Happy 73rd Birthday to Nanay Peying Lanza Barairo…greetings coming from Bernard Lanza Barairo and family
Also, Welcome Home to Ate Flor Lanza of San Roque, Tanauan whose coming this July from France. Have nice vacation!
Hello po sa Cijas Family ng Brgy. Licod Tanauan, Leyte……
Miss you all mga kapamilya…
Regards also to all my friends there, Ada Lauzon, Rose Ann Rivera, Rona Navarro, Ryan Cayobit, Jericho Baluyot……at sa lahat ng mga classmates ko before sa Tanauan I Central School batch 2002….miss you all friends!
Hope maka punta ako dyan this coming fiesta!
God bless!
baga busy gud ak didi ha huron pagtinambayon yana…. hehehe
maupay ngadi….baga dire gud ak stressed…sige la tagay-tagay hin tuba….hapit na patron didi ha Tanauan…kitakits nala kita didi….
binirahay naman hit mga happenings dida ha tanauan, pagkakaliwas damo it nagpapa san miguel. hala daw check niyo it death statistics ha munusipyo kun ano nga bulan it damo it nagpapa san miguel ma tigo la ako, bangin mayo, agosto o diri ngani enero.
How come, this supposedly “town’s website” had turned into a more like personal page. What should be in it, would be ALL ABOUT TANAUAN. I’d personally say the website had drastically change from good to bad. Its not because the design is less glamorous. But if you would look more at its contents, its not that interesting. What’s the purpose of the website in the first place? especially for a town?. I pressume you had seen other websites, especially those catering local news. i know tanauan always have reports (i.e. police reports), those REAL news and not weddings for heaven’s sake. To the creator you can do better, to the writers write something with sense. If tanauan is a town of intellectuals, how come it doesnt show in your works. if you are proud of your establishments, those so called bars and cafe’s of yours where are the pics? the webpage before, as far as i can remember had a lot more to offer than this. So whoever is the head in charge of this, please do think well, think better. You wouldnt be put in your position for nothing right?
i did not write down this comment only to criticize others work, its my way of helping you folks. if you cant see the mistakes yourselves, i hope other people’s opinion would open your eyes. Be more creative, put page for prospective business investors, Sports, local news, and about interesting stories in every place within the town or other neighboring towns. give ‘US’ (the visitors of the page) something to keep on coming and visiting to your website. be creative, and have an eye for INTERESTING and SENSIBLE stories.
of course, amo ito it panuyo hini nga website. nagkakaproblema la kita yana hit mga writers kay baga busy hit ira mga trabaho. Puros iton hira pro-bono ngatanan. The Tanauan Bar and Cafes didto hit About Us nga link (Tanauan Directory) dire pa ito hiya human. Kagabi pa la ito gintikangan. Hulat hulat la, mahuhuman gihap ito ngatanan.
Kun mayda ha iyo makakag contribute hin mga artikulo parte han Tanauan, igpadara la nganhi ha info@tanauanleyte.com ig upod it iyo ngaran. Or bisan it aadto ha abroad, parehas ha imo, pwede nimo ig istorya it kinabuhi nim ngada ha Belgium para didto hit mga tikaradto pa la ha abroad makakasabot na. Hinaut unta nga makaghatag ka gihap tim parte ngadto hit Tanauan. Maupay nga adlaw ha iyo ngatanan.
i so agree with andy to feature “real, sensible and interesting” events that a tanauananon would actually benefit and enjoy, and would make them feel “not far away from home”. i would like to emphasize on the pictures posted in the gallery, if you may. it would have been better to see pictures of the skimboarding events rather than seeing somebody’s wedding photos plastered on this website. after all, this is not a friendster account where you can view personal photos/events.
i hope you would consider my suggestion/opinion. thank you.
Doha, Qatar is one of the fastest growing city in the Gulf Region with GDP growth of 20% every quarter. Natural resources in Qatar is LNG (Liquified Nitrogen Gas) exported to Industrialized Countries Japan, China, Korea,US,UK, etc. one of the 10 richest industrialized countries in the world.
Doha, Qatar sponsored 16th ASIAN Games last Dec. 2006. Participated by 30,000 Athletes, Journalist, and visitors and dignataries.
Doha, Qatar Total populations is 800,000 thousands only and 70% are foriegners. (Filipinos,Indians,Nepali,Sri Lanka,Bangladesh,Pakistanis,and neighbor Arab countries.
Qatari citizens are very friendly to filipinos….they love working with the filipinos as well as the other nationality because we are all very friendly, very professional, work hard, dedicated, loyal to our employer and honest. OFW in Doha, Qatar is already jumped to 90,000 this year.
It akon la advice ha mga taga-tanauan (bung-to hin kamag-araman) take this oppurtunity to look for a job in Doha, Qatar. Professional, skilled and non-skilled is very in demand now in Doha, Qatar.
Tips: Mas maupay kun may ada niyo kakilala didto kay para deritso it iyo pag apply by applying visit visa. tapos adto na kamo magbibiling hin employer na iyo karuyag. Imagine? 100 high rise buildings and towers it under constructions yana. third largest airport in the world “reclaimed island” guin aayad yana. damo nga malls durungan nga magaabri yana nga tuig ug next year, Hotels….kay guin promote man nira an tourism…
Mga taga-tanauan…damo it professionals denhi…take this oppurtunity…ayaw paghulat hit swerte kay guin bibiling gihap iton hiya.
Para ha akon? usa na ako nga successful OFW na kumadto ha Qatar, Salit kamo try niyo pagtrabahi didto especially adto nga mga skilled workers? welders, auto mechanic, carpenter, pipe fitter, etc…try na kamo pag apply…ayaw ka discourage…tanan kita may paglaom ngan maupay nga kinabubuwason nga naghuhulat didto.
Qatar is islamic country. pero medyo open hira and they respect our religion and may-ada kita catholic church didto. puede guihap kamo mag disco, mag inom pero ayaw hin sobra…hehehe….baka maubos it iyo sweldo hit bisyo…hehehe…
madagmit la ako makontak ha Qatar…0974-4588684, 09746796428, or kadto la kamo ha Public Bus Station kun may ada kamo mga problema didto. or puede kamo kumadto ha POLO-OWWA kay kilala man ako didto.
ROLANDO ESPADA TANIG
SHIFT CONTROLLER (MINISTRY OF EDUCATION)
MASS TRANSIT DEPT.
MOWASALAT TRANSPORT CO.
DOHA, QATAR
Baga di ko man maraut nga mayda mga pictures hin kasal ini nga website. Maupay ngani kay nahababaro ak kun anu na it mga bag o nga happenings. Labis na nga baga tuminongnong man ghap ini hira hit Tanauan. In fact it makes it more interesting kasi diri la write ups on events ha Tanauan it anhi kundi pati na ghap people.
I sympathize with the situation nga kay pro bono la it mga writers waray kita masyado nga nakikita nga write ups yana since busy it writers hit ira work. Instead of criticizing, we may as well do our share on the improvement of this site. Also, we should thank Culver, for coming up with this site. From what I heard it is all his personal expense. Just so people from around the world who were once residents of Tanauan, Leyte could have a venue where they could share what’s happening in Tanauan, Leyte. In all honesty, I think it has benefited us in a lot of ways.
Tama na kita hito nga aton crab mentality….waray kita papaun hanan hito.
i would like to clear that our intention is not to criticize but to give honest opinion and suggestion. its not even being ungrateful because participating and sharing views on this blogsite is one way of appreciating the efforts of the people behind this. im sure culver and all the others are open and will consider suggestions if its for the improvement of this website. so rule out the “crab mentality” mentioned about.
anyway, we are looking forward to seeing pictures and write-ups of the upcoming fiesta. thank you again and god bless.
Atty. HASMIN AVILA-BIBAR is one of our writer in this blogsite. She fairly deserved to be featured here. I am Friendster and MySpace addict and i will tell you honestly, its totally different. By the way, do you have a friendster account? Please invite me. Thank you.
My Best Regards to all SPAWNorg people out there! Ano it acitivities naton yana nga patron? Kitakits na la kita!
It seems we are ungrateful for having this website posted for everybody’s interest. Sarah & Culver Songalia did a wonderful job in creating this website for people of intellect to interact in order to build a bridge for a brighter future. Atty. Hasmin Avila & Mr. Bibar has entered into another stage in life. They need a bridge to cross into another stage in life (hypothetical); hence, they need our prayers and support in any way we can to help their sacrament of marriage succeed. Please let us not spoil their happiness. I congratulate Atty. Hasmin Avila and her husband. I wish and pray for their continued health & happiness in life. Bon voyage and fasten your seat belt for bumpy rides. Welcome to the married life. William Shakespeare once said, “Men are April when they woe; December when they wed; maids are May when they are maids; but the sky changes when they are wives”.
Hi Ronald thanks for the infos. i know your brother Roger,mag classmate kmi ha elem. ok unta ito pro depende hiton placement fee. myda kba kilala na employer didto? kay it problema wray nam kilala didto except kun myda tga tanauan like you.
oi klasmeyt, harayo ka naman ngayan… pira naman im asawa,,,,,, aw anak
ngayan…… gudman pa’ano pag apply ngada…. ano it mga work nga pwede hit mga girls? okey ba it compensation….. hehehe kadamo nga paki-ana…..
Maupay nga may-ada kamo dida ha Tanauan website nga para kami nga mga harayo nakaka balita hit mga happenings dida. Adto nga mga na-awa han picture han kasal ni Hasmin pabay-i la iton hira kay siguro waray mga nawong na igpapakita ha retrato, mga awa-anon iton hira, labis na gud nga umangkon ko iton hi Hasmin beauty daw ano? Like Aunty like neice he he he… not joke its true. Let me know of more happenings. The fiesta pictures was superb very colourful. Keep up the good work guys, Good luck
I just want to comment to Andy, the pictures of the wedding isn’t that bad, Hasmin is one of the writer for this website, and she can be published on this as well, so stop your whinging, okey?
Kumusta mga taga Tanauan ngan ha mga staff ha municipal office, most of all kay Mayor Roque Tiu. Keep up the excellent success!!!
Anyway, just wondering kon ano it upcoming event para pasko.
God Bless Tanauan & Tanauanons…
Balita ko nag reunion an ASSAC batch 87 ha Bislig…maupay pa kamo permi nagkikirita…Hoping I can join next time..Welcome back home Mr. Gil Azucena..from Seatle…USA…
hello mga taga TANAUAN nga anhi yana ha QATAR, RAMADAN KAREEM 2007….
san-o daw la kita mg RAYHAK dinhe or mgkaurosa bisan manga-on la hin KUBOS ha Corniche. hehehehe
For sure ’til 2pm la it iba ha eu yna ha trabho kay Ramadan…masaya! per kmi 8am-6pm huhuhuhu… Shhhhssssssss OT liwat 4hrs :d
ngay-an mga sangkay akon mobile no. 5650230
bangin la myda maaghat (INSHA ALLAH) amo ine tak contact no. heheheh
kay ano nga waray ha list of school it KILING NATIONAL HIGH SCHOOL(KNHS)? Kindly indicate the name of school of each photos of PASAKA Festival.Thanks..GOD BLESS
for those who know Pedro Cinco of Village B UP Campus, he has passed away yesterday 30 September 2007. the wake is being held at sanctuary in araneta avenue.
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Mabuhay Tanauan!
ngadto ini nga pangumusta han familia Algo-Avila (han Bo. Suhi), ug Tanauan/ kumusta Pette Avila, kakan-o an aton katapusan nga pagkita, ipangumusta ako ngadto han iba nimo nga mga kabugtu-an, & parents, ug kapaturan didto ha Bo. Suhi, upda hi Aua and family, hi Jaime and Jamie & family, tiya Cresing, tiya Conching han Bacuto, Sagcahan, hi Gerry, mano Boy, mana Laidita, luyo han Redemptorist Church, hi
Bella Mausisa and family ug an iba pa nga mga kapaturan, kumusta. ayaw isalikway an mangumpisal, labi na kay an pasko harani na, ug ha tinood nga istorya, an kinabuhi han tawo, diri pirmi aada han lugar. talagsa la baya ako maghatag hin maupay nga sagdon. Maupay nga Pasko ha iyo nga tanan.
an iyo patod nga may ada magbarantay
Hello,
Gusto ko lang malaman ang tungkol sa brgy clinic or tanauan clinic,why
is it that always no medicine in our clinic,saan napupunta ang mga
gamot?kawawa naman ang mga taga tanauan,kahit gamot nawawala.
those medecine asan na,nasa kamay na ba ng mga politicians dyan o
tinatago mismo ng naka assign na doctor. hindi ko ma ubos maisip na palaging walang gamot,di ba may supply ang tanauan.Pls mayor paki asikaso lang grabing kawawa ang mga taga tanauan na hindi nakaka afford ng pagbili ng gamot,specially the needy.I am sure na ang may kagagawan ay ang mga naka assign dyan,i hope na ma bigyan ng time ang tanauan clinic.
Salamalaikom! Bon Jour!
Happy New Year 2008 to each and everyone…
Welcome to a brand NEW YEAR with loads of GOOD wishes and cheers!
Greeting you with my heartiest NEW YEAR WISHES!
I was given a gift to communicate with poor souls in Purgatory. There is one who said, that he was a retired engineer from the Department of Public Works and Highways, but he was assigned to work in the office, that, he said, he was married to a Juana (Joann), and that, he and his wife had four children, that, the youngest, attended its high school in DWU (1990) and said youngest met a girl, Erlinda. Are the Aduanos family related to the Oronos? If you’re looking for some Oronos’ relatives, ask anyone from Barugo. The Oronos mostly from Catanduanes, and others, have gone to settle in Barugo. Sorry to hear in the passing of your dad. You can pray one Our Father to your dad every 10th of the month.
I’m looking for the family/relatives of my father, Camilo M. Jacer, Jr.
I know they are from Tanauan, Leyte but i don’t know where exactly they lived. Appreciate it you can help me find them.
hi..just want to congratulate the winners of the skimboarding competition( especially, LEO ESPADA,)anyway the event was indeed great..GOOD JOB ORGANIZERS.. i do hope that this easter sunday the event will be continued..let’s not wait 4 december..
Is it possible for Tanauananons nga may mga negosyo to post their vacant positions para naman baga makabulig kita hit aton mga kasi taga tanauan nga makatrabaho. Siguro if possible usa hit mga navigation tabs hine nga website will be dedicated to careers for those looking for employment.
just want to greet my batchmates in tanauan national high school batch 2000. this is your president. you can contact me @ 09184068227 or 09223581725. keep in touch guys!
Is there a Christopher Jacer among the Jacer family in Tanauan? It was said that there was a Bo. Palompon and the reason as to why it was named Bo. Palompon, was because, the first settlers, came from Palompon, Leyte. You might find some cousins in Palompon, Leyte. Second, is there a Monsanto in the Jacer family? Other brgys., probably have a
Rosario Jacer, an older cousin of the Jacer family.
10 Foreign Nurses Charged For Walking Off Job..New York, USA
TO ALL TANAUANANONS:
LET US SHOW OUR DEEPEST SINCERITY TO ONE OF THE VICTIMS OF THIS CRISIS BY MEANS OF OFFERING A PRAYERS.
