DA-10 turns over veggie seeds to LGU Kolambugan

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CITY – An assortment of vegetable seeds was turned over by the Department of Agriculture-10 (DA-10) under the leadership of Carlene Collado, OIC-regional executive director, to the Municipal Agriculture Office (MAO) of Kolambugan, Lanao del Norte at the agency compound here on March 27.

Funded by the agen- cy’s High Value Crops Development Program (HVCDP), a total of 100 packets of vegetable (chopsuey, sinigang, garden salad) seeds were handed over by Kersten Pagalan, DA-10’s HVCDP focal person, and Wilson Lagdamin, agricultural center chief II, to Princess Angelie Gutierrez, agricultural technologist of MAO Kolambugan.

The provisions, Guti- errez said, will be distributed to farmer-beneficiaries of the municipality in support of the People’s Day initiated by the municipal government of Kolambugan with the aim of bridging the government and its people for the availment of services.

The event is slated on March 28 and 29, 2023 for barangays Muntay and Simbuco, respectively. (GDA | DA-10)

DSWD-10 beefs up ties with MisOcc province

OROQUIETA CITY – In order to strengthen the partnership between the Department of Social Welfare and Development-10 (DSWD-10) and the provincial government of Misamis Occidental, an executive meeting was conducted at the Asenso Misamis Occidental Sports and Cultural Center Capitol Ground, Oroquieta City.

Graced by the provincial governor, vice governor, board members, and officers; respective local chief executives, and city/mu - nicipal social welfare and development officers, the first ever DSWD and Misamis Occidental Executives’ Consultative Meeting paved the way in addressing the issues and concerns regarding the programs and services of the department.

Ronald Ryan Cui, assistant regional director for operations, led the team as they talked about the programs and services of the department on behalf of the DSWD-10 regional director.

During the interactive discussions, news about the

Pantawid Pamilyang Pilipino Program (4Ps), Sustainable Livelihood Program, KALAHI-CIDSS, and Disaster Response Operations, to name a few, was shared. This helped provincial and local officers figure out what their biggest worries were.

Cui expressed his deepest gratitude to Provincial Gov. Henry Oaminal for the invitation and opportunity to create a stronger bond, coordination, and partnership between the province and the DSWD.

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Women as first witnesses

(1st of 2 parts)

WE hear the readings proclaim: “Jesus is alive. God has raised him.” This is the apostles’ first confession of faith. Beyond all expectations, God has vindicated Jesus.

He was not guilty of the crime attributed to him. “He whom you have killed by hanging him on a tree, God exalted him on his right hand” (Acts 5: 30 -31).

As we celebrate Easter, I think of the victims of the Marcos’s and Duterte’s violent regimes.

I feel for those mothers and widows. I have heard their cries from the start of the War on Drugs. They want God to vindicate them.

In the meantime, however, they can only suffer in silence. I went to many of these wakes.

There is one thing I noticed in all: there are small chicks on the coffins.

One mother explained: “As the chicks eat the grains, their beaks also strike at the consciences of those who killed him. God shall deliver us justice.”

The poor people have really nothing. They only have the “chicks” and their prayer for “poetic justice”: that God will soon vindicate them.

But little by little, the sun rises on their lives. Through the help of other people, they begin to stand up again.

During the pandemic, their sewing shop gave them jobs. Some children also graduated from high school or college despite difficulties. One even got “Magna cum Laude.”

But it is just the loin cloths that they see. Not the full Risen Jesus. They heard about the coming of the International Criminal Court to investigate.

They are hopeful that at last, they can now be heard. Because during the wakes of their loved ones, no one even asked them how their husbands died.

But the authorities are intent to keep the ICC at bay. You read that on the news. On the ground, a “cleaning up operation” is on the way. (To be continued) (LiCAS.news)

(Editor’s note: This opinion piece, written by Fr. Daniel Franklin Pilario, was first published in the LiCAS.new website on April 10, 2023. We are republishing it with permission from the LiCAS. news editors.)

The story of Easter

(3rd of 3 parts)

JESUS challenged this set up, called it a sacrilege and with his twelve and other followers, set out to close it down.

He made a whip out of rope and they charged in swinging ropes and lashing out. Everybody scattered.

