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ACT’s Rep. Tinio defends Lucy from cyberbullies • Assures them Rep. Gomez is always supportive of teachers

By Lalaine M. Jimenea

ORMOC CITY – Rep. Lucy Torres-Gomez has made it clear that she is sympathetic to the cause of increasing the take home pay of teachers, and will vote for measures regarding the matter anytime it is put on the floor.

Even party-list Rep. Antonio L. Tinio of the Alliance of Concerned Teachers (ACT) vouches for that.

The congresswoman has been “attacked” on her Instagram post by some followers, who have accused of her of being anti-teacher.

The attack stems from an advisory found at ACT’s website itself, where Gomez’s name is not on a list of House members who co-authored Tinio’s proposed bill to increase teachers’ salaries to a minimum of P 25,000.00 and non-teaching personnel to P 15,000.00.

In an Instagram post, Tinio, whose Instagram name is @tonchitinio said, “Cong. Lucy has always been supportive of measures that will promote the rights and welfare of teachers, including the demand for higher salaries. The ACT chapter in Ormoc can attest to that.”

Rep. Gomez thanked Tinio for coming to her defense, saying “thank you very much @tonchitinio for going out of your way to set the record straight. So many accusations and angry words… over something that is not true to begin with.”

Rep. Tinio’s “setting the record straight” also comes timely during the celebration of World Teachers’ Day today, a big affair of which is now ongoing at Bacolod City.

Evelyn del Prado, a Master Teacher from Albuera, a town under Rep. Gomez’s legislative district here in Leyte, said she was able to relay Gomez’s assurances and Tinio’s support to co-teachers who were gathered at Bacolod City for an awarding.

Mrs. Prado is one of those named Outstanding Teacher at the World Teachers’ Day gathering and it was Prado who had earlier aired her disappointment to the Star about Gomez’s see

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WORLD TEACHERS DAY. Teachers all over the world were feted in various ceremonies during the World Teachers Day celebration. In the picture are the mentors of St. Paul’s School Foundation. Photo by Shalimar On-Patalinghug

Palompon bags Best Tourism Oriented LGU award PALOMPON TOWN in Leyte is Grand Winner for Best Tourism Oriented Local Government Unit in the Philippines for the year 2013, during the Pearl Awards held at the L’Fisher Hotel in Bacolod on Saturday, October 4.

Palompon town bested two other finalists: Mystical Kabayan in Benguet, where Mt. Pulag and centuries old mummies can be found, and Mainit town in Surigao.

The town of Palompon is where Kalanggaman Island is, which has caught international attention after a Lloyd-Hapag cruise ship included it as one of its “virgin destinations” in the country. It has since attracted visitors from here and abroad, aside from the town’s other tourist attractions like giant bat watching, bird watching and deep-sea diving.

Mayor Ramon Oñate received the coveted award from Domingo Ramon C. Enerio III, COO and Vice Chairman of the Philippine Tourism Promotion Board. With him were Palompon’s tourism officer Engr.

Cleofe Rivera, environmental officer Raoul Bacalla and the officers of the Palompon Municipal Eco-Tourism Council composed of Rene Camsee

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Tzu Chi Fdn. launches relocation program at “Codilla Land”

By Lalaine M. Jimenea and Jhay Gaspar ORMOC CITY – There’s Disneyland and there is Codilla Land!

The Buddhist Tzu Chi Foundation Inc. formally launched its housing program for Yolanda victims and internally displaced persons here in the city, in rites held at the city plaza on Monday, September 29, where a sample unit of the houses they would be constructing was put up.

Present during the launching was Alfredo Li, president of Tzu Chi Philippines, Mayor Edward Codilla, Vice Mayor Leo Carmelo Locsin Jr., some city councilors and other Tzu Chi volunteers. Also present were former 4th Leyte district representative Eufrocino Codilla Sr. and the mayor’s wife, Violy.

Tzu Chi Foundation will be building 2,000 housing units in a 50-hectare relocation site that the mayor has provided which was dubbed “Codilla Land”, on a usufruct arrangement for the next 50 years. Li earlier said the agreement had an option to extend it for 75 years, but added it by 50 years

“nangamatay na tang tanan ana”.

They will also be building 700 similar houses in Palo, Leyte and 300 in Tacloban City, or a total of 3,000 houses in the three areas.

Alfredo Li said it was Leyte Rep. Lucy Torres-Gomez who brought see

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Ormoc Councilors Tommy Serafica and Dr. Mario Rodriguez try out the Tzu Chi bed cum chair. In the picture are Tzu Chi volunteers and their president Alfredo Li (holding the mike). Also in the picture are (L-R) City councilors Mariano Corro, Antonio Codilla, Pedro Godiardo Ebcas, Mayor Edward Codilla and his wife Violeta, former Leyte congressman Eufrocino Codilla Sr., vice mayor Leo Carmelo L. Locsin Jr. and Restituto Macuto, DSWD assistant regional director.

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And they call it “build back bitter” TACLOBAN CITY – More than 100 leaders from fishing villages of this city, Leyte, and Eastern Samar dialogued with officials of the Department of Social Welfare and Development (DSWD), National Housing Authority (NHA) and the Bureau of Fisheries and Aquatic Resources (BFAR) on September 30, to discuss their “build back bitter” experience.

Ruelie B. Rapsing, communications and community development officer of EV Rights Network, said the leaders wanted to air their sentiments directly to the agencies involved, to “openly discuss plans of their relocation and livelihood rehabilitation.”

The government side was represented by Justerie M. Granali, BFAR regional director; Marilyn C. Luazon, NHA OIC and Community Relations Chief and OIC and Hazel C. Restituto, DSWD project development officer for Sustainable Livelihood Program.

During the dialog, the fisherfolks aired their sentiments that it was almost 11 months after Yolanda slammed into

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Tacloban City and Leyte, yet the problem of their relocation and rehabilitation remain.

Most “bitter” for them is that they were not only the sector worst hit by Yolanda, but they have been displaced from living near the seas where they get their livelihoods, because of the “40 meter No Build Zone” policy.

The Department of Environment and Natural Resources (DENR) says the policy has legal basis in a 30-year old Presidential Decree 1067, otherwise known as the Philippine Water Code.

They also complained about the boat distribution program of both government and NGO’s, saying that the seas are now “over populated” by fishermen with their own fishing boats.

Build back bitter

The displaced coastal dwellers, especially fishermen, stress that the government’s rehabilitation and shelter plan should consider their source of income and safety in identified relocation sites.

In Tacloban City, where an estimated 500 families still reside, fishers said their “permanent relocation site” is in Brgy.

Sto. Nino, 18 kilometers away from the shoreline. It would cost them at least Php50.00 for transportation. Their income from fishing is just enough for them to survive the day.

Fishermen from Barangay Minuhang, Barugo, Leyte, said they were being relocated to a ricefield and mangrove area in nearby Cabarasan. They didn’t want to leave Minuhang as almost 60% of them are fisher folks and proud guardians of a fish sanctuary there. After all, they said, they’ve been living there since they could remember and displacing them is more devastating than any storm.

“Nanay Erlinda”, representing fishers in Brgy. 3, Hernani, Eastern Samar, said “inilagay kami sa bunkhouse na nasa tabi ng sirang seawall, sa parating na amihan delikado kami. Buti pa ang munisipyo namin me relokasyon na.

Pero kami magi-isang taon na dito sa bunkhouse at pinaaalis na ng DSWD ay wala pa ring nababalitaang relokasyon

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Korina is World Teachers’ Day guest, shares views and principles in life

By Jhay Gaspar “KUNG ANO man ang naabot ko sa aking buhay ngayon, ‘yan ay dahil sa aking mga teachers noon”, said Korina Sanchez, in her special guesting during World Teachers’ Day celebration at EVSU-Ormoc on October 3.

The Chief Correspondent for Integrated News and Current Affairs Division of ABS-CBN Corporation and News Anchor of TV Patrol and DZMM radio station spoke to the students and especially the teachers and faculty of the biggest University in the Ormoc.

She entertained questions from the audience which varied from her love life, career, educational attainment, tips on how to be successful, and even her plans in case she becomes a first lady.

Sanchez said that what makes a woman successful, is when “hindi sya nagpapapigil”. She cited hindrances in achieving success such as the lack of self-esteem, peer pressure, and even boyfriends.

“Dapat hindi nagpapapigil kung alam mong tama ang iyong ginagawa.”

Asked about how she prioritizes her work and other roles, she said that multi-tasking is all about focus. Aside from being a full-time host, reporter, and a wife to Interior Secretary Mar Roxas, she is also currently taking up her Master of Arts in Journalism. She said that despite this, she fulfills her assignments in between breaks while news casting in TV Patrol.

Sanchez emphasized the para sa amin. ” (We were relocated to the bunkhouses besides the seawall, a location which put us in danger during the moonsoon season.

We stayed at the bunkhouses for almost a year, and now, were told by DSWD to vacate it with no news where we are to be relocated. Our municipal government has a relocation site, but does not include us.)

Emiliana Bajado of Maydolong, Eastern Samar, had the same dilemma. “Sa amin po sa Maydolong, pinatira po kami sa mga temporary bunkhouses na itinayo po sa mismong interior road sa looban ng brgy.

4. Bukod sa napalapit nito sa dagat at ngayon ay magaamihan na, pinaaalis na po kami sa mga bunkhouses at binigyan na kami ng palugit hanggang Enero, na wala pa namang relokasyon para sa amin.” (In Maydolong, we were relocated to bunkhouses located near the sea, which is dangerous now that the monsoon season is coming. Now, we are being made to vacate and given a January deadline, but there is no news where we should be relocated.)

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TV host Korina Sanchez has a “selfie” with a student. And below, a pose for posterity with the EVSU-Ormoc teachers. importance of time saying “when I was 18, I found myself running out of time. Kaya ngayon pinagsasabay ko ang mga projects”.

Sanchez also shared the value of hope. “You are as good as dead if you don’t have hope. The hope for tomorrow.

Because tomorrow always brings you something better”, she said.

A faculty asked, “kung sakaling maging first lady ka, ano ang laman ng bucket list

mo?”.

Sanches replied, “maiiba ang listahan ko. Mula noon, ang calling ko ay tumulong.

If that happens, then I’ll have the opportunity to do that for 6 years”, Korina added.

Korina commended Ormocanons as “pinaka-unang nakatayo pagkatapos ng Yolanda”.

