CDOTIMES August 15-21, 2016

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CAGAYANLifestyle TIMES Weekly de Oro

Volume 4 | No. 02 | Cagayan de Oro City | August 15-21, 2016

CDO – a City of Gold in the cooperative movement N

Story and Photos by MARK FRANCISCO, Lifestyle Editor

O less than the founder of the Asian Confederation of Credit Unions has commended Cagayan de Oro as a City of Gold in the cooperative movement. Speaking during the 50th anniversary of MASS-SPECC Cooperative Development Center, 77-year-old Andrew So said it was here in Cagayan de Oro that great minds in cooperativism were molded by the Southeast Asia Rural Social Leadership Institute (Searsolin) and dispersed back to their home countries in Asia, Africa and elsewhere.

So first came to the city in 1968 to witness and assist a growing cooperative movement which was known then as the Southern Philippines Educational Cooperative Center (SPECC). A few years later, So’s credit union expertise took a backside as he focused on taking up various high-profile government posts in Hong Kong, including a stint as member of cooperative/PAGE 7

Past chairpersons of MASS-SPECC

Glass Noodles Seafood Soup KaVe Restaurant’s latest menu

Limketkai Luxe Hotel takes pride with Kave Restaurant’s new addition to its menu. The Glass Noodles Seafood with Tofu in Coconut Milk Kaffir Lime Soup is a Thai-style

soup that captured the judges’ attention and taste buds during the recently concluded Food Solution Elite Chef Challenge 2016, by no less than Limketkai kave/PAGE 7

The Night Stalker:

The Cagayan de Oro Times celebrates 4th Anniversary The City of Golden Friendship’s definitive Lifestyle Weekly celebrated its 4th Anniversary with a salosalo for editorial, marketing, admin and production staff at the BusinessWeek Mindanao Corporation Headquarters along F. Abellanosa St., Cagayan de Oro City. It seemed like old times for many of the “old guard” who were present to reminisce the “good old days” when they all were affiliated with one of the city’s daily newspapers as well as the new beginning they started with BWM Corporation.

Present were BWM Corp. President & CEO Dante M. Sudaria, BusinessWeek Mindanao Editor-in-Chief Nelson Constantino, Mindanao Daily Editor-in-Chief Allan Mediante, Mindanao Daily Managing Editor Ruel Pelone, Contributing Editors Mike Baños and Chris Panganiban, Lifestyle Editor Mark Francisco and Layout Chief Felix Santillan. The group would like to thanks the following sponsors who made the 4th Anniversary celebration of The Cagayan de Oro Times a truly memorable one: Jan &

Maggie Uy, Cathy Dano (Thai Me Up Centrio/Bite Me Up Corp.), Nova Lumactod (TGI Friday’s Centrio), Kristina Espina (Italianni’s Centrio), Jerome de la Fuente and Mai Sison (Limketkai Luxe Hotel), Jerome Soldevilla and Ghaye R. Alegrio (STEAG State Power Inc.), Rep. Klarex Uy (1st District, Cagayan de Oro), Hong C. See (Ororama Group); Charles Lim (Selrhaco Management & Consultancy Services), and Beth Ladaga, Nelson Bautista & Atty. Cynthia P. Alabanza (National Grid Corporation of the Philippines).

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