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 Dinalupihan All High School Grand Reunion 2009
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PHILIPPINE NEWS SER-VICE -- GOVERNMENT in-vestigators will utilize former 
 police ofcers Cesar Mancao
and Glenn Dumlao in solv-ing, besides the Dacer-Corbitodouble murder case, the Kura-tong Baleleng rubout and themysterious disappearance of acasino employee in 1998.Tight security has beenclamped around Mancao whohas expressed fears for his andhis family’s safety.Justice Secretary RaulGonzalez yesterday said thelooming probe into the abduc-tion-slaying of publicist Salva-dor “Bubby” Dacer and driver Emmanuel Corbito may pavethe way for the resolution of the two equally celebratedcases.The Kuratong Balelengcase is still pending before theSupreme Court, while the caseof former PAGCOR employeeEdgardo Bentain has beengathering dust.Bentain was suspected of 
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By Ashley Silverio
 Assistant Editor 
 San Diego Asian Journal 
The Council of PhilippineAmerican Organization of San Diego County’s (CO-PAO) Philippine Faire 2009took place June 6th from9:00 am to 5:00 pm at West-
eld Plaza Bonita in Nation
-al City, drawing thousandsof attendees and volunteers
Vendors’ booths at COPAO Philippine Faire 2009.Martial Arts presentation.
 Philippine Faire 2009
San Diego Filipinos celebratePhilippine IndependenceDay Anniversary
for one of the most visibleFilipino American events inSan Diego County.“We’re celebrating Filipi-nos [today],” said NationalCity Mayor Roy Morrison.“National City is a great place to have [this celebra-tion] happen.”Throughout the day, visi-tors strolled among vendorsí booths and food stands, pausing to take in various performances on the mainstage, including musical,dance, and martial art per-
formances. A steady inux
of visitors crossing fromthe shopping center to theevent location at the parkinglot adjacent to Sweetwater Road kept vendors and traf-
c attendants busy.
At the heart of the festi-val was pride and patriotismfor the Philippines. FredGallardo, COPAO’s Execu-tive Vice President, lead thecrowd in a salute to com-memorate the 111th Philip- pine Independence Day,
which is ofcially June 12th.
Marita ìMerlyî Ferrer,COPAO’s President, deliv-ered a welcome address tothe morning crowd on the
main stage. Public ofcials,
such as Mayor Morrison, As-sembly member Mary Salasand Councilmember TonyYoung, were present to offer their support of the FilipinoAmerican community.
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One unique eatery in the vicinity iscalled “Choco-late de Batirol”, namedafter a wooden instrument used tomix chocolates and prepare a favoritechocolate drink. Aside from hot choco-late, the eatery serves lunch, merienda(snacks) and dinner. It is a nice place tovisit, with its benches and tables madeof hard wood andtrunks of trees.
By Simeon G. Silverio, Jr.
 Publisher & Editor 
The San Diego Asian Journal 
See page 3
 Philippine Visit 2004:
The road to Baguio and the eaterycalled “Choco-late de Batirol”
 Daniel Munoz, Published & Editor of La Prensa
 by
Herman Baca
President Committeeon Chicano RightsJune 2, 2009The passing on SundayMay 31, 2009 of Daniel Lo- pez Muñoz, friend, compa-dre, fellow activist, founder and editor of La Prensa SanDiego, whom I knew for 40years, signaled that a politi-cal era is surely coming toan end. Dan’s death after therecent passing of local fellowactivists Hermenia Enrique,Charlie Samarron, RubenRubio and Roberto Martinez,along with Cesar Chavez,Humberto”Bert” Corona,Rodolfo “Corky” Gonzales
in recent years; conrmed
that salient point to me.
I remember I rst met
Daniel Muñoz during theturbulent 1970’s. The 70’scame after the political as-sassinations of MalcolmX, Martin Luther King andBobby Kennedy in the 60’sand was a time when people
 A Tribute toDaniel Muñoz
were demanding change inthe U.S. Blacks were revolt-ing against segregation,youth were marching in thestreets against the VietnamWar, Women, Native Ameri-can and other groups were boycotting, demonstratingand rioting.The Mexican-Americancommunity did not live in avacuum in the 70’s and didnot escape the call for 
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ing in a community ER Born and raised in theU.S. Dr. Sadeeq Sadiq grewup in Lathrop, California andreceived his bachelor’s de-gree in molecular cell biolo-gy with departmental honorsfrom UC Berkeley. He thenattended UC Irvine medicalschool. Upon graduating hecompleted his EmergencyMedicine residency at Uni-versity of Florida Shand’sJacksonville a level 1 traumacenter. He then moved back to California with his wifeand newborn daughter andstarted working as an Emer-gency Room Doctor at Para-dise Valley Hospital locatedin National City, San Di-ego since March 2006. Dr.Bahar A. Sadiq is a pharma-cist who moved to the U.S.when she was 16. She wasvaledictorian at her highschool and then received her  bachelor’s degree in bio-chemistry from UCLA. She
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June 12 - 18, 2009
Msgr. GutierrezSan Diego News
The Most Holy Bodyand Blood of Christ 
Community
 Locals face ADHC, military
health beneft budget cuts
 
Page 2June 12 - 18, 2009 Asian Journal - (619) 474-0588 Visit our website at http://www.asianjournalusa.com
Food for Thought 
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Why is it when two planesalmost hit each other it is called a“near miss”?Shouldn’t it be called a “near hit”?What does Geronimo say whenhe jumps out of a plane?Why do they sterilize theneedles for lethal injections?How do you KNOW it’s newand improved dog food?Why do they put locks on thedoors of 24-hour stores?What do they use to ship styro-foam?Why is it called rush hour wheneverything moves so slow?Why do they call them expresslanes when during rush hour everything is stopped?If sour milk is used to makeyogurt, how do you know whenyogurt has gone bad?Why call it a building if it’salready been built?
