Happy New Year! Manigong Bagong Taon!

By: Christian L & ChaCha M & Xavier D

Happy new year to our bata readers, ako po si Xavier Divinagracia, your Bata Korner Columnist, son of former Bata Korner Columnist, Kayvee Divinagracia.

Birthday celebrant Chazzy Patron just turned five.

From Elsie Sy-Niebar, Via Times senior editor/NOTEBOOK columnist said: “CHRISTMAS 2016 was the best Christmas we had at the home of my niece, MICHELLE Villanueva Cruz, and her husband Regan Cruz, a police sargeant at Fox Lake, and their children. From left to right are my beautiful granddaughter MYAN, one of the local talents to be featured JED MADELA Concert on Feb. 12, 2017, at the Copernicus Center on Lawrence Ave., Chicago. Next to Myan is my nephew John Paul Molina, me, my two grandsons Rance and Reece Cruz, Sgt. Regan and Michelle Cruz; and my sister Vilma Villanueva Molina.

Holiday greetings to Via Times readers, from IL Governor Bruce Rauner & wife Diane & children.