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From:
"Noemi Medina"
<on_rodriguez@hotmail.com>
To: Editor@LAZamboangaTimes.com
Date: 18 Apr 2006
Zamboangueños in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
It has been some 15 years ago since we last met at Archie's home in Burbank.
I'm renewing acquaintances to keep you informed of what our group of Zamboagueños are doing here in Vancouver. For the last few years, we have been gathering together during Fiesta Pilar to offer a Mass and to keep in touch
with the growing number of Zamboangueños coming to B.C.
Last year we held a potluck get-together at Peace Arch Park in White Rock, British Columbia. We intend to keep this tradition going and it has grown over the years with the influx of new families arriving here.
For now we go by the name of Zamboanga Association in Vancouver, Canada. We hope to affiliate with the Zamboanga Hermosa Club in either Toronto or L.A.
The officers we elected last year are:
Noemi Medina-Rodriguez - President
Kim Luistro - Vice President
Nene Atilano-Villacrusis - Treasurer
Linda Fernandez-Skinner - Secretary
Jessica Enriquez-Noone - Advisor
We shall keep you informed of our activities here and from time to time
we'll send you pictures of our get-together.
I am also taking this opportunity to send our condolences on the demise of Doña Lourdes Atilano-Shinn, your grandma. . . Regards, too, to your Dad John, uncles Chat, Joseph, Nonito, Archie, Tony and Raymond.
Hasta la vista,
Orlando 'Barb" Rodriguez
AdeZ Class HS'59; BSC '63
At Sanborn, they look at you from head to foot
I laughed out loud when I read your Chismis of the Week section about San-
born being the "breeding ground of chismis and liyos" in Los Angeles.
Not too long ago I used to hang out there on some weekends when I was off from work.
The first time I went there I noticed that when I entered the house, some of
the people hanging out there stared at me-----from head to foot as if trying to
scrutinize me. During later visits I realized that everyone who goes there gets
the same treatment.
First they look at your face, then they look what clothes you wear, then stare at your shoes to see if it's the latest, expensive pair of sneakers from the mall.
Going there has become unproductive for me because all they do is talk
about others but themselves---when we should be really talking about doing business or how to earn extra money.
I stopped going there and I don't miss that place---especially the people
who hang out there although talking to Benito was always a pleasure.
NAME WITHHELD UPON REQUEST
LOS ANGELES, CALIFORNIA
From: "Don Soriano" <fsoriano1@san.rr.com>
To: Editor@LAZamboangaTimes.com
Date: 12 Apr 2006, 11:32:12 AM
Your recent editorial to remove 'President Arroyo by Force'
Who do you think can take Gloria Arroyo's place that will make any difference? By "force" you mean a military takeover. The military seem to be in cahoots with the elite and the powerful.
The fact is it's one rotten politician replaced by another rotten politician. The People Power was "birdogged" by Corazon Aquino as the result of her husband's assasination in 1983.
Seems like Cory wants Arroyo out much like she wanted Ramos and Estrada out and whoever the president may be---out. Does she want the job? She had the chance and blew it. Sadly, nothing is going to change in the Philippines until the Filipino people themselves undergo a complete change of attitude, and that's like drawing a square---circle.
Don Soriano
San Diego, California
EDITOR'S REPLY: Here's what I wrote, in part: "...the only solution left is for the Filipino people to remove Pres. Arroyo from office by 'force.'" And,
"the only way to remove her from office is through another People Power revolution."
First of all, as a reporter who was forced to flee the Philippines in 1985 to escape military assassination and persecution, I would never ever favor a military takeover of Malacañang.
Second, did you know that since time immemorial Mindanao's annual revenues sent to Manila amounts to about 18% of the country's gross national product (GNP)? And did you know that very little of that money ever goes back to Mindanao in terms of development and projects aimed at alleviating the plight of the poor?
Why? Because crooks---like Cory Aquino, Fidel Ramos, Joseph Estrada and Gloria Arroyo---running our government in Manila are either from Luzon or the Visayas and don't give a damn about us Mindanaoans!
Third and foremost, I believe the Philippines will be better off with a fede-
ral-type of government like the US.
Divide the country's 13 regions into 13 different states---each with it's own government composed of a state senate and congress and a governor---all under the central/federal government in Manila.
This way whatever revenues we collect in Mindanao we get to keep --- and will not be remitted to the central government in Manila --- and will be used to develop Mindanao. In addition, each state will receive funds from the central government from federal revenues collected nationwide.
Actually, this is the concept of the Autonomous Region of Muslim Mindanao (ARMM) and I'm shocked why the Christian majority are against it even though it will benefit all Mindanaoans---not just the Muslims as the crooks in Manila wants us to believe.
Lastly, I'm no fan of Cory Aquino---never was and never will be.
From: "Don Soriano" <sorianofcjr@msn.com>
To: Editor@LAZamboangaTimes.com
Date: 31 Mar 2006, 04:41:40 PM
Inviting Zamboangueño Ateneans to All Atenean Convention
Don't know if you remember me but we chatted a bit during a Zamboanga Hermosa Club picnic in honor of Fr. Kreutz (ADZU Pres.) in LA a couple of years ago.
This is the first time I checked out your website and it is impressive. First time I've seen the picture of your Dad who was one of my running mates during heydays in Zamboanga. Of course I'm acquainted with your uncle Joseph and aunt Monina also. Sometimes I find it frustrating to see names of old acquain-
tances among the young generation and be unable to connect the relationship.
Nonetheless, as you know the All Ateneo Convention will be held here in San Diego. I've been in touch with Jun Illustrisimo in trying to rally participation by the great number of Ateneo Alumni residents in southern California.
The event will be sponsored by the Ateneo de Naga. I think this is a great opportunity to socialize with fellow Zamboanga Ateneans.
It may make a great news event in your articles.Perhaps you could add in a note or two in your website reminding Zamboangeno Ateneans of this event.
Thank you,
Don Soriano
San Diego, California
(858) 560-5946
From: SALLY A <ladysally65@yahoo.com>
To: editor@LAZamboangaTimes.com
Date: 27 Mar 2006, 06:18:41 PM
Calling all 1981 Batch from Zamboanga City High School
I would like to call all Batch '81 graduates of Zamboanga City High School (ZCHS). We will have our 25th Grand Reunion on August 26, 2006 in Zamboanga City. Teofil Galang is the president of the affair.
If you need to contact me, send e-mail to ladysally65@yahoo.com.
Thank you and more power to L.A. Zamboanga Times.
Sally A.
Zamboanga City
From: "Lorna Lodevico" <DCLODE00@aacounty.org>
To: editor@LAZamboangaTimes.com
Date: 23 Jan 2006, 07:08:29 AM
Hello from Maryland !!!
My name is Lorna Lodevico. I am not from Zamboanga but one day I was looking at some websites because we were planning to go to home to the Philip-
pines and visit places in the south when I accidentally opened the L. A. Zam-
boanga Times website. This is a great site.
Also, my husband has a friend from Zamboanga when we were in California (1991) and her name is Marivic Hongco. Anyway, I just want to applaud you for a site so great. God Bless. I will continue to browse on your site. Really great....
Lorna Lodevico
MARYLAND
From: ma glenda miranda <magle_64@yahoo.com>
To: editor@LAZamboangaTimes.com
Date: 01 Feb 2006
Calling all WMSU High School Batch '81
Greetings!
