By: Froilan Gallardo
Contributor
CITY hall is planning to hold a big homecoming for newly crowned Miss Universe Pia Wurtzbach if pageant organizers would permit her to visit her second hometown.
Maricel Rivera, chief of the City Information Office, said the planned homecoming is dependent on the approval of the Miss Universe pageant organizers who set the schedule of the beauty queen.
“We are in gratitude that Moreno said Cagayan de Oro is deeply honored that Pia considers the city as her second home next to Manila.
“Just like the homecoming we had for her when she won the Binibining Pilipinas title, we are looking forward on holding another one to our Miss Universe,” Moreno said.
Pia attended kindergarten classes at Kong Hua High School and later at Corpus Christi High school for her primary education.
She stayed at Corpus Christi until Grade 4 when her mother, Cheryl Alonzo, separated from her German father, Uwe Wurtzbach.
Pia grew up at the Golden Village Subdivision here and would frequently go to nearby Iligan City where her mother’s family sells tasty buko bar ice cream.
Her parents separated when Pia was 11 and her mother brought her to Malabon where the Alonzos also have a buko bar business started by her grandfather.
Pia was born on Sept. 24, 1989 in Stuttgart, Baden-Württemberg, Germany.
Her win elicited a storm among young Cagayan de Oro residents who have eagerly followed the Miss Universe Pageant on Monday.
Pia Wurtzbach posts a photo of herself with her crown and sash on Instagram yesterday, her first day as Miss Universe. Her post reads: “42 years of drought and now it finally reigns 🙂 Mabuhay! Maraming salamat po sa inyong lahat.”
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