A Polio Survivor-Gives Thanks for Life

Welcome to the Global Kalinga e-Rotary Club's Weekly Meeting for the week of Sunday, November 22 through Saturday November 28, 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 each of us gives our own thanks according to our personal persuasions, let us dwell on some thoughts that bind us together: We are blessed with friends and laughter and fun With rain that's as soft as the light from the sun --- We are blessed with stars to brighten each night You've given us help to know wrong from right -- You've given us so much please, Lord give us too, A heart that is always Grateful to you. Amen ~ An Irish Prayer. Tim Creedon PDG Rotary Club of Phoenix

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

This video is a celebration of America and some of the many things we have to be thankful for. Among those things are our freedoms, our Constitution, our President and Vice President and our government. It is not a political statement, but recognition of the positions they hold in our country. Surely we can all be that tolerant. Happy Thanksgiving, America!

Though the video does not have lyrics, we should know them, thus take your time and sing-along (wherever you may be).

Fine Master

Traditionally, Rotary clubs have Fine Masters who are responsibile for collecting fines/happy dollars. The clipart to your left is our e-club Fine Master. Do you have happy dollars, a birthday, an anniversary, a promotion, opening a new business, new car, new child, new grandchild, etc. Please feel free (and perhaps obligated) to click on our Rotary FineMaster.

The minimum fine is $3.00 to ensure a sufficient amount to take care of the PayPal fee. The purpose of the fines can be viewed by clicking on [View Fines/Happy Dollars] from the [Weekly Meetings] main menu

Program - A polio Survivors Tale - Thanks for life

This Thursday in the U.S. is Thanksgiving Day, a national holiday set aside to give thanks for what we have. In this video a Polio survivor from India gives thanks for life. What are you thankful for? Could we, as Rotarians be thankful to serve our communities and help the needy and we have eradicated polio worldwide except for 2 last countries?

Here's a history of Thanksgiving in the U.S. "In 1621, the Plymouth colonists and Wampanoag Indians shared an autumn harvest feast that is acknowledged today as one of the first Thanksgiving celebrations in the colonies.

Pilgrims held their second Thanksgiving celebration in 1623 to mark the end of a long drought that had threatened the year’s harvest and prompted Governor Bradford to call for a religious fast. Days of fasting and thanksgiving on an annual or occasional basis became common practice in other New England settlements as well.

During the American Revolution, the Continental Congress designated one or more days of thanksgiving a year, and in 1789 George Washington issued the first Thanksgiving proclamation by the national government of the United States; in it, he called upon Americans to express their gratitude for the happy conclusion to the country’s war of independence and the successful ratification of the U.S. Constitution.

His successors John Adams and James Madison also designated days of thanks during their presidencies.In 1817, New York became the first of several states to officially adopt an annual Thanksgiving holiday; each celebrated it on a different day, however, and the American South remained largely unfamiliar with the tradition. In 1827, the noted magazine editor and prolific writer Sarah Josepha Hale launched a campaign to establish Thanksgiving as a national holiday.

For 36 years, she published numerous editorials and sent scores of letters to governors, senators, presidents and other politicians. Abraham Lincoln finally heeded her request in 1863, at the height of the Civil War, in a proclamation entreating all Americans to ask God to 'commend to his tender care all those who have become widows, orphans, mourners or sufferers in the lamentable civil strife' and to 'heal the wounds of the nation.'

He scheduled Thanksgiving for the final Thursday in November, and it was celebrated on that day every year until 1939, when Franklin D. Roosevelt moved the holiday up a week in an attempt to spur retail sales during the Great Depression. Roosevelt’s plan, known derisively as Franksgiving, was met with passionate opposition, and in 1941 the president reluctantly signed a bill making Thanksgiving the fourth Thursday in November." ~ www.history.com

Club Business

We held our Monthly Meeting this past Saturday, November 21. A summary of our meeting will be submitted for next week's Weekly Meeting.