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Dismissed mayor faces threats, flees hometown By GERRY LEE GORIT Correspondent and CHENG ORDOÑEZ Executive Editor, BWM
CAGAYAN de Oro City -- A town mayor dismissed by the Office of theOmbudsman was forced to flee his hometown due to persistent threats onhis life, even as he accuses his political rival as behind it. Ditsa-an Ramain town mayor Ali Untao Adiong (LP) was perpetually dismissed from the service by the Office of the Ombudsman for grave abuse of authority, grave misconduct and oppression in its decision dated February 20, 2015. Adiong, through his lawyer, Aimee Neri Torre Franca, has made several appeals -- before the Om-
budsman through a Motion for Reconsideration and also with the Courts of Appeal for a prayer for Temporary etraining Order. Both are still pending for resolution. Torre Franca said they have secure mayor Adiong somewhere in Northern Mindanao and disallowed him to go to Ditsa-an Ramain town for security reasons. “We don’t want him to go home to his municipality unless peace and rder are restored there, because if his foes see him there, there could be conflict, Atty. Torre Franca said during a press conference held Wednesday. Torre Franca alleged the vice mayor, Anna Mahlyne Abedin Macarampal (NPC), took her oath of office as See threats, page A11
2015 Miss Universe Pia Wurtzbach: In the eyes of a Kagay-anon friend By CHENG ORDOÑEZ Executive Editor, BWM
Photo courtesy of Vianccy Unabia
CAGAYAN de Oro City-In the eyes of the world, Pia Wurtzbach is the most beautiful woman in the universe. But, before that, in the eyes of the Filipinos, she was the most beautiful woman in the Philippines. And, even before that -she was the most beautiful woman in the eyes of her friends. One of her friends is Vianccy Marie Unabia of Upper Carmen, this city. Aside from being beauti-
ful, confident and friendly, what other features have Vianccy saw and remember in Pia that could have been factors in her winning and being crowned as Miss Universe 2015? Unabia has supported Wurtzback since 2013 when the latter joined the Bb. Pilipinas until 2015, when she got the crown. “Negative words, things and thoughts are banned when you’re with Pia (Wurztbach),” Vianccy recounted in her times with the See pia, page A11
How the ‘x’ in X’mas started
APPARENTLY, the “X’mas” abbreviation has been used for hundreds of years (some texts cite its first known use as 1551) in religious The labarum, often called writing and variants such the Chi-Rho, is a Chris- as Xtemass, originated as tian symbol representing handwriting abbreviations Christ.
for the typical pronunciation . Besides the Greek letter X representing Christ, the word mas in Xmas is from the Old English word derived from Latin for Mass. The word “Christ” and
its compounds, including “Christmas”, have been abbreviated in English for at least the past 1,000 years, long before the modern “Xmas” was commonly used. “Christ” (which comes from a Greek word meaning
“anointed”) was often written as “Xρ” or “Xt”; there are references in the AngloSaxon Chronicle as far back as 1021. This X and P arose as the uppercase forms of the Greek letters χ (Ch) and ρ (R) used in ancient
abbreviations for Χριστος (Greek for “Christ”), and are still widely seen in many Eastern Orthodox icons depicting Jesus Christ. The labarum, also
See x’mas, page A5