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“We’re on our last hope of the American dream,” cried former Sentosa nurse HARRIET AVILA, who was also criminally charged along with 9 others who resigned after working months under violated contracts and subject to abusive conditions.”
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My beloved Tanauanons / Tanauanenos:
Leo’s Grill & Cafe-TANAUAN located at Real St., Buntay, will soon celebrate its first year anniversay this coming April 08,2008. We offer 20% sales discounts on FOOD (Drinks not included) from April 01 to 10, 2008. We also serve beer and ladies drink with a choice of our chicken, pork barbecue and grilled seafoods. Tea, coffee and juices are also available.
For catering, reservations and inquiries, please dial 053-322-4367 and look for Mana Betty.
Leo’s Fashion House-(Gown for Rent) will soon to open this coming first week of February 2008. For your gown or formal wear requirements please visit us at the 2nd Floor of Omena’s residence or call 053-322-4367.
Various colors, designs and sizes are available with an affordable rent which ranges from P100 to P300 for kids, and P300 to P600 for adult.
I wonder if anyone knows of Margie Songalia, who went to
New Jersey, to work as a Nurse, where can i write to her. I remember her sending me a one US dollar bill years ago. How often Margie would visit Tanauan, would anyone know? Does she works as a Nurse at New Jersey Memorial Hospital? She can write to me through this e-mail address: thenita2wad@yahoo.ca
Hello to the City Health Offce personnel, Bebing, may patod ka nga Edgar it ngaran, who was in the Middle East in year 1999, Agnes, who is Cynthia Tingzon, is there a Conchita Santiago in your family of relations? You told me of this info in 2006 through a very extraordinary manner of communication. You were connected to me by my Guide that’s why, there was a conversation that went through the mind. All of you be good.
I have investigated thru my contacts ate rita osmena and benjie espada, ikaw nga iyon kapareho tayo ng name (my nickname LEO with same family name ESPADA).
I knew your eldest brother caloy and the next stephen, bata ka pa yata when I migrated to Manila, then to Riyadh, KSA.
Hope to see you when Im back home to Tanauan, pagbutihin mo pa with your chosen craft. Si Dave Daboque pala ang iyong skimboard GURO. Pls extend my warm regards to him bcoz he knows me.
To those who can’t afford to buy new gown or formal wear with your forthcoming JS PROM and Graduation Ball (High School and College), LEO’S FASHION HOUSE-GOWN FOR RENT is now open for business, because the shipment was already received last January 25, 2008. Affordable rent is being offered to suit your budget to enable us to help you in your school activities.
Please contact Roger Osmena of mother Reming Osmena at 053-322-4367.
Your headline of “10 Foreign Nurses Charged For Walking Off Job in New York” is disturbing, if it were true. I live in Maryland and I have not heard anything at all about this news. My wife and I are both nurses and work in the management position. We receive monthly subscription of Nurses’ magazines and I have never read an article describing what you have just disclosed. Don’t get me wrong; I do not doubt your sincere intention but prayers alone without action is futile. Do you know which hospital is this in New York? Are these foreign nurses Filipinos? What were the reasons leading to the ten foreign nurses’ walk-outs? Do you know that there are plenty of Filipino nurses living in New Jersey and New York area who could help them present their issues to the State Board? We also have the Tanauan Association in the east coast who are united and always ready to lend support when needed. I know that there are shortages of nurses throughout United States but forcing foreign contract nurses to work beyond what is required by law is illigal.
it is indeed true and its surprising that you haven’t heard of this. i first saw the article in the phil. daily inquirer about the plight of the said nurses. their legal battle is not over yet. they’re down to 10 criminally charged because of walking off from their jobs thus endangering the lives of the patients. i believe they were deployed in substandard facilities and that several things on their contracts were not followed.
hope that ms. harriet avila would remain strong in facing this battle.
Yes, my dad passed away 31 years ago due to a vehicular accident. He was very young back then. My mother told me that they were off to a company outing when the accident happen. Thanks for your help!
Accordingly, because plaintiffs have failed to make the requisite evidentiary showing entitlng them to the remedy of a preliminar injunction, the request for such relief is denied. (Sterline Fifth Associates v Carpentile Corp., Inc., 5 AD3d 328, 329, 774 NYS2d 140, 1 st Dept., 2004). The fact that the Philippine Overseas Employment Administration lifted an Order of Preventive Suspension which had suspended the license of Sentosa Recruitment Agency does not inure to plaintiffs’ benefit. The Order specifically recognizes the fact that, as US Immigrant Visa holders, the defendant Nurses rights are amply protected by the host governent from whom redress can be secured.
Respective motions, by defendants Juno Healthcare Staffing Systems, Inc. and Cecile Jaoy (CPLR 3212) and by defendant Felix Q. Vinlaun (CPLR 3211(a)(7), to dismiss the complaint as to said defendants are granted as to defendants Juno Healthcare Staffing Systems , Inc. and Cecile Jaoy and denied as to defendant Felix Q. Vinlaun for the reasons set forth below.
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…Undoubtedly there is a difference between merely advising a client on the legal aspects of an employment agreement and becoming directly involved in inducing a group of nurses to breach their contracts with plaintiff. Whether plaintiffs are able to prevail on their tortious interference cause of action against defendant Vinlaun is an open question. At this juncture, however, the cause of action is sufficiently pleaded to withstand defendant Vinlaun s CPLR 3211 (a)(7) motion.
The respective motions by defendant Juno Healthcare Staffing Systems, Inc. and Cecile Jayo for summary judgment dismissing the complaint as to said defendants are granted there being no opposition thereto submitted by plaintiffs and no legal basis to sustain the claims asserted against them.
The motions, by defendants Juno Healthcare Staffing Systems, Inc. and Cecile Jayo, are hereby withdrawn.
The motion, by defendant Felix Q. Vinlaun (CPLR 3211(a)(7), to dismiss the complaint is denied for the reasons set forth below.
. . .
It is well settled that an agent cannot be held liable for inducing his principal to breach a contract with a third person, at least where he is acting on behalf of his principal and within the scope of his authority. (Hussie v Bressler, 122 AD2d 113, 114, 2 d Dept., 1986). The mere fact, however, that one is an attorney acting in a professional capacity does not make him/her absolutely immune from responsibilty for wrongful acts. An attorney may be personally liable to a third person who sustains an injury as a consequence of an attorney s wrongful act or improper exercise of authority where the attorney is guilty of fraud or collusion or of a malicious or tortious act. (Hahn v Wylie 54 AD2d 629, t Dept., 1976).
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Undoubtedly there is a difference between merely advising a client on the legal aspects of an employment agreement and becoming directly involved in inducing a group of nurses to breach their contracts with plaintiff. Whether plaintiffs are able to prevail on their tortious interference cause of action against defendant Vinlaun is an open question. At this juncture, however, the cause of action is sufficiently pleaded to withstand defendant Vinlaun’s CPLR 3211(a)(7) motion.
The respective motions by defendant Juno Healthcare Staffing Systems, Inc. and Cecile Jayo for summary judgment dismissing the complaint as to said defendants are withdrawn by reason of the discontinuance of the action against the defendant Juno and the withdrawal of the motion by the defendant Jayo for the purposes of making a motion for the same relief on behalf of several of the nurse defendants, including this defendant Jayo.
This motion, by plaintiffs, for an order pursuant to CPLR 2221 to reargue their prior motion for a preliminary injunction, is granted and upon reargument the court adheres to its decision dated July 5, 2006.
Pursuant to the order of this court dated July 5, 2006, plaintiffs ‘ motion for a preliminary injunction enjoining the defendants from soliciting or advising any employees under contract with plaintiffs to termnate their employment before the end of their contract terms and from entering the premises at which plaintiffs operate was denied.
This action arises from the purportedly abrupt resignation of 25 nurses, and one physical therapist, from their positions at various skilled nursing facilities owned and operated by plaintiffs as a result of which the health, safety and welfare of many elderly, infirm non-ambulatory patients (including children in the pediatric vent unit) were purportedly put at serious risk.
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Plaintiffs ‘ motion to reargue is predicated on the grounds that this court misunderstood or overlooked plaintiffs’ contention that they are likely to prevail on their breach of contract claim inasmuch as each of the contracts between the defendant nurses and plaintiffs expressly provide that:
(tJhe employee agrees to be employed by the Employer under the terms of this contract for three full years from
his/her first date of employment.
Since the defendant nurses never disputed this fact, and given that each had promised not to
engage in the practice of nursing, or in any other occupation for any other company, facility, hospital, entity or private individual during the term of their employment with plaintiffs,”
plaintiffs maintain they are entitled to sue the defendant nurses for breach of contract and are likely to prevail on that claim. With respect to the tortious interference claim asserted against defendant Felix Q. Vinluan, plaintiffs allege that 1) in persuading the defendant nurses to leave plaintiffs ‘ employ; 2) having them quit without giving notice; and 3) in coordinating the timing of twenty-six resignations, defendant Vinluan s conduct exceeded the passive role of attorney/advisor resulting in considerable disruption to plaintiffs and the patients in their care.
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In the absence of any showing that the defendants have entered plaintiffs premises and/or entreated additional personnel under contract with plaintiffs to terminate their employment before the end of their contract terms, injunctive relief does not lie and plaintiffs ‘ application must be denied.
This motion, by defendant nurses (with the exception of Arlyn Torrena) and the sole physical therapist (Dondon Parungao) (collectively the nurses), to dismiss the breach of contract claim asserted against said defendants pursuant to CPLR 3211(a)(7) and for summary judgment against plaintiffs on movants’ counterclaim for actual , compensatory and punitive damages is denied.
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Further, the fact that plaintiffs fail to attached copies of the agreement upon which the action is based to the complaint is not a fatal defect requiring dismissal of the complaint and that part of defendants ‘ motion to dismiss is denied.
the news articles are not giving a clear picture of the case.
I thank you for the information. It seems this is a long battle and even politicians are getting involved.
Attorney Faces Criminal Charges After Clients Quit Their Nursing Jobs
Prosecutor says lawyer was indicted along with his clients because he did more than just advise them of their rights
Vesselin Mitev
New York Law Journal
February 27, 2008
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A lawyer who advised 10 nurses that they were free to quit their jobs at a Long Island nursing facility now faces 13 criminal charges as a result of the nurses’ walkout — a prosecution his supporters say could have a chilling effect on attorneys who represent workers in labor disputes.
“I am really surprised that I am a defendant in this criminal case,” Manhattan-based Felix Q. Vinluan, 43, said during a recent interview, his voice cracking with emotion. “I was just doing my job.”
However, the Suffolk County district attorney’s office claims that the nurses endangered five chronically ill children and one terminally ill man when they left their posts without giving sufficient notice to administrators to find replacements.
Assistant District Attorney Leonard Lato said in an interview that Vinluan was indicted along with his clients because he did more than just advise his clients of their rights.
“Mr. Vinluan was an active participant in soliciting [the nurses] to do what they did,” Lato said in an interview. “If all Mr. Vinluan did was advise, rather than ‘encourage,’ he wouldn’t have been charged.”
On April 5, 2006, at the request of the Philippine consulate, he met with nurses who had been working for Avalon Gardens Rehabilitation and Health Care Center in Smithtown. The facility is one of a group of nursing homes operated by SentosaCare, which actively recruits nurses in the Philippines. Vinluan is a naturalized U.S. citizen who emigrated from the Philippines in 1996 and was admitted to the New York Bar in 1998.
The nurses, who had been in the country since 2005, complained to Vinluan about substandard pay, shabby living conditions, changes in work assignments and other violations of their three-year contracts.
“I advised them they could resign if they wanted to as their contracts were already breached,” said Vinluan. “I told them ‘you are at-will employees and you can be terminated at any time, [so] in the same way you can terminate your employment.’”
“He adamantly denies telling them to resign,” said Oscar Michelen, a partner at Sandback, Birnbaum & Michelen in Mineola, N.Y., who is representing Vinluan. “He told them they could resign.”
Three of the nurses named in the indictment — Harriet Avila, Claudine Gamiao and Juliet Anilao — also denied in an interview that Vinluan encouraged them to quit.
“He just told us our rights,” said Anilao, who works at Parkway Hospital in Queens along with Gamiao and Avila. “When we came here we didn’t even know what rights we had.”
According to the district attorney’s office, on April 6, Vinluan filed a discrimination complaint on behalf of the nurses against Avalon Park and SentosaCare at the U.S. Department of Justice in Washington, D.C. Late in the afternoon of April 7, the nurses who had met with Vinluan submitted their resignations.
In September 2006, the state Education Department, after two hearings, rejected SentosaCare’s complaints that the nurses had abandoned patients. According to The New York Times, a Health Department review concluded in January that shifts had been covered.
Nevertheless, on March 22, 2007, a grand jury indicted Vinluan for participating in a conspiracy to obtain “alternative employment” for his clients and a release from their three-year commitment “without incurring a financial penalty of $25,000″ provided in their contracts for breaching the agreement.
Vinluan and the nurses each were charged with a single count of conspiracy in the sixth degree, five counts of endangering the welfare of a child, and six counts of endangering the welfare of a physically disabled person.
In addition, Vinluan was charged with solicitation in the fifth degree. That offense is aimed at defendants who, with intent that another person commit a crime, “solicits, requests, commands, importunes or other attempts” to cause that person to commit the crime.
If convicted of the charges, all misdemeanors, defendants face a maximum penalty of one year in jail. Vinluan and the nurses also could lose their licenses.
BREACH OF DUTY?
Lato said that the nurses “had every right to quit their jobs, but when you are a nurse or a doctor you owe the patients just a little bit more,” he said.
He acknowledged no one was injured as a result of the resignations. But he said that the abrupt resignations set off a four-hour period of “panic and scrambling” as administrators tried to find replacements to cover the shifts of the 10 nurses.
Initially, Lato said he did not believe the case merited an indictment.
He said that he interviewed Vinluan and several of the nurses, and “they seemed like hardworking, good people,” he said. But “when I went into the nursing facility and I saw the children — I’d never seen children on ventilators — my feelings changed about the case,” he added.
After that, Lato said he decided to leave it up to a grand jury to determine if the mass resignations represented a crime or a labor dispute. He asked the grand jurors to determine whether the nurses had a duty to the patients and whether they “put people in danger” by breaching that duty. They answered in the affirmative.
Simply giving more notice would have avoided charges altogether, he said. “Twenty-four-hour notice would have been more than sufficient — even 9 a.m, that morning,” he said. “Whatever the dispute was there was a collateral consequence to what they did.”
Both the nurses and Vinluan filed motions to dismiss. The nurses’ attorney, James O. Druker’s Kase & Druker, argued that the criminal charges violated the 13th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution, which prohibits slavery and indentured servitude.
“I never thought that in all my years of practicing law I would use the 13th Amendment to argue a labor dispute,” Druker said. “I have no doubt that even if the nurses resigned in concert, as the D.A. says, that is not a crime, there is no crime here — the obligation to properly staff the facility is on the facility.”
However, Supreme Court Justice Robert W. Doyle, in a Sept. 28 decision, rejected that argument.
“Under no view of the facts of this case could it be said that the People were seeking to compel defendants continued employment by any particular entity,” wrote the judge in People v. Jacinto, Indictment No. 00769-07. Rather, he held that there was “sufficient evidence” to conclude that the nurses should be charged with “specific crimes for the actions taken by them, en masse, at a time when they were entrusted with the care of certain physically disabled children.”
