 ThinkTek-A-Wai'i, civil engagement lives here. Hi, and Mabuhay. Welcome to another episode of Power Hawaii. I am your host, Amy Colliado Ortega Anderson, and we come to your home every Tuesday at 12 noon. We hope to fulfill our mission, five-fold mission, to enrich, enlighten, educate, entertain, and empower. Today we have a very special guest. She is an extended part of my Ortega family, and she's very well-known in our community. She doesn't need any formal introduction. Her name is Baby Hufana Ablan. She's currently the vice president of La Union Circle of Hawaii, which was founded by the late Auntie Annie Corpus and also serves as a public PR manager of Legacy Medical Supply. So welcome to our show, Cousin Baby Hufana Ablan. Thank you, Amy. Thanks for having me in here, and you're always looking great and fabulous program. Good morning. I think you said the blood cousin, good morning. Well, we want to thank your willingness to come and help us with the empowerment. I know that you've done a lot to serve our community, not only in the Philippine community, but also in our political community. So tell us about Baby Hufana Ablan. Well, thank you, Amy. Well, Baby Hufana, the only baby in the state of Hawaii that's always been my introduction to my name. Well, when I came here in 1977, I look around and who are the organizations in this community, and I involved myself, and as well as in healthcare, because I need to help people as well. So La Union Circle of Hawaii was founded by our auntie, Annie Corpus Goron, and also with Dr. Marcelino Avicilia, together with Dr. Linda Aquino. That was in 1975, and this time this is the 43rd year anniversary that we had to be celebrating, and also the selection of our Mrs. Hawaii, Filipina International, and Mrs. La Union Hawaii International, Mrs. La Union Hawaii Philippines. That is the highlights of our event on November 24. Talking back about La Union Circle, La Union Circle was founded to bring in the people that came from the province of La Union, and be the point of informative, to give informations to all our people what's happening back in our province, make sure that we inform our kababayan in here, the growing business, and as well as the enrichment of all the people that live in there, way back from World War II up to now, and amazingly, mostly people in La Union, they are involved themselves in politics, as well as in healthcare. If you went to a teaching, which is education, but La Union focused mostly on politics, healthcare, and business. Well, just keeping up with the tradition of the Ortega family cousin, you know, they are known as the oldest political, if I may use the word dynasty, because we're known for our political clout or power, and we're so proud to carry and extend the name, so I'm an Ortega, so I don't mind hearing about the Ortega family to help us with enriching people's lives and also empower other people's lives, so I'm happy to hear that. Well, you're right, cousin Amy, that's why I'm so proud to be your cousin, because the Ortega's family is the most organized and helpful politicians in the province of La Union. It goes to generations, like it started from the governor, mayor, congressman, it's all and even on the board of directors and the city council, all their children, from their grandparents to their children and grandchildren, they involve themselves in politics, why? Because they want to bring in the people together to help the people as well as we call it, there's no poor, everybody's equal. Oh, that's great. So they bring in, they hired the people that lives in La Union to work in the city, municipality, as well as in the capital, that's why when I went home last year, I was surprised that the vice governor over there is my barcada, we all went to school together, and then the new governor now is very young, he's, you know, Governor Pat Coy Ortega, and all the employees at the capital were my high school classmates, as well as my childhood playmates, and I'm so happy to see them there. And that is the Ortega, they bring in all the people, make sure that La Union is peaceful to live in, make sure that La Union is clean, and that's what we are happy and so proud that I am a daughter of La Union. Okay, so we know about their power in politics, tell us a little bit more about what they do to share their blessings with others, how are they helping, especially the poorest of the poor? Do you know of anything in extension of La Union Circle of Hawaii, what are we doing as far as helping the children get educated and also help them to live their dreams? Okay, thank you for asking that. Well, La Union Circle of Hawaii was formed, as what I said from the beginning, to give more information, as well as to help the needy. We give mutual aid, and if