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MONTHLY PUBLICATION OF THE FILIPINO ASSOCIATION OF GREATER KANSAS CITY VOLUME 40, NO. 7 JULY 2008

Ethnic Festival Coming Up!

“TASTE THE WORLD” The 29th annual event in Swope Park, August 15 - 17, 2008

The Mayor's Ethnic Enrichment Commission of Kansas City, Missouri presents the 29th Annual Ethnic Enrichment Festival in Swope Park Aug- ust 15-17. The event, one of the largest and long- est-running of its kind, annually attracts more than 35,000 visitors.

Festival Hours: Friday (August 15), 6-10 pm Saturday (August 16), Noon-10 pm Sunday (August 17), Noon-6 pm

Adult admission is $3.00 and children 12 and un- der are free. Parking is free.

Summer Cultural Workshop at the Filipino Cultural Center

An experiential workshop and interactive dialogue on how to unleash creativity and harness the potentials of theater and the arts for personal and social development is scheduled at the FCC the week-end of July 12 and 13. Catchingly titled BITAW! for Basic Integrated Theater Arts Workshop, the workshop focuses on CREATIVITY, COMMUNITY DRAMA AND CULTURAL HERITAGE, underlining the significant values of cultural heritage in the context of the Philippine-American experience.

Presenter/facilitator for what promises to be a fruitful week-end is LUTGARDO ‘Gardy’ LABAD whom some of you have met during the Loboc Children’s Choir Concert at the FCC; Gardy was their Stage Director and Tour Manager. Mr. Labad comes to us with a long list of qualifications, awards and achievements as a theater artist, cultural worker, musician, director, teacher and mentor.

For more information, please call Ping Bayani at (913) 558-4332.

- Seniors’ Corner: An Ac- count of This Year’s Fiesta Filipina! - Coming Up! FAGKC Goings-On!

- Tourism Tidbits! - Nayong Pilipino sa Clark : A New Tourist Haven

- Ethnic Festival - Cultural Workshop Slated at the FCC - Sign Up for MM5K Run!

- July Birthday and Anni- versary Celebrants!

- Ethnic Enrichment Festival Complete Entertainment Schedule

- Treasurer’s Report - Mateo is AACC President!

- Minutes of June General Meeting

Medical Mission 5K Run/Walk Set for July 26!

MM5K Run/Walk logo design by Ian Rivera

Mill Creek Streamway Trail at Shawnee Mis-sion Park in Shawnee, Kansas will be the site of the first MM5K Run/Walk presented by the Philippine Medical Society, the Philippine Nurses Association and the Filipino Cultural Center Foundation.

Title sponsor for the event is Discover Vision Centers, celebrating its 35th year as KC’s leaders in eye care.

For details, call (913) 381-1601. Online regis-tration at www.active.com thru July 23.

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Nayong Pilipino sa Clark: New Tourist Haven A newly-opened tourist destination which is now attracting hordes of visitors and tourists is the Nayong Pilipino Sa Clark Expo located inside the Clark Freeport Zone in Pam-panga. Nayong Pilipino (Philippine Village) is a 45-acre theme park featuring a miniature version of the Philippines and its culture. Amidst the sprawling rustic grounds and historic ambience,one can enjoy the place for picnics, team building and ev-en just to have quiet and relaxing time alone or with family or friends. Lodges of nipa huts are strategically located to offer the best of a sanctuary for activities or just for tran-quility.

Replica of Jose Rizal’s House Replica of Intramuros

Replica of Ifugao Village Replica of Barasoain Church

Replica of Colonial Plaza Lodges for Rent

Tourism Tidbits…

Cebu Pacific is world’s No. 1 in growth Among the world’s 30 largest low-cost carriers in 2007, Cebu Pacific (CEB) ranked first in terms of revenue passengers per kilometer growth, according to the Airline Business maga-zine’s May, 2008 issue. CEB was also ranked No. 23 in the world and No. 5 in Asia in total passengers carried in 2007. CEB carried a total of almost 5.5 million passengers in 2007, up 57.4% from 2006. This year, CEB expects to fly 7 million passengers as it takes delivery of new planes and expands its service domestically and internationally. CEB recently offered an unprecedented 500,000 seats for free with the passengers paying only for the surcharges and government tax. Southwest Airlines (USA) topped the low-cost carrier cate-gory with 88.7 million passengers, followed by Ryanair (Ire-land), EasyJet (UK), Air Berlin (Germany) and AirTran Air-ways. CEB joins Indonesia’s Lion Air (1) and the now defunct Adam Air (4), Malaysia’s AirAsia (2), and Deccan (3) of India in Asia’s Top 5. CEB has a fleet of ten A319s, eight A320s and two ATR 72-500 aircraft, flies to 14, soon to be 16, international destina-tions. It will also add Tuguegarao and Naga in its domestic network in June and San Jose (Mindoro) in July.