In a separate motion to dismiss the charges against Vinluan, Michelen argued that there was insufficient evidence to demonstrate that Vinluan intended to endanger someone’s welfare.
However, the judge said the indictment against the attorney was backed by “ample evidence.”
“While a nurse may, oftentimes, have a right to unilaterally resign from his or her position of employment, the actions of these defendants, acting together with forethought and planning, was not a simple resignation from a nursing position,” wrote the judge in People v. Vinluan, Indictment No. 00769A-07, noting that the resignations “could have had disastrous consequences.”
The trial has been scheduled for April 28. To prevent it from going forward, Michelen planned to file Tuesday with the Appellate Division, 2nd Department, a writ of prohibition under Article 78 of the CPLR. He claims in the petition that the nurses’ actions were part of a labor dispute over which the National Labor Relations Board has sole jurisdiction.
POLITICAL INFLUENCE?
Vinluan said he believes he has been targeted by a company that cannot afford to lose its pool of Filipino nurses. In total, 37 nurses quit their jobs at SentosaCare facilities on April 6 and April 7, although only 10 face criminal charges. And he claims that the case has been tainted by the political influence of the nursing homes’ owners.
“What better way to stop other nurses than having their lawyer silenced by being made a party defendant,” he said. “It is just unfortunate that politicians have become complicit participants in these unethical recruiting practices.”
Both Druker and Michelen have asked New York Gov. Eliot Spitzer to appoint a special prosecutor in the case. In support of that request, Michelen pointed to what he called a “secret meeting” between Suffolk County District Attorney Thomas J. Spota and SentosaCare’s attorney, Howard Fensterman, managing partner of Abrams, Fensterman, Fensterman, Eisman, Greenberg, Formato & Einiger in Lake Success.
“This took place a year after [the nurses] stepped down,” said Michelen. “There was no immoral conduct, no patient abandonment — we think political influence is what caused this investigation to occur.”
According to Newsday, SentosaCare partners, allied investors and Fensterman have donated $750,000 to Democratic and Republican campaign funds. Fensterman contributed $1,500 to Spota, the district attorney, in 2003.
Lato dismissed the suggestion that the prosecution represented political payback. He said that, as a public official, Spota often meets with attorneys.
“It happens all the time; it is commonplace [for Spota] to grant an audience,” he said.
Fensterman said that he had developed “some credibility” with the district attorney when he asked the prosecutor to look into another case. He said he had contacted Spota after the resignations to examine what he regarded as a “very serious” matter.
“When he listened to that story he said he would evaluate it and he would determine what he wanted to do,” he said. “The facts warranted a six-month investigation and they concluded that it warranted the impaneling of a grand jury and [Justice] Doyle found there was enough there to convict.”
SentosaCare is also seeking damages of at least $25,000 each from the 37 nurses who quit their jobs, including the 10 indicted defendants, who left their jobs with SentosaCare.
“The reason why the civil suit was brought is because the nurses abruptly walked out without notice placing all of these patients in danger — they all breached their contracts,” said Fensterman. “It was all orchestrated by the attorney Felix Vinluan; we believe his intention was to cripple the nursing home[s] by doing this in a 24-hour period.”
Fensterman charged that Vinuluan is “politically connected” in the Philippines and owns his own employment agency there. After the resignations, he said that Mr. Vinluan used his influence to orchestrate an investigation of his competitor, SentosaCare, which led to the suspension of its recruiting activities.
Sen. Charles Schumer, D-N.Y., wrote four letters to officials in the Philippines, including one to the country’s president, seeking a review of the suspension. That review cleared SentosaCare of any wrongdoing, said Fensterman. The suspension was lifted in June 2006.
Fensterman served as Schumer’s Long Island finance chairman in 2001 but called the notion that SentosaCare benefitted from political influence “frivolous.”
Vinluan said that he has an immigration consulting business in Manila but does not own any employment agencies in the Philippines. However, he said that he “might have incorporated companies in the Philippines where I might have been made a nominal owner/initial corporate secretary,” and those companies “might have done recruitment business without my knowledge.”
SUPPORT FOR DEFENDANT
Several groups, including the New York State Nurses’ Association, the Asian American Legal Defense and Education Fund and the New York State Defenders Association have expressed their support for the defendants and their request for a special prosecutor.
“It’s absolutely troubling,” said Kenneth Kimerling, the fund’s legal director, said in an interview of the charges against the attorney, “Lawyers are often asked to provide advice for clients about taking certain actions. It seems rather extreme in this case to go after an attorney who told his clients they had a rational legal basis to resign.”
The New York chapter of the National Employment Lawyers Association also recently submitted a petition to the governor backing a special prosecutor in the case.
“To the extent that a lawyer is being held criminally responsible for advising his clients to resign on a contract that was essentially breached by [Sentosa] is fairly outrageous,” said William D. Frumkin, a partner in White Plains-based Sapir & Frumkin, who heads the New York chapter.
Frumkin also noted that should inluan be convicted, “attorneys would have to be careful in choosing who they represent,” which would be “in opposition to people having a right to counsel.”
The governor’s office is reviewing the request for a special prosecutor, a spokesman said.
Meanwhile, Vinluan, who appeared at an interview in an olive green suit and a tie emblazoned with law books, said he has put his practice on hold until the case is settled.
“I would like to avoid a trial. I would like to take care of this criminal case. For me to start a practice now would be unfair to my clients.”
Vinluan, who said he underwent a quadruple-bypass shortly before the indictment, said his health is deteriorating as the trial date draws near.
Michelen predicted dire consequences should Vinluan be convicted.
“No one will ever give labor advice to health care workers again,” he said. “That’s not a grandiose statement — that is a fact.”
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Its AL NINA weather now. What is AL NINA weather? Where do names of the weather forecast come from? How many regions layers are there assigned in the Philippines? Ask the Dean of the Students, of Quezon College, if he still uses the ABC Fundamentals reference for teaching, and if the book has an explanation of the D Region Layers of the ionosphere, and tell him that, one former student (2000-2001), who was assigned for the first Chapter of the book, ABC Fundamental Teaching, for reporting, has an additional knowledge of wisdom, of the region layers of the ionosphere. In the book, it covers only the F2, F1, D, F4, and one. What is that one? That is why, when it rains too much, it floods, so, the only way to help the surroundings when it rains so hard, is to have the manholes fixed, so that the rain water will run through the culverts properly. And why it floods now in some areas, `kay nasamad kono an Earth’ when the crates plates were spotted. Maupay nga pamalandong yana nga semana santa ngadto han ngatanan.
The manholes around should really be fixed, so that, when it rains too much, the water will flow properly to the street roads drainage.
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to all assumption academy alumni!!! its time to share our time and presence to this annual get-together
with our former high school classmates and friends, updating each others’ lives and recalling memories gone by….God bless
binabati ko lng poh ung tga salvador-binongto-an ….
maupai nga piesta bah an naglabay>hehe
sgrado dw la kno mauran n lwat!hehe
hope nxtym dre nah!
see u soon guys…
kanda dante ngada,enggol,jammal,sidoy!
makan,taer,bong….
wazap nah?
hehe,,,amu la
bbow….
miz ko lah tanauan balit!
bye.ty
Kinakamusta ko la an mga taga Malaguicay. San-o nga ba an celebracion han fiesta? Hunyo seis ba adto?? Kamusta an mga CATANs , AGUIPOs , SOYOSAs at mga PANZOs at ALMADENs.Kamusta na an teacher nga hi TOTI CATAN. Kamusta kamo ngatanan????????
Sir Toti , if you happen to read this greetings please post an answer in this blog site. I want to communicate with you-soon. Last time I was around was way back in the 80s. Your lady was still slogging in her law studies. How is she anyways? I believe she is already practicing her profession. Ain’t she?? Sir if you have an email address please give me a yell about it. Kamusta kayong lahat!!! Miss ko lahat!! Pati na ang baha kon nagiinuran! Kamusta an fiesta?? Me yugyugan ba??
How are you all folks? How much is a sack of rice? A balikbayan commented that a sack of rice costs a thousand and 60 pesos, while another balikbayan had expressed, “what, its not a thousand and sixty, but, a thousand and six hundred,” if so, why don’t all start to plant potatoes, and other root crops, in exchange to rice everyday, until, all rice terraces will fertilize again, for a good rice plantation. If only everyone had listened to pray one Our Father, everyday, then, the global warming won’t be harsh, to your rice terraces. Ask for forgiveness to the Father, that his Hand, will be lenient to the rice growing lands. Think thrice, and grow green.
There you go again !! What has God to do with the rice and other world crises? Maybe for you everything that goes wrong in the world is God’s will!! Know what?? I believe if you form a religious organization then you will be better off!! That is for sure!! And you won’t be paying any taxes!!
I don’t know you but where I am I get to see news (CNN) everyday. And this morning there were twisters. And they destroyed lots of homes and properties. If you want to pray for the victims then you do with all sincerity.This job (praying) is for you..But you can’t stop such yearly crises. So there you are Miss Religious,pray all the prayers you know( and have invented )to help the victims of the twisters!!
I wish you could post something with sense!!!!!!! Dapat sa ‘yo e maging isang preacher o kaya yong nangungulecta ng abuloy sa simbahan tuwing me misa sa araw ng Linggo!!! AMEN!!!!!!!!
Kinakamusta ko la an mga taga STO NINO!!!!!…labi na ha harani my mormoons,mga DAROS pa ba mga tao ha my kalye ARINGIT!!!!… any mapatron na haton dida Malipay nla nga patron.
Nahuman an trabajo pero an building dri pa !!!! Pati guihapon an budget nahuman!!! Kinahanglan kon sugad isubmit ini nga hinabo ha BOB RIPLEY’S “BELIEVE IT OR NOT”. Ang galing talaga ng Pinoy politician ( sa corruption). May ada na liwat nadugangan nga bank deposit. Kan kanay daw la adto?? Ang suerte naman noon!! Huwag naman sana siya at ang angkan niya tamaan ng “KARMA”!!! PANSAMANTALANG MALAS LANG!! Sana naging politico rin ako. Subalit no way man!! Diri ako Pinoy.Ako ay isang sulodnon na Waray lamang!!!
Greetings to old classmates of LNHS from Tanauan, Leyte, perhaps, you like to read Tanauan’s greetings corner, how is the weather in your area? Its getting summer now in many areas. How’s the rice crisis in the so many areas? Nine hundred pesos a sack is not so bad, doesn’t praying help when there is crisis, or, letting a word slip like, `O Diyos ko, mahirap ang tubo ng isang sakong bigas, kung bababa lang ang mil sa nine hundred pesos, magiging magaan sa aking bulsa at sa iba,’ at ang langit ay ibababa ang tubo ng mga maykaya na nagtatago ng mga bigas. June 30 feast is approaching, balyo-an, ayaw.
Greetings to a Cecille Romero of the Accounting Division, Bethany Hospital, from a Dr. Decena, of California, would like to know, as to how it is now the main Andrew Hall, Bethany, in Tacloban. Anyone to know, this Cecille Romero, to get in touch with her, in the last request of a Dr. Decena, former Pediatrics Director, Bethany Hospital of Tacloban City, and write back to Tanauan website greetings corner if possible. This was the word of the above named mentioned, “Why didn’t the management acknowledge in the request sent via webmaster?” Many thanks to the courier.
Hi Yadoy kmusta na? Nakit an ko an imo anak han pagbakasyon ko last year,dako na! It akon mgawas pala next month lalaki ghap.Adi me yana ha norway pati hi Myrna an akon manghod, hi Mariet liwat adto ha Singapore pero bangin aug. or sept. ngadto hiya ha Spain to her new job,amo ini it kan Mariet cel # +65 9039 3242 if u hav tym to tex her it akon liwat +47 4177 2446. San-o kmo mbakasyon ha aton?Regards ha eu dda na tanan..God bless…
What? A sack of rice is now 2,100.00 pesos? If a `ganta’ is 42.00 pesos, then, the wages of employees should be increased. Must be some global warming, huh! What did everyone do, that, the price of rice have gone up? It must of the many developments expense everywhere. It should be time to eat `mashed potatoes’ to rice, or boiled potatoes with some viands, yucca and other root crops, in exchange to everyday rice consumption. In other words, plant `kamotes’ in your backyards, and learn how to grow green. What’s the kilo of `carabao’ in the markets? There should be one to give the translation as to why `mapaso an bugas’ ha bulsa.
baga kitakita ko an aton focus ngadto han may mga trabaho nga di opisina. an concern han mga bloggers kay ako daw nga hataas an presyo han bugas. di na daw makakapalit an mga pobre. pero hunahunaon ta guihap an kabutangan han mga mag uruma. pakiana ko la. mayda enough support an aton gobyerno ngadto han mga farmers? ha tanauan, may irigasyon pero waray tubig. ada diri ngatanan. an presyo han gasolina, an mga papliton nga kinahanglan guihan han mga mag uuma nahataas guihap. diri ta ba liwat hira uugupan? Balansiha ta diri la it mga nagtrabaho hin may sweldo an aton ugupan. Pati an mag uruma ugupi ta guiha.
Why are you angry towards one? If you do not like reading what is being posted, do not entertain your thoughts with negative expression, as there is a saying, `he who becomes angry, becomes unhappy,’ and you must be one who enjoys reading everyone who post anything, mind you, `pangulecta ng abuloy’ is CWL’s job to do so, baka ang nanay mo ay CWL member. What is your crises? It must be that you had the chance to watch CNN one time news about the origin of Christ, and as you have you seen the picture that artist Fillion had shared to a Paula, news reporter, what was your opinion? Must be that typhoon Frank got you to a reaction, so, can you say, that FRANK did not visit your living room? Ay naku si polding binisita ni typhoon FRANK, at ngayon nagsasabi ng totohanan, bagyo talaga ang twist. What religious organizations that don’t fall to John 9:39
will this site could do something,to make it….or try to stop putting some rubbish onto this site just pity of us sometimes some people doesn’t like to grow yet! my grammar is not good enough but this is an effort to try my best…I’m happy to read and share ideas please!
hi! just passing bye……..hmmm…this site is Amazing!I would like to say hello,to my previous neigthbour and friends at sto.nino and to all my classmates batch 1980-84 at Assumption Academy I missed you folks,hope to keep in touch with me through this site.(sorry, cant post my details need privacy).see you here some other time! THANK YOU!!!. To those behind this site, well done and keep it up! I’m being entertained he!he!,(homesick huh!)
Mr. and Mrs. Toti Catan . Miguelito Catan. ( Your phone number doesn’t seem to be working).I don’t really know if you are the Miguelito I have in mind. The Miguelito I remember is the son of Domingo Catan. Father of Toti Catan. They are originally from Malaguicay. I was in that place sometime in the eighty’s. And the Miguelito was in the military.IF ANY OF YOU HAPPEN TO COME ACROSS THIS MESSAGE PLEASE DON’T HESITATE TO POST ANY MESSAGES IN THIS SITE. UNFORTUNATELY I AM NOT THAT NEAR PINAS AND I REALLY WOULD WANT TO COMMUNICATE WITH ANY OF YOU THERE IN OUR BARRIO.I UNDERSTAND ONE OF MY OLDER BROTHER HAS ALREADY PASSED AWAY.MAY HE R.I.P.
