QUEZON CITY TOUR ANNOUNCEMENT, Saturday, January 30, 2016

Message sent to all Members 

by CHOP President Pia Lim-Castillo

December 28, 2015

Happy New Year to everyone and wishing you a memorable turnover.

Our first event for 2016 is both a food trip around Quezon City and we will end up with our annual meeting at Serye and have a traditional merienda before heading home.

As it will be our annual meeting, we would like to seek the proxies of those who will not be able to make it.  This is to ensure that we will have a quorum.  Please fill in and email.  As in the past, we accept email proxies.  You may just email this filled in proxy to me at any time.

This is the itinerary:

8am - 11am  - Meet at QC Circle at the Quezon Heritage House

                     - Visit the Joy of Urban Farming 

                     - Visit the Quezon City Museum

11am     - La Loma for the Lechoneros ( view the live roasting pit of the La Loma group)

12 noon - Lunch at the Ping Ping Lechon

   Menu for lunch at Ping-ping

      - One whole lechon for the group

      - Kare-kare

      - Noodles ( chinese style)

      - Roast chicken

      - Fish fillet

      - Mixed vegetables

      - Steamed rice

1pm      - Visit San Pedro Bautista Church, one of the oldest churches in the Philippines dating back to 1590.  It is run by the Franciscan order

2pm      - Drop off at Serye restaurant for the CHOP Annual Meeting.  

Tour Fee :   Php1,600.00 per head for members and family,

                           Php1,800.00 per head for guests

- Tour guide fee

- Bus rental fee

- Lunch at Ping-ping

- Donations to museums

- Merienda at Serye

We end 2016 which an 80% increase in membership.  In January 2015, we had 46 members, now we are 83 in total.  The increases in membership came mostly from post event signups after enjoying themselves as guests.  We do hope that the new members continue on with their membership in 2016.  This is the biggest increase since I joined CHOP 3 years ago.

Lastly, we are now accepting the annual membership fees for 2016.  If paid today (the last banking day of the year), there is an early bird discount of 450.  Come January, it will be back to 500.  You may deposit this to our BDO account.  For those that have already paid, thank you very much.  If you aren’t sure if you paid already, send me an email and I will confirm it.

Account name:  CHOP

Account #: 535-800-8146

Please let me know date and branch of deposit so I can credit your payments to your membership.  

As we continue to firm up the details about this first event, I will email you again but here’s what’s in store for 2016

Tours:

Ilocos c/o Ige & Susie

Pampanga c/o Edith and Sau

Batangas - c/o Nanette, Inez and Chingbee

Lectures:

Indigenous Rice of the Phil c/o Alvin

Ating mga kakanin and salu salong balot balot - Pia with Nancy

Hanggang sa ating susunod na salu-salo,

PIA

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