Melvin Lachica: Opening Doors to the Future for Oro’s Designers

“Be an opener of doors for such as come after thee.” – Ralph Waldo Emerson “I live for opening doors for the young generation of creators. If we do nothing else with our success, let’s open up some doors.”– L.A. Reid The world of Haute Couture by its very nature, has often been marked by …

Historical Trails aims to boost awareness, domestic tourism in Northern Mindanao

History isn’t always top of mind for domestic tourists, that many even remain unaware of the historicity of places in their localities. But that may soon change, at least in Northern Mindanao.” The Northern Mindanao Historical Trails Committee is now taking an inventory of historical places in Cagayan de Oro City and Misamis Oriental, to …

Todo na Two HelloCDO

Cagayan de Oro’s Lifestyle Show marks Two By Tito Mike Cagayan de Oro’s premier online Lifestyle Show celebrates its second anniversary this month with the tagline “Hello CDO Todo na Two!” What started off as a one-off concert to help people in the production and events industry who were adversely affected by the pandemic, has …

A Vineyard for EveryJuan

The Vineyard, Amaya View, Indahag Hills, Cagayan de Oro City Pilipinos have traditionally known grapes as a harbinger of the Christmas season, since it is usually in the last quarter of the year when they become a common sight not only in supermarkets, but even on the sidewalk stalls. However, in the last decade or …

Across the Continents : Healthy and Tasty Mediterranean Gourmet Foods

A week ago I was coming back from a business trip in Barangay Indahag, coming down the road at Upper Macasandig when we decided to drop by the newly opened Mediterranean Gourmet Foods. It’s easy to find, at the ground floor of the EJM Building in Maandig Avenue just next door to the now shuttered Kambingan sa …

XU Press pursues its mission into the fringes of Mindanao

Bringing in the written word from the peripheries In pursuit of the Jesuit mission “to reach out to people beyond their frontiers” in Mindanao, Xavier University-Ateneo de Cagayan’s (Xavier Ateneo) XU PRESS presents itself as an “alternative press” for the Mindanao-focused writings, research and literature, which would otherwise would not have been published by the …

A Tale of Two Sibling Queens

Seven years is a long time in the country’s highly competitive beauty pageants, but that’s the time it took the two youngest siblings of a family of ten  to attain the unprecedented feat of ascending to the pinnacle of the Miss Cagayan de Oro beauty pageant. In its latest edition held August 27 at a …

Xavier Ateneo’s Dedication Day to the Blessed Mother for the New Masterson Campus and CLI Manresa Township

Xavier University-Ateneo de Cagayan held a Dedication Day to the Blessed Virgin Mary for the XU Masterson Campus and Manresa Township on September 8, 2022. “Today, we recognize that the Campus of the Future is a gift from God to Xavier Ateneo, to us, a gift that needs our collective effort to make it happen, …