She said that after Yolanda, she visited not Tacloban but Ormoc where they found Jayann Arabis, 10 years old, from Brgy. Sabang Bao.

Julian, Eastern Samar, on the other hand, asked NHA and BFAR officials how the government were choosing the victims it would help. This, after they were reportedly told that San Julian was not included in the rehabilitation plan.

“How do you choose whom to help? You say San Julian is not included in the budget.

In San Julian, one coastal village was almost washed-out, yet we have not received help from government,” he said in the dialect.

Ka Oca, a fisher folk leader from Eastern Samar, is disgusted with their plight. He says if they overstay at the bunkhouses, the real owners could evict them at will, leaving them on dry air. He said “hindi building back better, building back bitter para sa amin ito. Mapait na karanasan na ito.”

on your LGUs kung meron na silang nakahandang lupa for acquisition or na-acquire na.

Doon pa lamang kami gagawa ng mga plans and drawings na isu-submit pa sa National Office for approval.”

DSWD and BFAR, on the other hand, urged the fishermen to avail of their livelihood programs, and make sure they are registered with them.

They also asked the fishermen to think about new avenues of livelihood, saying they had various livelihood trainings that could help them in that aspect.

Granali of BFAR said as for the fishermen in San Julian, the town is not within the 50-kilometer radius of the typhoon, hence there was no allocation for them. He suggested, however, that their Mayor could write BFAR to ask for their assistance, which they might be able to give.

As for the “over population” of fishing boats, this is because fishermen before Yolanda who were just renting did fishing boats, were also included in the list. Hence, they now have their own boats. By LMJ with a PR

Government’s response

Meanwhile, Marilyn C. Luazon of the NHA, said they are not the ones responsible in initiating the relocation programs. It is the LGU. “Hindi kami ang nag-iinitiate ng housing project. It will depend

“Si Jay-ann ay walang butas sa puwet” and is always carrying a colostomy bag.

When she was featured in TV Patrol, “ang daming nag donate kaya nakapagpa-surgery siya.”

The girl was also given school supplies and a carabao called Sarah, named after the child’s favorite singer, to help her family in farming. She is now living a normal and happy life.

Before Korina ended, she shared her five personal secrets to success: 1. Give back to your parents.

It’s best not to marry early and serve your parents first.

Successful people are those who love their parents back, like that of how Manny Pacquiao loves her Mommy Dionesia.

2. “Ang masipag dadaigin ang matalino.”

No matter how intelligent a person is, if he do not associate it with hard work, nothing happens.

3. “Mangarap at magplano.”

The broadcaster recalled how she was turned down twice by a network. “Dati nagtitimpla lang ako ng kape ni Mel Tiangco. Ngayon ako na ang pinagtitimpla ng kape”, she said.

4. Pray.

“Kung ikaw ay nagdadasal, alam mong kayang-kaya mo.”

5. Be confident.

She invited a student sitting right in front for a “selfie” with her. The “brave student”, she said, had the opportunity to have a photo with her because she was “confident” to sit in front.

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TOURISM ... from P. 1 posano, president; Esperanza Sumalinog, vice president; and Dr. Virginia Beltran, secretary.

Asked what was Palompon’s edge was over the two other finalists, Mayor Oñate said maybe it was because they were able to prove that the LGU’s efforts to push tourism in their town was paying off.

Mayor Oñate said that through tourism-oriented policies, they have increased tourist arrivals from less than 200 in 2010 to 27,000 in 2013.

Direct revenues derived by the town from the tourists also hiked from P 100,000.00 in 2010 to P 5-million in 2013.

The mayor, however, emphasized that the tourism program in Palompon is run by a totally private foundation, the Palompon Municipal EcoTourism Council. The LGU’s hand, he said, was limited to creating the council, and supporting it with regulations and ordinances the officers deem fit to adopt in their town.

“I believe that tourism should be totally handled by the private sector and that the LGU should just lend support to its programs,” he said. After all, he pointed out, when a locality becomes a tourism hotspot, not only the people’s earn income but the LGU revenues from taxes and regulatory fees would also increase.

Mayor Oñate added their tourism program is also inclusive, enabling people of the town to earn a living from tourism. There are the van operators, the motorboat operators, dried fish vendors, souvenir item makers, etc., who are now making a lucrative living from

Mayor Ramon Oñate holds on to Palompon’s newest laurel, a trophy for being the Best Tourism Oriented LGU in the Philippines. the influx of tourists.

The Pearl Awards was the highlight of the 3-day Association of Tourism Officers of the Philippines (ATOP) National Convention, to the theme “Tourism and Development in the Community”.

The Provincial Government of Negros Occidental and the City Government of Bacolod hosted the convention.

The Association of Tourism Officers of the Philippines, in a press statement, said they believed the country has the potential of growing big in the Asian tourism industry. It was learned that from their combined figures, the number of foreign and domestic tourists has increased, and more investments are being poured into tourism facilities nationwide.

1st Leyte Koi show on Oct. 18-19 KOI ENTHUSIASTS here who have banded together and called themselves the Leyte Koi Club will be holding the 1st Leyte Local Koi Show and Grow-out Competition 2014 on October 18-19, in cooperation with Ormoc Petals, Leni’s Garden & Kois & Ormoc Garden Club.

Established in 2012, the group’s mission is to promote the growth and development of the hobby of keeping, breeding, appreciating and exhibiting Koi. Several Koi keepers from the Visayas and Mindanao are joining the event to showcase some of their best Koi varieties.

The Koi Show will be at the Ormoc City Plaza, in time with the 67th Ormoc Charter Day Celebration. By LMJ

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This, ATOP president Alphonsus Tesoro said, was despite some negative travel advisories issued by some foreign countries. The figures, it was also noted, were culled from those “reported” to them.

Investments in tourism facilities and amenities by local governments and the private sector have also increased, he noted.

Tourist arrivals for 2013 hit 2.7 million. This, however, has already been surpassed by the figure for January to July this year which has already reached 2.8 million.

The ATOP officials added they they expect tourists’ arrivals to further increase in 2015, with the visit of Pope Francis and the country’s hosting of the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation summit.

The ASEAN economic integration in 2015 is also expected to boost tourism, where the Philippines can optimize its tourism potentials.

It was also learned that ATOP has pushed for some amendments to the Local Government Code, one of this is to make “permanent” the position of provincial, city and municipal tourism officers. By Lalaine M. Jimenea

3 and against it. Again, it is still being taken up in the committee level.”

Gomez added that she also had to be pragmatic. She explained that ACT’s proposed bill calls for a sweeping increase of teachers’ salaries.

“And if their salaries are increased, then the same should be done to all other civil servants.

Obviously, the government has no money for a sweeping increase.” This might lead to the bill’s “not seeing the light of day.”

“So the compromise”, she said, “as of the last time I checked before budget deliberations, was to increase the teaching materials allowance of the teachers. That way, they have an increase of sorts … but there will neither be pressure or obligation to apply the same on the salaries of all other public servants.”

This “compromise” bill, which marries all the good points of pending bills in Congress seeking an increase of the take home pay of teachers, “is still in the works.”

Gomez reiterated she would always be an ally of teachers. “I have always believed that education is a great equalizer and to achieve that, we need to support our teachers.” By Lalaine M. Jimenea

Screenshot shows Rep. Tinio setting the record straight for Lucy after she was bullied by some people in her Instagram account.

GOMEZ ... from P. 1 name not being on the list of co-authors.

Rep. Gomez, in a text interview, said that the teachers should “check their facts first before they accuse me of not signing.”

Gomez explained that the bill “is still pending in the committee level.”

The “list” that is being circulated by ACT, Gomez said, is just a list of those that co-authored the bill. It does not mean that she will not vote “yes” to a bill that she has not co-authored.

Gomez added, “Of course, I want teachers’ salaries to increase.

Who wouldn’t? They are always overworked and underpaid.”

However, she added, “there was no vote called on it (yet) whether a certain representative is for

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Suya mode

Angels and men

I WAS happy when I read Sophia Oñate’s post that Palompon was named Best Tourism Oriented LGU in the Philippines. Somehow, I felt a part of its success, having been one of those who’ve been heralding their tourism efforts. However, I was also sort of “suya” to think how come Palompon has a Ramon Oñate?

I will just leave unsaid what is the “contrasting” thought that is in my mind, ehem.

I am pretty sure that the Mayor is not a saint, but in the many years I have known him, I cannot help but admire him as chief executive.

When it comes to political will, he is the first one that comes to mind.

I first came to know of Mayor Ramon Oñate in 1992. He was on his second term then. If my memory serves me right, he was the youngest mayor in the country when he was first elected.

His record would be broken six years later by Kananga Mayor Giovani Napari.

Anyway, a young mayor at that, Oñate was no pushover. Before he became mayor, Oñate was a Sangguniang Kabataan representative.

Since he was then a student in Cebu, he fought for his right to be able to dispense his duties well, which meant that the sessions had to be moved to weekends when he was available.

Session day was moved to Saturday, so that he could be present.

A natural leader, his charisma would enchant the youngsters in Palompon. Not only the youngsters, because I would remember “Nanay”, a big lady who would probably kill anybody with her luwag if they dared hurt “my mayor.” Ramon would run against “the establishment” and win, albeit a rocky term would follow.

But the youth vote in Palompon prevailed.

By the next term, he would team up with the respected Yoly Tupa, a founder of PACCI, and won the elections by a big margin. That time, confident that he did not only have the mandate of the people but the support of the council as well, the mayor did the “unthinkable” or what people would describe in pidgin Bisaya, “nagexhibition”.

An environmentalist at heart, he would restore Tabuk Island’s Tres Marias into a mangrove area, from the previous seaweed plantation that it was. It was a move that was “madugo” and a political suicide, to say the least.

He did not stop there. Noticing the dwindling fish catch, he drew up a comprehensive ecological plan that would entail a “no fishing season” when danggit spawned. Another political suicide, it seemed, and fishermen practically threatened to bury him on the coming polls.

After a year of being treated like a pariah of the fishing community, the fishermen would start begrudgingly admitting that their mayor was right after all. The “no fishing season” increased their catch, and the loss of seaweed plantation was replaced by revenues from a thriving dried danggit industry.

The town’s ecological program would win it the Galing Pook Award. Palompon is still the only LGU here in Eastern Visayas that got the citation, though others have come close as runners up.

