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The Weaver, Corner R. Ablan Avenue and P. Gomez Street, Brgy. 3, Laoag City (2026)

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Corner R. Ablan Avenue And P. Gomez Street, Brgy. 3

04/04/2026

𝐖𝐎𝐕𝐄𝐍 𝐒𝐓𝐎𝐑𝐈𝐄𝐒 || 𝗧𝗵𝗿𝗲𝗮𝗱𝘀 𝗨𝗻𝘁𝗮𝗻𝗴𝗹𝗲𝗱, 𝗝𝗼𝘂𝗿𝗻𝗲𝘆𝘀 𝗨𝗻𝗳𝗼𝗹𝗱𝗶𝗻𝗴

"𝘖𝘶𝘳 𝘱𝘢𝘵𝘩 𝘸𝘰𝘷𝘦𝘯 𝘧𝘢𝘵𝘦 𝘣𝘳𝘰𝘶𝘨𝘩𝘵 𝘶𝘴 𝘩𝘦𝘳𝘦 𝘵𝘰 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘯𝘦𝘸𝘴𝘳𝘰𝘰𝘮, 𝘯𝘰𝘵 𝘰𝘯𝘭𝘺 𝘵𝘰 𝘣𝘦𝘤𝘰𝘮𝘦 𝘧𝘢𝘮𝘪𝘭𝘺, 𝘣𝘶𝘵 𝘢𝘴 𝘴𝘰𝘮𝘦𝘵𝘩𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘸𝘦 𝘸𝘪𝘭𝘭 𝘢𝘭𝘸𝘢𝘺𝘴 𝘤𝘢𝘳𝘳𝘺 𝘸𝘪𝘵𝘩𝘪𝘯 𝘶𝘴 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘧𝘰𝘳𝘸𝘢𝘳𝘥."

A hush settled before the first word was written on vellum—the kind that feels like dawn is caught between breath and becoming. The gentle sky poured itself throughout, a slow river of silver and haze, brushing softly against desks worn by restless dreamers.

Light pooled like ink across scattered pages. In every pen poised, every notebook open, was a small sentiment between a conversation with something unseen and unheard. As their journey calls their names, they are called Weavers.

Their journey started in small steps: the scribbles, poor headlines, and in the thrill of seeing a story bloom through their hands. On some days, they were guided by the flicker of their lamp as their nights are scented in ink. And through it all, they learned not only to tell stories—but to weave something that could linger in the heart of anyone who read it.

They were listeners first with voices that formed quietly, gathering fragments of meaning in the newsroom. Now, the doors they once entered as students open wider, carrying them into palpable horizons. They step forward as graduates and completers, yet the Weavers do not leave behind the newsroom, the scattered papers, the whispers of ink-stained wisdom, and the memories as one—as a family.

Instead, they carry them, tucked into spaces between their fingertips where voices are collected gently. They move on to the next journey, yes—but the words move with them, a reminder of their first.

They are Weavers, threading truth and stories into every word they carry forward—even when their journey has already been crafted.

Congratulations, Weavers—your story does not end here; it only begins anew.

✍️: Regina Balucio
💻: Reannah Asuncion

01/04/2026

𝐖𝐎𝐕𝐄𝐍 𝐒𝐓𝐎𝐑𝐈𝐄𝐒 || 𝐅𝐫𝐨𝐦 𝐖𝐡𝐞𝐫𝐞 𝐘𝐨𝐮 𝐒𝐭𝐚𝐧𝐝

𝑀𝑜𝑣𝑒 𝑓𝑜𝑟𝑤𝑎𝑟𝑑 𝑒𝑣𝑒𝑛 𝑤ℎ𝑒𝑛 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑝𝑎𝑡ℎ 𝑖𝑠 𝑢𝑛𝑙𝑖𝑡—𝑔𝑢𝑖𝑑𝑒𝑑 𝑜𝑛𝑙𝑦 𝑏𝑦 𝑤ℎ𝑎𝑡 𝑦𝑜𝑢 ℎ𝑎𝑣𝑒 𝑙𝑒𝑎𝑟𝑛𝑒𝑑 𝑎𝑛𝑑 𝑤ℎ𝑜 𝑦𝑜𝑢 𝑎𝑟𝑒 𝑖𝑛 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑏𝑒𝑐𝑜𝑚𝑖𝑛𝑔.

