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THE awarding ceremony
was held at the Dooleys
Lidcombe Catholic Club
last month.
Twine & Twig Café was
awarded as the ‘Most Outstanding Café’ by the city
council under the category ‘New Business Awards’.
The business is owned by
siblings Joy and Candice
Planes both originally from
Bacolod and now residing
in Wentworth.
MAS Presents was
awarded as the 2014 Outstanding Specialised Business of the Year and its
founder and CEO Marco
Selorio was a finalist in the
2014 Outstanding Business
Person of the Year.
“I feel quite hon-
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TWO
Filipino-Australian owned businesses – Twine & Twig Café and MAS
Presents – received honours in the recent Auburn City Business Awards.
Marco Selorio and his team at MAS Presents
oured for winning the
Auburn Local Business
Award because our customers voted for us and the
business community was
able to recognise the great
things that we do,” Mr.
Selorio said.
MAS Presents was
strongly behind the suc-
CRC launches the AMMA Awards
Twine & Twig cafe team members
cess of Australian hip hop
in world hip hop competitions. At the last world
championships held in
the US, Mr. Selorio, as
country director, led a delegation of over 150 dancers from Australia distributed in 11 teams – 8
of these advanced into the
semis, with one team winning the silver medal.
Twine & Twig is not
only a cafe but it is also a
second hand book store
with a huge stack of board
games that can be borrowed and played at the
table while customers sip
their coffee or enjoy meals
with the children.
“If one has older kids,
one can sit back and enjoy
their brew over a game of
cards or ‘Scattergories’
and when you order a dessert, the games are complimentary. Last August
we marked our second
year by donating books
for public use,” said Nonna Pafion, Twine & Twig
Café manager.
McInnes awarded
with ALP McKell
BLACKTOWN resident Rissa McInnes
was one of 15 recipients of the Labor Party
McKell awards at the McKell awards dinner in
Sydney last month.
“The make-up of the new Community Relations Commission Advisory Board truly reflects the changing
face of multicultural NSW and for the first time includes representatives from across Aboriginal,
Anglo-Celtic, Indian, Korean, Chinese, Jewish and Egyptian backgrounds, among others."-Victor
Dominello MP. Photo: Warren Duncan (CRC)
MARILIE
BOMEDIANO
is a University of
Santo Tomas BS
Tourism graduate.
She pursued
her studies in
Linguistics and is
fluent in Nihongo,
advance in Deutsch,
Farsi and Turkish.
She is also involved
in a local community
radio program.
THE 2014 Australian
Multicultural Marketing
Awards (AMMA) was officially launched by the
Minister for Citizenship
and Communities, Victor
Dominello and the CEO
of the Community Relations Commission Hakan
Harkan last month 10 at
NSW Parliament.
Under the coordination of the CRC, the
AMMA has been designed
to showcase the achievements of organisations
within the sphere of multicultural marketing arena.
The awards recognise
the achievements of government agencies, businesses and community
groups which successfully implement marketing
strategies tailored for culturally diverse communities.
This year, the awards
will celebrate 25 years of
honouring multicultural
marketers. Award categories cover the fields of
Big Business, Small Business, Business Innovation,
Arts and Culture, Communities, Youth, Communication, Public Sector
and Education.
Nominations close on
October 10 2014 and winners will be announced at
the Gala Presentation Ceremony at the Sydney Opera House on November 25. For further information please visit the
AMMA website www.
crc.nsw,gov.au/amma.
Ateneo Alumni officers
The Ateneo Alumni Association of Australia (AAAA) elected Elaine Aviola as its new president with Tifi
Avila as vice president. Other officers elected were Karen Calayag, secretary; Mike Alvarez, treasurer;
Leo Ceniza, auditor; Julie Nunez OAM, PRO; and directors Randle Amoranto, Manny Caoile, Gothemberg Roque, Sheila Tagud, Dan Umali and Alric Bulseco. Immediate past president is Dr. Arelene Amor.
Photo above shows the officers with Consul Marford Angeles.
2014 ALP McKell Awardee Rissa McInnes with John Robertson MP Member of the Legislative
Assembly Member for Blacktown Leader of the Opposition.
RISSA is an active
member of the Labor
Party in Greater Western Sydney. She was a
founding member of
the Filipino Friends of
Labor and has played
a major role promoting
the party advocacies
to the Filipino community.
“I feel very honoured and proud to be a
recipient of this McKell Award however this
award rightfully belongs to those people
who had faith and supported me in whatever I
do,” she said.
“Without them I
won’t be where I am
now and let alone be
receiving this McKell
award.”
The McKell Award
is a merit award given
to celebrate the valuable
contributions
made by rank-and-file
members to the Labor Party commemorating the legacy of Sir
William McKell (NSW
premier, 1941-47 and
Australian governorgeneral, 1947-53).
Rissa an active
member of the Blacktown Community including the Blacktown
Lions Club. She was
nominated by the Marayong South Branch
with the support of MP
Michelle Rowland.
Of Filipino and
Chinese ancestry, Rissa
has been married for 16
years to Paul McInnes.
She continues to
work for the Labor
cause and major projects for the Filipi-
no community. She
played a major role
in last year’s Western
Sydney Haiyan Typhoon fundraising supported by ALP leaders
which raised more than
$20,000 and proceeds
donated to the Haiyan
typhoon victims in the
Philippines.
She has a long history of support for community organisations
and contributes her
time and resources generously to fundraisers.
She is currently the vice president
of the ALP Marayong
Branch, vice president
of the Blacktown Lions
Club, director for Aguman Capampangan and
director of Philippine
Community Council
(PCC) in NSW.