On Oct. 31 World Cities Day, Iloilo City, cited for Gastronomy, joined the UNESCO Creative Cities Network (UCCN), following their designation by UNESCO Director-General Audrey Azoulay (See UNESCO.org for story).
Joseph Alvarico (Source: Youtube)
Joseph Alvarico, a high school robotics teacher at Ygnacio Valley High School in Concord, has just been named as one of the winners of California's Teacher of the Year award (See CBS News Bay Area for story).
JR De Guzman (Source: jrdeguzman.com)
JR De Guzman was born in the Philippines and now lives in San Diego. What’s different about him is he tells jokes with an instrument. H has nearly 600,000 followers on TikTok and Instagram combined (See CBS8.com for story).
A KSBW report on “The Lumpia Lady”
Zeny Windham owns one of the few Filipino businesses in Monterey County, despite there being a strong Filipino-American population (See KSBW Action News 8 for story/video).
United Airlines (United) flight UA-191 landed in Manila early Monday morning, October 30, marking the first-ever nonstop flight by a United States carrier from continental US to the Philippines (See Rappler for story).
Anais Lavillenie, the wife of former Olympic champion Renaud Lavillenie, apologized for accusing the Filipino pole vault star EJ Obiena of doping. Also a former pole vaulter, Anais said she deeply regrets posting the accusationon the Facebook page of Vaulter Magazine two weeks ago (See Rappler for story).
Ma-an Asuncion-Dagñalan (Source: GMA News)
First-time director Ma-an Asuncion-Dagñalan won the Best Foreign Film Award at the 19th LA Femme International Film Festival in Los Angeles for her film, “Blue Room” (See GMA News for story).
Bianca Bustamante (Source: Nextshark)
Filipina Formula 1 Academy driver Bianca Bustamante has made history once again by becoming the first female driver to be signed to McLaren’s driver development program (See NextShark for story).
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