Fast forward to November 8, 2013, Yolanda comes, but its wrathful storm surges weakened when it slammed through Tabuk’s Tres Marias,

WE HAVE have just celebrated the feast of the archangels Michael, Gabriel and Raphael (September 29). That of the Holy Guardian Angels is on October 2. It’s good that we pause and focus our attention to a very important part of our spiritual reality that we often take granted.

Angels exist. They are real. We need to say this now since angels, if they are ever referred to nowadays, are often considered as mere figments of our imagination that at best can be used as literary and sentimental devices.

Obviously, faith is needed to believe in angels. They are creatures whose presence goes beyond what our senses can perceive. They can however assume sensible forms as mentioned several times in the Bible. But essentially, they are pure spirits.

In this regard, it might be good to cite that episode when Christ met Nathanael for the first time. (Jn 1,47-51) It’s a concrete example of Christ mentioning angels, thereby confirming the existence of angels not only by the highest authority we can have, but the very source of authority himself.

When the faith of Nathanael was stirred when Christ told him something mysterious, Christ told him: “Do you believe because I told you that I saw you under the fig tree? Amen, I say to you, you will see heaven opened and the angels of God ascending and descending on the Son of Man.” Besides, testimonies of saints and many other men and women through the ages are abundant regarding their encounters with angels, as well as demons. Angels exist. They are real. It’s good to be aware of this reality and conform ourselves to it accordingly.

As spirit, angels are pure intelligence and will. That’s what we have in common in them.

That’s why we are also spiritual in nature, except that ours is fused together with our materiality.

As pure spirits, angels are not subject to space and time as we are. Their knowing, willing and loving, which are the spiritual operations, are done in an instantaneous and intuitive way. And the God that they know, will and love is held in a definitive way.

In our case, our knowing, willing and loving go through stages. There is some kind of processing, of sensing and apprehending, then judging, then reasoning and concluding.

Though angels are angels and men are men, two different creatures that should not be compared unfairly, there is also good reason that we should try to be angelic, in the sense that, like angels, what we know, will and love should be done and held in an intuitive, definitive and conclusive way as much as possible.

Thus, some saints are described as angelic because their thinking and loving approximate the way angels know and love. They only had God in their mind, heart and intentions, and in their senses, words and deeds. Everything else was always referred to God. Obviously, the difference we have with the angels has to be maintained, in the sense that our knowing and loving which have God as the primary object, the beginning and end, should be incarnated, materialized and translated into

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Parasol uprising “IT’S THE ‘umbrella revolution’, “ said the receptionist Emily Pang as thousands, including Filipino residents, swamped Hong Kong streets. Protestors were enraged over Beijing’s refusal to allow open selection of candidates for the 2017 elections.

They wielded umbrellas to deflect pepper spray and tear gas lobbed by police. That symbol is the latest addition to a growing list of non-violent protests against dictatorship.

In the 1986 Philippines “People Power’ revolt on Edsa, citizens placed flowers into gun barrels of flustered soldiers. The Filipino model was refracted from Mahatma Gandhi’s march to protest the salt tax in 1930. It sparked Czechoslovakia’s “Velvet Revolution”, Lebanon’s “Cedar Revolt” and Ukraine’s “Rose Uprising,” among others.

In contrast, the “Arab Spring” uprisings in Tunisia, Libya and Yemen floundered. Not one became a stable democracy.

“This is anything but a flash in the pan,” said Scott Harold, a political scientist at Rand Corporation. Beijing wants to batter the protests so Hong Kong’s political freedoms don’t “infect” the rest of the country.

State media blocked reports about the “umbrella revolt” from reaching the mainland.

Instagram, Twitter, Facebook and YouTube were blotted out, other than being allowed to report: “An illegal gathering was out of control in Hong Kong but was being curtailed by the police.”

“Censorship keeps the “Umbrella Revolution” hidden in the mainland land,” reports Toronto’s Globe and Mail. In China, surf “Hong Kong” on the Baidu search engine, for example. They only report stories on the negative economic impact of protests. There are no details or photos to give a sense of the scale of the demonstrations. “Umbrella Revolution” as a search term draws a blank.

On bridges near Hong Kong’s government headquarters, banners proclaim: “Do You Hear The People Sing?” That’s lifted from the play Les Miserables. Hong Kong’s chief executive Leung Chun-ying denied the Chinese military would step in. “We don’t want Hong Kong to get messy.”

British Broadcasting Corporation’s China editor Carrie Gracie weighed with “Hong Kong: 10 things Xi Jinping might he thinking” Excerpts: see

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Outstanding example THOUSANDS HAVE always admired Ricardo Cardinal Vidal. A gentle pastor, he was principled leader for democratic freedoms in a country often skidding into totalitarian rule.

Many of us remain in his debt when, in 1986, he led the Catholic Bishops Conference to denounce the Marcos dictatorship’s rigging of the snap election count. He played even-handed counselor in armed standoffs during the coup attempts following the People Power One revolt. All the coups failed.

So, we were taken aback when Vidal, now in well-deserved retirement, lent his name to a self-styled ‘National Transformation Council.” It demands, among other things, that President Benigno Aquino shred his election mandate of 15,208,678 votes for a six-year term. That’s 5.7 million more votes than Joseph Estrada culled.

Resign, NTC demands. They do not question the President’s integrity but assail corruption in government.

“Everybody is entitled to his own entertainment,” former Rep. Pablo Garcia said. Suppose the President quits? Why, an unelected NTC will be happy to step in, thank you. It’d immediately organize an alternative government “staffed by men and women of integrity.”

Is that not a replay of Thailand’s unelected People Alliance for Democracy?

PAD snarled Bangkok for weeks demanding they rule --- without election mandate? May pin ray, Thais shrug. “Never mind.” The military junta, in any case, made PAD and free elections irrelevant for Thailand and is savaging a once thriving economy.

Here, the NTC declaration wants more than the President’s head. Abolish the Commission on Elections, and in its stead, establish “an honest and credible electoral body”. It doesn’t say how. Nor does the NTC indicate how the people they pick bear the see

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The 42nd Anniversary of Marcos’ Martial Law WHEN PRES. Marcos declared Martial Law in 21 Sep 1972, the whole nation was caught off-guard.

Based on our history, it was the very first time that the Filipino experienced it. We did not know how to take it or what is expec-ted of us. When Marcos suspended some of our God-given liberties, it was as if it was the end of the world. All newspaper publishers were closed down. All radio and TV stations were also closed down. All people having to do with the media found themselves out of job. All large gatherings were forbidden. All personalities that belong to the opposition were rounded up and jailed. All student activists were placed in jail.

Curfew was imposed after sundown. All those who have guns were urged to surrender their fire-arms to the nearest military camps. It was as if we went back to the time of the Japanese Occupation. It was alright for this representation to undergo this kind of an ordeal because he was already a carry-over of those dark days of the Occu-pation.

There was talk that the military will go around all communities with a gadget to detect metals in order to flush out those who did not surrender their firearms. I found this odd. How about if one had tools? How about if you had a car or LPG tanks? How about the roof made of GI sheets? But the people did not take chances to spend time in jail. My uncle, Manoling, surrendered his Cal. 38 Colt revolver which was for Olympic competition purpose only. It had an extra long barrel for greater accuracy. He did not want to jeopardize his peace of mind including that of his family. It was a pity to part away with such a valuable collection. For sure its present holder will treasure it no end.

Why did Marcos declare martial law? Was it for love of country? Was it to preserve the status quo? What status quo could he have in mind?

Can we infer a status quo for his relatives? None of the Marcos kin were in the government! All of the kin of Madam Imelda are in the government: one is in the foreign service, one is in the PNB, one is in the Cabinet. Most if not all are blest with well paying tasks. It was even said that towards the end of the second (?) term of Marcos, she was said to have asked Marcos ‘what happens now with my relatives?’ Pity them! Marcos had to do his homework. He is a big thinker, mind you. The only option is to suspend the Constitution so that there can be no question of his running again. He had to create

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an atmosphere of chaos and general disorder.

Presto! The idea of the NPA was born. In other words, Marcos can be considered to be the founder of the NPA. The gimmick of staging an attempt to assassinate Enrile had to be done. It was done! But it was botched because the car of Enrile had only one single bullet hole. The purported “assassins” must have been idiots.

One single shot? And Enrile had no scratch on his body. Maybe, it was just a ruse?

With martial law, the nation lost all Godgiven liberties! How many atrocities were committed? The military became monsters overnight. They rounded up all right-minded citizens, including activists in the studentry.

Marcos himself became also a monster. His claim that no man was born that can beat him in an election is all balooney. Who can beat him?

The Comelec under his henchman Lenny Cruz made science out of cheating. The SC was in his grip. He was virtually like another ver-sion of Adolf Hitler of Nazi Germany.

With these revelations, this corner can-not understand the noise it is creating with the desire of the Marcoses for the dictator to be given burial honors at the Libingan ng mga Bayani at Taguig. This is a complete reversal of the plan to establish the so-called Martial Law Museum to remind the future generations of Filipinos of the atrocities committed to the numerous victims of Martial Law in 1972 and onwards.

Up to this writing, there are still some cases pending with the Sandigan Bayan in hearing casesof the infamous Conjugal Dictatorship.

What gives? Why insist for his remains to rest in the Libingan? Was he a hero? Even the Chair of the CHR (Commission on Human Rights), Ms Etta Rosales, was once a victim. Past Senator Nene Pimentel, father of Sen. Koko Pimentel, has an axe to grind against Marcos. So many of the generation during his time and still living will definitely make a loud howl. Past Pres.

FVR whois his relative, does not see eye to eye with Marcos.

Let Marcos be pictured in the pages of our history as a rascal and a villain for what he was and still is. Madam Imelda is on record as the second richest Representative of Ilocos Norte.

She is second to Manny Pacquiao. Where did she acquire such wealth? Is it the Marcos (illgotten) wealth? It will take several generations of Marcos to consume all that wealth.

Newborn Screening THE FIRST week of October is Newborn Screening (NBS) Awareness Week.

NBS is a simple procedure to determine if a newborn/baby has a congenital metabolic disorder that may lead to mental retardation or even death if left untreated. Metabolism includes all the chemical (enzyme-catalyzed) reactions and transformations inside our body needed to sustain life. Most babies with metabolic disorders look “normal” at birth. With NBS, metabolic disorders may be detected even before clinical signs and symptoms are present. And as a result of this, treatment can be given early to prevent consequences of untreated conditions.

