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By PAT SAMONTE, Caraga Regional Editor

UTUAN CITY – Agusan del Norte First District Rep. Lawrence Lemuel Fortun has expressed support for a book that tells about this city’s culture and an odyssey into the unique character and identity of the Butuanon through native cuisine.

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Group urge Congress to pass CAB-faithful BBL

both Houses of the Philippine Congress to take advantage of the available CAGAYAN de Oro City–– time remaining to pass a The Office of the Presiden- Bangsamoro Basic Law that tial Adviser on the Peace is faithful to the See group, page A11 Process (OPAPP) has urged

By BONG D. FABE Editor at large

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Nissan NP300 Navara cruises through Iligan and Dahilayan Story and photo

by Shaun Alejandrae Yap Uy

THE hashtag––#TOUGH. SMART--on the back window of the Brilliant Silver Nissan NP300 Navara pickup simply puts it.

In the early morning of June 5, five all-new Nissan NP 300 Navara pickups are introduced to Mindanao through the popular morning show “Pamahaw Espesyal” by Jeff Rolida of Nissan Cagayan de Oro and SJ Huh, Nissan Philippines, Inc. (NPI) General Manager for Marketing. With them are some members of the media industry of Cagayan de Oro City, and national media – who were up for a sweet ride with the Navara.

Dubbed as the Nissan “Ride and Drive”, the road to Iligan City brought in the first test to the Navara as it presented concrete and asphalt to the ride experience. Naturally, the all-new Nissan NP300 Navara cruised through The Galaxy Black Nissan NP300 Navara beams in the early morning sun at the Da- the roads with ease. hilayan Adventure Park, Bukidnon, June 6.

photo by shaun alejandrae yap uy

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Comelec calls for voters’ biometrics registration

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By Joey Sem G. Dalumpines

AVAO CITY -- Acting City Election Officer Atty. Marlon Casquejo urged residents to undergo biometrics registration to guarantee that they can exercise the right to vote in the local and national elections in 2016.

He explained that the turn-out of the biometric registration remains low despite bringing the activity to the barangay level.

Casquejo said the biometric registration aims to reach out to 179,000 voters in Davao City alone and

270,000 voters in other parts of Davao Region.

“The biometrics registration aims to cleanse the list of voters of flying voters, deceased and double registration,” he said.

Casquejo who is also the acting regional election of the

Commission on Elections 11 explained that those affected by the biometric registration will be the voters who were listed officially from 2003 and below.

Biometric registration is based on the law, Republic Act 10367, aimed at listing

the vital statistics, picture and signature of the voters using the computer system.

It is the policy of the State to establish a clean, complete, permanent and updated list of voters through the adoption of biometric technology. (PIA 11-Joey Sem G. Dalumpines)

Davao Light employees plant 9,000 seedlings in Marilog District Around 200 employees from the Davao Light and Power Co., a subsidiary of the Aboitiz, planted 9,000 seedlings in a portion of its 500-hectare logged-over adopted site in Upper Kibalang, Marilog District Davao City last May 23.

Despite the very hot weather, the distance of the area and steepness of the planting site, Davao Light employees together with the community were able to fill in all the plant-

ing holes intended for the mixed seedlings of narra and cacao.

Upper Kibalang has been the permanent planting site for Davao Light employees after the electric utility has entered into an agreement with the Department of Environment and Natural Resources (DENR) in 2011 permitting Davao Light to adopt one of DENR’s community-based Forest Management Program areas.

Since then, a total of

PR.A. Form No. 10.1 (LCRO) Republic of the Philippines LOCAL CIVIL REGISTRY OFFICE PROVINCE OF MISAMIS ORIENTAL CAGAYAN DE ORO CITY NOTICE FOR PUBLICATION

In compliance with Section 5 of R.A. No. 9048, a NOTICE is hereby served to the public that JELL MARLON A. TACANDONG has filed with this Office a petition for the change of first name from “MARC IMMANUEL” to “MARC RODEN” in the Certificate of Live Birth of MARC IMMANUEL DAW-IT who was born on December 25, 1999 in Cagayan de Oro City and whose parents are JELL MARLON ABEJUELA TACANDONG and MADELIENE ESTRADA DAW-IT.

Any person adversely affected by said petition may file his written opposition with this Office not later than 18 JUNE 2015.

(SGD.) EVANGELINE C. TAPANGAN

Asst. City Civil Registrar Officer-In-Charge MDN: June 11 & 18, 2015

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29,200 seedlings were already planted in the area.

Moreover, Davao Light employees have already planted a total of 49,000 seedlings since the tree planting activity started in 2009 at the Aboitiz’s 8-hectare property in Punta Dumalag from which the newly inaugurated Cleanergy Park is located.

“The annual tree planting activity is one of our sustainable efforts of helping the environment. It has also been an annual gathering of the employees and the community of Upper Kibalang who have always been very bring the employees closer Fermin Edillon, Community supportive to our projects in not only to the community Relations Manager. the area. It is important to but also to nature.” said The tree planting activity, which started in 2009, is in partnership with the Aboitiz Foundation Inc., the

social development arm of the Aboitiz group. This has become an annual event which is simultaneous with the other Aboitiz companies in the entire Philippines.

IPA PRESO ANG KAWATAN SA GOBYERNO

WILLIAM “IDOL” GUIALANI Former Barangay Captain of Taglimao, CDO

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Customs calls bidding of smuggled rice failure Bukidnon • Camiguin • Lanao del Norte • Lanao del Sur • Misamis Occidental • Misamis Oriental

By MARK FRANCISCO, Staff member and GERRY LEE Gorit, Correspondent

CAGAYAN de Oro City—The Bureau of Customs (BOC) in Region 10 has declared the bidding of the smuggled sacks of rice a failure on Tuesday.

For the first time in the history of the BOC-Cagayan de Oro District, there was a failure of bidding last Tuesday of all 64,680 smuggled sacks of rice from Vietnam worth P83 million which were seized in three batches at the Mindanao Container Terminal in Tagoloan town, Misamis Oriental last year – September 4, November 5 and December 2.

And BOC district officials are understandably worried since the items in question are all perishable.

The deadlock came when none of the 12 bidders were willing to put up beyond the P26 per kilogram minimum entry bid.

The 12 bidders are identified as Pacita A. Yu, Victor del Rosario, Soda Enterprises, Ingredient Management Asta Corporation, New Millennium Trading, NB Trading, Imelda Buenaventura, Mardlau General Merchandise, Bethel Merchandising, HPearl Marketing, AAP Enterprises and Villarubio Pharmacare Marketing.

All the 12 bidders are certified rice wholesalers, according to BOC District chief of staff Roswald Pague. But none of them are willing 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 reported that during the public bidding held at their Cagayan de Oro City Councilor Ramon Tabor strikes a toast to newly-promoted Senior Supt. Manuel Alvaoffice last Tuesday, the bidders said that during an auction rez, head of the Regional Headquarters Support Group 10, during the latter’s thanksgiving party yesterday.

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Photo by Gerry Lee Gorit of Mindanao Daily News

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EDITOR: ALLAN MEDIANTE • amediante@gmail.com

If not for the fact that out of the five-member Binay family four are in government, the senator would not have made such stupid position. But what can you expect from a senator whose only claim to the post she is now occupying is that they have the money to ensure electoral victory.