So Toti is your wife already practicing as a lawyer!!! And are you still teaching?? Kinakamusta ko ang lahat ng aking angkan.Pati ang hindi (angkan). Hope someone still remember “that little guy” who almost “went on an indefinite vacation” due to water borne disease! We are related-by blood!!!! KAMUSTA KAYONG LAHAT!!!
Who says one is angry?? Nobody is angry at all!! The word is IRKED or BOTHERED. I am irked and also bothered by your perception that everything that happens like floods, howlers;and twisters are all done by the Boss above! And I believe you also have in mind that the sinking of the passenger ship of Sulpicio lines was also done by HIM!! Your thinking is crap!! Would HE want those people dead??
Let me put some real sense in your prayerfull mind.On any ship the Master or Captain is always responsible for everything. Even if the shipowners say that the ship has to sail to meet schedule it is the Captain who has the final say. Specially when the weather is not good. Trust what I’m saying.I am not a Captain but my experience (not just a few years) proves that. The sinking was due to the Captain’s incompetence.IT WAS NOT THE WILL OF THE BOSS ABOVE!!
You are right!! Typhoon Frank did not visit our living room.We live near a desert and we are 12 hrs.behind Phil. time. And to teach you something right,ang bagyo ay di maaring maging twister. Twisters and howlers are not one. And I believe your are really into the CWL-Catholic Women’s League (?).Right?? What does it do anyways?? I believe it doesn’t pay any tax!! Or does it?? And my last paki-ana: Is your CWL registered with the S.E.C.?? Just asking!! And curious!! Because if your CWL is not registered with the S.E.C. then you and your cohorts are violating some laws!!! At saka nga pala saan ninyo ginagamit ang mga pera na nakokolecta sa loob (at labas) ng simbahan tuwing araw ng Domingo?? Sana nga sa charity lahat!! O ikaw ngayon ang umuusok ang ilong!!! Easy ka lang manay!!
Akala ko ba it mga taga tanauan bungto hit kamag-araman!Anu ang nangyari sa Ms.TANAUAN 1st. runner up..she doesn’t deserves it!!kahiya naman..no answer WINNER.
Hoy sino ang nag yaya sa yo na manood sa programang yon?? At sino ang me sabi na taga Tanauan yon?? Nagkakamali ka sa iyong mga sinabi. Nag 1st runner up na nga,masama pa ba yon?? At bakit mo nasabi na nakakahiya?? Ikaw ang nakakahiya!! O baka naman naiinggit ka lang!!
Talaga namang marurunong ang mga taga Tanauan!! O ikaw bakit di mo muna sipatin ang iyong spellings sa iyong message at baka nakakahiya!! The hell you can’t even do a correct form of writing and you have the nerve to send such comments!! How come your spellings are weird,huh?? Did you learn it that way- the funny wrong way???
Whoever;whatever;wherever you are from,thank you for witnessing the last town’s feast celebration events! Your comments are a little sharp but you are welcome!! Thank you!!
Hi…this message is for the good mayor of Tanauan, Tanauan Mayor Tiu, ang gusto ko lang maipaabot eh…matatapos na po ang termino mo ang kalsada papuntang tabon-tabon sa brgy.bangon hindi parin matapos-tapos…sana naman bago matapos ang termio mo ay mafully concrete na ang kalsada doon. Wag mo sanang gawing dahilan ang pagiging opposition ng aming Brgy. Chairman dahil hindi naman ang chairman namin ang syang makikinabang sa kalsada kundi ang mga sasakyan na papuntang tabon-tabon at burauen, nakakahiya na po…imbis na ang perang ginagamit niyo sa pa filli-filling sa mga lubak sa kalsadad ay gamitin nalang para sa pasimento, mas mapakikinabangan pa namin at natin ng matagal.
Hi..,,, mga taga tanauan leyte kumusta na kayo?, sana kahit mahirap ang buhay ngayon maging masaya parin tayo lagi, and sana wag tayong mag give up, sa tuwing magkakarun tayo nang malalaking problema, sana rin wag na tayong mag away-away, magtulungan na lang tayo, tama na ang bangayan naku papangit tayo niyan mga taga tanauan leyte, lagi ko pa namang pinagmamalaki na tayong mga taga tanauan leyte ay mga masayahin, matulungin, magalang, matalino, may disiplina sa sarili at syempre higit sa lahat mga cute tayo, kaya tama na ang bangayan huh!,, baka kasi pumangit tayo eh, yon na nga lang ang ating kayamanan eh….
Magandang araw po sa inyo. sana po nasa mabuti po kayong kalagayan upon reading this. this year nga lang po nag passed away my late uncle domingo at si kuya miguel po ay nasa PNP na po. si toti naman ay nagretire na po sa pagtuturo ang nanay ko namn po ay nagtuturo pa rin. anyways, if ever po na gusto ninyong makausap si toti pls dont hesitate to call this number 533226479 you are always welcome po. hope to hear from you soon. God Bless po.
Hi sa lahat nang nakakakilala or mga friend ko, kumusta na kayo ngayon? mis ko na kayo, nga pala NOEMI BOCO malapit na kaming umuwi ni leany diyan gusto ka naming makita kasi mis ka na namin eh, and hopefully with our other classmates and friends before magkarun tayo nang reunion, lagi kaming nagtatawagan sa cp ni leany lagi kaming nagkkuwentuhan kung kumusta kana noems, and specially about our crushes, and speaking of that crushes ROBERTO “JUNJUN” TAYOTO kumusta kana nakakahiya mang aminin pero alam mo nagsisisi ako na binasted kita before, kasi para akong lukaret dito eh, pinagtatawanan na nga ako ni leans, kasi sabi ko sakanya namimis kita and feeling ko mas lalo akong nag kakacrush sayo ngaun, di ko nga maintidihan kong bat ngayon ko lang to na feel, bakit dati hindi?, malakas ang loob ko na sabihin to sayo kasi malayo ako diyan sa tanauan leyte and matagal tagal pa bago ako umuwi diyan, pero atleast diba kahit papano nalaman mo din, oh.., will anyways highways an2k na me, 2log na me, sna mbasa nyo 2, gudnyt sa inyong lahat lav u mwuaahhh………,,,,,,,,,,,,,
Dapat lang talaga na tapusin ang lahat ng mga sinumulan na mga trabaho bago matapos ang mandato ng alkalde!!!! Subalit kung di matatapos ang lahat ng mga yan e di nakapagtataka. Sakit na nila yan. ANG MAGSIMULA NG PAKITANG TAO.Pagkatapos e bahala na kayong maghirap at magmakaawa sa dakilang alkalde.
Natural na yang patapal -tapal sa mga kalsada upang ang kanyang mga bata-bata e laging me trabaho.Hindi bago yan.Walang katapusan yan!! At kaya di tinatapos yan upang masabi na di pinababayaan ang lugar na yon.E kung ginagawa bang congkreto ang mga kalsada e di natapos na ang pinutukang suliranin na yan!! Subalit kung gagawing congkreto ang mga kalsada e di na sila makakahingi ng salapi sa PROVINCIAL GOVERNMENT. AT PAG WALANG PEOPLE’S MONEY WALA RING “ALAM MO NA” ANG MGA POLITIKONG “MALILINIS ANG MGA PALAD”!!!
Kaya pacencia ka na lang sangkay.Magtiis na lang muna kayo sa “EYESORE” na sadyang di tatapusin (yata) ng administrasyon ng “DAKILANG ALKALDE” ng Tanauan!!! Kung bakit naman kasi ang chairman nyo ay ayaw umamen sa “DAKILANG ALKALDE”!!!! Pag umamen siya sa alkalde maaring masolve ang inyong suliranin!! Maaalis yang “INILAGAY NA PANGIT NA NAKIKITANG KATIBAYAN NG PAGIGING “DAKILA” ng ALKALDE!!!
O ALKALDE,WAG MONG SABIHIN NA DI MO ALAM ANG SINASABI NI EUGINE!!! ANG KATIBAYAN E NAKIKITA AT NARARAMDAMAN NG LAHAT NG TAGA DOON SA LUGAR NA YON!!! MAGKAROON KA NAMAN NG DAMDAMIN PARA SA MGA TAGA ROON NA DUMARANAS NG HIRAP DAHIL SA IYONG PAGBINGI-BINGIHAN AT PAGBULAG-BULAGAN!! GASTUSIN MO ANG SALAPI NG BAYAN AT MALAPIT KA NANG MAGTAMASA NG MGA NAIPON -MO!!!! O TALAGANG AYAW MONG TAPUSIN DAHIL AYAW UMAMEN SA YO ANG CHAIRMAN DOON!!!! MAGPAKATUTOO KA!!!
Mabuti naman at natunghayan mo ang aking posting!! Salamat sa wakas e malapit ko na ring malaman kung ano na ang mga nangyari sa aking mga kaibigan/kamaganakan. Higit sana na naging magaling kung sinabi mo kung sino ka!! Sino ka nga ba??
Ang tagal kong hinintay na me sumagot sa aking posting!! At SLN si SAMBANGGOY!! When you have the opportunity please include these next time you post something:
a) who you are,
b) who are your parents,
c) and what you know about the other CATANs (Estelito and Jose,still alive??)
d) and if you know Eduardo Aguipo ( only son of Endo and Yanang Aguipo) Magkapitbahay kami noong araw.Kamusta na kaya siya?? Meron pa ba siyang tricycle?? Ikamusta mo ako sa aking mga angkan!!
Bueno Sandi,I hope you get to the nearest cyber shop to check on this site.Keep on communicating with me!! How are you and the whole nice people in our sulod?? Kamusta na ang paaralan at simbahan diyan?? Sigue pa rin ba ang pagbaha kung tagulan?? I miss you all!! Thank you!! Give me a yell - soon!! O.K.?? Bye!
Magandang araw po ulit sa inyo. Kumusta po kau? Dito sa amin ay maaus namn po. malaki na po ang ipinagbago ng ating barangay kung makakadalaw po kau dto talagang mamangha po kau sa laki ng ipinagbago nito una po ang ating simbahan ay fully furnished na po with tiles pa po yan this fiesta lang po yan natapos , ung paaralan namn po ay mg bago na rin kasi kung hnd mo nabalitaan nun nasira kasi ito dahil sa lakas ng bagyo ilang taon na po ang nakararaan pro ngaun lahat ay bago na. ang hnd lang po nababago ay ung pagbaha sa lugar natin sa twing bumabagyo. sina tay estilito namn at si tay jose ay malakas pa po at buhay na buhay pa ganun dn po sina eduardo aguipo meron pa po silang tricycle ganun dn ang mga anak nya pro mdyo nagretiro na rin sa pagpapasada si eduardo ung mga anak na nya ung sumunod sa kanya. ako nga po pala ay anak ni toti catan kaya po nung mabasa ko ung posting mo kahapon at kinukumusta mo pamilya namin ay nag atubili po agad ako na ireply kayo.pasensya na po natagalan po may magreply sayo kasi kahapon ko nga lang po nabasa yong posting nyo. syanga po pala nasan po ba kau at sino din po kayo para maikumusta ko po kayo dto sa lugar natin. God Bless po.
Thank you very for responding right away. Thanks for everything!! For some reasons I can’t answer some of your questions at this moment. As to my whereabouts,I live in a country where there are few Pinoys (yet) and we are 9 hrs. behind. At present I reside in the house of the HONORARY CONSUL of the Philippines.The family is Pinoy. No I ain’t related with them.They just want me staying with them.’Cause like I said above ” there are few Pinoys in these remote (from Pinas) country.It is a beautiful country!!!
So here my communication with you stops.Regards to all of you!! I miss our place.Someday (if I’m still alive) I might be back!! Again my thanks!!
Ba’t ganun ang style ng iyong pagsusulat. Animoy nag-tetext ka!! Anyways it is nice to hear from you.By the way how was the town feast celebration?? Miss ko rin yon!!
Congratulations to Hasmin Avila and Darwin Bibar. May you have a successful marriage life. God bless always.
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Happy 73rd Birthday to Nanay Peying Lanza Barairo…greetings coming from Bernard Lanza Barairo and family
Also, Welcome Home to Ate Flor Lanza of San Roque, Tanauan whose coming this July from France. Have nice vacation!
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Hello po sa Cijas Family ng Brgy. Licod Tanauan, Leyte……
Miss you all mga kapamilya…
Regards also to all my friends there, Ada Lauzon, Rose Ann Rivera, Rona Navarro, Ryan Cayobit, Jericho Baluyot……at sa lahat ng mga classmates ko before sa Tanauan I Central School batch 2002….miss you all friends!
Hope maka punta ako dyan this coming fiesta!
God bless!
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Hello to Kuya Michael Cijas, Marvin Cijas, Mary Ann, Melanie, Jing-jing pati kan Mama og papa dida ha Tanauan…
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Regards din po sa lahat ng mga taga brgy. Licod….
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congrat’s leo and dariel
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Hi to Cesar Garcia..mag pa abat kana man…
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hello Bundu….
baga busy gud ak didi ha huron pagtinambayon yana…. hehehe
maupay ngadi….baga dire gud ak stressed…sige la tagay-tagay hin tuba….hapit na patron didi ha Tanauan…kitakits nala kita didi….
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mapatron na dida ha TANAUAN, ano it mga happenings dida? para kami makakita.
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binirahay naman hit mga happenings dida ha tanauan, pagkakaliwas damo it nagpapa san miguel. hala daw check niyo it death statistics ha munusipyo kun ano nga bulan it damo it nagpapa san miguel ma tigo la ako, bangin mayo, agosto o diri ngani enero.
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hain ka na cesar?
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How come, this supposedly “town’s website” had turned into a more like personal page. What should be in it, would be ALL ABOUT TANAUAN. I’d personally say the website had drastically change from good to bad. Its not because the design is less glamorous. But if you would look more at its contents, its not that interesting. What’s the purpose of the website in the first place? especially for a town?. I pressume you had seen other websites, especially those catering local news. i know tanauan always have reports (i.e. police reports), those REAL news and not weddings for heaven’s sake. To the creator you can do better, to the writers write something with sense. If tanauan is a town of intellectuals, how come it doesnt show in your works. if you are proud of your establishments, those so called bars and cafe’s of yours where are the pics? the webpage before, as far as i can remember had a lot more to offer than this. So whoever is the head in charge of this, please do think well, think better. You wouldnt be put in your position for nothing right?
i did not write down this comment only to criticize others work, its my way of helping you folks. if you cant see the mistakes yourselves, i hope other people’s opinion would open your eyes. Be more creative, put page for prospective business investors, Sports, local news, and about interesting stories in every place within the town or other neighboring towns. give ‘US’ (the visitors of the page) something to keep on coming and visiting to your website. be creative, and have an eye for INTERESTING and SENSIBLE stories.
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of course, amo ito it panuyo hini nga website. nagkakaproblema la kita yana hit mga writers kay baga busy hit ira mga trabaho. Puros iton hira pro-bono ngatanan. The Tanauan Bar and Cafes didto hit About Us nga link (Tanauan Directory) dire pa ito hiya human. Kagabi pa la ito gintikangan. Hulat hulat la, mahuhuman gihap ito ngatanan.
