Palermo has been around for forever in my hometown. I never think about it when it comes to Italian food, even though I have been there 3 times prior. It is a family-owned restaurant that clams to make Italian food from scratch. Let’s get to the review! Blogger Note: on this trip we were in…
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Another Trip Update for October 28th
This week I attended Freegen Church in Lapu Lapu. This is my girl’s old church. This was our second visit this month. I was wearing a prominent colored shirt and made a short video of the praise music which I later posted on Facebook. Yesterday, I found out that the photo collage that went on…
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I’m about ten days into this trip. Here are a few observations thus far. Getting a visa extension to stay here was easy. The hardest part was the demand that payment be made in cash. The cost was just north of 4,000 pesos ($66). I needed to complete a form, pay a fee, and then…
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My first hotel experience in Lapu Lapu City was the Crown Regency Hotel. I will be comparing it, in part, with my visit last year. The Crown Regency is an older hotel along a main road in Lapu Lapu City. Per the elevator buttons, it has ten floors. It has a small swimming pool and…
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CRA President John Briscoe has announced his resignation. Per succession rules in the Bylaws, Executive Vice-President, Tom Hudson will be the next President. In a letter to Hudson and copied to the Board, Briscoe wrote I will work with you for a smooth transition. I understand that per board rule my resignation cannot be effective…
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There are a lot of new readers wondering what is all the controversy happening in CRA and asking the Rodney King question, “Why can’t we all just get along?” Here is a summary to date. The factions break up into two camps with some folks in the middle wondering, what’s going on? In the first…
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I typically don’t try to dismantle someone else’s blog posts but this one deserves such a response. Below is the blog posted by Aaron Park yesterday, April 20th. The setting is this, Aaron is adding his comments to the announcement for the May 30th CRA Board meeting called by 22 Board members. KEY Original meeting…
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CRA President John Briscoe refuses to comply with California law related to records published on Internet by Park brothers. Briscoe has refused to inform CRA members that their names, addresses, bank account numbers, signatures and other personal information were published on the Internet on Friday. The data continues to be available on the Internet even…
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Round one of the CRA dust-up results just came in. CRA Board 1 Park Brothers 0 Vote totals Yes 28 No 31 Abstain 1 The proposal for a July 25th Board meeting was defeated. Clearly it was outside the margin of cheating or some votes might have been tossed to change the outcome. Aaron Park…
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In the wake of the Parks employing the nuclear option on Friday, a backlash of events—now wholly out of their control—is at work. They have created a target rich environment. The majority on the CRA Board now have a number of measures available to them thanks to the Park’s overreaching and being arrogant enough to…
