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 YEAR 13, No. 4 OCTOBER 2009 Home Paper of the 1999 Canadian Ethnic Journalists’ and Writers’ Club Winner for Best Editorial Toronto, Ontario
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Gawad Kalinga’s Tony Meloto
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meets with leadersof the Archdiocesan FilipinoCatholic Missions (AFCM)in a visit to Toronto on Oct.16. They discussed plansto help rebuild the lives of people devastated by deepfloodwaters spawned by therecent spate of typhoonsin the Philippines, particu-larly the poor in Metro Ma-nila and neighboring areasof Rizal province. From leftare Lady of the AssumptionChurch priests Fr. Joe Pena,Fr Ben Ebcas - also AFCMpastor -- and Fr. Romeo To-lentino, Rocel Enverga, JunEnverga, AFCM Laity Rose-mer Enverga and Temi Pang-ilinan of ANCOP-Canada. Atthe background are boxes of relief goods ready for ship-ment to Manila.
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FOR TYPHOON-DEVASTATED PHILIPPINES
FCT TYPHOON RELIEF MO-BILIZATION. Sorting out thenumerous donations of clothing,non-perishable goods and medi-cines brought in at the FilipinoCentre Toronto for the Philip-pine flood victims are Baby deVilla, Wendy Arena, Dante Yl-agan, Felino Javier and Ed Bi-rondo. The FCT had special ar-rangements with FOREX thatwill transport the donated itemsto two distributing centers inManila run by the Assumptionnuns and the Sandigan Bayan,respectively.
Photo: AIDA D’ ORAZIO 
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“Our hearts go out tothe victims of floods, land-slides and other disastersspawned by typhoons On-doy and Pepeng that re-cently devastated MetroManila and the whole of northern Luzon.”“Photos, videos and re-ports of these victims indesperate need of food,medicine and shelter con-tinue to haunt us.“And in the true spiritof 
bayanihan
(collectivecooperation), Filipinosabroad have speedily andwillingly responded in cashand kind to ease the situa-tion and meet the urgentneeds back home.”This was how FilipinoCentre Toronto (FCT)publicist Aida D’ Oraziodescribed the frenzy of re-lief mobilization the com-munity and its multi-di-verse friends went into inthe wake of twin calamitiesthat hit the Philippines.
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Western Union has along history of lookingafter the well-being of Canada’s Filipino caregiver community.This year, WesternUnion paid tribute toFilipino caregiver JuanaTejada, whose life storyand contribution to promotethe welfare of caregiverscontinue to inspire people.While Western Union provided a beautiful memo-rial for Tejada, it alsosponsored a room in the Our Lady of Assumption churchnamed after her.The room is equippedwith computers for caregivers to keep in touchwith their families back inPhilippines.The room is not big; but it is
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lled with love andhope of a brighter tomorrowfor caregivers.The room’s blessingon Aug. 29 was of 
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ciated by Father Ben Ebcas andwas attended by WesternUnion vice president andgeneral manager Brian Foxand country developmentmanager for the PhilippinesChito Gonzales.Western Union Canadaunderstands the caregivers’situation and is proud to
Western Union supports caregivers’ welfare,sponsors Juana Tejada Room at OLA church
WESTERN UNION OFFICIALS with Juana Tejada Room facilitators.
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Western Union vice president and general manager Brian Fox, Fr. Ben Ebcas and Western Unioncountry development manager for the PhilippinesChito Gonzales show Western Union’s plaque of support for caregivers’ welfare.
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Toronto Police Service(TPS) chief William Blair is set to discuss issues andconcerns with communityleaders in a Town Hallmeeting at the policeheadquarters along 40College St. on Nov. 3.In an invitation to the public, TPS-Asia Paci
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cCommunity ConsultativeCommittee (APCCC) co-chair Superintendent JaneWilcox said the meetingwould start at 6:30 p.m.“Chief Blair is lookingforward to meeting everyone
BLAIR
 Police Chief Blair set tomeet community leaderson issues, concerns
and to discuss and listen to community concerns and issues,”Wilcox said.“It is also an opportunity to communicate to the Chief directly,” she said.The Town Hall meeting is a joint effort of APCCCmembers “representing the Japanese, Korean, Filipinoand Vietnamese communities” in Toronto, she added.
(Seerelated photo on page 13.)
The event is being facilitated by TPS CommunityLiaison Of 
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cer Constable Philip Mendoza.Attendance may be brought to Mendoza’s attentionthrough phone by calling 416-808-7071 or by e-mailthrough philip.mendoza@torontopolice.on.ca.
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