The nation should not forget that when Nancy Binay was fielded by her father to run for that lofty position she now holds, she never presented any credentials making her worthy for the people’s vote. Of course, I know you will point out but she won. Her victory only proves one thing and

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Woe to the wicked! Disaster ALLAN M. MEDIANTE is upon them! They will be Editor-in-Chief paid back for what their hands have done…” (Isaiah ruel pelone CRIS DIAZ Managing Editor Executive Editor 3:11, the Holy Bible).

-oooCHENG ORDOÑEZ URIEL C. QUILINGUING PNOY ANGLING TO Associate Contributing Editor REMAIN PRESIDENT AFTER 2016: I am one MARK FRANCISCO Arjay Felicilda Lifestyle Editor Assistant Editor of those who believe that President Aquino is cookGILBERT Y. CHAO gerry lee gorit ing something up his sleeve Motoring Editor Photo Journalist to either allow him to run felix santillan ROEL CATOTO again for president in 2016, EDSEL BANTOL Provincial Editor-Surigao or to simply enable himself Layout Artists to continue being president,

PAT SAMONTE one way or the other, by irene dayo CHRIS PANGANIBAN whatever means possible.

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His statements on his JOE PALABAO MARLON GAYOG running again, although Rene Michael BaÑos Regional Editor-Davao uttered days ago yet, are Regional Editors-Northmin being headlined by sympaAL JACINTO JOE FELICILDA thetic newspapers as if they Regional Editor-WestMin Editorial Consultant were recent pronouncents.

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City Declaration’, which is actually the “call to arms” issued by Filipino Christians, Protestants and Islam followers who have bound themselves as the `National Transformation Council’, to compel the resignation of President Aquino.

“Here is the first part: `We are Filipino citizens of different personal, professional social and economic backgrounds and political persuasions and religious beliefs. We have gathered here in Lipa City… under the auspices of the Council, to reaffirm our deeply held convictions and beliefs about the common good and our highest national interests, in the face of the most pressing challenges. “ `We invite all our compatriots everywhere to reaffirm with us the same convictions and beliefs.

We believe that: A crisis of unprecedented proportions has befallen our nation.

The life of the nation is in grave peril from the very political forces that are primarily ordained to protect, promote and advance its well-being, but which are aggressively undermining its moral, religious, social, cultural, constitutional and legal foundations.

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that is the quality of our electorate.

Before the Senate was graced by jokers like Joseph Estrada, Ramon Revilla Sr., Ramon Revilla Jr., Jinggoy Estrada and now nancy Binay, to name just five of their ilk, that august chamber served as home to the country’s great statesmen such as Claro M. Recto, Jose W. Diokno, Lorenzo Tanada, Benigno “Ninoy” Aquino Jr., Jovito R. Salonga, Rene Saguisag, among others.

Presently, the Senate has lost its luster it used to have. We now have senators who can’t legislate. This is another anomaly because that body is a legislative body. Nancy Binay is classic example of a legislator who does not know how to legislate proved by her statement against the antipolitical dynasty bill.

Binay’s position on the proposed law should all the more pressure the saner legislators to pass this bill into law. Binay and her ilk in many parts of the country should be held at bay for if allowed to make a rampage in next year’s election, the rationale why elections are

held will be totally lost.

When more members of one family occupy government positions whether elective or appointive, the more it pushes the country to political degeneration.

Political patronage will become more pronounced.

Philippine politics will deteriorate even more hence the need to arrest this tailspin.

Humans were not created to degenerate but regenerate or develop. What Nancy Binay wants is contrary to what is normal. In effect, she is proposing that our politics become abnormal.

If this is not irrational, what is?

At this point, the call should be anti-political dynasty. And this should be pushed by every rightthinking Filipino. The control of Philippine politics by a few families in the local and national levels should be put to an end.

What better way to put an end to this anomaly other than enacting a law prohibiting such? The passage of this bill into law should not be left to politicians out to derail it from being enacted

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it by corrupting Congress, intimidating the judiciary, taking over the treasury, manipulating the automated voting system, and perverting the constitutional impeachment process. “ `President Benigno Simeon Aquino 3rd has also damaged the moral fabric of Philippine Society by bribing members of Congress not only to impeach and remove a sitting Supreme Court Chief Justice but also to enact a law which disrespects the right to life of human being at the earliest and most vulnerable stages of their lives, in defiance not only of the constitution but above all of the moral law, the customs, culture, and consciences of Filipinos.

-ooo“PNOY HAS NO MORE MORAL RIGHT TO LEAD RP: `Therefore, faithful to the objective moral law and to the universally honored constitutional principle that sovereignty resides in the people and all government authority emanates from them, we declare that President Benigno Simeon Aquino 3rd has lost the moral right to lead the nation, and had become a danger to the Philippine

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PNoy angling to remain president after 2016

EDITORIAL

Wrong

Sen. Nancy Binay is terribly wrong in opposing the anti-political dynasty bill due for approval in the House of Representatives on the argument that no law should limit the number of family members desiring to be in public service.

This is a flawed argument if the senator from Makati only studied the 1987 Constitution. It is that document which we all call as the fundamental law of the land that prohibits political dynasty in the country.

The proposed law now pending approval in the Lower House simply articulates the intentions of the constitutional mandate.

The proposed law is just an enabling act to give meaning to a provision in the Constitution.

For Binay, a national legislator, to say there’s got to be no law limiting the number of family members in public service is irresponsible, to say the least.

It only exposes her lack of understanding about the Constitution from whose provisions and spirit all laws should be anchored on.

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-ooo“PNOY SUBVERTED AND VIOLATED THE 1987 CHARTER: `Unbridled and unpunished corruption and widespread misuse of political and economic power in all layers of society have not only destroyed our common conception of right and wrong, good and bad, just and unjust, legal and illegal, but also put our people, especially the poor, at the mercy of those who have the power to dictate the course and conduct of our development for their own selfish ends. “ `Far from preserving and defending the constitution, as he swore to do when he assumed office, the incumbent President Benigno Simeon Aquino has subverted and violated

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Daily Inspiration Don’t Quit “If your boss is angry at you, don’t quit!

A quiet spirit can overcome even great mistakes.”

Ecclesiastes 10:4

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tion, anger, and despair we want to quit.

The wisest man who ever lived, Solomon, gave us great insight into the best way to respond. If we respond quietly, honorably and carefully carry on with our work it It happens. We make a mistake or do gives time for tempers to die down. How something to offend someone who has do you usually respond when a teacher, authority over us at work. Out of frustra- boss, or parent gets angry with you?

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Fortun throws support for book on Butuanon culture, foodways

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By PAT SAMONTE, Caraga Regional Editor

UTUAN CITY – Agusan del Norte First District Rep. Lawrence Lemuel Fortun has expressed support for a book that tells about this city’s culture and an odyssey into the unique character and identity of the Butuanon through native cuisine.

Fortun said the book entitled “BUTUAN CUISINE, In Search of Local Identity,” provides the reader an insight into the customs and traditions of the Butuanons expressed through the variety of food they prepare.

