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Briefly Fair Trade Laws ILIGAN City – Aimed to strengthen their campaign to protect the consumers from deceptive, unfair and unconscionable sales acts and practices, the Department of Trade and Industry (DTI) and the National Telecommunications Commission (NTC) signed recently a Memorandum of Agreement (MOA) on Fair Trade Laws. This partnership was approved in May 2015. Ruel B. Paclipan, provincial director, DTI Iligan City/Lanao del Norte, said the agreement specifies the delineation of mandates between DTI and NTC, and the two agencies collaborated in the task of enhancing awareness and compliance to relevant fair trade laws that may affect business operator in the electronics sector. As part of their campaign, a sectoral briefing was conducted to retailers of cellphones and accessories as well as dealers of computers on May 21-22, 2015 at the DTI offices in Iligan City and in Tubod, Lanao del Norte.
BB for development THE Palace maintains that the proposed Bangsamoro Basic Law should be passed as this is a better alternative despite some groups questioning the legalities of some of its provisions. “We need to fight for this Bangsamoro Basic Law, which is again, like we have always maintained on both sides, the framework for peace and development in Muslim Mindanao,” Presidential Spokesperson Edwin Lacierda said during Wednesday’s Malacanang press briefing. Lacierda is hoping that when t he 1 6 t h C o n g re s s resumes its session in July, “things will be a lot clearer on the BBL,” as people will be engaged on the ground, explaining BBL by both the solons and also by all the stakeholders.
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ROPONENTS of the Mindanao Power Corp. (Minpocor) are hoping to make further progress in securing the required legislation for the company that will control Mindanao’s key hydroelectric complexes.
Romeo M. Montenegro, i nve st me nt and publ i c affairs head of the Mindanao Development Authority (MinDA), told BusinessWeek Mindanao that the proposal to establish the company “is power/PAGE 10
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Customs declares failure of bidding on smuggled rice By MARK FRANCISCO Staff Writer
FOR the first time ever, the Bureau of Customs (BOC) in Cagayan de Oro City has declared a failure of bidding for the 64,680 sacks of smuggled rice from Vietnam worth P83 million seized in three batches last year at the Mindanao Container Te r m i n a l i n Tagol o an , Misamis Oriental. D u r i ng t h e bi d d i ng conducted last Tuesday, Customs chief of st af f Roswald Pague said that none of the 12 qualified bidders was able to put up the minimum failure/PAGE 10
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BUTUAN City -- The Department of Agrarian R e for m ( DA R ) i n Agusan del Norte recently conducted a three-day training on Cooperative Management and Governance in line with the required 14 mandatory training of the Cooperative and Development Authority ( C DA ) h e l d at t h e municipal gym in Las Nieves, Agusan del Norte on June 2 to 4. The training was attended by
some 40 Agrarian Reform Beneficiaries (ARBs) consisting of cooperative leaders and officers that include managers, secretar y, treasurers, bookkeepers f rom d i f fe re nt A R B organizations in Las Nieves Agrarian Reform Communities (ARCs). The three-day activity enhanced the organizational capability of the coop leaders and officers to become selfreliant in assuming full responsibility toward
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economic advancement. PARPO II Andre B. Atega, CESO VI said the training will transform the ARB organizations into efficient agricultural producers and entrepreneurs. The participants actively shared their common experiences and presented the output as they play an integral role in meeting their proposed goals. The activity worked with an experienced speakers from Resource
Development Experience Consultancy headed by executive director Roger O. Fabe. DAR and CDA are in the forefront to give the ARBOs the much needed thrust that will ensure their viability to fully link delivery of support services to agrarian reform beneficiaries in the form of access to microfinancing and raising agricultural productivity. (Gil E. Miranda, DAR-Agusan del Norte/PIA-Agusan del Norte)
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A week-long festivity featuring the Agusan culture PROSPERIDAD, Agusan del Sur -- The 23rd annual Naliyagan Festival will again bring a week-long sparkles day and night in the Naliyagan Cultural Center here featuring the Agusanon culture and the display of colorful tradition and hospitality. The grand opening on June 12, 2015 will start at 5:00 a.m. with an Ecumenical Dawn Prayer right at the Naliyagan Cultural Center (NCC) ground. Featuring t he Ag us anon c u ltu re, the “Panawagtawag,” an Agusanon ritual will follow where native priests will call on good spirits to join and bless the week-long celebration, to be followed
by the simultaneous holy mass at 6:00 a.m. in all parish churches provincewide. The opening day of the festival is also the grand celebration of the 117th Philippine Independence Day. After the concelebrated mass at the Saint Vincent Par i s h ju s t a c ro s s t h e Naliyagan Cultural Center, wreath-laying by Gov. Adolph Edward Plaza with the entire officialdom of the provincial government and the two congressional representatives of Agusan del Sur, Cong. Mar i a Va l e nt i n a Pl a z a (District I), and Cong. Evelyn Plaza Mellana, (District II) festival/PAGE 10
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HE Philippine unit of Japan’s biggest automaker Toyota Motor Corp is planning to expand its local production capacity by as much as 20
percent in the next two years to take advantage of new government incentives. The Philippines last week launched a scheme that will provide incentives worth $600
