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                    [Title] => Events kick off Pinoy centennial celebration in Hawaii
                    [Summary] => Filipinos began a yearlong centennial celebration yesterday with a tribute to the first sakadas, contract plantation workers who began 100 years of immigration to Hawaii in December 1906.


Music, a multi-denominational church service and a reenactment of the sakadas’ journey from the Philippines highlighted events yesterday morning at the Hawaii Convention Center.

A dinner last night attended by more than 1,200 people featured entertainment and speeches by the governor and other officials from Hawaii and the Philippines.
[DatePublished] => 2005-12-14 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 133272 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1238777 [AuthorName] => Craig Gima [SectionName] => Headlines [SectionUrl] => headlines [URL] => ) [1] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 288757 [Title] => Hawaii fetes 100 years of Pinoy immigration [Summary] => WAIPAHU, Hawaii (AP) — Benjamin Saguibo credits his life’s accomplishments to his parents’ immigration from the Philippines to Hawaii in search of a better life.

He credits them for the 60-cents-an-hour wage he made pumping gas when he was 18, and for the $2.75 an hour he later got as a construction worker building military homes at Schofield Barracks.
[DatePublished] => 2005-07-29 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 133272 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => [AuthorName] => [SectionName] => News Commentary [SectionUrl] => news-commentary [URL] => ) ) )
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                    [Title] => Events kick off Pinoy centennial celebration in Hawaii
                    [Summary] => Filipinos began a yearlong centennial celebration yesterday with a tribute to the first sakadas, contract plantation workers who began 100 years of immigration to Hawaii in December 1906.


Music, a multi-denominational church service and a reenactment of the sakadas’ journey from the Philippines highlighted events yesterday morning at the Hawaii Convention Center.

A dinner last night attended by more than 1,200 people featured entertainment and speeches by the governor and other officials from Hawaii and the Philippines.
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He credits them for the 60-cents-an-hour wage he made pumping gas when he was 18, and for the $2.75 an hour he later got as a construction worker building military homes at Schofield Barracks.
[DatePublished] => 2005-07-29 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 133272 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => [AuthorName] => [SectionName] => News Commentary [SectionUrl] => news-commentary [URL] => ) ) )
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