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HARI SANG BUNGSOD

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HARI SANG BUNGSOD Malip-ot nga Sugilanon ni Edgar H. Siscar 1st Prize Winner, 2nd Quin Baterna Realty Corporation Short Story in Hiligaynon Writing Contest, June 5, 1994 HARI SANG BUNGSOD ni Edgar H. Siscar                                                                                                        I   Gikan sa akon ginatindugan, makit-an ko na sila. Nagasinundanay sila sa kilid sang dayk pakadto sa akon ginahamtangan. Si Tiyo Doming ang nagapanguna, ginasundan san hepe sang pulisiya kag sang duha niya ka tinawo; dayon si Nanay, si Toto, si Inday nga nagakugos kay Nene, kag ang amon mga kasilingan. Mabalik na ako agud magpangatubang. Tinulok ko liwat ang suba.      Nian wala na ang kapagsik sang tubig. Wa...
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ST. AUGUSTINE PARISH CHURCH (Est. 1572) Dumangas, Iloilo   by Edgar H. Siscar St. AUGUSTINE PARISH CHURCH (Est. 1572; Rebuilt 1887; Restored 2018) Dumangas, Iloilo as of  July 9, 2018 Dumangas, officially the Municipality of Dumangas, is a First Class municipality in the province of Iloilo in the Philippines. According to the 2015 census, it has a population of 69,108 people as of 2003. Dumangas is located in Panay Island, north-east of Iloilo City, east of the province of Iloilo. Surrounded by the towns of Barotac Nuevo in the north, Pototan in the west, Zarraga in the south and the waters and islands of Guimaras and Negros Occidental in the east. Dumangas was originally a settlement named Araut in  1212 AD when the Malays of the Shrivishayan Empire of Sumatra and Borneo migrated to the Philippines. One tribe settled along the banks of Talaugis River in the present-day Bantud Fabrica i...