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20/07/2024

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Journalist Alfredo Gabot during a courtesy call on Consul General in San Francisco Neil Ferrer LOS ANGELES — Veteran Filipino journalist, author and professor Alfredo G. Gabot has published h…

16/12/2023

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24/02/2023

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08/01/2023

Man arrested, charged for death of Pinay
journalist and web developer in Florida

SAN FRANCISCO – A man has been arrested in connection with what the police said was a traffic homicide that resulted to the death of Philippine News Today entertainment editor and California correspondent and full-time web developer Jo Erlinda Maufit Gabot in Sebastian, Florida last December 30 (December 31, Manila time).

The Indian River County Sheriff’s office in Sebastian identified the man as Drew Leibrock, 52, of 119 Crawford Drive, Sebastian. Leibrock was charged with leaving the scene of an accident involving death and tampering with or destroying evidence, according to the Indian River County Sheriff’s Office.

Investigation showed Leibrock reportedly run over Jo Erlinda with his truck after some discussion and then reportedly dumped her body along US Highway 1 where her lifeless body was found several hours after the incident between 3:00 a.m and 4:00 a.m.
Sheriff Eric Flowers said Jo Erlindadied from what medical examiners described as "massive internal trauma" after being struck by both front and back sets of wheels.

Leibrock was jailed on $100,000 bail following his first court appearance last Thursday.

Jo Erlinda, 47, who started a full-time career as web developer in Florida, was a daughter of Philippine News Today editor in chief and former president of the National Press Club of the Philippines Alfredo G. Gabot. She was a goddaughter of former Manila Mayor and Deputy Speaker Jose Lito Atienza Jr. and Los Angeles-based journalist Val G. Abelgas who expressed shock at the untimely and tragic death of Jo Erlinda and called for justice for the loss.

Jo Erlinda started writing travel and showbiz stories in the weekly Philippines Today in San Francisco. When Philippine News and Philippines Today merged, she continued writing entertainment stories and California stories from the office of Governor Gavin Newsom and the Department of Public Health under the names Jo Erlinda Maufit, Jojie Maufit, Jo Erlinda Yabut and Jo Erlinda Nebres when she migrated to the US three years ago. Her Texas-based sister, Marie-Alsie G. Penaranda, works as a reporter of the Manila-based television station UNTV.

Meanwhile, Jo Erlinda’s son, Ian G. Nebres, has set up a GoFundMe in the US and appealed for financial assistance to cope with unexpected big expenses for funeral services, the homicide case, and bringing her body to the Philippines, among others.

Contributions thru GCash in Manila thru her daughter Ysabelle Denis Gabot Nebres (GCash 09269481663) or BDO 000200826565,
The GoFundMe link is: https://www.gofundme.com/f/in-loving-memory-of-jo-erlinda-maufit-gabot?utm_source=facebook&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=p_cp%20share-sheet&fbclid=IwAR3Hzhp0btbTjDTEEHIZz0lPKT_yfEL8nc_mxx1GU0iun8HI7tLxl5MzaXw

Reports from Sebastian indicated that the lifeless body of Jo Erlinda was found between 3:00 a.m. and 4:00 a.m. along US Highway 1 in Sebastian, Florida after receiving calls from passersby who notified authorities about the body lying along the highway. Rescuers immediately responded but found she was already dead when they arrived at the scene.

The Indian River County Sheriff's office earlier declined to identify the woman but her father told local media like TCPalm that Jo Erlinda Maufit Gabot, 47, was living in Sebastian and working as a web developer.

Alfred Gabot, of the Philippines, said his daughter also was a part-time section editor of Philippine News Today, based in San Francisco, California.

“Her death was senseless because she was always friendly, helpful, cheerful to all and she was loving to her four children, one with the U.S. Navy, and three in Manila who she has been supporting for their education, among others,” Alfred Gabot said in a written statement to TCPalm.