Before the moment could fully arrive, guest speaker Mark Angelo Q. Ramos stood within the hallowed halls, a figure shaped not by distance, but by return to a familiar home. A son of the same timeworn corridors, a member of the INNHS Special Science Class of 2009, he came not to stand above the completers, but beside them—where memory and becoming meet. The same book they read unfolded between them like a shared landscape, marked by the quiet doubts and small victories that glowed against uncertainty. And in that moment, beneath a calm demeanor, his presence did not demand attention—it held it, steady as a flame that knows its purpose.

And so he began—not with triumph, but with a story carried in low fire.

𝐸𝑑𝑔𝑒 𝑜𝑓 𝐶ℎ𝑎𝑛𝑔𝑒

It did not begin with an orator of echoes, but rather a journey wrapped in citrine hush. Instead, he collected fragments of his junior years and spoke of those as they truly were knowing—challenging, unpredictable, and demanding. Where the sun forgets itself in amber silence, he spoke of a younger self who once sat, carrying a quiet cinderwhisper of doubt and questions that had no answers. He acknowledged the slow molding it took to get through long days, with crafting of the time ahead, and the passion required to keep moving forward.

𝑊ℎ𝑒𝑟𝑒 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝐹𝑙𝑎𝑚𝑒 𝐹𝑖𝑟𝑠𝑡 𝐿𝑒𝑎𝑟𝑛𝑒𝑑 𝐻𝑜𝑤 𝑡𝑜 𝐵𝑟𝑒𝑎𝑡ℎ𝑒

There was a time when his path did not yet carry a name, when his future stood distant and undefined, veiled in a quiet cerulean ache. Through his studies in Accountancy at Divine Word College of Laoag, he carried himself in the slow, steady burn of effort, like a torchbearer that refuses to gust the fire. The journey through accountancy, through quiet nights and steady discipline, was not a sudden blaze, but a flame carefully kept, an aglow shaped by his persistence. When he earned his place as a Certified Public Accountant, it was not a single moment of arrival, but the echo of every step that came before it.

From classroom to calling, his path did not remain still.

𝑇ℎ𝑒 𝑆𝑡𝑒𝑎𝑑𝑦 𝑅𝑖𝑠𝑒 𝑜𝑓 𝑄𝑢𝑖𝑒𝑡 𝐹𝑖𝑟𝑒

In 2015, his journey carried him into service, where systems became lifelines for the nation. As a tax auditor in the Bureau of Internal Revenue, his work moved beneath the surface, like a current flowing through deep sapphire hush. By 2020, that current brought him to the national office, where responsibility grew heavier, yet his purpose remained steady. His achievements did not arrive in seconds, but in a quiet, continuous rise—a drift toward something greater than himself. For him, success was never a solitary flame, but a light carried forward to ignite others.

And in that light, he turned back to those who now begin.

𝑊ℎ𝑒𝑛 𝑌𝑜𝑢 𝐶𝑎𝑟𝑟𝑦 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝐹𝑙𝑎𝑚𝑒 𝐹𝑜𝑟𝑤𝑎𝑟𝑑

His words did not arrive as answers, but as direction for the next generation. He spoke of courage, of moving forward even when the path remains unlit, guided only by what you have learned and who you are in the becoming. Within the hall, his voice cascaded the students like a sunspill, resting as both reminder and beginning. The future stretched before them like an open sky, vast and undefined, yet already colored by their effort and their will to continue. And as they rose from those halls, they did not leave empty-handed—they carried with them their own flame, ready to burn, to grow, and to become into something greater.

