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Wong Chu King Foundation, Inc. (WCKFI) led by its legal consultant, Judge Oscar P. Barrientos (Ret.), and volunteers, turned over on Jan. 6, 2023 financial assistance to Sta. Rita De Cascia Parish priest Fr. Norman J. Baldoz and several members of the parish executive committee.  The financial assistance is for the painting of the church ceiling to portray the life of Sta. Rita de Cascia.

By: Alexa Basa & Badette Cunanan

Do New Year’s resolutions work? How many of them are followed till the end of the year?

It is that time of the year again when thousands of devotees are expected to fill many streets of Manila to celebrate the Feast of the Black Nazarene. Now a well-known and most-celebrated feast, the activities will take on a new form as the country is emerging from the hard restrictions of the pandemic.For the third year, the Traslacion, the transfer of the Black Nazarene statue from the Quirino Grandstand to its home in Quiapo Church, will not be held. This is the procession where thousands of devotees jostle to get nearer to the image which they believe is miraculous and can heal the sick.But the feast’s Traslacion will be different this year as a new procession called the Walk of Faith or “Lakad Pananampalataya” will be held after the midnight mass on Sunday, Jan. 8, in honor of the Nuestro Padre Jesus Nazareno or Black Nazarene at the Quirino Grandstand. It will end after about two hours at the Quiapo Church or also known as the Minor Basilica of the Black Nazarene following a similar route of the past years.

Jose Rizal, a Philippine hero who stood up against Spanish colonizers by choosing the pen and not the sword to fight injustice, is the focus of tributes as the nation commemorates his 126th death anniversary on Dec. 30, a non-working holiday.

•       Executive Order No. 28 signed by former president Duterte on June 20, 2017, confined firecracker use to community fireworks displays.
•       Republic Act No. 7183 passed in 1992 identified the types of firecrackers and pyrotechnic devices allowed in the country and regulations to control their manufacture, sale, and use.
•       According to the Bulacan provincial government website, the province’s pyrotechnics industry started in Santa Maria town. In 1867, Valentin Sta. Ana learned how to make fireworks from a local parish priest who used “kwitis’ or stick rockets to wake up parishioners for the start of Misa de Gallo.
•       The Chinese were said to be the first who developed fireworks in the second century BC.  The simple process was done by tossing bamboo stalks into a fire which caused it to explode, according to American Pyrotechnics Association.

It’s definitely the most wonderful time of the year! Christmas Day is only a few days away, and most people are already prepared for their own way of celebrating.

What happens when you step into a sinkhole? Is that a possibility?

It’s definitely the season of joy! Christmas is here and after two years of avoiding the malls, restaurants, and meeting friends, people are out celebrating this season of cheer.

A neophyte in the partylist setup in the House of Representatives, Tutok to Win, is one among 55 proclaimed winners in the May 2022 elections with 685,578 votes.  As ninth of 178 partylist candidates, it has hit the ground running behind the initiative of first nominee Rep. Sam Verzosa, a businessman, philanthropist and chief executive of a rapidly expanding direct selling company in the health, beauty and wellness industry known as Frontrow.

Now on her third term, lawmaker, and women and children’s welfare advocate Bernadette Herrera Dy, 46, is Bagong Henerasyon (BH) Partylist representative in the 19th Congress.

Felimon Espares, an educator and the voice of cooperatives nationwide, brings to the 19th Congress his 31 years of cooperative movement experience as COOP-NATCCO Partylist representative.

Ray Florence Reyes is a healthcare advocate and a business executive that brings his 18 years of experience in various industries to the 19th Congress as Alagaan Natin Ating Kalusugan (AnaKalusugan) Party-list representative.

Rodante Marcoleta, 69, is now on his sixth term as the Social Amelioration and Genuine Intervention on Poverty (SAGIP) Partylist representative.

Allan U. Ty is the representative of the LPG (liquefied petroleum gas) Marketers Association (LPGMA) Partylist in the 18th and 19th Congress.

Have you seen a water hyacinth, an aquatic plant with a spongy and inflated leafstalk and purple flower, floating in waterways?

‘Tis the season for giving and gift-giving is one of the endearing qualities of Christmas.  Most people are likely shopping for the little ones who look forward to Santa’s visit on Christmas Eve.

Adventure was on a Royal Enfield Himalayan 411 motorcycle negotiating 1,000 kilometers of dirt roads and curling mountain passes in the Himalayas mountains. For eight days, adventure fueled the enthusiasm of seven Filipino riders in the “Zanskar Odyssey” tour deep in the Himalayas.