Written by Dr. Manolita Rosales Lerida and Ms. Apolonia Vanzuela Garay, both researchers from Father Saturnino Urios University (FSUU) here, the book reclaims authentic Butuanon cuisine by retelling the traditional steps

in preparing palagsing, tinumpi, inisab, kinabol, buawy, bunta’a, inamanpawo, kayam, tamilok, abatud, among others.

The book tells the story of an ancient civilization through delectable and exquisite foodways and tradition. It gives the reader a glimpse of the past as far as memory can recall when early Butuanons prepare their meals sourced from Agusan River’s abundant

natural environs.

The book is seen to contribute to volumes of works and literature vouching for the richness of Butuan’s culture and history.

Last year, Fortun filed House Bill 4879 declaring the Balangay as the National Boat of the Philippines and House Bill 4823 which seeks to declare Butuan City as a heritage tourism zone.

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A FOODTRIP TO BUTUAN”S RICH CULTURE. Photo shows kinabol, a native Butuanon favorite, on the cover of the “BUTUANON CUISINE” book which Congressman Fortun describes as an odyssey into the rich culture and history of Butuan and its people.

NOTICE Republic of the Philippines OFFICE OF THE MUNICIPAL CIVIL REGISTRAR Matalam, Cotabato Publication Notice R.A. 10172 Date 21 April 2015

NOTICE TO THE PUBLIC

CCE-0030-2015

In Compliance with the publication requirement and pursuant to OCRG Memorandum Circular No. 2013-1 Guidelines in the Implementation of the Administrative Order No. 1 Series of 2012 (IRR on R.A 10172), Notice is hereby served to the public that JOY DULAY BAJAR-SALABAOAN has filed with this Office, a petition for correction of entry in sex from “MALE” to “FEMALE” in the certificate of live birth of JOY DULAY BAJAR at Matalam, Cotabato and whose parents are CORNELIO BALADIANG BAJAR and REMEDIOS BUTARDO DULAY. Any person adversely affected by said petition may file his written opposititon with this Office not later than May 11, 2015.

(Sgd) TRINIDAD T. BUTARDO

Municipal Civil registrar

MDN: June 4 & 11, 2015

Republic of the Phjilippines OFFICE OF THE MUNICIPAL CIVIL REGISTRAR Matalam, Cotabato Publication Notice R.A. 10172

Notice is hereby given that a parcel of Land identified as Lot No. 1874, consisting an area of 692 sq.mts. w/ T.D. No. 04000811651, embraced w/ OCT No. 6548, Located at Kuguita, Mambajao, Camiguin declared in the name of the Late ATANACIA JALOP, the said parcel of land is the subject of EXTRA-JUDICIAL SETTLEMENT OF ESTATE WITH DEED OF ABSOLUTE SALE OF PORTION OF LAND, executed by NATIVIDAD B. JALOP and CECELIA JALOP-PELAYO HEIRS of the Late ATANACIA JALOP, (As they acquired the said parcel of land by virtue of succession). Sold in Favour of Spouses DELIO B. TAMBIS and LILIBETH J. TAMBIS, under the Notarial Registry of ATTY. VITO M. CARILLO, as Per Doc. No. 51; Page No. 24; Book No. 56; Series of 2015.

MDN: MAY 28, JUNE 4 & 11, 2015

R.A. 9048 Form No.10.1 (LCR O) Republic of the Philippines Local Civil Registry Office Province; Lanao del Norte City/Municipality: Iligan City

NOTICE TO THE PUBLIC

CCE- 0037-2015

In Compliance with the publication requirement and pursuant to OCRG Memorandum Circular No. 2013-1 Guidelines in the Implementation of the Administrative Order No. 1 Series of 2012 (IRR on R.A. 10172), Notice is hereby served to the public that JOY ARMEJE ESPINOLA has filed with this Office, a petition for correction of entry in sex from “FEMALE” to “MALE” in the certificate of live birth of JOY ARMEJE ESPINOLA at Matalam, Cotabato and whose parents are FELOMINO O. ESPINOLA and JEANA T. ARMEJE.

Any person adversely affected by said petition may file his written opposition with this Office not later than June 22, 2015.

(Sgd) TRINIDAD T. BUTARDO

Municipal Civil registrar

MDN: June 4 & 11, 2015

In compliance with Section 5 R.A.9048, a notice is hereby served to the public that GUILLERMA C. NUÑEZ has filed with this Office a petition for Change of First Name from “JONA MAE” to “CHELSY” in the Certificate of Live Birth of JONA MAE CABALUNA NUÑEZ who was born on 16 May 2011 at Iligan City, Lanao del Norte and whose parents are Guillerma C. Cabaluna and Henrico A. Nunez.

Any person adversely affected by said petition may file his written opposition with this office not later than July 2015.

(Sgd.) MARIA PURA C. MASCARIÑAS

City Civil Registrar

Republic of the Philippines Local Civil Registry Office Province; Lanao del Norte City/Municipality: Iligan City NOTICE FOR PUBLICATION

In compliance with Section 5 R.A.9048, a notice is hereby served to the public that IVY ROSE R. RANARA has filed with this Office a petition for Change of First Name from “MANLEE” to “LIMAN JR.” in the Certificate of Live Birth of MANLEE REAL RANARA who was born on 08 September 2010 at Iligan City, Lanao del Norte and whose parents are Ivy Rose M. Real and Liman V. Ranara.

Any person adversely affected by said petition may file his written opposition with this office not later than July 2015.

(Sgd.) MARIA PURA C. MASCARIÑAS

City Civil Registrar MDN: June 4 & 11, 2015

Republic of the Philippines Local Civil Registry Office Province: Agusan del Norte City/Municipality: Butuan City

PRA Form No.10.1 (LCRO) Republic of the Philippines LOCAL CIVIL REGISTRY OFFICE PROVINCE OF MISAMIS ORIENTAL Cagayan de Oro City NOTICE FOR PUBLICATION

In compliance with Section 5 of R.A No. 9048, a NOTICE is hereby served to the public that MARIA ELENA NAPILOT JUSTINIANI has filed with this Office a petition for the change of first name from “ELENA” to “MARIA ELENA” in the Certificate of Live Birth of ELENA IBARAT NAPILOT who was born on February 18, 1968 in Cagayan de Oro City and whose parents are VIRGELIO NAPILOT and AURORA IBARAT.

Any person adversely affected by said petition may file his written opposition with this Office not later than June 13, 2015.

(SGD.) EVANGELINE C. TAPANGAN

Asst. City Civil Registrar

Officer In Charge

(R.A. Form No. l0.l/R.A.NO. 9048 Republic of the Philippines Local Civil Registry Office Province of Camiguin Municipality of Mambajao

Publication Notice R.A. 10172

NOTICE TO THE PUBLIC CCE-0125-2015 (R.A. 10172) In compliance with the publication requirement and pursuant to OCRG Memorandum Circular No. 2013-1, Guidelines in the Implementation of the Administrative Order No. 1 Series of 2012 (IRR on R.A. 10172), Notice is hereby served to the public that ANAGEN V. COLIAO has filed with this office a Petition for Correction of Clerical Error of the child’s sex from “MALE27” to “FEMALE” in the Certificate of Live Birth of ANAGEN MAYOR VALDEZ, who was born on June 15, 1977 at Bo. Pianing, Butuan City, Agusan del Norte and whose parents are REMIDIOS MONTE MAYOR and ALFREDO ALINSOB VALDEZ. Any person adversely affected by said petition may file his written opposition with this Office not later than 18 June 2015.