Newborn screening is ideally done immediately after 24 hours from birth. A few drops of blood are taken from the baby’s heel, blotted on a special absorbent filter card and then sent to Newborn Screening Center (NSC) in Manila. The blood sample for NBS may be collected by any of the following: physician, nurse, medical technologist or trained midwife.

At present, the NBS is now included in the PhilHealth Newborn Care Package. So, it is

MOST FILIPINOS SHOWER every day (others even more frequently especially on a hot day) and do this as a habit and not exactly to be super clean although that is not really bad by itself.

Other nationalities do not shower as often.

Following the no-shampooing hair care revolution, some folks are taking the logical next step.

If no or reduced shampooing results in healthier, shinier hair, what about skipping soaping up the body?

Unlike the modified hair-washing schedule, which tends to elicit commentary about shampoos and conditioners and hair-drying time, skipping showers altogether seems to bring up plenty of other opinions on the subject. Many people who shower every day think that not doing so is inherently wrong and unhealthy.

It’s assumed that people who don’t shower on the regular are stinky or greasy and maybe even visibly dirty.

But considering that it has really only been the last 100 years or so that people have bathed more than once a week, daily showering is actually not objectively healthier or better. In fact, one of the most common reasons that people cut down on showering is actually for skin-health reasons. As far as being actually physically dirty, most of us who don’t work outside (gardening or farming) or aren’t otherwise involved in daily work where we might get covered in dust, dirt or grease probably don’t get any real dirt on anything other than our faces and hands.

What’s behind the links between health and less showering? People with skin issues have long noted that forgoing daily showers can help with eczema, and plenty of others think that it is actually healthier overall. The natural body oils

The Gospel on Sunday OCTOBER 12, 2014 28th Sunday in Ordinary Time Matthew 22: 1 - 14 And again Jesus spoke to them in parables, saying, “The kingdom of heaven may be compared to a king who gave a marriage feast for his son, and sent his servants to call those who were invited to the marriage feast; but they would not come. Again he sent other servants, saying, `Tell those who are invited, Behold, I have made ready my dinner, my oxen and my fat calves are killed, and everything is ready; come to the marriage feast.’

But they made light of it and went off, one to his farm, another to his business, while the rest seized his servants, treated them shamefully, and killed them.

The king was angry, and he sent his

that lubricate and protect the skin get washed away by warm (and especially hot) showers paired with soaps that strip the skin. Without those oils, the skin is more vulnerable to bacteria and viruses, and can also look and feel dry and uncomfortable. Because the body wants to keep the skin in healthy, protected shape, frequent washing can even encourage the body to overproduce oil, leading to a vicious cycle of cleansing and oil production. Many people have found that when they stop washing hair and skin as often, after an adjustment period, the body naturally decreases the amount of oil it produces and less washing is needed.

Of course, how often you shower depends on your level of activity, how healthy you are (if you work out often and eat healthfully, you naturally produce less body odor) and what you do for a living.

You can also shower briefly and lather up only the areas that need it on a daily basis, protecting most of your good skin oils from being washed off, while still enjoying a couple minutes of shower time. You can also wash with oils, which is a popular and growing treatment for dry skin.

But there’s one area of the body you should never skip washing multiple times a day, that is your hands. As long as people wash their hands often enough and pay attention to the area of the body below the belt, showering or bathing every other day would do no harm. Even twice a week would not be a problem if people used a bidet daily as most infectious bugs hang around our lower halves.

troops and destroyed those murderers and burned their city. Then he said to his servants, `The wedding is ready, but those invited were not worthy. Go therefore to the thoroughfares, and invite to the marriage feast as many as you find.’

And those servants went out into the streets and gathered all whom they found, both bad and good; so the wedding hall was filled with guests. “But when the king came in to look at the guests, he saw there a man who had no wedding garment; and he said to him, `Friend, how did you get in here without a wedding garment?’

And he was speechless.

Then the king said to the attendants, `Bind him hand and foot, and cast him into the outer darkness; there men will weep and gnash their teeth.’ For many are called, but few are chosen.”

supposedly for free. If babies are delivered at home, babies may be brought to the nearest institution offering newborn screening. It is now discouraged to deliver at home to prevent maternal and child deaths. Studies have shown that there is a higher risk for the babies and mothers to die (due to complications) during home delivery compared to those delivered in accredited institutions. Several cities and towns have passed ordinances penalizing home deliveries, while giving incentives to those mothers who deliver at the birthing units.

The 5 disorders tested during Newborn Screening are (1) Congenital Hypothyroidism (CH), (2) Congenital Adrenal Hyperplasia (CAH), (3) Galactosemia (GAL), (4) Phenylkentonuria (PKU), Glucose-6-PhosphateDehydrogenase Deficiency (G6PD Def) and Maple Syrup Urine Disease (MSUD). If not detected early, CH and PKU can lead to severe mental retardation; G6PD Deficiency can lead see

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Indirect bribery Dear Atty. Golo, Nganong daghan mang nasuko nga ang PNP Chief gipahangyo og 1.5 million sa iyang sakyanan? Magboot diay sila kon may “discount” siya sa “seller”? Dili man ngil-ad ang mohangyo. Maayo na lang aron maka “save.”

Ako bitaw, lima ka tuig nakong hinangyoay sa akong asawa apan wa ko sugta. Pag ika-unom, sogot na lagi kay ako man untang itug-an nga ang amahan sa iyang gimabdos mao ang ilang “principal.” Karon, ang akong asawa dako nag sweldo kay gi “promote” man sa “principal” pag ka “teacher II”. Ako diay dia ra sa balay way trabaho peru gitawag nila og “engineer” kay sa panimalay ako may tig plano.

Matinahuron, Purisimo

Dear Engr. Puri, Dili ngil-ad ang mohangyo nga way pwesto sa governo. Apan kon ang mohangyo dako og rango, ang kapalit niana mao man ang proteksyon sa negosyo. Kon dili pa siya PNP Chief, pahangyoon kaha siya nianang minilyon nga diskwento? Kon makahimo ug salaod ang nagpahangyo niya, dili kaha siya maikog modakop niya? Mao ni rason nga ang balaod nagdili sa mga “public officers” pagdawat og gasa tungod sa ilang opisina. Gitawag kini og “indirect bribery” (Art. 211, RPC). Bahin sa imong asawa, ayaw ipanghambog ang inyong sekreto. Immoral ang inyong gihimo ug dili angay mabasahan sa publiko.

Imong amigo, Manny G. Golo e.g.gololaw@gmail.com

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Kiwanis of Geo-Ormoc holds induction

By Jima Zandra Jimenea-Vergara

Kiwanis of Geo-Ormoc presents their Governor, Allan Sira, plaques of appreciation for his visit to the club. (L-R) Lt. Gov. Necitas Abenoja Jr. of Division 1, outgoing president Catalina D. Juntilla, Gov. Sira and incoming president Climaco Petiluna.

THE KIWANIS of GeoOrmoc held its induction of officers recently at the El Castellano Ballroom of the Hotel Don Felipe.

Immediate Past President Catalina D. Juntilla turned over the gavel of leadership to Climaco D. Petiluna.

The other new officers for the coming year are Ana Liza dela Victoria, vice-president; Chuck Ion G. Dilao, secretary; and Lorna D. Gordo, treasurer.

Board of directors are Juntilla, Pedro B. Lapinid Jr., Garry S. Losorata, Melvin D. Martinez, Bienjelyn B. Tabucanon and Abello B. Tutor.

The Kiwanians also welcomed into their fold some new members to include Ever-

ita Flores and Evangeline Chu. The officers for this year were inducted into office by Kiwanis Governor of the Philippine South District Allan Sira. The Kiwanis governor, who is active in various organizations, urged members to go beyond being just a member but to be a committed one.

He said that there were many children who needed the help of Kiwanians.

Kiwanis’s primary mandate is to Serve the Children of the World.

Juntilla, on her valedictory speech, said it was a particularly challenging year during her term, especially with the onslaught of Yolanda. However, with the help of her offi-

cers, they surpassed obstacles.

She is also happy to report to the club that during her term, she took pains in putting order in their house, for transparency and accountability.

She also took the occasion of handing out plaques of appreciation to those who actively helped her when she was president.

Petiluna, in his acceptance speech, was bemused to note that he has been given a leadership task. He said that he did not even had the privilege of being elected a class officer, “even Prince Charming na man lang”, but said he was willing to take the challenge and asked for his club’s help.

TZU CHI ... from P. 1 them to Ormoc City, just days after Yolanda. The congresswoman appealed to them to take a look at the city, which was also devastated, but did not get much attention from humanitarian groups because the focus was on Tacloban City.

Through her, he said, they came to know Ormocanons.

He said they liked the warmth of the Ormocanons, which encourage them to bring in more interventions.

It was also learned that to help Tzu Chi, Rep. Lucy Torres-Gomez filed a resolution in Congress, seeking to exempt the aid and assistance they were bringing in from taxes and custom duties.

Li added they also came to know the mayor and city officials, who’ve been helpful and cooperative with their programs.

Li conveyed that their founder, Master Chen Yen, who is based in Taiwan, is happy to find a place where the mayor was more than willing to lend his land for the relocation of the homeless.

He said that their master was so impressed that she gave the mayor a certificate of appreciation, the only person in the world to receive such a citation from her.

That is why, he said, their master wants the foundation to

give Ormocanons the best temporary shelters in the world.

The temporary shelter comes in two sizes. One is 21- square meters, with two rooms, for a family with four members. Another is 27-square meters with three rooms, for a family of 5 or more members.

It is pre-fabricated and with the help of 20 plus builders from Taiwan who are experts in assembling it, the recipients are expected to help build the houses.

Master Chen Yen has also thrown in a bed each for every occupant, a plastic one that is sturdy and won the “Reddot Award”, a worldwide contest for innovative product designs.

Two beds were assembled for the public to see, and two “heavy weight” councilors, Mario Rodriguez and Tommy Serafica, asked to try it out.

The bed could be folded up to become a chair, too.

Meanwhile, he added, unemployed women of the IDP’s residing in the temporary bunkhouses are the ones making cement tiles for the floors.

The relocation site, he added, will set a standard for the world. The main road will be 15 meters wide, while the side roads would be 6 meters wide. There would be parks and spaces.

