Breakthroughs Celebrates 5th Year This Month

Breakthroughs, the Sun.Star Cebu newspaper column which brings breaking news in health research every Wednesday, took its existence in the local community of Cebu in the month of May some five years ago today. It started from a dream of bringing the hard technical language of medical research to the common people who considered technical terms in medical science and technology as archaic as well as strange and often unfathomable even while using the ordinary English dictionary.

Our fifth year testifies that goal may have been achieved through the years, and its readers may have obtained some form of benefits after reading each article each week since then.

And yet any child cannot claim existence without the mother who gave birth to it. And for Breakthroughs, no other mother can rightly assume that matriarchal honor than my retired Live section editor, Pura Kintanar, whose perception may have seen ahead of time the years that Breakthroughs will be serving the local community of Cebu. Even its columnist may not have foreseen how years will just fly by with Breakthroughs gaining both admirers and critics along the way.

When Ma'am Pura (as I called her) retired, Breakthroughs became fortunate the more under the editorial supervision of the snowy Leticia Orendain, whom I got fascianted to call "Lithski" in our wacky emails. Snowy hair and light pinkish skin--I've been wondering how such heavenly features blend so perfectly with a sharp eye for funfare in her mind and writing.

To all fans and critics out there, thank you so much for keeping your watch on Breakthroughs. To a writer who dreams of touching lives with his words, your continued patronage and the spirited comments you share at times makes writing a journey of words that we can share together when proximity remains unfeasible.

CHEERS TO ALL OF YOU!!!

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