MONDAY, NOVEMBER 11, 2024
CELEBRATE
VETERANS DAY
WITH THANKSGIVING...
5:30 SOCIAL"HOUR" DINNER 6:00 PM
IMAGINE THAT: UPLAND, CA 91786
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SPEAKERS:
MIKE & KAREN ROGEL, AMAC
CAROLYN PRESCHERN, HEART TO HEART QUILTERS... HONORING OUR VETERANS
PLEASE RSVP BY FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 8!
EMAIL: mvrcgop@gmail.com
Text or call & leave a message (909) 305-3717
Suggested Donation $25.
Cash or check preferred.
DINNER BUFFET:
THANKSGIVING TURKEY DINNER
& PUMPKIN PIE
As I write this message, the outcome of the election is uncertain. Regardless of the election results, we have so much to be grateful for and so many reasons to have hope for the future. Our Immedicate Past President, Jack Mercica, expresses this best in his message below, a brilliant analysis of many reasons why should be thankful for President Trump!
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DO NOT MISS JACK'S CORNER below!
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Our November meeting will focus on Thanksgiving and particularly giving thanks to our veterans for their service.
I want to thank all of the volunteers who have knocked on doors, written over 7000 postcards, worked the office daily, made buttons, phone calls...and much more. This election's office has been the most successful ever! We have almost 100 new contacts and many have become members.
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I am personally grateful for all of the support and encouragement you have given me over the past four years; and I'm pleased that we will be announcing the nominating committee's slate of new officers at the November meeting.
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Also at the November meeting, we invited (AMAC) Association of Mature American Citizens, which is the conservative alternative to AARP. As a member of AMAC, I appreciate their policies, their advocacy and their benefits; and I know you will as well.
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Lastly, in the spirit of Thanksgiving and Veterans Day, we will be honoring several of our veterans through the Heart to Heart program.
Mike and Karen Rogel are California State AMAC Delegates. Mike, a California native is the son of a small business owner.
Karen is a Pennsylvania transplant, the daughter of a former police officer and an IRS Agent. Mike has a BA in Social Welfare and Karen, a BA in History and both have Master’s degrees in Educational Leadership.
Both are retired from the field of education. In retirement, both are connected with AMAC Action and serve on the Board of Seeds of Hope for Veterans, a non-profit that supports veteran homes. In addition, both volunteer at the USO in Ontario, with Mike also volunteering with Meals on Wheels in San Bernardino County.
Carolyn is a retired local business owner and community volunteer.
Carolyn was appointed to the California Textbook Review Committee as a parent reviewing science books for unequal portrayal of women. Carolyn served on the Alta Loma School Board from 1991 to 1995. She advocated for parental rights and sought curricular improvements. She was president of Chaffey Community Republican Women.
Carolyn has worked in every election except for two since 1984, first as a precinct poll worker, then as a precinct supervisor, and most recently as Field Representative overseeing six polling places on election day. In the last election cycle Carolyn was the Candidate Recruitment Manager for the San
Bernardino County Republican Central Committee. She also volunteered at Calvary Chapel Chino Hills in the ballot collection and delivery for the last three elections.
Carolyn's current community service includes advisory board membership of Operation Community Cares, a non-profit organization sending care packages to military personnel overseas, and advisory board member of Leaven Kids, a non-profit after school program.
For more than 30 years Carolyn has served on the Inland Empire Prayer Breakfast Committee. She has been the moderator for 25 of those years. This event is the largest prayer breakfast in Southern
California on the National Day of Prayer. She oversees a committee of twelve local leaders to plan the annual event.
The reason for her visit to MVRC is to present our veterans each with a Quilt of Valor. She coordinates a group of ladies called Heart to Heart Quilters. They meet weekly at Community Christian Fellowship in Ontario where they use donated fabric to sew quilts and other items and give them to non-profit organizations which include Foothill Family Shelter, Santa Claus Inc Christmas Baskets, Assure Pregnancy Center babies, and Kaiser Hospital Butterfly Room patients to name a few. They also use the scrap materials to stuff pet beds and donate them to the local animal shelter.
The quilters have donated over 200 quilts a year to those in need.
WE THE PEOPLE
Only a few more days until Election Day, 2024. There could not
be any more tension during this election season since any time in my
77 year old memory. As I sit back and contemplate the fate of
our American way of life, there is one thing that has become
crystal clear to me; that one thing is that our fate does not and
should not depend on the life and successful election of Donald
J Trump. And we have President Trump to thank for that.
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That is because he has awakened the sleeping giant in
“We the people...”.
He has clarified our minds to know and understand
that we have been lied to for years by a very liberal media. A
media that is complicit in covering up for elite and power-crazed
politicians of both parties. We were like sheep being led
to the slaughter and we innocently thought this is how it has to
be. Think of the unnecessary and restrictive mandates of the
Covid years. We willingly complied because we thought that
they must know better. We never considered the monetary
incentives of big pharma.
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Donald Trump has let the Genie out of the bottle and that
Genie can never be bottled up again. We know better.
Their efforts to impeach Trump, persecute him legally, rig an
election, and even attempt to assassinate him will not be of any
benefit to them. That is because it is not Donald Trump who is
their formidable enemy. Their opponent is WE THE PEOPLE.
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We are the Make America Great Again opponent who now
knows how we have been played by a narcissistic political
enterprise hellbent on retaining its ill-gotten political power.
We the people will no longer tolerate the denial of our
constitutional rights. Our rights will not be dependent on
the successful election or even a survival assassination of
President Trump. We will never relinquish our rights or be
silenced in any way. We Americans know better and we
deserve better. And we won’t have it any other way!
Thank you President Trump for awakening the Giant within our
hearts and souls.
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As Dr. Laura Schlessinger would say
“Now go do the right thing".