there's any calamities, we help. With the help of the provincial government officers of La Union, which held the whole family of the Ortega, and also the Nisi and Gualberto, we, the La Union Circle of Hawaii, we extend our mission, which is we give scholarship. That's important, yes, continuing education. Yes, Hawaii, over here in America, is so easy to get scholarship, as long as you have the brain, easy. But we need to help out the needy, so we do the fundraising, and the officials, governments in the Philippines, they do come and always acknowledge our effort working. So if we have an event, they always come to be our guest speaker, to make sure that we, the La Union people here in Hawaii, are also acknowledged back home, that our working effort, we love to help people, the students, because we believe, and I do believe myself, that the young ones, the youth, will be our future. And they have their dreams, they have hope. So we have to help them to fulfill their dreams and their hope to believe on. Well, we know that education is one of the most important gifts that we can pass on to our future generation, especially for our children and the young leaders, the youth especially. So I'm really happy, because in Gung Lo, at the La Union Circle of Hawaii, it can be a gift, but with your effort, with the effort of La Union Circle and all the members and the staff, our will to continue our mission will live on as a legacy. Yes, Cassian, because when it started by Annie Garun Corpus and then took over by Uncle Jesse Florendo, see our founders now, once they pass away, the leadership being a president, they pass on to the next whose elder, elderly in our organization, right? So my sister Carlotta Ader took over also the president title and leadership of this organization. She stayed for 15 years. Wow, that's a long time. Yes, 15 years. And only in 2013 that she passed on to Conrad Waldres. Waldres, yes. So Conrad Waldres now is our current president and my dear cousin. From then up to now, I'm always being the vice president, which I love it. I enjoy it because you know why? I always help the president and all the members and officers of this organization. That's why I love to invite all the sons and daughters of La Union to please come back, you know, because only few of us now left. All the elderly pass away. So I'm trying to bring in all the children and their grandchildren to unite us again, to help us so we can, the more members to come in, the merrier, right? We have to be proud daughters and sons of La Union so we can be helpful more to the youth, to the students, and not only that, to the people back home that in need, whatever, you know, their health care needs or financial needs, we can be helpful to them. And that way, nothing is going to be left behind. Everybody live the happiest and the enjoyment life as we live. So when we come back from our short break, we want to talk more about the specific projects that you may have in mind as far as continuing to help empower the people of La Union as well as the members of La Union Circle of Hawaii, so that they will continue their quest to share their blessings with others. For instance, in my barrio where I grew up in Lawag, we support six school districts. Among them are Cabeza and also Amarosa schools, which help to also further their education. You know, Nakalala, it's not like it's not like, of course, Masapul, Kantei, Tigundawa, and then they will be able to continue that trend and also give the gift that gives ungiving, which is education. So very, very important that we leave that legacy. Exactly. So, we're going to take a quick break here on Pinoy Power Hawaii, and we want to thank you once again for being with us. We are here weekly every Tuesday, and we go on live at 12 noon here on Think Tech Hawaii. We will be right back after these messages, and again, we thank you for joining us today. We'll be right back. 皆さんこんにちは。 Think Tech Hawaiiが日本語でお届けする。 こんにちは。 Hawaii の日本語放送のコスト、クニスへゆかりです。 各州月曜日の2時からお届けしています。 日本語コミュニティー、ハワイド日本語コミュニティーに便利な お助け情報、ニュースなどをゲストを招きしてお届けする番組です。 こんにちは。 Hawaii 各州の月曜日、2時からぜひ皆さん見てください。 コストのクニスへゆかりでした。 