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Tauranga's Filipino Club created an elaborate Nativity scene with the Virgin Mary, Joseph, baby Jesus, the three wise men and even some camels.
Tauranga Chirstmas Parade 2014
PROVEN EFFICENCY
A very positive impact that created a great camaraderie among the officers and members.
A STRONG COMMITMENT
We, Filipinos enjoy a more effective way of commitment to an idea that makes every events and projects of the club successful resulting versed memories with depth sense of belongingness.
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Club Filipino Tauranga Inc. participated Santa parade in 2014 and won the 1st Prize on best Christmas float.
Winter Fun Festival
The local Filipino community came out to enjoy a day of food and entertainment in Tauranga over the weekend.
The first ever Winter Fun Festival, organised by Club Filipino and held at Otumoetai Baptist Church on Saturday, boasted not only national food from the Philippines but international cuisine from Japanese or Indonesian and bacon butties for the less adventurous.
By far the most popular on the menu was the lechon - a roasted suckling pig. It was decimated by the crowds in less than an hour.
Entertainment included an Igorot dance, Indian dancing and belly dancing.
Other food stalls had interesting national cuisine like suman (sticky rice wrapped in banana leaves), laing (taro leaves), coconut milk and pork and hopia (a bean filled pastry).
Club president Irene Naballin said money raised would go towards the club, which promoted and enriched Filipino culture in Tauranga.
Blessie Gotingco's husband's plea: Please help me
Kiwis have rallied behind a Filipino family's legal bid for justice, for their much loved mother, grandmother and wife, to raise more than $50,000.
The family hoped to use the money to undertake their own review own review of the "mismanagement and non-monitoring of evil" which they say enabled her death.
If the review shows they have legal grounds, the family will file a civil case against Corrections.
The mother-of-three and grandmother was raped and murdered on May 24, 2014 by Tony Douglas Robertson, after he ran her down when she was walking to her Birkdale home from a bus-stop.
He'd been released from prison just five months earlier, after serving time for abducting and indecently assaulting a young girl.
Of the more than 1,000 people who donated, a number shared their best wishes and love for the Gotingco family.
Kim Valladares said the 56-year-old's death had affected the whole community.
"I wish you and your family the very best. My prayers and thoughts are with you all."
A donor, who wished to remain private, expressed a wish that "justice is brought to you".
"My heart hurts for the loss of your wife."
Another expressed sympathy for the family "in their grief, search for justice and objective to see that this sort of awful crime never happens again".
There's been an outpouring of support for a Filipino family's legal bid against the Department of Corrections following the murder of their much loved mother and wife - Blessie Gotingco.
Last night the family launched a Givealittle page in a bid to raise enough money to undertake their own review of the "mismanagement and non-monitoring of evil" which they say enabled her death.
The mother-of-three and grandmother was raped and murdered on May 24, 2014 by Tony Douglas Robertson, after he ran her down when she was walking to her Birkdale home from a bus-stop.
Blessie Cotingco Supplied 20 MAY 2016
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