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Talented girls are PAFCOM beauties
Six-year-old Alexandria Winilyn Szyskowski will be crowned Little Miss PAFCOM on May 31st at DoubleTree by Hilton Hotel in Newark, New Jersey. Lexi, a kindergarten student at Washington Community School in Bayonne, is the youngest daughter of Frank Szyskowski and Coleene Roxas-Szyskowski. Frank is a managing partner for Ideal Equipment and Supply LLC. located in […]
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WHERE I LIVE: Kim Mende Itskov’s Sheepshead Bay home brings her closer to husband’s Russian kin
By Cristina DC Pastor Kimberly Mende Itskov lived in frenetic Midtown Manhattan for almost 10 years before experiencing the calm greenery of Forest Hills in Queens. Last year, she moved yet again to her third borough: Sheepshead Bay in Brooklyn, where “Curb Your Enthusiasm” comedian Larry David and former mobster Tomas Pitera grew up. When […]
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Roz Li calls for scientific approach to restoring Bohol’s historic churches
At least seven historic churches in Bohol were damaged by a 7.1 magnitude earthquake in October, and a task force estimated it would take up to $4.5 million per church to repair the ruins and return the churches back to parishioners. “The Philippine government has made a commitment to restore and reconstruct the historically significant […]
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PIDCI celebrates 25th year; Grand Marshals pay homage to heroes
Dr. Emilio Quines and his wife Fely, also a doctor, are a private couple not used to the limelight. They are quite uncomfortable being called a ‘power couple’ being this year’s Grand Marshals who will lead a large Philippine Independence Day Parade on Madison Avenue on June 1. So at the recent Grand Marshal Gala […]
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PIDCI presents 2014 Diwa Ng Kalayaan candidates
The countdown to the 116th Philippine Independence Day celebrations in New York City, which falls on June 1, officially kicked off February 15 with the presentation of the first batch of Diwa Ng Kalayaan beauty pageant contestants and Mrs. Kalayaan popularity finalists held at the Philippine Consulate. Besides the honor to become an Ambassador of […]
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Doctor, banker wife are 2014 PAFCOM grand marshals
Dr. Edgar Lerias and his banker wife Mary Jane have been named 2014 Grand Marshals of the Philippine-American Friendship Committee, Inc. PAFCOM organizes Jersey City’s annual Philippine Independence Day Parade, a gathering that parallels the Madison Avenue parade in New York but celebrated weeks later. The Davao City-born Edgar is a long-standing community leader and […]
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‘If you’ve got one drop of ‘bagoong’ in you, then you’re Filipino:’ Fred Cordova
By Daniel Buenafe Griffith He was a humble man with a commanding presence. I can only imagine what that looked like 50-plus years ago, when he was a young university student, an aspiring journalist, a community activist, or just a mischievous boy pursuing his college sweetheart. But we’ll save those stories for actual writers to […]
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An invitation to a fellowship: Rebranding ‘balikbayan,’ what it means and what it can be
By Rexy Josh Dorado Having spent equal halves of my life in the Philippines and in the United States, I never know whether to call myself a Filipino American or an American Filipino – which word defines the other, which adjective colors the essence. Since my arrival in the U.S. at the age of 11, […]
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The Asian American consumer: prudent shopper but willing to splurge on foreign travels, hybrid cars
Asian Americans are advertisers’ favorite market because as consumers we are said to be well educated, tech savvy and affluent. Meaning, we know what we want and we are likely to have the cash to buy them. We are also a fast-growing population with a rapidly expanding income. The FilAm is reproducing below excerpts from […]