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UTUAN CITY – The local government here thru Mayor Ferdinand Amante Jr. and Philippine Health (PhilHealth) Insurance Corporation Caraga regional vice president Johnny Sychua announced that all necessary preparations for the Tree Growing activity on February 18, 2015 in Brgy.

Bancasi of this city are all set and ready.

Lawmaker turns over P10m worth of school buildings

See FULL STORY, page A7

By PAT SAMONTE Regional Editor-Caraga

As negotiation failed

Dad eyes expropriation over Lapasan land row DUE to failure of negotiations, the City Council committee on subdivision and landed estate chaired by Councilor Alexander Dacer on Monday recommended that the city government of Cagayan de Oro proceeds

with the expropriation of a property in Barangay Lapasan.

The City Council earlier enacted Ordinance No. 12906-2015, authorizing Mayor Oscar See land, page A11

BUKIDNON GOVERNMENT EMPLOYEES MULTI-PURPOSE COOPERATIVE (BUGEMCO) To all BUGEMCO Members; Notice is hereby made that the Membership Annual General Assembly of BUGEMCO will be held on February 27, 2015, 9:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m., at Kaamulan Open Theather, Malaybalay City, Bukidnon.

RUBY R. GALOPE Secretary Attested: RICHEL R. OKIT, CPA, MBA Chairperson

PACMAN IN ORO. Congressman and world boxing champion Manny Pacquiao admits how he was able to cut his vices such as “being a alcoholic” and “being a womanizer” before he became a born again Christian during the National Bible Celebration in Cagayan de Oro City on Saturday (February 14). Pacquiao, a member of the Jesus Christ Is Lord (JCIL), visited Cagayan de Oro City to lead the group’s prayer rally held at the Pelaez Sports Complex along Velez Street around 5 in the afternoon.

BUTUAN City––Agusan del Norte First District Rep. Lawrence Lemuel Fortun recently handed over P10,163,084 worth of classroom buildings to schools in five barangays here as part of his infrastructure projects this year.

According to Fortun, education is a priority program for which he has

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arm and was brought to the Malaybalay Polymedic General Hospital (MPGH).

He is scheduled for an operation for a broken bone.

The birdwatchers were identified, according to the visitors’ permit the PASu granted them on January 29, as British nationals Peter Simpson, Paul Thomas Rendell, and Jill Patricia Rendell; Danish nation-

als Leo Soegaard Borch, Birgitte Noerregaard, and Ole Frederiksen; and Australian national Richard Lindsay Johnstone.

One of the foreigners was reported lost and killed but Somera clarified that Johnstone only got separated from the group.

The bird watchers were scheduled to visit a site

Guide hurt as foreign bird watchers caught in clash between government troops, NPA rebels

By Walter I. Balane of MindaNews

MALAYBALAY City––A local tour guide was hurt when a group of foreign bird watchers he was helping got caught in an encounter between the Army and the New People’s Army Friday morning, the office of the Protected Area Superintendent (PASu) of the Depart-

ment of Environment and Natural Resources (DENR) here said.

Daniel Somera, deputy PASu told MindaNews all seven foreigners were unhurt contrary to reports that one of them was killed.

Tour gui d e C arlito Gayramara, 61, considered by the PASu personnel as “expert local tour guide in the area” was hit on his left

See rebels, page A11

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DA 11 strengthens partnership with LGUs with guidelines and updates on the different banner AVAO CITY – The Department of programs of the agency.

“We would like to be Agriculture (DA 11) has strength- more transparent with the ened its partnership with the DA programs and projects. cannot do it alone, we local government units (LGUs) for the We want to work hand in hand implementation of its projects, programs with our partner LGU’s for the target of our and intervention to attain sustainability hitting programs,” Orbe added. and success of the government on the For this year, DA 11 has a total of P1.4 billion fishery industry. budget to be spent for their "The local government will be based on the Provin- programs, project and inunits had been our tested cial Commodity Investment terventions. and proven partners in ag- Plan (PCIP), the operational The biggest chunk of the ricultural development for plans, programs and activi- allocation for this year is for without them we cannot ties, guided by the vision the Farm-to-Market Road effectively deliver technical and goals of the province. Program which is P400 milDavao region is largely and infrastructure services on the ground," Agriculture agricultural in character regional director Remelyn and it requires that the economic development should R. Recoter said.

“What’s important here be anchored on sustaining is that you will already know resource strengths and dewhat are the projects or veloping resource poteninterventions that we will tials consistent with DA have to implement and we 11 enhanced development need your feedback in or- framework of the province.

Meanwhile, Ma. Febe der for us to improve our Orbe, assistant regional services,” she added.

She disclosed that in director for operations said 2016 all DA interventions DA will help equip the LGUs

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lion, followed by High value crops Development Program (HVCDP) with P250.7 million, P180.9 million for the Rice Program, P122.948 million for Bottoms-upBudgetting (BUB), PAMANA has P112.348 budget allocation, P96.488 million for regular programs, P91.3 million for Corn, P75.645 million for Market-Oriented Projects, P61.1 million for Livestock, P50.330 million for Sajahatra Bangsamoro, P16.201 million for Organic Agriculture, P5.798 for Auto Appropriation and P2.733 million for Agricultural Research. (PNA)

Comval to have 5 tourism road projects in 2015 DAVAO CITY- The province of Compostela Valley will be a recipient of 5 road projects under the TRIP (Tourism Road Infrastructure Project).

The projects will have an allocation of P330-million and will be implemented in 2015 this according to Christine Dompor, Comval's Provincial Tourism Officer.

The TRIP is a convergence project of both the Department of Tourism(DOT)and Department of Public Works and Highways.

And is aimed at connecting hard-to-reach tourism destinations.

Under the TRIP, the DPWH can develop remote road networks regardless of classification. “Even if the road is a provincial or

barangay road, the DPWH can still improve on it thru the TRIP.” Dompor said.

Two road projects are located in Maragusan, another pair of road projects in New Bataan and one project in Mabini.

Most of these roads connect to the province’s picturesque waterfalls such as Tagbibinta and Maranging falls in Maragusan and Malumagpak falls in New Bataan. A road project connects White Peak mountain in New Bataan while another TRIP road will traverse the beachfront of Mabini Municipality.

Dompor says the road package will include lighting, drainage and comfort room facilities. (PIA/RG Alama)

TREATMENT - Research and advocacy officers of the Children’s Rehabilitation Center present their psycho social interventions on the children in Mamasapano town.

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EDITOR: RUEL V. PELONE • ruel_pelone2002@yahoo.com

The atrocities and anguish of war Like many others, I am following the Congressional “investigation” of the Mamasapano, Maguindanao incident. We appreciate the efforts of the Senate in ferreting out the truth. It was also exhilarating to see the MILF Chair Mohagher Iqbal being grilled by the Senate investigatory body.

I know that the atrocities of war are indescribable.

The Mamapasano incident were 44 members of the PNP’s elite Special Action Force (SAF) were mowed to death exemplified the horrors of war.

For instance, the beheading and execution of the Filipino guerillas in public during the WWII were haunting memories of those who survived the armed conflict. The holocaust in Europe that saw the genocide of millions of Jews in the Nazi gas chambers has written the history of wars in blood and inexhaustible rage.

Nothing is more gruesome than the manner of execution employed by Vlad Dracula a.k.a “Vlad the Impaler.” The Impaler gradually kills thousands of enemies by piercing a sharpened wooden pole on the midsection of the

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body. The wooden pole is then planted upright on the ground with the pierced body dripping in blood gradually gasp the last breath of life. Vlad Dracula was said to eat his lunch in the middle of the pierced body amid the sounds of excruciating pains, moans, and groans of the dying enemies.

But, whether the Philippine government and the Moro Islamic Liberation Front (MILF) are at war is disturbing. Following the signing of the Framework Agreement and Cessation of hostilities, everybody now thought that the skirmishes between the MILF and the government forces have come to an end. The Framework Agreement was

bolstered with the drafting and the passage of the Bangsamoro Basic Law (BBL), a proposed law that details the manifest destiny of the Moslem community in the country.

The BBL outlines the manner in the creation of the “Bangsamoro Entity.”Under the BBL, the “Bangsamoro Entity” would replace the existing Autonomous Region of Muslim Mindanao (ARMM) after the creation of the Entity is approved through a plebiscite.

Aside from the creation of the Bangsamoro Entity, the BBL also outlines the disposition of the MILF fighters. One of the provisions call for the integration of qualified MILF fighters with the Armed Forces of the Philippines (AFP).

The “decommissioning’ of the MILF firearms is also one of the most sensitive agenda under the BBL. The word “decommissioning” is used instead of “surrender” in observance of “mutuality between the government and the MILF.” Actually, the BBL defines the Bangsamoro Entity in its entirety as an embodiment of the social, political, and economic aspirations of the Moslems in the South.

Thus, perhaps, the early approval of the BBL becomes a necessity for both the Moslems and the government to attain “lasting” peace in Mindanao.

While the approval of the BBL already becomes a done deal, the Mamapasano incident, however, has stalled its timetable.

