Cory yellow in fairway green - INQUIRER.net, Philippine News for Filipinos

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Noy Pinay organizes a golf-tournament fund-raiser for Nonoy Aquino and Mar Roxas
AFTER HOSTING A SUCCESSFUL lugawan dinner and art sale at the NBC Tent in Global City, Taguig last November, PNoy Pinay, the nontraditional campaign group committed to supporting senators Noynoy Aquino and Mar Roxas in the May 2010 polls, continued to put the fun in fundraising by organizing a two-man scramble-style golf tournament held at the Sta. Elena Golf Club in Cabuyao, Laguna.

Sporting sunny yellow shirts, a total of 230 golfers played till way beyond noon for top prizes—including a car—for the elusive hole-in-one.

As participants enjoyed a late lunch of Hainanese chicken, emcee Leah Navarro (herself an avid golfer who put her love for the game on hold “until Noy wins the presidency”) led a lively program. Five limited-edition Noy-Mar golf bags were auctioned off, as was an abstract painting by Ivan Acuna.

Meanwhile, raffle prizes ranged from restaurant and salon GCs to several nights’ stay at Baguio’s Camp John Hay and an Asian tour aboard a Royal Caribbean cruise ship. Yellow ribbon-shaped trophies were also awarded to the winning partners, among them, husband-and-wife team Luigi and Lorna Tabuena, who emerged as champs in the Sierra Madre course.

As neither Noy nor Mar was around to express their thanks for the huge turnout, their next-of-kin came in full force. Aquino brother-in-law Eldon Cruz was among the special guests who opened the game with a ceremonial tee-off, as was Bledes Fores, who texted her cousin Mar: “Better pray I don’t butterfly.”

And Viel Aquino-Dee admitted how she and her sisters also used text messaging to keep their brother from seeking higher office.

“Noy knows it’s not about him,” she said. “It’s all of us who have to work together to bring about the change that our country so desperately needs.”

That’s exactly what PNoy Pinay does. The 300-strong women’s group (whose council members include Ayala Foundation USA president Vicky Garchitorena and New York-based philantrophist Loida Nicolas Lewis) not only helps raise funds for the campaign collaterals and chosen advocacies of their presidential bets, it trains volunteers to exercise extra-vigilance over ballots before, during and after the elections.

The goal? “To reach as many as 400,000 volunteers all over the country,” said PNoy Pinay’s convenor Ching Escaler"

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Calixto heads LP slate in Pasay City | Manila Bulletin

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"Incumbent Pasay City Vice Mayor Antonino ‘Tony’ Calixto, who heads the Liberal Party (LP) slate in the city in the May 10 elections, is advocating program for change and social progress.

Bannering a slogan “Aasenso tayo kay Tony Calixto,” the Pasay City LP standard bearer vowed to double, if not triple, his undertaking with the people, especially the poor, bringing them hope that “those who have less in life have the chance of achieving success,” so long as “ we put God first in the center of our life.”

Pursuing what he described as a “doable” eco-tourism program, Calixto, a three-term councilor and two-term vice mayor, stressed that “while Pasay is a top tourism and entertainment city in the country, “there are gray areas in the city which have been untapped for community livelihood, like cottage industry and home-made food, including viands, like special tinapa and dried fish, snacks like special fishball, banana cue, toron, maruya which if improved well could cater to foreigners, and other home income-generating undertakings like dress-making, tailoring or haberdashery, ‘manicure, pedicure, face and complexion improvement and enhancement jobs, and the like, which does not even require one to go to a university to earn good income, and live a decent life”."

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