Parian District was one of the most important spots in Cebu during the Spanish colonial times. Most of the important commercial and cultural activities happened in this place. It also embraced most of the residences of many distinguished personalities then.

The Yap-Sandiego house is one of them. This 18th-century house was built through the efforts of Chinese merchant, Juan Yap and wife Maria Florido. The couple’s eldest of three children, Maria, married Pari-an’s Cabeza de Barangay then, Don Mariano Sandiego. Read the rest…

God created us so that we could be loving to one another. When we use polite words, it means respecting and loving people.

We learn how to care and people will be kind to us. By being polite, our wishes will come true or be granted.

We make people smile and be happy. There is peace around us. There will be no war and no killings. And the world will be a better place for everyone.

Aaron Zachary Laguna<br>9 years old, Grade 4<br>USC South Campus

By Tita Dulce Festin-Baybay
That’s Right

I just came across a write up by an elementary school student from Carmona Elementary School in Carmona, Cavite published  in the year 2006 in their official school and community paper called “The Central Point.”  The title of Joe Mark B. Mercado’s piece is “Lincoln’s 10 ‘cannots’ and I would like to share it with you. Joe says these were the ten ‘cannots’ that the US President Abraham Lincoln followed that made him a successful person. Lincoln’s mother died when he was just 9 years old.  Here they are: Read the rest…

Summer, summer, summer
Is the happiest kind of weather
It is the time to share,
And the time to breathe the fresh air

It’s the time to ride our bike,
And the time to learn a long hike
Even though it’s hard,
But I’ll make sure that I won’t fall Read the rest…