Out of fairness, the BBL could move only after the probe into the Mamapasano incident shall have been completed. One intriguing question ‘though: Will the BBL pushes through if the result of the investigation prove inimical to the interest of the people and the government? Let us wait and see.

By the way, this corner wish to congratulate SSS Vice President Edwin Alo, of Northern Mindanao, for the opening of the new SSS branch in Lapasan. The Social Security System (SSS) is one of the mandates of the state to “protect and promote social justice” to Filipino workers here and abroad. The opening of the new SSS Branch in Lapasan, Cagayan De Oro City is a feather in the cap for the SSS regional office here.

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A TRANSATLANTIC RIFT? Cold war - hot war?

I asked this question already once in this corner on March 5, 2014.

I remember the time while living in former WestBerlin somehow between the super powers. When the Berlin Wall fell, all borders fell. Peaceful revolution.

People power made in Germany. History. It’s now 25 years ago.

Almost one year ago, sometime in March 2014, leaders of the Group of Seven (G7) industrialized nations denounced what they called Russia’s “clear violation of Ukrainian sovereignty and territorial integrity”. While writing about it during that, the German Ministry of Foreign Affairs Steinmeier (Social Democratic Party) voiced out: “We are on a extremely dangerous path of escalating tensions. A change of course is still possible. There is still a chance of Europe being split. To do so, all those responsible need to refrain from taking further steps which can be interpreted as provocative.Anything else would cause the situation to

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spiral, with uncertain; possible drastic consequences, and could destry many years of constructive cooperation on increasing security in Europe”.

Now, after one year: how does reality look like?

The escalating crisis in Ukraine has served as something of a stress test for transatlantic unity. It was evident again on the last day of the Munich Security Conference that there are big divisions among Western powers.

Watching the joint appearance of the top diplomats from Germany, the US and France in Munich,

the message they were trying to send was very clear.

Washington is on the same page as Berlin and Paris as far as the approach to deal with the Ukraine crisis is concerned.

German Foreign Minister Frank-Walter Steinmeier and France’s Lauent Fabius explained again the rationale behind their last-minute effort to find a negotiated solution to the Ukraine conflict and their opposition towards supplying arms. As Steinmeier put it: “Providing weapons is not only risky, but also counterproductive.”

But it was US Secretary John Kerry who vehemently and repeatedly denied a rift between the US and Europe on whether or not to supply lethal weapons to Ukraine.

“Let me assure everybody, there is no division, there is no split,” he said.

In his remarks Kerry tried to steer clear of the key issue that dominated the gathering of global leaders in Munich: Is the Obama administration moving to supply arms to Ukraine?

This view, however, was

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belied not only by the fact that this issue and its potential consequences had arguably triggered the Merkel-Hollande mission.

It was also not shared by the new head of the US Senate’s Armed Services Committee John McCain.

Minutes after Kerry had spoken, McCain in his remarks made clear that he did not consider sending arms a purely tactical issue.

He reiterated that the West needed to provide Kyiv with weapons to defend itself and that he considered Putin an aggressor whose appetite would not stop with Ukraine. To be sure, McCain couched his tough stance in much friendlier words than two days earlier when he lashed out against the German government, accusing it of foolishness.

Still, there it was plain to see for everyone. A leading protagonist of the US government taking the opposite view of the foreign ministers of Germany and France, and possibly the US President – this is not what transatlantic unity See doring, page A11

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Delayed dam project could have saved Oro from Sendong

By Mike Baños Editor-at-Large

A HYDROELECTRIC power dam project on the Cagayan River that has been delayed for 15 years running could have possibly mitigated the deadly flash floods which ravaged Cagayan de Oro City some four years ago and killed thousands of residents.

“The Bulanog-Batang Hydroelectric Power Project has a huge 82-million cubic meter reservoir impounding area,” said Engr. Cerael C. Donggay, president and CEO of Greenergy Inc. during a project presentation to Governor Khalid Dimaporo urges coastal town mayors to stand against illegal fishing for the protection of Panguil the City Tourism Council held Tuesday, 10 February Bay during the 4th Panguil Bay Development Council (PBDC) meeting. at the City Mayor’s Office conference room.

“With adequate warning, we can release water from our reservoir to accommodate a huge volume of flood waters coming from the Bulanog and Batang Riv-

Mayors to dismantle illegal structures in Panguil Bay TUBOD, Lanao del Norte – Mayors of the coastal towns and cities surrounding Panguil Bay vow to dismantle illegal fishing structures located in their waters. This was the unanimous decision of Local Chief Executives (LCE’s) during the 4th Panguil Bay Development Council (PBDC) meeting held at Lala Brackishwater Fish Farm and Training Center on February 11, 2015.

Bike lanes in Oro eyed

BICYCLE lanes will be provided at the left side of the road in Cagayan de Oro City’s poblacion area.

This is one of the proposed projects to be implemented under the Comprehensive Land Use Plan (CLUP) for 2013 to 2022, as approved by the 17th City Council headed by Vice Mayor Caesar Ian E. Acenas through Resolution No. 11914-2015.

Also included in the plan is the provision of 1.20-meter width sides for bicycle parking at Divisoria, the amendment of the existing city ordinance pertaining to parking areas at Divisoria and the alignment of sidewalks.

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The removal of filter net structures known locally as ‘sanggab’ is being initiated

by Tangub Mayor Philip Tan to help Panguil Bay recover from the negative effects of overfishing.

The council meeting was presided by Usec. Asis Perez of the Department of Agriculture who is also the Bureau of Fisheries and Aquatic Resources (BFAR) Director.

To make Panguil Bay a more sustainable source of marine products, PBDC will also be creating a baywide Fishery Law Enforcement Task Force. The Task Force will be authorized to apprehend illegal fishers operating in Panguil Bay and promote compliance to

existing fishing laws.

For his part, Governor Khalid Dimaporo urged the mayors to remain united and stand against illegal fishing to protect Panguil Bay. The council is also set to sponsor a logo making contest to raise awareness among students on the importance of preserving the fragile aquatic ecosystem.

The winning entry will become the official logo of PBDC. The latest PBDC meeting was hosted by Lala LGU led by Mayor Allan Lim, while Ozamiz City Mayor Reynaldo Parojinog, Sr. volunteered to host the 5th Panguil Bay Development Council meeting on April, 2015. VNL/PIO-LDN

ers, which at the very least, could have mitigated the deadly flash floods which killed thousands of people during the Sendong disaster,” he said.

A weather specialist of the Philippine Atmospheric, Geophysical and Astronomical Services (Pagasa), who was previously assigned with the agency’s post-event assessment team in Misamis Oriental following a storm surge event, affirmed this but requested anonymity.

“The 82 million cu.m. storage, I think is just large and somehow, Sendong is not the only baseline, if ever consider a higher threshold of capacity,” he said.

In comparison, he cited how the Pantabangan dam’s reservoir has a gross capacity of 2,996,000,000 cu. m., the biggest in the country (Bulanog-Batang has 2.7% of this capacity). The Angat dam’s reservoir has See saved, page A11

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2 of 5 Zamboangueños from Saudi plane with positive MERS-CoV case traced Z AMBOANGA CITY - The City Health Office has already located, through the conduct of contact tracing, two of the five residents of this city who arrived in the country together with a Filipina nurse tested positive with Middle East Respiratory Syndrome Corona Virus (MERS-CoV), the first such case in the country.

The nurse who tested positive for MERS-CoV a r r i v e d a b o a r d S au d i flight 860 last February

1 from Saudi Arabia where the disease, which is a viral respiratory illness, was first reported in 2012.

Dr. Rodelin Agbulos, City Health Officer, said Friday those who were located in the conduct of contact tracing were all males aged one and 28, whose identities were withheld.

“They are relatives,” Agbulos added.

Agbulos said they have already taken the swab samples from the t wo an d we re s e nt t o the Res earch Institute for Tropic a l Me dicine of t he D e p ar t me nt of

Health (DOH) in Manila for laboratory analysis.

D r. Ni m f a Tor r i z o, DOH regional director, said the laboratory analysis is expected to be known within 48 hours.

Torrizo said they will be admitted at the Zamboanga City Medical Center for treatment once they will be found positive for MERS-CoV. The other three individuals who are still to be located consist of females aged 25, 32 and 41.

“[A] communication from the national epidemiology center of the DOH revealed that we have five from Zamboanga City aboard Saudi Flight 860,” Torrizo said.

Agbulos disclosed they have yet to locate the whereabouts of the other three, one of whom reportedly travelled to Jolo, Sulu.

He said the two others cannot be located in their respective homes since their families have

relocated at the height of the 21-day September 2013 siege in this city.

“One of them is from the conflict zone,” Agbulos said, adding that the house of the other one is closed and is believed to be already unoccupied.

MERS-C oV is a vir a l re spi r ator y i l l ne ss first reported in 2012 in Saudi Arabia. Its signs and symptoms include cough, fever, shortness of breath and diarrhea.

