Bennett: Baguio Photographers Club
BURNHAM Park became the icon of Baguio City after World War II. A photograph beside the lake or on the cars or motor bikes was evidence that one stepped on the grounds that was the Summer Capital of the Philippines.
Bennett: Roberto Laperal Sr. (December 30, 1890-1966)
ROBERTO Laperal Sr. arrived in the city in the late 1930s. He was married to Victorina Guison and they had six children, three girls and three boys.
Elisea Laperal, the fourth child was the one who stayed in Baguio having married John Nassr, a Lebanese businessman. They had four children...
Bennett: Dr. Jose Ma. Cariño - Individual Awardee
DR. CARINO was the mayor of the city at a particularly crucial time – right after World War II. It was a period when Baguio was literally in ashes and in dire need of rebuilding and rehabilitation. Not just physically, but morale-ly, too.
With the strength of his character and dynamic...
Bennett: United Baguio-Benguet Constructors Association
THE United Baguio Benguet Constructors Association started in 1985 under the leadership of retired city engineer Leo Bernardez Sr.
Starting with 15 members, the roster now includes 126 names with 88 of them active. It is said that the association started when the process of bidding was...
Bennett: BALDOMERO NEVADA SR.
FEBRUARY 22, 1899 – October 11, 1964
Baldomero Nevada Sr. from Luna, La Union was a cashier at the Department of Public Works and Highways and later a mining prospector in the 1920s.
His mining claims are within the operations of the Philex Mining Corporation.
As a widower,...
Bennett: Session Café
SESSION Café and Restaurant was Chinese- Filipino restaurant located at the corner of Felipe Calderon Street and Session Road from July 23, 1953 to 1985.
The restaurant was established and owned by 33-years-old Baguio born Jaime T. Tong. For more than 32 years of operation, the business...
Bennett: Cid Educational Supply (Since 1945)
CID Educational Supply began in 1945 after World War II. It started as an exclusive distributor of the newspaper, Manila Times with a store at the public market. Mr. Chino Roces and other dignitaries would often visit Mr. Cecilio D. Cid and his wife Benilda. Later on, husband and wife pioneered...
Bennett: First City Architect of Baguio
THE landscape and the implementation of the plan of the Burnham Park beautification in 1968 was among the greater contributions of Architect Joseph Alabanza to the City of Baguio. This modernization of the park was implemented through volunteers of the city and remains as the evidence to...
Bennett: Cornelio Luczon
Born: September 12, 1904, Magsingal, Ilocos Sur Died: March 26, 1992, Whittier, California
Baguio District Forester
HE GRADUATED from the University of the Philippines, Los Banos School of Forestry as a Forest Ranger in 1929. He joined the Bureau of Forestry in the...
Bennett: Nick Domalsin (Sportsman, athlete)
NICK Domalsin popularly known as Man Nick hailed from Barlig, Mt. Province and was the second to the eldest of seven children of spouses Ricardo and Rosa Domalsin.
He was married to Soledad Resurreccion with whom he had four children.
Bennett: Sr. Theresia Unno, Congregation of Franciscan Missionaries of Mary
FOUNDER of the Filipino – Japanese Friendship Association of Northern Luzon in 1972 which became the Filipino – Japanese Foundation of Northern Luzon, Inc. in 1987 organized the Benguet Farmers Development Multi-Purpose Cooperative
Bennett: Santiago Padua Tabanda (July 24, 1907 - Jan. 18, 1989)
SANTIAGO Padua Tabanda is part of Baguio City history because he was responsible for putting up the first gasoline station at the Burnham Park area. This service station served motorists in the city and the vacationists of the city.
Tabanda was married to Elena Padua with whom he had four...
Bennett: The Bonifacio Chanbonpin Family
OUR father, Bonifacio Chanbonpin, moved to Baguio in 1938 as a young man, and he clearly remembers that it was the rainy season then. It was on a prior trip to Baguio that he had found this ideal place, what with its perfect weather, clean and peaceful environs!
Bennett: Roberto Laperal Sr.
ROBERTO Laperal Sr. arrived in the city in the late 1930s. He was married to Victorina Guison and they had six children, three girls and three boys.
Elisea Laperal, the fourth child was the one who stayed in Baguio having married John Nassr, a Lebanese businessman. They had four children...
Bennett: Leon Alabanza and Las Alabanzas
LEON Alabanza was the son of Santiago Alabanza and Justa Aspacio. He finished his secondary education at the Mountain Province High School in 1923. Upon graduation, he taught at the Saint Louis School until the outbreak of the war.
Bennett: Ong King Auto Supply
ONG Tin King and his younger brother arrived in the Philippines sometime in 1926. By 1930, they both decided to come to Baguio City and engage in the buying of scrap metal, bottles, and other materials, which they would bring to Manila to sell.
Ong King married Ong Gim Ha in 1936. They...
Bennett: Wong Ton (1898-1978) Pioneer in Temperate Vegetable Farming
WONG Ton or Lee Wah arrived in Baguio from Canton, China when he was 18 years old. He married Laguinia Malas of Kapangan, Benguet with whom he had ten children.
Wong Ton introduced temperate vegetable farming in Baguio City when other farmers were planting lucban and other endemic...
Bennett: Imaginality
I HAVE often been told that in order for dreams to come true, you have to have a dream. Ergo, you must imagine into the future before you can even have the bright future that you want.
Bennett: The FilBookFest in San Francisco
THIS came from an email of an old friend, Bill Powell, and was written by Oscar Penaranda. The FilBookFest was held this month in San Francisco, California. This will merely show us that we are older than Magellan and we were in America even before the Mayflower landed. I hope this will boost...
Bennett: A life saver: alternative learning systems
THIS Sunday, many of the school dropouts and other hopefuls will take the Accreditation and Equivalency Test for elementary and high school. Those who will pass may go to high school or college after many years of goofing off from school. But for seven of the Burnham Park attendants who are...
Bennett: I have two hands
A FAMILIAR song from childhood days, “I Have Two Hands” had its subliminal message. It had its subtext that told of how children turned adults would prefer clean hands to the brawny and sinewy hands of the farmer.
My friend Luis Lu Jr. is of the opinion that we should put the farmer in...
Bennett: Energized
LAST Monday and Tuesday, Hedcor hosted this writer’s attendance to the Media Training on Energy in Makati and Ortigas. It was the most enlightening seminar that I ever attended and I am blessed.
Bennett: RSVP (Responde Sil Vous Plait)
THIS is a French phrase that simply means, “Please answer.” This is a basic in proper etiquette but it is the most violated.
Silid Pangarap
THE first Benguet dream classroom or classroom for dreams was turned over to the Ampucao Elementary School on September 22. A joint project of the Hedcor Inc., Aklat, Gabay at Aruga tungo sa Pag-angat at Pag-asa Foundation (Agapp) and the Aboitiz Foundation, the P1 million building is in support...
Asin woodcarvers test out bamboo
ASIN woodcarvers will experiment with solid bamboo from Porac, Pampanga as an alternative medium to wood after a meeting with the Philippine Bamboo Foundation (PBF) last Thursday.
PBF president Ed Manda said the younger woodcarvers of Kilometer 4, Asin were enthusiastic about solid bamboo...
