Monthly Archives: June 2010
Maraming Salamat Po. A Million Thanks to You!
Overall Chair Philippine Independence Week Committee, 2010 Gala Night & Coronation of Beauty Queens
June 12, 2010 * Hyatt Regency O’Hare International
The recently concluded PIWC celebration of our 112th Philippine Independence was a testimony to our power as a community. For the first time after so many years, and at a time of great economic recession in America, a formal event such as the PIWC Gala Night gathered some eight hundred (800) guests in the Grand Ballroom of Hyatt Regency O’Hare International. Continue reading
Demolition of Rizal’s Binan home deplored
BINAN, Laguna – Several groups, including young artists and the city government of Binan, have decired the demolition of the second ancestral home of national hero Dr. Jose P. Rizal in Binan, Laguna.
The demolition started even as the nation is readying the celebration of Rizal’s 149th birth anniversary on June 19. He was born June 19, 1861 in Calamba, Laguna where the family home been made into a museum. Rizal died December 30, 1896 by firing squad in Luneta. Continue reading