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Posted on August 18, 2009 - by king
Kagay-an Festival 2009
The city of Cagayan de Oro is now in the festive mood for the upcoming city fiesta celebrations on August 28, 2009 in honor of St. Agustine the patron saint of Cagayan de Oro. The city fiesta is dubbed the Kagay-an festival. Here are the events and activities for the whole duration of the festival.
August 13-15
Kumbira 2009 – Limketkai Atrium
August 16
Ms. Kagay-an 2009 Meet the Press and Fashion Show – Limketkai Atrium
August 19
Ms. Kagay-an 2009 Talent Competition – SM City
August 21
Ms. Kagay-an 2009 Swimsuit Competition – Hotel Koresco
August 21 – 23
National Horseshow and Competition – Fil-Estate Grounds, Gusa
August 24
Kagay-an Dance Fest – City main streets
August 24 – 30
Kahimunan Northern Mindanao: Regional Trade Fair 2009 – Limketkai Rotunda
August 25
Ms. Kagay-an 2009 Pageant Night – Limketkai Atrium
August 26
Kagay-an 3rd Golden Float Parade Competition – City main streets
Dekada ‘70 – City tourism hall
Beatles: Reminiscing – Divisoria Kiosko Kagawasan
August 27
Halad sa Lambagohan – Cagayan de Oro river
Philippine Airforce Skydiving Exhibition – Pelaez Sports Complex
Posted on July 19, 2009 - by king
A new theme for Abonitalla blog site
Abonitalla.com domain was registered with the intent of using it as my unique email address and for my family and relatives who may be interested in having a unique email address for themselves. As time goes by I decided to make use of the idle http part as a blog site but without any theme in mind.
Starting now the new theme of this blog will be Cagayan de Oro city society and its heritage. I will post here different stories about people in Cagayan de Oro as well as its heritage. I welcome any contributors who may want to write in this blog about the new theme. I will also be inviting some of my relatives who might be interested to write something here.
Posted on February 5, 2008 - by king
McArthur Marker groundbreaking
City Mayor Constantino G. Jaraula (far left) leads city officials in laying down the time capsule, highlighting the groundbreaking rites of the McArthur Marker at the old pier in Barangay Macabalan, Cagayan de Oro City, Feb. 1. Assisting the mayor are 2nd District Rep. Rufus Rodriguez, City Councilors Dante Pajo, Roger Abaday, and Alfonso Goking, Macabalan Chairperson Gertrudes Beja, and Historical Commission member Nanette Roa. Once completed, the marker would serve as a reminder that Gen. Douglas McArthur once passed by Cagayan de Oro enroute to Australia from Corregidor when Japanese imperial forces invaded the Philippines during the Second World War. (Cagayan de Oro City Information Office/PIA-MisOrOccCam i-Net)
Posted on November 4, 2007 - by king
Folklore, Fakelore and the Ethnolinguistic History of the name Cagayan
By Dr. Antonio J. Montalvan II, Ph.D.
Place name explanations often border on the fantastic and the comical. Intramuros, for instance, was said to have been named “so that the Moros will not entra.” Arnold Azurin (1995) calls this cultural malpractice the abuse of folklore in our national culture, coining the term “fakelore.”
What is the folklore and fakelore of the name “Cagayan”?
The usual recourse is to cite the local legend that ascribes the name to a love story between a beautiful princess and a vanquished warrior. It was said that a slave-raiding party of Maguindanao warriors descended upon the town. The town datu, however, sends instead his beautiful daughter to meet the Maguindanao chief, Rajah Moda Samporna. Captivated by her beauty, the rajah marries her and settles in the town. Instead of conquering them, the Maguindanao warriors were conquered. They retreated in shame, traumatized by the turn of events, calling it a “place of shame.” In Binukid, “kagayha-an” is “place of shame.” Later Spanish mispronounciation, the usual much-abused alibi, is said to have then evolved into the name “Cagayan.” (more…)
Posted on October 30, 2007 - by king
3 Generations of Tradition: Cagayan de Oro’s Oldest Store Looks forward to the next 71 years.
By Mike Baños
In the center of Wadhu’s Quality Store stands a 1931 NCR cash register, bought by the store’s founder by mail order from Sears & Roebuck in the United States 71 years ago. During the world war two, the owner wrapped it in grease and buried it in his backyard. After the war, he dug it up and it still serves the same store now run by his grand son Wadhu John.
That cash register is the living testimony of the traditions that has made Wadhu’s Quality Store Cagayan de Oro’s oldest surviving retail store, a tradition established by the store’s patriarch and carried on by the third generation who now runs it.
Seventy one years ago, Wadhu Dharamdas Uttamchandani set up in Cagayan de Misamis (as Cagayan de Oro was then known) ‘Wadhu’s Home of Quality’ near Plaza Divisoria, the town’s social and commercial center.
Mr. Wadhu arrived as a 12-year old boy from India in the Philippines in 1924. He was employed at the Indian Bazaar owned by his uncle Nebhraj Ramchand Buhdrani in Zamboanga City for 12 years where he gained his basic knowledge and business savvy in the retail trade. (more…)
Posted on October 30, 2007 - by king
What makes Cagayan de Oro tick? Or why Cagayanons (natives and non natives alike) love our city?
By Gwendolyn Ramos-Garcia
I have long pondered the question because of the vast number of transplants who have decided to stay and make Cagayan de Oro “home”.
Some understandably uprooted themselves from their hometowns and settled here because they married into local families. Prime examples : Segundo Gaston of Silay and Dionisio Fabella of Pagsanjan who married my grandfather’s 2 younger sisters, Celerina and Rosario Neri, respectively; Diego Imperio & Crispin Joaquin to Celerina’s & Rosario’s younger sisters, Gracia and Violeta, Jose Montalvan of Belmonte, Cuenca, Spain to Concepcion Corrales y Roa (my great grandmother’s sister), Dr. Francisco Xavier of Antique to Dolores Roa ( my grandmother’s sister), Valente Camacho of Bataan to Luz Chaves y Neri, Benjamin Denosta to Enriqueta Garcia y Corrales, Casimiro Tamparong of Ozamis to Felisa Neri, Silvino Maestrado to Josefa Chaves y Abejuela, George Willkom of Ohio to Maria Ramos (cousin of my grandfather, Lucio), Dr. Jose Marfori to Carmen Neri, Justininiano R. Borja of Bohol & Ilocos to Dulce Valdehueza y Roa, Monico Gacula to Nena Montalvan y Corrales, Manolo Jaldon of Zamboanga to Flora Yamut, Hernando Pineda of Manila to Trinidad Reyes y Roa, Fernando Torres to Victoria Avancena, Rosauro Dongallo of Cebu to Didi Valmores, Mike Siojo to Naty Tabique, Jaime Munoz & Johnny Wilson to sisters Soly & Editha Corrales, Bernabe de la Fuente of Cotabato to Mercedes.Velez y Xavier (actually, 3 de la Fuente brothers, all boarders at the Ateneo de Cagayan, married 3 local belles – Mercedes Velez, Dulce Bautista & Violeta Fernandez). and the list goes on & on.
But what about those who did not really have close ties to this town ? What magnet drew them to Cagayan? Was it a new job assignment or a business venture? Or perhaps just a (more…)