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GAYE Vergara, a native of Baguio City who has been working as a medical technologist for 27 years in the United States, has been collecting Christmas houses since she started working abroad in 1996.
“When I went to the States I started to buy collectible Christmas houses. I told myself they are beautiful and soon I will display them in a diorama but because I stay alone in a small condominium apartment and the busy life I had did not allow me to fix them, they stayed in boxes,” she said.
Her collections have been in boxes until during the pandemic when she remembered how happy Christmas is in the Philippines.
To cope with the loneliness of being alone during the holidays, and in the middle of the pandemic at that, Gaye, who did not want to meet with friends and families given her exposure to the virus because of her job, the Baguio native brought out her collections accumulated for decades.
“I made mini bricks, miniature roads, and walls for the Christ ....
The Office of the Ombudsman has cleared officials of the Baguio City District Engineering Office (BCDEO) of the Department of Public Works and Highways and the contractor of the Bonifacio Street improvement project of allegations of violating the Anti Graft Corrupt Practices Act and for administrative charges for neglect of duty. In a resolution dated ....