“Please, just take my sister,” 15-year-old Apple pleaded in the vernacular. She was sure the woman perched above them in the large acacia tree had heard her through the roar of the floodwaters. “I can stay down here, but please take my sister,” she added, holding 7-year-old Janie as high above the churning black tide as she could.
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The Ayala Malls are gearing up for a busy holiday season starting with the simultaneous reopening of the new Glorietta in Makati and the opening of the Centrio Mall in Cagayan de Oro City this weekend.
The crowd that gathered last week to witness the opening of Centrio, the new Ayala Mall in Cagayan de Oro City, had been expected given how this was the company’s first mall in the southern city.
He sure is no spring chicken. But as they say, it’s never too late to be who you want to be. Just ask Cesar Barcelona Bagaipo, the country’s soon-to-be oldest new lawyer, who will be turning 70 next month.
And then the unthinkable happened—a new mayor was elected in Cagayan de Oro City, replacing someone entrenched in power for 15 years.
Travelers to Cagayan de Oro City should be ready for one thing, whether they visit during the summer or rainy season: They will get drenched, because in the “City of Golden Friendship,” water is the main tourist attraction.
“I was driving from General Santos City to Cagayan de Oro with my sister Rita and our friend Lea. It was around 3 p.m. when it started raining really hard, almost like a storm.
The first Ateneo Theater Festival (ATF) unfolds in Cagayan de Oro City this Wednesday under the auspices of Dulaang Atenista, the resident theater company of Xavier University-Ateneo de Cagayan.
Rafaelita Pelaez, president of Liceo de Cagayan University, spends most of her time in Cagayan de Oro City where she has multifarious academic duties and business concerns, including building a modern convention center which will soon open.
