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  THE LEADERS OF CAUAYAN Dr. Troy Alexander G. Miano, LPT 30 March 2022 Mayor Bernard Faustino La Madrid Dy of Cauayan City delivered his State of the City Address (SOCA) at the Isabela Convention Center at Barangay San Fermin. Mayor Dy’s last address to the people of Cauayan was well attended by all sectors of society including the leaders of the Province of Isabela, namely: Governor Rodolfo “Rodito” T. Albano III, Vice Governor Faustino “Bojie” G. Dy III, Congressman Faustino “Inno” A. Dy IV, LPGMA Partlylist Congressman Allan U. Ty, Former Governor Faustino S. Dy, Jr. and former Cauayan City Mayor Ceasar G. Dy. The well-applauded report to the public made me cast my mind back during the period when I was researching the historical development of Cauayan City as commissioned by Mayor Bernard Dy in 2014. Forty-seven Cauayeños, based on available records, served the first Smart City in the country and to commemorate the 21st cityhood anniversary, allow me to enumerate the lis...

  CABATUAN, 110 YEARS AS A SETTLEMENT Dr. Troy Alexander G. Miano, LPT 05 March 2022   One hundred ten years ago today, March 5, 2022, couple Juan Cadeliña and wife Maria Galutira arrived on a Tuesday in what is now the town center of the Municipality of Cabatuan, Isabela. They are the first registered Christian settlers from Bacarra, Ilocos Norte who braved Northern Luzon in search for new opportunities. To remember this day, the Histomiano Library of History in coordinated efforts with the Local Government Unit of Cabatuan and the Isabela Tourism Office unveiled in 2019 a historical marker of the first "munisipyo" of Cabatuan used when the barrio became independent from the mother-town Cauayan after 37 years since the first migration. The marker reads: “THE 1ST SEAT OF THE MUNICIPAL GOVERNMENT OF CABATUAN, ISABELA. 1 National Highway, Saranay, Cabatuan, Isabela, Philippines. Cabatuan, Isabela was created as a regular municipality on November 5, 1949 by virtue of...

  SAN LUCAS ALONSO GORDA DEL ESPIRITU SANTO DE CARRACEDO Dr. Troy Alexander G. Miano, LPT 02 March 2022 In the course of my local research on the history of Isabela two decades ago, I stumbled on the name Lucas Alonso del Espiritu Santo who served in what is now the Province of Isabela particularly in the locality of present-day Barangay Bangag in the capital City of Ilagan during the early part of the Christianization of Cagayan Valley. I decided to scribble and post in Facebook and blogspot the biography of the good Dominican missionary saint today, the 63rd birthday of Isabela’s 29th Governor, Honorable Rodolfo “Rodito” Taguinod Albano III, who we all know is a devoted Roman Catholic. Dominican Pedro V. Salgado who authored the book “Cagayan Valley and Eastern Cordillera” mentioned Fray Lucas Alonso del Espiritu Santo as one of the first missionaries who penetrated the land of the Irrayas. In 1604, Nuestra Señora dela Asuncion de Talama was founded by the Dominicans. I...

  GOMBURZA @ 150 Dr. Troy Alexander G. Miano, LPT 17 February 2022 The 150th anniversary of the martyrdom of the GomBurZa is commemorated today. The National Historical Commission of the Philippines (NHCP) led the commemoration with this year’s theme, “GOMBURZA: Pamana ng Paglilingkod at Pag-aalay” at the GomBurZa monument at the Rizal Park in Manila this morning. During our 6th wedding anniversary on April 2, 2015, Jasmin and I decided to visit a historical site like we always do whenever we are in the metropolis during vacations and holidays. We chose to visit Paco Park Cemetery located on General Luna Street and at the east end of Padre Faura Street in Paco District, Manila. For so long a time, I thought that the obelisk monument of the GomBurZa at the Rizal Park was the final resting place of martyred Fathers Mariano Gomes de los Ángeles (born August 2, 1799), Jose Apolonio Burgos y Garcia (born February 9, 1837) and Jacinto Zamora y del Rosario (born August 14, 1835)...

  MY PRESIDENTIAL ELECTIONS (1981-2016) Dr. Troy Alexander G. Miano, LPT 8 February 2022 The start of the 2022 presidential elections national campaign commenced today and I reminisced the past presidential elections in my lifetime when a number of which I participated in the campaign. There had been 16 direct presidential elections in Philippine history: 1935, 1941, 1946, 1949, 1953, 1957, 1961, 1965, 1969, 1981, 1986, 1992, 1998, 2004, 2010 and 2016. I experienced seven presidential elections and I was only seven years old when the June 16, 1981 presidential elections transpired with incumbent President Ferdinand Edralin Marcos (1917-1989) seeking reelection against former Defense Secretary and Bulacan Governor Alejo Santos y Santos (1911-1984) and twelve others, namely: Bartolome Cabangbang, Delfin Manapaz, Ursula Dajao, Benito Valdez, Lope Rimando, Lucio Hinigpit, Pacifico Morelos, Jose Igtobay, Simeon del Rosario, Salvador Enage and Florencio Tipano. A referendum was al...

  123RD ANNIV 1ST SHOT PHIL-AM WAR Dr. Troy Alexander G. Miano, LPT 4 February 2022 During my younger years, I regularly visited my maternal relatives by affinity in the Municipality of San Juan, now a city, particularly at A. Bonifacio Street, Barangay Kabayanan near the Sanctuario del Santo Cristo Parish, also known as the Church of San Juan del Monte. During those numerous trips, a marker at the center of the San Juan Bridge at the boundary of the capital-city of Manila and San Juan, always caught my attention. Being very curious on what was written on the old metal tablet, I intentionally descended the jeepney one fateful day and walked my way towards the middle of the bridge crossing the San Juan River. The marker which was installed by the Philippine Historical Committee (PHC) in 1941 reads: “FIRST SHOT IN THE FILIPINO-AMERICAN WAR. HERE AT 9:00 O’CLOCK IN THE EVENING OF FERBUARY 4TH 1899, PRIVATE WILLIAM GRAYSON OF THE FIRST NEBRASKA VOLUNTEERS FIRED THE SHOT THAT STA...