VIA Times – February 2019 Issue Vital News, Vibrant VIews for Asian Americans in Chicago & Midwest

Despedica party for Gerry’s last day in Manila with friends ERNIE GARCIA, ADRIAN PANGANIBAN and Willy RILLO from CALAMBA, Laguna. Jessa Zaragoza and DINGDONG AVANZADO with their pretty daughter, Gerry, his niece CHERRYL & nephew Markie, taken at the AVANZADO residence. ...

By: Joe Mauricio   The Chinese Lunar New Year 2019 celebration officially starts on February 5 and runs until February 19, giving honor to the animal pig, according to the Chinese’s annual zodiac cycle. Unlike the universal New Year celebration ...

Beloved Teri D Cruze (Des Plaines, Illinois), passed away at the age of 53, on January 20 2019. Her many friends say, “Teri is gone too soon and it is still so hard to believe, Let us not focus on ...

Robert A. Mittenthal, longtime resident of Chicago, passed away on January 18, 2019. He was 78. Beloved husband of Rosemary, nee Romero. Loving father of Grace (Derek Evitt) Mittenthal, Gemini (Peter Strandquist) Mittenthal and Robert H. (Francine) Mittenthal. Loving “Lolo” ...

By: Veronica Leighton   Be The Match is the world’s largest and most diverse marrow registry. Despite more than 19 million people on the Be The Match Registry, only .4% are Filipino – and that means Filipino patients battling life-threatening ...

By: Mayra Salazar   Each year we announce the annual cost-of-living adjustment (COLA). Usually, there is an increase in the Social Security and Supplemental Security Income (SSI) benefit amount people receive each month, starting the following January. Law requires that ...

By: Maria Girlie Pascual   When my son Kristoffer Wolfgang Wildoer was born, it seemed to me like I was part of something miraculous. Even if he made me go into labor for 13 full hours with half an epidural ...

By: Bob Boyer   Sunday morning, January 27, I received a troubling text from a friend: “What a tragedy in the Philippines! Prayers!” That text was the first news I received about explosion in a Catholic Church in the Muslim ...

Hunter Dimailig A Budding Stage Child Actor