VIA Times – August 2017 Issue Vital News, Vibrant VIews for Asian Americans in Chicago & Midwest

On the bright sunny day of Sunday July 9, 2017, the healthy, handsome, and buoyant 7-month old New York-born son of Mr. and Mrs. Peter and Aileen “Mei” (nee Tsai) was baptized at the Saint Walter’s Catholic Church in Roselle, ...

Friday, September 8 NAGA CITY Penafrancia Choir Fr. Nelson Garcia 6:45 P.M. – Procession from Shrine to main altar St. Matthias Church , 2310 W. Ainslie, Chicago, IL (773) 506-2191 Chaplet, Rosary, Novena, Holu Mass – St. Matthias Church DELIA ...

For the Fun of it and for “sentimental reason”.. in one of my sassy conversations with some of our beautiful ladies in our festive Filipino American Community, our “Happy,Talking Happy Talk” touched on recalling some of our past International Beauty ...

According to Google (and it must be true!), only 5 -6 percent marriages last for fifty years. By any calculation, 50 years is really a long time. That’s about half a century! Nick and I were married way back home, ...

Rovenal Jose Navea Palomares was born in GUIHULGAN, Negros Oriental, Philippines. HIs father was Roman Palomares and his mother was Vivencia Navea Palomares. He’s the oldest out of five brothers, Andrew, Jesus, Roman Peter, Rosendo and Richard. When his parents ...

Asuncion (Ciony) Del Rosario Gawat, age 89, Beloved wife of the late Ret. Col. Isabelo F. Gawat; Loving mother of Cynthia, Yolanda (Ildefonso) Hilado, Manolo (Julie) Gawat, Daniel (Thomas Bierbrodt), Rebecca & Sheila (Jason) Cordero. Proud grandmother of Eugene, Matthew ...

What would have been a difficult scheduling of an appointment with ConGen Calonge became rather seamless when properly channeled through his secretary, Ms. Wenilyn Capote. I was originally thinking, it would be a lot harder to get to him now ...