Variety Features

Twins Supermarket owner Lanlan Wang told the Variety yesterday that they started offering marked down prices on a lot of grocery supplies and more items since August 26. “Our promotional prices will continue until September 10, and we are inviting the community to come and avail of our low-priced g…

Ten-year-old Kimiko Nishikawa feels the seriousness of the situation. Although she can barely understand Japanese, she knows the anguished plea of her father for them to love one another,  love others and to never be lazy. As her father heartrendingly performs what she thinks is a wine ceremony to …

Auntie Chailang knew this from the very start. Her mother had sown in her the virtues that she ought to cultivate. She learned piety, “respetu,” and obedience. And when she entered the convent of the Mercedarian Sisters, she learned more things about herself and about her faith. As a little girl, A…

Carol Wong Chan, who manages the restaurant with her family said keeping the business alive has been a big challenge especially with the hard economic times, but they will still continue to serve the community with the sumptuous cuisine they have been known for almost three decades. Lunch buffet an…

She knows her father has a stash of coins right at the top of the door. She pulls a stool, stands on it, reaches for a coin, then tightly wraps it in her hand as she hurriedly descends the stool. For seven-year-old Chailang, a silver dollar coin is all she needs for two days to buy snacks including…

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A perusal of the documents led to another interesting find: veterans narrating their experiences of the war. One of these veterans is Tony Praxel whom this reporter had the privilege of knowing on Veterans Day in 2008 through Bruce Petty who escorted a group of visiting veterans on a Mariana Island…

Those were priceless moments indeed. But recordings were all this reporter had of that special tour of Tinian in 2008 with more than 500 photographs save for a few lost into oblivion. This reporter, Hap, and Jerry found themselves engaged listening intently to Don’s  account of   the invasion and t…

She remembers the time when the gates of Camp Susupe were opened and they found deserted houses used to be occupied by employees of the sugarcane factory. “They are not broken. If there’s any damage, you can fix them,” says Tan Escolastica. After staying in Camp Susupe for six months, the Chamorros…

Escolastica Tudela Cabrera, 81, narrates that incident in the cave in June 1944. Saipan was preparing for an invasion by the Americans and hiding in the caves, they could neither go out to fetch water nor to gather food. They resolved to stay inside the cave for their own safety. They were so thirs…