𝐌𝐀𝐑𝐊 𝐀𝐍𝐆𝐄𝐋𝐎 𝐐. 𝐑𝐀𝐌𝐎𝐒, 𝐂𝐏𝐀
𝐌𝐞𝐦𝐛𝐞𝐫, 𝐈𝐍𝐍𝐇𝐒 𝐒𝐩𝐞𝐜𝐢𝐚𝐥 𝐒𝐜𝐢𝐞𝐧𝐜𝐞 𝐂𝐥𝐚𝐬𝐬 𝐨𝐟 𝟐𝟎𝟎𝟗

✍️: Regina Balucio
💻: Alyannah Antonio

01/04/2026

𝐖𝐎𝐕𝐄𝐍 𝐒𝐓𝐎𝐑𝐈𝐄𝐒 || 𝐀𝐧𝐚𝐭𝐨𝐦𝐲 𝐨𝐟 𝐕𝐢𝐜𝐭𝐨𝐫𝐲

𝑆ℎ𝑒 𝑟𝑒𝑚𝑎𝑖𝑛𝑠 "𝑅𝑒𝑠𝑜𝑙𝑢𝑡𝑒"—𝑎 𝑤𝑜𝑚𝑎𝑛 𝑤ℎ𝑜 𝑝𝑟𝑜𝑣𝑒𝑑 𝑡ℎ𝑎𝑡 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑠𝑡𝑟𝑜𝑛𝑔𝑒𝑠𝑡 𝑏𝑟𝑖𝑑𝑔𝑒𝑠 𝑎𝑟𝑒 𝑏𝑢𝑖𝑙𝑡 𝑏𝑦 𝑡ℎ𝑜𝑠𝑒 𝑤ℎ𝑜 𝑜𝑛𝑐𝑒 ℎ𝑎𝑑 𝑛𝑜 𝑔𝑟𝑜𝑢𝑛𝑑 𝑡𝑜 𝑠𝑡𝑎𝑛𝑑 𝑜𝑛.

Before she ever touched the sterile elegance of a stethoscope, her hands were stained with the visceral grime of the swamp. It is a staggering irony: the woman who now dictates the clinical heartbeat of a global medical empire once stood in the muck of an Ilocano farm, dissecting frogs to sell to her own classmates.

She was bartering the anatomy of a creature for the tuition of a dream—a young mother trading the scent of pond water for the hope of a white uniform she could not yet afford to buy, but had already earned the right to wear.

Her life has been a masterclass in the paradoxical. In 1994, when the academic world shuttered its doors because the calendar had already turned, she did not retreat into the shadows of her struggle.

Instead, she performed an act of defiance: she returned to the fourth-year benches of high school, attending Saturday and evening classes as a mother among teenagers. She was a ghost haunting her own potential, ghostwriting the theses of those who had the luxury of time while she possessed only the savage luxury of grit.

There is a profound, poetic justice in how she eventually conquered the "pristine" world she once viewed from a distance. At Northwestern University, she was an alchemist.

She took the meager coins from her children’s street-side ice candy sales and transmuted them into the gold of a Top 10 finish. When she graduated in 1998, she was named Best in Clinical Setting—a title bestowed upon a woman who had already mastered the most brutal clinic of all: survival.

The irony reached its peak across the Pacific. In 2001, this top-tier scholar arrived in America and, with the humility of the truly great, began at the absolute nadir as a Certified Nursing Assistant. She who was born to lead began by wiping the brows of the forgotten.
But you cannot keep the tide from rising. From the fragile, high-stakes atmosphere of the liver transplant ward at UCLA to the heavy responsibility of a Director of Staff Development, she ascended until she occupied the seat of Chief Operating Officer.

She remains "Resolute"—a woman who proved that the strongest bridges are built by those who once had no ground to stand on.

Today, she is the mother of four, the grandmother of grace, and the Chief who still remembers the heavy rhythm of a tricycle and the weight of the glass bottles she once sold. Her story is a reminder that the most profound healing doesn’t happen in the silence of a hospital, but in the noisy, chaotic choice to keep moving when the world expects you to stay still.

𝐑𝐇𝐄𝐀 𝐃𝐘 𝐁𝐋𝐀𝐍𝐊𝐀𝐒 𝐁𝐒𝐍, 𝐑𝐍
𝐃𝐢𝐫𝐞𝐜𝐭𝐨𝐫 𝐨𝐟 𝐂𝐥𝐢𝐧𝐢𝐜𝐚𝐥 𝐒𝐞𝐫𝐯𝐢𝐜𝐞𝐬 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐂𝐡𝐢𝐞𝐟 𝐎𝐩𝐞𝐫𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐎𝐟𝐟𝐢𝐜𝐞𝐫
𝐌𝐞𝐫𝐢𝐝𝐢𝐚𝐧 𝐌𝐚𝐧𝐚𝐠𝐞𝐦𝐞𝐧𝐭 𝐒𝐞𝐫𝐯𝐢𝐜𝐞𝐬, 𝐂𝐚𝐥𝐢𝐟𝐨𝐫𝐧𝐢𝐚, 𝐔𝐒𝐀
𝐀𝐥𝐮𝐦𝐧𝐚, 𝐁𝐚𝐭𝐜𝐡 𝟏𝟗𝟗𝟒 (𝐄𝐒𝐀𝐂)