(SGD.) JUDITH ALVIZO-CALO, LLB, MPA

City Civil Registrar MDN: June 4 & 11, 2015

Notice is hereby given that the intestate estate of LOLITA ALENTON CAYETANO, who died on February 26, 2009, leaving a parcel of land covered by Transfer Certificate of Title No. T-6712, Tax Declaration No. E-008694, containing an area of FORTY SEVEN THOUSAND TWO HUNDRED FIFTY ONE SQUARE METERS (47,251 sq.m.), situated in the Barrio of Casisang, Malaybalay City, Bukidnon, which is more particularly described as follows: Transfer Certificate of Title No. T-6712, “A parcel of Land (Lot B, of the subdivision plan (LRC) Psd-155676, being a portion of Lot -22585, LRC. Rec. No. H. Pat.) situated in the Barrio of Casisang, Municipality of Malaybalay, is registered in accordance with the provisions of section 122 of the Land Registration Act in the name of LOLITA A. CAYETANO, Filipino citizen, of legal age, married to PERICO CAYETANO and a resident of Malaybalay, Bukidnon, is the subject of DEED OF EXTRAJUDICIAL SETTLEMENT OF ESTATE, made and entered namely; CHARLITO ALENTON CAYETANO, EDGAR ALENTON CAYETANO, SHIRLEY CAYETANO-BALDOSANO, ROSALYN CAYETANO-DURO, and ROY ALENTON CAYETANO, all of legal age, Filipino citizens, and residents of Malaybalay, Bukidnon, hereinafter called the HEIRS are the legal and compulsory heirs: that for and in consideration of her support and assistance, the HEIRS hereby WAIVE, TRANSFER, and CONVEY the above-described parcel of land in favor of one of the heirs, SHIRLEY CAYETANO-BALDOSANO, subject to the conditions enumerated in the Memorandum of Agreement, hereto attached, before the Undersigned Notary Public under Doc. No. 559, Page No. 151, Book No. IV, Series of 2015. As per Doc. No. 560; Page No. 151; Book No. IV; Series of 2015; under Notary Public of ATTY. JANETH G. JATICO-NUNEZ.

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Date: 29 May 2015

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In compliance with Section 7 of RA. No. 10172, a notice is hereby served to the public that LOU ESPENO INACAY has filed with this Office PETITION FOR CORRECTION OF CLERICAL ERROR in her Certificate of Live Birth particularly SEX OF THE CHILD from “MALE” to “FEMALE”. She was born on 2 January 1961 at EMERGENCY CAMIGUIN HOSPITAL, MAMBAJAO, CAMIGUIN, PHILIPPINES and whose parents are: ZOSIMA ESTANILLA PALAD and MANUEL SAN VICENTE ESPENO.

Any person adversely affected by said petition may file his written opposition with this Office not later than 22 JUNE 2015.

(Sgd.) EDITHA B. MOOSREINER

Municipal Civil Registrar MDN: June 4 & 11, 2015

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Teacher’s Views Editor : IRENE DAYO

Parents’ role in pushing love of learning among pupils

By JOCELYN D. MIYAS FM POSADAS E/S Raw-an, Lala, Lanao del Norte

Giving encouragement about schooling should not stop once the child decided to attend school. In this period, the child needs her parents more. Thus, it is important that time to time, the mother or the father should have a check on how a pupil’s school day went.

Their communication could start with one of the parents, the mother perhaps, checking her child how was school during a particular day. Education professionals AFFIDAVIT OF ADJUDICATION

BY A SOLE HEIR Notice is hereby given that the intestate estate of the Late NESTOR R. ESPELITA, who died intestate on July 11, 2014, acquire a parcel of land covered by Transfer Certificate of Title No. RT-7794, located at Mabini, Cabadbaran, Agusan del Norte, more particularly described as follows; Transfer Certificate of Title No. RT-7794, Lot No. 426-C-5, Psd-13-008033, being a portion of Lot 426-C, Psd-13-002212, Survey Claimant: Elegio M. Atega, Land Use: Orchard, Municipality of Mabini, Cabadbaran, Province of Agusan del Norte, Area: FIVE HUNDRED FORTY SEVEN (547) SQ.M., is the subject of AFFIDAVIT OF ADJUDICATION BY A SOLE HEIR, made and entered namely; VICTORIA E. ILAGAN, of legal age, widow, Filipino and a resident of Mabulay Subdivision, Cagayan de Oro City, Philippines, is the lawfully wedded wife and the sole heir. As per Doc. No. 95; Page No. 19; Book No. XVI; Series of 2015, under Notary Public of ATTY. JAYFRANCIS D. BAGO. MDN: JUNE 11, 18 & 25, 2015

EXTRAJUDICIAL SETTLEMENT OF REAL ESTATE WITH SALE

NOTICE is hereby given that the intestate estate of the late spouses RAMON S. BACARRO and EULALIA LABUANAN EDOS, leaving a parcel of land described as follows: A parcel of land with all improvements thereon, known as survey No. 88 cad 367, located at Lower Jasaan, Misamis Oriental, containing an area of 275 square meters, declared in the name of Ramon S. Bacarro, covered by Tax Decl. No. 08-11-0002-01735, and pursuant to Rule 74 of the Rules of Court subject to the conditions set forth in the said rules, we agree among themselves to sell a portion of a 71 square meters to Pierre Ian T. Garrido, as we hereby settle and adjudicate and be transferred to heirs of Ramon S. Bacarro for the remaining portion of 204 square meters, is the subject of Extra-Judicial Settlement of Real Estate with Sale, under the Notarial Registry of Atty. Audio G. Paduganan, per Doc. No. 167; Page No. 23; Book No. 54; Series of 2015.

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EXTRA-JUDICIAL PARTITION AMONG CO-OWNERS WITH DEED OF ABSOLUTE SALE

NOTICE is hereby given that the intestate estate of the late MUSOLINI S. SOLDEVILLA, left a parcel of land particularly described as follows, to wit: A parcel of land (Lot 2076-B5-E-9 of the subdivision plan (LRC) Psd-15455. Being a portion of Lot 2076-B-5-E, described on the plan, (LRC) Psd-6761, LRC (GLRO), Cad. Rec. No. 156), situated in Cagayan de Oro, containing an area of 425 square meters, more or less, that for and in consideration, receipt of which in full is hereby acknowledged by the Heirs/Vendors, the Vendor hereby by these presents Sell, Cede, Convey, Transfer and Deliver unto the Vendee their heirs, and assigned the portion of the above-described parcel of land Lot 2076-B-5-E-9, containing an area of 70 square meters, more or less, is the subject of Extra-Judicial Partition among Co-Owners with Deed of Absolute Sale, under the Notarial Registry of Atty. Gil U. Banaag, per Doc. No. III; Page No. 23; Book No. 138; Series of 2012.