Previously, it was announced that the master development plan of the site was drawn up by renowned Architect Jun Palafox, their partner in various humanitarian missions of Tzu Chi in places like the tsunami-devastated Aceh and war-torn Iraq.

It was also learned that the construction of the temporary shelters is funded solely from contributions of donors from within the country.

Li said they already got the commitment of big-ticket donors to the project like the BDO Foundation, which committed to raise P 100-million for it, but they also welcome the contribution of everybody.

“A 100-peso contribution is welcome”, Li said, adding that Tzu Chi operates on the principle of helping each other by sharing resources, big or small.

THE CUTS have healed. The throbbing headache gone as well. The aches all over my body diminished to a mere memory; and only the strong smell of Efficascent Oil would bring back the frown on my face and the lines on my forehead.

It has been a month since I did my first MOUNTAIN CLIMB. Uploaded Facebook pictures prove such a feat was completed by yours truly. So does the T-shirt we emblazoned with #iconqueredmt.magsanga.

Yet no matter how I cringe at the thought of why, oh, why, did I ever subject my body to such a harrowing experience, the same would bring a smile and some very funny thoughts that I and I alone hold; and the 11 other people who were with me on this climb.

I was never the experiential type. I am quite content reading about mountain-climbing and rock-climbing in the adventure novels. Yet the thought of actually doing it with the company of good friends was too irresistible. So, on August 24, I finally did it.

Even the great Ernest Hemingway in his “The Snows of Kilimanjaro and Other Stories” said this about mountain-climbing: “There are only three real sports: bull-fighting, car-racing, and mountain-climbing. All the others are mere games.”

So there you go, two off my bucket list – Climb a mountain. Take up a sport.

This only leaves me with – Learn to play a musical instrument; and visit a Nudist Beach.

I thank my husband for doing the climb with me, all the way to the peak of Mt. Magsanga, said to be the second highest peak in Leyte. The mountain is a familiar sight to natives here, called so with its “twin peaks” and located at Merida, Leyte.

I also thank my friends-cum-officemates for efficiently planning our climb to make it as safe and as enjoyable (and less traumatic, of course), two of whom have participated in other climbs in Cebu and in other parts of the country.

They knew what-to and what-not to bring and wear. They knew how to be safe and how to enjoy mountain-climbing.

How to get to Mt. Magsanga 1.

To get to Mt. Magsanga, you first had to choose between two paths – the easy or the difficult route. Of course, we chose the latter.

Remember, of the 12 people that were going to do the climb, only 2 are experienced climbers/trekkers. The majority of us would call this climb our VERY FIRST, so all we really wanted was to GET TO THE TOP. No acrobatics, please! The easiest, accordingly, kicks-off from Barangay Putingbato, Isabel, Leyte, which was the route we took.

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Then, you needed to get a guide, who was not only knowledgeable of the terrain but should also know the locals. Since one of the climbers in our group knew the Barangay Captain of Putingbato, we were able to request for two guides to come with us. Our guide was a Putingbato barangay tanod and assisting him was his son-in-law. (Sorry, I forgot their names but they were the friendliest people and took very good care of us.)

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Finally, plan, plan, and PLAN for your climb – from what to wear to what to bring. a.

Wear a sturdy pair of climbing shoes, a long-sleeved shirt, and long pants – no maong please – that are stretchable, loose, and comfortable.

For the ladies, they can wear leggings and shorts on top of the leggings. Why the need for a long-sleeved shirt?

Because I was so confident that I only needed sun block to protect my skin from the terrible heat of the sun, I opted not to wear a long-sleeved shirt.

This is where we started our ascent. That’s our 2-liter jug of water.

I put on my #iconqueredmt.magsanga T-shirt instea to its very end, VERY, VERY CONFIDENT that I w I found out midway on our climb that the long-s sun protection. It was to protect us against the sh So guess what happened?

When we were at the peak, I felt very itchy and V ALCOHOL from my backpack and splashed it all o The sting! Oh! The pain! Oh! The searing heat that I had bruises and cuts everywhere – on my arm was killing me, not helping me at all. So there’s yo b. Place your water in a water bottle th way, your hands are free to do the climbing. This, m To navigate the steepest part of Mt. Magsanga all four limbs and monkey-climb all the way up. Th was carrying our 2-liter jug of water. We were in a s about why I prepared a 2-liter jug of water that wou So to ease the tension, we stopped and got m transfer it to mine, just so our 2-liter jug of water wo sure your hands are free from anything when climb c.

Wear gloves – no not the thin ones that to protect your hands from sharp objects (COGON, ing. A trekking pole is recommended, too, if you ha trekking pole while climbing. d. Bring just enough food – not too little, In our case, we knew that we will only have lunch a some chocolates and candies, too, to fuel you whi group had an early breakfast, so the candies and c at bay. e.

Other essentials that one would need be: sun protection, flashlight, first aid kit, knif

Felisa Conui Angulo turns 100 GENES OR healthy living? Credit it to anything but one of Ormoc’s super-seniors turned Centenarian this year. She joins an elite list of Ormocanons who reached 100 years old, and how they did it, we would never know.

This year’s centenarian is Felisa Conui Angulo. Here, she is seen enjoying a quiet birthday with kin and close friends. Her children are Rafael “Payling” Angulo, Joaquin Angulo and Perla Angulo-Morilla.

She might be a bit frail already, but the celebrator still is very sharp, said Mrs. Salud Maglasang.

Mrs. Maglasang said the EV Mail coverage is her gift to the Centenarian, for what better to celebrate a MILESTONE very few of us would ever make, but to document a momentous occasion!

Mana Felisa holds a birthday card very f would ever get.

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ad and wore it from the very beginning of the climb would be able to climb the mountain effortlessly. sleeved shirt on our TO-WEAR LIST wasn’t just for harp COGON GRASSES we had to walk through.

VERY, VERY DIRTY. I got out my 70% ISOPROPYL over my arms. I wanted to shout but couldn’t. Oh! t only 70% ISOPROPYL ALCOHOL could bring! ms and hands. And the 70% ISOPROPYL ALCOHOL our answer… hat you can place inside your backpack. In this my husband and I learned the difficult way. a meant getting down and dirty. We needed to use his task was proving difficult for my husband who steep part of the mountain when we started arguing uldn’t fit inside his backpack. most of my husband’s stuff out of his backpack and ould fit inside his backpack. So there you go, make bing. ballerinas wear in performances. Industrial gloves, urgh) that you might get in contact with while climbave one and only if you are comfortable holding a

not too much – to do away with a heavy backpack. at the peak, so we brought food just for lunch. Bring ile your next meal is still an hour or two away. Our chocolates helped in keeping the hunger and thirst

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The group that made it to the top of Mt. Magsanga on August 24, wearing their #iconqueredmt. magsanga T-shirts. items, meanwhile, are: camera, whistle, toilet paper/wet wipes, trowel, hand sanitizer, and trash bag. One could also bring an extra shirt and a small towel, if your backpack isn’t still too heavy. It pays to be prepared.

Climbing Mt. Magsanga took two hours to do from the ground to the peak. We started our ascent at 7:00 A.M. and was at the top by 9:00 A.M. We stayed at the peak for two hours and started our descent at 11:00 A.M. It was the most physical, most painful, not to mention most DANGEROUS exercise that I ever had, but Mt. Magsanga is worth it.

When we were at the top, we could see the towns of Palompon, Isabel, Merida, and the beautiful city of Ormoc.

We had a MAGNIFICENT VIEW! I wished I had a powerful DSLR camera with me then but I don’t think I could carry the extra weight. I was already complaining the heavy load of a backpack on my back, what more a DSLR camera!

Signal was good, too, at the top. I discovered this when I started using my cellphone for taking some pictures. It was also then while going around, that I realized how steep the mountain really was. This was further confirmed when we started our descent.

How to descend Mt. Magsanga without free-falling?

Use your ass. Well, for those who aren’t brave enough anyway like myself to stand and walk. The others in our group – the experienced ones – stood up and walked (climbed) their way down.When we were on flat ground, we walked all the way to the Putingbato Barangay Hall, gave our guides a tip, and the Barangay Captain a thank-you gift.

Now, I want to believe that I can still do it the second time around BUT I JUST CAN’T DO IT ANYMORE. Once is enough. Mountain-climbing isn’t for me. Nature is, so I guess trekking will do – for now and forever.

I am glad, however, and no amount of money can ever AMOUNT to the happiness I felt – the feeling of accomplishment – when I reached the peak of MOUNT MAGSANGA. My thoughts at the time and TODAY are – this was a feeling only a MOUNTAINEER would appreciate and empathize.

No wonder the great American rock climber CHUCK PRATT can only say: “I don’t want to write about climbing; I don’t want to talk about it; I don’t want to photograph it; I don’t want to think about it; all I want to do is DO it.”

Therefore, I encourage YOU TO DO IT, go climb a mountain, at least once in your life – at least for bucket-list purposes.

OBL Fighters continue winning streak, will have tune-up game with Ateneo Magis Eagles WHEN THEY first played at the Alaska Basketball D-League 2014 held in Sacred Heart School-Ateneo de Cebu Campus, the Ormoc Basketball League (OBL) Fighters Team made an impressive debut with big wins.

Last September 28, 2014, the Fighters made another surprise comeback.

In Group C Division for 12 Under, our OBL Fighters scored a heart-stopping 41-30 win over Don Bosco Technology Center B, to remain undefeated at the top with a 4-0 record, defeating teams like SHS-Ateneo de Cebu C, Colegio de Immaculada Concepcion – Mandaue, Salazar Institute of Technology.

In the 15 Under Division, our OBL Fighters Team A now has a 4-1 record after scoring two wins. They defeated University of San Carlos South – A 70-33 and CBP Angels 65-60.

OBL now trail UV-B (3-0) in Group A. With the OBL Fighters team standing, they are looking forward for another excit-

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FR. ROY ... from P. 4 deeds, and not just kept in the spiritual level, in the world of ideas and intentions.

In other words, we have to strengthen what we have in common with the angels, but doing them in accordance to our nature which is a blend between the spiritual and the material.

In this regard, we have to sharpen our intellectual, willing and loving powers, seeing to it that they are firmly grounded on God and clearly oriented toward him. We have to be wary of our tendency to be entangled with the material dimension of our life to the point of making the material, temporal and worldly as the leading principle of our life.