✍️: Giovan Dubla
💻: Jasryll T. Bonnao

31/03/2026

𝐈𝐍 𝐏𝐇𝐎𝐓𝐎𝐒 || Ilocos Norte National High School's 9th K to 12 Graduation Exercises (2/2)

📸Rayver Quatchon

31/03/2026

𝐈𝐍 𝐏𝐇𝐎𝐓𝐎𝐒 || Ilocos Norte National High School's 9th K to 12 Graduation Exercises (1/2)

📸Rayver Quatchon

31/03/2026

𝐈𝐍 𝐏𝐇𝐎𝐓𝐎𝐒 || Ilocos Norte National High School's 11th Moving Up Ceremony

📸Rayver Quatchon

13/03/2026

𝗡𝗼 𝘀𝘁𝗼𝗿𝘆 𝗶𝘀 𝗮 𝘀𝗶𝗻𝗴𝗹𝗲 𝘁𝗵𝗿𝗲𝗮𝗱. 𝗜𝘁 𝗶𝘀 𝗮 𝗰𝗼𝗹𝗹𝗲𝗰𝘁𝗶𝘃𝗲 𝗹𝗮𝗯𝗼𝗿 𝗼𝗳 𝗵𝗲𝗮𝗿𝘁𝘀 𝗮𝗯𝗹𝗮𝘇𝗲, 𝗲𝗮𝗰𝗵 𝘀𝗰𝗿𝗶𝗯𝗲 𝗶𝗻𝘁𝗲𝗿𝗹𝗮𝗰𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝘁𝗵𝗲𝗶𝗿 𝘀𝘁𝗿𝗲𝗻𝗴𝘁𝗵 𝘁𝗼 𝗳𝗼𝗿𝗺 𝗮 𝗰𝗮𝗻𝘃𝗮𝘀 𝗼𝗳 𝗰𝗵𝗮𝗻𝗴𝗲. With eyes on the medals that honor the craft, they have stepped from the newsroom to the heights, placing feet on the podium to celebrate a masterpiece woven from persistence, ink, and the unbreakable bond of the press.

✍️ Giovan Dubla
🖼️ Jasryll Bonnao

24/02/2026

𝐓𝐇𝐑𝐄𝐀𝐃𝐋𝐈𝐍𝐄𝐒 || 𝗜𝗡𝗡𝗛𝗦 𝗹𝗮𝘂𝗻𝗰𝗵𝗲𝘀 𝗧𝗮𝗵𝗮𝗚𝗔𝗗

In line with its goal to promote equality, inclusivity, sensitivity and safe space, Ilocos Norte National High School (INNHS) launched TahaGAD— 𝘛𝘢𝘩𝘢𝘯𝘢𝘯𝘨 𝘮𝘢𝘺 GAD (Gender and Development) 𝘴𝘢 Guidance at INNHS Senior High School Building on February 23, 2026.

The ribbon-cutting ceremony was led by Mr. Jerry V. Carreon, School Principal IV together Mrs. Veronica S. Rabang, Assistant Principal II. The event was attended by members of the Peer Facilitators Club, faculty members, and students who gathered to witness the official opening of TahaGAD.

"𝘛𝘢𝘩𝘢𝘯𝘢𝘯 symbolizes a home, a place of safety, warmth, understanding, and acceptance. Through TahaGAD sa Guidance, our guidance office becomes more than just a service unit; it becomes a refuge where every learner feels secure, respected, and empowered," Ms. Clarisse C. Raval, SHS Guidance Designate, said in her message.

Mr. Carreon followed with a message saying that he will oversee the progress and that they plan to fully utilize the facility.

"As we launch this initiative, let us work together to make our guidance office a true tahanan, a home where growth begins, voices are valued, and every student is supported," Raval added.

The launching of TahaGAD highlighted the goal of the school to build a community where everyone is heard without judgement, guided with compassion, and empowered with purpose.

✍️: Ralph Turda

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