VIA Times Filipino American Lifestyle and Culture in the Greater Chicago Area
An interview with Joe Mauricio with Mary Gay Lebourg, owner of Calaisio, import-export company dealing in Philippine crafts based in Aklan, Philippines. A recent Chicago visitor, a childhood friend of Judge Jessica O’Brien.
An interview with Judge Jessica O’Brien for her role as an elected Cook County judge and as newly-installed (and the first Asian) President of the Women’s Bar Association of Illinois.
Veronica on one-on-one interview with Scott Barnett, founder and former CEO of Bubba Gump Shrimp restaurant and author of “Gumption: Taking Bubba Gump from movie to restaurant.”
Scott Barnett’s experience in restaurants started as a teenaged parking attendant in a popular steakhouse in Palm Desert, California. Taking the hard road, he performed every job there was to do in the business as he cooked, served and bartended his way through college and crashed into the restaurant industry in his sometimes irreverent way.
Learning the ropes of the corporate world, he nurtured a belief that things in the restaurant business could be done differently. After taking the reins of a failing company, he and his team saved it and then began searching for something to grow.
Thus began the Bubba Gump Shrimp Company restaurant concept. Fighting bad economies, old notions of how to do business, preconceived opinions, some Wall Street investors and his own misgivings, he and his group created one of the most successful restaurant companies in the world.
(1) Winchell Cheung, Director Midwest of Hong Kong Trade Development Council in an exclusive CPRTV interview with Veronica, talking about the recent conference of HKDT held at McCormick in Chicago and attended by over 2000 people.; Veronica and Joe with Manny V. Arbues II, Ayalaland International’s Regional Head for North America & Middle East.
Oliver Vazquez, a Mixed Martial Arts Professional Athlete, talking about his most recent bout in an exclusive CPRTV interview with Joe Mauricio.
Mr. Oliver Vazquez from Chicago, Illinois took his 5th victory in Professional Light weight Mixed Martial Arts match by unanimous decision on all three rounds against new opponent, Mr. Bobby Emmons of Loogootee, Indiana, last June 6th, 2015. The event was sponsored by Hoosier Fight Club 24 in Porter County Expo Center, 215 Division Road, Valparaiso, Indiana.
During the course of three rounds in 15 minutes, Oliver dominated the entire match with his Mixed Martial Arts styles of wrestling, ground and pound style. Both weighing 149 pounds, Bobby Emmons is 5’9” while Oliver Vazquez is 5’8”. A worthy opponent, Bobby Emmons now 34 years old had won 8 matches out of 9 as an amateur mixed martial artist that won him the Pro in 2011. Emmons was a co-owner of an MMA Training Center with a recent full fighting camp and sponsorship in preparation for this particular match with Vazquez. Oliver Vazquez, a Latino-American born in Miami, Florida and now resident of Chicago, is a 35-years-old business man, former banker and former Division I wrestling scholar at Northern Illinois University.
Despite two careers and busy schedule, Vazquez decided to go to Pro MMA in 2013. In BGMMA magazine of May 28, 2015, Emmons stated, “If I’m going to fight, I want it to be a tough fight,” Emmons said. “Win or lose, I want tough fights.” Vazquez was able to meet Emmons’ expectation and to get full engagement of the present viewers despite not being in his home grounds..
