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Filipino Heritage Month – SPIDS blood donation drive

Filipino The Board of Directors & Officers of SPIDS – Surrey Philippine Independence Day Society #SPIDS12yearsnow — with Marisse Magcawas, Hannalyn Dominga, PapaBear Canada, Coffee King Plus, Alejandro Sevillo, Doug Tingley, Rosita Duna, Alfonso Mendoza, Narima Dela Cruz, Jojo Rimando, Connie D Mend and Susan Natura at Holland Park Surrey. ( Photo: George Bencze) SPIDS […]

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Photography on Mother’s Day

This article originally appeared at Inquirer.net on May 15, 2014. Photography on Mother’s Day By: Vicente Rafael – @inquirerdotnet Philippine Daily Inquirer / 12:04 AM May 15, 2014 Mother’s Day, which this year fell on May 11, was just a day after the fourth anniversary of my mother’s death. She would have been 89. When

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Mga talaarawan ng mga Nanay (2)

“To describe my mother would be to write about a hurricane in its perfect power. Or the climbing, falling colors of a rainbow.” ~Maya Angelou 2nd Updated:May 12, 2020, 8:34PM. 1st Updated: May 12, 2020, 11:40 A.M. Surrey, B.C. Ang Yaman ni Inay (My Mother’s Treasure) Narima Dela Cruz Because of her – beautiful, stunning,

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Mother left a legacy of love, compassion, generosity and empathy

Emerenciana Monte Aviso Updated.. The Way I Remember my Mother By Dante Aviso Winnipeg, Manitoba Mom was born on January 23, 1924 in Magallanes, Sorsogon. I lost my mother a week before Mother’s Day in 2018. This is the second year that I celebrated Mother’s Day with out her in a physical sense.  I am

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Mama: she was my mentor, my rock

ISABEL LLACUNA ALCUITAS November 19, 1902 – May 20, 1988 Teodoro ‘Ted’ Alcuitas As we celebrate Mother’s Day tomorrow in the middle of the pandemic, I remember my Mama. My mentor, my rock. I was a child of war whose memories of ‘bakwet’ looms large in my memory. Mama Babing, as she was affectionately called

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Araw ng mga Nanay: “You heard the first cry of life from my little lungs”

Revelina Balisi Updated: May 10,2020, 3:01 PM Updated: May 9. 2020, 3 PM Thank you, Mama. Pagsilang. Pasasalamat kay Mama Iniluwal mo ako mula sa mapagkalingang kanlungan na aking kinagisnan. Siyam na buwan ding inaruga, inihele Walang kang pakundangan sa mga pagbabago sa iyong katawan. Sa takdang panahong hindi mapipigilan, mula sa iyong mainit na

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Araw sa mga Nanay

Updated… Updated: May 8, 2020, 11:40 A.M. Want to honour and pay tribute to the mothers, women in your lives? How did she form you? Influence you? Nurtured you to who you are now? What sacrifices did she go through? The joys and moments of celebration with her/etc… Share your stories with us and celebrate

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Artist Jay Cabalu feels safe among peers

Artist Jay Cabalu participated in”Yellow Peril; The Celestial Elements” exhibit ( February 1- April 18) (Photo: Sean Alistair) Jay Cabalu “Yellow Peril; The Celestial Elements” That’s a wrap on “Yellow Peril; The Celestial Elements”! I was honoured to be included in the same space as these three artists. For many years I’ve looked up to Kendell Yan,

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Edmonton pioneer gives back to the community

Dr. Josephine Enero Pallard works tirelessly to help her community. (Provided) Edmonton, Alberta Philippine art and the Filipino artist… in focus Josephine Pallard – Paglalayag Series Part of the Paglalayag: the Philippines to Canada Journey series Dr. Josephine Enero Pallard is one of the pioneer economic immigrants from the Philippines, who came to Canada as

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Justice Steve A. Coroza elevated to Ontario’s Appeals Court

In a decade,  Justice Steve Coroza went from a Justice in the Ontario Court of Justice to the Ontario Appeals Court, the highest court in the province. ( Photo: From the Banate family album and The Capizeno Association of Ontario, Facebook).   2nd Update: June 17, 2021, 7:50 P.M. Updated: April 14, 2020, 1:46 PM

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