be a great program. Also, all So. Cal. board members be sure to attend our board meeting following our general meeting on Sunday. We have important issues to discuss.