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You
had to be there to know what we're talking about. Ang ka-lami wala pa
jud
mawala. (Ma-o gani ning na-dugay-dugay ang atong newsletter kay hangtud
karon si Falang is suffering from after-fiesta kamingaw. Si Danny
ning-pauli
sa Manila to attend the first anniversary of his late brother Gerry's
death,
and Braddock is studying for an exam harong ma-ta-asan ang iyang sweldo
kay wala kono siya'y makita ni-aning atong Newsletter, ho, ho, ho, ho!)How successful was it? Tan-awa lamang ang retrato on the right... .Pangutan-a lang ang kadaghang mga out-of-towners nga ning-attend, panimati-a ang mga com-ments such as, "Karon pa mi mag-kita after more than 40 years!" and "Lupig pa ang tambal ni-aning atong pag-bati, to see so many of us together!" - unya tan-awa pud ang atong balance sheet (pronounced jud with the long "e" sound!), kay sa Program ads lamang, bawi na tanan - (labi nag mamayad na sila!). . bisa'g hapit ta na-censored with our "Oblation" picture showing Ablot in all his glory!.. (Ato unya 'tong ipa-enlarge ug himo-ong cover sa next year's souvenir program, instead of Sr. Santiago - pero basi'g gaba-an ta!)
Pero ug lami man jud ang atong Fiesta dire sa Amerika, maka-limbarut pud ug balhibo ang estorya in this issue gikan sa atong "Tanjay correspondent" nga Si Tia Tutang, who gives her blow-by-blow (or, should we say, parade-by-parade) account of their version of the Tanjay Fiesta 1996. Medyo baga-baga jud ning atong newsletter karon, kay daghan pong mga retrato. Gapa-sabut jud mi nga kinahanglan kad-tong dili pa BOLD ang mga ngalan (if you know what we mean, he, he, he ) kina-hanglan mang-amut sa membership fee harong duna mi'y ma-tilapang mga postage stamps....
Usa nato basahon ang mga estorya, here is one reminder: BALIK-TANJAY '97. You should start planning your re-unions now. (Read all the other Balik-Tanjay details inside.) Also, there's the Mystery Picture of the Year Grand Prize Winner inside. See if you can identify them. Finally, daghang salamat sa inyong mga pag-dayeg sa atong Newsletter staff! Sus, you just don't know how much fun we have in preparing each issue: estorya, katawa, panglibak, ha, ha, ha!)
TSAPTER ONE: DA VESPERAS - Byernes, July 19
As usual, didto sa ilang Danny ug Badingding
balay.
The Navarro Girls were out in full force: Si Estela
ning-butho
gikan sa San Francisco, dala niya ang duha ka anak ning Quirining;
Marilu Stuetzel was also present. Not to be outdone, dinha pud
ang
mga Cariño Boys - Boy Cariño
(semi-retired
as an orthopedic surgeon, pero full-time pa jud as a tennis fanatic)
came
with wife Dory, Toots (a successful Mining Engineer in
Canada)
came solo, and Eking (also semi-retired) followed the next day.
May taga-La Libertad nga na-nungha: Si Joe Laguda and wife Warlin
and son, drove in from San Diego.
Lualhati
Zerna came with Momoy Regalado with all his maturedly
dignified
good looks; dinha pud si Rustica Ybañez-Utzurrum, fresh
from
her European vacation. The usual gang of party-goers was there: our
very
own Tia Ringgy, Fern & Machoy, Evalina
Señeris-Mantes
and daughter-in-law Carla (whose daughter Danika just
arrived
from the arms of Lolo Tyrone and Lola Katet Lopez); Anesio
and Jean Piñero, Joaquin Teves, Braddock
and
Alice, Precy Torres-Laxina (gadala ug daghang utanon
gikan
sa iyang garden); Melo Teves (gadala ug binakhaw), Tita
Cusio-Gorospe,
Marianne Allera-Fayssoux and hubby Richard. Last but not
least, dinha pud Si Jimmy Zerna and Lillian with their
favorite
handog nga dinugo-an de Tanjay. The evening of Ka-on, Hudjaka,
and
Chismis broke up sa kad-lawon na....