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Article: PIDCI TODAY; Grand Marshal Night lives up to expectation
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- Filipino Reporter
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- May 26, 2005
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Wycoco, Tambi
Filipino Reporter
05-26-2005
H-E-E-R-R-E-E'S the grand marshal! And that was the big story this past
weekend. The presentation of the grand marshal of the 2005 Philippine
Independence Day Parade - Dr. Linda R. Pelayo - at the big Grand Marshal
Night May 13 at the Astoria World Manor in Queens, N.Y.
Tackling the guest list and seating the whole week, both the grand marshal
and Grand Marshal Circle chair Nelia M. Ferrette, assisted by others in the
Circle like Emma Ruth Yulo Kitiyakara, Vilma Bautista and even GM daughter
Joy McCarthy toiled to near perfect the whole task.
Payoff time came last Friday night as there came nary a problem with
seating and the party came off, in the ...