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Zambo health office holds ‘Primeriza Congress’

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Z A M B OA NG A C I T Y -- More than 100 parents, who are expecting t heir f irst baby, have attended the “Primeriza Congress” initiated by the City Health Office in this city.

Primeriza is a Chavacano word that refers to a mother who is set to give birth to her first baby.

Dr. Rodelin Agbulos, City Health Officer, said Friday the congress, which was held Thursday, is aimed to help d e c re as e t he nu mb e r of maternal deaths in this city.

Agbulos said his office has recorded 22 maternal deaths in 2014, which is higher by three cases compared to the 19 deaths registered in 2013.

Agbulos said the objective of the Primeriza Congress is to prepare parents expecting their

first baby for childbirth and child-rearing by providing them information on what to expect and what they need to do to take care of themselves and the baby.

He said among the topics discussed during the Congress included pre-nat al care, ultrasound and vitamins and others.

Also integrated in the Congress was the importance of breastfeeding to the health and development of newborn baby.

The Primeriza Congress is a first of its kind initiative in the region i n it i ate d by t he C it y Health Office and the Department of Health (DOH).

It was launched in 2012 covering eight of this city’s 98 barangays.

Those who attended the congress Thursday are from 18 barangays of this city.(PNA)

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Butuan City's poverty reduction program aligns with DOH's CHT BUTUAN CIT Y -- The poverty reduction program of the city is closely aligned with the Community Health Team program of the Department of Health.

This was the gist of the message of Butuan City Mayor Ferdinand M . Amante Jr. du r i ng the 1st Caraga Community Health Summit 2015 held here in the city on Thursday.

The mayor was represented by Butuan City Councilor Virgilio Nery, the chair of the SP's Committee on Health who read the message of the mayor to about 800 top regional, provincial and municipal health officials and the Community Health Team members from the five provinces who came along with the barangay officials from the barangays where the teams were assigned.

Amante cited the important role of the CHTs in providing health care services to the barangays as par t of the government's efforts to achieve the universal healthcare or the "Kalusugang Pangkakalahatan" (KP).

Amante, who is a doctor, said that the initiative is personal to him as he have encountered firsthand the needs of the rural folks whom he said, "barely have enough for hospitalization."

He said that the city residents were constantly monitored so that their health needs must be constantly addressed.

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According to him, the role of the community health teams is crucial as w it hout t he m , t h is constant monitoring may hardly be done and health authorities may not be properly guided as to the health needs of the citizenry.

Amante in his message also said that Butuan have taken the program one step higher as the city government came up with its so called Program for Poverty Reduction (ProPOVRE) program.

The program, according to the mayor, is one of its key initiative to me asure t he cit y government's performance governance system (PGS).

The Pro-POVRE program, also known as the social economic bundling (SEB) which is the bundling of health, social services, the 4 Ps, PhilHealth, scholarships, skills training and other facilitations which are targeted towards the national household targeting system (NHTS) poor families in the city.

According to Mayor Amante, t he aim is to graduate these families from poverty to self-sufficiency.

B ecause of this, the city government's greatest gratitude goes to the DOH Caraga family headed by DOH 13 Dir. Minerva P. Molon for the unwavering support for the city's poverty reduction program.

(PNA)

NOTICE is hereby given that the estate of spouses GERONIMO P. AMIGO and MAXIMA MALABAR AMIGO, who both died intestate at Maygatasan, Bayugan, Agusan del Sur on October 24, 2012 and July 11, 2014, respectively, consisting of: 1) A parcel of land (Lot No. 809, Pls-225) located at Maygatasan, Bayugan, Agusan del Sur, covered

by Tax Declaration No. 06-01-001901282, containing an area of 42,027 square meters; and 2) A parcel of land (Lot No. 1251, Pls-443) located at Anolingan, Esperanza, Agusan del Sur, covered by Tax Declaration No. 11-03-0004-00265, containing an area of 60,211 square meters, is the subject of an EXTRAJUDICIAL SETTLEMENT OF ESTATE AMONG HEIRS WITH WAIVER OF RIGHTS AND CONFIRMATION OF THE DEED OF DONATION made and executed

by Geronimo P. Amigo and Maxima Malabar Amigo’s legitimate heirs, namely, Acsencio Amigo, and Delia Amigo, per Doc. No. 269; Page No. 27; Book No. CLX; Series of 2014 of the Notarial Registry of Atty. Richard L. Lamigo, Notary Public.

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NOTICE

UTUAN CITY – The local government here t hr u Mayor Ferdinand Amante Jr. and Philippine Health (PhilHealth) Insurance Corporation Caraga regional vice president Johnny Sychua announced that all necessary preparations for the Tree Growing activity on February 18, 2015 in Brgy.

Bancasi of this city are all set and ready.

It can be recalled that Sychua and Amante recently led the groundbreaking for the landmark tree growing activity last January 23, 2015 in the city's eight-hectare parcel, a kilometer south of the

Bancasi airport.

Sychua announced that the 'Plant a Million Trees Program' (Tree Growing activity) of PhilHealth with the Butuan-LGU is aimed to grow and sustain a forest park in the city which will also mirror the agency's corporate values, pursuing intergenerational responsibility by sustaining Mother Earth's natural resource for the use, benefit and enjoyment of generations yet to come.

"More than 650 individuals will be joining our office and the city government of Butuan during the Tree Growing activity on Feb. 28, 2015 in Brgy.

Bancasi. See you all there and let's ensure the growth and sustainability of the trees that's why when we plant them, let's all plant them properly," emphasized Sychua.

Meanwhile, Amante bared that as the city government implements its Vision 2020, 1,300 Pantawid Pamilya (4Ps) members are targeted to graduate to self-sufficiency every year until 2020.

"With our Vision 2020 in Butuan City, we aim that our people will experience economic upliftment thru the city government's socio-economic bundling," Amante added.

The good mayor also stressed that all city hall employees are required to share what is the Vision 2020 of the city government because it will help uplift the economic condition of the city.

"The city government continues to aim to plant variety of trees in the protected zone, production zone and in the riverbanks/ shorelines. For the protected zone, we will be planting more indigenous and hard wood while Falcata and timber for the production zone and mangroves for the riverbanks," shared Amante. (Jennifer P. Gaitano/PIA-Caraga)

SURIGAO CITY, Surigao del Norte - The Department of Trade and Industry warns the public to be cautious on transacting business with vehicle dealers especially those handling reconditioned units.

In a recent case that was brought to the attention of the agency, it was learned that there are dealers who do not fully explain the terms and conditions of purchase of reconditioned vehicle units and if ever they explained to the buyers, these are not put in formal document.

Buyers should see to it that what is being said and promised by the dealers must

be expressly written in the contract of sale or any documentary instrument relative to the transaction especially on the matters like warranties.

Among others, insurance coverage and vehicle registration, cost of repairs, repair or replacement of defective vehicle unit, terms and mode of payment in the case of products purchased on instalment basis should be clear on the part of the buyer.

The most common consumer complaints reaching the DTI office include the delay of release of certificate of registration of the vehicles

including motorcycles and defective engine units that require recurring repairs.

Having valid documents – contract and receipts – of such transactions will help the buyer and in certain degree help concerned government authorities to facilitate the resolution of particular complaints.

Buyer should read, fully understand and totally agree on the terms and conditions before signing the document prior to making initial payment. He/she should secure a copy of the fully signed contract or purchase agreement.

Refusal of dealers to pro-

vide copies of signed purchase agreement detailing terms and conditions should provide alarm signals of potential customers.

For more information about consumer complaints mechanism, interested parties may visit the local DTI office or call at telephone number (086) 826-6129.

(SDR/Rodrigo R. Matabaran, DTI-Surigao del Norte/ PIA-Surigao del Norte)

DTI warns public on malpractices of vehicle dealers

DEED OF ADJUDICATION WITH SALE

Notice is hereby given that the intestate estate of the deceased JOSEPH M. ABAO, who died on November 2, 2012 in Gingoog City, without leaving any will, left no known debts or obligations that have remained unpaid neither has he left any other heirs who are entitled to succeed to his real estate except the herein MAE M. ABAO, who is his wife, leaving a parcel of land with improvement particularly described as follows: Transfer Certificate of Title No. 137-2014002363, Lot No. 12, Blk 6, Psd-10-058579, being a portion of Lot No. 1, Pcs-10-004054, Area: NINETY-FIVE (95) square meters more or less, Location: Carmen, Cagayan de Oro City, Land Use: Residential, Declared Owner: Joseph M. Abao, is the subject of DEED OF ADJUDICATION WITH SALE, made and executed namely; MAE M. ABAO, of legal age, Filipino, married to Joseph M. Abao, and resident of Barangay Carmen, Cagayan de Oro City, is the only sole heir of my husband the Late Joseph M. Abao, hereinafter referred to as the Vendor and JENNIFER B. MORALDE, of legal age, Filipino citizen, married to Noel O. Moralde, and resident of Blk. 3 Lot 14 Daniel Street, San Agustin Valley Home Subdivision, Carmen, Cagayan de Oro City, hereinafter referred to as the Vendee. That for and in consideration of the sum of ONE MILLION PESOS (P1,000,000.00) Philippine Currency the receipt of which is hereby acknowledged by the Vendor from the Vendee, do hereby Adjudicate, Sell, Cede, Transfer and Convey unto the said Vendee that parcel of land described above. As per Doc. No. 343; Page No. 69; Book No. 70; Series of 2014; under Notary Public of ATTY. RENE ARTEMIO T. PACANA.

