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Recent News / Update
The Aguman will have a fund-raising event on April 12, 2008.
It will be a dinner-dance at LEGINS which is on the corner of SE Division St.
and SE 82nd Ave. in Portland. Tickets cost $35 each. The Just Five Band
will provide the music.
The chairman and vice chairman of this benefit event are the
Susi sisters: Cori Harms and Annabelle Bowles.
Everybody is invited to come to the event. Profits will go towards the Aguman's
medical mission scheduled next January.
Note: Sorry, this feature has been discontinued and has
not been updated for sometime.
This has been a very good year for the Aguman. One reason could be that
the Santa Cruzan / Coronation Pageant we had last June 16 was a
smash hit among spectators. The magnificence of the event swept them
off their feet and took their breath away, holding them spellbound!
If the built-up enthusiasm on this event does not fade away, and there
is insistent public demand for another pageant, we might put up a
repeat performance in May, next year, with a lot of fresh faces and
with of course, some improvements over the pageant we just had. Long
live all of us in the Aguman! Long live the chairman of the pageant,
Monette Mallari!
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The Aguman was one of those that received awards from the Asian
Reporter last May 13 in ceremonies held at the Legin Restaurant.
It will be having another medical mission this coming December,
and such a worthwhile accomplishment was the main reason on why
it was bequeathed an award.
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Here are some excerpts lifted from the article, "Oregon's
diversity takes root" by Angie Chuang:
The Asian American population increased substantially in Portland, but
the dramatic changes were in subarban communities such as Troutdale
where it quadripled, and Hillsboro, where it is now six times what it was a decade ago. In his nearly 30 years in the Portland area, Filipino American community leader Danilo E. Del Rosario has seen a tiny Asian American community grow,
diversify among its own ranks and begin to unify.
The 46-year old city employee and Tigard resident came with his family from the Philippines as a teen-ager. "Back then, the Asians in Portland were mostly Chinese and Japanese. After the Vietnam war, there was a massive migration of people from Vietnam and other parts of Southeast Asia. That really changed
the community."
Del Rosario said the divergent ethnic groups only recently started organizing
to gain political clout. "We want to maintain this relationship. We have to accept
the fact that even though we see ourselves as being from very different countries, we are seen by everyone else as Asian."
Just last Saturday, Dan was inducted as president of the Filipino-American
Historical Society of Oregon. This is in addition to being one of the Aguman advisers and to being the 2nd vice president of the Akademyang Kapampangan
U.S.A.
The following was sent to the editor of Philippine News:
Subj: People Power
Date: 01-03-22 17:19:01 EST
From: EITURLA
To: editorial@philippinenews.com
Dear Editor:
The recent issue of P.N. was replete with articles
on EDSA, People's Power I and II, and about our
modern day Filipino heroes who helped topple unwanted
regimes and administrations. It also carried news
about the Nobel peace prize our country garnered on
account of our overwhelmingly successful and peaceful
struggles for a better world which were precipitated,
in the first one, by the assassination of Ninoy Aquino,
and , in the second one, by the confession of Gov. Chavit
Singson. Such articles make us recall the heroism and
fighting spirit of Benigno Aquino, the statesman who
undoubtedly could have easily become the next president
after Marcos.
When I read these inspiring articles by Cherie M.
Querol Moreno and Luisita A. Kashiwahara, I was moved
to recall some years ago when some senators were clamoring
for Ninoy to be proclaimed as the national hero. Maybe,
now is the time to ask the people through a plebiscite
whom they want to have for national hero. In that way,
the people themselves would have the opportunity to select
their national hero, instead of just our colonizers who,
I've heard, looked for a role model during those times
when Filipinos were still up in arms against them. And then
also, the fact that People Power is such an inspiration,
being very much alive in the hearts of all people,
and being even given due recognition internationally
as manifested by this glowing Nobel Peace Prize our country
has romped away with, maybe we'll have to study ourselves
more and determine who really is best fitted among our
cavalcade of heroes to be the national one.
What the unfinished Philippine Revolution did for our
forefathers, People Power has also done for us and with
an even better ending, and its success will forever serve
as an aura of inspiration to us children of this generation
and to our children yet to come.
Thanks for publishing such interesting articles.
Ernie Turla
Portland, Oregon
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