million over six years to its tiny auto industry in a bid to raise shrinking output and catch up with regional rivals. Toyota Motor Philippines Corp, a joint venture with
local conglomerate GT Capital Holdings Inc, is looking at increasing production capacity by 10 to 20 percent from the current 40,000 a year, said Alfred Ty, the automaker’s vice chairman. “We need to improve efficiency and we have to expand. Our capacity is quite stretched,” Ty told Reuters, adding that its plant utilisation rate was already more than 90 percent. Toyota Philippines, which has a dominant market share in the Philippine auto sector, assembles Vios and Innova models in its facility south of the capital Manila. Under the government scheme, a car firm can get incentives for that model if the model has a track record of competitiveness, plans to make new investment in assembly and targets a production volume of
at least 200,000 over six years, among other requirements. To y o t a P h i l i p p i n e s would take advantage of the incentives through the Vios as the monthly production of 2,000 was expected to increase to 2,500, Ty said, adding that construction of a larger assembly plant could
PH auto sales sustain double-digit growth THE country’s automotive industry remains bullish after sustaining a doubledigit sales growth for five consecutive months. Chamber of Automotive Manufacturers of the Philippines, Inc. (CAMPI) and Truck Manufacturers Association (TMA) reported Tuesday that the industry’s sales for the month of May increased by 18 percent to
23,139 units from 19,598 units sold in the same month last year. CAMPI noted that the 27-percent growth in sales of passenger cars supported the strong industry sales for May, which increased to 9,556 units this year from 7,507 units in 2014. Commercial vehicle sales remained the largest with total volume of 13,853 units
from 12,091 units in the same period last year. Light commercial vehicle sales had an increment of 19 percent to 9,088 units this year against 7,645 units sold in 2014. On the other hand, Asian utility vehicle sales declined by 2.3 percent to 3,875 units this year versus 3,966 units last year. On truck segments, light
truck sales went up by 21 percent while trucks and buses categories IV and V both increased sales by 13 percent and 141 percent, respectively. Meanwhile, five-month sales of CAMPI and TMA grew by 20 percent to 107,280 units this year against 89,335 units in the same period last year. growth/PAGE 10
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hink a minute…There were two very sick men who shared a room in a hospital. The man whose bed was by the window was allowed to sit up for an hour each day to help drain the fluid from his lungs. But the other man, who was not able to sit up, spent all his time laying flat on his back. The two men talked for several hours each day. They talked about their wives and families, their jobs and life’s experiences. Every day when the man by the window sat up on his bed for an hour, he told his roommate all the things he could see outside the window. He told him about the park with its lovely lake and gardens. It made the other man so happy because he could not sit up to look out; so he looked forward to that one hour every day as he listened to his roommate talk about the people and beauty of the world outside their hospital window. One night, the man by the window died in his sleep. The other sick man who shared his room was very sad. He missed his roommate who had told him about the beautiful world through their hospital window. Then one day he asked if his bed could be moved to the window where his friend had been. He couldn’t wait to finally see the beautiful world outside. But when he turned his head to look out the window, he was shocked to see
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It’s never too late!
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know a lot of pensioner expatriates living in the Philippines for good. Many of them get a big problem after staying here for only a couple of months, they get bored. Having a vacation all day, all week, all month and all year long is really not an egg’s yellow. I must confess, I experienced the same in 1999 after moving to Davao City. At that time I just turned 46... I remember my last days in an international publishing house in Berlin. I packed up my things after signing my resignation letter. Of course, I hadn’t reach my final pension age yet, but I got a lot of ideas on how to shape and organize my “new” life in the Philippines. I never forgot some office mates smiling at me:”We can’t cross such
bridges before we come to them!” Of course guys, you have been right! Anyway, age doesn’t matter - you can enjoy the second half of your life residing in the Philippines. As many of you know already: I stayed in many countries worldwide. I could have migrate to the U.S. I didn’t. I choose the Philippines. Most important thing is: Keep yourself busy. Sure, there is always a time, when we should rest and really enjoy life. Sure, we brought our savings and many of us enjoy the monthly pension in Euro or Dollar. Several weeks ago, I read a good idea in an U.S. business weekly: “Partner up with entrepreneurs who have long been in the business, or those who have just retired as well!” Worth to think about... .
Getting bored, means also for some to start grumbling and complaining about everything and everybody in the Philippines. I always keep my distance to such negative people. We are not here to change this country and its people. Why? What for? Filipinos are also not planning to change our home countries. I really don’t more stress then having in my home countr y before. Critics reproach and accuse me living a life as expatriate while wearing a pink tinted glasses. Sorry, but my conscience is very clear. I keep myself busy, too busy sometimes: Teaching, translating, writing, in the radio, and many more things; but I always find time for short vacations. It’s never too late. It’s your life! Take
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Is chastity a lost cause?