Korean developers set up PhP1-B Subic resort hotel Subic Bay Freeport, Philippines - Two South Korean compa-nies will put up a P1-billion resort hotel here targeting South Korean, American and Japanese tourists. South Korea’s MGfnd Subic, Inc. and Subic Rexmier C&D Co., Ltd. signed the investment deal Monday, Subic Bay Metropolitan Author-ity (SBMA) Administrator Armand Arreza said in a statement.

President to inaugurate Poro Point tourism complex Poro Point Freeport Zone — President Gloria Macapagal Ar-royo will lead today’s inauguration rites of a luxury hotel and a world-class nine-hole golf course here meant to put San Fer-nando City, La Union in the world map of major tourist and recreation destinations. The resort features 36 well-appointed luxury suites. Each of the hotel’s 45-square meter suite comes with exclusive amenities such as double-sized beds, a walk-in closet, a bathroom with separate shower and hot tub, hi-speed wire-less internet, iPod with docking station and surround sound system, coffee and tea maker, in-room electronic safe, and a balcony that offers breathtaking views of the South China Sea. The Cliffs Golf Course, meanwhile, is a nine-hole, par 72 all- weather championship golf course, designed by the Interna-tional Management Group (IMG) and maintained by Sta. Elena Properties, Inc. The golf course features a unique ocean hole that is un-doubtedly one of the best Par 3 holes in Asia. Playing from a variety of lengths, this medium to short Par 3 will require pre-cise club selection as the golf ball might end up flying over the cliff and landing in the sea.

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Seniors’ Corner

There was no June meeting by the Seniors Council. In- stead, the seniors helped with the pre-preparation of foods needed for the Fiesta Filipina that was held on June 14 and 15, 2008. There was a lot of slicing, chopping, grating, wrapping, marinating of meats, etc. days before. The frying and grilling were done on the day of the fiesta. There was also an urgent need to wrap some more of the Eggroll and Banana Turon throughout the day. Even Dr. Noy Sulit wrapped eg-grolls! Business was brisk; we had to keep up with the demand. The lead per-son for the different kinds of food were: Angie Chico-Agustin, Marmy Sulit, and crew for the Kebabs; Evelyn Puno and Annie Covillo for the Pancit; Fili Francisco and crew for the Banana Turon; Elvie Berry and most of the membership for the Eggroll; Marietta Tungol for the Halo-halo; Adela Tan for the Adobo; Amy Mesina and crew for the Cantaloupe Drink. Grilling the kebabs and seemingly enjoying it were Neo Rabang and Pe-ter Sakach. Paul de los Santos, Judy Sorio-Jeffers, Precy Huebner, Nena Bittner and others manned the food booth and they were BUSY! The food line was said to be very long, it extended to the parking lot. Imagine that! Nita May did a tremendous job frying the eggrolls. She made sure there were no ‘rejects’. So did Letty Rabang, frying the banana turons. Lisa Hopkins and Carmen Chico were so busy admitting people they hardly had time to take a break. Lucila Rider had her booth selling handi-crafts, etc. and that too was busy. The First-Aid booth was manned by the nurses led by Sonia Tumanut. There were no major calamities but they were ready for it. It was cool in the shade for Mirla de los Santos while she managed the financial boom. The Sinag-Tala Dance Troupe and the Filipinettes did their presentations in the same excellent manner that they are known for. Besides being busy in the kitchen area, the Sampaguita Choir members would hurry up to the front when director Ping Bayani (recovering from head trauma) summoned them to sing their songs. And this was just the first day! The second day, Sunday, business and entertainment were done inside the FCC due to tor-rential rains earlier that morning. And we did it all over again! Our President Eric Sorio made it back from the Philippines and was there lending a helping hand where needed. All the hectic preparations were rewarded by the satisfaction and enjoyment seen in the eyes of all who attended. We highly commend Bong Tumanut for overseeing the fiesta activities and to Adela and Mike Tan for their expert management and coor-dinating abilities in the food service area. Thank you for your leadership. We also wish to thank all the hard-working members who worked equally hard, whose names may not appear here but we know who you are and we salute you. Our sincere thanks go also to all who brought food for the volun-teers. Fiesta Filipina 2008 is another remarkable milestone in the history of FAGKC!

