A little boy wanted $100.00 very badly and prayed for weeks. He waited patiently but nothing happened. Then he decided to write God a letter requesting for $100.00.When the postal authorities received the letter addressed to God , USA, they decided to send it to the President. The President was so amused that [...]
The body lies in state at the Colonial Funeral Home on 8025 West Golf Road, Niles, Illinois 60714. Ambeth is survived by his wife Nelly, his three sons Allen, Andre and Marc, his mother Virgin Arguson Ansay, his brothers Darwin and Ferdinand, his sisters Grace and Adora, his sisters-in-law, his brother-in-law, and his nieces and [...]
ALBERT A. ANSAY, Ambeth, to family and friends, joined His Creator on Thursday, March 26, 2009 at 10:00 p.m. (Central time) in Mundelein, Illinois. He succumbed to a heart attack. Ambeth is the son of the late Fidel C. Ansay and Virgin Arguson Ansay. Arrangement for his final rites will be announced later. Readers are [...]
There are 25,000 job opportunities exclusively for Filipinos in Canada this year, according to Mr. Richard Mills of the Canadian Chamber of Commerce. He added that these are in health care, engineering, and the oil industry. The Department of Labor and Employment Secretary Marianito Roque of the Philippines confirmed this statement. He said that the job [...]
There’s a certain magic that this reunion brought to the attendees. How elegant they looked in their white T-shirts printed with “Benuto-Felifa Mesina Family Reunion, 2009, as they approached one relative after another bidding each one good-bye. The joyous, exciting and vibrant mood the whole day suddenly was overtaken by grief and disappointment. It was [...]
Laughter and chatter characterized this first ever reunion. It is great to catch up news and find out what everyone has been or is doing. They chatted as if they have never been apart and shared many fond memories. Conversations and reminiscing continued until late afternoon. Some were resting under the shady pavilion, others went [...]
The members of the Benuto-Felifa Mesina family had the telltale signs of a grand, long-awaited family reunion. Some of the Mesinas from abroad flew to the Philippines as early as the third week of January, 2009; the others followed on the first week of February. Come February 14, 2009, that’s the red-letter day on their [...]
What? A family reunion? Yes, a coming together again or a reunification of family members! A family in Cavinti extends not just to the immediate father, mother, daughters and sons but also to the first cousins and their offsprings, grandfathers, grandmothers, aunts, uncles and other extended family members. And the descendants of the late couple Benuto and [...]
Joy Rojas is a free lance writer and magazine editor. Her life’s biggest dream was to run accross the Philippines and held that dream in her life for many years. Joy was a regular at the local road racing circuit from 1995 to 2002. She was one of the Pilippines top ten female finishers of [...]
Florie Yuzon, a 58-year-old Filipino nurse from Occidental Mindoro received an award for spending 20 years of her life serving in a hospital in Al-Khobar, Saudi Arabia. She is the first Filipino nurse to be employed at the aforementioned hospital in Al-Khobar, Saudi Arabia. Florie received her award from the hospital’s chairman Samir Al-Takafi. She and another nurse received [...]
A native of Cavinti, Lucila C. Oblena spent all her working years as an educator, beginning as a classroom teacher in 1944, then a Guidance Counselor and retired as a school Principal. She is also the founder of CLOTA (Cavinti Laguna Overseas Teachers Association). She is the Editor of Tipakan.com (Cavinti Diaspora).