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suggested that parents should use soft statements rather than, “‘How was school today?” because this could frustrate the child. Instead, using smooth interrogatives like, “What was fun?” “What was the worst part of the day?” “Did your teacher explain that Math homework?”

How did soccer go?” is more effective.

It is because communicating about school goes deeper than just asking the right questions. According to Dr. Diane Levin of Wheelock College, more than just finding out how their day was, parents want to help kids become problemsolvers and independentlearners. Good conversations help kids see that his parents care about their lives; that they are there to support him, and to help him develop strategies for solving problems.

As much as the school put effort in encouraging learning appreciation among children, home should exert extra effort in doing same thing, through showing the pupils how the parents care about them and their learning.

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RE: Application for the Amendment of Certificate of Public Convenience (CPC) to operate a Liner Service for the carriage of passengers in their applied route/s and to operate under a deregulated schedule of trips and rates, pursuant to Republic Act No. Republic of the Philippines 9295 and its Implementing Rules and Regulations.

DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION AND COMMUNICATIONS MARITIME INDUSTRY AUTHORITY

MARINA R.O. No.XIIINO. SUR 15 – 069-A MARILOU A. PABLO., CASE PP/LT MARIO B.FORTUS Bldg,PPA Compound,Surigao City

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Structuring the 21st Century education

By Charles Mahistrado

School PrincipalPlantation Elem. School, Manolo Fortich, Bukidnon How should education be structured to meet the needs of students in this 21st century world? How do we now define “School”, “Teacher” “Learner” and “Curriculum”?

Schools in the 21st century will be laced with a projectbased curriculum for life aimed at engaging students in addressing real-world problems, issues important to humanity, and questions that matter.

This is a dramatic departure from the factory-model education of the past. It is abandonment, finally, of textbook-driven, teachercentered, paper and pencil schooling. It means a new way of understanding the concept of “knowledge”, a new definition of the “educated person”. A new way of designing and delivering the curriculum is required.

We offer the following new definitions for “School”, “Teacher” and “Learner” appropriate for the 21st century: Schools will go from ‘buildings’ to ‘nerve centers’, with walls that are porous and transparent, connecting teachers, students and the community to the wealth of knowledge that exists in the world.”

Teacher - From primary role as a dispenser of information to orchestrator of learning and helping students turn information into knowledge, and knowledge into wisdom.

The 21st century will require knowledge generation, not just information delivery, and schools will need to create a “culture of inquiry”.

Learner - In the past a learner was a young person who went to school, spent a specified amount of time in certain courses, received passing grades and graduated.

Today we must see learners in a new context: First – we must maintain student interest by helping them see how what they are learning prepares them for life in the real world; Second – we must instill curiosity, which is fundamental to lifelong learning; Third – we must be flexible in how we teach; Fourth – we must excite learners to become even more resourceful so that they will continue to learn outside the formal school day.”

So what will schools look

like, exactly? What will the curriculum look like? How will this 21st century curriculum be organized, and how will it impact the way we design and build schools, how we assess students, how we purchase resources, how we acquire and utilize the new technologies, and what does all this mean for us in an era of standardized testing and accountability?

Imagine a school in which the students – all of them – are so excited about school that they can hardly wait to get there. Imagine having little or no “discipline problems” because the students are so engaged in their studies that those problems disappear.

Imagine having parents calling, sending notes, or coming up to the school to tell you about the dramatic changes they are witnessing in their children: newly found enthusiasm and excitement for school, a desire to work on projects, research and write after school and on weekends.

Imagine your students making nearly exponential growth in their basic skills of reading, writing, speaking, listening, researching, scientific explorations, math, multimedia skills and more! It is possible.

What is 21st century curriculum?

Twenty-first century curriculum has certain critical attributes. It is interdisciplinary, project-based, and research-driven. It is connected to the community – local, state, national and global. Sometimes students are collaborating with people around the world in various projects. The curriculum incorporates higher order thinking skills, multiple intelligences, technology and multimedia, the multiple literacies of the 21st century, and authentic assessments.

Service learning is an important component.

The classroom is expanded to include the greater community. Students are self-directed, and work both independently and interdependently. The curriculum and instruction are designed to challenge all students, and provides for differentiation.

The curriculum is not textbook-driven or fragmented, but is thematic, project-based and integrated. Skills and content are not taught as an end in themselves, but students learn them through their research and application in their projects. Textbooks,

if they have them, are just one of many resources.

Knowledge is not memorization of facts and figures, but is constructed through research and application, and connected to previous knowledge, personal experience, interests, talents and passions. The skills and content become relevant and needed as students require this information to complete their projects. The content and basic skills are applied within the context of the curriculum, and are not ends in themselves.

Assessment moves from regurgitation of memorized facts and disconnected processes to demonstration of understanding through application in a variety of contexts. Real-world audiences are an important part of the assessment process, as is selfassessment.

Media literacy skills are honed as students address real-world issues, from the environment to poverty. Students use the technological and multimedia tools now available to them to design and produce web sites, television shows, radio shows, public service announcements, mini-documentaries, how-to DVDs, oral histories, and even films.

Students find their voices as they create projects using multimedia and deliver these products to real-world audiences, realizing that they can make a difference and change the world. They learn what it is to be a contributing citizen, and carry these citizenship skills forward throughout their lives.

As a result, standardized test scores are higher. This is because students have acquired the skills and content in a meaningful, connected way and the understanding is there. They actually KNOW the content on a much higher level of understanding, and they have developed their basic skills by constant application throughout the duration of the unit.

The Global Classroom Every day students from countries all over the world collaborate on important projects in web sites.

For students to be prepared to navigate this 21st century world, they must become literate in 21st century literacies, including multicultural, media, information, emotional, ecological, financial and cyber literacies. Collaborating with students from around the world in meaningful, real-life projects is a necessary tool for developing these literacies. Students can learn that through collaboration, not competition, they can work together to make the world a better place. Students will use technologies, including the Internet, and global collaboration to solve critical issues.

Greening the Curriculum and the Classroom “Green Education” Our planet and its citizen residents are facing a growing number of issues related to the environment.

Education is the key. From environmental awareness to producing scientists, politicians, international relations experts, media producers, and others, our schools will assist students in finding the answers to our environmental problems.

Technologies are not an end in themselves; technologies are tools students use to create knowledge and to create personal and social change.

There should be full access to technology. If students do not have computers or access to the Internet at home, together we will find a way to provide them. If we can, we will obtain laptops for every student and teacher. Buildings will need to be wired in such a way that students can access their files, as well as the Internet, from anywhere in the school. Various labs and learning centers should be set up around the campus.

Art, music, theatre, television, radio and film studios can be created with relatively small expenditures. All classrooms should have televisions to watch broadcasts created by their school as well as by other schools in the district.

I believe there are definitely resources available which will allow us to eventually create these opportunities for all schools and children.

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Why aren’t farmers growing more trees?

By Christine Marie D. Habito and Nina Astrid Fenger

DO farmers recognize the ecosystem services provided by trees? If so, how might their perceptions of these services affect agroforestry adoption?

Dr. Rodel Lasco and Marya Laya Espaldon, researchers at the World Agroforestry Centre Philippines, assessed the perceptions of smallholding farmers in Bohol, Philippines on the benefits they get from trees.