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t may look that way, but the answer is definitely, No. It can never be a lost cause. In fact, things are getting more exciting in this area. Let’s face this crisis with great optimism. And the reason for that is precisely the very same reason why many of us are pushed to think chastity is already a lost cause. The complex and s e e m i ng ly i mp o s s i bl e challenges, the ugliness of the situation has made this virtue more important, more relevant, more desirable. As to whether chastity can still be achieved and lived in a stable way, you can be sure that it can. Surprises can happen. Miracles do happen. While we have to do everything we can, let’s remember that God is always in the middle of things. If Christ was able to resurrect a dead man, the recovery of chastity in a person and in society is nothing compared to that! Yes, it’s true that we cannot and should not underestimate the gravity of the problem. Pornography is everywhere and is easily accessible. Even kids as young as eight can get it in a click. One can avail of it with apparent impunity. In fact, one can avail of it also with apparent great benefits, or so they say. We have a good number of people, especially the young, who are already
crazed with sex. Cases of sexual addiction are increasing by leaps and bounds, and not everything in this regard is reported yet. Marital infidelity is still like a byword among many people. Flings, one-night stands, hook-ups are getting common. We now have the same-sex marriage issue. You can just imagine what goes inside the mind and heart of many people, and the solitary abuses people commit right and left in thought, desire, word and deed. Yet, in spite of all these, there is still hope. We just have to be realistic, and that should start with a boost to our faith that with Christ, who already died for our sins, the impossible can be made possible. Which means that we have to feel at home with the reality that in this life we are expected to do the impossible — with God’s grace. If you think that nothing works unless it is under your control or power, be convinced that you are wrong. We have to enliven our life of faith and piety. This is the indispensable minimum. There is no use complaining, feeling bad, getting pessimistic and depressed. We have to move, and move forward. But we have to redefine the terms of engagement. We should not
get stuck with those of the past generations that may have worked well before, but now no more. With the many new developments around, t h e p e r s on a l , f a m i l y, social terrain, etcetera, has changed drastically. Where topics like the nature and meaning of human sexuality and the need and practicability of chastity were a no-no before, now they should be openly discussed. We have to overcome the initial shyness and shame that are now quite misplaced if we have to consider how things are now. The way and manner of doing this should also be changed. Let’s avoid lecturing and preaching, because many young people today feel they are being spat upon when Scripture is quoted or some scientific or social data are cited. Things have to be done in a more friendly way. A lot of patience is needed as well as creativity and a large dose of naturalness. We have to somehow talk like them, with jokes, anecdotes and entertaining trivias galore. Let’s be wary with being too intellectual. The young ones resent that. Let’s never be shocked to hear the most scandalous things related to this area. In fact, we should always be reassuring them that things
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will just be all right. But we also have to be ready to give concrete, doable steps to recommend to them. We should not expect that things radically change overnight. Let’s be quick to see the brighter side of things, instead of getting stuck with the negative details. You can be sure that there will always be some redeeming elements in the apparent oceanic mess people can get into. And it’s love, affection, understanding and compassion that will win at the end of the day. Chastity should be presented as a very positive virtue, a true manifestation of love and a basic truth about us. It should be presented as something doable but requiring daily effort and daily struggles where one can win and lose, but hope is always there. It has to be understood as a consequence of faith and piety. roycimagala@gmail.com
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The Forgotten Fruit Trees of Cagayan de Misamis By Mike Baños, Editor-at-Large
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l ong w ith the old houses, street names and landmarks which have become a part of the heritage of Cagayan de Oro, are some trees and their fruits which seem to have inexplicably d i s app e are d over time.
Two trees which have figured prominently in the culture and heritage of Cagayan de Oro are the Lambago and Kayam. “Our place was once known as Kalambagohan because of the abundance of lambago,” Roy Gaane, president and founder of Kagayanon International, recalls. The Lambago tree (Hibiscus tiliaceus) is a member of the Malvaceae tree family that thrives in low altitude areas like seashores, riverbanks and other areas reached by tidal streams. Long-time resident Titus Velez reminisces how the lambago produced a yellow flower with some red stripes. As the day came and went, the flowers deepened to orange and then to red before falling off. The branches of the tree would bend over time and the wood has been used for boats, firewood, wood carvings and many other uses. It has also been used by Hawaiian Polynesians to make rope. “They serve as anti-erosion sa mga riverbanks, trapping silt during the seasonal floods of the Cagayan River,” Velez said. “We use to climb this tree from on tree to another. Kasi almost interlocking ang mga branches. The branches are also very flexible and strong even
the small ones. We also use the branches as an improvised diving board. During summer we would enjoy its shade.” “Under the tree we would cook banana with ginamos and a bottle of coke. We could sleep in the branches while bringing the old transistor radio (the ones with Nora Aunor’s face on the dial), while listening to dramas from dyHP. We also fly out kites there, well actually on a small clearing besides the trees,” he added. “Those were the days. The last lambago I saw was along Iponan river but it’s not there anymore. I’m not sure if there are still lambago if we go upstream. I think it is a victim of rapid urbanization.” To rectify this situation, the Cagayan de Oro city government, led by City Local Environment and Natural Resources Officer Edwin Dael, will plant 65 lambago seedlings provided by City Tourism Council Chairperson Dorothy Jean B. Pabayo, at Duaw Park and directly across Cagayan River on Saturday, June 13, to commemorate the 65th Charter Day anniversary of the city. The Kayam was better known to elder Kagayanons for its nut which was a popular delicacy during their childhood days in the city.
