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Photography exhibit highlights Lompoc’s Filipino history

Learn about how Filipino pioneers shaped Lompoc’s history at an exhibit inside the public library’s Grossman Gallery. The exhibit, ā€œManongs of the Central Coast: Forming Communities Across Generations,ā€ will be featured in the gallery through April, including a public discussion on April 3 at 6 p.m. Bing Aradanas, a project contributor, was raised in Lompoc […]

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Santa Maria residents produce and star in award-winning Filipino film

In the Philippines, umbag means punch. It’s also the title of an independent Filipino-American movie produced by a Santa Maria resident, Rose Dumadara Koerner. Unlike traditional executive producers, she was also involved in many more of the nitty-gritty details.  After being displeased with the first cut of Umbag, which follows two estranged sisters who go […]

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