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NOTICE NOTICE is hereby given that the estate of spouses Eulogio P. Martinez and Cecilia Ayaton Martinez, who died intestate in Butuan City, Philippines on April 5, 2011 and December 8, 1943, respectively, consisting of real property (Beginning at a point marked “1” on the plan H-224494, S. 57-44’E., 1393.42 m. more or less from B.L.L.M. No. 8, Butuan Cad. No. 84) covered by Original Certificate of Title No. RP-142 (1722) now RP-281 (1722) registered in the name of Eulogio Martinez containing an area of 10.0926 hectares, is the subject of an EXTRA JUDICIAL SETTLEMENT OF ESTATE made and entered into by herein decedents’ sole and only heirs, being the children of Eulogio P. Martinez to his first marriage with Cecilia Ayaton and to his second wife, Catalina Rabi, dividing and partitioning above-described estate among themselves in pro indiviso, and declaring and confirming Eulogio Martinez’ donation of a portion of 10,000 square meters of above-described property in favor of DEPED formerly (DECS)-Butuan City as proposed school site of Brgy.

Aupagan, Butuan City sometime on March 10, 1988, per Doc. No. 150; Page No. 10; Book No. III; Series of 2014 of the Notarial Registry of Atty.

Rema D. Erigbuagas-Burdeos, Notary Public for and in the City of Butuan with PTR OR No. 0723100 (1-7-14) B.C. MDN: FEB. 16, 23 & Mar 2, 2015

Republic of the Philippines Province of Davao del Sur CITY OF DIGOS OFFICE OF THE CITY CIVIL REGISTRAR Publication Notice R.A. 10172

NOTICE TO THE PUBLIC

February 14, 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 MERIAM MALINAO-EUGENIO has filed with this Office, a petition for correction of entry in the date of birth from “SEPT. 24, 1972” to “SEPT. 23, 1972” in the certificate of Live Birth of MIRIAM TAPAYAN MALINAO at Digos, Davao del Sur and whose parents are Alejandro D. Malinao and Cresencia V. Tapayan.

Any person adversely affected by said petition may file his written opposition with this Office not later than February 24, 2015.

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(Sgd) MARISSA C. NEBRADA City Civil Registrar

Publication Notice R.A. 10172

ANNEX “B”

Republic of the Philippines LOCAL CIVIL REGISTRY OFFICE Baungon, Bukidnon CCE-0024-2014 RA 10172

Date: February 13, 2015

NOTICE TO THE PUBLIC

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 RA 10172), Notice is hereby served to the public that MEG RYAN S. MAKINLAY has filed with this Office, a petition for correction of entry in her sex from “MALE” to “FEMALE” in the Certificate of Live Birth of MEG RYAN S. MAKINLAY at Lingating, Baungon, Bukidnon and whose parents are WILDON E. MAKINLAY and MARITESS E. SECRETARIA.

Any person adversely affected by said petition may file a written opposition with this Office not later than March 1, 2015.

MDN: Feb 16 & 23, 2015

(SGD.) EVANGELINE C. LIBAYNON Municipal Civil Registrar

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Invitation to Bid

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Republic of the Philippines

Department of Environment and Natural Resources PROVINCIAL ENVIRONMENT & NATURAL RESOURCES OFFICE Gov. D.O.P. Gov’t. Center, Patin-ay, Prosperidad, Agusandel Sur Tel #: (085) 373-7250 • Email address: denr_penro_ads@yahoo.com

INVITATION TO APPLY FOR ELIGIBILITY TO BID

The DENR-PENRO Agusan del Sur through its Bids and Awards Committee (BAC) invites eligible bidders to apply for eligibility and to bid with Nine Million One Hundred Twenty-Two Thousan Pesos (Php9,122,000.00) being the Approved Budget for the Contract (ABC) under the contract for the Supply and Delivery of High Value Seedlings for official use in the implementation of National Greening Program (NGP) of DENR-CENROs of Agusan del Sur for CY 2015 as follows:

Lot Item & Specifications End User Approved Budget

1 Supply and delivery of 27,500 CENRO-Bunawan Php 962,500.00 seedlings for the National Greening Program Implementation at Brgy. Sayon, Sta. Josefa, Agusan del Sur.

1. Rubber: 27,500 seedlings

@Php 35.00/sldg.

- Road Condition: All weather

road

- Mode of transpo: Four (4)

wheels

- Distance form the National

Highway to the Nursery of

Sayon: 5 kms

- Specs of Seedlings:

2 Supply and delivery of 29,000 CENRO-Bunawan Php 1,015,000.00 seedlings for the National Greening Program implementation at Brgy. Awao, Sta. Josefa, Agusan del Sur.

1. Rubber: 29,000 seedlings

@Php 35.00/sdlng.

- Road Condition: All weather

road

- Mode of transpo: Four (4)

wheels

- Distance form the National

Highway to the Nursery of

Awao,Sta. Josefa: 4 kms

- Specs of Seedlings:

3 Supply and delivery of 15,000 CENRO-Bunawan Php 525,000.00 seedlings for the National Greening Program implementation at Sta. Maria, Trento, Agusan del Sur.

1. Rubber: 15,000 seedlings

@Php 35.00/sdlng.

- Road Condition: All weather

road

- Mode of transpo: Four (4)

wheels

- Distance form the National

Highway to the Nursery of

Sta. Maria: 1 Km

- Specs of Seedlings:

4 Supply and delivery of 25,000 CENRO-Bunawan Php 875,000.00 seedlings for the National Greening Program implementation at

Bunawan, Agusan del Sur.

1. Bamboo: 25,000 seedlings

@Php 35.00/sdlng.

- Road Condition: All weather

road

- Mode of transpo: Four (4)

wheels

- Distance form the National

Highway to the Nursery of

Bunawan: 1 Km

- Specs of Seedlings:

5 Supply and delivery of 36,500 CENRO-Bunawan Php 1,277,500.00 seedlings for the National Greening Program implementation at Brgy.

Trento, Agusan del Sur.

1. Rubber: 36,500 seedlings

@Php 35.00/sdlng.

- Road Condition: All weather

road

- Mode of transpo: Four (4)

wheels

- Distance form the National

Highway to the Nursery of

Tudela, Tento ADS: 9 Kms.

- Specs of Seedlings:

TOTAL 133,000 seedlings Php 4,655,000.00 133,000 4,655,000 6 Supply and delivery of 12,500 seedlings for the National Greening Program implementation at So. Men-genge, Angeles, La Paz, Agusan del Sur

1. Coffee: 7,500 seedlings

@ Php 15.00/sdlng

2. Cacao: 5,000 seedlings

@ Php 25.00/sdlng

- Distance from the National

Highway (Prsperidad) to

Brgy. Langasian, La Paz,

ADS: 79 kms

- Road Condition: All weather

road

- Mode of transpo: trucking

- Distance from

CENRO-Talacogon Php 237,500.00

Brgy. Langasian to

So. Men-genge,

Brgy. Angeles,

La Paz ADS: 50 kms

- Road Condition: via

Langasian river

- Mode of transpo: Pumpboat

(4 hours travel) 7 Supply and delivery of 15,000 seedlings for the National Greening Program implementation at So. Madga, Kasapa II, La Paz, Agusan del Sur

1. Coffee: 7,500 seedlings

@ Php 15.00/sdlng

2. Cacao: 7,500 seedlings

@ Php 25.00/sdlng

- Distance from the National

Highway (Prsperidad) to

Brgy. Langasian, La Paz,

ADS: 79 kms

- Road Condition: All weather

road

- Mode of transpo: trucking

- Distance from Brgy. Langasian

to So. Madga, Brgy. Kasapa II,

La Paz ADS: 85 kms

- Road Condition: via Langasian

river

- Mode of transpo: Pumpboat

(7 hours travel) 8 Supply and delivery of 10,000 seedlings for the National Greening Program implementation at Brgy. Angeles,

La Paz, Agusan del Sur

1. Coffee: 5,000 seedlings

@ Php 15.00/sdlng

2. Cacao: 5,000 seedlings

@ Php 25.00/sdlng

- Distance from the National

Highway (Prsperidad) to

Brgy. Langasian,

La Paz, ADS: 79 kms

- Road Condition: All weather

road

- Mode of transpo: trucking

- Distance from Brgy. Langasian

to Brgy. Angeles, La Paz,

ADS: 28 kms

- Road Condition: via Langasian

river

- Mode of transpo: Pumpboat

(2 hours travel) 9 Supply and delivery of 10,000 seedlings for the National Greening Program implementation at Brgy. Angeles, La Paz, Agusan del Sur

1. Rubber (budded): 5,000

seedlings @35.00/sdlng

2. Cacao: 5,000 seedlings

@ Php 25.00/sdlng

- Distance from the National

Highway (Prsperidad) to

Brgy. Langasian,

La Paz, ADS: 79 kms

- Road Condition: All weather

road

- Mode of transpo: trucking

- Distance from Brgy. Langasian

to Brgy. Angeles, La Paz.