I have been a frequent visitor of your site ever since a classmate told me about this. I admire your fearless and independent views about anything under the sun. Keep it up!
Anyway, I hope you can help us out in trying to locate some of our WMSU high classmates namely your new managing editor, Peter Dimaguila (congrats!) Marivic Hongco Perez, Romelinda Coscoluella, Noel Cruz, Roderick Mendoza, Faida Nuno Torribio, Elaine Sabolboro, and others.
This coming December 2006 will be our Silver Jubilee Alumni Homecoming and hope to hear from them soon.
Thank you.
Ma.Glenda Miranda
From: gina hazel west <ginahazel_west@yahoo.com>
To: editor@lazamboangatimes.com
Date: 02 Feb 2006
Condolence from Chabacanos in the United Kingdom
In behalf of the Zamboangueños in London & United Kingdom, we would like to extend our condolences and sympathy to your family for your loss.
Gina Hazel West
From: Rainelle Ranario <ranario1@yahoo.com>
To: John Lasola Shinn III <Editor@LAZamboangaTimes.com>
Date: 01 Feb 2006, 06:19:10 AM
Condolence from Chicago, Illinois
Dear Boboy,
Please accept my family's sincere condolences for the passing of your Grandma Lurding. My fellow Zamboangueños here in Chicago are also praying
for the eternal repose of her soul.
Regards.
Rainelle Ranario
CHICAGO, ILLINOIS
----------------------------------------------
From: "Claretian Missionaries" <ho37730@bigpond.net.au>
To: editor@lazamboangatimes.com
Date: 31 Jan 2006, 04:52:58 AM
Fr. Cornelio ('Jinjo') S. Solis, CMF, writes from Australia
Dear John,
Seguro gendeh tu ay conoce conmigo personalmente, pero asegurao conoce tu o ta acorda tu con el familia Solis de Sucabon. yo anak de Rafael y Nena Solis, si papa hermano de Elena, Carmen y Antonio Solis.
My condolence and prayers for your grandma. I am celebrating a mass for her on the 4th of February, 8:30 am Darwin, Northern Territory Australia Time.
I am a Claretian Missionary Priest now working in the Northern Territory, Australia.
Do give my condolences to your family members, too.
Fr. Cornelio "Jinjo" S. Solis, CMF
DARWIN, NORTHERN TERRITORY, AUSTRALIA
EDITOR'S REPLY: Thank you very much for celebrating a mass for my grand-
mother there in Australia on the day of her funeral. I'm sure many of our readers remember the Solis clan (your family) from Sucabon. After all, the Solis surname is one of the oldest and prominent clans in Zamboanga.
From: Ramon Lucas <ramonlucas1980@yahoo.com>
To: editor@lazamboangatimes.com
Date: 28 Jan 2006, 09:06:56 PM
Condolence from Ramon Lucas and family of Seattle
In Behalf of the Lucas family, kindly accept our deepest condolence.
Your grandma lived a meaningfull and rewarding life.
With all our prayers,
Ramon, Jean, Lucymay and Carmila Lucas
SEATTLE, WASHINGTON
EDITOR'S REPLY: Thank you, Mon. I, for one --- being her first born male grandson carrying the Shinn name --- will surely miss her.
From: noriel bucoy <norbuc714@yahoo.com>
To: john shinn <editor@lazamboangatimes.com>
Date: 30 Jan 2006
Our Condolence & Prayers for Tia Lurding
Cindy, Noah and I and in behalf of the Atilanos of Tetuan---please accept our deepest condolence and prayers for Tia Lurding. The life that she lived will always be reflected on the legacy she left behind through her children and grand-
children.
God bless her soul.
Noriel Atilano Bucoy
ANAHEIM, CALIFORNIA
From angel descalzo <angel_descalzo@yahoo.com>
To: editor@LAZamboangaTimes.com
Date: 08 Jan 2006
I want to hear from my classmates and friends
My name is Junjie Descalzo, a Zamboangueño BSN graduate from WMSU batch 1989. I'm currently working as an anesthetic nurse in London, England.
I would be pleased to hear from my classmates and friends.
Sincerely,
Junjie Descalzo
LONDON
From: "Dennis P. Ortega" <dennisortega@yahoo.com>
To: JOHN LASOLA SHINN III <editor@lazamboangatimes.com>
Date: 17 Jan 2006
LAZT's January 17, 2006 Editorial
Dear Boboy,
You are right. GMA has lost her effectivity to be the President of the Philip-
pines when she betrayed the public trust by what she did in the last elections,
as the Garci tapes and other election officials have exposed. She should have resigned a long time ago.
But then again, if she did, all her accomplices will go down with her. And that, is the problem. For that list would practically wipe out most the the senior offi-
cials of this rich but poor country of ours. And they will not go down easily.
Now, it is up to the people to finally put an end to this sad state that is exis-
ting in the coutry---and not through the actions of the President or any politi-
cians.
I believe that many more Filipinos are intelligent and capable enough to run this country --- and not get rich in the process. These people should be given a chance. It is not the System that is bad, it's the people in the System that is rotten and should be changed.
Maraming salamat po at mabuhay ang LAZT!
Dennis Ortega
MANILA
From: NAME WITHHELD UPON REQUEST
To: editor@LAZamboangaTimes.com
Date: 21 Dec 2005
'True Friends' like you are hard to find these days
You cannot imagine the impact that you have done to a lot of people's lives with your L.A. Zamboanga Times website.
I am not one to flatter people but it is really true. Your website has really been a great service to Zamboangueños.
To many people it is a link to other loved ones.
Just pray and stay a good person as you really are...and God will do the rest.
My father always told us to be in touch with friends....real friends cause true friends (like you) are hard to find.
Thanks and remember, Boboy, that you have a lot of friends.
NAME WITHHELD UPON REQUEST
Seattle
EDITOR'S REPLY: I know "true friends" are hard to find these days. I remember writing an article, "What Kind Of A Friend Are You?" a few years back and received a lot of positive feedbacks from our readers----young and old alike.
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From: "Elizabeth
Dagalea-Lopez"
<bethdlopez68@lycos.com>
From: "Marcos Perez" <marcos.perez@ucr.edu>
To: editor@LAZamboangaTimes.com
LAZT reader: 'Your site has been a great inspiration...'
I am an avid reader and frequent visitor of your site L.A. Zamboanga
Times.
I am really grateful that you're keeping up this site. I left Zamboanga City in 1993,ba few months after graduating from AdeZ and never had the chance to go back. I really miss our hometown but I was advised not to go home just yet.
Your site has been a great inspiration. It is a constant reminder that there are a lot of Zamboangueños around here in the greater L.A. area though I haven't had the chance to meet a lot of them.
I am sending a link to an exhibit in Riverside Municipal Museum regarding the first Filipinos in the area. I've been working here at UC Riverside for 4 years now and this exhibit came as a surprise to me because of the scarcity of Pinoys here. Click on the link below:
http://www.riversideca.gov/museum/rmm/rmm5.html
Sincerely,
Marcos Perez
Financial Analyst
Botany and Plant Sciences
2132 Batchelor Hall
University of California
Riverside, California 92521
To: Editor@LAZamboangaTimes.com
Date: 18 Apr 2006
Zamboangueños in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
It has been some 15 years ago since we last met at Archie's home in Burbank.
