Wake-uppers:
Scene: Tessie
Jaya-Pagdato, proprietor of Tessie’s Sweets & Pastries passed away, her
daughter Ines announced on Tuesday, June 14. Tessie’s Sweets and Pastries began
in 1999 in Baclayon town, known as the pastry capital of Bohol. Tessie’s Sweets
and Pastries offers tourists the experience of making their bestseller, broas
(lady fingers). In 2008, Tessie
was interviewed on GMA’s “100 % Pinoy” hosted
by Miss Universe 1999 first runner-up Miriam Quimbao for her ubi (purple yam) jam which remains one
of Bohol’s favorite delicacies. She shared her secret that boiling the ubi is
not the most nutritious option because some of the vitamins are lost into the
cooking water. “Just steam the ubi
without losing its nutritional content,” she said.
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| Tessie Jaya-Pagdato |
Scene: This
(surprise) announcement from Rammel Cagulada, chief of staff provincial board
member Dionisio Victor Balite: “After
having been silent for quite a time, I am now disclosing without fear of
contradiction, that Hon. Board Member Dionisio Victor Ancog Balite, Ph.D. has
accepted with profound humility the Boholano people's persistent clamor for him
to run as the next VICE - GOVERNOR of the Province of Bohol!”
Scene:
Boholano film producer/writer Achinette Joy Villamor during the Gawad Urian
2018 (her film, “Balangiga: Howling
Wilderness,” won the Best Picture): “They
call us a third world country. That is wrong. What they should call us is
Previously Colonized Country. We are not behind Europe and the U.S because
we’re poor, lacking in resources, or just slow in development. We are behind
them because every decade we devoted our labor, resources, and land to
developing their country is a decade we could not use developing our own.
Colonialism is evil, and in the present time, there is no bigger symbol of
colonialism than those three bells that the U.S took from Balangiga. Those
bells belong to us. We have the right to ask that they be returned because they
belong to us. Let’s bring those bells home.”
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| PO2 Arlene Manatad, the
first and only woman member of the elite police Special Weapons and Tactics (SWAT) team in Bohol meets PNP Chief Director General Oscar Albayalde during his command visit to Bohol Provincial Police Office on Friday, June 15. Leo Udtohan |
Scene: The
command visit of PNP Chief Director General Oscar Albayalde at the Bohol
Provincial Police Office on Friday, June 16.
Albayalde conferred the coveted PNP Medalya ng Kagalingan (Medal of
Merit) to some Bohol police for their heroism. For service of warrant of arrest against the Most
Wanted Person of Central Visayas
Emigdio Aparece Jr.: PSupt
Gaylord Tamayo, SPO1 Justeofino Hinlayagan, PO3 Enrico Tayactac, PO2 Jose
Felicisimo Rebosura, PO2 Arlene Manatad,
PO2 Jonald Jungco, PO1 Martin J Asucan,
PO1James D Montalban and PO1 Gil E Mesiona (SWAT PMFC); PO3 Junre Calvo, PO2 Jessie Cepedoza and PO2
Enrique Cepedoza (PIB Bohol), PO3 Julius Buyan (Danao Police Station),
Technical Sgt. Sandy Uy (PAF Personnel); and Major Dennis (17ISU, ISG, AFP) ; for buy-bust operation
conducted against Rey Jacquese AraÑa in Panglao, Bohol: PSINSP Romas Labasbas, PO3 Reynante Buntag
Fucolan,PO2 Nelson Bacarisas Macaraya, PO2 Nerio Loretero Guioguio, PO2 Gimmel
Fernando Olegario, PO1 Jerson Sotomayor Entice, PO1 Junzin Roy Quijada Albano,
PO1 Rommel Roy Lamdagan Villareal, PNP Drug Enforcement
Group (DEG) SOU 5 personnel, PIB personnel and Maritime Police Unit personnel;
and for buy-bust Operation against John Gerald Anson, of Magsija, Balilihan,
Bohol who was listed in the PNP’s drugs watch list as newly identified “drug
pusher”: PSupt Patricio Degay, Jr., P03 Jonathan Argao,PO3 Clyd Lagumbay, PO3
Benjamin Ceniza Jr., PO2 John Butch Epile, PO2 Ray Neil Bibat, PO2 Delfin Goloso, and PO3 Ignacio Inojales,
PO3 Ruel Robles, PO2 Raffy Jotojot and PO2 Wanie Dotillos of the SWAT Team.
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Bb.
Pilipinas-Intercontinental 2018 Karen Gallman will surely remember June 2018.
The beauty queen who hails
from Ubay town got the surprise of her life as her Australian boyfriend Ian
Garton, chose the month of June to propose to her.
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Karen posted on Instagram a photo of herself and
Ian, wearing her sparkling engagement ring.
She wrote, “WE ARE
ENGAGED! Two weeks today, the love of my
life asked me to marry him..I said YES of course! Thank you for making me the happiest girl on
the planet, I am so blessed to have you in my life. I love you with all my heart,” adding the hashtags #engaged #forever
Karen’s Instagram feed
showed that two love to travel. Just recently, they were in Santorini, Greece.
Karen was born in Barangay
Fatima in Ubay town to Gavin William Gallman, a retired Australian soldier, and
Ubay native Editha Bayonas.
She spent her childhood
days at Barangay Bood before she migrated to Australia at age 8.
She first
joined Binibining Pilipinas in 2012 at the age of 19 and made it to
the top 12 of the national beauty pageant and was also named Miss
Photogenic of the batch.
Before trying her luck
again in Bb Pilipinas 2018, she worked as an operations analyst in a company in
London for two years.
Last April, VRS covered Karen’s homecoming. She was
lovelier in person when she spoke to us in her thick Bisaya accent.
She said her mother
Editha trained them to speak Bisaya and
embrace the Boholano way even if they were living in Brisbane, Australia.
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Parishioners
wear black ‘to express deep sorrow and indignation’
Bishop Alberto Uy of the
Diocese of Tagbilaran, recalling the deaths of three Catholic priests in the
country in six months, remarked that “it is costly to follow Jesus.”
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| A Holy Mass dedicated to
the slain three priests was held on Friday, June 15, at the St. Joseph the Worker Cathedral in Tagbilaran City, Bohol, officiated by Tagbilaran Bishop Alberto Uy. Leo Udtohan |
Uy mentioned this during
the Mass held at the St. Joseph the Worker Cathedral on Friday for the slain
priests.
The bishop said priests
are not enemies but are gifts God has given to guide people.
“Ang mga pari gasa sa
Diyos para sa iyang katawhan. Dili sila atong kaaway, sila ang nagmatuto ug
nagpalambo sa pagtuo sa Diyos,” he said.
Some 3,000 people, wearing
black shirts “to express deep sorrow and indignation,” participated in the
Mass.
On June 10, Fr. Richmond
Nilo was shot dead inside a chapel while preparing to celebrate the Sunday mass
in Zaragosa, Nueva Ecija. He was the third Catholic priest to be killed in the
Philippines in the past six months.
Prof. Marianito Luspo who
attended the Mass noted that violence and crime happen in many Catholic
countries.
“It happened in many
so-called Catholic countries because if people do not stand up and say enough
then we shall have enabled evil to prevail over us,” said Luspo.
“That’s why I am here
because the church calls for my presence here. I can always lend my little
voice for the voice of grief, the voice of sadness and above all, the voice of
protest that this is happening at all,” added Luspo.
Meanwhile, in a
resolution passed during its session last Thursday, the Sangguniang Panlalawigan of Bohol also condemned the murder of the
priests.
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