ADS: 28 kms

- Road Condition: via Langasian

river

- Mode of transpo: Pumpboat

(2 hours travel) 10 Supply and delivery of 12,500 seedlings for the National Greening Program implementation at So. Makupahon, Kasapa II, La Paz, Agusan del Sur

1. Coffee: 5,000 seedlings

@ Php 15.00/sdlng

2. Cacao: 7,500 seedlings

@ Php 25.00/sdlng

- Distance from the National

Highway (Prsperidad) to

Brgy. Panagangan,

La Paz, ADS: 70 kms

- Road Condition: All weather

road

- Mode of transpo: trucking

- Distance from

Brgy. Panagangan to

So. Makupahon, Kasapa II,

La Paz ADS: 33 kms

- Road Condition: rough road

- Mode of transpo: single motor

and or four wheel drive vehicle

preferably SKW 11 Supply and delivery of 15,000 seedlings for the National Greening Program implementation at So. Damayon, Kasapa II, La Paz, Agusan del Sur

1. Coffee: 5,000 seedlings

@ Php 15.00/sdlng

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CENRO-Talacogon Php 300,000.00

CENRO-Talacogon Php 200,000.00

CENRO-Talacogon Php 300,000.00

CENRO-Talacogon Php 262,500.00

CENRO-Talacogon Php 325,000.00

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2. Cacao: 10,000 seedlings

@ Php 25.00/sdlng

- Distance from the National

Highway (Prsperidad) to

Brgy. Panagangan,

La Paz, ADS: 70 kms

- Road Condition: All weather

road

- Mode of transpo: trucking

- Distance from

Brgy. Panagangan to

So. Damayon, Kasapa II,

La Paz ADS: 33 kms

- Road Condition: rough road

- Mode of transpo: single motor 12 Supply and delivery of 19,000 seedlings for the National Greening Program implementation at Brgy. Kasapa II, La Paz, Agusan del Sur

1. Rubber: 9,000 seedlings

@ Php35.00/sdlng

2. Coffee: 5,000 seedlings

@ Php 15.00/sdlng

3. Cacao: 5,000 seedlings

@ Php 25.00/sdlng

- Distance from the National

Highway (Prsperidad) to

Brgy. Panagangan,

La Paz, ADS: 70 kms

- Road Condition: All weather

road

- Mode of transpo: trucking

- Distance from

Brgy. Panagangan to

Kasapa II, La Paz ADS: 37 kms

- Road Condition: rough road

- Mode of transpo: single motor

TOTAL 13 Supply and delivery of 6,000 seedlings for the National Greening Program implementation at PO-ROMATRA, Sta. Cruz, Rosario, ADS

1. Durian: 1,500 seedlings

@ Php25.00/sdlng

2. Mangosteen: 1,500 seedlings

@ Php 25.00/sdlng

3. Lanzones: 1,500 seedlings

@ Php 25.00/sdlng

4. Rambutan: 1,500 seedlings

@ Php 25.00/sdlng

- Road Condition: All weather

road

- Mode of transpo: 4 wheeler

- Distance from the National

Highway to the Nursery of

PO-ROMATRA: 1 Km

- Specs of Seedlings: for

Durian-Grafted, plantable 14 Supply and delivery of 49,500 seedlings for the National Greening Program implementation at PO-CUFA, Cabantao, Rosario, ADS

1. Coffee: 21,000 seedlings

@ Php15.00/sdlng

2. Cacao: 5,000 seedlings

@ Php 25.00/sdlng

3. Rubber: 5,000 seedlings

@ Php 35.00/sdlng

4. Indigenous: 18,500 seedlings

@ Php 12.00/sdlng

- Road Condition: All weather

road

- Mode of transpo: 4 wheeler

- Distance from the National

Highway to the Nursery

of PO-CUFA: 4 Kms 15 Supply and delivery of 9,400 seedlings for the National Greening Program implementation at PO-ATRISA, San Francisco, ADS

1. Coffee: 5,000 seedlings

@ Php15.00/sdlng

2. Durian: 2,000 seedlings

@ Php25.00/sdlng

3. Mangosteen: 2,400 seedlings

@ Php 25.00/sdlng

- Road Condition: All weather

road

- Mode of transpo: 4 wheeler

- Distance from the National

Highway to the Nursery of

PO-ATRISA: 3 kms

- Specs of Seedlings: for

Durian-Grafted, plantable 16 Supply and delivery of 49,600 seedlings for the National Greening Program implementation at PO-MAFA, Manangafon, Mate, San Francisco, ADS

1. Durian: 2,000 seedlings

@ Php25.00/sdlng

2. Lanzones: 3,600 seedlings

CENRO-Talacogon

Php 515,000.00

94,000 seedlings

Php 2,140,000.00

CENRO -San Francisco

Php 150,000.00

94,000 2,140,000

CENRO -San Francisco

Php 837,000.00

CENRO -San Francisco

Php 185,000.00

CENRO -San Francisco

Php 1,155,000.00

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@ Php 25.00/sdlng

3. Rubber: 9,000 seedlings

@ Php 35.00/sdlng

4. Coffee: 17,500 seedlings

@ Php 15.00/sdlng

5. Cacao: 17,500 seedlings

@ Php 25.00/sdlng

- Road Condition: All weather

road

- Mode of transpo: 4 wheeler

- Distance from the National

Highway to the Nursery of

PO-MAFA: 25 Kms

- Specs of Seedlings: for

Durian-Grafted, plantable

TOTAL 114,500 seedlings Php 2,327,000.00 114,500 2,327,000

Prospective bidders should have expertise in undertaking a similar project within the last two (2) years with an amount of at least 50% of the proposed project for bidding. The Eligibility Check/Screening as well as the Preliminary Examination of Bids shall use non-discretionary criteria. Post-qualification of the lowest calculated bid shall be conducted.

341,500 9,122,000

Minimum Qualification Requirements of the Supplier:

1. The Supplier must be a duly registered and accredited seedling producer

2. The Supplier must have a valid business permit and operating within Mindanao area; and 3. The Supplier must have the legal, financial and technical capability to implement the project.

Prescribed Technical Specifications/Standards for CACAO Seedlings per FMB Technical Bulletin No. 4 Prices of seedlings is inclusive of transportation cost to the site and an additional of 3% allowance for mortality. Acceptance of seedlings after 15 days upon delivery.

a. Asexually produced: Grafted or budded: Use scions with 2-3 bud eyes for grafting b. Minimum height for planting: At least 0.5 meters plant height c. Minimum age for planting: 5.5 to 6 months old hardened seedlings d. Minimum number of leaves of plantable seedlings: Minimun of 6 to 8 matured leaves per seedling without flushing upon delivery e. Seedling Source: National Seedl Industry Council Registered Clones f. Stem size: 4-5 mm or pencil size g. Plastic Bags/Polyethylene: should be 6x10 inches in size

Prescribed Technical Specifications/Standards for Robusta Coffee Seedlings per FMB Technical Bulletin No. 4. Prices of seedlings is inclusive of transportation cost to the site and an additional of 3% allowance for mortality. Acceptance of seedlings after 15 days upon delivery.

a. Asexually produced: ready to plant coffee seedlings b. Minimum height for planting: 1.5 feet c. Minimum age for planting: 6 months old d. Minimum pairs of of plantable seedlings: 6 pairs of leaves e. Seedling Source: Certified Bureau of Plant Industry Accredited Nursery with National Seed Industry Council (NSIC) f. Plastic Bags/Polyethylene: Should be 6x8 inches in size

Prescribed Technical Specifications/Standards for RUBBER Seedlings per FMB Technical Bulletin No. 4. Prices of seedlings is inclusive of transportaion cost to the site and an additional of 3% allowance for mortality. Acceptance of seedlings after 15 days upon delivery.

a. Asexually produced: Budded seedlings b. Minimum height for planting: 1.5 feet c. Minimum age for planting: 6 months old d. Minimum leaves of plantable seedlings: Minimum of 6 to 7 petioles/main stem

Prescribed Technical Specifications/Standards for FRUIT TREES Seedlings. Prices of seedlings is inclusive of transportation cost to the site and an additional of 3% allowance for mortality. Acceptance of seedlings 15 days upon delivery.

a. Asexually produced: ready to plant fruit trees seedlings b. Minimum height for planting: 1 foot c. Minimum age for planting: 6 months old d. Minimum pairs of leaves of plantable seedlings: 6 pairs of leaves e. Plastic Bags/Polyethylene: should be 5x6 inches in size The DENR-PENRO Agusan del Sur, through its Bids and Awards Committee (BAC), now invites bids for the above-mentioned goods and services. Bids received that exceed the ABC shall be rejected at bid opening.