I'm renewing acquaintances to keep you informed of what our group of Zamboagueños are doing here in Vancouver. For the last few years, we have been gathering together during Fiesta Pilar to offer a Mass and to keep in touch
with the growing number of Zamboangueños coming to B.C.
Last year we held a potluck get-together at Peace Arch Park in White Rock, British Columbia. We intend to keep this tradition going and it has grown over the years with the influx of new families arriving here.
For now we go by the name of Zamboanga Association in Vancouver, Canada. We hope to affiliate with the Zamboanga Hermosa Club in either Toronto or L.A.
The officers we elected last year are:
Noemi Medina-Rodriguez - President
Kim Luistro - Vice President
Nene Atilano-Villacrusis - Treasurer
Linda Fernandez-Skinner - Secretary
Jessica Enriquez-Noone - Advisor
We shall keep you informed of our activities here and from time to time
we'll send you pictures of our get-together.
I am also taking this opportunity to send our condolences on the demise of Doña Lourdes Atilano-Shinn, your grandma. . . Regards, too, to your Dad John, uncles Chat, Joseph, Nonito, Archie, Tony and Raymond.
Hasta la vista,
Orlando 'Barb" Rodriguez
AdeZ Class HS'59; BSC '63
At Sanborn, they look at you from head to foot
I laughed out loud when I read your Chismis of the Week section about San-
born being the "breeding ground of chismis and liyos" in Los Angeles.
Not too long ago I used to hang out there on some weekends when I was off from work.
The first time I went there I noticed that when I entered the house, some of
the people hanging out there stared at me-----from head to foot as if trying to
scrutinize me. During later visits I realized that everyone who goes there gets
the same treatment.
First they look at your face, then they look what clothes you wear, then stare at your shoes to see if it's the latest, expensive pair of sneakers from the mall.
Going there has become unproductive for me because all they do is talk
about others but themselves---when we should be really talking about doing business or how to earn extra money.
I stopped going there and I don't miss that place---especially the people
who hang out there although talking to Benito was always a pleasure.
NAME WITHHELD UPON REQUEST
LOS ANGELES, CALIFORNIA
From: "Don Soriano" <fsoriano1@san.rr.com>
To: Editor@LAZamboangaTimes.com
Date: 12 Apr 2006, 11:32:12 AM
Your recent editorial to remove 'President Arroyo by Force'
Who do you think can take Gloria Arroyo's place that will make any difference? By "force" you mean a military takeover. The military seem to be in cahoots with the elite and the powerful.
The fact is it's one rotten politician replaced by another rotten politician. The People Power was "birdogged" by Corazon Aquino as the result of her husband's assasination in 1983.
Seems like Cory wants Arroyo out much like she wanted Ramos and Estrada out and whoever the president may be---out. Does she want the job? She had the chance and blew it. Sadly, nothing is going to change in the Philippines until the Filipino people themselves undergo a complete change of attitude, and that's like drawing a square---circle.
Don Soriano
San Diego, California
EDITOR'S REPLY: Here's what I wrote, in part: "...the only solution left is for the Filipino people to remove Pres. Arroyo from office by 'force.'" And,
"the only way to remove her from office is through another People Power revolution."
First of all, as a reporter who was forced to flee the Philippines in 1985 to escape military assassination and persecution, I would never ever favor a military takeover of Malacañang.
Second, did you know that since time immemorial Mindanao's annual revenues sent to Manila amounts to about 18% of the country's gross national product (GNP)? And did you know that very little of that money ever goes back to Mindanao in terms of development and projects aimed at alleviating the plight of the poor?
Why? Because crooks---like Cory Aquino, Fidel Ramos, Joseph Estrada and Gloria Arroyo---running our government in Manila are either from Luzon or the Visayas and don't give a damn about us Mindanaoans!
Third and foremost, I believe the Philippines will be better off with a fede-
ral-type of government like the US.
Divide the country's 13 regions into 13 different states---each with it's own government composed of a state senate and congress and a governor---all under the central/federal government in Manila.
This way whatever revenues we collect in Mindanao we get to keep --- and will not be remitted to the central government in Manila --- and will be used to develop Mindanao. In addition, each state will receive funds from the central government from federal revenues collected nationwide.
Actually, this is the concept of the Autonomous Region of Muslim Mindanao (ARMM) and I'm shocked why the Christian majority are against it even though it will benefit all Mindanaoans---not just the Muslims as the crooks in Manila wants us to believe.
Lastly, I'm no fan of Cory Aquino---never was and never will be.
From: "Don Soriano" <sorianofcjr@msn.com>
To: Editor@LAZamboangaTimes.com
Date: 31 Mar 2006, 04:41:40 PM
Inviting Zamboangueño Ateneans to All Atenean Convention
Don't know if you remember me but we chatted a bit during a Zamboanga Hermosa Club picnic in honor of Fr. Kreutz (ADZU Pres.) in LA a couple of years ago.
This is the first time I checked out your website and it is impressive. First time I've seen the picture of your Dad who was one of my running mates during heydays in Zamboanga. Of course I'm acquainted with your uncle Joseph and aunt Monina also. Sometimes I find it frustrating to see names of old acquain-
tances among the young generation and be unable to connect the relationship.
Nonetheless, as you know the All Ateneo Convention will be held here in San Diego. I've been in touch with Jun Illustrisimo in trying to rally participation by the great number of Ateneo Alumni residents in southern California.
The event will be sponsored by the Ateneo de Naga. I think this is a great opportunity to socialize with fellow Zamboanga Ateneans.
It may make a great news event in your articles.Perhaps you could add in a note or two in your website reminding Zamboangeno Ateneans of this event.
Thank you,
Don Soriano
San Diego, California
(858) 560-5946
From: SALLY A <ladysally65@yahoo.com>
To: editor@LAZamboangaTimes.com
Date: 27 Mar 2006, 06:18:41 PM
Calling all 1981 Batch from Zamboanga City High School
I would like to call all Batch '81 graduates of Zamboanga City High School (ZCHS). We will have our 25th Grand Reunion on August 26, 2006 in Zamboanga City. Teofil Galang is the president of the affair.
If you need to contact me, send e-mail to ladysally65@yahoo.com.
Thank you and more power to L.A. Zamboanga Times.
Sally A.
Zamboanga City
From: "Lorna Lodevico" <DCLODE00@aacounty.org>
To: editor@LAZamboangaTimes.com
Date: 23 Jan 2006, 07:08:29 AM
Hello from Maryland !!!
My name is Lorna Lodevico. I am not from Zamboanga but one day I was looking at some websites because we were planning to go to home to the Philip-
pines and visit places in the south when I accidentally opened the L. A. Zam-
boanga Times website. This is a great site.
Also, my husband has a friend from Zamboanga when we were in California (1991) and her name is Marivic Hongco. Anyway, I just want to applaud you for a site so great. God Bless. I will continue to browse on your site. Really great....
Lorna Lodevico
MARYLAND
From: ma glenda miranda <magle_64@yahoo.com>
To: editor@LAZamboangaTimes.com
Date: 01 Feb 2006
Calling all WMSU High School Batch '81
Greetings!
I have been a frequent visitor of your site ever since a classmate told me about this. I admire your fearless and independent views about anything under the sun. Keep it up!