The y a ls o explore d whether or not farmers felt that trees were important in helping them to cope specifically with changes in climate.

The preliminary findings of the study showed that the majority of the farmers did recognize the ecosystem services provided by trees.

They also found that farmers who had more farm parcels and who used onfarm trees to cope specifically with changes in climate were more likely to perceive

these ecosystem services.

Ecosystem services are the collective benefits which human society obtains from the natural environment, including clean water, food, fuel, building materials, fresh air, erosion prevention, biodiversity conservation, climate regulation, carbon sequestration and landscape aesthetics.

Ecosystem services can be divided into either provisioning (economic), regulating (ecological), cultural or supporting services. The agricultural sector depends highly on ecosystem services for production.

Smallholders work in, and interact most directly and extensively with, their natural environment. They not only produce agricultural goods and services but also act as stewards of the environment. Incidentally, smallholders are also among those most vulnerable to external shocks, particularly

THE National Solid Waste Management Commission (NSWMC) of the Department of Environment and Natural Resources (DENR) through its Environment

Management Bureau (EMB) has validated the city government of Gingoog in the province of Misamis Oriental as one of the model local government units (LGUs)

Farmer planting cacao at the Conservation Agriculture with Trees Center in Claveria, Misamis Oriental, Philippines.

Photo courtesy of World Agroforestry Centre/Amy Cruz

the negative impacts of climate change.

Agroforestry—the deliberate integration of trees with crop and/or livestock production systems—has favourable effects on the quality and quantity of eco-

system services.

In addition, trees on farms also help smallholders’ adapt to climate change while benefiting mitigation through carbon sequestration (see, for example, Lasco et al 2014).

nationwide on the implementation of the three aspects of solid waste management under the World Bank – Environment and Natural Resources Management Project (WB-ENRMP).

Further, DENR certified Gingoog has been exemplary in tri-focal management: segregation at source, segregated collection, and operationalization of Material Recovery Facilities (MRF).

Gingoog City Environment and Natural Resources Division (ENRD) officer in-charge Marlene Fuentes said this honor is the challenge being left to the city by the late chief Richard Miraflores.

She said Miraflores leadership in implementing the Ecological Solid Waste Management Act remains as daily mission of the city to sustain for Gingoognons’

However, in spite of these benefits and extensive capacity development programs on agroforestry techniques for farmers, the deliberate integration of trees on farms remains low.

This implies a need to better understand the factors influencing farmers’ decisions on whether or not to plant trees on their farms.

In the Bohol study, the smallholders recognized the ecological services of trees the most, followed by the economic and (socio-) cultural services.

At the same time, they reported using trees mostly as alternative sources of food and income. In spite of these reported uses, the analysis showed that perception of economic services was less likely among farmers from areas at mid- and high elevation, respectively. This suggests that though farmers were able to recognize the ecosystem services provided by trees in general, perception of trees’ roles across the

landscape was varied.

In essence, this indicates that level of knowledge of trees’ roles is uneven and that there is room for information and education campaigns and technical support to promote tree-based agricultural production.

This initial analysis shows that farmers’ recognition of ecosystem services provided by trees is, by itself, an important but insufficient prerequisite of agroforestry adoption. Clearly, the progression from positive perception to actual implementation of tree-based agriculture is also dependent on other factors.

It is important to deepen understanding of these factors to more effectively and efficiently address the barriers to agroforestry adoption.

The World Agroforestry Centre Philippines continues to work with smallholders and public and private partners to support climatesmart, sustainable agricultural production.

health and city’s sanitation.

The city has been benchmarked, visited and studied as to its successful implementation of Republic Act 9001.

Hence, we are honored and proud as other LGUs have come to us and have learned tips from us for their Solid Waste Management endeavors. This is our successful undertaking to share, our best practice to impart and our way of life to showcase as we have disciplined ourselves in segregating our waste disposals, Fuentes said.

DENR’s recognition has re-posted the name of the city as the Cleanest and

Greenest City in Northern Mindanao.

Besides, such validation echoes remarkable fame of the city as a model in the fight against solid wastes throughout the archipelago.

Mayor Marie Guingona urged anew to sustain this kind of best practice for the city and for everyone.

As of press time, the city collects 6.6 tons of its daily garbage which is away from a record of 24 tons per day five years ago. Further, Gingoog maintains a controlled dump site which will be converted later on into a sanitary landfill, said Fuentes. (Buboy Pabia, Gingoog media bureau)

DENR affirms Gingoog as solid waste management model

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Himugso Heritage Feature:

Memories of the old hometown:

Its People

By Gwendolyn Ramos Garcia

(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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Rep. Pedro Sa. Baculio

ost people leave home when they go off to college, or after graduation, in search of a job, or when one marries somebody from another town/city or country. But what exactly is “home”?

Home is that magical place where I feel that I belong. It is where my forbears are buried, and where my mother and most of my family, relatives and close friends still live. It is that special place where even if I leave its shores, I will still feel welcome when I come back no matter how long I have been away.

And for me, that magical, special place is no other than Cagayan de Oro City !

My city Cagayan de Oro did not acquire that moniker for nothing. There is a fable attached to the name.

Cagayan de Oro literally means “city of gold”. The gold was rumored to be in the underwater cave by the river along the original church which is now the St. Augustine’s Cathedral. Whether gold has really been found is subject to conjecture but anyone who has ever been to the city always leaves it with golden memories of the wonderful people that inhabit the place.

A friend who works at the World Bank in Washington, D.C., Marylou Gomez, confided to me that her brief 10 month stay in Cagayan, teaching a Grade V class at XU’s grade school was among the happiest times of her life.

Three other friends, high school classmates of mine at Lourdes College (LC) – Vicky Enriquez Agaab, Elizabeth Domingo-Tan and Rosemarie Quiepo-Flores, recently made a nostalgic trip there during a class reunion and they happily retraced the steps of their girlhood – walking to the Cathedral from the LC dorm, then back to Divisoria & to XU’s Immaculate Conception Chapel. They even went to Cogon market by themselves,

accompanied by Elizabeth’s doting husband, in search of tira-tira and binaki. They hope to go back again for our class’ 50th reunion.

Its People Years ago, almost everybody in town was related, either by blood or by marriage.

They belonged to the big clans of Neri, Chaves, Roa, Velez, Abejuela, Gabor, Fernandez, etc. New people came in when scions of these original families who had studied in Manila met, then ended up marrying young men from other parts of the country or when men in government service got assigned to Cagayan de Oro and married local belles.

The city then was also a popular destination for rich students from Manila, Bacolod, Cebu & other towns because Ateneo de Cagayan (now Xavier University) had a reputation for its firm discipline and good education.

