Mindanao Daily Caraga (June 25, 2015)

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UTUAN City––With the aim to help improve the income of the local farmers, the Mindanao Development Authority (MinDA) will be launching the Cacao Double-Up Program on July 8, 2015 here.

City hall exec to sue Oro dads CAGAYAN de Oro City—A City Hall official has threatened to sue the majority members of the City Council for derailing the declaration of some barangays as calamity areas due to the dry spell last summer. City social welfare and development officer Teddy Sabugaa said that farmers in the hinterland villages of the city cannot plant new crops this rainy season as they are direly waiting for assistance from the city government. In turn, City Hall

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Nominations for ‘Galing Mason Awards 2015’ on By MARK FRANCISCO Staff member

AMBULANCE. Vice Mayor Edwin Dagasuhan, who represented Villanueva town Mayor

Julio T. Uy, receives the symbolic key of the newly-acquired ambulance of Villanueva town in Misamis Oriental from Philippine Charity Sweepstakes Office (PCSO) General Manager Atty. Jose Ferdinand M. Rojas II. Joining the vice mayor during the just-held turned over ceremony held at the PCSO-Misamis Occidental branch in Ozamiz City is Municipal health officer Dr. Marybelle A. Linog of Villanueva town. Three other towns in Misamis Oriental–– Naawan, Libertad, and Claveria––also received one ambulance each from PCSO through the initiative of second district Rep. Juliette T. Uy (inset). Photo courtesy of Dodo Canoy

More cellular sites installed in Region 10 By MARK FRANCISCO, Staff member

CAGAYAN de Oro City--A total of 147 more cell sites were installed in 2014 in Northern Mindanao. In its quarterly report released last week, the See installed, page A11

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CAGAYAN de Oro City-The Holcim ‘galing Mason Awards nominations season for the 2015 edition is on. According to Holcim Philippines, Inc. assistant corporate communications officer Tony Ragot, the search is open to any Filipino mason, male or female aged 20 to 25t years old. He or she must also

be a holder of a valid NC II in Masonry, with no derogatory/criminal record or administrative infraction and possesses good character and in good health condition. In a press conference here in this city, Ragot encouraged all qualified and interested masons to get the nomination kit from their respective Technical Education Skills and See MASON, page A11

Farmers in Misor liken Virginia tobacco farming to growing gold First of two parts By BONG D. FABE Contributing Editor

CLAVERIA, Misamis Oriental — It’s deep golden color when fully “cured” or “cooked” conveys the value Virginia tobacco farmers here are giving this cashcrop. Small-scale farmers in this first class municipality located 30 kilometers eastnorth-east of the provincial capital city of Cagayan de Oro are favouring flue-cured DESUCKERINNG. Paulino Soriano Jr. shows how to desucker a tobacco plant tobacco over other crops See FARMERS, page A11

at his farm in Claveria, Misamis Oriental. Desuckering is a method to ensure a robust growth of the tobacco leaf. Photo by Bong D. Fabe/Contributing Editor


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