Coming Up… (Note: For more information about these events, call (913) 381-1601) Every Sunday - 1 PM, Filipino Cultural Center Filipinettes Dance Rehearsals Come watch our young ones as they learn their folk dances! - 3 PM, Filipino Cultural Center Sinag-Tala Dance Rehearsals Watch/join these weekly dance re-hear-sals; learn a Filipino folk dance or two!

Every Friday 7:30 PM, Filipino Cultural Center Sampaguita Choir Rehearsals Fun music rehearsals preceded by potluck dinner. All are welcome!

First Friday of each month 7:30 PM, Filipino Cultural Center Association’s General Meeting These monthly business meetings are preceded by a potluck dinner.

First Saturday of each month Filipino Cultural Center – 8 to 11 Monthly Filipino Breakfast Enjoy a typical Pinoy breakfast and share quality time with members of your community! $6.50/person, $6 for members, children 10 & under ½ price!

Second Saturday of each month 11 AM, Filipino Cultural Center Seniors Monthly Meeting These monthly business meetings are preceded by a potluck lunch.

July 4, 2008, Time - TBD Filipino Cultural Center July 4th Picnic Join us as we celebrate and honor the Stars and Stripes! July 26, 2008, Time – 7 to 10 AM Shawnee Mission Park 5K (3.1 mi) Walk/Run Get those running/walking shoes ready! Details to follow!

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By Elvira Berry

See you at Swope Park for this year’s

Ethnic Fesitval!

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Upcoming Events… from Page 3

August 15, 16 & 17, 2008 Swope Park Annual Ethnic Festival Friday (August 15), 6-10 pm Saturday (August 16), Noon-10 pm Sunday (August 17), Noon-6 pm Adult admission is $3.00 and chil-dren 12 and under are free. FREE PARKING!

August 23, 2008, 10 AM- 2 PM Filipino Cultural Center Annual Health Fair This annual event is free and open to the public. Get yourself checked, learn a few new things and even go home with some free-bies!

September 20, 2008, 6 PM-12 MN Imperial Ballroom, Marriott-Muehlbach Hotel Annual September Affair Gala This year celebrates the Filipino Association’s RUBY (40th) Anni-versary!

December, 2008, Time - TBD Location - TBD Annual Simbang Gabi Nine days of Mass, with dinner and fellowship afterwards.

December 13, 2008, Time - TBD Filipino Cultural Center Annual Christmas Party!

July Birthday Celebrants Please advise us if any of the information below needs to be updated. Thanks. you

TAMBULI STAFF

Editors: Ping Bayani Joan Gauwitz Staff : Elvira Berry Lillian Pardo MD Nonong Pardo MD Cory Sorio Layout: Ping Bayani Printing: Mike & Adela Tan Circulation: Cito & Tacing Jalbuena Eric Sorio Bong Tumanut Ed Tumanut

Want to join the Tambuli Staff? Call and leave a message at

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July Anniversary Celebrants Please advise us if any of the information below needs to be updated. Thanks.

George and Grace Engle 2

Dave and Maria Ferber 3

Murray and Elsie Winicov 3

Robert and Alma Brown 11

Edwin and Diane Peñaloza 12

Gary and Naty Pricer 13

Romero and Lydia Geroche 16

Brian and Josie Doyle 16

Kent and Julie Dobson 16

Tanch and Paz Bayani 17

Ed and Elaine Herman 18

Al Agustin and Angie Chico-Agustin 18

Bill and Noemi Condra 19

Karl Kroen and Cecil Labayen-Kroen 20

Marcelo and Marti Quinones 23

Cito and Tacing Jalbuena 26

Ben and Elena Sabido 27

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FILIPINO ASSOCIATION OF GREATER KANSAS CITY Prepared by: SUMMARY OF RECEIPTS AND DISBURSEMENTS Paul De Los Santos For the Period Ending May 31, 2008 Treasurer 2008 (Rounded to the nearest dollar) General Building Fund Cultural Arts Fund MTD YTD Fund Seniors FCC Choir/Rond Sinagtala Total Total