But we also have to make sure that just as we have to strengthen what we have in common with the angels, we also have to strengthen what makes us different from them. We have to consider our materiality and temporality as important as our spirituality.

We as man are a union of body and soul, constituted both materially and spiritually. While we make a distinction between the two, in our life they are meant to be together. While there is a temporary separation of the two at our death, there will be a reunification at the end of time with the resurrection of the body.

We have to foster a great devotion to the holy angels, making that devotion a source of many practical resolutions, freed from sheer sentimentalism. Email: roycimagala@gmail.com

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ing game this October to qualify for the semi-final round.

Though it’s a heart-break to see one of the OBL players, Raul Thomas Codilla, in the Under 15 accidentally fracturing his right wrist during their game between USC South. Yet the fighters never gave up and truly deserved to win.

The team organizers thank the parents of the OBL Fighters team for continuing to support their sons’ passion for basketball, to the Local Government of Cebu for providing the transportation during the tournament, and to Dr. Rhoel O. Dejaño for always inspiring the OBL players.

Meanwhile, the OBL and the Western Leyte College (WLC) Mustangs will have a friendly tune-up game with the Ateneo Magis Eagles on October 18. The Ateneo team will be having their Outreach Activity with Free Basketball Clinic here. Mark your calendar for that important date.

to severe hemolytic anemia and kernicterus (a condition where a newborn develops yellow skin and eyes; with high-pitched cry (like a cat) and sometimes develop convulsions/seizures); Galactosemia can lead to cataracts; while CAH and MSUD can lead to death.

The results of the NBS can be claimed from the health facility where NBS was availed. Normal NBS Results are available by 7-14 working days from the time samples are received at the NSC. Positive NBS results are relayed to the parents immediately by the health facility. It is therefore necessary to ensure that the address and phone provided is accurate. A negative screen means that the NBS result is normal while a positive screen means that the newborn must be brought back to his/her practitioner for further testing. Babies with positive results must be referred at once to a specialist for confirmatory testing and further management.

Should there be no specialist in the area, the NBS secretariat office will assist its attending physician.

To discuss more about NBS, you can visit our friendly midwives and/or pediatricians; or visit http://www.newbornscreening.ph/.

8 Republic of the Philippines MUNICIPAL TRIAL COURT OF MAHAPLAG, LEYTE 8th Judicial Region Civil Case No. 157 For: EJECTMENT AURELIA CABALTERA, Plaintiff, -versusLUCRESIA QUINTANILLA, MARY ANNE PEKIE, & SPS. REYMELANDO & JOY QUINTANILLA, Defendants. x--------------x ORDER For consideration is plaintiff’s Motion for Leave of Court to Serve Summons by Publication upon defendant Lucresia Quintanilla who is presently residing out of the Philippines.

Finding the said motion to be well-founded plaintiff is ordered to effect service of summons by publication to defendant Lucresia Quintanilla in a newspaper of general circulation in the Province of Leyte for three (3) consecutive weeks.

Aforesaid defendant Lucresia Quintanilla is directed to file her answer to the instant complaint within sixty (60) days from the date of the last publication and the Clerk of Court is likewise ordered to send copy of the summons and this Order via registered mail to the last known address of the said defendant in consonance with Section 15, Rule 14 of the Rules of Court.

Plaintiff’s manifestation and motion for the resetting of this case being in order is hereby granted.

Furnish counsels and parties of this Order.

SO ORDERED. Given this 26th day of August, 2014 at Mahaplag, Leyte.

(Sgd.) HON. JOSE B. LAGADO Presiding Judge Republic of the Philippines MUNICIPAL TRIAL COURT OF MAHAPLAG, LEYTE 8th Judicial Region Civil Case No. 157 For: EJECTMENT AURELIA CABALTERA, Plaintiff, -versusLUCRESIA QUINTANILLA, MARY ANNE PEKIE, & SPS. REYMELANDO & JOY QUINTANILLA, Defendants. x-------------------x SUMMONS To: LUCRESIA QUINTANILLA Brgy. Paril, Mahaplag, Leyte GREETINGS: You are hereby required to file with this Court your answer to the complaint with its annexes within ten (10) days after service of this summons and to serve a copy of your answer upon the plaintiff within the same period.

The Rule on Summary Procedure shall apply in this case and you are prohibited from filing motion to dismiss, for a bill of particular, or for extension of time to file pleadings.

Should you fail to file your answer within the reglementary period, this Court, motu proprio or on motion of the plaintiff, shall render judgment as may be warranted by the facts alleged in the complainant and limited to what is prayed for therein, except as to the amount of damages, which the Court may reduce in its discretion.

Witness the Hon. JOSE B. LAGADO, Presiding Judge of this Court, this 26th day of August, 2014 at Mahaplag, Leyte.

(Sgd.) JOSEFINA C. EMPUESTO Clerk of Court II Republic of the Philippines 8th Judicial Region MUNICIPAL TRIAL COURT Mahaplag, Leyte CIVIL CASE No. 157 For: EJECTMENT AURELIA CABALTERA Plaintiff -versusLUCRECIA QUINTANILLA, MARY ANN PEKIE AND SPS. REYMELANDO & JOY QUINTANILLA Defendants. x------------------------------------x COMPLAINT COMES NOW PLAINTIFF, by counsel, for valid causes of action, unto his Honorable Court respectfully alleges: THAT 1. Plaintiff is of legal age, Filipino, and a resident of Brgy. Paril, Mahaplag Leyte, where she may be served with our court notices; all the defendants are of legal age, Filipinos, and with postal address at Brgy Paril, Mahaplag, Leyte, at which place they may be served with summons and notices. Both plaintiff and defendants have the capacity to sue and to be sued.

2. This complaint is filed after the process mandated and prescribed under R.A. 7160 for Barangay conciliation was duly undertaken and after the office of the Lupon Tagapamayapa of Brgy. Paril, Mahaplag, Leyte issued a CERTIFICATION TO FILE ACTION dated March 30, 2013 authorizing the filing of the complainant in the court.

3. Plaintiff is the true and lawful owner of the subject parcel of the land located in Brgy. Paril, MAHAPLAG, Leyte by virtue of a transfer Certificate of Title No. 186792 issued by the Register of Deeds of Leyte on July 11, 2006.

4. Sometime in November 1990, defendant Lucrecia Quintanilla asked plaintiff, to allow her to temporarily reside at the subject property since

NOTICES defendants’ house was destroyed by typhoon Rufing at the time. So plaintiff out of compassion, allowed defendants to construct a temporary residence house upon her property.

5. It was their understanding then that defendant was allowed to construct her temporary house upon plaintiff’s subject property by tolerance and rent-free, but as soon as plaintiff would use the said property occupied by the defendant, the latter would necessarily vacate the premises and peacefully surrender possession to plaintiff without need of demand.

6. Thereafter, defendants occupied the premises and from time to time defendants Lucresia Quintanilla and Mary Anne Pekie would travel in and out of the country. While defendants Sps. Reymelando and Joy Quintanilla remain in the premises.

7. However sometime about in the mid part of decade 2000, defendants were introducing little but permanent improvements to their temporary house which caught plaintiff’s attention. Hence, plaintiff in a sisterly manner admonished defendant Lucresia Quintanilla to stop making those improvements since they do not owned the lot where their house is erected.

8. Unfortunately these friendly/sisterly advice by plaintiff upon defendants rather fell on deaf ears, as the latter continues to introduce permanent improvements usually when plaintiff is out for a living. Notwithstanding, plaintiff believing that her sister defendant would heed her request, continued to persuade cordially defendants to discontinue making permanent i0mprovement thereat.

9. Not until on September 15, 2010, when plaintiff was already exhausted because what used to be a temporarily house before, is now a permanent structure made of concrete materials, she reported to the Mahaplag Police Station 3 the continuous illegal improvement made by the defendants.

10. Thereafter in order to properly ventilate the issues between the parties, plaintiff filed a complaint before the Office of the Chairman of Brgy. Paril, Mahaplag, Leyte. Then on March 15, 2013, a confrontation was held at the office of Office of the Brgy. Chairman, but no conciliation was attained and it was terminated by the issuance of the aforementioned Certification to File Action.

11. On May 6, 2013, plaintiff wrote a follow-up letter , her final Demand Letter to Vacate to defendants Lucrecia Quintanilla, Mary Anne Pekie and Sps. Reymelando and Joy Quintanilla which were received by them on May 8, 2013. But again, all of them just disregarded the said demand made by the plaintiff.

Hence, plaintiff was constrained to hire the services of undersigned counsel.

12. By their unlawful occupation of the land, continued refusal to vacate the premises and dismantle their illegal building structured thereon, the defendants seriously violated the plaintiff’s rights and interests and have unreasonably denied the plaintiff of her actual and peaceful possession thereof, to the latter’s damage and prejudice.

13. To enforce and exercise her clearly valid right to the actual, physical and peaceful possession of her land unlawfully occupied by the defendants, the plaintiff has to resort to the court assisted by her legal counsel for an acceptance fee of P30,000.00 and a further fee of Php 3,500.000 per appearance.

14. Such unlawful occupation of the defendants over the plaintiff’s land and unconscionable failure and refusal to vacate the premises by erecting an illegal building structure, the plaintiffs suffered public humiliation, besmirched reputation, moral shock, and physical pain, which moral damaged may be assessed in the amount of not less than Php 100,000.00.

15. As an example to the public good and in order to deter other persons from committing the same or similar unreasonable acts and omissions as herein complained of, the defendants must be condemned to pay plaintiff exemplary damages of not less than Php 100,000.00.

WHEREFORE, it is respectfully prayed that after trial, judgment be in favor of the plaintiff and against the defendants: A. ORDERING the defendants and all persons who may be acting as their agents or representatives, to VACATE the premises describe in paragraph 3 of this complaint and place plaintiff in actual and physical possession thereof.

B. ORDERING defendants to pay plaintiff the sum of Php100,000.00 as moral damages and Php100,000.00 as exemplary damages.

C. ORDERING defendants to pay plaintiff the sum of Php30,000.00 plus Php3,500.00 per appearance by way of reimbursement for attorney’s fee.

D. ORDERING the defendants to pay the costs: and E. GRANTING to plaintiff all such relief and remedies just and equitable in the premises.