Anyway, I hope you can help us out in trying to locate some of our WMSU high classmates namely your new managing editor, Peter Dimaguila (congrats!) Marivic Hongco Perez, Romelinda Coscoluella, Noel Cruz, Roderick Mendoza, Faida Nuno Torribio, Elaine Sabolboro, and others.
This coming December 2006 will be our Silver Jubilee Alumni Homecoming and hope to hear from them soon.
Thank you.
Ma.Glenda Miranda
From: gina hazel west <ginahazel_west@yahoo.com>
To: editor@lazamboangatimes.com
Date: 02 Feb 2006
Condolence from Chabacanos in the United Kingdom
In behalf of the Zamboangueños in London & United Kingdom, we would like to extend our condolences and sympathy to your family for your loss.
Gina Hazel West
From: Rainelle Ranario <ranario1@yahoo.com>
To: John Lasola Shinn III <Editor@LAZamboangaTimes.com>
Date: 01 Feb 2006, 06:19:10 AM
Condolence from Chicago, Illinois
Dear Boboy,
Please accept my family's sincere condolences for the passing of your Grandma Lurding. My fellow Zamboangueños here in Chicago are also praying
for the eternal repose of her soul.
Regards.
Rainelle Ranario
CHICAGO, ILLINOIS
----------------------------------------------
From: "Claretian Missionaries" <ho37730@bigpond.net.au>
To: editor@lazamboangatimes.com
Date: 31 Jan 2006, 04:52:58 AM
Fr. Cornelio ('Jinjo') S. Solis, CMF, writes from Australia
Dear John,
Seguro gendeh tu ay conoce conmigo personalmente, pero asegurao conoce tu o ta acorda tu con el familia Solis de Sucabon. yo anak de Rafael y Nena Solis, si papa hermano de Elena, Carmen y Antonio Solis.
My condolence and prayers for your grandma. I am celebrating a mass for her on the 4th of February, 8:30 am Darwin, Northern Territory Australia Time.
I am a Claretian Missionary Priest now working in the Northern Territory, Australia.
Do give my condolences to your family members, too.
Fr. Cornelio "Jinjo" S. Solis, CMF
DARWIN, NORTHERN TERRITORY, AUSTRALIA
EDITOR'S REPLY: Thank you very much for celebrating a mass for my grand-
mother there in Australia on the day of her funeral. I'm sure many of our readers remember the Solis clan (your family) from Sucabon. After all, the Solis surname is one of the oldest and prominent clans in Zamboanga.
From: Ramon Lucas <ramonlucas1980@yahoo.com>
To: editor@lazamboangatimes.com
Date: 28 Jan 2006, 09:06:56 PM
Condolence from Ramon Lucas and family of Seattle
In Behalf of the Lucas family, kindly accept our deepest condolence.
Your grandma lived a meaningfull and rewarding life.
With all our prayers,
Ramon, Jean, Lucymay and Carmila Lucas
SEATTLE, WASHINGTON
EDITOR'S REPLY: Thank you, Mon. I, for one --- being her first born male grandson carrying the Shinn name --- will surely miss her.
From: noriel bucoy <norbuc714@yahoo.com>
To: john shinn <editor@lazamboangatimes.com>
Date: 30 Jan 2006
Our Condolence & Prayers for Tia Lurding
Cindy, Noah and I and in behalf of the Atilanos of Tetuan---please accept our deepest condolence and prayers for Tia Lurding. The life that she lived will always be reflected on the legacy she left behind through her children and grand-
children.
God bless her soul.
Noriel Atilano Bucoy
ANAHEIM, CALIFORNIA
From angel descalzo <angel_descalzo@yahoo.com>
To: editor@LAZamboangaTimes.com
Date: 08 Jan 2006
I want to hear from my classmates and friends
My name is Junjie Descalzo, a Zamboangueño BSN graduate from WMSU batch 1989. I'm currently working as an anesthetic nurse in London, England.
I would be pleased to hear from my classmates and friends.
Sincerely,
Junjie Descalzo
LONDON
From: "Dennis P. Ortega" <dennisortega@yahoo.com>
To: JOHN LASOLA SHINN III <editor@lazamboangatimes.com>
Date: 17 Jan 2006
LAZT's January 17, 2006 Editorial
Dear Boboy,
You are right. GMA has lost her effectivity to be the President of the Philip-
pines when she betrayed the public trust by what she did in the last elections,
as the Garci tapes and other election officials have exposed. She should have resigned a long time ago.
But then again, if she did, all her accomplices will go down with her. And that, is the problem. For that list would practically wipe out most the the senior offi-
cials of this rich but poor country of ours. And they will not go down easily.
Now, it is up to the people to finally put an end to this sad state that is exis-
ting in the coutry---and not through the actions of the President or any politi-
cians.
I believe that many more Filipinos are intelligent and capable enough to run this country --- and not get rich in the process. These people should be given a chance. It is not the System that is bad, it's the people in the System that is rotten and should be changed.
Maraming salamat po at mabuhay ang LAZT!
Dennis Ortega
MANILA
From: NAME WITHHELD UPON REQUEST
To: editor@LAZamboangaTimes.com
Date: 21 Dec 2005
'True Friends' like you are hard to find these days
You cannot imagine the impact that you have done to a lot of people's lives with your L.A. Zamboanga Times website.
I am not one to flatter people but it is really true. Your website has really been a great service to Zamboangueños.
To many people it is a link to other loved ones.
Just pray and stay a good person as you really are...and God will do the rest.
My father always told us to be in touch with friends....real friends cause true friends (like you) are hard to find.
Thanks and remember, Boboy, that you have a lot of friends.
NAME WITHHELD UPON REQUEST
Seattle
EDITOR'S REPLY: I know "true friends" are hard to find these days. I remember writing an article, "What Kind Of A Friend Are You?" a few years back and received a lot of positive feedbacks from our readers----young and old alike.
Date: 07 Nov 2005
Calling all ZAEC graduates now in the US and Canada
Hi there, im Elizabeth Dagalea-Lopez from Zamboanga City, now connected with UNIVERSIDAD DE ZAMBOANGA---formerly ZAEC. I'm the Alumni Director fo the school, and my nephew, Randy Dagalea asked me to visit the website of ZAMBOANGA HERMOSA.
I saw the X' Mas party photos of the ZAMBOANGA HERMOSA CLUB of Southern California. I remember some of the faces. I even saw Titong San Juan who is a relative on my mother side, Josie Atilano-Lopez, the sister-in-law of my sister-in-law, Marinela Lopez-Atilano. My husband is the late Padini Lopez. Since I'm tracking down fellow alumnis based abroad, can I ask your kind assistance to help me track our fellow alumni there and to please e-mail me their names, address and e-mail adresses? Thanks very mucho.
The officers of the UZAAI appointed Randy Dagalea as our coordinator based there in L.A. My former classmate, Atty. David Chan also asked me to go to your website and click open the Zamboanga Hermosa website.
We just had dinner together with our former classmates here. David is in Manila now, but leaving for China then will be back in Manila. He'll leave for San Diego California on the 25th.
My regards to all ZAMBOANGUEÑOS there. Hope to hear from you soon.
Have a great week. God Bless.
