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ARTICLES

Gratitude and about being Baguio
Posted: 18-Feb-2012 / 5 days 2 hours ago
  Valentine came a month early, after doctors with a heart conferred early January and confirmed their initial finding last November. They swore the stethoscope, and later the angiogram, found I have a heart, but it was not working well. They insisted it needed immediate repair, and one...
An unlettered farmer’s legacy
Posted: 08-Jan-2012 / 6 weeks 4 days ago
  (Again, I turn this story for the simple message: we are not what we own.)   ONCE in a while, a story comes along that needs to be told and retold -- for the human virtue it inspires. It seems easier to find it in fiction. The real world tends to breed cynics among us. A good...
A world full of heroism
Posted: 30-Dec-2011 / 7 weeks 5 days ago
  As did then United States Ambassador to the Philippines Kristie Kenney, I, too, rooted for Efren Penaflorida, the pushcart teacher who was CNN’s “Hero of the Year” in 2009. Since then, it’s been a year-end treat to watch the giant television network’s annual...
Football
Posted: 25-Dec-2011 / 8 weeks 3 days ago
  The late football coach and Gold Ore weekly paper editor Jose “Peppot” Ilagan must be smiling from up there in the great newsroom and playing field in the sky. Things are looking up from down here, at least for three reasons. First was three of his boys – midfielder...
What if…
Posted: 16-Dec-2011 / 9 weeks 5 days ago
(With five of the Cordillera representatives to Congress having signed the third draft for autonomy in this upland region, the debate on self-rule is again heating up. Joining the discussions, I recall this piece on this space a few months back.)   The “what if” questions...
The faces of Santa Claus
Posted: 10-Dec-2011 / 10 weeks 4 days ago
  A Samaritan who declined to identify himself appeared last Monday morning at the Benguet Renal Center in La Trinidad, Benguet. He asked the costs and then deposited P17,600. He said it was for  end-stage kidney patient Genevieve Gano. So the girl could have her twice-a-week...
Fragile relief and hope
Posted: 02-Dec-2011 / 11 weeks 5 days ago
  Samaritans delivered relief and hope to a family beset with medical woes and condoled with another whose four-year old boy just lost his brave and protracted battle against cancer. Construction worker Famorca Bannog last Wednesday brought home to Banaue, Ifugao his 14-year old son...
When patients come knocking
Posted: 21-Nov-2011 / 13 weeks 3 days ago
Because their number is apparently increasing, chances are you’ve met or know one or two of these patients., They’re those endlessly at a loss on how to fund those never-ending thrice- or twice-a-week blood-cleansing sessions for them to survive. With nowhere else to go, one of...
Plugging a special kid’s bleeding
Posted: 11-Nov-2011 / 14 weeks 5 days ago
 When his second of five children was diagnosed for cerebral palsy shortly after birth, Famorca Bannog, a laborer from Banaue, Ifugao, knew there was nothing much he could do except to raise the kid the best he and his wife Shirley could. That’s what the couple did, and Frederick...
Images still haunt
Posted: 04-Nov-2011 / 15 weeks 5 days ago
It’s been 20 years since, yet the image still haunts. The picture never blurred. It’s  still all too clear and real, enough to still blur the eyes.   We were then weeks into “Operation Sayote”, the Baguio media-initiated relief operation launched on...