Aloha. Hi, I'm Bill Sharp, host of Asian Review here on Think Tech Hawaii. Join me every Monday afternoon from 5 to 5.30 Hawaii Standard Time for an insightful discussion of Contemporary Asian Affairs. There's so much to discuss, and the guests that we have are very, very well informed. Just think, we have the upcoming negotiation between President Trump and Kim Jong-un. The possibility of Xi Jinping, the leader of China, remaining in power forever. We'll see you then. We want to welcome you back to the second portion of our show, Pinoy Power Hawaii. I am your host, Amy Koliado Ortega Anderson, and we are happy to come to your home every week Tuesdays at 12 noon. Our mission, we aim to enrich and lighten, educate, entertain, and we hope to empower you all. Today, we're doing just that by sharing and talking stories with my cousin, baby Hufana Ablan, who is the Promotions Manager of the Legacy Medical Supply of Hawaii, and also the Onion Circle of Hawaii. She is the ongoing Vice President, and she does quite a great job in serving our community. So, let's get back to our conversation. We were talking earlier about sharing our blessings with others that are less fortunate. We really want to help. The next thing I'd like to tell you is that we're all very grateful for the support that we have received from our community. We are very grateful for the support that we have received from our community. We are very grateful for the support that we have received from our community. And I'm happy to hear that the Onion Circle of Hawaii is doing just that through the scholarship program that you are now offering. So, let's talk more about the mission of the Onion Circle of Hawaii and what can we ask the members to do to contribute to the success. Okay. That's a good question. Okay. Our mission is always now focused on the education. We have a lot of students now that graduated. And for the past three years, we don't have anybody that we can support because nobody submitting names or bringing in a pool or children if they qualify to get the scholarships. So, at this time, we have the Mrs. La Onion Hawaii and the International and the one also for the Philippines. We're starting this again. So, our Mrs. La Onion Hawaii is very young. She's only in the 30s. So, hopefully, she will help us bring in the younger, young and daughters, son and daughters of La Onion so we can be more helpful with their effort. They can help us and bring in more members to our organization because the more people to work together, we can accomplish bigger and greater things. And we are so thankful for all our sponsors because without them, we cannot really make that much financial to give away to our students. But then we as members, we have this so-called mission to fulfill, to help. But being a member, you also have a responsibility to hold on in order to fulfill our mission. Okay. As a member of this organization, you can be a lifetime member and it's not too expensive. Okay. With that lifetime membership, you can have your mutual aid assistance if something happened to you. And at the same time, if you have children or grandchildren that are qualified for this scholarship program, you can just submit and we will give that opportunity to your children or grandchildren. But you as a member, your responsibility is to help us invite, if we have an event, invite people, bring them in for the dinner event. And if we have fundraising, help us to sell. So whatever proceeds for that fundraising comes out, it goes to the education. And that is very simple. And just attend once a month. Every last Saturday of the month is our meeting. Whether there is an agenda or not, it's just fellowship. We just get together, talk stories, and get to know more and find out what's happening back home. It's a good way to connect and also to communicate. Yes. And it's very simple. And we are so proud to say that we have a lot of students that have all their bachelor's degrees. And in fact, some had master's degrees. But with this organization, we only promised to pay the four years degree. And that's it. Okay. So it's so simple. So please, come and join us. Yes. I know that the Lonion Circle of Hawaii was also involved in restoring the library at one point. Can you tell us about that? Oh, yes. The library is like the meeting house of all knowledge, right? Yes. So tell us about that. Oh, thank you for asking that. The Lonion National High School Library is located in San Fernando. And it so happened that in 2010, it was burned. So we, the Lonion Circle of Hawaii, as well as the alumni of the Lonion National High School, being the president for plenty of years, we really work hard, incorporate with the Lonion Circle of Hawaii and the Lonion National High School Alumni Association. We did the fundraising. And we call out all the alumni to bring in donations, whatever. And we are so happy that now, the one-story library that we had, it became now two stories. Wow. And because we want to own that library, the alumni, it was funded by the Alumni Association. So we just want the government officials to assist us. That's why the ceremony, all the officials, government officials came and acknowledged the effort of the alumni that we did. Because mostly alumni of the Lonion National High School were engineers, architects, doctors and mostly businessmen and educators. So we're so happy that those engineers and architects are the ones that