(Photo courtesy of Philippine Red Cross) MANILA - As the active ally of the government, the Philippine Red Cross (PRC) also supports local government-run Bakuna Centers in many parts of the country to help curb the Covid-19 pandemic. In Baguio City, the PRC volunteers and staff have supported the vaccination of 740 individuals at the government-run Bakuna Center at the Athletic Bowl Drive-Thru every Wednesday since it opened last Nov. 8, 2021. "As the Red Cross continues to stand to provide hope for the most vulnerable, we ensure to go the extra mile to reach out especially to the most vulnerable. We want the people to feel safe and to be protected against Covid-19," PRC Chairperson and CEO, Senator Richard Gordon in a media release on Saturday. Meanwhile, PRC volunteers and staff were also deployed at the Bureau of Jail Management and Penology in Baguio City aiming to vaccinate 35 persons deprived of liberty (PDLs), Baguio Country Club's Bakuna Center giving jabs to 24 i
Staff and volunteers from the Philippine Red Cross (PRC) supported the vaccination of a total of 740 individuals at the government-run Bakuna Center at the Athletic Bowl drive-thru in Baguio City every Wednesday since it opened on Nov. 8.
(Photo courtesy of the Philippine Red Cross / MANILA BULLE
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+ December 11, 2020 DECADES ago, you could judge a city by the number of newsstands on its main streets.
Baguio City already was a cosmopolitan city even then. In the early 1920s, it already has a bookstore, owned by the mother of the great grammarian Jean Edades. At that time, most of Manila still had no electricity.
After Manila, many of the English language newspapers sprouted in Baguio even before Baguio became a charter city in 1909.
Yes, Baguio had a lot of newsstands. The most prominent, even during the 1970s, was Jack’s Newsstand at the corner of Session Rd. and Malcolm Square. What is now a pawnshop used to be the place to buy not only all the national and local papers and magazines but comics and foreign magazines.