Kun mayda ha iyo makakag contribute hin mga artikulo parte han Tanauan, igpadara la nganhi ha info@tanauanleyte.com ig upod it iyo ngaran. Or bisan it aadto ha abroad, parehas ha imo, pwede nimo ig istorya it kinabuhi nim ngada ha Belgium para didto hit mga tikaradto pa la ha abroad makakasabot na. Hinaut unta nga makaghatag ka gihap tim parte ngadto hit Tanauan. Maupay nga adlaw ha iyo ngatanan.
culver.
culver@tanauanleyte.com
(632) 339-1301
YM | bluefirmament
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i so agree with andy to feature “real, sensible and interesting” events that a tanauananon would actually benefit and enjoy, and would make them feel “not far away from home”. i would like to emphasize on the pictures posted in the gallery, if you may. it would have been better to see pictures of the skimboarding events rather than seeing somebody’s wedding photos plastered on this website. after all, this is not a friendster account where you can view personal photos/events.
i hope you would consider my suggestion/opinion. thank you.
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Doha, Qatar is one of the fastest growing city in the Gulf Region with GDP growth of 20% every quarter. Natural resources in Qatar is LNG (Liquified Nitrogen Gas) exported to Industrialized Countries Japan, China, Korea,US,UK, etc. one of the 10 richest industrialized countries in the world.
Doha, Qatar sponsored 16th ASIAN Games last Dec. 2006. Participated by 30,000 Athletes, Journalist, and visitors and dignataries.
Doha, Qatar Total populations is 800,000 thousands only and 70% are foriegners. (Filipinos,Indians,Nepali,Sri Lanka,Bangladesh,Pakistanis,and neighbor Arab countries.
Qatari citizens are very friendly to filipinos….they love working with the filipinos as well as the other nationality because we are all very friendly, very professional, work hard, dedicated, loyal to our employer and honest. OFW in Doha, Qatar is already jumped to 90,000 this year.
It akon la advice ha mga taga-tanauan (bung-to hin kamag-araman) take this oppurtunity to look for a job in Doha, Qatar. Professional, skilled and non-skilled is very in demand now in Doha, Qatar.
Tips: Mas maupay kun may ada niyo kakilala didto kay para deritso it iyo pag apply by applying visit visa. tapos adto na kamo magbibiling hin employer na iyo karuyag. Imagine? 100 high rise buildings and towers it under constructions yana. third largest airport in the world “reclaimed island” guin aayad yana. damo nga malls durungan nga magaabri yana nga tuig ug next year, Hotels….kay guin promote man nira an tourism…
Mga taga-tanauan…damo it professionals denhi…take this oppurtunity…ayaw paghulat hit swerte kay guin bibiling gihap iton hiya.
Para ha akon? usa na ako nga successful OFW na kumadto ha Qatar, Salit kamo try niyo pagtrabahi didto especially adto nga mga skilled workers? welders, auto mechanic, carpenter, pipe fitter, etc…try na kamo pag apply…ayaw ka discourage…tanan kita may paglaom ngan maupay nga kinabubuwason nga naghuhulat didto.
Qatar is islamic country. pero medyo open hira and they respect our religion and may-ada kita catholic church didto. puede guihap kamo mag disco, mag inom pero ayaw hin sobra…hehehe….baka maubos it iyo sweldo hit bisyo…hehehe…
madagmit la ako makontak ha Qatar…0974-4588684, 09746796428, or kadto la kamo ha Public Bus Station kun may ada kamo mga problema didto. or puede kamo kumadto ha POLO-OWWA kay kilala man ako didto.
ROLANDO ESPADA TANIG
SHIFT CONTROLLER (MINISTRY OF EDUCATION)
MASS TRANSIT DEPT.
MOWASALAT TRANSPORT CO.
DOHA, QATAR
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balit waray na ini upay dapat kanan mga kasal nala ini nga website. makarawod la…
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Ha akon la….
Baga di ko man maraut nga mayda mga pictures hin kasal ini nga website. Maupay ngani kay nahababaro ak kun anu na it mga bag o nga happenings. Labis na nga baga tuminongnong man ghap ini hira hit Tanauan. In fact it makes it more interesting kasi diri la write ups on events ha Tanauan it anhi kundi pati na ghap people.
I sympathize with the situation nga kay pro bono la it mga writers waray kita masyado nga nakikita nga write ups yana since busy it writers hit ira work. Instead of criticizing, we may as well do our share on the improvement of this site. Also, we should thank Culver, for coming up with this site. From what I heard it is all his personal expense. Just so people from around the world who were once residents of Tanauan, Leyte could have a venue where they could share what’s happening in Tanauan, Leyte. In all honesty, I think it has benefited us in a lot of ways.
Tama na kita hito nga aton crab mentality….waray kita papaun hanan hito.
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i would like to clear that our intention is not to criticize but to give honest opinion and suggestion. its not even being ungrateful because participating and sharing views on this blogsite is one way of appreciating the efforts of the people behind this. im sure culver and all the others are open and will consider suggestions if its for the improvement of this website. so rule out the “crab mentality” mentioned about.
anyway, we are looking forward to seeing pictures and write-ups of the upcoming fiesta. thank you again and god bless.
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Atty. HASMIN AVILA-BIBAR is one of our writer in this blogsite. She fairly deserved to be featured here. I am Friendster and MySpace addict and i will tell you honestly, its totally different. By the way, do you have a friendster account? Please invite me. Thank you.
My Best Regards to all SPAWNorg people out there! Ano it acitivities naton yana nga patron? Kitakits na la kita!
Let’s move forward… Ipadayon Tanauan!
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Thanks for the information… Mabuhay kayong mga OFW.
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It seems we are ungrateful for having this website posted for everybody’s interest. Sarah & Culver Songalia did a wonderful job in creating this website for people of intellect to interact in order to build a bridge for a brighter future. Atty. Hasmin Avila & Mr. Bibar has entered into another stage in life. They need a bridge to cross into another stage in life (hypothetical); hence, they need our prayers and support in any way we can to help their sacrament of marriage succeed. Please let us not spoil their happiness. I congratulate Atty. Hasmin Avila and her husband. I wish and pray for their continued health & happiness in life. Bon voyage and fasten your seat belt for bumpy rides. Welcome to the married life. William Shakespeare once said, “Men are April when they woe; December when they wed; maids are May when they are maids; but the sky changes when they are wives”.
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Hi Ronald thanks for the infos. i know your brother Roger,mag classmate kmi ha elem. ok unta ito pro depende hiton placement fee. myda kba kilala na employer didto? kay it problema wray nam kilala didto except kun myda tga tanauan like you.
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agi man hi culver napa-add la ngay-an ha friendster & myspace, hahahaha. joke la balit.
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am serious! !!!!!! anyways mauli kami ha tanauan yana nga patron. we will do our best nga makakuha kami mag upay nga scope. happy fiesta!
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ok culver,maupay unta kun may video pra ok ghap.
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Hello guys!
Dito me sa Tanauan ngayon…
Masaya ang plaza every night ha!
God bless to all!
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salamat po sa lahat…….
Happy Fiesta!
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oi klasmeyt, harayo ka naman ngayan… pira naman im asawa,,,,,, aw anak
ngayan…… gudman pa’ano pag apply ngada…. ano it mga work nga pwede hit mga girls? okey ba it compensation….. hehehe kadamo nga paki-ana…..
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HAPPY FIESTA TO ALL….HAVE A MEANINGFUL FEASTIVITIES…ENJOY..
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Maupay nga may-ada kamo dida ha Tanauan website nga para kami nga mga harayo nakaka balita hit mga happenings dida. Adto nga mga na-awa han picture han kasal ni Hasmin pabay-i la iton hira kay siguro waray mga nawong na igpapakita ha retrato, mga awa-anon iton hira, labis na gud nga umangkon ko iton hi Hasmin beauty daw ano? Like Aunty like neice he he he… not joke its true. Let me know of more happenings. The fiesta pictures was superb very colourful. Keep up the good work guys, Good luck
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I just want to comment to Andy, the pictures of the wedding isn’t that bad, Hasmin is one of the writer for this website, and she can be published on this as well, so stop your whinging, okey?
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Asya ngay an may i defend to the max to that pics. kay imo ngay an umangkon heeheh.
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Kumusta mga taga Tanauan ngan ha mga staff ha municipal office, most of all kay Mayor Roque Tiu. Keep up the excellent success!!!
Anyway, just wondering kon ano it upcoming event para pasko.
God Bless Tanauan & Tanauanons…
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Balita ko nag reunion an ASSAC batch 87 ha Bislig…maupay pa kamo permi nagkikirita…Hoping I can join next time..Welcome back home Mr. Gil Azucena..from Seatle…USA…
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hello mga taga TANAUAN nga anhi yana ha QATAR, RAMADAN KAREEM 2007….
huhuhuhu… Shhhhssssssss OT liwat 4hrs :d 
san-o daw la kita mg RAYHAK dinhe or mgkaurosa bisan manga-on la hin KUBOS ha Corniche. hehehehe
For sure ’til 2pm la it iba ha eu yna ha trabho kay Ramadan…masaya! per kmi 8am-6pm
ngay-an mga sangkay akon mobile no. 5650230
bangin la myda maaghat (INSHA ALLAH) amo ine tak contact no. heheheh
RAMDAN KAREEM……
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kay ano nga waray ha list of school it KILING NATIONAL HIGH SCHOOL(KNHS)? Kindly indicate the name of school of each photos of PASAKA Festival.Thanks..GOD BLESS
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OBITUARIES:
for those who know Pedro Cinco of Village B UP Campus, he has passed away yesterday 30 September 2007. the wake is being held at sanctuary in araneta avenue.
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you’re right with that, hehehe. blood is thicker than water. tagi la hin chance.
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We would like to encourage everyone to join and participate on Tanauan Leyte Forum. Registration is *Free*… we’d like to hear from you.
Thanks and Mabuhay Tanauan!
Url: http://www.tanauanleyte.com/forum/
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HALLOOOOOOOOOOOO.
WARAY ENGKANTO NGA NALABAY DINHI? MINGAW MAN
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Hi kumusta to Nanay and Christine Pedrosa from United Kingdom from Robert
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vote for Tanauan, Leyte website
register first @
http://www.philippinewebawards.com
online voting for Tenth Philippine Web
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deadline set at midnight on November 22
Mabuhay Tanauan!
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hi,
anybody in the house have contact with jonjo mazo and nhel cañete? i’d appreciate it very much if you could give my regards.
thanks a lot.
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ngadto ini nga pangumusta han familia Algo-Avila (han Bo. Suhi), ug Tanauan/ kumusta Pette Avila, kakan-o an aton katapusan nga pagkita, ipangumusta ako ngadto han iba nimo nga mga kabugtu-an, & parents, ug kapaturan didto ha Bo. Suhi, upda hi Aua and family, hi Jaime and Jamie & family, tiya Cresing, tiya Conching han Bacuto, Sagcahan, hi Gerry, mano Boy, mana Laidita, luyo han Redemptorist Church, hi
Bella Mausisa and family ug an iba pa nga mga kapaturan, kumusta. ayaw isalikway an mangumpisal, labi na kay an pasko harani na, ug ha tinood nga istorya, an kinabuhi han tawo, diri pirmi aada han lugar. talagsa la baya ako maghatag hin maupay nga sagdon. Maupay nga Pasko ha iyo nga tanan.
an iyo patod nga may ada magbarantay
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Hello, ha ma nga taga barangay cabuynan tanauan,,,,AZUCENA family,esp. to tiyo celes,tiyo pakeng,tiyo yube. from tinang costa mesa ca.
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Hello,
Gusto ko lang malaman ang tungkol sa brgy clinic or tanauan clinic,why
is it that always no medicine in our clinic,saan napupunta ang mga
gamot?kawawa naman ang mga taga tanauan,kahit gamot nawawala.
those medecine asan na,nasa kamay na ba ng mga politicians dyan o
tinatago mismo ng naka assign na doctor. hindi ko ma ubos maisip na palaging walang gamot,di ba may supply ang tanauan.Pls mayor paki asikaso lang grabing kawawa ang mga taga tanauan na hindi nakaka afford ng pagbili ng gamot,specially the needy.I am sure na ang may kagagawan ay ang mga naka assign dyan,i hope na ma bigyan ng time ang tanauan clinic.
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MAUPAY NGA PASKO HA ATON NGA TANAN NGAN MAINUSWAGON NGA BAG-O NGA TUIG!!!
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MERRY CHRISTMAS AND A PROSPEROUS NEW YEAR TO ALL…
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looking for anyone with last name Oronos, my father just passed away I just want the family to know my Dad frist name is Emerito.
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Salamalaikom! Bon Jour!
Happy New Year 2008 to each and everyone…
Welcome to a brand NEW YEAR with loads of GOOD wishes and cheers!
Greeting you with my heartiest NEW YEAR WISHES!
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I was given a gift to communicate with poor souls in Purgatory. There is one who said, that he was a retired engineer from the Department of Public Works and Highways, but he was assigned to work in the office, that, he said, he was married to a Juana (Joann), and that, he and his wife had four children, that, the youngest, attended its high school in DWU (1990) and said youngest met a girl, Erlinda. Are the Aduanos family related to the Oronos? If you’re looking for some Oronos’ relatives, ask anyone from Barugo. The Oronos mostly from Catanduanes, and others, have gone to settle in Barugo. Sorry to hear in the passing of your dad. You can pray one Our Father to your dad every 10th of the month.
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I’m looking for the family/relatives of my father, Camilo M. Jacer, Jr.
I know they are from Tanauan, Leyte but i don’t know where exactly they lived. Appreciate it you can help me find them.
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Happy New Year to the Villegas family (Kenneth, please tell your Dad. Thanks.)
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hi..just want to congratulate the winners of the skimboarding competition( especially, LEO ESPADA,)anyway the event was indeed great..GOOD JOB ORGANIZERS.. i do hope that this easter sunday the event will be continued..let’s not wait 4 december..
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Maupay nga oras ha iyo ngatanan.
Is it possible for Tanauananons nga may mga negosyo to post their vacant positions para naman baga makabulig kita hit aton mga kasi taga tanauan nga makatrabaho. Siguro if possible usa hit mga navigation tabs hine nga website will be dedicated to careers for those looking for employment.
Thank you!
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just want to greet my batchmates in tanauan national high school batch 2000. this is your president. you can contact me @ 09184068227 or 09223581725. keep in touch guys!
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Yeah. will do.. soon!
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Yeah. will do.. soon! Thanks for the nice suggestion.
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Is there a Christopher Jacer among the Jacer family in Tanauan? It was said that there was a Bo. Palompon and the reason as to why it was named Bo. Palompon, was because, the first settlers, came from Palompon, Leyte. You might find some cousins in Palompon, Leyte. Second, is there a Monsanto in the Jacer family? Other brgys., probably have a
Rosario Jacer, an older cousin of the Jacer family.
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10 Foreign Nurses Charged For Walking Off Job..New York, USA
TO ALL TANAUANANONS:
LET US SHOW OUR DEEPEST SINCERITY TO ONE OF THE VICTIMS OF THIS CRISIS BY MEANS OF OFFERING A PRAYERS.
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“We’re on our last hope of the American dream,” cried former Sentosa nurse HARRIET AVILA, who was also criminally charged along with 9 others who resigned after working months under violated contracts and subject to abusive conditions.”