ELIZABETH DAGALEA
Zamboanga City
EDITOR'S REPLY: I met David a few years back when he attended our Fiesta Pilar celebration in Anaheim. In fact, he gave me his business card which indicated that he's a lawyer based in San Diego. On the other hand, I spoke to Randy a few days ago and suggested that he start organizing the ZAEC alumnis here in Sou-
thern California. I reminded him that there are many ZAEC graduates living here in the greater Los Angeles area. Randy is the best person to organize the ZAEC group here. Rest assured, L.A. Zamboanga Times will vigorously support Randy's efforts to establish the ZAEC alumni group here in L.A.
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From: james poole <jimo323000@yahoo.com>
To: editor@LAZamboangaTimes.com
Date: 06 Nov 2005, 02:03:31 PM
Allan Quebral and family now in Calgary, Canada
Greetings to you John!! I just want to let you know that Allan Quebral and his wife and kids had moved to Calgary, Canada last September.
I know you guys were soccer teammates at Ateneo in the early 80's.
God bless,
James Poole
Seattle
EDITOR'S REPLY: Muchas gracias, James..Yes, we used to play soccer together. His older brother Robin was my classmate from kinder to high school. Robin and I used to daydream when we were in 4th grade about coming to America. We had big dreams about our future...we were great dreamers....and still are....
Calling all ZAEC graduates now in the US and Canada
Hi there, im Elizabeth Dagalea-Lopez from Zamboanga City, now connected with UNIVERSIDAD DE ZAMBOANGA---formerly ZAEC. I'm the Alumni Director fo the school, and my nephew, Randy Dagalea asked me to visit the website of ZAMBOANGA HERMOSA.
I saw the X' Mas party photos of the ZAMBOANGA HERMOSA CLUB of Southern California. I remember some of the faces. I even saw Titong San Juan who is a relative on my mother side, Josie Atilano-Lopez, the sister-in-law of my sister-in-law, Marinela Lopez-Atilano. My husband is the late Padini Lopez. Since I'm tracking down fellow alumnis based abroad, can I ask your kind assistance to help me track our fellow alumni there and to please e-mail me their names, address and e-mail adresses? Thanks very mucho.
The officers of the UZAAI appointed Randy Dagalea as our coordinator based there in L.A. My former classmate, Atty. David Chan also asked me to go to your website and click open the Zamboanga Hermosa website.
We just had dinner together with our former classmates here. David is in Manila now, but leaving for China then will be back in Manila. He'll leave for San Diego California on the 25th.
My regards to all ZAMBOANGUEÑOS there. Hope to hear from you soon.
Have a great week. God Bless.
ELIZABETH DAGALEA
Zamboanga City
EDITOR'S REPLY: I met David a few years back when he attended our Fiesta Pilar celebration in Anaheim. In fact, he gave me his business card which indicated that he's a lawyer based in San Diego. On the other hand, I spoke to Randy a few days ago and suggested that he start organizing the ZAEC alumnis here in Sou-
thern California. I reminded him that there are many ZAEC graduates living here in the greater Los Angeles area. Randy is the best person to organize the ZAEC group here. Rest assured, L.A. Zamboanga Times will vigorously support Randy's efforts to establish the ZAEC alumni group here in L.A.
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From: james poole <jimo323000@yahoo.com>
To: editor@LAZamboangaTimes.com
Date: 06 Nov 2005, 02:03:31 PM
Allan Quebral and family now in Calgary, Canada
Greetings to you John!! I just want to let you know that Allan Quebral and his wife and kids had moved to Calgary, Canada last September.
I know you guys were soccer teammates at Ateneo in the early 80's.
God bless,
James Poole
Seattle
EDITOR'S REPLY: Muchas gracias, James..Yes, we used to play soccer together. His older brother Robin was my classmate from kinder to high school. Robin and I used to daydream when we were in 4th grade about coming to America. We had big dreams about our future...we were great dreamers....and still are....
From: "Marcos Perez" <marcos.perez@ucr.edu>
To: editor@LAZamboangaTimes.com
LAZT reader: 'Your site has been a great inspiration...'
I am an avid reader and frequent visitor of your site L.A. Zamboanga
Times.
I am really grateful that you're keeping up this site. I left Zamboanga City in 1993,ba few months after graduating from AdeZ and never had the chance to go back. I really miss our hometown but I was advised not to go home just yet.
Your site has been a great inspiration. It is a constant reminder that there are a lot of Zamboangueños around here in the greater L.A. area though I haven't had the chance to meet a lot of them.
I am sending a link to an exhibit in Riverside Municipal Museum regarding the first Filipinos in the area. I've been working here at UC Riverside for 4 years now and this exhibit came as a surprise to me because of the scarcity of Pinoys here. Click on the link below:
http://www.riversideca.gov/museum/rmm/rmm5.html
Sincerely,
Marcos Perez
Financial Analyst
Botany and Plant Sciences
2132 Batchelor Hall
University of California
Riverside, California 92521
From: Rogie Quijano <rogielq@gmail.com>
To: Johnshinn3@lazamboangatimes.com
Date: 19 Jul 2005
Greetings from Toronto, Canada.
Do you have the email address of Gina West? I just saw that she's now the L.A. Zamboanga Times London Bureau Chief.
I'm trying to get in touch with some long lost Zamboangueño friends in London and she might, by chance, have their contact info.
Thanks in advance.
Best regards,
Rogie L. Quijano
From: "nancy cahill" <nancycahill@sympatico.ca>
To: editor@LAZamboangaTimes.com
An e-mail from an avid reader in Nova Scotia, Canada
I'm an avid reader of L.A. Zamboanga Times, I'm Joy from Nova Scotia, Canada. I worked at the Zamboanga City Medical Center before I migrated here in Canada.
I was so shocked to read the news on the death of Toto Torres. Is he the cousin of Gener Martinez? And doesn't he work at SSS?
Thanks.....More Power....
Nancy Cahill
Nova Scotia, Canada
EDITOR'S REPLY: Yes, Toto was Gener's first cousin and, yes, Toto worked at SSS in Zamboanga.
To: editor@lazamboangatimes.com
Date: 2 Aug 2005
Donation for homeless street children in Zamboanga
We're want to make a donation for the homeless street children in Zambonga City through the Zamboanga Hermosa Club of Southern California's Hospitality Group headed by Randy Dagalea.
However, when we called the phone number listed on your website there was no answer. Please let us know the postal mailing address where we can ship our donation. We're from Connecticut. Thank you! God bless...
Dan
Connecticut
EDITOR'S REPLY: I called the number and was able to get through the first try and talked to Randy Dagalea. Because of his busy schedule he listed his cell phone number instead of his office number. Randy said donations can be mailed or shipped to: ZAMBOANGA DONATIONS, c/o Hospitality Group, 21636 South Figueroa Street, Carson, California 90745.
To: editor@LAZamboangaTimes.com
From: john atilano <john_atilano@sbcglobal.net>
Date: 23 Aug 2005
The 'Great Raid' is a movie Pinoys is U.S. should watch
I just watched the movie "The Great Raid" and I am encouraging Fil-Ams to also watch it.
I was touched to see some Filipino veterans crying while watching this movie. This is a true-to-life story about the rescue mission of US "POWs" (Prisoners of War) in the Philippines during World war II by elite U.S. Special Forces troops assisted by Filipino guerillas.
Should you want to get the real documentary film, "The Great Raid" buy a DVD titled "Bataan Rescue" at PBS.com.