Cereales trees still flourish at Searsolin
“I remember that my mother had a suki who would deliver cooked or boiled kayam to the house,” wrote Gwendloyn RamosGarcia in her reminisces entitled Memories of the Old Hometown. “I haven’t seen kayam for a long, long time now.” “It tastes like castañas (chestnuts) except it is bigger,” Gaane said. “ You can look it up in Google under the name of Tahitian Chestnut or Polynesian Chestnut.” The tree was even linked in popular culture to one of the city’s barangays. “When I was still in grade school, there were kayam trees in Consolacion, then known as the red light district of Cagayan,” Gaane said. “When men who patronized the district were asked where they had been, they would say, Nang kayam ‘mi . It became notorious and that was probably why the trees were cut.” Gaane also recalls other fruits of his childhood in Cagayan de Oro but which are now hard-to-find. “There was the alubijid tree once found by the side of the Provincial Capitol,” he said. “Its fruit is evergreen and its seed is hairy like that of the siniguelas except that the alubijid is round and big as a tennis ball. It probably can still be
Cereales fruits also known locally as cherries
Susong Kabaw photo courtesy of Market Man
found in the town of Alubijid. It’s crunchy like an apple, green, with hairy kernel. Just like the pangi fruit which was once found in Barangay Tagpangi. It must still be there,” he added. Gaane also recalls a fruit better known as the cherry which was brownish and about the size of lanzones. “There used to be a tree at the Kempski compound that later became Rizal Theatre. Being a family friend, I used to get my cherries there.” When he was a grade schooler in Ateneo de Cagayan (now better known as Xavier University), Gaane said he was a patron of the cherries which used to be sold by the Neri’s who had a property right next to the old gymnasium. “I remember that cherry tree which belonged to the family of Luisito Neri,” RamosGarcia said. “It was delicious but the tree was full of thorns.” Jazmin RamosSumalinog, eldest daughter of former Pilgrim Institute High School Principal Severino Ramos recalls they used to have a cherry tree in their front yard. “Didto mi sa taas sa cherry pirmi magsaka to get the dark plumcolored ones. Daghan gusto mopalit when the fruits look so tempting to passersby,” she said. “Dante, Bobom, Totic and myself ‘owned’ our respective branches, so that we get fruits only from our assigned branch. Nakaka miss !” “The cherry is known as cereales in Davao and serali in the Visayas,” said Sylvia Aguhob, a food tech faculty from Xavier University’s College of Agriculture.
Tahitian Chestnut tree better known locally as the Kayam
Kayam Fruits by Benjie T. Lasam
She said many of the trees still line the pathway in the car park of the now cloistered Southeast Asian Rural Social Leadership Institute (Searsolin) at the Manresa campus of XU. Another fruit which was once abundant in Carmen in what is now the Golden Village was the songsong kabaw . “When ripe it is red and hairy like the mabolo but you only eat its flesh like the mangosteen,” Gaane recalls. Like the cherry, he said he hasn’t seen one since his high school days. Veteran journalist Ben Emata, now based in Los Angeles, USA, also has fond memories of the songsong kabaw. “This is a sweet fruit that looks like the nipple of a carabao,” he muses. “When I went hunting during my childhood days, Songsong Kabaw were abundant side by side with bayabas or guavas. I have not seen this fruit for a very long time. It was not sold in
the market since it was a wild fruit.” Philippine Heritage gives Songsong Kabaw’s scientific name as Annonaceae Uvaria rufe and its found from Northern Luzon to Palawan and Mindanao where it is known as the susong-kalabaw, susog kaba, and a host of other regional variants. According to MarketMan of the wonderful blog Market Manila, Songsong Kabaw is a member ot the Annonaceae family, which counts among its cousins, guyabano (soursop), atis (custard apple) and ylang-ylang. ( see http:// www.marketmanila. com/wp-content/ uploads/2007/09/ akalabaw3.JPG) (compiled with the help of Roy Gaane, Gwendolyn RamosGarcia, Ben Emata, Titus Velez and Sylvia Aguhob. Special thanks to Market Man and Market Manila for the pictures of Songsong Kabaw and Cherries).
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Cagayan de Oro’s Oldest Store looks forward to the next century and beyond By Mike Baños, Editor-at-Large
(We are bringing back stories of the olden days of Cagayan de Oro in commemoration of the 65th Charter Day Anniversary of its founding)
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n the center of Wadhu’s Quality Store stands a 1931 NCR cash register, bought by the store’s founder by mail order from Sears & Roebuck in the United States 79 years ago. During the second world war, the owner wrapped it in grease and buried it in his backyard. After the war, he dug it up and it still serves the same store now run by his grandson Haresh.
