The Welcome Home Foundation Inc. will celebrate its 20th Founder's Day Feb. 28 in Bacolod City, a press release from the group said yesterday.

The celebration, in honor of its founder, Fr. Joe Coyle, SSC, whose birthday falls on Feb. 28 will start with a 3:30 p.m. Mass on Feb. 26 at the Welcome Home Residence, Mercury Street, Fuentebella Subdivision, Bacolod to be followed by a merienda cenna.

Salvacion Tinsay, president and chief executive officer took over the WHFI from 1991 to the present, and since then the foundation has reached out to different areas in Visayas and Mindanao.

The WHFI projects are the Educational Resource Center, Special Religious Education for the Deaf, Welcome Home Residence, WHFI-CFC ANCOP Village for the Deaf, Computer Literary Program, Outreach Centers in various towns in Negros Occidental and Mindanao, and Sponsorships and Scholarship grants to poor but deserving deaf students, it added.*

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Sunshine Cable 14 launches
fund drive for Leyte victims

A fund campaign for the families of the victims of the Leyte landslide will be launched by the Sunshine Cable 14 in Bacolod City, a press release from the station said yesterday.

An initial of P10,000 was given by the Sunshine Boys chaired by Ricardo Yanson and those willing to offer donations are asked to give it to the Sunshine Cable office at MBL Building, Mandalagan, Bacolod in front of ABS-CBN, with tel. no. 433-0014.

The donation will be acknowledged in the Cablecast, the press release said.

The station also said that except for Sunshine personnel, no one is authorized to solicit for the campaign.

Meanwhile, starting Monday, Sunshine Cable started operating from 7 a.m. until 11 p.m., from the previous 11 a.m. to 11 p.m. time slot, it added.*

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