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LET US ALL PRAY FOR JUSTICE!
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kamusta na po….
regards to central grad, batch 2002…
-mark here!
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My beloved Tanauanons / Tanauanenos:
Leo’s Grill & Cafe-TANAUAN located at Real St., Buntay, will soon celebrate its first year anniversay this coming April 08,2008. We offer 20% sales discounts on FOOD (Drinks not included) from April 01 to 10, 2008. We also serve beer and ladies drink with a choice of our chicken, pork barbecue and grilled seafoods. Tea, coffee and juices are also available.
For catering, reservations and inquiries, please dial 053-322-4367 and look for Mana Betty.
Best regards,
leo
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Do I have same name of LEO ESPADA (winner of skimboarding competition) ???? Sino siya????. I am here in Riyadh, KSA working as an external auditor.
I just wonder why I have a similar name, Please let me know the name of your dad.
Kind regards,
leo espada jr.
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Dearest Tanauanons / Tanauanenos:
Leo’s Fashion House-(Gown for Rent) will soon to open this coming first week of February 2008. For your gown or formal wear requirements please visit us at the 2nd Floor of Omena’s residence or call 053-322-4367.
Various colors, designs and sizes are available with an affordable rent which ranges from P100 to P300 for kids, and P300 to P600 for adult.
Best regards,
leo
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hi..rachel kay here..hope u remeber me..
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my dad’s name is alejandro espada..i am alfreeda’s son..
it’s nice that i have come to know you..hehe..
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I wonder if anyone knows of Margie Songalia, who went to
New Jersey, to work as a Nurse, where can i write to her. I remember her sending me a one US dollar bill years ago. How often Margie would visit Tanauan, would anyone know? Does she works as a Nurse at New Jersey Memorial Hospital? She can write to me through this e-mail address: thenita2wad@yahoo.ca
Hello to the City Health Offce personnel, Bebing, may patod ka nga Edgar it ngaran, who was in the Middle East in year 1999, Agnes, who is Cynthia Tingzon, is there a Conchita Santiago in your family of relations? You told me of this info in 2006 through a very extraordinary manner of communication. You were connected to me by my Guide that’s why, there was a conversation that went through the mind. All of you be good.
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Hi Leo,
I have investigated thru my contacts ate rita osmena and benjie espada, ikaw nga iyon kapareho tayo ng name (my nickname LEO with same family name ESPADA).
I knew your eldest brother caloy and the next stephen, bata ka pa yata when I migrated to Manila, then to Riyadh, KSA.
Hope to see you when Im back home to Tanauan, pagbutihin mo pa with your chosen craft. Si Dave Daboque pala ang iyong skimboard GURO. Pls extend my warm regards to him bcoz he knows me.
God bless.
leo espada
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My dear Tanauanons / Tanauanenos:
To those who can’t afford to buy new gown or formal wear with your forthcoming JS PROM and Graduation Ball (High School and College), LEO’S FASHION HOUSE-GOWN FOR RENT is now open for business, because the shipment was already received last January 25, 2008. Affordable rent is being offered to suit your budget to enable us to help you in your school activities.
Please contact Roger Osmena of mother Reming Osmena at 053-322-4367.
Best regards,
leo espada
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What’s the status of the new municipal building? nahuman na ba?
Can anyone post the latest pictures? thanks.
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Is this certain Camilo B. Jacer already passed away? I’ve got folks in town who has the same last name, I can possibly inquire.
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Lady,
Your headline of “10 Foreign Nurses Charged For Walking Off Job in New York” is disturbing, if it were true. I live in Maryland and I have not heard anything at all about this news. My wife and I are both nurses and work in the management position. We receive monthly subscription of Nurses’ magazines and I have never read an article describing what you have just disclosed. Don’t get me wrong; I do not doubt your sincere intention but prayers alone without action is futile. Do you know which hospital is this in New York? Are these foreign nurses Filipinos? What were the reasons leading to the ten foreign nurses’ walk-outs? Do you know that there are plenty of Filipino nurses living in New Jersey and New York area who could help them present their issues to the State Board? We also have the Tanauan Association in the east coast who are united and always ready to lend support when needed. I know that there are shortages of nurses throughout United States but forcing foreign contract nurses to work beyond what is required by law is illigal.
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it is indeed true and its surprising that you haven’t heard of this. i first saw the article in the phil. daily inquirer about the plight of the said nurses. their legal battle is not over yet. they’re down to 10 criminally charged because of walking off from their jobs thus endangering the lives of the patients. i believe they were deployed in substandard facilities and that several things on their contracts were not followed.
hope that ms. harriet avila would remain strong in facing this battle.
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Yes, my dad passed away 31 years ago due to a vehicular accident. He was very young back then. My mother told me that they were off to a company outing when the accident happen. Thanks for your help!
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http://decisions.courts.state.ny.us/…/006079-06.pdf
July 5, 2006
Accordingly, because plaintiffs have failed to make the requisite evidentiary showing entitlng them to the remedy of a preliminar injunction, the request for such relief is denied. (Sterline Fifth Associates v Carpentile Corp., Inc., 5 AD3d 328, 329, 774 NYS2d 140, 1 st Dept., 2004). The fact that the Philippine Overseas Employment Administration lifted an Order of Preventive Suspension which had suspended the license of Sentosa Recruitment Agency does not inure to plaintiffs’ benefit. The Order specifically recognizes the fact that, as US Immigrant Visa holders, the defendant Nurses rights are amply protected by the host governent from whom redress can be secured.
http://decisions.courts.state.ny.us/…/006079-06.pdf
November 21, 2006
Accordingly, the plaintiffs ‘ motion to dismiss the Vinluan counterclaim is granted.
Turning now to the defendant nurses ‘ individual counterclaims for fraud…the plaintiffs ‘ motion is granted.
http://decisions.courts.state.ny.us/…/006079-06.pdf
December 12, 2006
Respective motions, by defendants Juno Healthcare Staffing Systems, Inc. and Cecile Jaoy (CPLR 3212) and by defendant Felix Q. Vinlaun (CPLR 3211(a)(7), to dismiss the complaint as to said defendants are granted as to defendants Juno Healthcare Staffing Systems , Inc. and Cecile Jaoy and denied as to defendant Felix Q. Vinlaun for the reasons set forth below.
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…Undoubtedly there is a difference between merely advising a client on the legal aspects of an employment agreement and becoming directly involved in inducing a group of nurses to breach their contracts with plaintiff. Whether plaintiffs are able to prevail on their tortious interference cause of action against defendant Vinlaun is an open question. At this juncture, however, the cause of action is sufficiently pleaded to withstand defendant Vinlaun s CPLR 3211 (a)(7) motion.
The respective motions by defendant Juno Healthcare Staffing Systems, Inc. and Cecile Jayo for summary judgment dismissing the complaint as to said defendants are granted there being no opposition thereto submitted by plaintiffs and no legal basis to sustain the claims asserted against them.
http://decisions.courts.state.ny.us/…006079-06a.pdf
December 19, 2006
The motions, by defendants Juno Healthcare Staffing Systems, Inc. and Cecile Jayo, are hereby withdrawn.
The motion, by defendant Felix Q. Vinlaun (CPLR 3211(a)(7), to dismiss the complaint is denied for the reasons set forth below.
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It is well settled that an agent cannot be held liable for inducing his principal to breach a contract with a third person, at least where he is acting on behalf of his principal and within the scope of his authority. (Hussie v Bressler, 122 AD2d 113, 114, 2 d Dept., 1986). The mere fact, however, that one is an attorney acting in a professional capacity does not make him/her absolutely immune from responsibilty for wrongful acts. An attorney may be personally liable to a third person who sustains an injury as a consequence of an attorney s wrongful act or improper exercise of authority where the attorney is guilty of fraud or collusion or of a malicious or tortious act. (Hahn v Wylie 54 AD2d 629, t Dept., 1976).
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Undoubtedly there is a difference between merely advising a client on the legal aspects of an employment agreement and becoming directly involved in inducing a group of nurses to breach their contracts with plaintiff. Whether plaintiffs are able to prevail on their tortious interference cause of action against defendant Vinlaun is an open question. At this juncture, however, the cause of action is sufficiently pleaded to withstand defendant Vinlaun’s CPLR 3211(a)(7) motion.
The respective motions by defendant Juno Healthcare Staffing Systems, Inc. and Cecile Jayo for summary judgment dismissing the complaint as to said defendants are withdrawn by reason of the discontinuance of the action against the defendant Juno and the withdrawal of the motion by the defendant Jayo for the purposes of making a motion for the same relief on behalf of several of the nurse defendants, including this defendant Jayo.
http://decisions.courts.state.ny.us/…/006079-06.pdf
January 5, 2007
This motion, by plaintiffs, for an order pursuant to CPLR 2221 to reargue their prior motion for a preliminary injunction, is granted and upon reargument the court adheres to its decision dated July 5, 2006.
Pursuant to the order of this court dated July 5, 2006, plaintiffs ‘ motion for a preliminary injunction enjoining the defendants from soliciting or advising any employees under contract with plaintiffs to termnate their employment before the end of their contract terms and from entering the premises at which plaintiffs operate was denied.
This action arises from the purportedly abrupt resignation of 25 nurses, and one physical therapist, from their positions at various skilled nursing facilities owned and operated by plaintiffs as a result of which the health, safety and welfare of many elderly, infirm non-ambulatory patients (including children in the pediatric vent unit) were purportedly put at serious risk.
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Plaintiffs ‘ motion to reargue is predicated on the grounds that this court misunderstood or overlooked plaintiffs’ contention that they are likely to prevail on their breach of contract claim inasmuch as each of the contracts between the defendant nurses and plaintiffs expressly provide that:
(tJhe employee agrees to be employed by the Employer under the terms of this contract for three full years from
his/her first date of employment.
Since the defendant nurses never disputed this fact, and given that each had promised not to
engage in the practice of nursing, or in any other occupation for any other company, facility, hospital, entity or private individual during the term of their employment with plaintiffs,”
plaintiffs maintain they are entitled to sue the defendant nurses for breach of contract and are likely to prevail on that claim. With respect to the tortious interference claim asserted against defendant Felix Q. Vinluan, plaintiffs allege that 1) in persuading the defendant nurses to leave plaintiffs ‘ employ; 2) having them quit without giving notice; and 3) in coordinating the timing of twenty-six resignations, defendant Vinluan s conduct exceeded the passive role of attorney/advisor resulting in considerable disruption to plaintiffs and the patients in their care.
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In the absence of any showing that the defendants have entered plaintiffs premises and/or entreated additional personnel under contract with plaintiffs to terminate their employment before the end of their contract terms, injunctive relief does not lie and plaintiffs ‘ application must be denied.
http://decisions.courts.state.ny.us/…/006079-06.pdf
February 28, 2007
This motion, by defendant nurses (with the exception of Arlyn Torrena) and the sole physical therapist (Dondon Parungao) (collectively the nurses), to dismiss the breach of contract claim asserted against said defendants pursuant to CPLR 3211(a)(7) and for summary judgment against plaintiffs on movants’ counterclaim for actual , compensatory and punitive damages is denied.
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Further, the fact that plaintiffs fail to attached copies of the agreement upon which the action is based to the complaint is not a fatal defect requiring dismissal of the complaint and that part of defendants ‘ motion to dismiss is denied.
the news articles are not giving a clear picture of the case.
I thank you for the information. It seems this is a long battle and even politicians are getting involved.
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Attorney Faces Criminal Charges After Clients Quit Their Nursing Jobs
Prosecutor says lawyer was indicted along with his clients because he did more than just advise them of their rights
Vesselin Mitev
New York Law Journal
February 27, 2008
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A lawyer who advised 10 nurses that they were free to quit their jobs at a Long Island nursing facility now faces 13 criminal charges as a result of the nurses’ walkout — a prosecution his supporters say could have a chilling effect on attorneys who represent workers in labor disputes.
“I am really surprised that I am a defendant in this criminal case,” Manhattan-based Felix Q. Vinluan, 43, said during a recent interview, his voice cracking with emotion. “I was just doing my job.”
However, the Suffolk County district attorney’s office claims that the nurses endangered five chronically ill children and one terminally ill man when they left their posts without giving sufficient notice to administrators to find replacements.
Assistant District Attorney Leonard Lato said in an interview that Vinluan was indicted along with his clients because he did more than just advise his clients of their rights.
“Mr. Vinluan was an active participant in soliciting [the nurses] to do what they did,” Lato said in an interview. “If all Mr. Vinluan did was advise, rather than ‘encourage,’ he wouldn’t have been charged.”
On April 5, 2006, at the request of the Philippine consulate, he met with nurses who had been working for Avalon Gardens Rehabilitation and Health Care Center in Smithtown. The facility is one of a group of nursing homes operated by SentosaCare, which actively recruits nurses in the Philippines. Vinluan is a naturalized U.S. citizen who emigrated from the Philippines in 1996 and was admitted to the New York Bar in 1998.
The nurses, who had been in the country since 2005, complained to Vinluan about substandard pay, shabby living conditions, changes in work assignments and other violations of their three-year contracts.
“I advised them they could resign if they wanted to as their contracts were already breached,” said Vinluan. “I told them ‘you are at-will employees and you can be terminated at any time, [so] in the same way you can terminate your employment.’”
“He adamantly denies telling them to resign,” said Oscar Michelen, a partner at Sandback, Birnbaum & Michelen in Mineola, N.Y., who is representing Vinluan. “He told them they could resign.”
Three of the nurses named in the indictment — Harriet Avila, Claudine Gamiao and Juliet Anilao — also denied in an interview that Vinluan encouraged them to quit.
“He just told us our rights,” said Anilao, who works at Parkway Hospital in Queens along with Gamiao and Avila. “When we came here we didn’t even know what rights we had.”
According to the district attorney’s office, on April 6, Vinluan filed a discrimination complaint on behalf of the nurses against Avalon Park and SentosaCare at the U.S. Department of Justice in Washington, D.C. Late in the afternoon of April 7, the nurses who had met with Vinluan submitted their resignations.
In September 2006, the state Education Department, after two hearings, rejected SentosaCare’s complaints that the nurses had abandoned patients. According to The New York Times, a Health Department review concluded in January that shifts had been covered.
Nevertheless, on March 22, 2007, a grand jury indicted Vinluan for participating in a conspiracy to obtain “alternative employment” for his clients and a release from their three-year commitment “without incurring a financial penalty of $25,000″ provided in their contracts for breaching the agreement.
Vinluan and the nurses each were charged with a single count of conspiracy in the sixth degree, five counts of endangering the welfare of a child, and six counts of endangering the welfare of a physically disabled person.
In addition, Vinluan was charged with solicitation in the fifth degree. That offense is aimed at defendants who, with intent that another person commit a crime, “solicits, requests, commands, importunes or other attempts” to cause that person to commit the crime.
If convicted of the charges, all misdemeanors, defendants face a maximum penalty of one year in jail. Vinluan and the nurses also could lose their licenses.
BREACH OF DUTY?
Lato said that the nurses “had every right to quit their jobs, but when you are a nurse or a doctor you owe the patients just a little bit more,” he said.
