Edge Davao 6 Issue 123

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VOL. 6 ISSUE 123 • WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 4, 2013

Serving a seamless society

FAST CHANGING FIGURES. A gas station attendant changes the figures on the price signage as fuel prices soared once more yesterday morning increasing to up to P1.40 per liter of gasoline. Lean Daval Jr.

City Admin post awaits

QUITAIN QUITS

By GREGORIO G. DELIGERO

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greg@edgedavao.net

LTHOUGH already expected even before he assumed his post at the Sangguniang Panlungsod, city councilor J. Melchor V. Quitain yesterday formally tendered his resignation as first district councilor to take on the job of city administrator. “While there are those who say that every person is the master of his own fate, I always say that there are times when the flow of events goes beyond his capacity to control. (At) one point he finds himself in a spot where he must yield to the greater demands of duty and the louder call of public service much wider in scope,” Quitain said in his farewell speech to the council.. “Indeed, in order to work, fate has its own way of picking the time. As a duly elected councilor of the first district, I do not mean to evade responsibility. I am merely paving the way perhaps for me to assume a bigger responsibility, serving a wider area in due time,” he added. Quitain’s resignation will be effective upon the close of office hours on September 9, 2013 to give him time to “wind up my affairs, settle my obligations if there be any and attend to the needs of the

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Edge cartoonist, ‘Edgy’featured in Inquirer

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OR the entire month of September, “Edgy”, that inquisitive, witty and business-like monkey cartoon character of Edge Davao graces the pages of the Philippine Daly Inquirer as a special cartoon series. Edge Davao resident cartoonist Arlene Pasaje said “Edgy” will be the main character of the cartoon strip “Monkey Business”, the same cartoon strip that appears daily on the pages of this paper. The Philippine Daly Inquirer regularly features cartoonists for a month-long engagement in the Comic Re-

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INSIDE: American nat’l faces sexual abuse charge Council approves P235.12 M SB 2 TRMH Duterte Agilas win anew

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