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2 unusual facts about Immaculate Conception Academy-Greenhills


Immaculate Conception Academy-Greenhills

The school moved seven times to accommodate its growing population, partly due to influx of Chinese immigrants escaping the Sino-Japanese War as well as the damage of school buildings as a result of the shelling of Manila by the Americans and the Japanese during World War II.

Carlene Aguilar, Filipino beauty queen, former Miss Philippines Earth and Former Bb.


Benigno Aquino III presidential campaign, 2010

Benigno Aquino III, then Philippine Senator, announced his candidacy for the presidency of the Philippines in Club Filipino, North Greenhills, San Juan, Metro Manila, on September 9, 2009, 40 days after the death of his mother, former President Corazon Aquino.

Dakila Cua

Gov. Dax, as he is more popularly known, finished elementary and secondary education at Xavier School in Greenhills.

Greenbelt Historic District

With its sister cities of Greenhills, Ohio and Greendale, Wisconsin, Greenbelt was intended to be a "new town" that would start with a clean slate to do away with problems of urbanism in favor of a suburban ideal.

Greenhills

Michael Carruth, a gold-medal winner in the welterweight boxing division at the 1992 Barcelona Summer Olympic Games, was from St Peter's Road and retains close ties to the area.

Community Games athletics was also particularly popular in both Greenhills and Limekiln, although with the ageing demographic of the area participation in all sports has dropped off.

Greenhills Historic District

The historic area of Greenhills was originally built by the federal government during the 1930s as one of three "Greenbelt Communities", (Greenbelt, Maryland and Greendale, Wisconsin were also part of this project).

Greenhills Shopping Center

Cinderella, one of the oldest stores in the Greenhills Shopping Centre, is also back with another branch in V-Mall.

Immaculate Conception Academy

The Immaculate Conception Academy (ICA) is paired as the junior (high school) varsity team of the Emilio Aguinaldo College (EAC).

Today, ICA has four campuses in DasmariƱas: ICA North in Salitran, ICA West on Amuntay Road, ICA South on Governor's Drive and ICA Science in Poblacion.

Nida Blanca

On November 7, 2001, Blanca was found murdered, beaten and stabbed 13 times in the back seat of her Nissan Sentra in the parking lot of Atlanta Centre in Greenhills, San Juan, Metro Manila where she worked for MTRCB.

Waycross Community Media

WCM programming can be seen on Time Warner Cable in the Cincinnati suburbs of Forest Park, Greenhills, Springfield Township and Colerain Township


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