That cash register is the living testimony of the traditions that has made Wa d hu’s Q u a l it y Store Cagayan de Oro’s oldest sur viving retail store, a tradition established by the store’s patriarch and carried on by the third generation which now runs it. S eventy nine years ago, Wadhu Dharamdas Uttamchandani set up in Cagayan de Misamis (as Cagayan de Oro was then known) ‘Wadhu’s Home of Q u a lit y’ ne ar Pl aza Divisoria, the town’s social and commercial center. Mr. Wadhu arrived in the Philippines as a 12-year old boy from India in 1924. He was employed at the Indian Bazaar owned by his uncle Nebhraj Ramchand Buhdrani in Zamboanga City for 12 years where he gained his basic knowledge and business savvy in the retail trade. In 1936, he felt he had enough seed money, contacts and experience to establish his own store in Iligan, but decided on Cagayan instead. His thatched roof store, which featured items bought by mail order from Sears & Roebuck, was set amidst stores run by Japanese nationals near the Heroes de Cagayan monument. Divisoria was the Escolta of Cagayan in those days, and the nearby public market ensured the fledgling
store flourished until World War II exploded. “My father survived the war by bartering his goods for food and clothing,” said his son, Wadhu “Dodong” Jr. “He married my mom, Trinidad Babiera Valmores at Balingasag, Misamis Oriental in 1943 and had two children, myself and my sister Linda.” In 1946, “Mr. Wadhu” (as he was fondly called by friends and customers) reopened at a new location in Plaza Divisoria just across the public market, but moved to the next block after two years, where its present name, “Wadhu’s Quality Store” was first seen. The store moved to its present site in the corner of J.R. Borja and Pabayo streets when Mayor Justiniano Borja moved the city public market to the Cogon area in 1958.
“My dad didn’t want to be too close to the Cogon market where competition would be stiff but he also didn’t want to be too far from the former site in Divisoria and his regular customers,” Dodong explained. In 1973, the elder Wadhu felt the younger generation was ready to take the reins of the business and turned over the store’s management to Dodong. “The idea was to help infuse faster and newer approaches towards
and terminated others which were slow moving.” And not too soon. By 1975, retails giants Ororama and Gaisano came into the picture, forcing other stores to fold up due to the intense competition. “We took this as an opportunity, a challenge to make our strategies competitive with the giants,” Dodong said. “I have always wel c ome d c omp e t it i on because it is the only way to serve the public with better service and cheaper prices.”
For instance, when more people from Butuan, Surigao, Bukidnon and Iligan began coming to Cagayan de Oro, Wadhu’s still multiplied its customers despite stiff competition from the bigger stores. “Our overhead is not as large as the big ones, so we were able to adjust our prices and compete,” Dodong said. “Since we were also getting the same merchandise from the same suppliers, we were able to attract more customers with our lower prices without sacrificing service and quality.” The 1990s brought even stiffer competition from malls like SM City and Limketkai Ma l l w hich fe ature d a wide variety of stores and merchandise and attractive amenities like national food chains and cinemas all under one roof. “We ke pt ou r l oy a l
Mr. Wadhu Dharamdas Uttamchandani (photo courtesy of Dodong Wadhu)
customers and even added more through our p e r s o n a l i z e d s e r v i c e ,” Dodong said. “Most of the sales girls in the big malls are hired on a casual basis and are no match for better paid and motivated sales staff of smaller stores who have better experience and training, not to mention knowing the customers on a first name basis.” “Ever yone is equally served and each person is feature/PAGE 11
marketing and merchandising without changing the original concepts on which we made our reputation,” Dodong recalls. “We introduced new products catering to the tastes of the younger generation
The original 1931 NCR cash register still hard at work at Wadhu’s Quality Store. (photo courtesy of Dodong Wadhu)
This was how the pioneering Wadhu’s Home of Quality looked like in the 1930s at its original site in Plaza Divisoria (photo courtesy of Dodong Wadhu)
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gaining headway,” following meetings he attended in Manila with national officials. The legislation will go before the plenary sessions of both Houses of Congress when they return from recess next month. Senators are waiting for the House of Representatives to consolidate its proposals so the lower house version can
be compared with proposals in the Senate. A measure revising the power industry law now being considered in Congress shields the two hydroelectric complexes from privatization, making them an exception to the Electric Power Industry Reform Act, which specifies that the government be relieved of operating power companies. However, Mr. Montenegro said a group from Lanao del
Sur has signified its opposition to the proposal and backed the privatization of the Agus hydroelectric power complex, located within the province. The Agus complex is one of the two power complexes that Minpocor will control, the other being the Pulangi complex in Bukidnon. The two power sources have a combined installed capacity of almost one thousand megawatts, about half of the electricity requirement of Mindanao. Whatever the course of action government selects, the group demanded that 30% of the Agus complex’s income be set aside for people living near the Lake Lanao, which is being tapped to run the complex. “But the group did not identify who the people would benefit from the income,” Mr. Montenegro said. The proponents have also been studying the estimated value of the two complexes based on available models. One is the value generated by similar assets that have been sold to the private sector, while the other model is replacement cost, less depreciation since the two plants are fully depreciated. One proposal is for the new company to pay 25% of the price upfront, while the remainder will be paid out of funds to be borrowed from the national government as PSALM, the current owner of the complexes, only has a remaining life of 11 years.
