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                    [Title] => Indeed we were better prepared this time!
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Congratulations to the City of Vigan, especially to my friend, Msgr. Vicente Avila, parish priest of the Vigan Cathedral — Vigan City in Ilocos del Sur was named one of the New7Wonder cities of the world by the United Nations Educational Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO). Yes we did not only write about Vigan’s entry, but voted it too.

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I met Atty. Raffy Yap, executive director of the Cebu City Traffic Operations & Management, last Monday evening and praised him for not allowing left-turns from the Mormon Temple towards Beverly Hills because those motorists can simply go towards JY Square and make a U-Turn along the island there.

[DatePublished] => 2014-12-10 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 135522 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1805274 [AuthorName] => Bobit S. Avila [SectionName] => Freeman Opinion [SectionUrl] => opinion [URL] => ) [2] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 574175 [Title] => Kudos to the Comelec and the Filipino people [Summary] => May 10th was indeed a day of reckoning for our country and somehow my guardian angel woke me up a full hour before my alarm at 7 a. [DatePublished] => 2010-05-12 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 135522 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1805274 [AuthorName] => Bobit S. Avila [SectionName] => Nation [SectionUrl] => nation [URL] => ) [3] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 501241 [Title] => Too many brokers spoil the broth! [Summary] => What a country! If you’re the lucky few who own land via a Torrens Title, it is not guarantee that the land that your parents may have bequeath to you is yours for suddenly it may no longer belong to you because of some corrupt government official (or worse, a judge) who agrees to “manipulate” documents to make it appear that it was someone else’s property. [DatePublished] => 2009-09-02 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 135522 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1805274 [AuthorName] => Bobit S. Avila [SectionName] => Freeman Opinion [SectionUrl] => opinion [URL] => ) [4] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 496878 [Title] => No to dogs for gambling and entertainment! [Summary] =>

Last Sunday evening I watched a replay on ANC Crossroads entitled “Racing: Going to the Dogs?” which featured Sen. Jamby Madrigal, Ms. Anna Hashim Cabrera of the Philippine Animal Welfare Society (PAWS) and my good friend, Rep. Ben-Hur Salimbangon (4th District Cebu), the principal author of HB 5291 proposing to have a Greyhound Dog Racing facility in Mandaue City.

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Last Saturday, Cebu’s glitterati went to the beautiful Metropolitan Cathedral for the wedding of Liloan Mayor Vincent “Duke” Frasco and Christina Esperanza Garcia Codilla in what I’d call a fairy tale romance turned Wedding of the Century, which was graced by no less than Pres. Gloria Macapagal Arroyo (GMA), former President Joseph “Erap” Estrada, Vice-President Noli de Castro, Senate President Juan Ponce Enrile, Sen. Loren Legarda, and Sen. Migs Zubiri, Makati Mayor Jejomar Binay, Actor Rez Cortez, Rep. Nerissa Soon-Ruiz, Rep. Raul del Mar, Rep. Ben-Hur Salimbangon and yes, even Rep. Ferdinand “Bong Bong” Marcos with the Holy Mass officiated by our beloved eminence Ricardo Cardinal Vidal.

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Our special presentation on our talkshow on Straight from the Sky is the Story of Gawad Kalinga told by no less than Mr. Tony Meloto, the man who conceptualized this housing project that has caught world-wide attention and admiration, that things as difficult as this can be done in a 3rd world country by its own people.

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