VIA Times – Dec 2016 Issue Vital News, Vibrant VIews for Asian Americans in Chicago & Midwest

this season as it hit a significant milestone of $2.1 billion in savings for ComEd customers. The company recently celebrated the results at a presentation where La Rabida Children’s Hospital received an incentive check from the Program totaling $73,294. ComEd’s ...

By: Veronica Leighton   The feeling/spirit of Christmas is not actually complete without undergoing again and again, year after year, the stories or legends of Christmas through songs or carols, dances, plays and dramas, that reverberate throughout the Christian world. ...

Another project for this coming February 12, 2017 (Saturday) at Copernicus Center will be “the Jed Madela Show.” As the show’s line producer, I take responsibility for creative decisions, guests, set design, sounds, special effects, choreography, and many other facets ...

Autistic teen chef Chase Bailey, whose www.chasenyurface.com cooking show has become an online hit, is launching his first cookbook today with the aim of celebrating life as well as raising money to help other people with autism. Featuring 75 simple, ...

By: Nancy H. Abiera   One of my favorite Christmas songs is “Joy To The World,” a part of which goes like: Joy to the world, the Lord has come Let earth receive the King Let every heart prepare Him ...

Mila Bensing, active member of the Filipino American community in Chicago.

By: Maria Girlie Pascual   Two incongruous events that I had been invited to make up my column for December. The first is a first birthday party for one of the prettiest babies I know, whose beaming and proud parents, ...

(1) Newly christened Lana Alyssa with grandparents Orly (left) and Leng Bernardino (right), parents Lori & Leo Leonardo (middle, holding the baby)). (2) Proud grandmother Tess Leonardo holding Baby Lana.   The Leonardo family. Some guests in attendance. Lana Alyssa’s ...

By: Joe Mauricio   We just celebrated the annual Via Times/CPRTV Christmas Party and attended some friends’ merriment with reasons for gettogether for the season, like the MedPro Health Provider’s Christmas party, not realizing that it’s that time of the ...

By: Christian L & ChaCha M & Xavier D   Greetings 2016, from siblings Christian & Maya Leighton; (2) ChaCha Miranda, singing Maligayang Pasko with Grandma Neneth at the VT Christmas party. Greetings from the Patron family: L-R, CLARIZZE, CRISZA, CECE, JHUN, ...