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P26 per kilogram entry bid. The bidders, certified as wholesalers, included Pacita A. Yu, Victor del Rosario, Soda Enterprises, Ingredient Management Asta Corporation, New Millennium Trading, NB Trading, Imelda Buenaventura, Mardlau General Merchandise, Bethel Merchandising , HPe arl Marketing, AAP Enterprises and Villarubio Pharmacare Marketing. According to Pague, the bidders also failed to put up a bid beyond P18 per kilogram of glutinous rice. For Pague, that amount is unfavorable to the Philippine government. “The rice that we have seized is high quality. We cannot just dispose it at a lower amount,” he said. Pague pointed out during the public bidding held Tuesday that glutinous rice was pegged at P20 per kilogram in a previous auction in Zamboanga last year. “But we have our own floor price here. We do not base the value of our seized contraband to that of other districts,” Pague said. The contrabands, stored in 124 containers at the Mindanao Container Terminal, were supposedly set for auction in January this year but the bid been moved due to lack of participating bidders.
will take place at the Jose Rizal monument with 21 gun salute by the Philippine Army led by 401st Brigade Commander Col. Alexander Macario as initial gesture of the Philippine Independence Day celebration. Right after the wreath l a y i n g c e r e m o n y, t h e Philippine National Flag will be raised by the two congressional representatives, Cong. Plaza (District I), and Cong. Mellana, (District II), Gov. Plaza with DILG Provincial Director Arleen Sanchez and Col. Macario. Vice Governor Santiago Cane Jr. with the members of the Sangguniang Panlalawigan will raise the provincial flag, then the hoisting of the city/municipal flags by the city/municipal mayors will follow. The Naliyagan flag will be hoisted last by former governor and Moral Recovery Program chairperson Valentina Plaza. The grand opening of the 23rd Naliyagan Festival w i l l b e op e n e d by an ecumenical prayer by the
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different religious leaders to be followed by the welcome address of Vice Gov. Cane, then the messages of the two congressional representatives. Gov. Plaza will then deliver his message and declare the formal opening of the Naliyagan Festival 2015. After the declaration, balloons will be released together with the fleeing of doves as symbol of independence. After Gov. Plaza declares the opening of the Naliyagan Festival, the opening of the Naliyagan Trade, Services and Entertainment Center will follow showcasing Agusanon’s bests. The op ening day of the Naliyagan Festival is expected to be fun. Today, the Gov. Eddiebong Plaza men’s tennis cup will take place at the Gov. D.O. Plaza Government Center grounds and the Day of the Tribong Agusanon. In the evening, everybody can witness the Naliyagan Cultural Show, the Naliyagan Party Jam sponsored by Cong. Bebs Mellana and the Naliyagan Foreworks Display to color the evening skies. (DMS/ PIA-Agusan del Sur)
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attended to no matter how small their needs are,” he adds. “We train our sales people never to look down on anyone and treat them as regular adult customers regardless of age, gender or appearance.” Some years ago, a shabbily dressed barefoot gentlemen wanted to buy an expensive watch. Sensing the sales clerk was at a loss on how to deal with him, Dodong stepped in to personally entertain him and he paid in cash. “It was only a week later that I found out he was the owner of a big building which housed many stores in Bukidnon,” Dodong wryly recalls. “He told me ours was the third store he went to and the only one who gave him any attention.” More recently, traders from Mainland China, Taiwan and Korea have swamped the city with low quality merchandise
at very low prices. Together with the “ukay-ukay” vendors selling smuggled garments and shoes at rock bottom prices, they have crowded the city’s sidewalks and even areas fronting regular stores. Instead of caving in under the assault, Wadhu’s opened a new branch in the Carmen market area. It carries the same merchandise for which the main store has been known for such as watches, sporting goods, and related items. Eventually, that branch moved to the Robinson’s Big R Supermarket building at Limketkai Center where it is now managed by Dodong’s younger son JohnJohn. The third generation of Wadhus takes all the competition and changes in stride, having been born and raised in Cagayan de Oro under the tutelage of their father and grandfather. They remain confident the “Open Door” policy of the original Wadhu’s Home of Quality will