Late bids shall be rejected. If a Bidder intends to bid for only 1 item in a lot of 3 items and/or only 1 lot of 16 lots, he will still have to submit a bid bond based on the approved budget for the contract; otherwise, the bid shall be rejected. Evaluation and award shall be made as one lot.

All particulars relative to Eligibility Statement and Screening, Bid Security, Performance Security, PreBidding Conferences, Evaluation of Bids, Post-Qualification and Award of Contract shall be governed by the pertinent provision of R.A. 9184 and its Implementing Rules and Regulations (IRR).

The schedules of activities are listed as follows:

BAC ACTIVITIES SCHEDULES 1. Advertisement in the news paper February 12, 2015 2. Posting in the PhilGEPS and in the conspicuous area February 09, 2015 3. Issuance and availability of bidding documents Feb. 09 until 9:00 AM of Feb. 24, 2015 4. Pre-Bid Conference February 12, 2015 5. Opening of Bids February 24, 2015

Reputable and bona fide bidders should secure bid documents and the checklist of qualification requirements from the Bids & Awards Committee Secretariat Office or may download from the PhilGEPS. A non-refundable bidding fee shall be collected from the bidder upon securing Bidding Document Slip.

Below is the Bidding Fee for your reference:

Approved Budget for the Contract Maximum Cost of Bidding Documents

(In Philippine Peso)

500,000 and below 500.00 500.00

More than 500,000 up to 1 million 1,000.00

More than 1 million up to 5 million 5,000.00

More than 5 million up to 10 million 10,000.00

More than 10 million up to 50 million 25,000.00

More than 50 million up to 500 million 50,000.00 More than 500 million 75,000.00

The DENR-PENRO Agusan del Sur assumes no responsibility whatsoever to compensate or indemnify bidders for any expenses incurred in the preparation of their bids. DENR reserves the right to accept or reject any Bid, and to annul the bidding process and rejects all Bids at any time prior to contract of award, without thereby incurring any liability to the affected bidder or bidders.

(Sgd.) TERESITA E. BACOMO

Bids and Awards Committee Chairman MDN: Feb 16, 2015

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Agri-Coop bags TOFARM Award The Department of Agriculture - Regional Field Office 10 (DA-RFO 10) joins a nonprofit organization in lauding the movers of agriculture in Northern Mindanao as the latter garnered awards and citations during the awarding of The Outstanding Farmers of the Philippines (TOFARM), held in Makati City on January 30, 2015.

The search and awards for farmers is an initiative of the Junior Chamber International Philippines and the Universal Harvester Incorporated Philippines that recognizes the resiliency, ingenuity and the strength of hardworking Filipino farmers in the country.

The Northern Mindanao Federation of Dairy Cooperatives (NMFDC) of El Salvador City, Misamis Oriental bagged the Gold Award as the Outstanding Agri-Cooperative. On the other hand, the San Isidro

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The NMFDC of Misamis Oriental, represented by its manager Bismela Lancin (fourth from the left), receives the most coveted TOFARM award under the agri-cooperative category, given by the JCIP and the UHIP. photo supplied

Upper Rural Improvement Club (RIC); Mr. Fredimor G. Pueblos and Mr. Juan C. Mangcao all from Lala, Lanao del Norte bagged the Silver Award for the Agri-initiative category and Outstanding Farmer category, respectively.

The NMFDC received

a cash award of Php 100 thousand, certificate and a gold plate of appreciation while the other finalists received a cash prize of Php 25 thousand, certificate and a silver plate of appreciation.

The special citation with a certificate and plaque of

appreciation was also given to the City Agriculture and Fishery Council (CAFC) of Malaybalay City, Bukidnon and the Provincial Agriculture and Fishery Council (PAFC) of Misamis Oriental. # (MGBSta. Elena, DA-RFO 10)

The Department of Education (DepEd) Division of Cagayan de Oro City office headed by the Schools Division Superintendent Elena M. Borcillo, CESO VI and Assistant Schools Division Superintendent Dr. Reynaldo E. Manuel, Jr took the lead in using Biometric Technology in all public elementary and secondary schools.

Instead of punching a time clock, employees are now smiling into a biometric facial recognition device that identifies them in a matter of seconds, automatically punches them in and out, and sends the data to a time-and-attendance software program.

In the modern world today, Biometric Technology is widely used by small business owner, larger corporations and public agencies. Division of Cagayan de Oro City embraces this new trend of tracking attendance though biometrics. This technology is automated methods of recognizing an employee based on its physiological or behavioral characteristics.

Among these features being measured are face, fingerprints, hand geometry, handwriting, iris, retinal, vein, and voice. The data in biometrics are separate and very different from personal information, while its templates cannot be reverse-engineered just to recreate personal information. Most importantly, it cannot be stolen and used to access personal information.

This shift into biometric technology in tracking attendance of employees

is one of the proactive approaches of the Division of Cagayan de Oro City in order to streamline the time-management process and to fully ensure that the rendered educational services are in utmost quality in order to meet the vision, mission, goals and objectives of the department.

This initiative motivates employees to increase their job performance since they are now conscious on the required time to serve and avoid them to commit any forms of time theft.

All public schools in the Division of Cagayan de Oro City are encouraged to do the same endeavor in implementing biometric time clocks enable to increase work efficiency, whether the device uses facial recognition and fingerprint tracking or vein-pattern scanning.

These clocks can eliminate time theft by verifying the identity of those employees clocking in and out and creating a digital audit trail so that time sheets can’t be altered.

DepEd-CDO believes that the best and easiest way of tracking attendance is the utilization of unique physical attribute of employees’ body like face and fingerprint to effortlessly identify and verify the employees’ work time. This is a simple truth and power brought to us by Biometrics Technology today. It is envisioned that ten (10) years from now, all public schools in the Cagayan de Oro City are into this kind of innovation that is truly remarkable for better work efficiency towards a better future and a better Philippines.

GLOBAL HANDWASHING

By LIZA P. TOLENTINO Teacher 1 SOBSOB ELEMENTARY SCHOOL Bugcaon,Lantapan,Bukidnon Lantapan District

Washing our hands is the best way to stop germs from spreading.

Last October 15,2014.It is region wide Annual Celebration of Global handwashing.

The faculty and the students of Sobsob Elementary School done the said activity.

There were 200 pupils of Sobsob Elementary School participated hand washing.The student along with the teacher were enjoyed much in doing the

right step of washing.

Everybody sung while doing it.

Hand washing is the simplest form of sanitation and hygiene.In fact our school has difficulty to done everyday because of the water shortage,there is no water supply could sustain everyday,but our school celebrate t h e G l o b a l Ha n d Washing successful.

The teacher and student were aiming water sustenance would be granted.

Hand washing is very significant to us because it’s symbolizes the life of an individual.

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a l lotte d subst ant ia l amounts since investment in the youth is always a good inter vention that ensures future dividends not only for themselves and their families but also for the community and country.

The schools that benefited from Fortun’s projects included Mandacpan E lement ar y S cho ol in Barangay San Vicente – P2,027,417.57; Barangay Los Angeles National High School – P2,027,417.57; Barangay Cabcabon Elementary School – P1,100,114.94; Barangay Doongan Elementary School – P3,885,805.49; and Sidlakan Elementary School in Barangay Sto. Niño – P1,122,329.12.

It was gathered that Fortun has been in support of scholars taking up college, vocational and technical courses in various colleges and institutions in coordination with the

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Moreno through the City Legal Officer to institute and initiate the necessary expropriation proceedings for the purchase of Lot No. 18628-A and Lot No. 18630A for use as access road for the residents of San Miguel Village, Barangay Lapasan in case of failure of negotiations.

The legislation was the City Council’s response to the petition of the residents of SanMiguel Village.

During the regular session Monday presided over

by Vice Mayor Caesar Ian Acenas, Dacer rendered a committee update report on the status of the issue for the expropriation of the road right of way in the area.

Dacer said a series of meetings were conducted by his committee which were attended by representatives of both parties.

However, he said the committee received a letter from the legal counsel of the property owner, Mindanao Health Care Corporation, and there was failure of negotiations.

Dacer said the committee also received a letter from Mayor Moreno saying that the City Council did not bother to consider possible consequences of the pending court litigation between the lot owner and residents to the expropriation proceedings.

In response to the letter of the city mayor, Councilor Ramon Tabor, principal proponent of the ordinance, said the minutes of the session shows the prerequisite for expropriation being the extra ordinary remedy that the city government initiates expropriation proceedings.

“If the government exercises it prematurely then it is the violation of the basic rights of its residents that no property shall be taken without due process of law,” he stressed.

Commission on Higher Education (CHED).

It was also learned that the solon has secured P2.28 billion worth of infrastructure projects for implementation in his district in 2015.

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looks like.

“There are very very deep tensions,” Kristian Harpviken, director of the Peace Research Institute Oslo (PRIO) told in an interview. “These tensions have been with us for the last couple of years, but the question is with the US moving to outright military support would that deepen the tensions or not.”

