IN DUMAGUETE
Christmas house goes Disney
BY ALEX PAL

One can easily identify the lighted decorations on the roof of Dr. Rico Absin's mansion in Barangay Piapi, Dumaguete City. They are unmistakably Santa's reindeer -- Rudolph, Dasher, Dancer, Prancer, Vixen, Donder, Blitzen, Cupid and Comet.

These decorations, along with thousands of other bright and dazzling colored lights and Christmas trees, fill Absin's house every yuletide season.

The lighting up of Absin's house at this time of the year has become an institution for Dumagueteños, who come with friends and family from other parts of the world to look at "Dumaguete's Christmas House."

Military eyes 'vendetta'

LA CARLOTA CITY, Neg. Occ. - Police investigators are looking into the possibility that the recent ambush staged by a group of unidentified armed men in Bais City, Oriental Negros, that caused the death of four persons and injuries to three others had been perpetrated by a "vigilante group", or triggered by a "personal vendetta".

Senior Supt. Ramon Melvin Buenafe, Oriental Negros police director, yesterday said this is because claims have surfaced that it was done by a vigilante group, although anonymous. Anybody can send letters claiming to be vigilantes, Buenafe who attended the 35th founding anniversary of the 11th Infantry Battalion here, said.

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