Republic of the Philippines REGIONAL TRIAL COURT OF MISAMIS ORIENTAL 10th Judicial Region Branch 41 Cagayan de Oro City MYRNA R. LIM CIVIL CASE NO. 2002-358 Plaintiff, -versusJULIETA H. LIM Defendant. X---------------------------------/ NOTICE OF SALE ON EXECUTION WHEREAS, by virtue of an Order of Execution issued by Sammy G. Uba, Court Legal Researcher, Clerk of Court Designate, witnessed by Honorable Jeoffre W. Acebido, Presiding Judge of this Court, on April 26, 2015, in Civil Case No. 2002-358 wherein MYRNA R. LIM, the plaintiff and JULIETA H. LIM, is the defendant for the Collection of Sum of Money in the amount of THREE MILLION FICE HUNDRED THOUSAND PESOS ONLY (Php 3,500,000.00) as total principal obligation inclusive of penalty charges and litigation expenses, levy was made by Nathaniel B. Russel Court Process Server, on January 27, 2003, thru the Register of Deeds on January 29, 2003, on the rights, interest and participation of said defendant JULIETA H. LIM, in the property more particularly described as follows: DESCRIPTION TCT NO. T-38702 A PARCEL OF LAND (Lot No. 25006-B-2-A, PSD10-005240) situated in the bo. of Carmen, Cagayan de Oro City, containing an area of FIVE HUNDRED SEVENTY FIVE (575) Sq. Meters more or less; TCT NO. T-54585 A PARCEL OF LAND (Lot No. 25008-B-4-B, PSD10-007030) situated in the bo. of Carmen, Cagayan de Oro City, containing an area of EIGHT HUNDRED THIRTY FOUR (834) Sq. Meters more or less; NOW, THEREFORE, by virtue of said Order of Execution and in accordance with Rule 39, Section 19, of the Rules of Court, Sheriff Alden V. Sambaan will sell at public auction to the highest bidder, for CASH and in Philippines Currency, on the 3rd day of August 2015, at 10:00 o’clock in the morning or soon thereafter, at the entrance door of Regional Trial Court, Branch 41, Capitol Compound, A. Luna St., Cagayan de Oro City, the rights, interests and participation of the defendant JULIETA H. LIM, in the above described property in order to satisfy said Order of Execution, together with interest, costs, sheriff’s fees and expenses of sale.
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see them through their next century (which is just around the corner) and beyond. “We grew up in this store and we don’t see any reason to change how it looks or operates,” said the elder Haresh. “Since my grandfather first started this store, he insisted that my Dad leave the store’s doors wide open so even people from the rural areas would not be shy to come in and window shop. They don’t feel pressured to buy something and can window shop as much as they like.” “We will be celebrating our
80th anniversary come 2016 and we will be giving watches as a token of our appreciation,” said Dodong with a smile. In the center of the store, Haresh rings up another sale in the NCR cash register. If the sale totals more than the P99.00 the machine is capable of calculating, he uses a small calculator. It looks like the old machine could easily outlive a dozen or so of its modern counterparts, just like the store it serves in the corner of J.R. Borja and Pabayo streets in Cagayan de Oro has done to many of its larger competitors.
T h e F IC S ( Fam i l y, Individual, Community and School) Analysis By GINES C. CACAYAN Teacher III Tagoloan National High School
The DepED–Bureau of S e c on d a r y E du c at i on (2011) reported four key asp e c t s w hy stu d e nt s dropped from schools. Family factors include having a big family, lack of financial support or poverty and living with relatives. Individual–related factors are on identity complex problem, inferiority complex problem and early marriage or teen pregnancy. Community factors are on non-conducive social and community environment; presence of video games, gambling, drug addiction, lack of basic ser vices (transportation, water, and health) and lack of community support. And finally, the school related factors are on rigid school rules, uncompassionate teachers, lack of educational supp or t, p o or librar y learning resource center and passive teaching–learning The reasons can be observed in many instances where students coming from poor families, in both
urban and rural places, tend to drop from schools. With financial difficulties, secondary school students have to earn a living in order to survive. Earning money from work can be made a priority over attending classes. For them, there is no need to go to school since they already have work. They are no longer interested to waste their time attending classes, when they can spend their time to work for a fee. Having an income from their effort would boast their self–worth, which they can hardly feel in school because of their economic status. Although the reasons from dropping out can be classified based on FICS analysis, all the reasons can be very complicated. One affects the others, like being poor can affect the students’ view about oneself leading to inferiority complex. This feeling can lead to the students to be less motivated to participate actively in class.
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“The consistent growth in sales is a continued manifestation of the trust and confidence of consumers in the attractive products and services that are being offered,” said CAMPI president Atty. Rommel Gutierrez.
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“CAMPI welcomes the passage of Executive Order 182, the Comprehensive Automotive Resurgence Strategy (CARS). With the onset of motorization, this program will give opportunity for local manufacturers to boost their competitiveness and help strengthen the manufacturing sector to be regionally competitive,” he added.
