Dear Kabaleyans, Fellow Pangasinenses,

Prepare for a short and festive week with this coming Thursday’s celebration of “Thanksgiving Day”.   A day of sharing, loving, and forgiving.  Nothing short of saying and putting GOD in us all – ” the Eternal and Almighty Being of True Love “.

HAPPY THANKSGIVING EVERYONE !!!

Well, we only have 21 days left before our ” 2015 Holiday Interlude ” at the Cerritos Performing Arts on December 12, 2015.  Knock on wood, we are happy to report a good number of confirmed RSVP’s and more calls are trekking in for reservations.  Definitely an inspiring and exciting anticipation of a joyful evening of social delights – good music, lots of dancing, and savoring of Arte Cafe’s ever sumptuous catering – excellent menu combination of Salmon and Prime Rib with all the side trimmings.

Now, here is the kicker.  We need everyone’s help and cooperation to please remit all ticket payments by December 1, 2015.  Make checks payable to PB-USA, Inc. and mail to 6480 Leone Way, Cypress, CA 90630.  Ticket price – $45.00.   In adherence to an established venue protocol set-up, there will be no ticket remittances at the reception desk.  It will simply be a welcoming and a greeting portal for the evening.  With a healthy cooperation and understanding, we can easily make this request a reality for everyone’s convenience.  Please feel free to call us for any questions or assistance – Rhenee – 562 397 – 7753 and Eddie – 562 481- 5381. 714 759 0064.

Our November 15 general membership meeting was indeed wonderful and well attended.  We applied and performed our new mode of holding a meeting cutting short the proceedings to a solid time frame of 1 hour and 49 minutes with all relevant agenda covered.  Expect this pattern to be in placed for all subsequent meetings in 2016.

In-coming President Lino Caringal Jr submitted and presented his preliminary cabinet members starting off with his Executive Vice President Neil Estrada.  Confirmatory presentation of his staff will be highlighted during our Holiday Interlude.

I respectfully express my utmost recognition to have served the organization with the voluntary support and participation of solid warrior members armed with the powerful weapons of knowledge, awareness, and cooperation as to where we should be as a 501 ( c ) ( 3 ) foundation in the 21st century. There was so much emphasis on compliance ( bookkeeping & emergence /usage of “quickbook) and communication ( Friendly Website & Mailchimp e-mail system). And most importantly, the warrior team made it a point on the timely submission and filings of our annual Federal and State Corporate returns.

The continuing result of the above is the formulation of a Project Management Council and a Media Advisory Council in 2016.

With the actual and live participation of our Next Gens during the meeting, it has been announced that EVP Neil Estrada and Member Jacqueline Ferrer will co-chair or co-host our Holiday Interlude.  They committed to work on the details and we leave it to their best discretions on how to go about it.

Once again, I would like to express my welcome greetings to our Kabaleyans who came back home to our fold and joyfully met them in our last meeting.  I fully understand their brief hibernation but I was really humbled by their sincere manifestations of joy to be back with us – a journey of hope.

Two (2) hours of “Meet & Greet” after the meeting was indeed a historic experience for me , personally, having been with PB-USA since 1978.  The gathering of new members (particularly arrival of our Next Gens), regular members, and returning members was a sight to behold.

I do have a sack full of things to say but suffice to conclude, for now, to say a simple prayer of thanksgiving.

We thank God for all the good things that He bestowed upon us amidst all negative adversaries in our journey of faith and hope in the fulfillment of  our Scholarship Projects with our provincial colleges & universities, livelihood projects with our local manufacturers in cooperation with our Provincial and City Governments, house unit donations to Namnama Village for the homeless, Fil-Am Community reach out with the City of Cerritos, and calamity fundraising donation to our kababayans in Eastern Samar with Bishop Crispin Varques of the Diocese of Borongan.  Thank God for giving us these opportunities to serve and to give the best and the most that we have. In Him , we trust !!!  Pax Tecum et Dominus Vobiscum !!!!

Sincerely,

Eddie Ferrer
President
Pangasinan Brotherhood-USA, Inc