In and Out of Baguio, Cecile Afable.
The lights of the day were just behind my house when the dogs announced a guest was arriving. He happened to be the mountain, Amando Doronila, the most read columnist of our top national daily paper, the Inquirer. He came to visit the littlest columnist of the Cordillera. To give him a fitting welcome, I had a beautiful and warm fire glowing in the fireplace. And our course a fine dinner with Gil Bautista, chairman of the CenteCom; Gerry Evangelista; his assistant; and our favorite lady friend Baboo Mondonedo, who showed our guest where I live. Doro was so happy and glowing at age 80.
He will write about our Centennial of course and he stayed half of the week as a guest of the Baguio Country Club, courtesy of Baboo.
Many more people, the great and small, will come and visit us during the Centennial month and so let us all do our big or little bits to impress ourselves about our efforts.
http://www.baguiomidlandcourier.com.ph/opinionarchive.asp?mode=archives/2009/june/6-7-2009/in_out.txt
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Amando Doronila’s two-part article on Paradise city of pines battles urban decay
BAGUIO CITY—Designed for 25,000 people in 1903 when the Philippine Commission declared it as the summer capital of the Philippines, Baguio is bursting at the seams, and is struggling to expand beyond its 49-sq km perimeter, sitting on a plateau that rises 1,400 meters, making it the coolest city in the country.
http://opinion.inquirer.net/columnist/
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