Republic of the Philippines Regional Trial Court 10TH Judicial Region Branch 26 Medina, Misamis Oriental -01ST VALLEY BANK, INC., GINGOOG BRANCH EJF NO. 356-M (15) Mortgagee FOR: EXTRAJUDICIAL FORECLOSURE OF REAL ESTATE MORTGAGE UNDER ACT 3135, as AMENDED BY ACT 4118 -versusSPS. RICO & EDNA BRANZUELA, Mortgagor. x-----------------------------------------------/ SHERIFF’S NOTICE OF EXTRAJUDICIAL SALE Upon Extrajudicial petition for sale under Act No. 3135 as amended by Act 4118, filed by 1st VALLEY BANK, INC., GINGOOG Branch , mortgagee against SPS. RICO & EDNA BRANZUELA, mortgagor, with residence and postal address at Brgy. Lapinig, Municipality of Balingoan, Misamis Oriental to satisfy the indebtedness of the mortgagors to the former in the amount of TWO HUNDRED EIGHTY TWO THOUSAND FOUR HUNDRED SEVENTY PESOS & 17/100 ( P 282,470.17) Philippine Currency , including interest due, penalties and other charges excluding 10% attorney’s fees and other liquidated damages as of April 30, 2015 plus all other expenses incurred in connection with this petition and sale, the undersigned RTC Sheriff sell at public Auction on July 24, 2015 at 10:00 o’clock in the morning or soon thereafter at the Hall of Justice, RTC Branch 26, Medina, Misamis Oriental to the highest bidder for cash and in Philippine Currency, the following property with all improvements thereof to wit: Transfer Certificate of Title No.P-36448 A PARCEL OF LAND , Lot No. 3942, Cad.703-D ( Lot No. 1, CCS-10-001036) situated at Barrio Kauswagan , Municipality of Balingoan, Province of Misamis Oriental, Island of Mindanao, Philippines, described as Bounded on the North along line 3-4 by lot 10; on the NE., 4-5 by lot 11; on the SE., along line 5-1 by lot 2 and on point 1 by lot 7; on the SW., along line 1-2 by lot 8 , along line 2-3 by lot 9. All of CCS-10001036, Cad. 703-D Balingoan Cadastre. Beginning at a point marked “1” on the plan being S.00* 33’ W., 1844.85 meters from BLLM No. 1, Cad. 703-D; thence; N. 16* 35’ E., N. 45* 15’ E., N. 89* 41’ E., S. 53* 42’ E., S. 69* 00’ W.,
49.74 m. to point 2; 83.18 m. to point 3; 70.05 m. to point 4; 57.00 m. to point 3; 203.36 m. to point of
beginning Containing an area of NINE THOUSAND SIX HUNDRED EIGHT (9,608) square meters, more or less. All points referred to are indicated on the plan and marked on the ground. Bearing TRUE DATE of Survey July 15-30, 2005, executed by Geodetic Engineer Evelyn N. Bollozos and was approved on September 30, 2005.
This lot is covered by F.P.A. No. 104303-553.
In the event of failure of bidding or auction sale cannot take place for whatever reason, the same will proceed on the following working day, without further notice posting and publication. Prospective bidders/buyers may investigate for themselves the title of the herein above described and encumbrances thereon, if any there be.
Medina, Misamis Oriental, June 1, 2015. (Sgd) ELLOGENE C. ATIENZA RTC Sheriff IV
(Sgd) ALDEN V. SAMBAAN Sheriff
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or the maiden celebration of Himugso on June 12-15, 2015, Seda Centrio offers a staycation that guests can avail of until the City Fiesta Month of August in time for the Higalaay Kagay-an Festival and onwards until December 30, 2015. Those wishing to avail of the special offer need only to purchase gift certificates during the June 12-15, 2015 Himugso period at the Seda Centrio booth at Centrio Mall or at the hotel lobby in the 4th floor. The Himugso promo is available on June 12-15 only but guests can choose to stay at the hotel anytime from June 12 to December 30, 2015. The discounted Himugso package rate includes overnight accommodations for 2 in a Deluxe Room with breakfast at only PhP 2,750.00 nett per night. On top of that, the package also entitles the guests to free use of the pool and gym, and complimentary wi-fi and bottled water in their rooms. They can also avail of VIP seats at the Himugso Cagayan de Oro Film Festival at Centrio Mall Cinema 2 on June 12-15 and free walking and city tours, and free entrance to the Cagayan de Oro city’s four museums (subject to availability/prior reservations needed at the Front Desk) during the city’s 65th Charter Day on June 15. However, these
perks can only be availed of during the Himugso period on June 12 - 15, 2015. “Seda Centrio’s Himugso promo would allow guests, especially for those from out-of-town, to already book their rooms at the discounted Himugso rate also for the Higalaay Kagay-an Fiesta Festival of Cagayan de Oro in August,” said Carol V. Valdez, Seda Centrio director of sales. “Take note that June 12-15, 2015 is a four-day long weekend which is happening only in Cagayan de Oro because of the confluence of the weekend with the June 12 Independence Day and June 15 Charter Day celebrations.” Ms. Valdez also pointed that Cagayan de Oro City would also be enjoying two long weekends in August this year: August 21-23 and August 28-31, when many of the fiesta events are scheduled to happen. In addition to the room package, Seda Centrio is also offering a Himugso “3+11” Misto Dinner Promo: for every 3 buffet dinner gift certificates @ PhP 550 each, the buyer will get 1 additional certificate free. These vouchers can be used from Wednesdays to Saturdays from June 12 until August 31, 2015. For further inquiries, please call Seda Centrio, (088) 323 8888, 0917 577 5910 or email cdo@sedahotels.com.
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