He acknowledged no one was injured as a result of the resignations. But he said that the abrupt resignations set off a four-hour period of “panic and scrambling” as administrators tried to find replacements to cover the shifts of the 10 nurses.
Initially, Lato said he did not believe the case merited an indictment.
He said that he interviewed Vinluan and several of the nurses, and “they seemed like hardworking, good people,” he said. But “when I went into the nursing facility and I saw the children — I’d never seen children on ventilators — my feelings changed about the case,” he added.
After that, Lato said he decided to leave it up to a grand jury to determine if the mass resignations represented a crime or a labor dispute. He asked the grand jurors to determine whether the nurses had a duty to the patients and whether they “put people in danger” by breaching that duty. They answered in the affirmative.
Simply giving more notice would have avoided charges altogether, he said. “Twenty-four-hour notice would have been more than sufficient — even 9 a.m, that morning,” he said. “Whatever the dispute was there was a collateral consequence to what they did.”
Both the nurses and Vinluan filed motions to dismiss. The nurses’ attorney, James O. Druker’s Kase & Druker, argued that the criminal charges violated the 13th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution, which prohibits slavery and indentured servitude.
“I never thought that in all my years of practicing law I would use the 13th Amendment to argue a labor dispute,” Druker said. “I have no doubt that even if the nurses resigned in concert, as the D.A. says, that is not a crime, there is no crime here — the obligation to properly staff the facility is on the facility.”
However, Supreme Court Justice Robert W. Doyle, in a Sept. 28 decision, rejected that argument.
“Under no view of the facts of this case could it be said that the People were seeking to compel defendants continued employment by any particular entity,” wrote the judge in People v. Jacinto, Indictment No. 00769-07. Rather, he held that there was “sufficient evidence” to conclude that the nurses should be charged with “specific crimes for the actions taken by them, en masse, at a time when they were entrusted with the care of certain physically disabled children.”
In a separate motion to dismiss the charges against Vinluan, Michelen argued that there was insufficient evidence to demonstrate that Vinluan intended to endanger someone’s welfare.
However, the judge said the indictment against the attorney was backed by “ample evidence.”
“While a nurse may, oftentimes, have a right to unilaterally resign from his or her position of employment, the actions of these defendants, acting together with forethought and planning, was not a simple resignation from a nursing position,” wrote the judge in People v. Vinluan, Indictment No. 00769A-07, noting that the resignations “could have had disastrous consequences.”
The trial has been scheduled for April 28. To prevent it from going forward, Michelen planned to file Tuesday with the Appellate Division, 2nd Department, a writ of prohibition under Article 78 of the CPLR. He claims in the petition that the nurses’ actions were part of a labor dispute over which the National Labor Relations Board has sole jurisdiction.
POLITICAL INFLUENCE?
Vinluan said he believes he has been targeted by a company that cannot afford to lose its pool of Filipino nurses. In total, 37 nurses quit their jobs at SentosaCare facilities on April 6 and April 7, although only 10 face criminal charges. And he claims that the case has been tainted by the political influence of the nursing homes’ owners.
“What better way to stop other nurses than having their lawyer silenced by being made a party defendant,” he said. “It is just unfortunate that politicians have become complicit participants in these unethical recruiting practices.”
Both Druker and Michelen have asked New York Gov. Eliot Spitzer to appoint a special prosecutor in the case. In support of that request, Michelen pointed to what he called a “secret meeting” between Suffolk County District Attorney Thomas J. Spota and SentosaCare’s attorney, Howard Fensterman, managing partner of Abrams, Fensterman, Fensterman, Eisman, Greenberg, Formato & Einiger in Lake Success.
“This took place a year after [the nurses] stepped down,” said Michelen. “There was no immoral conduct, no patient abandonment — we think political influence is what caused this investigation to occur.”
According to Newsday, SentosaCare partners, allied investors and Fensterman have donated $750,000 to Democratic and Republican campaign funds. Fensterman contributed $1,500 to Spota, the district attorney, in 2003.
Lato dismissed the suggestion that the prosecution represented political payback. He said that, as a public official, Spota often meets with attorneys.
“It happens all the time; it is commonplace [for Spota] to grant an audience,” he said.
Fensterman said that he had developed “some credibility” with the district attorney when he asked the prosecutor to look into another case. He said he had contacted Spota after the resignations to examine what he regarded as a “very serious” matter.
“When he listened to that story he said he would evaluate it and he would determine what he wanted to do,” he said. “The facts warranted a six-month investigation and they concluded that it warranted the impaneling of a grand jury and [Justice] Doyle found there was enough there to convict.”
SentosaCare is also seeking damages of at least $25,000 each from the 37 nurses who quit their jobs, including the 10 indicted defendants, who left their jobs with SentosaCare.
“The reason why the civil suit was brought is because the nurses abruptly walked out without notice placing all of these patients in danger — they all breached their contracts,” said Fensterman. “It was all orchestrated by the attorney Felix Vinluan; we believe his intention was to cripple the nursing home[s] by doing this in a 24-hour period.”
Fensterman charged that Vinuluan is “politically connected” in the Philippines and owns his own employment agency there. After the resignations, he said that Mr. Vinluan used his influence to orchestrate an investigation of his competitor, SentosaCare, which led to the suspension of its recruiting activities.
Sen. Charles Schumer, D-N.Y., wrote four letters to officials in the Philippines, including one to the country’s president, seeking a review of the suspension. That review cleared SentosaCare of any wrongdoing, said Fensterman. The suspension was lifted in June 2006.
Fensterman served as Schumer’s Long Island finance chairman in 2001 but called the notion that SentosaCare benefitted from political influence “frivolous.”
Vinluan said that he has an immigration consulting business in Manila but does not own any employment agencies in the Philippines. However, he said that he “might have incorporated companies in the Philippines where I might have been made a nominal owner/initial corporate secretary,” and those companies “might have done recruitment business without my knowledge.”
SUPPORT FOR DEFENDANT
Several groups, including the New York State Nurses’ Association, the Asian American Legal Defense and Education Fund and the New York State Defenders Association have expressed their support for the defendants and their request for a special prosecutor.
“It’s absolutely troubling,” said Kenneth Kimerling, the fund’s legal director, said in an interview of the charges against the attorney, “Lawyers are often asked to provide advice for clients about taking certain actions. It seems rather extreme in this case to go after an attorney who told his clients they had a rational legal basis to resign.”
The New York chapter of the National Employment Lawyers Association also recently submitted a petition to the governor backing a special prosecutor in the case.
“To the extent that a lawyer is being held criminally responsible for advising his clients to resign on a contract that was essentially breached by [Sentosa] is fairly outrageous,” said William D. Frumkin, a partner in White Plains-based Sapir & Frumkin, who heads the New York chapter.
Frumkin also noted that should inluan be convicted, “attorneys would have to be careful in choosing who they represent,” which would be “in opposition to people having a right to counsel.”
The governor’s office is reviewing the request for a special prosecutor, a spokesman said.
Meanwhile, Vinluan, who appeared at an interview in an olive green suit and a tie emblazoned with law books, said he has put his practice on hold until the case is settled.
“I would like to avoid a trial. I would like to take care of this criminal case. For me to start a practice now would be unfair to my clients.”
Vinluan, who said he underwent a quadruple-bypass shortly before the indictment, said his health is deteriorating as the trial date draws near.
Michelen predicted dire consequences should Vinluan be convicted.
“No one will ever give labor advice to health care workers again,” he said. “That’s not a grandiose statement — that is a fact.”
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Its AL NINA weather now. What is AL NINA weather? Where do names of the weather forecast come from? How many regions layers are there assigned in the Philippines? Ask the Dean of the Students, of Quezon College, if he still uses the ABC Fundamentals reference for teaching, and if the book has an explanation of the D Region Layers of the ionosphere, and tell him that, one former student (2000-2001), who was assigned for the first Chapter of the book, ABC Fundamental Teaching, for reporting, has an additional knowledge of wisdom, of the region layers of the ionosphere. In the book, it covers only the F2, F1, D, F4, and one. What is that one? That is why, when it rains too much, it floods, so, the only way to help the surroundings when it rains so hard, is to have the manholes fixed, so that the rain water will run through the culverts properly. And why it floods now in some areas, `kay nasamad kono an Earth’ when the crates plates were spotted. Maupay nga pamalandong yana nga semana santa ngadto han ngatanan.
The manholes around should really be fixed, so that, when it rains too much, the water will flow properly to the street roads drainage.
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God’s Gift Food Service
We accept catering services for all occassions. Please contact me at Dinlem Store which our family also own, located at Tanauan Public Market, near the office of the Market Administrator.
Imelda Maceda-Gerilla
Proprietor
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QUERY LA ABOUT ALUMNI HOMECOMING HIT TSCHI/LSSAT/LCAT/EVSU-TC KON HIN-O PWEDE MACONTACT BATCH ‘98?ANY ORGANIZER? DAMO NGA SALAMAT…
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how much will it cost for a mimimum of 50 pax?
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how bout if we rent for tables, chairs (including matress) & utensils only, how much will it cost?
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to all assumption academy alumni!!! its time to share our time and presence to this annual get-together
with our former high school classmates and friends, updating each others’ lives and recalling memories gone by….God bless
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what your purpose for looking into your father’s trancendence?? are you available to come anytime here in tanauan?
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binabati ko lng poh ung tga salvador-binongto-an ….
maupai nga piesta bah an naglabay>hehe
sgrado dw la kno mauran n lwat!hehe
hope nxtym dre nah!
see u soon guys…
kanda dante ngada,enggol,jammal,sidoy!
makan,taer,bong….
wazap nah?
hehe,,,amu la
bbow….
miz ko lah tanauan balit!
bye.ty
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Kinakamusta ko la an mga taga Malaguicay. San-o nga ba an celebracion han fiesta? Hunyo seis ba adto?? Kamusta an mga CATANs , AGUIPOs , SOYOSAs at mga PANZOs at ALMADENs.Kamusta na an teacher nga hi TOTI CATAN. Kamusta kamo ngatanan????????
Sir Toti , if you happen to read this greetings please post an answer in this blog site. I want to communicate with you-soon. Last time I was around was way back in the 80s. Your lady was still slogging in her law studies. How is she anyways? I believe she is already practicing her profession. Ain’t she?? Sir if you have an email address please give me a yell about it. Kamusta kayong lahat!!! Miss ko lahat!! Pati na ang baha kon nagiinuran! Kamusta an fiesta?? Me yugyugan ba??
Regards,
promdi
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How are you all folks? How much is a sack of rice? A balikbayan commented that a sack of rice costs a thousand and 60 pesos, while another balikbayan had expressed, “what, its not a thousand and sixty, but, a thousand and six hundred,” if so, why don’t all start to plant potatoes, and other root crops, in exchange to rice everyday, until, all rice terraces will fertilize again, for a good rice plantation. If only everyone had listened to pray one Our Father, everyday, then, the global warming won’t be harsh, to your rice terraces. Ask for forgiveness to the Father, that his Hand, will be lenient to the rice growing lands. Think thrice, and grow green.
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There you go again !! What has God to do with the rice and other world crises? Maybe for you everything that goes wrong in the world is God’s will!! Know what?? I believe if you form a religious organization then you will be better off!! That is for sure!! And you won’t be paying any taxes!!
I don’t know you but where I am I get to see news (CNN) everyday. And this morning there were twisters. And they destroyed lots of homes and properties. If you want to pray for the victims then you do with all sincerity.This job (praying) is for you..But you can’t stop such yearly crises. So there you are Miss Religious,pray all the prayers you know( and have invented )to help the victims of the twisters!!
I wish you could post something with sense!!!!!!! Dapat sa ‘yo e maging isang preacher o kaya yong nangungulecta ng abuloy sa simbahan tuwing me misa sa araw ng Linggo!!! AMEN!!!!!!!!
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Kinakamusta ko la an mga taga STO NINO!!!!!…labi na ha harani my mormoons,mga DAROS pa ba mga tao ha my kalye ARINGIT!!!!… any mapatron na haton dida Malipay nla nga patron.
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Baa Naman Ini,
Nahuman an trabajo pero an building dri pa !!!! Pati guihapon an budget nahuman!!! Kinahanglan kon sugad isubmit ini nga hinabo ha BOB RIPLEY’S “BELIEVE IT OR NOT”. Ang galing talaga ng Pinoy politician ( sa corruption). May ada na liwat nadugangan nga bank deposit. Kan kanay daw la adto?? Ang suerte naman noon!! Huwag naman sana siya at ang angkan niya tamaan ng “KARMA”!!! PANSAMANTALANG MALAS LANG!! Sana naging politico rin ako. Subalit no way man!! Diri ako Pinoy.Ako ay isang sulodnon na Waray lamang!!!
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Greetings to old classmates of LNHS from Tanauan, Leyte, perhaps, you like to read Tanauan’s greetings corner, how is the weather in your area? Its getting summer now in many areas. How’s the rice crisis in the so many areas? Nine hundred pesos a sack is not so bad, doesn’t praying help when there is crisis, or, letting a word slip like, `O Diyos ko, mahirap ang tubo ng isang sakong bigas, kung bababa lang ang mil sa nine hundred pesos, magiging magaan sa aking bulsa at sa iba,’ at ang langit ay ibababa ang tubo ng mga maykaya na nagtatago ng mga bigas. June 30 feast is approaching, balyo-an, ayaw.
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To a Junie Gosoco, greetings from a family who are in Napa, Modesto, California. Your former doctor. E-mail him a letter.
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Greetings to a Cecille Romero of the Accounting Division, Bethany Hospital, from a Dr. Decena, of California, would like to know, as to how it is now the main Andrew Hall, Bethany, in Tacloban. Anyone to know, this Cecille Romero, to get in touch with her, in the last request of a Dr. Decena, former Pediatrics Director, Bethany Hospital of Tacloban City, and write back to Tanauan website greetings corner if possible. This was the word of the above named mentioned, “Why didn’t the management acknowledge in the request sent via webmaster?” Many thanks to the courier.
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1 kilo of rice here in Manila cost 42.00 pesos. so one sack is 2,100 pesos. no more nine hundred today.
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Hi Yadoy kmusta na? Nakit an ko an imo anak han pagbakasyon ko last year,dako na! It akon mgawas pala next month lalaki ghap.Adi me yana ha norway pati hi Myrna an akon manghod, hi Mariet liwat adto ha Singapore pero bangin aug. or sept. ngadto hiya ha Spain to her new job,amo ini it kan Mariet cel # +65 9039 3242 if u hav tym to tex her it akon liwat +47 4177 2446. San-o kmo mbakasyon ha aton?Regards ha eu dda na tanan..God bless…
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What? A sack of rice is now 2,100.00 pesos? If a `ganta’ is 42.00 pesos, then, the wages of employees should be increased. Must be some global warming, huh! What did everyone do, that, the price of rice have gone up? It must of the many developments expense everywhere. It should be time to eat `mashed potatoes’ to rice, or boiled potatoes with some viands, yucca and other root crops, in exchange to everyday rice consumption. In other words, plant `kamotes’ in your backyards, and learn how to grow green. What’s the kilo of `carabao’ in the markets? There should be one to give the translation as to why `mapaso an bugas’ ha bulsa.
