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| Welcome new members! First of all let's welcome new Alumni members we met during the Philippine Festival.
Martin Jose. Greenhills 83
Ramon de Guzman HS Bacolod’79
Jagger Wakefield BS Psycho 2002
Mark Dimatulac Greenhills 84
Regina ‘Inna’ Flores Mgmt of Financial Institutions 2003
Butch Lobaton HS Bacolod 1989
Bettina ‘Tina’ Santos AB Pshychology 1988
Rodrigo de los Santos Greenhills 1992
Lawrence Diego DLS-CSB/BSBA-ISM 2007
Ted Aspillera (not specified)
Irene Syquio-Cortes IME 1987
Cesar Hernandez 1977
Carilu Tirso BIO 1985
Alberto Alisuag (not specified)
Ian Ray Fabros College of St Benilde BS-HRM
L.A. Hernandez (not specified)
And also welcome Gerard Cornejo (batch not specified). We met him at the Philippine Gala ball.
Last night we met a few more alumni in a cool party! We hope that all of you can make it to our Picnic. Please check out our website www.lspaadc.org to see more information about our past activities.
SAVE the Date! Annual PICNIC and Election of new officers! July 26 from 10:00am til dark! We have reserved Shelter B in Burke Lake Park. Bring family with you. Lots of fun things to do in the park for kids and those who do not look like kids anymore! We will need ideas and contributions from everyone. If interested, please let me know. I’m scheduling a breakfast planning meeting on Saturday June 21 at the Panera Bread in Tyson’s corner area. 8365 Leesburg Pike, Vienna VA 22182. Let’s start the meeting at 9:30 AM so we can be done by 11:00.
DLSAA SOCAL President will be here in Washington DC Denny Cagampan HS’77 is the President of the DLSAA Southern California Chapter (www.dlsaasc.org). And if you remember the Penthouse 7 days, you might recognize him as one of the OctoArts dancers! He will be here to visit relatives during the last weekend of June. He will also bring some materials for the 7th World Congress to be held in LA May 22-29, 2009. Let’s give him our support and a warm DC welcome by joining us for breakfast on Saturday June 28, 2008 at the Panera Bread in Tysons Corner area ( again J ).
2007-06-07 Philippine Independence Day Gala Ball http://share.escrip.shutterfly.com/action/welcome?sid=8CZNnDFm3aMwo
LSPAADC helped make this event a success! Eileen Nadal (PRO) was part of the decorations committee. They assembled beautiful centerpieces made with long stemmed orchids set in native ‘banig’ pots and sold to donors at the event. I prepared the powerpoint slides used for display throughout the evening in 2 giant screen projections. We were also invited to participate in a Rigodon presentation along with other leaders within the community including ambassador’s wife Mrs. Linda Gaa.
Other community events for the month of June June 21 – Fil-am youth festival. A fun packed day featuring sports (basketball, track, soccer, badminton and tennis), Philippine games, workshop on folk dancing, hip-hop, arnis/eskrima martial arts, cultural dialogue, live musical performances and many more. FREE and open to the public. Bishop O’Connell High School 6600 Little Falls Rd. Arlington, VA 22213. www.filamyouth.com.
June 29 – Community Picnic/Sports Fest. Fun for entire family. Pack your picnic baskets, relax and enjoy the day. Raffle winners for Northwest Airline tickets will also be drawn here. Tucker Road Recreation and Sports Center in Ft. Washington, MD. www.pafc-inc.org/pfcsports.
I’m resending these items for the new members to see and to add new picture links received since I last sent these out. Thank you Ricky Hembrador and Margot Atilano for the additional pictures.
2008-06-01 Philippine Fair and Parade 2008 - We were there! http://share.escrip.shutterfly.com/action/welcome?sid=8CZNnDFm3aMu2
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A street festival showcasing the rich and diverse cultures that influenced the dance, music, cuisine and arts of the Philippines. The fair featured exotic food selections, handicrafts, family-oriented games, live band performances as well as a parade.
Our day started early! Eileen Nadal or PRO is a volunteer helping out the Food vendor committee to ensure that we have enough food vendors and that they know all the rules. We took part in the parade, marching behind our banner wearing our green and white Animo La Salle shirts! A total of 43 shirts were distributed and we received about 16 new member information sheets!!! The Biker and Hiker group were also there with their bikes on the parade!
Everyone was so proud to be part of the team! Though we did not win any awards during the parade we will definitely come out strong next year! Thank you all for your support!
2008-05-24/25 Shenandoah Camping trip was a slam dunk!
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Seven families braved the elements and had a fun memorial day weekend! We arrived shortly before noon, our camp was on the second highest point of the entire park (almost 4,000 ft above sea level), pitched our tents, almost towed away Ricky's Jeep because he was on time, took a hike to one of the water falls, Longanishi for lunch on the trail, took lots of pictures, had to backtrack because I left my backpack on a rock, enjoyed some views, tried to fly pirate ship kite, played with freezbees, cooked dinner on propane burners, had ginataan with bilo-bilo for desert, started a bonfire, had smores, and more smores, walked around the camp area to watch an exciting powerpoint presentation by park employees, marveled on the huge number of stars you can see, listned to the owl's as we slept. Woke up to Hotdogs, spam, eggs and Tocino and rice! Then off to the river down the valley for an 8 mile canoe ride. For a couple of our canoes it was literally a dunk!
I thank the Esteban family for their guidance and voice of experience. Thank you Eileen, our PRO, for taking care of all the arrangements. This is something we plan to do again and probably more often than once a year. Next time we will reserve the entire campsite block for La Salle! |
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