Beginning Balance 1,155 10,018 7,974 4,409 6,726 30,283 47,707

RECEIPTS: Committee Receipts (All) 544 3,811 4,355 13,385 Cultural Program/Projects 0 1,632 Special Projects 1,700 1,700 6,963 Others 0 2,472 Total Cash Receipts 544 3,811 1,700 6,055 24,452 DISBURSEMENTS: Operating Expenses 1,082 1,813 623 3,518 16,914 Mortgage and Interest Payment 1,567 1,567 7,837 Cultural Program/Projects 538 195 733 9,692 Special Projects Expenses 112 872 984 8,181 Total Disbursements 1,194 1,813 3,600 0 195 6,802 42,623 TOTAL CASH IN BANK 5/31/2008 505 12,017 6,074 4,309 6,530 29,536 29,536ADD: INVESTMENTS (CDs) 582 1,550 15,787 17,919 17,919 TOTAL CASH IN BANK & INVEST. 1,087 13,567 21,861 4,309 6,531 47,455 47,455

Gigi Mateo – Elected as President of AA Chamber of Commerce!

Gigi Mateo of Integral Care Provider, Inc. and Essential Home Health, Inc. was installed as President of the Asian American Chamber of Commerce of Greater Kansas City at a Gala last month during AACC’s 10th Year Anniversary celebration at the InterContinental Hotel at the Plaza.

The Gala is the biggest annual fundraiser of the Chamber. This year, the guest speaker was Sachi Koto, a former CNN Broad-caster and Surae Chin, news broadcaster of CBS, acted as the Moderator. Every year the Chamber recognizes businesses and individuals for their contributions to the Asian Community in the Kansas City area by giving awards. That evening, 5 awards were announced to more than 400 guests; Entrepreneur of the Year - Keith Ahn of Oriental Supermarket, Company of the Year - Kansas City Kansas Community College, Professional Leader of the Year - Michael Song, Executive Director, Henry Bloch School of Business and Public Administration, Civic Leader of the Year - Robert Chien, President, Society for

Friendship with China, Community Outreach of the Year – Angeletta McCormick-Franks, Director of State of Missouri, Office of Supplier & Workforce Diversity. New this year are the Founder’s Scholarship Awards and the two student re-cipients are Tang Wang for Academic Excellence Award and Yiwen Jiang for Leadership Excellence Award; both are UMKC Students.

Gigi, a pioneer & Founding President of PNAGKC, is not only busy running her 2 businesses, but also devotes a lot of her time to many volunteer activities. She is currently in the Community Advisory Director of Research Foundation, a Board Member of CAPA (Child Abuse Prevention Association), Community Advisory Member at UMKC School of Nurs-ing and other charitable and worthwhile community involvement.

Being a member of AACC has valuable benefits. Join AACC as an individual, entrepreneur or business. See www.asianchamberkc.com.

Photo shows Gigi Mateo(4th from left) with AACC gala attendees, including FAGKC’s Phoebe Williams, Ph.D.(rightmost)

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MINUTES - GENERAL MEETING – JUNE 6, 2008

Attended by: Amado Mamuric, Normita Mamuric, Paul and Mirla de los Santos, Carmen Chico, Ed and Fili Francisco, Cito and Tacing Jalbuena, Elvira Berry, Cory Sorio, Ronnel Bobis, Judy Jeffers, Ping Bayani

President Eric Sorio is out of town; Secretary Elvie Berry presid-ing. Called the meeting to order at 7:50 PM. Agenda and the minutes for May were motioned, seconded and approved.

President’s Report- No report. Treasurer’s Report- See Treasurer’s Report on Page 7 Board of Directors’ Report- No report.

