Monthly Archives: March 2008

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Balweg Widow Dies

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From Sunstar Baguio we learn that Corazon Cortel-Balweg, widow of former rebel priest Conrado Balweg died of a heart attack last Monday. She is survived by five children the youngest of whom is still in elementary school. Our condolences to her family.

Sunstar Baguio:

Corazon Cortel-Balweg, a New People’s Army (NPA) active amazon in the 1980s and widow of rebel priest Conrado Balweg, died Monday afternoon of cardiac arrest at Camp Upi in Gamu, Isabela.

Corazon, 48, and her group were on their way to the Philippine Army’s (PA) 5th Infantry Division camp to follow up and monitor livelihood programs for members of the Cordillera Peoples Liberation Army (CPLA) when she felt heart pains then collapsed.

Mrs. Balweg is the CPLA’s chief of staff, a position she held since the assassination of the rebel priest in his hometown in Malibcong, Abra on December 31, 1999.

Former Bucloc, Abra mayor Mailed Molina, the incumbent CPLA chairman, confirmed the death of Mrs. Balweg after receiving a call from Major General Melchor Dilodilo, commander of the 5th ID in Gamu.

Colonel James Jacob of Camp Upi in a text message said Mrs. Balweg died at 5:30 p.m. Monday.
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Blogging Stuff

A Concert for a Cause

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Here’s an announcement forwarded to us. It is about a fund-raising concert for two kailiyans who need your help. If you are based in Baguio, you might want to join this concert to support Noemi Taguiba-Mangaltag and Jennifer Coral-Gabaen. General admission tickets are priced at P30 but those of you who are making money may want to get “sponsor” tickets at P250.

Here’s the call for help:

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Quick Links – 12 March 08

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* If setting up sidewalk cafes along Session Road will make Baguio a more livable city, then we should be all for it, right? They should do something about vehicle traffic though. I’m not sure you’d want to go sidewalk-cafe-drinking if you’ll end up ingesting all those gas exhaust. [Sunstar]

* Seems like the question of whether or not Tabuk City and the other cities created last year are qualified to become a city is going all the way to the Supreme Court. [Inquirer]

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Blogging Stuff

Vote for The Meliorist

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Folks, let’s help a kailiyan win a blog contest and get featured as the Pinoy Blog of the Week. The Meliorist blogs about global warming which is an important issue to all of us global dwellers. Unfortunately, there are those who deny that there is such a thing as global warming; like Dubya and his cabal who invaded Iraq to get their hands on that country’s rich oil resources.

Anyways, how do we vote for The Meliorist? Simply visit her site, scroll down a bit, look at the brown/yellowish box in the left sidebar, check Savetheearth-now, click vote, and you’re done. I think you can also vote for it in the blog that does this Pinoy Blog of the Week contest but I can’t find it now.

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