Too many points to ponder
Why do kamikazee pilots wear helmets?Is it true that cannibals don’t eatclowns because they taste funny?Does ‘virgin wool’ come fromsheep the shepherd hasn’t caughtyet?If the front of your car says‘DODGE’, do you really need ahorn?What do sheep count when theycan’t get to sleep?Do they have reserved parkingfor non-handicap people at theSpecial Olympics?How come wrong numbers arenever busy?If you shoot a mime, should youuse a silencer?If corn oil comes from corn,where does baby oil come from?Why do they put braille on thenumber pads of drive-through bank machines?What’s another word for thesau-rus?What would we have called thecolor orange if it wasn’t a fruit?After eating, do amphibianshave to wait one hour before get-ting out of the water?If someone with multiple per-sonalities threatens to kill himself,is it considered a hostage situa-tion?Instead of talking to your plants,if you yelled at them would theystill grow, but only to be troubledand insecure?Is there another word for syn-onym?Isn’t it a bit unnerving that doc-tors call what they do “practice”?Just “before” someone gets ner-vous, do they experience cocoonsin their stomach?It is hard to understand how acemetery raised its burial cost and blamed it on the cost of living.We are born naked, wet, andhungry. Then things get worse.Anytime you have a 50-50chance of getting something right,there’s a 90% probability you’llget it wrong.
A ne is a tax for doing wrong.A tax is a ne for doing well.
change. The nascence ChicanoMovement (launched in the mid60’s) had arrived like a tsunamiin many Mexican-Americancommunities. Dormant MexicanAmerican communities beganto hear and witness things theyhad never heard or seen before.Cesar Chavez an emerging labor leader from California called for a worldwide Grape Boycott toorganize farm workers. Humber-to “Bert” Corona a labor orga-nizer from the 1930’s launchedan immigration movement toorganize Mexican undocumentedworkers. In New Mexico, ReisLopez Tijerina picked up armsto address the issue of stolenhistorical land grants. In Colo-rado, Rodolfo “Corky” Gonzalesa former world-class boxer usingChicano nationalism advocatedfor nation (Aztlan) building.While in Texas a young JoseAngel Gutierrez called for thecreation of an all-Chicano third political party…. La Raza UnidaParty. Many Chicanos heard thecall for action and self –determi-nation.For Chicanos in San Diegoit was a time for; picketingSafeway stores in support of Cesar Chavez’s Grape Boycott,the take over of Chicano Park,Centro Cultural and the Neigh- borhood House. Organizing themoratorium against the war inVietnam, protesting police bru-tality, and organizing around theimmigration issue. Bilingual ed-ucation, hiring of Chicano teach-ers, expanded educational op- portunities for Chicano studentsto attend educational institutionssuch as UCSD, San Diego State,etc. Pickets and demonstrations(unbelievably) against the Ro-man Catholic hierarchy demand-ing that the church address theneeds of the community, appointMexican priests, and nuns, etc.Politically, registering Chicanosto elect candidates, or for thosewho had become disillusionedwith both the Republican andDemocratic Party’s, organizing
 A Tribute toDaniel Muñoz
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 Daniel Munoz, Published & Editor of La Prensa
La Raza Unida Party.It was under those politi-
cal conditions that I rst met
Daniel L. Muñoz. I met him atUCSD where both the Chicanoand Black community alongwith students from Mecha andthe Black Student Union were protesting and picketing to bringabout the Patrice Lumumba/Emilano Zapata, Third WorldCollege.