EXECUTIVE COMMITTEES REPORTS: PRO Report - Dr. Lillian Pardo sent press releases to area news-papers; our event has appeared in the Preview section of the KC Star; The Pitch Weekly has requested photos. Marc Tumanut has been assisting with press releases and was given additional list-ings to which additional information could be sent. Tambuli- Acting Editor Ping Bayani said Joan called to say she will try to take over for the July issue. Sinag-Tala Executive Director – Filipinettes under the tutelage of Clare Sumaljag is continuing to attract and keep 20+ kids. Ian Rivera and Gemma Snyder are helping Clare teach the folk dan-ces as well as learning newer contemporary dance steps, such as Hannah Montana stuff. The Noodles & Company fundraiser on May 20 sponsored/headed by Corina dela Cruz netted $275 for youth activities this summer. Another similar fundraiser is being planned, hopefully more participation from Association members. Sampaguita Choir- Choir will sing at the surprise birthday party for Jun Puno and for Fiesta Filipina. Choir has been invited again by Dr. James Lorio to sing for the Paratroopers Reunion in Kan-sas City – we sang for them last year as well. Details TBD. Choir has ordered new T-shirt uniforms with a logo and the phrase ‘keeping Philippine music alive’ imprinted on the front. Filipino Cultural Center- Ping thanked everyone, especially the sponsors and host families, for the success of the concerts and workshop of Loboc Children’s Choir. Ping showed the book Children of the USA where Kansas City, the Filipino Association and the Sinag-Tala Dance Group had entries. Annual Food Ser-vice and Health Inspection conducted by the OP Community Ser-vices took place Friday, June 6 and we passed! Official renewal permit will be sent by mail. Fire inspection is scheduled for June 20. Ping will apply for the GKCCF Non-Profit Capacity Build-ing Grant, deadline July 31. Overland Park sent an Advance No-tice of Street Maintenance between now and Sept. 30. Finally, thanks to KCPL and to Scott Rice Office Works for our new Of-fice and Storage Cubes!

STANDING COMMITTEES REPORTS: Hospitality- Annie Covillo, host for tonight, dropped off some food but had to leave. Host next month: Angie Chico-Agustin. Elvie Berry showed some greeting cards that she ordered from Vista Print that can be used by the Hospitality Committee. Membership- Judy announced this month’s Filipino breakfast entrees are ‘daing and bistek’ and invited everyone. Social Affairs- Lucila announced that we will have our usual July 4th Potluck Picnic beginning at noon.

Scholarship: Cory announced a successful Easter Talent Show Community Outreach- Beth needs 10-12 volunteers for St. James’ Place Kitchen to help one day in June or July. PNAGKC members will staff the First Aid Statioin at our Fi-esta. Our free Health Fair is coming up in August; details to follow. Medicines, cash donations and packing volunteers are needed for the next Medical Mission to Bogo, Cebu in January 2009. More info on www.medical-mission.com. Senior Council- Still finalizing collectibles and payables from Parents’ Night Fundraiser.

The following Committees had no reports: Auditor, Sinag-Tala Dance Group, Nomination, Finance, FYO, Information Ser-vices, Volunteer Services, Building & Grounds, Ways & Means.

SPECIAL COMMITTEES REPORTS: September Affair- Various levels of solicitations are ongoing. Fiesta Filipina June 14 and 15- See PRO report on publicity. Ping sent some pictures and write-ups of last year’s Fiesta to Chris Packham, Assistant Calendar Editor of The Pitch Week-ly. A Fiesta meeting was scheduled to happen before the Gen-eral Meeting but only Ping Bayani, Mirla delos Santos and Adela Tan were on hand so other than an informal conversation among the three, the meeting did not take place. FCCF- Dr. Lillian is asking for support for the first Medical Mission 5K Run/Walk slated for Saturday, July 26. Ping Ba-yani will produce the tri-fold for distribution. Ping also showed sample of event T-shirt and cap; T-shirt to be given to Lucila Rider to get quotes from her suppliers. Please register your friends, neighbors, associates. Lots of volunteer opportu-nities. Volunteer orientation potluck lunch on July 19 at the FCC, being coordinated by Mirla delos Santos. This MM5K Run/Walk will benefit not just the Medical Mission but also various youth activities. Narra Award nominations deadline is June 15 – see Tambuli April edition for criteria and guidelines. Mail nominations to Dr. Lillian Pardo. Congratulations to Ping Bayani for the successful concerts and related activities of the Loboc Children’s Choir in KC.

Old Business- None New Business- 1. The Chicago Office of the Philippine Dept of Tourism sent us a boxful of Philippine travel brochures that we can give away at the Ethnic Festival. They also lent us 4 beautiful free-standing display panels for use at the Loboc Children’s Choir concert. 2. The Alvin Ailey Dance Theater has sent us a brochure on their School Performances and Arts Education Program, some-thing that our Filipinettes might be interested in. 3. Ping Bayani wants to revive the Speakers’ Bureau and is asking for volunteers to be trained. He is getting a lot of re-quests for speakers for school and church events.

The meeting was adjourned at 9:20 after greetings were ex-tended to birthday and anniversary celebrants of this month.

Report submitted by Ping Bayani (Sitting in for 2008 FAGKC Secretary Elvira Berry who presided over the meeting)

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