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baga kitakita ko an aton focus ngadto han may mga trabaho nga di opisina. an concern han mga bloggers kay ako daw nga hataas an presyo han bugas. di na daw makakapalit an mga pobre. pero hunahunaon ta guihap an kabutangan han mga mag uruma. pakiana ko la. mayda enough support an aton gobyerno ngadto han mga farmers? ha tanauan, may irigasyon pero waray tubig. ada diri ngatanan. an presyo han gasolina, an mga papliton nga kinahanglan guihan han mga mag uuma nahataas guihap. diri ta ba liwat hira uugupan? Balansiha ta diri la it mga nagtrabaho hin may sweldo an aton ugupan. Pati an mag uruma ugupi ta guiha.
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pakadto nala kamo ha ira tindahan adto ha may Dinlem Store ha may merkado. hira guihap iton it tagiya. ma entertain ito hira hit imo pakiana.
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Why are you angry towards one? If you do not like reading what is being posted, do not entertain your thoughts with negative expression, as there is a saying, `he who becomes angry, becomes unhappy,’ and you must be one who enjoys reading everyone who post anything, mind you, `pangulecta ng abuloy’ is CWL’s job to do so, baka ang nanay mo ay CWL member. What is your crises? It must be that you had the chance to watch CNN one time news about the origin of Christ, and as you have you seen the picture that artist Fillion had shared to a Paula, news reporter, what was your opinion? Must be that typhoon Frank got you to a reaction, so, can you say, that FRANK did not visit your living room? Ay naku si polding binisita ni typhoon FRANK, at ngayon nagsasabi ng totohanan, bagyo talaga ang twist. What religious organizations that don’t fall to John 9:39
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to all Tanawananons …… advance “HAPPY FIESTA!!!”….
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will this site could do something,to make it….or try to stop putting some rubbish onto this site just pity of us sometimes some people doesn’t like to grow yet! my grammar is not good enough but this is an effort to try my best…I’m happy to read and share ideas please!
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Hello to all the people of Cabuynan! Mabuhay Tanauan!
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hi! just passing bye……..hmmm…this site is Amazing!I would like to say hello,to my previous neigthbour and friends at sto.nino and to all my classmates batch 1980-84 at Assumption Academy I missed you folks,hope to keep in touch with me through this site.(sorry, cant post my details need privacy).see you here some other time! THANK YOU!!!. To those behind this site, well done and keep it up! I’m being entertained he!he!,(homesick huh!)
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Greetings to:
Mr. and Mrs. Toti Catan . Miguelito Catan. ( Your phone number doesn’t seem to be working).I don’t really know if you are the Miguelito I have in mind. The Miguelito I remember is the son of Domingo Catan. Father of Toti Catan. They are originally from Malaguicay. I was in that place sometime in the eighty’s. And the Miguelito was in the military.IF ANY OF YOU HAPPEN TO COME ACROSS THIS MESSAGE PLEASE DON’T HESITATE TO POST ANY MESSAGES IN THIS SITE. UNFORTUNATELY I AM NOT THAT NEAR PINAS AND I REALLY WOULD WANT TO COMMUNICATE WITH ANY OF YOU THERE IN OUR BARRIO.I UNDERSTAND ONE OF MY OLDER BROTHER HAS ALREADY PASSED AWAY.MAY HE R.I.P.
So Toti is your wife already practicing as a lawyer!!! And are you still teaching?? Kinakamusta ko ang lahat ng aking angkan.Pati ang hindi (angkan). Hope someone still remember “that little guy” who almost “went on an indefinite vacation” due to water borne disease! We are related-by blood!!!! KAMUSTA KAYONG LAHAT!!!
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Bb.Nella,
Who says one is angry?? Nobody is angry at all!! The word is IRKED or BOTHERED. I am irked and also bothered by your perception that everything that happens like floods, howlers;and twisters are all done by the Boss above! And I believe you also have in mind that the sinking of the passenger ship of Sulpicio lines was also done by HIM!! Your thinking is crap!! Would HE want those people dead??
Let me put some real sense in your prayerfull mind.On any ship the Master or Captain is always responsible for everything. Even if the shipowners say that the ship has to sail to meet schedule it is the Captain who has the final say. Specially when the weather is not good. Trust what I’m saying.I am not a Captain but my experience (not just a few years) proves that. The sinking was due to the Captain’s incompetence.IT WAS NOT THE WILL OF THE BOSS ABOVE!!
You are right!! Typhoon Frank did not visit our living room.We live near a desert and we are 12 hrs.behind Phil. time. And to teach you something right,ang bagyo ay di maaring maging twister. Twisters and howlers are not one. And I believe your are really into the CWL-Catholic Women’s League (?).Right?? What does it do anyways?? I believe it doesn’t pay any tax!! Or does it?? And my last paki-ana: Is your CWL registered with the S.E.C.?? Just asking!! And curious!! Because if your CWL is not registered with the S.E.C. then you and your cohorts are violating some laws!!! At saka nga pala saan ninyo ginagamit ang mga pera na nakokolecta sa loob (at labas) ng simbahan tuwing araw ng Domingo?? Sana nga sa charity lahat!! O ikaw ngayon ang umuusok ang ilong!!! Easy ka lang manay!!
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Akala ko ba it mga taga tanauan bungto hit kamag-araman!Anu ang nangyari sa Ms.TANAUAN 1st. runner up..she doesn’t deserves it!!kahiya naman..no answer WINNER.
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From Other Town,
Hoy sino ang nag yaya sa yo na manood sa programang yon?? At sino ang me sabi na taga Tanauan yon?? Nagkakamali ka sa iyong mga sinabi. Nag 1st runner up na nga,masama pa ba yon?? At bakit mo nasabi na nakakahiya?? Ikaw ang nakakahiya!! O baka naman naiinggit ka lang!!
Talaga namang marurunong ang mga taga Tanauan!! O ikaw bakit di mo muna sipatin ang iyong spellings sa iyong message at baka nakakahiya!! The hell you can’t even do a correct form of writing and you have the nerve to send such comments!! How come your spellings are weird,huh?? Did you learn it that way- the funny wrong way???
Whoever;whatever;wherever you are from,thank you for witnessing the last town’s feast celebration events! Your comments are a little sharp but you are welcome!! Thank you!!
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Hi to all sa mga taga bangon…kanda nanay ngada…ano mamingaw gud la gihap ano?
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Hi…this message is for the good mayor of Tanauan, Tanauan Mayor Tiu, ang gusto ko lang maipaabot eh…matatapos na po ang termino mo ang kalsada papuntang tabon-tabon sa brgy.bangon hindi parin matapos-tapos…sana naman bago matapos ang termio mo ay mafully concrete na ang kalsada doon. Wag mo sanang gawing dahilan ang pagiging opposition ng aming Brgy. Chairman dahil hindi naman ang chairman namin ang syang makikinabang sa kalsada kundi ang mga sasakyan na papuntang tabon-tabon at burauen, nakakahiya na po…imbis na ang perang ginagamit niyo sa pa filli-filling sa mga lubak sa kalsadad ay gamitin nalang para sa pasimento, mas mapakikinabangan pa namin at natin ng matagal.
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Hi..,,, mga taga tanauan leyte kumusta na kayo?, sana kahit mahirap ang buhay ngayon maging masaya parin tayo lagi, and sana wag tayong mag give up, sa tuwing magkakarun tayo nang malalaking problema, sana rin wag na tayong mag away-away, magtulungan na lang tayo, tama na ang bangayan naku papangit tayo niyan mga taga tanauan leyte, lagi ko pa namang pinagmamalaki na tayong mga taga tanauan leyte ay mga masayahin, matulungin, magalang, matalino, may disiplina sa sarili at syempre higit sa lahat mga cute tayo, kaya tama na ang bangayan huh!,, baka kasi pumangit tayo eh, yon na nga lang ang ating kayamanan eh….
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Magandang araw po sa inyo. sana po nasa mabuti po kayong kalagayan upon reading this. this year nga lang po nag passed away my late uncle domingo at si kuya miguel po ay nasa PNP na po. si toti naman ay nagretire na po sa pagtuturo ang nanay ko namn po ay nagtuturo pa rin. anyways, if ever po na gusto ninyong makausap si toti pls dont hesitate to call this number 533226479 you are always welcome po. hope to hear from you soon. God Bless po.
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Hi sa lahat nang nakakakilala or mga friend ko, kumusta na kayo ngayon? mis ko na kayo, nga pala NOEMI BOCO malapit na kaming umuwi ni leany diyan gusto ka naming makita kasi mis ka na namin eh, and hopefully with our other classmates and friends before magkarun tayo nang reunion, lagi kaming nagtatawagan sa cp ni leany lagi kaming nagkkuwentuhan kung kumusta kana noems, and specially about our crushes, and speaking of that crushes ROBERTO “JUNJUN” TAYOTO kumusta kana nakakahiya mang aminin pero alam mo nagsisisi ako na binasted kita before, kasi para akong lukaret dito eh, pinagtatawanan na nga ako ni leans, kasi sabi ko sakanya namimis kita and feeling ko mas lalo akong nag kakacrush sayo ngaun, di ko nga maintidihan kong bat ngayon ko lang to na feel, bakit dati hindi?, malakas ang loob ko na sabihin to sayo kasi malayo ako diyan sa tanauan leyte and matagal tagal pa bago ako umuwi diyan, pero atleast diba kahit papano nalaman mo din, oh.., will anyways highways an2k na me, 2log na me, sna mbasa nyo 2, gudnyt sa inyong lahat lav u mwuaahhh………,,,,,,,,,,,,,
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Eugine,
Dapat lang talaga na tapusin ang lahat ng mga sinumulan na mga trabaho bago matapos ang mandato ng alkalde!!!! Subalit kung di matatapos ang lahat ng mga yan e di nakapagtataka. Sakit na nila yan. ANG MAGSIMULA NG PAKITANG TAO.Pagkatapos e bahala na kayong maghirap at magmakaawa sa dakilang alkalde.
Natural na yang patapal -tapal sa mga kalsada upang ang kanyang mga bata-bata e laging me trabaho.Hindi bago yan.Walang katapusan yan!! At kaya di tinatapos yan upang masabi na di pinababayaan ang lugar na yon.E kung ginagawa bang congkreto ang mga kalsada e di natapos na ang pinutukang suliranin na yan!! Subalit kung gagawing congkreto ang mga kalsada e di na sila makakahingi ng salapi sa PROVINCIAL GOVERNMENT. AT PAG WALANG PEOPLE’S MONEY WALA RING “ALAM MO NA” ANG MGA POLITIKONG “MALILINIS ANG MGA PALAD”!!!
Kaya pacencia ka na lang sangkay.Magtiis na lang muna kayo sa “EYESORE” na sadyang di tatapusin (yata) ng administrasyon ng “DAKILANG ALKALDE” ng Tanauan!!! Kung bakit naman kasi ang chairman nyo ay ayaw umamen sa “DAKILANG ALKALDE”!!!! Pag umamen siya sa alkalde maaring masolve ang inyong suliranin!! Maaalis yang “INILAGAY NA PANGIT NA NAKIKITANG KATIBAYAN NG PAGIGING “DAKILA” ng ALKALDE!!!
O ALKALDE,WAG MONG SABIHIN NA DI MO ALAM ANG SINASABI NI EUGINE!!! ANG KATIBAYAN E NAKIKITA AT NARARAMDAMAN NG LAHAT NG TAGA DOON SA LUGAR NA YON!!! MAGKAROON KA NAMAN NG DAMDAMIN PARA SA MGA TAGA ROON NA DUMARANAS NG HIRAP DAHIL SA IYONG PAGBINGI-BINGIHAN AT PAGBULAG-BULAGAN!! GASTUSIN MO ANG SALAPI NG BAYAN AT MALAPIT KA NANG MAGTAMASA NG MGA NAIPON -MO!!!! O TALAGANG AYAW MONG TAPUSIN DAHIL AYAW UMAMEN SA YO ANG CHAIRMAN DOON!!!! MAGPAKATUTOO KA!!!
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Sandi,
Mabuti naman at natunghayan mo ang aking posting!! Salamat sa wakas e malapit ko na ring malaman kung ano na ang mga nangyari sa aking mga kaibigan/kamaganakan. Higit sana na naging magaling kung sinabi mo kung sino ka!! Sino ka nga ba??
Ang tagal kong hinintay na me sumagot sa aking posting!! At SLN si SAMBANGGOY!! When you have the opportunity please include these next time you post something:
a) who you are,
b) who are your parents,
c) and what you know about the other CATANs (Estelito and Jose,still alive??)
d) and if you know Eduardo Aguipo ( only son of Endo and Yanang Aguipo) Magkapitbahay kami noong araw.Kamusta na kaya siya?? Meron pa ba siyang tricycle?? Ikamusta mo ako sa aking mga angkan!!
Bueno Sandi,I hope you get to the nearest cyber shop to check on this site.Keep on communicating with me!! How are you and the whole nice people in our sulod?? Kamusta na ang paaralan at simbahan diyan?? Sigue pa rin ba ang pagbaha kung tagulan?? I miss you all!! Thank you!! Give me a yell - soon!! O.K.?? Bye!
sulodnon
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congrats to CARL GABAS for winning the skimboards competition in MALAYSIA…
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HI sulodnon
Magandang araw po ulit sa inyo. Kumusta po kau? Dito sa amin ay maaus namn po. malaki na po ang ipinagbago ng ating barangay kung makakadalaw po kau dto talagang mamangha po kau sa laki ng ipinagbago nito una po ang ating simbahan ay fully furnished na po with tiles pa po yan this fiesta lang po yan natapos , ung paaralan namn po ay mg bago na rin kasi kung hnd mo nabalitaan nun nasira kasi ito dahil sa lakas ng bagyo ilang taon na po ang nakararaan pro ngaun lahat ay bago na. ang hnd lang po nababago ay ung pagbaha sa lugar natin sa twing bumabagyo. sina tay estilito namn at si tay jose ay malakas pa po at buhay na buhay pa ganun dn po sina eduardo aguipo meron pa po silang tricycle ganun dn ang mga anak nya pro mdyo nagretiro na rin sa pagpapasada si eduardo ung mga anak na nya ung sumunod sa kanya. ako nga po pala ay anak ni toti catan kaya po nung mabasa ko ung posting mo kahapon at kinukumusta mo pamilya namin ay nag atubili po agad ako na ireply kayo.pasensya na po natagalan po may magreply sayo kasi kahapon ko nga lang po nabasa yong posting nyo. syanga po pala nasan po ba kau at sino din po kayo para maikumusta ko po kayo dto sa lugar natin. God Bless po.
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Sandi,
Thank you very for responding right away. Thanks for everything!! For some reasons I can’t answer some of your questions at this moment. As to my whereabouts,I live in a country where there are few Pinoys (yet) and we are 9 hrs. behind. At present I reside in the house of the HONORARY CONSUL of the Philippines.The family is Pinoy. No I ain’t related with them.They just want me staying with them.’Cause like I said above ” there are few Pinoys in these remote (from Pinas) country.It is a beautiful country!!!
So here my communication with you stops.Regards to all of you!! I miss our place.Someday (if I’m still alive) I might be back!! Again my thanks!!
Ba’t ganun ang style ng iyong pagsusulat. Animoy nag-tetext ka!! Anyways it is nice to hear from you.By the way how was the town feast celebration?? Miss ko rin yon!!
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