Several of these young men married into local families so you have family names now in Cagayan de Oro like de la Fuente, Falcon, Ferrer, Arguelles, etc. Other settlers and transplants came from

Bohol (Borja, Luminarias, Enerio, Mosqueda, Balaba), Cebu (Canoy, Dongallo, Sestoso), Ilocos (Soriano, Garcia, Cabading), Gingoog (Lugod, Fernandez), Bukidnon (Fortich), Antique (Xavier, Noble), Ozamiz (Tamparong, Gorospe), Ormoc (Muñoz), Capiz (Torres, Quimpo), Marikina (Cruz), Camiguin (Adaza, Bollozos, Paderanga, Quiblat, Along, Dugenio, Salcedo, Magto, etc.) . Still others were employees of firms like Tabacalera, Soriano, San Miguel and Menzi [and were mostly of Spanish descent like Messrs. Puyo, Aguirre, Rodriguez, Larrabaster] or those assigned in the Army or PC Camps (Limena, Venadas, Sontillano, Saniel, Elloso, Clavano, etc.) or government offices like the Bureau of Lands, Agriculture, etc. (Messrs. Fernando Torres and Castillo were young graduates [UP Los Banos] when they first came to the city and ended up marrying into local families; and government doctors (Drs. Zamora, Almonte, Montenegro, Macaranas, Dayrit, Mejia, etc.) or Del Monte executives/ employees (Frias, Tugot, Balbuena, Pelaez, Mejia, etc.).

The Spanish American War and WW II also saw the influx of G.I.’s who chose to stay because they had married local belles – like John Charles Chaloner (direct descendants of whom count the Gaanes , Buhays & Casiños) and George Willkom (from

Nicolas and Cecilia Capistrano

Porfirio Chaves and wife Fausta Vamenta Chaves in Paris Tour 1914

that single American from Ohio descended about 500 Willkoms), Larsen (Cepedas) , Paagen (Saberolas).

As the world beckoned, some of the native-born Cagay-anons ventured to other climes in search of adventure and “outsiders”or “newcomers” from other parts of the country came in to take their place when the city became one of the major regional centers of the Philippines. As a result of said regionalization more and more trekked to the city to man banks, regional offices and to establish businesses. The city had so welcomed them with open arms that when it was time

to transfer to other branches, many of these managers and heads of offices chose to quit their jobs rather than relocate elsewhere. That’s how much they loved and felt “at home” in their newly adopted city.

Thus now, “Cagayanons” are categorized as the native born, those who married into local families, the transplanted merchants, businessmen and

professionals who plied their trade here or practiced their professions in their new-found city and the children born into families who emigrated to the city before or during the war or during the business or regionalization boom in the 80’s. (posted by The MINDANAO CURRENT @ 4:01 PM , reprinted with the permission of the author)

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Tagum City --The essence of public-private partnership is demonstrated anew through organic farming for poor families here.

On Friday, officials of Barangay Madaum; SM Foundation, Inc. (SMFI); SM Davao; Harbest Agribusiness C or p oration; Davao Del Norte Provincial Government; Department of Social Welfare and Development (DSWD); Department of Agriculture (DA); and program participants of Pantawid Pamilya began the planting season for SMFI’s Kabalikat sa Kabuhayan Farmers’ Training Program at a demonstration farm in Barangay Madaum.

Leading the event were SMFI Assistant Vice President for Livelihood Outreach Program Cristie S. Angeles and DSWD Director Priscilla N. Razon.

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To err is human but to forgive is divine

Special Gospel of the day (June11, 2015-Thursday) Matthew 18:21-35” For this reason the kingdom of heaven may be compared to a king who wished to settle accounts with his slaves.

“When he had begun to settle them, one who owed him ten thousand talents was brought to him. But since he did not have the means to repay, his lord commanded him to be sold, along with his wife and children and all that he had, and repayment to be made.

“So the slave fell to the ground and prostrated himself before him, saying, `Have patience with me and I will repay you everything.’ “And the lord of that slave felt compassion and released him and forgave him the debt. But that slave went out and found one of his fellow slaves who owed him a hundred denarii; and he seized him and began to choke him, saying, `Pay back what you owe.’ “So his fellow slave fell to the ground and began to plead with him, saying, `Have patience with me and I will repay you: To err is human but to forgive is divine. This is the reason behind why Jesus taught us to forgive any person committed mistakes to-

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Razon, under this latest public-private partnership on high-value crop production, some 150 families who are Pantawid and nonPantawid recipients will gain extra opportunities to improve their life.

“They have been taught basic skills in organic farming which they can readily apply and earn from it on top of providing fresh produce for their family.”

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while some have also ventured in cultivating their own backyard garden.

Participants grow vegetables and fruits like cucumber, tomato, squash, ampalaya, bell pepper, honeydew and gourd.

HarBest Agribusiness Corp. conducted the lectures and hands on sessions on Nursery Preparation, Seed Sowing, Land Preparation, Caring & Nursing of Seedling, Pruning, Trellis Preparation, Fruit Selection and Fruit Thinning, Pest and Disease Control, Irrigation & Drainage, and Postharvest Technology.

Integrated in the training course was an orientation on the DSWD Sustainable Livelihood Program (SLP) focused on Community Driven Enterprise Development approach

which covers Self Awareness, Time Management, Financial Literacy, Product Management, Participatory Livelihood Issue Analysis, and Value Chain Analysis.

DSWD and DA also taught participants Cost Analysis and Return of Investment Analysis.

Director Razon added that to date, 36 Civil Society Organizations (CSOs) in Davao Region have committed to work with DSWD to further assist recipients of Pantawid Pamilya. “We continue to collaborate with CSOs and non-government organizations like SM Foundation to provide additional opportunities to our Pantawid families and enable them to move up and lead a better life.”

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into law like Binay.

Let us not forget that based on testimonies by witnesses in the Senate, the Binay family had practically made politics as a business enterprise where they are alleged to have amassed so much wealth over the years while in public office. This must be the reason why Nancy Binay is very much opposed to have her family’s political opportunism clipped.

But should we allow one family to have the final word on how the anti-political dynasty bill be disposed

by Congress? Perhaps what the citizenry could do to ensure the passage of this bill is by putting pressure on the congressmen and the senators to vote in favor of its passage.

At this point, we can’t afford to be just fence sitters while the future of our politics is being shaped in the halls of Congress. We should all be proactive in the process if we don’t want our future forever doomed.

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The scenic route also gave the opportunity to enjoy the ride, quick breaks, and of course quick photoop-stops.

Mindanao, being an agriculturally rich island, the all-new Nissan NP300 Navara entices not only farm-based businessmen and landowners but entrepreneurs as well. The right blend of power, fuel efficiency, passenger and driver comfort, and the latest in transport technology gives the NP300 Navara a distinct appeal to anyone.

“Nissan pickup trucks the lifeblood of communities, and we are catering to that need by improving the much-loved pick-up truck. With 80 years of heritage, providing technologies comes as natural as possible. Nissan lives with the promise of providing innovation that excites and that’s what we have been

doing,” said Antonio Zara, NPI president and managing director.

The Dahilayan trail was a little more interesting as the five NP300 Navara pickups hovered through the uphill concrete and asphalt before reaching the rough tracks to the Dahilayan Adventure Park site.

“Trailblazing the sharp curves of Cagayan de OroIligan City highway, and negotiating the uphill, rugged and the boulders along the roads toward the famed Dahilayan Adventure Park in Manolo Fortich, Bukidnon with ease and extreme maneuverability, the NP300 Navara was very comfortable — definitely not a perfect one, but it comes minus the bumpy ride commonly associated with pickups travelling without load” Dante Sudaria, publisher of BusinessWeek Mindanao said.