When I rst meet Dan he
was an anomaly to me. Hewas sixteen years my senior, amilitary retiree and came from ageneration that had been taughtnot to say anything, especiallyagainst white authority. Most of his generation that I came intocontact with, did not understandthe Chicano Movement’s call for social, economic, political andreligious institutional change.In spite of the above, DanMuñoz became involved with political issues that affectedthe Chicano community. In theearly 70’s he along with AlbertoGarcia from San Ysidro wereinstrumental in bringing congres-sional hearing, chaired by thenCongressman Edward Royball(the only Chicano in Congress)to San Diego to address INS andCustoms agents brutality againstMexicans at the San Ysidro/Ti- juana crossing.Dan was also involved with picketing the Catholic retreat atDescano, being thrown out of the
 bishops ofce, and picketing the bishop’s ofce at USD and home
in Point Loma until the churchhierarchy established programsfor the Chicano community andappointed Chicano priests andnuns.Police brutality always an issuein the Chicano community raisedits ugly head in1975 with theshooting death of 18-year-oldLuis “Tato” Rivera by a National
City Police ofcer who shot him
in the back with a 357-magnumgun. After 2000 persons marchedand protested, and the Mayor 
and city council refused to rethe ofcer (Craig Short), it was
Dan who proposed to the com-munity that the mayor and entirecity council be recalled.At the time Dan started (athis own expense) TezozomocSpeaks, a newsletter that hemailed to persons involved in the political process. The newsletter addressed the need for Chicano political action and involvementand focused on issues ignored bythe established media, and unac-countable Anglo and Mexican-American politicians, admin-istrators, etc. The TezozomocSpeaks newsletter was widelyread, controversial, and politi-cally successful.Around that time I remember Dan stating to me that he had become disillusioned with tradi-tional electoral politics. He hadorganized political organizationssuch as the Chicano DemocraticAssociation, and the SpanishSpeaking Political Association.Worked to elect AssemblymanPete Chacon, and was one of Bob Morretti’s, candidate for California Governor campaignmanagers. He helped elect many
 politicians to public ofce, but
felt that that effort was not bring-ing about the political changeshe had envisioned for the ever-growing Chicano community.The reason for the communitygoing backwards was his belief that information and news beingreceived by the Chicano commu-
nity was being ltered, manipu-lated and dened by the Anglo
 power structure. He asked myopinion about starting a weeklynewspaper that would serve andaddress the community’s inter-ests. I stated that the communityobviously needed an independent
newspaper and voice to dene
issues that were affecting it.
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This Philippine Independence Daywe share the joy of your community
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Our lifeand times
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by Simeon G. Silverio Jr.
18th in a series of articles
F
rom the shrine of theOur Lady of Manaogin Manaog, Pangasi-nan, they drove to MacAr-thur Highway on their waynorth to the mountain resortof Baguio. It was alreadynoon, and his family wasfeeling the pangs of hunger.They stopped by MatutinaRestaurant, a favorite of travelers. As usual, it wasfull of patrons, but theymanaged to secure a table beside a window.
Right off the bat, he knewwhat he wanted to order: grilled pork or 
inihaw na baboy
. Hiswife ordered
diningding 
, a veg-etable dish native in the area.They also ordered grilled squid,a raw mango dish with bagoongand the region’s staple: bone-less bangus.Since arriving in the Philip- pines, his family never tiredof green mango shakes whichare not available in their Fili- pino community in the United
 Philippine Visit 2004:
The road to Baguioand the eatery called“Choco-late de Batirol”
In a short while, they reached Baguio City which for him, was no longer as beautiful as before. He wasquite disappointed because the area’s famous pinetrees could no longer be found on the sides of themountains. In their place were houses precariouslyclinging to unstable ground.
 Baguio souvenir store
Camp John Hay recycling program. Everlasting garlands Hotel in Camp John Hay
States. Not before long, theywere full and on the road again.They passed by several Pan-gasinan towns. By the timethey reached the town of Sison,the mountainside that com- posed the Mountain Provinceloomed on the east.Going up to Baguio was al-ways an exciting experience for him. Although they could havetaken the Marcos Highway, aless circuitous road comparedto the Kennon Road, they took the latter to enjoy the sceniccountryside view. Every timehe passed by the area, he wasalways amazed by the ingenu-ity of the American engineerswho built the road during theAmerican Occupation in theearly part of the 20
th
Century.Occasionally, however, land-slides would occur duringrainfall. Kennon Road also hadits share of accidents. When hewas a young boy, a station wag-on full of vacationers fell over a cliff during the Holy Week,which was the peak touristseason. It was the second tripof the driver that day and hemust have fallen asleep behindthe wheel as his vehicle wentthrough a dangerous curve.
No longer as beautiful
In a short while, they reachedBaguio City which for him,was no longer as beautiful as before. He was quite disap- pointed because the area’sfamous pine trees could nolonger be found on the sides of the mountains. In their placewere houses precariously cling-ing to unstable ground. It wasobvious that permits for theconstruction of those houses,if ever they had permits, werecarelessly given. There seemedto be no proper planning intheir construction. The pinetrees, with their strong roots
secured rmly on the moun
-tain could have helped preventlandslides. If one wants to seethe pine trees and smell their mountain scent, he has to gooutside of the city to CampJohn Hay, Wright Park or eventhe Philippine Military Acad-emy grounds.
The congested trafc in the
city was another big disap- pointment for him. Jeepneys,taxis, and private vehicles poised bumper to bumper. Latein the afternoon, the famous
Session Road would be lled
not by tourists but studentsfrom all over and of all ages.It seems that schools, fromelementary to high school tocollege, were placed in the areawithout regard to the conges-
tion and trafc consequences.
Even the once-popular Burn-ham Park was a downer. On itsside, makeshift eateries were placed. One wonders if proper drainage facilities were placedsince they seemed to be justsitting by the side of the road.The site of the legendary PinesHotel, once the premier hotel
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