Mr. Gabot, who was a retired senior editor of the Manila Bulletin, a major daily in Manila, Philippines, has reached out to the Philippine Embassy in Washington D.C. and the honorary consul in Florida for assistance. He also sought the help from Sebastian media and the Sebastian community, especially those who know her daughter, for assistance. (Claire Morales True)

PHOTO shows Jo Erlinda Maufit Gabot in her last post in December on Facebook. The family, relatives and friends are crying for justice for her death and also appealing for assistance thru GoFundMe and GCash in Manila.

24/11/2022

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01/09/2022

ELENA SAMPAYAN GABOT VDA DE MADLAING:
One of oldest natives of Binalonan, Pangasinan
passes away in San Francisco, California at 103

BINALONAN/SAN FRANCISCO, California - One of the oldest Binalonians (native of Binalonan, Pangasinan), Elena Sampayan Gabot vda de Madlaing, died in her sleep in the Bay Area the other day. She was 103.
She was one of the daughters of the late Candido Asuncion Gabot whose roots were in Ilocos Norte and Cecilia Mabini Sampayan, known as Bai Sil-lit in Barangay Sto. Nino in Binalonan, who died at 113 years ago in Binalonan.
More than three years ago, Elena, Nanang Elen to many, celebrated her 100th birthday still strong and lucid in a farmlot inherited from her parents in Barangay Canarvacanan in Binalonan.
Elena's children, grandchildren, relatives, and friends attended the centennial celebration, some of them coming from California, Guam, Canada, Ifugao, Nueva Vizcaya and Metro Manila.
She even delighted her children and guests during the party by playing her favorite songs with her harmonica.
She also tried to join relatives do the dance of Ifugao, where her late husband, Emilio Madlaing, and a daughter of her late sister from Bayombong, Nueva Vizcaya, Claudia Sampayan Gabot vda de Dimoloy, hailed.
Until her death, Elena still played her harmonica, talked and heared clearly, had good vision and would recognize people around her and those who visited her.
Although she barely had formal high education, she was industrious like her mother and was able to take care of her children through the years, many of them becoming professionals. They include Arturo G. Madlaing, columnist of Philippine News Today, a notary public and realtor in San Francisco who was a scholar at the University of the Philippines in Los Banos (UPLB); Magdalena M. Sison, a teacher; Josefina M. Lewis, a Methodist Bible College graduate; and Luzviminda Madlaing, a certified public accountant who used to work in a top accounting firm in Makati.
It was her son Arturo who petitioned her and husband Emilio to California. Eventually, she petitioned her children to the United States where they have been based for years now.
One of her recent memorable events in California was meeting Mayor Bob Sampayan of Vallejo, together with their other relatives at the City Hall of Vallejo. Mayor Bob’s father, the late Major Ruperto Sampayan, was a member of the First Filipino Regiment of the United States Army who served under the US flag during the war.
She was also delighted to have learned of the exploits of another relative, the famous Filipino writer and labor activist in America, Carlos Sampayan Bulosan, when she moved to California, through grandchildren and other relatives who studied in California and Washington where the works of Carlos Bulosan such as the autobiographical novel “America is in the Heart,” essay “Freedom from Want” and the poem “I Want the Wide American Earth,” among others.
Among the secrets of her long life were eating vegetables, work, work, work and long walks while in Binalonan and San Francisco.

WITH VALLEJO MAYOR BOB SAMPAYAN. Elena Sampayan Gabot vda de Madlaing, her four children Art, Josie, and Luz and other relatives calling on Vallejo Mayor Bob Sampayan in Vallejo City Hall.

30/08/2022

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16/07/2022

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Pnewstoday 6-24 issue

03/07/2022

AS A COMMISSIONER (Atty Trixie Cruz Angeles) of the National Commission for Culture and the Arts (NCCA) just took over as the country's first lady Press Secretary and head of the Presidential Communications Operations Office (PCCO), I remember another fellow NCCA Commissioner, journalist and author Jose Lad Santos, who also served with distinction as Chairman of the Komisyon ng Wikang Filipino, at the launching of his book with now National Artist Ricky Lee and future National Artist Carlo Caparas, among others, in attendance.
CONGRATULATIONS!