Bataan rescue is for keeps!
John Y. Atilano
Vallejo, California
To: Editor@lazamboangatimes.com
From: Phillip Nery Bejerano <bejerano_pnn@yahoo.com>
Date: 16 Aug 2005
How can I get hold of Ramon Lucas?
Hi! Quetal con todo..
My name is Phillip Bejerano. I am a friend of Ramon Lucas. Would you have any information as to how I can get in touch with him? e-mail, phone number..
anything would do. Thanks.
More power,
Phillip
From: "Arturo de Vera" <art.devera@rogers.com>
To: editor@LAZamboangaTimes.com
Date: 30 Aug 2005
Looking For Baby Chiong of Jolo, Sulu
I wonder if you could help thru any Jolo Sulu organization L.A. I'm looking for my good
friend Baby Chiong. He always acted as our host during our Jolo-Basilan Tennis tournaments during our younger days.
Thanking you in advance and keep up the good work.
Art De Vera
Toronto, Canada
P.S. --- Please extend my regards to your old man John Sr. and your Uncle Chat, my old drinking buddy during our college days.
From: "Diaz Adelita" <Adelita.Diaz@hwph-tr.nhs.uk>
To: editor@LAZamboangaTimes.com
Date: 07 Mar 2005
Greetings from Berkshire, England!
I'm an avid fan of your website and visit it at every opportunity I have. And yes, I do find it very informative, but most importantly it brings me closer to home. There's really no place like home, and definetely no place like our beloved MI CIUDAD de ZAMBOANGA in my heart. CLICK HERE TO CONTINUE
From: "Randolph Lumábao" <rlumabao@jesuits.net>
To: editor@LAZamboangaTimes.com
Date: 13 Mar 2005, 06:34:08 AM
Zamboangueños in the U.S. Marines Deployed in Iraq
I read the L.A. Zamboanga Times regularly. Keep up the good work in helping to keep our Zamboangueños in touch with each other.
There is another Zamboangueño Marine in Fallujah, Iraq. He is Pietro Murga, younger brother of the late Nonoy Murga and husband of Cecille Magbanua. The Zamboangueño "leathernecks" follow in the tradition of my cousin, Bigoy Ledes-
ma, who fought in Vietnam and died a few years ago in California.
Let's pray that all these wars end soon.
Warmest regards to Tita Lourding, the Shinn clan y todos los compoblanos.
Hasta luego,
Randolph ('Randy') Lumabao, S.J.
UP-PGH Chaplaincy
Taft Avenue, Ermita
1000 Manila
PHILIPPINES
Telephone/Fax No.: +6325237103
Mobile Phone No.:+639189209144
EDITOR'S REPLY: Quetal Randy? If you scrolled further down this page, you would have seen Pietro's picture from Iraq which we featured last month. Neverthe-
less, thank you for writing and reminding us of Bigoy. I first met Bigoy a few weeks after I arrived in the U.S. in early 1985 when I went with my uncles Chat and Nonito to visit him in Concord, Calif. after he suffered a stroke. He was a big, but gentle and caring person with a down-to-earth character and he left a lasting good impression with me after that meeting. I never knew Bigoy was with the U.S. Marines and had served in Vietnam until I read your letter (above).
From: heidi claire gimotea <heidi20us@sbcglobal.net>
To: editor@LAZamboangaTimes.com
Date: 27 Mar 2005
Greetings from Texas!
I have found your website through the direction of my high school
classmate and friend who now lives in England!
Imagine i have to find out about you from across the globe, and all the while i have been searching for fellow Zamboanguenos (my computer does not carry the Spanish Alphabet).
I am a Zamboanguena (born and raised in Zamboanga City), though uproo-
ted, i still visit every chance I get. Been gone for 21 years but still very homesick. "Nuhay gat yo ulvida mi Chavacano maskin donde pa yo ya guinda."
I have browsed around and i have found familiar names and faces from
back home---folks i have met and known back then. I think i will enjoy
visiting your site from time to time. I am interested to get to know "mi
ciudadanos" as well.
Thank you for taking time to read my email.
Heidi Camacho is the name.
From: Maria Delora Candido <deltac210@yahoo.com>
To: editor@LAZamboangaTimes.com
Date: 26 Feb 2005, 07:48:02 AM
Hi! I am Ma. Delora T. Candido of Berwyn, Illinois.
I am a frequent visitor of this website. It is from this site that I find the most interesting news and updates from around the country and home.
I am suggesting some interesting faces to be included in your Zamboangue-
ña Beauties Hall of Fame once I get their permission and photos.
I am thankful you feature some photos and events esp. since I get to know some news about my friends and classmates and get their e-mail addresses and locations.
Thanks for a wonderful job of spreading news and cheers to our fellow ZAMBOANGUEÑOS. MUCHAS GRACIAS.
EDITOR'S REPLY: Thank you for your letter. I am inviting you, as well as any of our readers, to send in photo contributions for our Zamboangueña Beauty Hall of Fame, Pogi of the Week and other events in your area that we can feature here. The more pictures you send in the better. If you have any questions please do not hesitate to e-mail me.
From: charry flores <charrybio@yahoo.com>
To: editor@LAZamboangaTimes.com
Date: 25 Feb 2005
Letter of Thanks from Pampanga...
Hello.. i'm an avid reader of your website..
I'm "Charry" niece of the late Pompeyo Pilardo "Toto" Torres Jr. I'm here in Pampanga working as a consultant.. I miss Zamboanga so much. I'm living with my husband and other collegues from Zamboanga..
Since we found out about your website, we've read many of the articles you've published. It also makes us homesick and feel like going home, right?
Anyway, when I read that my Uncle Toto died last Saturday, Feb.19 I felt very sad and with mixed emotions.. I remember my uncle as a responsible person, jolly and most of all, a good husband to his wife Georgia and a loving father to his 3 kids..
I want to take this opportunity to say muchos gracias.. Indeed life is too short for us to live.. May his soul rest in peace...
From the whole Chabacano peeps in Zamboanga... thanks a lot & more power to LA Zamboanga Times...
Charry Lazaro
Pampanga City
EDITOR'S REPLY: Hi Charry...How can I not remember you? Your mom Marivic and dad Timmy are my comadre and compadre. I, too, was deeply saddened by Toto's unexpected death because I knew him well.
Time flies by so fast that you now have your own family! It seemed like only yesterday when I used to see you play as a little girl while I hang-out at your dad's shop to watch him work or to drink Tanduay ESQ or tuba with you Uncles Toto, Tanny and Boboy.
Thank you for writing us. It is letters from readers like you that continue to inspire us to make L.A. Zamboanga Times the online newspaper it is today so
we can better serve the Chabacano communities around the world.
From: "Randolph Lumábao" <rlumabao@jesuits.net>
To: editor@LAZamboangaTimes.com
Date: 13 Mar 2005, 06:34:08 AM
Zamboangueños in the U.S. Marines Deployed in Iraq
I read the L.A. Zamboanga Times regularly. Keep up the good work in helping to keep our Zamboangueños in touch with each other.
There is another Zamboangueño Marine in Fallujah, Iraq. He is Pietro Murga, younger brother of the late Nonoy Murga and husband of Cecille Magbanua. The Zamboangueño "leathernecks" follow in the tradition of my cousin, Bigoy Ledes-
ma, who fought in Vietnam and died a few years ago in California.
