Thursday, June 05, 2008 Utzurrum: Women in Zonta, Ayala Awards winners By Chinggay Utzurrum The scene
THE Cebu Garden Club will have its induction of officers and board of directors on Friday, June 6 at 4 p.m. at No. 4th Beverly View, Beverly Hills, Lahug, Cebu City. We received a pleasantly scented invitation reminding us, yes, of a flower garden!
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Speaking of flowers, Montebello Villa Hotel, in cooperation with Artwalk-Cebu, has opened an art show, Flores De Montebello, a painting exhibit of the flowers in the hotel garden, as interpreted by various artists.
Special guests mesdames Carmen Go, Paulette Liu, Rosebud Sala, and Penny Williams, and lone gentlemen Louie
Alvarez, opened the show, which will run till June 14.
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Mall merchandisers eagerly look forward to the annual Ayala Malls Merchants Awards, which has been going on for the past
10 years.
This year, the prestigious ceremony took place in an equally prestigious venue, Greenbelt 5 in Makati City, the conglomerate’s latest high-end expansion.
Awardees excelled in the categories of Visual Merchandizing, Marketing and Store Operations, as well as the Most Promising Retailer of the Year. Creativity and uniqueness bagged the overall “Visual Merchandising excellence Award” for Bleach Catastrophe, along Paseo Solana.
Other winners were Rustan’s-Cebu for Visual Merchandising, Florsheim for Overall Marketing Excellence, while Marks and Spencer, Adidas, Artwork, Lacoste Footwear and CMG were awardees for Store Operations Excellence.
Recipient of the most-coveted title, Store of the Year, was Store Specialist Inc.’s Lacoste Apparel, located along Paseo Ciudad.
Last but not least, for the first time in 10 years, Ayala Malls identified awardees to its Winner’s Circle, proudly pure Cebuano Penshoppe. Also in this circle were Bayo, Folded and Hung, Kamiseta and Bench.
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Wonder Women as professionals, or in business make up the selective membership of the Zonta Club of Cebu 2, now marking another Beinnum for 2008-2010. Simple induction ceremonies took place at Ginza Restaurant recently where past Zonta president Filna Daphne Espina swore into office the new officers and board members, led by incoming Lady Achiever Elsa Basubas.
The unassuming Elsa wanted a ceremony devoid of fanfare and frills, but Zonta policies say the new officers should hold a more formal affair. And decided to have this coming Aug. 2 when the Club celebrates an anniversary.
In the meantime, seven lucky, “travelin-gest” ladies will attend the Zonta
International Convention in Rotterdam, the Netherlands, this month of June.
For sisters-in-law Jane Young Llaban, and Betty Pinat-Young, they will “do” European capitals, like Vienna, Zurich, etc., before the meet. Talk about jet-setting — Zontians are primed for it. Others in the group are: Flor Miel Cynthia Dagus, Filna Espina, Nena Young, and Elsa Basubas. Bon voyage, gals!
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Newly-crowned Reina de las Flores at the Quota Club Santacruzan is Camille Veloso, daughter of Buddy and Carla Veloso and “Apo” of Tina Corominas.
There was an occasion to celebrate when Camille’s grand aunt, Marilou Corominas-Hilado, Dropped By Our Dear Queen City.
