EDGEDAVAO
VOL.15 ISSUE 175 • SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 6, 2022
NEWS
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Personnel from the city government of Davao Scenes turn over welfare goods, medicines, bottled water, sleeping kits, and hygiene kits to the Local Government Units of Cotabato City and Maguindanao Province. The second batch of goods delivered on November 4, were from the city government of Davao, Philippine Coast Guard, and private donors. CIO
VP Sara proudly cites Davao City Library in 32nd Library month Army recovers NPA rebels’ highpowered firearms in Bukidnon
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he 89th Infantry Battalion along with other intelligence units under the 1003rd Infantry “Raptor” Brigade recovered five high-powered firearms at Sitio Misalay, Kalagangan, San Fernando, Bukidnon on November 4, 2022. Dayang Mansumuy-at alias Jovan, former Commanding Officer of Regional Headquarters of the Southern Mindanao Regional Committee (RHQ, SMRC) of the Communist Terrorist Group (CTG) revealed the location of an arms cache containing three Bushmaster M16 rifles, one Colt M16A1 rifle, and one AK47 CZ858 Tactical rifle along with one anti-personnel mine, and three upper receivers of an M16 rifle, M60 Machine Gun, and M14 rifle. According to BGen Consolito P Yecla, 1003rd Infantry Brigade Commander, the successful retrieval was made possible because of the unit’s effective handling of Mansumuy-at who
surrendered to the said unit on October 17, 2022. Likewise, he said that the firearms were owned and cached by the members of the RHQ, SMRC sometime from 2018 to 2020 before the said NPA unit moved to Davao De Oro. Meanwhile, MGen Nolasco A Mempin, 10ID Commander, lauded the 1003rd Infantry Brigade for their effective sustainment operations that led to the recovery of war materiel. “The trust and confidence we gained from our former rebels, now friends rescued, resulted in this significant accomplishment. Rest assured that we will continue to sustain our gains, and we will not allow any inch of our area of responsibility here in Region 11 to be recovered by the Communist NPA Terrorists,” MGen Mempin added. From January 1, 2022 to date, 10ID gained 298 firearms composed of 269 high-powered and 29 low-powered firearms.
By MAYA M. PADILLO
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ice President and Education Secretary Sara Duterte bragged about the Davao City library and how it helped the youth during the pandemic.
In her message delivered during the recent National Library of the Philippines 32nd Library and Information Services Month (LISM), the Vice President said that with the pandemic shutdown of schools in Davao City, the Library launched the program “Share a Book” for people undergoing quarantine at the temporary treatment and monitoring facilities.
She also said the Davao City Library also continued the implementation of the book lending program to give community children educational activities while the city was on lockdown. Duterte also mentioned Davao City’s mobile library, which is a bus loaded with books and other reading materials, wherein books were delivered right to the barangays. “And children were
asked to choose which books they want to read,” she said. She said that while some Philippine libraries have evolved through time to keep up with technology and the exchange of information that travels at the speed of light, the country’s libraries have protected the foundations upon which they were built. “You have maintained the integrity of libraries as learning hubs for Filipinos — offering the public relevant, verified, reviewed, truthful, and reliable information. And this is not an easy task. Not in this day
and age. Today we are virtually swimming through a vast, endless ocean of digital information. And just like an ocean, the information that can be had through digital information is breathtaking as it is abundant. But it is not without dangers,” she said. She said Filipinos have seen how accessibility to online information has diluted depth and quality — or how convenience watered down hard work, diligence, and thirst for knowledge. She added that there is an over-reliance on digital
He said personnel in the offices can efficiently explain to clients about lease contracts and easily cater to interment in the cemeteries. The clients will also be briefed on the rates of the lease stipulated in the 2017 Revenue code of Davao. With the accomplishment of the lease contracts, the location of the burial areas
will be properly identified and easily located. “Sa presensya sa atoang opisina mas madali ang naay magpalubong,” Macalipes said. Meanwhile, Macalipes said CEE is recommending that the other public cemeteries in Davao City be converted into compartmentalized niches like the Wireless Cemetery.
He also said their office is recommending that the Wireless Cemetery will be the standard model for the other public cemeteries in the city. “Dili naka maglukso lukso sa mga pantyon ug mahadlok pud ka usahay basi dili na lig-on tung pantyon na imong gipatungan. Mas nindto na i-com-
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EE opens offices in public cemeteries
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he City Economic Enterprise (CEE) has activated offices within the CEE-operated-public cemeteries during Undas 2022. Maximo Macalipes, head of CEE, said the offices within the CEE-operated-public cemeteries aim to give clients convenience for their burial service query.
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