{"id":8707,"date":"2014-05-03T11:41:44","date_gmt":"2014-05-03T03:41:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/?p=8707"},"modified":"2014-05-03T11:41:44","modified_gmt":"2014-05-03T03:41:44","slug":"pag-elects-new-officers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/2014\/05\/03\/pag-elects-new-officers\/","title":{"rendered":"PAG Elects New Officers"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_8708\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-8708\" style=\"width: 623px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/pag.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-8708\" src=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/pag.png\" alt=\"Clockwise from center below: Rolly Abarilla, Frank Tonido, Frank Cruzet, Gene Lopos, Alex Gonzales (standing), Toots Quiachon, Jun Afable, Romi C MananQuil, Jhun Ciolo Diamante, Michelle Chermaine Ramos, journalist Rose Tijam, President Nelia Tonido and Mila Ureta Navaleza. Photo by Jonray Diamante.\" width=\"623\" height=\"411\" srcset=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/pag.png 623w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/pag-300x197.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 623px) 100vw, 623px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-8708\" class=\"wp-caption-text\"><em>Clockwise from center below: Rolly Abarilla, Frank Tonido, Frank Cruzet, Gene Lopos, Alex Gonzales (standing), Toots Quiachon, Jun Afable, Romi C MananQuil, Jhun Ciolo Diamante, Michelle Chermaine Ramos, journalist Rose Tijam, President Nelia Tonido and Mila Ureta Navaleza. Photo by Jonray Diamante.<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Hopes are high with the Philippine Artists Group of Canada&#8217;s election of a new set of officers lead by recent Woman Achiever awardee for Visual Arts, Nelia Tonido as President. Nelia is a watercolorist, architect and award-winning cake designer.<\/p>\n<p>Also elected are the award-winning artist Antonio &#8216;Jun&#8217; Afable as Vice President, artist\/architect Genaro &#8216;Gene&#8217; Lopos as Secretary, award winner Teodorico &#8216;Teody&#8217; Asuncion is re-elected as Treasurer, also re-elected is multi-talented Michelle Chermaine Ramos as the P.R.O., artist\/lawyer Joyce Cristino &#8216;Ato&#8217; Bondoc as Auditor and magic realist artist Francisco &#8216;Frank&#8217; Tonido as Property Custodian. Artist\/architect Rolando &#8216;Rolly&#8217; Abarilla remains as Archivist and artist\/computer wizard &#8216;Jhun&#8217; Ciolo Diamante stays as the Webmaster.<\/p>\n<p>As a long-time fixture in the Filipino community\u2019s annual observance of the Declaration of Philippine Independence, the PAG will be celebrating its 26<sup>th<\/sup> anniversary with their annual summer show to be held from June 2-22, 2014at the Neilson Park Creative Centre. The opening reception is on Saturday, June 7<sup>th<\/sup> 2014 from 1-4pm.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; Hopes are high with the Philippine Artists Group of Canada&#8217;s election of a new set of officers lead by &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":44,"featured_media":8708,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1481,1480],"tags":[2802,2801],"class_list":["post-8707","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-news-comm","category-seen-scenes","tag-new-officers","tag-pag","mauthors-romy-mananquil"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8707","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/44"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8707"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8707\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8708"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8707"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8707"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8707"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}