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 ...
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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. ...
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Mila Bensing, active member of the Filipino American community in Chicago.
Read More »True Meaning of Christmas
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 ...
Read More »AUTISTIC TEEN CHEF’S COOKBOOK
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, ...
Read More »GERRY REBELLO CEO of Gerellie Production. LLC, popularly known as “Direk Gerry.”
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 ...
Read More »A Baby Birthday and a `Babe Launch’ Fashion Party
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, ...
Read More »BAPTISM OF LANAALYSSA LEONARDO
(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 ...
Read More »What’s the Real Meaning of Christmas?
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 ...
Read More »NORA TSAI, Recipient of TOTALAWARD from UST
Nora Tsai, resident of Burr Ridge/Chicago, Illinois & Philippines, received the TOTAL (The Outstanding Thomasian Alumni) Award from UST Nov 18, coinciding with her birthday. To quote the UST definition of TOTAL, “It is the highest honor bestowed by UST ...
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