MINDANAO DAILY TRUTH | JUSTICE | PROGRESS
Volume IX, No. 390
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Wed-Thu, February 3-4, 2021
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Victims of Flight 387 remembered P16M tourism destination in Mis. Or. inaugurated BY GERRY LEE GORIT, Correspondent
CAGAYAN DE ORO CITY – The provincial government of Misamis Oriental has inaugurated the P16 million tourism complex and botanical garden on Tuesday (Feb. 2). The inauguration has coincided with the commemoration of the Cebu Pacific Flight 5J387 crash that killed 104 passengers and crew in Mt. Sumagaya mountain range, on the boundary of Gingoog City and Claveria town, on Feb. 2, 1998. Gov. Yevgeny Vincente Emano said what was opened to the public was the first phase of the tourism-boosting project, the funds of which was mainly sourced from the local government’s share of the sales from power producers operating in the province through the See TOURISM, page 11
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BY CRIS DIAZ, Executive Editor
LAVERIA, Misamis Oriental: Family members, relatives, friends and local government officials on Tuesday held a commemorative mass in memory of those who died in the passenger airplane crash in the mountains of Claveria, Misamis Oriental 23 years ago. All the 104 passengers, including the 11 flight crew, perished when the Cagayan de Oro bound Flight 387 of
the Cebu Pacific Air crashed in Mt. Lumot, a remote rain feed forest, of the town of Claveria in the afternoon
on February 2, 1998. On Tuesday, provincial Governor Yevgeny Vincente Emano, of Misamis Oriental, also officially announced the opening of the Misamis Oriental Tourism and Botanical Garden in the village of Sibulig, bordering the component City of Gingoog and the town of Claveria, the site of the Shrine dedicated to all who died in the plane crash. The 20-footr-tall Shrine marker, constructed during the incumbency of former
Gov. Antonio Calingin 20 years ago, was the exact place where the recovered, but dismembered remains of the crashed victim were filed in cadaver bags before they were flown to Cagayan de Oro City. Although the remains of the unrecognizable bodies of the victims were entered in a mass grave in Cagayan De Oro City, about 100 kilometers, southwest of here, family members, relatives and friends hold an annual See REMEMBER, page 11
On February 1, 2021 at the City Hall Grounds during the 3rd Oro Kalimpyo Awards, Barangay Canitoan led by barangay chairman Joshua Taboclaon bagged its 3rd award as the Most Outstanding Practices on Ecological Waste Management to the Search of Oro Kalimpyo Awards 2019. photo supplied
Construction of Balubal socialized housing project kicks off By MARK FRANCISCO
CONSTRUCTION of the second phase of the Balubal socialized housing proj-
ect kicked off in Cagayan de Oro City Wednesday (February 3, 2021) with a groundbreaking ceremony. The project is a joint
Gov. Yevgeny Vincente Emano, of Misamis Oriental, discloses that the provincial government allots an initial P 16 million to transform the 2-hectare site where the Shrine dedicated to the crash victims of Flight 387 is constructed into a tourism and botanical garden as a major tourist destination in Misamis Oriental. On the foreground is the 20-foot Shrine where the names of the 104 crash victim’s are itched in a bronze plate and to remind tourist and visitors of the unfortunate event that takes place in Misamis Oriental 23 years ago. photo by cris diaz
initiative between the Department of Housing Settlements and Urban Development, the city government of Cagayan de Oro, private developers and the Social Housing Finance Corporation which will finance the project. The Balulang socialized housing project – which is under DHSUD’s Building Adequate, Livable, Affordable and Inclusive Filipino Communities (BALAI) – Mayor Oscar Moreno and other stakeholders including Councilors Edna Dahino and will be populated with 40 Girlie Balaba kick off the construction of the second phase of the Balubal socialized See PROJECT, page 11
housing project.
photo by mark francisco