Holiday season in Davao region ‘generally peaceful’
See story, p.7
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Vendors warned: No more plastics
Candidates of the Ms. Kuyamis 2019 pose beside the pool at the Lohas airport hotel in Laguindingan in Misamis Oriental recently. Ms. Medina Chella Grace M. Falconer was adjudged as best in swimsuit attire. Photo by Gerry Lee Gorit
Normin welcomes 2019 with lowest record of firecracker-related injury
CAMP Alagar, Cagayan de Oro City--New year revelry in Northern Mindanao was relatively peaceful with the lowest incident of firecracker-related injuries recorded regionwide. Record shows only two confirmed firecrackerrelated injury and two other individuals with different injuries whose causes are still being investigated. Two injured victims were brought to Northern Mindanao Medical Center due to firecracker-related injuries. Both victims sustained minor burns and were already out of danger. “The number of new year revelry-related incident may however change due to delays in seeking medical help and late reporting,” Normin regional spokesperson Supt Surki Sereñas said. A suspected stray bullet incident was reported in Iligan City. A lone victim Lenny Bado, 48 years old and a resident of Purok 1, Diamond Extension, Barangay Hinaplanon, Iligan City sustained minor injury on her back and was brought to a local hospital in Iligan City. Camiguin, Bukidnon, Lanao del Norte, Misamis Oriental and Misamis Occidental have no reported incident of firecracker-related injuries, fire incident, illegal discharge of firearms or stray bullet injuries during the new year revelry. “We are attributing this remarkable record to the good people of Northern Mindanao who did not fire their firearms and were responsible merry-makers as we welcomed 2019,” NorMin police regional director PCSupt Timoteo Pacleb said. “The entire holiday season As it resumes operation January 2, a supermarket in Cagayan de Oro City begins was generally peaceful and this is something we should complying with the city ordinance that bans single-use plastic bags by replacing them with paper-based wrappers or bags. Photo by Nef Luczon/PNA be proud of,” Pacleb added. (PIO/PRO10)
Monte Carlo:
By Nef Luczon PNA
CAGAYAN de Oro City-The local government has recorded 89 violators during the second day of its single-use plastic ban on Wednesday (January 2). The violators--mostly market vendors--were given a warning and most of them asked that they be allowed to dispose of their remaining plastic bags, said Pria Tacandong of the City Local Environment and Natural Resources Office (CLENRO).
See WARNED, page 5
The cradle of Futbol in Oro First of two parts
By Mike Baños Editor at Large BETWEEN a galvanized iron fence along Pabayo Street in Cagayan de Oro is a small opening that opens into what was once a bustling block of makeshift houses but is now only a bare square of raw earth. The name first came to Neighbors at Monte Carlo crowd around to read the Mindanao Daily Sports Feature on Carlo Dorin (left). More photos on page 2. Contributed photo my attention when I was
doing a feature on Carlo Dorin, a Kagay-anon futbol player who recently won the Golden Boot in the prestigious SingaCup 2018 youth futbol tournament in Singapore. When I asked him where he learned to play the game, and he replied “Monte Carlo.” Some residents say the place was named after a local dirty ice cream brand that used to frequent the street corner where Wadhu’s Qual-
ity Store now is. Still others say it was named after the Monte Carlo Quarter in Monaco, famed for the worldfamous Place du Casino, the gambling center which has made Monte Carlo “an international byword for the extravagant display and reckless dispersal of wealth.” This is typical Kagayanon humor if you ask me, since it was more akin to the infamous See FUTBOL, page 5
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