Hello to all!

We have just started to distribute the SWI GRAND GLOBAL REUNION SOLICITATION letter for our souvenir program. Please click the link below to be able to browse and choose for yourself the page advertisement you wish...

We have the final date schedule of our SWI GRAND GLOBAL REUNION; It will... be on APRIL 24 and 25,2011, which will fall on EASTER SUNDAY 2011 and an ordinary Monday.

We have already distributed 350 copies to some SWI batch coordinators and barangay coordinators;We also requested SWI to distribute said solicitation letter to all the students for this year and Sister Teresita,the principal gave us a positive response to this request.

We have already activities for the 2 day celebration starting with * Globl Reunion Mass * Motorcade* LUNCH and General ASEMNBLY * some sports activity * Home coming Night all on the first day. On the 2nd day, we will have the Family picnic, perhaps a medical mission, and a cultural night...

Color coding:
1950-60--------Yellow Gold
1961----70---------puscha
1971----80---------purple/violet
1981----90-------blue
1091---2000-----pink
2000--2010------green
2011--------------red

GIVE YOURSELF PERMISSION WHEN YOU ARE FACED WITH A SERIOUS SITUATION TO GIVE VOICE TO YOUR FEELINGS.   SMILE,  HOLD  YOUR  HEAD UP HIGH, AND PUT YOUR RIGHT FOOT FORWARD.

UNIVERSE.  A canister recovered from the first spacecraft to land on an asteroid and return to Earth, contains dust particles, say Japanese scientists.  Japan's space agency began to open the Hayabusa craft's sample container on June 24.  It has now revealed images of tiny dust particles inside the container. Whether the particles are from the near-Earth asteroid, Itokawa, or from Earth is still unknown.  Jaxa released two photographs of the Hayabusa sample container.

WORLD.   Spain rules the soccer world, winning the World Cup at long, long last.  It came after an exhausting 1-0 victory in extra time over the Netherlands. This was a physical test of attrition that sometimes turned dirty--a finals-record 11 yellow cards were handed out and the Dutch finished with 10 men.  Netherlands was unbeaten not only in this tournament, but in qualifying for the first World Cup staged in South Africa. The Spaniards, though, were the winners.

ADELAIDA BATALLA ROSARIO of SAN VICENTE, MAGSINGAL, ILOCOS SUR

CHILDREN: TEDDY AND MENCHIE ROSARIO
ADELAIDA FILOMENA AND ALEJANDRO GARCIA
TEODORA RITA AND SCHUBERT SOLIVEN
VICENTA MARSHA AND RUSELL TOLENTINO
GRANDCHILDREN AND RELATIVES,

EXTEND OUR HEARTFELT GRATITUDE TO ALL WHO HAVE OFFERED PRAYERS AND CONSOLED US DURING OUR BEREAVEMENT.

Dear friends, kailians, fellow officers and members,

MOA is commemorating its 5th year anniversary very soon. Founded July 23, 2005 but due to excessive heat, the celebration was advanced. It will always fall on the second weekend (Sat. or Sun) of July now. Picnic flyer disseminated by Juliet indicates July 10, 2010. Nowadays, Stockton temperature is shooting up to mid 80's and  might surpass 100's by next month. Bring extra clothes!

You're encouraged to please attend the meeting regardless of distance, join the fun, participate withn the various athletic games or table games, devour on each families specialty food items ngem nangnangruna iti makiinniliw kadaguiti kakailian tayo.

Meeting Agendas: Financial Reports; Current, Pending and Proposed Charitable Projects; Membership Dues and Renewals; Website Access; Casino Trip in August ken RAGRAGSAK.

Our organization will provide these foods/beverages and some are weather permitting delicacies. From this lists (avoid) prepare your Personal  Pride Cookings BUT NOT REQUIRED. PRESENCE is more important!

1. Pinnalkang nga Bennek
2. Matuno nga ikIkan ken Natnateng
3. Lechon  
4. Kalding in 3 entrees
5. Sodas and Water

Visa petition does not automatically die with petitioner's death

"Then he (Isaac) said, 'Behold now, I am old. I do not know the day of my death." Genesis 27:2
"So David made abundant preparations before his death." 1 Chronicles 22:5.

Prayers alone are insufficient to resurrect a dead petitioner's petition. "God helps those who help themselves." Biblical folks knew that death would surely come but they did not know when. So they prepared for death, unlike many immigration petitioners. Thus, when such petitioners die before their beneficiaries get a visa, their beneficiaries are told: when the petitioner dies, the visa petition automatically dies with him/her.

I do not believe in automatic revocation. I believe in resurrection. There is relief for beneficiaries of dead petitioners. But it is difficult and expensive - certainly more expensive than the $355 visa petition filing fee.

This issue might be avoided if all eligible petitioners filed a petition for the beneficiary. If a qualified parent files for his child, why does not the qualified spouse file, too? If the child has a USC sibling, why does not the sibling file, too? If one petitioner dies, other live petitioners will remain. The most common answer: "To save money." As Ava Gardner told James Mason in "Pandora and the Flying Dutchman": "The measure of one's love is what one is willing to give up for it."

KEEP YOUR DREAMS ALIVE.  UNDERSTAND THAT TO ACHIEVE ANYTHING REQUIRES FAITH AND BELIEF IN YOURSELF, VISION, HARD WORK, DETER-MINATION, AND DEDICATION.  REMEMBER THAT ALL THINGS ARE POSSIBLE FOR THOSE WHO BELIEVE.

UNIVERSE.  Europe's Herschel space telescope has spied a far-distant galaxy with the aid of a cosmic "zoom lens".  The observatory is already one of the most powerful astronomical tools ever built, but its abilities can be boosted thanks to a neat trick of gravity. By viewing a huge cluster of galaxies, Herschel has been able to study in detail an even more distant object. This is possible because the gravity of the foreground cluster magnifies the light of the background galaxy.

WORLD.  School feeding programs, which provide meals so that millions of children in poor countries can attend classes, can be broadened to reach even more pupils.  Some 66 million schoolchildren in dozens of countries currently receive meals through the programs. Nancy Walters, chief of school feeding policy at WFP, told a New York forum on hunger that the pro-grams have many benefits beyond the immediate goal of ensuring children do not go hungry.