TACLOBAN CITY for Mahaplag, Leyte, 20 June 2013 (Sgd.) RUBEN M. TENEDERO Counsel for the plaintiff 2nd floor Yutangco Building Roll No. 51577/IBP Lifetime 08346 PTR No. 7166645; Jan. 3, 2013 Tacloban City MCLE No. IV-0001028 January 11, 2011 Republic of the Philippines) In the City of Tacloban ) Ss. VERIFICATION AND CERTIFICATION OF NONFORUM SHOPPING I, AURELIA CABALTERA, of legal age, Filipino and a resident of Brgy. Paril, Mahaplag Leyte after having been duly sworn according to law, hereby depose and say: THAT— I am plaintiff in the above-entitled case; that I have caused the foregoing Complaint and its Annexes to be prepared and filed; that I have read and fully understood all the allegations therein contained; and that the same are all true and correct according to my

Republic of the Philippines REGIONAL TRIAL COURT 8th Judicial Region Branch 18, Hilongos, Leyte EJF – H-027-14 For: EXTRAJUDICIAL FORECLOSURE OF REAL ESTATE MORTGAGE RURAL BANK OF HILONGOS (LEYTE) INC. Represented by its Manager ROSARIO ONG VELOS, CPA Mortgagee, -versus – WILMA P. MANATAD Mortgagor, x-------------------x SHERIFF’S NOTICE OF EXTRAJUDICIAL SALE Upon extrajudicial petition for sale under Act 3135 as amended filed by RURAL BANK OF HILONGOS (LEYTE) INC. with a postal address R.V. Villaflores St., Hilongos, Leyte, represented by its Manager Rosario Ong Velos, CPA, against Wilma P. Manatad, of C.V. Alcuino St., Hilongos, Leyte, to satisfy the mortgage indebtedness which as of June 2014, in the total amount of THREE HUNDRED FIFTY FIVE THOUSAND TWO HUNDRED TWELVE & 51/100 PESOS (P355,212.51) Philippine Currency, representing interest, penalties excluding the expenses of the foreclosure attorneys fees, the undersigned will SELL AT PUBLIC AUCTION on October 21, 2014, at 9:00 o’clock in the morning until 4:00 P.M. or soon thereafter at the Regional Trial Court, Branch 18, Hilongos, Leyte for CASH and in the Philippine Currency, the following properties with all the improvements found thereon, hereunder described as follows TRANSFER CERTICATE OF TITLE NO. T-26767 A parcel of residential land and all the improvement found thereon located at Brgy. Lamak Hilongos, Leyte, covered by TRANSFER CERTIFICATE OF TITLE NO. T-26767 designatted as CadastralLot No. 2153-D-4-E Psd -083719-007505-D, assessor’s lot No. 027, declared under Tax Declaration No. 05-1402100412 and is bounded as follows: SOUTHEAST: Line 1-2 by Lot No. 2118, Cad 566-D SOUTHWEST: Line 2-3 by lot No. 2155-D-4-D of this subdivision NORTHWEST: Line 3-4 by existing road lot No. 2159-D-12, Psd 083719-007312-d NORTH EAST: Line 4-1 by lot No. 2159-D-4-F of this subdivision Containing an area of 1,000 square meters declared in the name of Wilma V. Manated with an assessed value of P31,920.00.

All sealed bids must be submitted to the undersigned on the above-stated date and time.

In the event the public auction should not take place due to fortuitous event on said date it shall be held on November 7, 2014 on the same time and place.

Hilongos, Leyte, September 8, 2014.

FOR THE EX-OFFICIO SHERIFF: (Sgd.) ISABELO L. FALCONE Sheriff IV, Noted: (Sgd.) ATTY. CHRISTIAN S. VILLAS own personal knowledge and belief, and based on genuine and authentic documents; and further, I CERTIFY that I had not commenced any action against the defendants for the same cause and over the same subject matter, nor is there any case pending before the Supreme Court, Court of Appeals court or any agency of tribunal, judicial or administrative; that I undertake to inform this Court of any action pending or otherwise over the same cause or subject matter within five days (5) days from date of knowledge.

IN WITNESS WHEREOF, I have hereunto set my hand this 20th day of June 2013 at Tacloban City, Philippines.

(Sgd.) AURELIA CABALTERA ANNEXES:

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NOTICE IS GIVEN that the in:

Deed of Extrajudicial Settlement

NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that the personal property of the late DANIEL G. ISIDRO, JR. re bank deposits with the Rizal Commercial Banking Corporation (RCBC), Calbayog branch, Calbayog City, Samar, under Account No. 9007949468 was settled among his heirs and waived in favor of DANIEL LUDWIG C. ISIDRO III per Doc. No.4381; Page No. 953; Book No. X; Series of 2014 of Notary Public Hernando Hernandez, Jr. EV Mail Sept. 1-7, 8-14, & 15-21, 2014

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Extrajudicial Settlement with Waiver of Rights NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that the properties of the late ANIANA ABOGADIE re a parcel of land Lot No. 3394, C-2, Cad 638-D, containing an area of 509 sq. m., Katibayan Ng Orihinal Na Titulo Blg. P-44876, Kagawaran Ng Kapaligiran at Likas na Kayamanan Rehiyon Blg. VIII, Kaloob Patente Blg. 083720-96279 located at Poblacion I, Hindang, Leyte was settled among her heirs and all the interests, and ownership over the said real property at equal shares waived in favor of WILFREDA A. ACOMPAÑADO per Doc. No. 158; Page No. 12; Book No. LXXXI; Series of 2014 of Notary Public Macario A. Agosila. EV Mail Sept. 8-14, 15-21, & 22-28, 2014

OFFICE OF THE CLERK OF COURT & EX-OFFICIO SHERIFF SHERIFF’S NOTICE OF EXTRA-JUDICIAL SALE (EJF No. 3708) Upon extra-judicial petition for sale under act 3135, as amended, filed on AUGUST 22, 2014, by PHILIPPINE NATIONAL BANK, petitioner, against LEYTE DEVELOPMENT, CO., INC., debtor/mortgagor, and SPS. ALLAN S. LEE AND LILY T. LEE, Accommodation Mortgagor, of Diversion Road, Buntay Tanauan, Leyte & 188-190 J. Romualdez St., Tacloban City, respectively, to satisfy the mortgage indebtedness which as of July 15, 2014, PHP 6,411,256.93, excluding attorney’s fees, expenses of foreclosure and other charges, the undersigned or his duly authorized deputy will sell at public auction on November 12, 2014, at 10:00 a.m. to 2:00 p.m. at the office of Branch 34, RTC, Tacloban City, to the Highest Bidder, for Cash, Manager’s Check and in Philippine Currency, the following properties with all improvements, to wit: DESCRIPTION OF PROPERTY TCT No. :T-30556 LOT NO.:2190-A-2 (Psd-08-001714) LOCATION: BRGY. NAGA-NAGA, TACLOBAN CITY AREA: 2,382 SQ. MTS. All sealed bids must be submitted to the undersigned on the above-stated time and place. In the event the public auction should not take place on said date, it shall be held on November 12, 2014, on the same time and place without further notice.

(Sgd.) RUBEN N. VILLACARILLO (9/15/14) Sheriff IV EV Mail Sept. 15-21, 22-28, & 29- Oct. 5, 2014 Clerk of Court VI Copy furnished: RURAL BANK OF HILONGOS (LEYTE) INC. Poblacion, Hilongos, Leyte WILMA P. MANATAD C.V. Alcuino St., Hilongos, Leyte File EV Mail Sept. 22-28, 29- Oct. 5, & 6-12, 2014 Affiant TIN No. 941-580-033 SUBSCRIBED AND SWORN to before me this 20th day of June 2013 at Tacloban City, Philippines.

(Sgd.) ATTY. RUBEN M. TENEDERO Notary Public Attorney’s Roll No. 51577 IBP Lifetime No. 08346 PTR No. 7166645; 1/2/13 Tac. City Doc. No. 92 Page No. 19 Book No. VII Series of 2013

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Sept. 29-Oct. 5, 2014 Republic of the Philippines SUPREME COURT 8th Judicial Region REGIONAL TRIAL COURT Branch 13 Carigara, Leyte –o0oCASE NO. RTC-2014-044- SP FOR: CANCELLATION AND/OR ENTRY RE: IN THE MATTER OF CANCELLATION OR CORRECTION OF ENTRY IN THE CERTIFICATE OF LIVE BIRTH OF ELMAR C. ALBERCA MARITES A. HOLARES AND ERWIN A. ALBERCA Petitioners, -versus – THE CIVIL REGISTRAR OF BARUGO, LEYTE and ALL PERSONS/ENTITIES WHO/WHICH MAY NE AFFECTED THEREBY, Respondent x--------------x ORDER Filed with the Court on August 4, 2014 by Marites A. Holares, of legal age, single, Filipino citizen and resident of Brgy. San Isidro, Barugo, Leyte, and Erwin A. Alberca, likewise of legal age, married, Filipino and a resident of Brgy. District V. Barugo, Leyte, is a Verified Petition for Cancellation and/or Correction of Entry in the record of birth of their son Elmar H. Alberca with the Local Civil Registrar of Barugo, Leyte. Herein petitioners pray for the cancellation of entry no. 18, date and place of marriage of the parents, in the certificate of live birth of Elmar.

Finding the Petition to be sufficient in form and substance, it is hereby ordered that said Petition be set for hearing on October 7, 2014 at 8:30 o’clock in the morning at the session hall of Regional Trial Court, Branch 13, Carigara, Leyte where all interested parties may appear in Court and show cause why the Petition should not be granted. Let this Order be published at the expense of petitioners in a local newspaper of general circulation in the Provinces of Leyte, Samar and Biliran once a week for three (3) consecutive weeks.

Moreover, let this Order, together with copies of the Petition, be posted at the Bulletin Boards of this Court, the Municipal Hall of Barugo, Leyte and the Barangay Halls of Brgy. San Isidro and District V, Barugo, Leyte at least ten (10) days before the initial hearing.

Furnish copy of this Order to the Solicitor General, the Local Civil Registrar of Barugo, Leyte, the Civil Registrar General, National Statistics Office, Manila, the Petitioners and their counsel and the Assistant Provincial Prosecutor, Carigara, Leyte.

SO ORDERED. DONE IN CHAMBERS, on this 18th day of August 2014 at the Bulwagan ng Katarungan, Carigara, Leyte.

