A concert for Oslob
The news says a convicted robber insists that he has no knowleedge about the stolen appliances. Well, ignorance of the loot excuses no one.
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A reader says there’s a clamor for fare hike everytime the price of gasoline goes up. “Better pa,” he says, “we go back to the tartanilla.” Yes. The one-horse power of the tartanilla consumes only grassoline.
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Gays are not allowed by the Catholic Church to play the different roles in the Santacruzan or Flores de Mayo. Simply because they belong to the Third Chicks?
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Levity aside, Dr. Jose “Sir Dodong” Gullas has launched a fund-rasing drive to help make the acient Oslob church, burned not long ago, rise from the ashes. It’s a concert by the internationally-acclaimed award-winning UV Chorale which Sir Dodong is calling “Bulawanong Dalit Alang sa Oslob.”
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This “Bulawanong Dalit” concert is scheduled on Saturday, May 24, at the SM City Cinema One. There’s a matinee at
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Ticket prices? According to Banat News, it’s P150 for balcony seats, P200 for orchestra for the matinee, P300 for balcony and P500 for orchestra for the gala show. Actually, these prices are of no moment considering that the amount you chip in for the ticket is for the glory of God. Every peso (no one talks about every centavo anymore these days) generated by the UV Chorale concert will go to the rehab fund for the Oslob church reconstruction.
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Incidentally, I had been inside the Oslob church long before it was razed by fire. I was brought there by the late Freeman staffer Balt V. Quinain Sr. who considered himself an Oslobanon because his wife is from there. Balt was actually from Borbon. Balt, who died at young age of 40, helped Sir Dodong revive The Freeman in 1965. It was he who “recruited” me to join this paper.
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Before the first issue for the revived The Freeman came out, Balt said tome: “Tabangan ta si Sir Dodong padako ining iyang newspaper.” I feel sad that Balt didn’t live long enough to see this paper grow big. But Sir Dodong, the grateful man that he is, always remembers Balt whenever he talks about the revival of The Freeman.
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I’d like to share with you this text messages from Judelyn Saavedra, a fellow worker in Banat News: “Life is travelled only once. Today’s moments becomes tomorrow’s memory. Enjoy every moment. Good, bad, happy or sad, because the gift of life is life itself. Stay happy.
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BOBIT SAYS: “Each day, our goal is to touch one’s heart, encourage one’s mind and to inspire one’s soul. Continue to be blessed and be a blessing to others.”
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