BALIK CARAMOAN – Encouraging Caramoanons now residing in the United States, Canada and other parts of the globe like Diday Borebor-San Felipe (extreme left) and Puring Narvaez (extreme right) to come home briefly from May 1 to 8. 2007 is the goal of the Balik Caramoan Project which has recently been launched by CRANE. Also in above photo taken at the residence of Diday at Downey, California, U.S.A. are Emma Borebor- Boncacas, incumbent CRANE Vice-President for Internal Affairs; Amelia Babilonia-Borebor, CRANE chair of the Culture and Arts Committee and leader of the CRANE choir and an unidentified Bicolana also residing in the U.S. The Balik Caramoan Project is being spearheaded by Dr. Dolly Roa-Perez, CRANE Executive Vice President.

Bombo Radyo DZNG Naga Station Manager Orbel Cepeda receives from Most Rev. Leonardo Z. Legaspi, O.P., D.D., Archbishop of Caceres, the 2006 Catholic Mass Media Award for Balanced Programming in a ceremony at the Holy Rosary Minor Seminary last June 24. Cepeda, who hails from Cadong, Caramoan, Camarines Sur is CRANE PRO. Another Caramoanon, Monina Avila Llorin of ABS-CBN Naga, received the award for Outstanding TV Field Reporter. Looking on is Fr. Louie Occiano, director of the Caceres Commission on Communication.

BAGING ISLAND IN CARAMOAN. The potential of Baging Island in Caramoan, Camarines Sur becoming a tourist destination is highlighted in this aerial photo which shows its long stretches of beaches of white fine sand and the rich marine life around the 40-hectare island. About a dozen other islets off Caramoan in this area facing the Pacific Ocean await tourism entrepreneurs. Tourism development in Caramoan Peninsula is expected to perk up with the coming construction of the Caramoan coastal road which will shorten travel distance by 24 kilometers.

BEFORE ISRAELI OFFENSIVE – At least four members of the Caramoan Residents Association in Naga City and its Environs (CRANE) were able to visit religious sites in Israel, before it launched its on-going air raids on its enemies in Lebanon and Palestine and some Israeli cities have consequently been also bombarded. The four CRANE members shown in photo at Jerusalem led by Most Rev. Manolo A. de los Santos, D.D., Bishop of Virac (fourth from right) included Stanley Osga and wife Sally Cordis Osga (third and fourth from left) and Araceli C. Alarkon (extreme right), wife of CRANE president and MONITOR editor Dominador Alarkon, Jr. Others in photo are (from left) Bernardino Gonzales Jr. and wife Del Gonzales of Cabanatuan City and Cathy Manuel of the St. Bernadette Travel and Tours. Retired Catanduanes Provincial Fiscal Manuel Magistrado and wife Gloria Vergara Magistrado of Virac, Catanduanes are second and third from right. Standing behind is a Palestinian tour guide.