Whether the existing transatlantic tensions can be managed and contained or whether they will break out into open disagreement about the course of action vis-àvis Russia and Ukraine will depend on two things. One, the progress and outcome of the Merkel-Hollande mission.

And two, Obama’s decision on

Tabor said as indicated in the ordinance, the expropriation proceedings will be done in case of failure of negotiation. He said the ordinance authorizes the committee on subdivision to initiate the negotiation.

“Expropriation cannot be made without the negotiation and only when there is failure, that extra ordinary remedy shall be exercised,” he stressed.

Tabor expressed gladness that Moreno signed the said ordinance. (JBD)

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with a vantage view of the Philippine Eagle’s nest site in Mangasa, Dalwangan, Malaybalay City from February 11 to 14. Somera said they were in the area before sunrise today but heard of gunfire a little past 8 a.m.

Major Jennan Montealto, spokesperson of the 403rd Brigade of the 4th Infantry Division of the Philippine Army told MindaNews the Army’s 1st Special Forces Battalion had a clash with the rebel groups in the area near where the bird watchers were stationed.

Montealto, who reported no casualty from them in this latest incident, said the Army had clashed with the same group three days earlier in nearby Brgy. Kapitan Anghel, also in this city. He said one of the soldiers was wounded and eventually died. He said the troops were in the area to pursue the rebels.

With over 125 species of birds, about half of them endemic to the area, including the Philippine Eagle (Pithecophaga jefferyi), Mt. Kitanglad is one of the favorite destinations of bird watchers.

An average of 800 bird watchers visit Kitanglad in a year, 4% of them foreigners, Somera said. (Walter I. Balane/MindaNews)

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arms shipments. Both issues are linked.

“Obama is under incredible pressure to supply arms to Ukraine,” Fiona Hill, director of the Center on the United States and Europe at the Brookings Institution said in an international television interview. “So far he has not caved in.” But how long he can - and whether he wants to hold out – remains unclear.

Well, let’s take a big risk?

“This is an extremely dangerous situation,” said Hill. Many in Washington, she noted, want instant action and do not really understand German chancellor Merkel’s position. What was missing was a greater strategy beyond calls for sending arms to Ukraine.

The divide between American proponents of supplying Ukraine with arms and Europeans who oppose such a move essentially boils down to this: Are the transatlantic partners ready for a high-risk wager that delivering weapons undoubtedly is? Europeans aren’t. US Republicans clearly are. The Obama administra-

tion - nothing unusual - is still holding out.

“If the US did decide to intervene in Ukraine would it make things better or worse”, Sunjoy Joshi, director of Delhi-based Observer Research Foundation (ORF) voiced out in another international television interview. “That is a big question.”

Perhaps very soon, it might become clearer on which side of the high-risk wager that is delivering weapons to Ukraine the Obama administration will finally come out on. That’s when he will meet with Chancellor Merkel in the White House to discuss the Ukraine crisis. It’s not just for the Ukraine that there is a lot at stake. The same applies to the transatlantic partnership.

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rainfall that fell on the Cagayan river basin was most likely due to the orographic effect (relating to mountains, especially with regard to their position and form) caused by the mountains which hemmed in its tributaries upstream.

Rainfall estimates from NASA’s Tropical Rainfall Measuring Mission (TRMM) satellite, near-real time Multi-satellite Precipitation Analysis (TMPA) at the NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, Md. were compiled for the period of Dec. 13 to 20, 2011 for the southern Philippines. TRMM is a joint mission between NASA and the Japanese space agency JAXA. Rainfall totals are on the order of 200 to over 250 mm (~8 to 10 inches) along Mindanao’s east coast where Washi made landfall, but the highest amounts are along the northwest coast, where totals are on the order of 300 to over 400 mm (~12 to over 16 inches). (Steve Lang/SSAI/NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, Md.) According to the Department of Public Works and Highways, the maximum flood height in 16 December 2011 was 7 to 9 meters over its average height during the last 75 years. (During the floods in January 2009 the level of the rivers reached 2 m). http://typhooncommittee.org/docs/publications/ ESCAPWMOTD_0007.pdf The capacity, volume or storage of a reservoir is usually divided into distinguishable areas. Dead or inactive storage refers to water in a reservoir that cannot be drained by gravity through a dam’s outlet works, spillway or power plant intake and can only be pumped out. Dead storage allows sediments to settle which improves water quality and also creates hydraulic head along with an area for fish during low levels.

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a gross capacity of 850,000,000 cu.m. (10 times bigger than BulanogBatang) with the La Mesa Dam reservoir at 50.5 million cu. m. the closest to it in size.

“Angat dam always releases its water during flood season,” he added. “Pantabangan and Angat are both ‘in-basin.’ Somehow, the construction of the dam will mitigate/minimize the effect of flash floods/flooding in the downstream area of Cagayan river than without the dam as compared.”

Tropical Storm (TS) Sendong (International name: Washi), which has been reclassified as a “severe tropical storm,” was the second tropical storm to hit Mindanao in 2011 and the 19th tropical cyclone that entered the Philippine Area of Responsibility (PAR) in the same year.

The Lumbia PAGASA Station recorded a one-day rainfall of 180.9 mm which is higher than the monthly average of 117 mm during December in the period 1977-2005.

The huge rainfall and steep slopes of surrounding peaks compounded the destructive power of the flash floods.

The following figures show the rainfall measurements in Talakag station during 1-hour, 3-hour, 6-hour and 24-hour periods: Maximum Rainfall Intensity Talakag station (December 16, 2011): Maximum 1-hour (60.6 mm); Maximum 3-hour (112 .0 mm); Maximum 6-hour (199.0 mm); Maximum 24-hour (230.5 mm) In Capehan station, upstream of river Bubunawan (a tributary of Cagayan river), the 24-hour precipitation recorded on 16 December 2011 was 475 mm.

The huge quantity of

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The applicant/s shall cause the publication of this Order once in any of the five (5) major newspapers of national circulation in the Philippines or in a newspaper of local circulation as applicable.

Applicant/s shall present the jurisdictional, qualification and documentary requirements in a hearing to be conducted on 03 March 2015 at 9:30 o’clock in the morning at the MARINA, Regional Office, PPL/Lt Mario B. Portus, Jr. PPA Compound, Surigao City.

After the hearing, the Applicant shall then be required to make a written Formal Offer of Evidence (FOE), and upon acceptance of such Formal Offer of Evidence (FOE) the application will be submitted for resolution/decision.

WITNESS, the Honorable MARINA Administrator, Maximo Q. Mejia, Jr. PhD, this 13th day of February 2015, Surigao City, Philippines.

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On the other hand, active or live storage is the portion of the reservoir that can be utilized for flood control, power production, navigation and downstream releases.

A reservoir’s flood control capacity is the amount of water it can regulate during flooding. The surcharge capacity is the capacity of the reservoir above the spillway crest that cannot be regulated (Votruba, Ladislav; Broža, Vojtěch (1989). Water Management in Reservoirs.

Developments in Water Science 33. Elsevier Publishing Company. p. 187. ISBN 0-444-98933-1.)

The planned 120-meter high dam is planned to be completed in five years at the junction of the Bulanog and Batang Rivers which feed into the Cagayan River. A cross section of the project presented by Mr. Donggay shows that 26-million cu.m.

(32 percent) of the dam’s total reservoir capacity of 82-million cu.m. is ‘active storage’.

“The idea is we are in a trend of Climate Change and there were events that happened unexpectedly like (TS) Sendong and (Typhoon) Pablo that hit our area, plus the expected combination of Habagat with Tropical Cyclone is inevitable,” the PAGASA expert said.

Mr. Donggay did not explain if the active storage reservoir of 26-million cu.m. included provisions for flood control reservoirs.

Also known as an “attenuation” or “balancing” reservoirs, flood control reservoirs collect water at times of very high rainfall, then release it slowly over the course of the following weeks or months. In some cases such reservoirs only function a few times in a decade and the land behind the reservoir may be developed as community or recreational land.

A new generation of

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balancing dams is being developed to combat the climatic consequences of climate change. They are called “Flood Detention Reservoirs”. Because these reservoirs will remain dry for long periods, there may be a risk of the clay core drying out reducing its structural stability. Recent developments include the use of composite core fill made from recycled materials as an alternative to clay.

However, the PAGASA expert said the flood control measure local governments can implement remains the transfer of residents to higher and safer grounds.

“The best solution, if possible by political will, is to move the people away from the downstream section of the Cagayan River to avoid hazards that lead to risks of lives and properties.”

“I’ve been there two times in the downstream area before. Informal settlers aggravate the normal flow of the river and they were the headache of the local government,” he added.

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from page A5 Other proposed developments in the poblacion area include the provision of sidewalks and pedestrian lanes, a new transportation plan and a new traffic scheme, downtown check-in and shuttle for airport passengers from Cagayan de Oro to Laguindingan Airport, either fast craft or utility vehicles as well as the provision of vertical parking space and multi-purpose and socio-economic centers.