The YD25 2.5L diesel engine coupled with both 7-speed automatic transmission with manual mode and the 6-speed manual transmission provides drivers the experience of a smoother shifting despite the load, as well as better acceleration.

The NP300 Navara boosts comfort with the NASA-inspired zero-gravity seats and vaunted cooling power of the Nissan air-conditioning system, functionally-aesthetic interior. The zero-gravity seats should come in handy in long-distance out-of-town ride and drives as it translates to reducing fatigue, the spacious interior gives the drivers and passengers enough leg room and elbow room.

The Navara comes with a push-button ignition system, a backup camera, CD, MP3 and iPod compatible along with Bluetooth connectivity for smart phones.

“The all-new NP300 Navara is the truck that will make you proud no matter what the situation, be it a rough road drive or a relaxed cruise in the city”, Zara concludes.

The all-new NP300 Navara comes in Savannah Orange, Alpine White, Galaxy Black and Brilliant Silver.

Failure... from page A3

held at the BOC Zamboanga District last year, glutinous rice was pegged at P20 per kilogram.

“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 sacks of rice, which are currently stored in 124 forty-foot containers at the Mindanao Container Terminal, were already scheduled to be auctioned off last January but no bidder came forward, forcing the BOC to reschedule it.

This time, there were 12 bidders, but none were willing to budge their positions.

Pague said they will elevate the matter before BOC commissioner Alberto Lina.

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Comprehensive Agreement on the Bangsamoro (CAB), the final peace agreement signed by the Government of the Republic of the Philippines (GPH) and the Moro Islamic Liberation Front (MILF) on March 27, 2014.

“We have been consistent in our statement and our call and again, we repeat it here, that we are urging for the passage of the Bangsamoro Basic Law that is consistent and faithful to the CAB,” said Undersecretary Maria Cleofe Gettie Sandoval of the OPAPP during the Mindanao Peace Conversations on the Bangsamoro Basic Law at the old AVR of the Mindanao University of Science and Technology (MUST) on Monday.

The C onvers at ions, jointly organized by the Regional Peace and Order Council of Northern Mindanao (RPO C-10), Regional Development Council-X (RDC-10), the Archdiocese of Cagayan de Oro (ACDO), Tulay Kalinaw sa Mindanaw (Tulay KaMi), and the peace and development nongovernment organization Balay Mindanaw Foundation, Inc. (BMFI), was aimed at consolidating the various peace advocacies on Mindanao in relation to the BBL and urge the Philippine Congress to pass a CAB-faithful BBL. “Take for example the GRP-MNLF final peace agreement signed in 1996.

This is very crucial and critical to the basic law now being debated in Congress.

The basic law should mirror and reflect the peace agreement. It will be impossible to implement it if the peace agreement is going in one direction but its basic law is going in another direction,” said Mayor Oscar Moreno, chair of the RPOC-10.

On May 21, the RPOC10 and the RDC-10 unanimously passed a resolution supporting the BBL and urging Congress to a version that is true to the spirit of the CAB. The House of Representatives is now deliberating the BBL version that the Ad Hoc Committee, headed by Rep. Rufus (second district, Cagayan de Oro) that is being dubbed as a “diluted BBL” or a “watered-down” version of the BBL, now renamed Basic Law for the Bangsamoro Autonomous Region (BLBAR).

In the Senate, the Committee on Constitutional Amendments by Sen. Miriam Defensor-Santiago junked the BBL for its alleged unconstitutional provisions while Committee on Local Governments chairman Sen. Bongbong Marcos said he is preparing his own version of the BBL because the original BBL will only bring more war to Mindanao.

Spur peace and devel-

opment in Mindanao Moreno, chair of the RPOC-10, said that the passage and subsequent initial implementation of the BBL during the Aquino administration is very crucial as this will further spur peace and development in all areas of Mindanao, long dubbed as the Philippines’ “Land of Promise.”

Mindanao’s average economic growth is at par with or even higher than the national average, even with just two regions — Northern Mindanao and the Davao Region—performing very well.

“What does that tell us?

Imagine if all the six regions in Mindanao perform very well economically.

Nobody can defeat us. We will be the fastest growing and the most productive island in the Philippines,” he stressed.

“And the BBL is the challenge, an attempt to further expand development, anchored on justice and peace, in Mindanao,” he added.

Mindanao’s average economic growth from 2001 to 2015 was pegged at 6.8 per cent, as against the national average of 5.08% for the same period.

If there’s a will, there’s a way S a n d ov a l s a i d t h at President Aquino is just implementing one of his many campaign promises regarding the Mindanao peace process, which is one of the top five “Social Contract” he signed with the Filipino nation in 2010 which he promised to fulfill when he becomes president.

“People attack and castigate a president who does not implement any promises done during the campaign. But here we have a president who is trying to fulfill his campaign promise but people are still attacking him,” she lamented.

It is very easy for the President to just abandon the peace process or the BBL especially because of the many challenges against it from the Legislative Branch.

“Pwede niyang pabayaan ito at maghanap na lang siya ng girlfriend. Pero hindi. He is putting his administration’s stake here.

The BBL is the attempt of the Aquino administration to achieve peace in Mindanao,” Moreno said.

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NOTICE is hereby given that the intestate estate of the late SATURNINO CAINOY, own a parcel of residential land located at Bobontugan, Jasaan, Misamis Oriental described and bounded as follows: Lot No. 1489, Cad-367 (Tax Dec. No. 08-11-0004-04548), containing an area of 545 sq.meters, that for and in consideration, we hereby Sell, Cede, Transfer and Convey unto Redentor S. Jardin married to Grace A. Jardin with residence at Upper Jasaan, Misamis Oriental, is the subject of Extra-Judicial Adjudication with Deed of Sale, under the Notarial Registry of Atty. Dale Bryan D. Mordeno, per Doc. No. 316; Book No. 64; Page No. XXI; Series of 2008.

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The OPAPP, Moreno and all peace advocates from various sectors are in agreement that these are not the major challenges facing it at present.

Time. Available time.

That is the major hurdle now facing the BBL. But Moreno and peace advocates remain optimistic and hopeful of a miracle that Congress will pass the BBL on time.

“Time is running out.

But the available material time is good enough if we really want to do it,” said Moreno, a member of the House of Representatives from 1998 to 2004.

Hold on and continue to hope Although it seems impossible to achieve what Mindanao has been longing for a very long time — peace — peace advocates remain optimistic

and hopeful. “We have to hold on to our hopes and dreams,” stressed Kaloy Manlupig, pioneer of the Balay Mindanaw Group (BMG) of NGOs. “When it is hard to be optimistic, and even harder to say ‘Padayon’, we have to hold on to our tenacity and our hopes,” he added.

Manlupig urged everyone, especially those who are pushing for the passage of the BBL, to have realistic focus and expectations.

Aside from that, he also urged everyone to “work hard on our politicians, on our leaders, on our communities,” especially since the mindset of member of Congress are now focus on next year’s elections.

But more than ever, we have to “work hard on ourselves” by “confront(ing) our biases and our fears,” he said. (Bong D. Fabe)

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