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IGA FOLDS - WHERE HAVE ALL THE GROCERY STORES GONE? The worst of the capitalistic system coupled with an unbridled planning commission that approves every box store and expansion will be on display Sunday evening as the IGA grocery store on Lima Road - a business open for 64 years - will close its doors. The IGA is one of the last small grocery stores to inhabit our City, but just like so many other small grocery stores, it will now disappear. Capitalism allows no room for smallness in many areas of the business world. Yes, we will have. City market sports.

Bright idea: Pinoys re-invent lighting technology By RAMIL DIGAL GULLE - We can only wonder if Thomas Edison is clapping in his grave'in case he's heard about what Filipino inventor Eric G. Ngo and his partners did to lighting technology. Ngo did not re-invent the lightbulb, but he did upgrade conventional lighting system technology to the needs of the 21st century. For this accomplishment, he was awarded the Gold Medal for Outstanding Invention by the United Nations-World Intellectual Property Organization in 2006. Ngo is among four Filipi. Ticket Broker.

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