Aside from the development of the downtown area, the city targets Western Urban Development, West-Uptown Urban Development, EastUptown Urban Development and Eastern Urban Development in the next seven years.

The CLUP was approved by the City Development Council headed by Mayor Oscar Moreno and endorsed by the Regional Development Council. The Power

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P1.34-B BUB projects up for implementation

By Cheng Ordonez, Business Editor

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AGAYAN DE ORO CITY -- A total of 873 projects under the Bottom Up Budgeting (BUB) program will be implemented in Region 10 for the year 2015, Atty.

Rene Burdeos, Department of the Interior and Local Government in Northern Mindanao (DILG-10) said.

Atty. Buredos said, at least, nine cities and 84 municipalities in the region have been given fund allocation amounting to P1,337,017,357.50 from participating National Government Agencies (NGAs) this year for their respective BUB projects.

Around 164 of these projects are under the Department of the Interior and Local Government Region 10 (DILG 10) with a total budget allocation of P391,320,994.75, broken down as follows: P61,571,600 for

Disaster Risk Reduction and Management (DRRM) related projects such as construction/ rehabilitation of evacuation sites, flood control infrastructures and rescue equipment; P207,176,720.83 for Water System Projects; P42,890,500 for Local Access Roads, and; P79,682,173.92 for other BUB

projects, he said.

DILG 10 ensures the continuous implementation of these various poverty reduction projects under the BUB Process.

T h e BU B P r o c e s s i s a grand design of the Aquino administration in attaining the Philippine Development

Plan’s goal of inclusive growth and poverty reduction and promoting good governance at the local level.

Dir. Burdeos said since 2012, and after five Joint Memorandum Circulars, it has expanded its coverage and is now on its 4th run as a banner Budget and Governance Reform program.

Furthermore, BUB Process aims to contribute to making governance responsive to the local needs and making public resources allocation more efficient and effective by engaging and empowering communities in designing the NGAs’ Budget, with needs identified at the grassroots level, he added.

SSS opens another branch in Cagayan de Oro

CAGAYAN DE ORO CITY -- The Social Security System (SSS) has expanded its presence in northern Mindanao as it opened another branch in this city.

The new branch located at the ground floor of Agora Market City Building in barangay Lapasan was inaugurated recently by top SSS officials led by its President and Chief Executive Officer Emilio De Quiros, Jr. De Quiros said SSS has been very aggressive in opening branches and service offices to bring its services closer to members.

He said SSS has many good programs that need to be communicated to the public and opening branches is one of the solutions to better serve the needs of its members.

“Rest assured, we will continuously improve our services so that our members can say “buti na lang at may SSS!” he added.

Valentine Viajar-Aunzo, head of the newly-opened branch, said the Lapasan Branch is strategically located because its proximity to the Agora Public Transport Terminal makes it accessible to members in ten municipalities in the eastern part of Misamis Oriental and some parts of Bukidnon province.

“We are spreading our coverage throughout the province and we hope to reach more vulnerable sectors as well as job order and contractual workers of local government units with the best service they deserve,” she further said.

The SSS Lapasan Branch is the second SSS branch office in Cagayan de Oro. The inauguration ceremony was also graced Cagayan de Oro City mayor Oscar Moreno and other local chief executives of the municipalities that will be served by the newly-opened branch. (APB/PIA-10)

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I am just popcorn ENDING up in a toilet bowl in Bulua would’ve hardly come as a surprise. But it still did to me considering the amazing things that I’ve been through. You see, I started out as a seed – yes, a mere popcorn seed in a plantation in Calhoun County, Iowa.

For seven days, I was pampered like a human baby in the womb. It is the moisture of the soil such as nitrogen, phosphate and potash which caused me to germinate and emerge after ten days. Then sugar from my leaves eventually caused me to grow ears of popcorn.

Once I was ripe for harvesting, we kernels were

separated from the cob and stored for eight more months until we were ready to be processed as popcorn. First, we were cleaned using a vibrator to remove small pieces of the cob that we used to be attached onto.

Then we were polished and put inside a huge bag for bulk distribution. We were loaded into a huge cargo rig ready to travel 110 miles onto Des Moines Airport. At the airport, we were roughly pushed along with other bags onto several planes. Some of my batchmates would eventually wind down in India, others in Mexico. The bag I was into was destined to Manila,

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the Philippines and we had to endure the long 16-hour flight in the cargo plane.

In Manila, we were separated into smaller bags, where others would eventually go to other domestic destinations.

As for my batchmate kernels, we were loaded onto a smaller van straight into a RORO vessel bound for Cagayan de Oro where we spent an overnight trip in the ferry.

Docking at Macabalan port the next day, we were then repacked into still smaller bags. Some of my batchmates would eventually end up in Bukidnon, others in Naawan.

As for me, I was destined to be sold at Gaisano Cinema.

February 12, 2015. The popular erotica Fifty Shades of Grey was opening that day.

In anticipation of the deluge of customers, hundreds of us kernels were cramped in a heater. At a temperature of 180 degrees Celsius, the starch inside me gelatinized, softened and expanded into an airy foam. Upon cooling down, I became your edible popcorn where I was mixed with cheese. Since I was at the bottom of the heater, it was not until the last full show that I was picked up and put with dozen others onto a bag into the waiting arms of a moviegoing trio – Mark, Stella and a third

of the same digit.

CROSSWORD puzzle across 1. Fist sport 6. Beget 10. Musical tone 11. Midday 13. Under (prefix) 14. Of itself 16. Savage 18. Preposition 19. Hoax 21. Superficial 23. Cripple 25. Dull in color 27. All (comb, form) 28. Conversation 29. Metallic element 30. Ninoy’s brother 32. Granular snow 34. Scream 36. _and behold 38. Upset 40. In no way

4 1. Condition of decline 43. Vivacity 45. _Colores 46. Public disorder 47. Rubber expunger DOWN 1. Complete happiness 2. Swear word 3. Preposition 4. Strong ale 5. Canyon 7. Linking verb 8. Groove 9. Hard wood 12. Nothing 15. Food fish 17. Powerful 20. Habitual conduct 22. Made of brass 24. Musical tone 26. Preposition 27. Conjunction

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My next destination? The sewers. Because I am just popcorn. As for the human who consumed me, he would continue living and loving, hoping that Stella or someone else would become his Anastasia Steele.

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wheel. With Stella seated in center, she decided to put the popcorn bag in her lap so her two companions could easily reach out for us the popcorn.

While Anastasia Steele and Christian Grey were making love on screen, I could easily feel the slowing tightness of Stella’s upper thighs. It almost removed the air out of me. Then Mark came to pick me up. I was thrown inside his digestive system – one hour in the stomach, another hour in the small intestine and 12 hours in the large intestine, exiting into the toilet bowl thereafter.

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Fresh Gospel of the day: (February16, 2015-Monday) Mark 8:11-13”The Pharisees came out and began to argue with Him, seeking from Him a sign from heaven, to test Him. Sighing deeply in His spirit, He said, “Why does this generation seek for a sign?

Truly I say to you, no sign will be given to this generation.” Leaving them, He again embarked and went away to the other side.

The Pharisees came forward and begin to argue with Jesus. But Jesus never argued with them since he knew that it will lead to nonsense ending. 2 Timothy 2:16”But avoid worldly and empty chatter, for it will lead to further ungodliness. In the case of the Pharisees, they had already seen miracles of every imaginable type: the blind see, the deaf hear, lepers are cleansed, the mute speak, the paralyzed walk, and the demon possessed are made whole. The reason why they argued Jesus because they wanted more proofs but

Biblical reflection

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Volume III, No. 205

0935-160-0668 HERMILINO VILLALON

22nd/31st Nazareth, Cagayan de Oro City

FEBRUARY 16, 2015

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Gaisano Puerto opens

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Story by MARK FRANCISCO Pictures by MICHAEL ROA PHOTOGRAPHY

AISANO Puerto opened its doors last Monday to thousands of people who flocked to the momentous event.

G ai s an o Un ip a c e marketing manager Gabby Bacarro reported that Gaisano Puerto will cater residents from the eastern part of the city as well as the neighboring provinces of Misamis Oriental and Bukidnon to the south and transients coming from Caraga and Camiguin from

the east and the Davao region from the south.

With this, the four-level complex is the biggest in Gaisano Unipace’s history outside its flagship Gaisano City Mall.

For n ow, on l y t h e supermarket at the first level is open but pretty soon, Gaisano Puerto will

roll up its second to third levels which are dedicated to its department store and the fourth level which will be the activity area and food gallery.

The supermarket is a fully operational one with sections for wet market, fruits and vegetables and imported goods. The Great Value Packs is offered here only in Gaisano Puerto which is ideal for sari-sari store owners.

T he re w i l l a l s o b e

coffee shops and fastfood outlets at the first level although Dunkin Donuts and Goldilocks had already

opened kiosks there.

Also, Bacarro said that Gaisano Puerto has an interior design unique from

its sister malls.

For a sound shopping experience, visit the new Gaisano Puerto.

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