How would you like to express your love to your Papa this Father’s day? How would you show your gratitude for all his patience, care, and love he has given you all these years?
On June 21, treat your Papa to a sumptuous meal, movie, games and fun, or a shopping spree at the Island City Mall as there is no better way to celebrate this day, but to make him feel special in more ways than one.
At the Activity Center, fathers can avail of free foot massage and hair cut at 1 PM, with live band music starting at 3 PM. The first 100 customers to register, with any single receipt purchase worth P500 at Island City Mall, can avail of free foot massage; while another first 100 customers can also get free haircut. The validity of the receipt is from June 10 to 21, where the coupons can be claimed at A1 Desk.
At the Home & Fashion Department, enjoy also some discounts on selected brands at Men’s Wear and Accessories Department. The Prawn Farm also offers Father’s Day lunch and dinner buffet. Also showing at Screenville Cinemas is the Father’s Day blockbuster offering, “Jurassic Worldâ€, in 2D and 3D at the Activity Center of Island City Mall.
The idea for creating a day for children to honor their fathers began in Spokane, Washington. A woman by the name of Sonora Smart Dodd thought of the idea for Father’s Day while listening to a Mother’s Day sermon in 1909.
Having been raised by her father, William Jackson Smart, after her mother died, Sonora wanted her father to know how special he was to her. It was her father that made all the parental sacrifices and was, in the eyes of his daughter, a courageous, selfless, and loving man. Sonora’s father was born in June, so she chose to hold the first Father’s Day celebration in Spokane, Washington on the 19th of June, 1910.
In 1926, a National Father’s Day Committee was formed in New York City. Father’s Day was recognized by a Joint Resolution of Congress in 1956. In 1972, President Richard Nixon established a permanent national observance of Father’s Day to be held on the third Sunday of June. So Father’s Day was born in memory and gratitude by a daughter who thought that her father and all good fathers should be honored with a special day just like we honor our mothers on Mother’s Day.