FE IS JUST A FACEBOOK ACCOUNT AWAY

We were determined to play the detective looking for FE MALUCAY, that is, through her name and her exciting literary adventure, "Kaniaw," and through our Baguio contacts like former Bannawag nobelista ("Balay ti Katawa") Jaime Luzano, the Bombo Radyo broadcaster who goes by the moniker "Lolo Doro". (Of course, we could simply ask Roy Aragon, chair of the board of judges, or staffers of the Iluko weekly, where her winning short story was published, for her address.) But here comes the emerging Iluko writer Herdy La Yumul, one of the country's top bloggers, galloping like a Shining Knight with the Shining Armor astride his beloved horse and dropping the baby Fe Malucay at our feet. Muchas gracias, Dios-ti-agngina, agyamankami, Herdy, for the information. Fe graduated from the Ilocos Sur Polytechnic College and was a substitute teacher in Cada Primary School in Mankayan, Benguet. She was still a kid when we, as a government media person, paid a visit to the former mining town. It appears she is now a store owner in the village. Fe, please come to the awarding program on September 29 in Marcos, Ilocos Norte and receive your cash prize of P10,000 and certificate of writing excellence. Bendisionannaka koma ti Apo a Mannakabalin-Amin.