May 10, 2021 at 4:09 AM
Dr. Gonzalo “Zal” Valez, Deputy Mayor of West Orange to former township Mayors Sam Spina and John McKeon and current Mayor Rob Parisi, passed away on April 28.
Velez, born in the Philippines, held a Doctorate in Education and served as an Education Commissioner under Ronald Reagan.
He later ran the International Cultural and Educational Association and also had a long career as an educator and author.
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Published February 22, 2021, 12:33 AM
WALA LANG
Seniors old enough remember cannon booms, smoke, and flashes of light reaching Dewey Boulevard from across the bay, from Bataan and Corregidor where Filipino and American soldiers were making a stand against Japanese invaders. That was exactly 79 years ago in February 1942.
Manila and Clark Field were bombed by the Japanese on the same day as the attack on Pearl Harbor, Dec. 8, 1941. War had begun and President
Manuel L. Quezon and Gen.
Douglas MacArthur evacuated government and the military high command to Corregidor on Dec. 26, just before the Japanese entered Manila the following week on Jan. 2.