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By GERRY LEE GORIT, Reporter
Strong partnerships
Farmer’s market MISAMIS Oriental Gov. Bambi Emano on Monday is pushing for the establishment of a farmer’s market within the Capitol grounds starting next week where local produce of farmers in Misamis Oriental province are displayed, promoted and sold to public fresh and affordable. Emano said local products would include organic and inorganic livestock, vegetables and fruits. “For the first quarter this year, 25 percent of the products to be displayed, promoted and sold would be organic and 75 percent inorganic. During the second quarter, it would be 50 percent organic and 50 percent inorganic. In the third quarter, would be 75 percent organic and in the fourth quarter, will be 100 percent organic,” the governor said.
Lapasan Highway, Cagayan de Oro City
Undeterred by terror threat, bad weather CDO holds Black Nazarene traslacion
Briefly PARTNERING with local government units (LGUs) and national government agencies was one of the most effective approaches in helping the less fortunate, especially those affected by calamities, the newlyinstalled national president (NP) of the Fraternal Order of Eagles (Philippine Eagles) said. “It’s high time that we work hand in hand with LGUs so we could achieve our goal of helping the needy in our community. By working with them (LGUs), our help would reach our fellow human beings,” said Erlquin Lim, who was sworn in, along with other national officers of the TFOE-PE, in a ceremony held here over the weekend. Under his term, Lim said he would exert efforts to strengthen the partnership with the LGUs to ensure that their community outreach programs would benefit those who needed help.
Cagayan de Oro
‘TRASLACION’. Hundreds of thousand devotees brave the gloomy skies and amid security threats just to get a glimpse of the replica of the Black Nazarene in Cagayan de Oro City. photo by gerry gorit
Bukidnon power T coops unfazed by coal tax hike
THE gloomy skies and threat of a terrorist attack did not deter at least 200,000 devotees from attending the “traslacion” of the Black Nazarene in Cagayan de Oro City as no disruption of the holy event has been reported by the police. The traslacion, which originated at the St. Augustine Metropolitan Cathedral and ended up at the Black Nazarene Shrine, was uneventful and the devotees who joined the two-kilometer procession were behaved, said Chief Insp. Mardy Hortillosa, spokesperson of the Cagayan de Oro City Police Office (Cocpo). He said more than a thousand police officers and soldiers were deployed to secure the areas where the statue of the Black Nazarene, a replica which was given to a church here in 2009 that started the devotion of the patron saint outside Metro Manila, was to pass through. Police were able to reprimand several violators including those traslacion/PAGE 11
WO p ower c o op er atives in Bukidnon, the First Bukidnon Electric Cooperative (Fibeco) and the Bukidnon Second Electric Cooperative (Buseco), are unfazed by the recent imposition of higher taxes on coal. The National E l e c t r i f i c at i on Ad m i n i s t r at i on ( N E A ) obser ved that investing i n a s u b - t r a n s m i s s i on
Farmers’ market launched in Cagayan de Oro City By JIGGER JERUSALEM, PNA
FARMERS and crop growers in Misamis Oriental now have a dedicated venue to sell their products following the launch of the provincial farmers’ market during the kick-off of the annual Kuyamis Festival on Monday. Gov. Yevgeny Vincente Emano said the farmers’ market will be held every weekend starting this week, adding this will offer local
farmers a wider market for their products. Emano said he will ask the officials of the Cagayan de Oro Hotel and Restaurant Association (Cohara) to persuade them to source their food products from Misamis Oriental farmers. “ Ho p e f u l l y, C o h a r a will buy their ingredients through [our] farmers, from market/PAGE 11
consortium works wonders for both Fibeco and Buseco in the Northern Mindanao province. unfazed/PAGE 11
A ‘Heart Room’ for HIV-AIDS patients in Agusan del Sur By CHRIS V. PANGANIBAN Contributing Editor
PROSPERIDAD, Agusan del Sur— This province have rising cases of persons infected with the dreaded Human Immunodeficiency Virus- Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome (HIVAIDS) but at least provincial health workers have a “heart” to take care of them. room/PAGE 11
HEART ROOM. The Heart Room of D.O. Plaza Memorial Hospital in Agusan del Sur where HIV-AIDS patients are being treated. photo courtesy of clemz aroy, provincial public information office-agusan del sur
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