Let's pray that all these wars end soon.
Warmest regards to Tita Lourding, the Shinn clan y todos los compoblanos.
Hasta luego,
Randolph ('Randy') Lumabao, S.J.
UP-PGH Chaplaincy
Taft Avenue, Ermita
1000 Manila
PHILIPPINES
Telephone/Fax No.: +6325237103
Mobile Phone No.:+639189209144
EDITOR'S REPLY: Quetal Randy? If you scrolled further down this page, you would have seen Pietro's picture from Iraq which we featured last month. Neverthe-
less, thank you for writing and reminding us of Bigoy. I first met Bigoy a few weeks after I arrived in the U.S. in early 1985 when I went with my uncles Chat and Nonito to visit him in Concord, Calif. after he suffered a stroke. He was a big, but gentle and caring person with a down-to-earth character and he left a lasting good impression with me after that meeting. I never knew Bigoy was with the U.S. Marines and had served in Vietnam until I read your letter (above).
From: Maria Delora Candido <deltac210@yahoo.com>
To: editor@LAZamboangaTimes.com
Date: 26 Feb 2005, 07:48:02 AM
Hi! I am Ma. Delora T. Candido of Berwyn, Illinois.
I am a frequent visitor of this website. It is from this site that I find the most interesting news and updates from around the country and home.
I am suggesting some interesting faces to be included in your Zamboangue-
ña Beauties Hall of Fame once I get their permission and photos.
I am thankful you feature some photos and events esp. since I get to know some news about my friends and classmates and get their e-mail addresses and locations.
Thanks for a wonderful job of spreading news and cheers to our fellow ZAMBOANGUEÑOS. MUCHAS GRACIAS.
EDITOR'S REPLY: Thank you for your letter. I am inviting you, as well as any of our readers, to send in photo contributions for our Zamboangueña Beauty Hall of Fame, Pogi of the Week and other events in your area that we can feature here. The more pictures you send in the better. If you have any questions please do not hesitate to e-mail me.
From: heidi claire gimotea <heidi20us@sbcglobal.net>
To: editor@LAZamboangaTimes.com
Date: 27 Mar 2005
Greetings from Texas!
I have found your website through the direction of my high school
classmate and friend who now lives in England!
Imagine i have to find out about you from across the globe, and all the while i have been searching for fellow Zamboanguenos (my computer does not carry the Spanish Alphabet).
I am a Zamboanguena (born and raised in Zamboanga City), though uproo-
ted, i still visit every chance I get. Been gone for 21 years but still very homesick. "Nuhay gat yo ulvida mi Chavacano maskin donde pa yo ya guinda."
I have browsed around and i have found familiar names and faces from
back home---folks i have met and known back then. I think i will enjoy
visiting your site from time to time. I am interested to get to know "mi
ciudadanos" as well.
Thank you for taking time to read my email.
Heidi Camacho is the name
From: charry flores <charrybio@yahoo.com>
To: editor@LAZamboangaTimes.com
Date: 25 Feb 2005
Letter of Thanks from Pampanga...
Hello.. i'm an avid reader of your website..
I'm "Charry" niece of the late Pompeyo Pilardo "Toto" Torres Jr. I'm here in Pampanga working as a consultant.. I miss Zamboanga so much. I'm living with my husband and other collegues from Zamboanga..
Since we found out about your website, we've read many of the articles you've published. It also makes us homesick and feel like going home, right?
Anyway, when I read that my Uncle Toto died last Saturday, Feb.19 I felt very sad and with mixed emotions.. I remember my uncle as a responsible person, jolly and most of all, a good husband to his wife Georgia and a loving father to his 3 kids..
I want to take this opportunity to say muchos gracias.. Indeed life is too short for us to live.. May his soul rest in peace...
From the whole Chabacano peeps in Zamboanga... thanks a lot & more power to LA Zamboanga Times...
Charry Lazaro
Pampanga City
EDITOR'S REPLY: Hi Charry...How can I not remember you? Your mom Marivic and dad Timmy are my comadre and compadre. I, too, was deeply saddened by Toto's unexpected death because I knew him well.
Time flies by so fast that you now have your own family! It seemed like only yesterday when I used to see you play as a little girl while I hang-out at your dad's shop to watch him work or to drink Tanduay ESQ or tuba with you Uncles Toto, Tanny and Boboy.
Thank you for writing us. It is letters from readers like you that continue to inspire us to make L.A. Zamboanga Times the online newspaper it is today so
we can better serve the Chabacano communities around the world.
From: RICHAZ512@aol.com
To: editor@LAZamboangatimes.com
Date: 26 Dec 2004, 03:52:35 PM
Subject: From Sonny Rivera of Zamboanga City
Merry Christmas.
My name is Sonny Rivera, the son of your former high school classmate - Bong Rivera. I saw the picture of the Enriquez's at the L.A. Zamboanga Times website and I'm wondering as to how I can reach Ritchie Enriquez. He was schoolmate during my high school also at AdeZ.
You can send your response to this email address of my Dad.
Thanks. Wishing you and your love ones a Happy New Year.
Sonny Rivera
EDITOR'S REPLY: Our managing editor, Titong San Juan was with them the first few days after they arrived in L.A. I will e-mail you the information as soon as I get them from him. In the meantime, I'm posting your letter on our website hoping Ritchie will read it.
From: Katrina Camaongay <kat808c@yahoo.com>
To: Johnshinn3@lazamboangatimes.com
Date: 30 Oct 2004, 05:45:21 AM
Subject: Ricky Lopez-vito
My name is Rene Camaongay.
I was shocked to find out thru your website that Ricky Lopez-vito passed away in Bacolod City last Sept.15, 2004 at a very young age of 43.
I'm writing you because Ricky was a childhood friend of mine in Zamboanga. We were neighbors in Monserat Drive, Baliwasan ... only a basketball court and the Zambowood office stood between our houses. I know almost all his sisters and brothers.
We played hide and seek, guerra-guerra, tumba-lata and basketball you name it during our younnger years. We watched movies, go biking and swimming.
Ricky and his brother Eddie were also members of the Zamboanga Aero Modeller's Club. I used to go with them to the Zamboanga Airport to watch them assemble model airplanes in one of the hangars there.
I lost track of Ricky and his brother Eddie when I left for Manila in 1974 after finishing HS in Ateneo.
It was only in December of 2001 during the Ateneo Alumni Home coming in Zamboanga that I was able to see and talk to him again. He was in crutches... Chiquita and 2 other sisters were asisting him. We embraced, talked about the good old days. I did not realize it would be the last.
best regards,
Rene
P.S. --- By the way, I'm using my daughter Katrina's e-mail address.
From: "Diaz Adelita" <Adelita.Diaz@hwph-tr.nhs.uk>
To: editor@LAZamboangaTimes.com
Date: 07 Mar 2005
Greetings from Berkshire, England!
I'm an avid fan of your website and visit it at every opportunity I have.
and yes, I do find it very informative, but most importantly it brings me
closer to home. There's really no place like home, and definetely no place
like our beloved MI CIUDAD de ZAMBOANGA in my heart.
I've been away from our country for barely 2 years bur for the last 2x I've
been home for a Holiday,it has always been like a big Homecoming for me.I
miss my family, my friends and my former colleagues back home.I used to be a faculty member of the Western Mindanao State University, College of Nursing and a resident of Tetuan.
