Danao Paramedic dies while applying CPR
July 5, 2002
[Note: Originally posted on the Lampoon Issue of The Danao Gazette, Jan 1994.]
So bizarre was how a healthy paramedic died after applying CPR that saved the life a Barangay Caputatan resident.
Salvador del Mundo-Casas, a 23-year old Paramedic of the Danao City Rescue Unit quickly responded to an emergency call and miraculously saved the life of Eduardito Kandingon of Barangay Caputatan.
Mermaid caught in Danao City Wharf
July 5, 2002
[Note: Originally appeared in the Lampoon Issue of The Danao Gazette, Jan 1994.]
Witnessed by at least 5 other fishermen, Cebu Custom Examiner Periong Satina, caught what appeared to be a 18-year old mermaid (serena or kataw) while fishing at the pantalan.
Either scared of revenge from other under-the-sea creatures, or probably his wife, Malda, may not like the prospect of keeping an extremely beautiful half-woman, half-fish mammal at their house, Periong decided to let go of the mermaid. (MM)
Yes, it will be in Looc! Trump Casino in Danao
July 5, 2002
[Note: Originally appeared on the Lampoon Issue of The Danao Gazette, Jan 1994]
Accompanied by L.A. businessman Fred Tuadles, Donald Trump visited Barangay Look to inspect the progress of on-going construction of the Tump Palace, the biggest gambling casino in the Pacific Rim.
Capitalized at .5 billion, the Trump Palace will feature the best of Las Vegas, designed to attract high rollers of Japan, Hongkong, Taiwan and Middle Eastern oil potentates.
Danao City Politics: Ago Sepulveda to run for mayor
July 5, 2002
[Note: Originally posted on Lampoon Issue of The Danao Gazette, Jan 1994.]
When Durano family spokesman, Nards Capitan announced that neither in*censored*bent Danao City Mayor Jesus ‘Don’ Durano nor any member of his family would seek elective positions in the 1995 election, Danao’s political wannabees went scrambling to take a shot in the mayorship including ex-convict Santiago Sepulveda.
Contrary to reports that Danao’s most wanted fugitive was shot dead in an encounter with police authorities, Ago Sepulveda is very much alive and kicking and has declared his candidacy for city mayor under the KBL banner with Warlito Dungog as running mate.
Gemma Cabahug-Montegrande New DAUSA Prez 2001-2003
July 5, 2002
[Note: Originally posted on Kaming Danawanon, Vol VII, No. 4 Sep 2001.]
Yes, the new DAUSA President is unquestionably a Danawanon. Her mother, Isidra Batucan-Cabahug is a native of Danao, the daughter of the late Vito-Olay Batucan.
Gemma had lived and at some time attended elementary school in Danao.
She was treasurer when the first set of DAUSA officers were elected viva-voce during its organizational meeting in Long Beach in September, 1993 and was 2-term vice-president since 1997.
Dr. Vic Oyas is Fiesta 2001 Hermano Mayor
July 5, 2002
[Note: Originally posted on Kaming Danawanon, Vol VII, No. 4 Sep 2001.]
Dr. Vic Oyas, an active DAUSA member and volunteer of past medical misions, has been the unanimous choice of being this year’s Fiesta Hermano Mayor. He will induct the newly elected DAUSA officers for 2001 – 2003 during the DAUSA Dinner Dance on Sept. 8, 2001 in Torrance, CA.
Although not a native-born Danawanon, Dr. Vic Oyas, whose parents are native of Catmon, need not be declared an adopted son of Danao, for he is heart and soul a Danawanon.
Adopt-a-School Pilot Dungguan Elementary School gets 13 PCs
July 5, 2002
[Note: Originally posted on Kaming Danawanon, Vol VII, No. 5 Oct-Dec 2001.]
There is not a bit of doubt Dungguan Elementary School pupils will be most computer literate among all barrio public schools throughout the country. Thanks to Joe Campo whose heart is bigger than Texas.
DAUSA Board of Director Joe Campo of Freeport, Texas, pioneered the association’s Adopt-a-School Project and started the project in the barrio where he was born and raised.
Dr. JB gives electro-cautery machine to PGH and Danao General Hosp
July 5, 2002
[Note: Originally posted on Kaming Danawanon, Vol VII, No. 5 Oct-Dec 2001.]
Dr. Julian Banzon , who had been conducting a one-man medical mission before DAUSA started in 1998, donated an Electro-Cautery Machine worth ,000.00 to the Phil. General Hospital in Manila.
A year earlier Dr JB donated the same surgical machine to the Danao General Hospital which was put to use during the recent DAUSA Medical Mission.
When Danao was my kind of sleepy small town Part 3
July 5, 2002
[Note: Originally posted on Kaming Danawanon, Vol VII, No. 5 Oct-Dec 2001.]
A day in the life . . . at Grade III, Section 1
A plate of corn grits with buwad or tinabal or inununan (fish) for breakfast would not last till noon. We had to eat again by mid-morning at recess. If we didn’t, we would be starving before the last period.
While in third grade, five of us were in school, two in college, one high school and another in sixth grade, so it was somewhat a struggle to squeeze a 5¢ ‘baon’ from my Tatay each day.
DAUSA 8th Anniversary Dinner Dance in Torrance
July 5, 2002
[Note: Originally posted on Kaming Danawanon, Vol VII, No. 3 Jul-Aug 2001.]
It’s the fourth year in a row that the Danao Association will have a formal dinner-dance to celebrate its anniversary and observe the fiesta of its venerable patron, Santo Tomas de Villanueva.
This time it’s DAUSA’s 8th Anniversary and also an induction of new officers to be held on Saturday, September 8, 2001, at the Holiday Inn, Torrance, California.