WHY DID THE LACARS CHOSE TIMPUYOG JOURNAL TO ADMINISTER THE ILOKANO WRITING CONTEST?

Thank you, Francisco Lacar, a mannaniw (poet) in Bannawag, the Ilokano weekly, for choosing the Timpuyog Journal to administer the Severino and Eufemia Commemorative Award in Iluko Poetry. We assure your family that no one will be excluded in the contest. The Lacar siblings, at least three of them, are now based in Australia and Canada. Timpuyog Journal is a struggling magazine with only 40 issues to its name. Bannawag dates back before World War 11.