I'm now with Wexham Park Hospital and is in a Surgical Specialty Ward - Urology.But I feel lucky because there are also others from Zamboanga and also from Tetuan who are here and we work together in the same hospital, so in a way we're like a little family and talks CHAVACANO in every opportunity we have. We gather together to celebrate Easter, Fiesta Pilar and even the San Ignatious Fiesta of Tetuan. I'l try to find time and maybe share some pictutres with you, the first opportunuty I'l have.
Thank you very much for coming up with this website, and this also goes for all those who share news, informations and pictures.Almost always we know the people you're featuring.I was happy when I saw my face in one of the pictures, when you featured The Zamboanga City High School Homecoming last year.
Carry on.... everyone! Viva Zamboanga!
I'm planning my next holidays to be in October this year, and until
then...VAYA CON DIOS y HASTA LA VISTA!
Con mas amor,
ADELITA S. ANDRES
email: violetlita2002@yahoo.co.uk
From: Pete Mortensen <PeteM@CTSSINC.com>
To: John L. Shinn III <Editor@LAZamboangaTimes.com>
Date: 29 Dec 2004, 02:12:37 PM
Subject:Happy holidays from Virginia
Who will be your site's 100,000th visitor?
I noticed that I was visitor # 99,330 or so today. Suggestion: you give some sort of a prize or recognition to whomever is the lucky 100,000th visitor to your website! Might make a good promotion for you - who knows? Just an idea, buddy. Eldest son Majo and daughter Elizabeth will be joining Babuchie in Manila this holiday to be with eldest daughter Marian, who will be delivering my FIRST grandchild next month. I hope to visit them in 2005.
Wishing you and your family the warmest of holiday cheer. And say hello
to Chito Lopez for me.
Pete Mortensen
EDITOR'S REPLY: Thanks Pete. I did as you suggested but we have not heard from our winner yet.
Where is Therese Paulino?
Hello! My name is Grace Angus.
Therese Paulino was my classmate in elementary and high school in the Philippines. Since, I am here in San Diego, I want to find out what her email address is so I can reconnect with her.
She knows me. You can give her my email address. From this email, she and I can restart communicating.
Thank you kindly.
Grace Angus
San Diego, California
EDITOR'S REPLY: Therese lives here in L.A. and is now known as Mrs. Ariel dela Merced. Ariel and Therese are regular LAZT readers and I'm sure they'll read this and will contact you shortly.
Thanks for a wonderful write-up
One of the photomalaysia.com web admin Brian has read the
news and he wrote me this email. At first, I wondered how Brian
knew about me writing for the Los AngelesTimes, but I later found
out about the link that he attached and it was L.A.Zamboanga
Times, so I checked the site and there was my story.
I've read about your brave exploits --- during the Alih incidents and the assassination of Zamboanga City mayor Cesar C. Climaco in 1984 --- and many more, I salute you!
By the way, I am also writing for Malaya -- started out in December 1994 or 1995, but never had the chance and honor to work with you then.
Anyway, John thanks a lot and more power to you and your family and to the Zamboangueños in the US of A.
Muchas Gracias Señor John Shinn! Viva a Zamboangueño!
Al Jacinto
ZAMBOANGA CITY, PHILIPPINES
From: "Evalyn Dunkelman" <edunkelman@hvc.rr.com>
To: editor@LAZamboangaTimes.com
Date: Wednesday, 15 Dec. 2002, 1:23:24 PM
Subject: Familiar photos
I just checked your website a few days ago when a Pilarist friend
(Pilarica de Leon) informed me of the website. So glad to see some
pictures of fellow Pilarist like Glenda Marcos-Chua.
It brought back memories of the days in Zamboanga City. With this
website, as well as instant text messaging, I am in contact with some of
my classmates in Pilar College and it never seemed that time passed with
this new technologies.
This website is a great way to remember where we came from regardless
of where we are now. Keep up the good work ! ! !
Evalyn Torralba Dunkelman
New York City
From: "Felino M. Santos" <lino@zambo.i-next.net>
To: editor@LAZamboangaTimes.com
Date: Saturday, 28 Dec. 2002, 11:07:41 AM
Subject: Noticia en Chabacano
Hi.
I have taken the
initiative of coming online with a Noticia en Chavacano.
This is a weekly update of news in Zamboanga written in Chavacano.
This is a weekly update of news in Zamboanga written in Chavacano.
The idea is to
provide Zamboanguenos abroad with a newspaper that they can read in
Chabacano.
I am just hitching this on line newspaper wtth freeservers thus
sometimes, the website do not open at all. I think it is a problem
because the newspaper is only a hitchhiker.
The online
newspaper
in Chabacano can be browsed at:
The English on line newspaper is
at
Felino
Santos
Zamboanga City
From: renato.s.gabriel@jpmchase.com
To: editor@LAZamboangaTimes.com
Date: Friday, 20 Dec. 2002, 1714:21 PM
Subject: Hey there!!!
Quetal man alli, I was once a Carmen Boys way back in Zamboanga in the
early 70s. You and me went to the same school in ADZ, I was 1 or 2 years
ahead of you, we played basketball in our backyard, and sometimes in front
of your house. Would you remember me????
I am Chino's younger brother and cousins to the Silvas'. You use to call me
"Nato." I also had a cousin by the name of Renato, who died in a motorcycle
accident.
We moved to Manila in 1974 at the height of martial law during the Marcos regime. I graduated college and worked with computers in a couple of compa-
nies in Manila. We then migrated to Australia in 1987.
I moved my wife and 2 kids to New Jersey in 1998 and am currently working with
JPMorgan Chase bank in New York City.
It is such a long time... I have not even communicated to anyone in Zambo
since we left. I know my cousin Mimi married your cousin Chito Atilano.
I accidentally came across the zamboanga.com/news website and saw
your name, I read a lot of things about what happened in Zambo in that website,
very interesting.
I will forward this website to my brother in Sydney, my mother would love
to read things in this website.
bye for now...
Renato Silva Gabriel
New York City
Zamboanga City
From: renato.s.gabriel@jpmchase.com
To: editor@LAZamboangaTimes.com
Date: Friday, 20 Dec. 2002, 1714:21 PM
Subject: Hey there!!!
Quetal man alli, I was once a Carmen Boys way back in Zamboanga in the
early 70s. You and me went to the same school in ADZ, I was 1 or 2 years
ahead of you, we played basketball in our backyard, and sometimes in front
of your house. Would you remember me????
I am Chino's younger brother and cousins to the Silvas'. You use to call me
"Nato." I also had a cousin by the name of Renato, who died in a motorcycle
accident.
We moved to Manila in 1974 at the height of martial law during the Marcos regime. I graduated college and worked with computers in a couple of compa-
nies in Manila. We then migrated to Australia in 1987.
I moved my wife and 2 kids to New Jersey in 1998 and am currently working with
JPMorgan Chase bank in New York City.
It is such a long time... I have not even communicated to anyone in Zambo
since we left. I know my cousin Mimi married your cousin Chito Atilano.
I accidentally came across the zamboanga.com/news website and saw
your name, I read a lot of things about what happened in Zambo in that website,
very interesting.
I will forward this website to my brother in Sydney, my mother would love
to read things in this website.
bye for now...
Renato Silva Gabriel
New York City
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