really work hard to fulfill the dreams of having that two-story library. So we welcome all of you, whether you're from Lonion or from the north or from the south, west and east, you can come. You can use our library at the Lonion National High School, located in San Fernando, Lonion, and everybody will welcome you there. And we thank all our government officials, Dorthegas, Danisi, the Gualbertus, because they are also part of that library, whether they put in money or not, which they did, they give also donations. But Marley, as you know, all the alumnus did it, as well as our Lonion Circle of Hawaii. I'm happy to hear, Cousin Baby, that the alumni stepped forward and generously donated so that the library could be restored and even bigger than the actual building that unfortunately was burned down in 2010. So we want to commend all of the members, especially the alumni, for stepping out of the square and helping and continuing to share the blessings. You know, the library is really the center of justice. Yes. It's more of a source of wisdom, it's more of a source of knowledge. You know, that's all part of the power. And it's all part of the bigger picture to empower all of us and also to educate us so that we are prepared to compete or go out into the workforce, into the world, the bigger world. So we are happy to hear that that That's why we need more computers and books. That's another. We send out five boxes of books in the Philippines last year and also mostly computers are what that means because now everything is high-tech. Yes. Well, that is the way of the future, you know. If you're not computer tech, you're not of the world. Yes. If you're a future donor, you know, technology, modern technology, especially the computer, call the unicast and baby. You know, they're going to be able to help you. So how could they be a part of the donation cast? Well, okay. Since they already completed the books program, now we're doing the computer, yeah. So, we're going to be so thankful. So either way, whatever is easier for you to donate, it's either money, computer or whatnot. And going back to the legacy medical supply that I am, ever since I was in healthcare for 40 years, we've been giving out in La Union well cheers and also those kind of respiratory stuff, like the Parasma machine and stuff like that. We give out. So La Union Circle is always there to help out. Because they don't have enough money to see the doctor. So all they're going to do is go to the clinic and we have a clinic over there. The one in charge is Dr. Riliurasa, Gudi, we call him Gudi, Dr. Gudi. And he helped our Kababayan, because he has all those machines in there. We give them those disposable tubings, so they don't have to be sharing those tubings. They share only the machine, but they have their own tubing. And then if we have also this kind of Tylenol, just for pain reliever, they can just go out there, vitamins and ask Dr. Gudi, Riliurasa, because all our donations from La Union is all directed to the clinic in San Fernando. Okay, so who could they call? Could you give a number so that people will know who to reach out to? You can always reach out baby Hufana Ablan. It's either my cell phone at 753-5616-7535-616, or you can call Legacy Medical Supply at 312-1632. You know if you need all your medical equipment and supply, Legacy Medical Supply is always there for you. We are participating with all the insurance, Medicare and Medicaid. And we are very helpful also with other organizations, especially with La Union Circle of Hawaii. Legacy Medical Supply is always going to be there to support them in healthcare as well as education. They name it Legacy because they want it as baby's legacy. My children, yes, my children are also in healthcare. They are nurses and medical technologists. So they can be helpful and be informative. Please come. Okay, so we want to wrap up our show. We have less than a minute to wrap up our show. I want to thank you personally and of course all the members, the alumni of La Union Circle of Hawaii for helping to teach La Union. And we want to thank you personally for sharing your blessings with others. And thank you, Cousin Baby, for coming. Thank you very much for all the help of KPRP. They've always been there for us whether University of the East, whether La Union Circle of Hawaii, whether La Union National High School of Hawaii, KPRE owned by my cousin Amy Ortega Anderson. And with that, Mara Babayans, we say maraming salamat po. Mabuhay, we thank you for joining us for another episode. And, you know, go out there and make a difference. We will continue to live our five-fold mission. We aim to enrich, enlighten, educate, entertain, and empower you. Maraming salamat, mabuhay, and God bless. God bless. I love you, Cousin.