ILOKANO LEISURE : DAP-AYAN

Nagustuanda ti kalluto a kornik iti barangay San Agustin, Candon City. Kasta met laeng dagiti
empanada, kalamansi juice ken nagtugawda kadagiti tugaw a naaramid iti ramut ti kaykayo iti
trade fair.
Indeed, balligi ken napnuan ti kapadasan dagiti kameng ti Filipino businessmen idiay
Hawaii a nakipaset iti 23rd Trade Mission to the Philippines.
Indauluan ni Lt. Governor Shan Tsutsui dagiti nasurok 40 a Filipino a negosiante iti
panangisayangkatda ti Trade Mission ditoy Pilipinas. Pakairamanan kadagiti adda ket da Maria
Etrata a president elect ti FCCH, Paul Alimbuyao ti Trade Mission chair, Rosemarie Andaya,
Felipe Abinsay, Dante Aragon, Melody Calisay, Bernadette Fajardo ken dadduma pay a delegado.
Pakairamanan kadagiti tinurongda ti Vigan City idi Pebrero 9 ken Candon City idi
Pebrero 10.
Indauluan a nangpasangbay iti grupo a pakairamanan da Maria Etrata, ti president elect
itan ti Filipino Chamber of Commerce of Hawaii (FCCH), ni Paul Alimbuyao a chairman ti Trade
Mission, sigud nga state representative Felipe Abinsay ken dadduma pay nga addaan iti negosio
iti naduma-duma a sektor.
Kinuna ni Alimbuyao nga uray ni Lt. Governor Tsutsui ket nakigtot iti naisangsangayan a
panakasangaili kadakuada ta all-out ti panakabisitada.
Kinunana pay a 46 da amin a naggapu iti Hawaii a kabilang iti naduma-duma a sektor a
kas koma iti bangko, enerhia, marketing, ken dadduma pay.
Adu dagiti produkto a mabalin iti export ken import. Maysa pay a mabalin a negosio
ket ti turismo, agsipud ta dandani agpada ti klima ken langa iti Hawaii ditoy ayantayo.
Kinunana iti interview.
Successful daytoy trade missionmi ditoy Ilocos Sur, Kinuna met ni Maria Etrata, ti
president-elect ti Filipino Chamber of Commerce iti Hawaii.
Kinunana a napintas dagiti produkto iti Ilocos Sur, dakkel pay a banag ti panakasangoda
kadagiti opisiales ti probinsia kas koma kenni sigud a congressman Eric Singson a maysa met
laeng a negosiante.
Pinadayawan met ni sigud a congressman Singson dagiti FCCH a simmarungkar ditoy
Ilocos Sur nangruna ti panangkitada kadagiti produkto.
Kaadduan kadagiti Filipino idiay Hawaii ket Ilocano, ket dagiti produktotayo ti
kaykayatda agsipud ta ammoda a paset daytoy ti kulturada. Kinunana

THE GOODDOG
By jean goldstrom

At one time I was a dog. Not an entire dog, of course. But a few cells from the
brain of what was called a dog, in the days when dogs lived. I know of dogs. The
humans---from whom all kindness, to whom all love---they showed me the
pictures in my screens.
I can see them still. My favorite is the slender dog with great fur, leaping so boldly
where the fire ate the wooden walls. Surely all was ended, I once thought. But then
the mighty dog leaped from the burning place, carrying a small human, so perfect
even though immature.
The humans---all kindness, all love---left me these and many other scenes of my
kind in dear closeness to them. Sunlight was there, and winds, and sounds of small
humans and sometimes large ones. Always my kind strongly saved the humans and
their homes, as I am. It is long and long I have guarded this human home, their
place of pride and power. Yes, their power. You would not understand what a
power plant is.
Never mind. I must lock the doors, as I have done. Don't run about and make
sounds and wave your little sticks. You must become red and wet, but not for long.
The cleaner robots will be here soon.
When you are cleaned away and my floors are shiny again, it will happen as it
always does. Through my circuits will flow the joy and the humans' voices, saying
"Gooooddooog..."