FIRST GRAND ALUMNI HOMECOMING. Tabuk Institute, the first high school in Tabuk City, held its first alumni homecoming since its founding in 1948 on February 11-13 with the theme “Coming together to keep the TI flame burning forever.” In photo is Tabuk Institute Alumni Association President Floydelia Diasen (second from right) receiving the P51,000.00 raffle proceeds from the European-based members headed by Cristabel Bounggick (center). Also in photo are (from left) Martin and Clarita Koller and TIAA Treasurer Daisy Quirino.** Photo by Estanislao Albano, Jr.
Balikbayan holds medical mission in Tabuk City
TABUK CITY, Kalinga – Nine hundred- thirty people benefitted from the medical missions organized by a balikbayan from Minnesota, United States, in coordination with the City Health Office here, conducted in four barangays in the city and in Pinukpuk town recently.
The services offered during the medical missions held in barangays Casigayan, Masablang and Tuga on February 9, 16 and 18, respectively, were medical check-up, advice on women diseases and skin diseases, blood pressure screening and blood sugar screening and free medicines for children and adults.
Verna Agujo, a nurse at the Fairview Southdale Hospital in Idina, Minnesota, who organized the medical missions, informed that 700 of the patients were accommodated at the Casigayan Elementary School from where she graduated in 1981.
Agujo said that bulk of the funds used in the Minnesota-Tabuk Outreach Medical Mission were donated by Mr. and Mrs. F. Janhke, a friend from the Medical Solutions, Inc. who does not want to be named, Dr. G. Ivins and by herself with the balance contributed by other friends and colleagues.
Apart from herself and her nurse sister Cleofe Zerna and nurse mother Natividad Speckhard who also reside in Minnesota, those who served during the medical missions were the following: City Health Officer Henrietta Bagayao, doctors Hazel Sarol, Remedios Sonson and Myrna Valones, nurses Desiree Penetrante, Fritzy Mahoy-Malenab, Joy Alunday, Jandel Taguiam, Rhea Barcellano, Jedah Aquino, Clarence Payaqui and Ethel Diasen-Uy..
Agujo also distributed school supplies consisting of backpacks, pencils, crayons, sharpeners and pad paper to 47 pre-school pupils of the Casigayan Elementary School, the fifth year in a row she has done that.
Agujo said that she earned the money for the school supplies by teaching Latin dance to adults during her spare time.
Agujo plans to continue organizing medical missions in her birthplace.**
The services offered during the medical missions held in barangays Casigayan, Masablang and Tuga on February 9, 16 and 18, respectively, were medical check-up, advice on women diseases and skin diseases, blood pressure screening and blood sugar screening and free medicines for children and adults.
Verna Agujo, a nurse at the Fairview Southdale Hospital in Idina, Minnesota, who organized the medical missions, informed that 700 of the patients were accommodated at the Casigayan Elementary School from where she graduated in 1981.
Agujo said that bulk of the funds used in the Minnesota-Tabuk Outreach Medical Mission were donated by Mr. and Mrs. F. Janhke, a friend from the Medical Solutions, Inc. who does not want to be named, Dr. G. Ivins and by herself with the balance contributed by other friends and colleagues.
Apart from herself and her nurse sister Cleofe Zerna and nurse mother Natividad Speckhard who also reside in Minnesota, those who served during the medical missions were the following: City Health Officer Henrietta Bagayao, doctors Hazel Sarol, Remedios Sonson and Myrna Valones, nurses Desiree Penetrante, Fritzy Mahoy-Malenab, Joy Alunday, Jandel Taguiam, Rhea Barcellano, Jedah Aquino, Clarence Payaqui and Ethel Diasen-Uy..
Agujo also distributed school supplies consisting of backpacks, pencils, crayons, sharpeners and pad paper to 47 pre-school pupils of the Casigayan Elementary School, the fifth year in a row she has done that.
Agujo said that she earned the money for the school supplies by teaching Latin dance to adults during her spare time.
Agujo plans to continue organizing medical missions in her birthplace.**