Jesus kicked over the tables of the money changers and drove out the animals and traders. It was a victory.

They had restored the sacred purpose of the temple. After that, they were hated by the elite and the priests for the economic disruption to their business and exposure of their corruption.

Jesus and his followers left the city as fugitives and wandered Palestine teaching and doing good.

There was an opposition group in Palestine that was also against the Temple authorities because the chief priest and elders compromised with the occupying Romans.

The opposition wanted a charismatic, popular leader to take over power in Jerusalem. They wanted Jesus to be their Messiah, to be King of the Jews.

Four thousand of them met in the desert to proclaim him king. He refused and left the meeting and told his disciple to leave also. He wanted no part in a violent uprising.

The opposition used him, declaring him Messiah. His disciples, inspired by the temple action, believed he was the messiah, the one to free Israel from the Romans and the ruling elites in the temple.

Impact of grandmas on family, society

The scent of their bosom, strength of their arms, and softness of their laps. Their cough, laughter, scolding, encouraging, and storytelling style.

Jesus tried to dissuade them. They even argued who among them would be his ministers when he was crowned king after the revolution.

The word spread he was the messiah, a descendant of King David, to be King of the Jews.

Jesus and his followers believed they would be safe in Jerusalem with people supporting and proclaiming Jesus to be the messiah although Jesus did not make such a claim.

They went to Jerusalem for the Passover feast and he was proclaimed Messiah as he entered the gates of the city.

There, confrontations with the Pharisees arose in the temple again and the Jewish authorities saw their chance and arrested him, put him on trial and condemned him to death on the false blasphemy charge.

They got Pilate, the Roman procurator, to believe that Jesus was a rebel, that he was claiming to be King of the Jews.

That was sedition and Pilate ordered him to be executed by cruel crucifixion.

That was the false charge they hung him for on the cross. That was not the end of it. Jesus was resurrected, raised from death and walks with us in spirit today. We are expected to carry on his mission. (LiCAS.news)

(Editor’s note: This opinion piece, written by Irish Columban priest Shay Cullen, was first published in the LiCAS. news website on April 10, 2023. We are republishing it with permission from the LiCAS. news editors.)

Katipunan cavalry colonel.

A women’s suffragist-aunt was the only female to speak before the allmale Philippine assembly, then became the first female judge in the country and female justice in Asia.

(2nd of 2 parts)

HUNDREDS of thousands of Filipino “yayas” enable Hong Kong, Singaporean, and European mothers to work.

A Middle Eastern joke is that if Filipina helpers all leave, GDP will drop.

There aren’t enough stats on Filipino “lolas.” But stories abound of their effect on grandchildren’s academics and artistry.

They may not be updated on latest math principles and scientific discoveries. But “lola’s” caring makes the “apo” strive to excel.

That effect is most felt when we lose our mothers and grandmothers. We remember how we slept beside them or chat with them long hours.

We lost Mommy on the eve of International Women’s Month. She left behind 13 “apo” and nine “apo sa tuhod.”

She was so independent, driving and living by herself to age 83. As a bachelorette soon after the War, she enlisted in the US Army and was assigned to drive a Macarthur Jeep in Okinawa.

At age 78 she disappeared from her townhouse for three days, and we had the PNP issue an all-points bulletin for her.

On her return, she said she was diagnosed with breast cancer and had a mastectomy by her lonesome.

Mommy came from a line of strong women. She was a radical in the 70’s, taking after her mom, a daughter of a

Other aunts were school principals and district superintendents. There were a smuggler and a “huweteng lordess.”

Mommy endured 43 years widowhood. She died in her sleep at 95, on the same day Daddy died.

“Kumbaga sinundo na niya siya,” we sighed. Her female descendants, barely in their teens, will likely be as feisty.

Speaking of which, the song “There’s No One Quite Like Grandma,” topped the British charts in 1980. As you watch it on Youtube, it’s fun to know that those cherubic little singers are now grandparents too. (LiCAS.news)

(Editor’s note: This opinion piece, written by Jarius Bondoc, an awardwinning Filipino journalist and author based in Manila, was first published in the LiCAS.news website on April 5, 2023. We are republishing it with permission from the LiCAS.news editors.)