(Sgd.) EMELINDA R. MAQUILAN Presiding Judge EV Mail Sept. 22-28, 29- Oct. 5, & 6-12, 2014 Republic of the Philippines REGIONAL TRIAL COURT 8th Judicial Region Branch 18, Hilongos, Leyte EJF – H-026-14 For: EXTRAJUDICIAL FORECLOSURE OF REAL ESTATE MORTGAGE RURAL BANK OF HILONGOS (Leyte) INC. Represented by its Manager ROSARIO ONG VELOS, CPA Mortgagee, -versusGERMANA G. BARGASO Mortgagor. x--------------x SHERIFF’S NOTICE OF EXTRAJUDICIAL SALE Upon extrajudicial petition for sale under Act 3135 as amended filed by RURAL BANK OF HILONGOS (LEYTE) INC. with a postal address R.V. Villaflores St., Hilongos, Leyte, represented by its Manager Rosario Ong Velos, CPA, against Germana G. Bargaso, of Brgy. Himamaa, Bato, Leyte, to satisfy the mortgage indebtedness which as of June 2014, in the total amount of SIX HUNDRED SIXTEEN THOUSAND SIX HUNDRED FIFTY NINE & 39/100 PESOS (P616,659.39) Philippine currency, representing interest, penalties excluding the expenses of the foreclosure attorneys fees, the undersigned will SELL AT PUBLIC AUCTION on October 31, 2014, at 9:00 o’clock in the morning until 4:00 P.M. or soon thereafter at the Regional Trial Court, Branch 18, Hilongos, Leyte for CASH and in the Philippine Currency, the following properties with all the improvements found thereon, hereunder described as follows: 1. A parcel of Coco and all the improvement found thereon located at Brgy. Himamaa, Bato, Leyte, declared under KATIBAYAN NG ORIHINAL NA TITULO BLG. P-42481, designated as Cad. Lot No. 5262 assessor lot No. 020 and assessed value of P4530.00. It is covered by TD No. 02-0601700038 and bounded as follows N: line 1-2 by lot 5263, C-23, Cad. 745-D SE; lines 2-3-4 by lot 5260, C-23 Cad 745-D; SW; line 4-5-6 by lot 5351, C-23,Cad 745-D, N; line 6-1 by lot 5352, C-23, Cad 745-D. Containing an area of 5,177 square meters declared in the name of Demetrio Bargaso kasal Germana Gerogalem.

2. A parcel of Coco land and all the improvement found thereon located at Brgy. Himamaa, Bato, Leyte declared under KATIBAYAN NG ORIHINAL NA TITULO Blg. P-42488, designated as Cad. Lot No. 5238. It is covered by TD No. 02-0601700039 assessor lot No. 004 and assessed value of P9,860.00 and bounded as follows SE; line 1-2 by lot 5223, C-23, Cad 745-D, S; line 2-3 by lot 5224, C-23 Cad 745-D, NW; lines -3-4-5 by lot 5237, C-23 Cad 745-D; E; line 5-1 by lot 5166 C-23 Cad 745-D. Containing an area of 16,598 square meters declared in the name of Demetrio Bragaso kasal kay Germana Gerogalem.

3. A parcel of Residential land and all the Improvement thereon located at Brgy. Himamaa,

Republic of the Philippines Department of Public Works and Highways OFFICE OF THE DPWH DISTRICT ENGINEER Leyte 1st District Engineering Office Pawing, Palo, Leyte

INVITATION TO BID September 29, 2014

1.

The DPWH, Leyte 1st District Engineering Office, Pawing, Palo, Leyte, through GAA, CY 2014 Funds intends to apply the sum above-stated being the Approved Budget of the Contract (ABC) to payments for the aforementioned contracts. Bids received in excess of the ABC shall be automatically rejected at bid opening.

2.

DPWH, Leyte 1st District Engineering Office, Pawing, Palo, Leyte now invites bids for the aforementioned description of works. Completion of the work is required for the above-stated contract duration. Bidders should have completed, within ten (10) years from the date of submission and receipt of bids, a contract similar to the project. The description of an eligible bidder is contained in the Bidding Documents, particularly, in Section II. Instruction to Bidders.

3. Bidding will be conducted through open competitive bidding procedures using non-discretionary pass/fail criterion in the Eligibility Check and Preliminary Examination of Bids as specified in the Implementing Rules and Regulations (IRR) of Republic Act 9184 (RA 9184), otherwise known as the “Government Procurement Reform Act”. Bidding is restricted to Filipino citizens/sole proprietorships, partnerships, organization or joint venture with at least seventy five percent (75%) interest or outstanding capital stock belonging to citizens of the Philippines.

4.

Contractors/applicants who are interested in the DPWH civil works are required to register prior to the schedule of submission of bid while those already registered shall keep their records current and updated. Contractor’s eligibility to bid on the project will be determined using the DPWH Contract Profile Eligibility Process (CPEP) and subject to further post-qualification.

Information on registration can be obtained at DPWH website www.dpwh. gov.ph.

Date and time of Procurement Activities are shown below:

5.

A complete set of Bidding Documents may be purchased by interested Bidders upon payment of a nonrefundable fee. It may also be downloaded free of charge from the website of the Philippine Government Electronic Procurement System (PhilGEPS) and the website of the Procuring Entity, provided that bidders shall pay the fee for the Bidding Documents not later than the submission of their bids.

6.

To bid for this contract/s, a contractor must have a Net Financial Contracting Capacity at least equal to the ABC. Bidders shall likewise submit their bids through their duly Authorized Liaison Officers only as specified in the Contractor’s Information (CI).

All bids must be accompanied by a bid security in any of the acceptable forms and in the amount stated in ITB Clause 18. Late bids shall not be accepted.

7.

The DPWH, Leyte 1st District Engineering Office, Pawing, Palo, Leyte reserves the right to accept or reject any bid, to annul the bidding process, and to reject all bids at any time prior to contract award, without thereby incurring any liability or obligation to the affected bidder or bidders.

8.

For further information, please refer to:

JOHNNY M. ACOSTA Johnny M. Acosta Mobile No. 09202841383 BAC Chairman BAC Chairman Tel. No.: (053) 323-3257; Fax No.: (053) 323-8801 e-mail address: dpwh.ro8_leyte1@yahoo.com

N O T E D:

ANGEL A. SIA, JR.

District Engineer Dates of Advertisement/Publication: October 01 - 08, 2014 www.dpwh.gov.ph and PhilGEPS Eastern Visayas Mail (Local Newspaper) Copy Furnished: 1.

Resident Auditor 2.

DPWH Regional Director, Region VIII 3.

PCA President, Leyte Chapter 4.

VACC Regional Representative 5.

NACAP Pres., Unit 204, No. 37, Annapolis Street, Greenhills, San Juan City 6.

Municipal Mayors: Tanauan, Tolosa, Sta. Fe, Alangalang, Babatngon, Leyte 7.

BAC Bulletin Board EV Mail October 5, 2014

Bato, Leyte, declared under TD No. 02-06017-00033 designated as Cad lot No. 5279 assessor lot no. 017 and bounded as follows North; Ass. Lot No. 018, East Brgy. Road, South; Ass. Lot No. 020; West; Ass. Lot No. 020, containing an area of 281 square meters more or less declared in the name of Bargaso Demetrio with an assesses value of P8,140.00 4. A parcel of Corn Land Rice land & Abaca land and all the improvement found thereon located at Brgy. Hitudpan, Hilongos, Leyte declared under TD No. 02-14018-00040 designated as Cad. Lot NO. 14721, assessor lot No. 004 and bounded as follows North; Ass. Lot 003, (14701) 002 (14702) 012 (8788); East; ass.

Lot No. 012 (8788) 013 (8796); South Creek; West Ass. Lot No. 003 (1470) Creek. Containing an area of Corn a total area of 6,7691 has. More or less declared in the name Demetrio bargaso with an assessor value of P27,520.00.

All sealed bids must be submitted to the undersigned on the above-stated date and time.

In the event the public auction should not take place due to fortuitous event on said date it shall be held on November 7, 2014 on the same time and place.

Hilongos, Leyte, September 8, 2014.

FOR THE EX-OFFICIO SHERIFF: (Sgd.) ISABELO L. FALCONE Sheriff IV, Noted; (Sgd.) ATTY. CHRISTIAN S. VILLAS Clerk of Court VI Copy furnished: RURAL BANK OF HILONGOS (LEYTE) INC. Poblacion, Hilongos, Leyte

9 MERCADO ... from P. 4 (1) “‘I brought this on myself’”.

Xi decided facing down protests now was preferable to risking the emergence of a local leader with real legitimacy. ( 2) “I have to win’”. Two years since becoming head of the Communist Party, Xi amassed unrivalled personal power. He makes all the decisions that matter. His anti-corruption campaign has made him powerful internal enemies. They are biding their time and waiting for him to make a false move.

Xi can not afford to back down. ( 3) ‘Idealistic students are our Achilles heel again’. Middle-aged academics are easier to preempt. Students form the main “opposition with a clear sense of purpose” - no small feat from a constituency normally focused on books and jobs. They were making their voices heard, despite pepper spray, kettling and the detention of leaders. ( 4) ‘The tail will not wag the dragon’. There is a news blackout in China.

Beijing does not want its citizens getting ideas. A color revolution is one of Beijing’s worst nightmares. Pressure the Hong Kong police to act tough and risk provoking more citizens? Or play it low key and embolden the more cautious democrats?

(5) ‘Find me the key to Hong Kong hearts and minds’. Beijing will try to persuade Hong Kong’s citizens to stay home by painting protesters as dangerous hotheads, warning the economy will suffer. It hopes demonstrations will play out with a light-hand policing hand.

(6) “How many police cells do they have in Hong Kong?”. But once

the 500 cells are full, there’s nowhere to put dissidents. This demonstration has a tipping point. Exhaustion, pepper spray and threats may drive the protesters home. Or safety in numbers and fresh joiners may generate a feedback loop and harden defiance. ( 7) ‘How dare they fling Deng Xiaoping in my face?!’ Democrats point out it was Deng who came up with the “one country, two systems” formula. That guaranteed Hong Kong’s way of life for 50 years. Xi’s China is moving towards ever firmer one-party control. ( 8) Blame the foreigners’ ProBeijing newspapers in Hong Kong published allegations that 17-year-old student leader Joshua Wong had links with the American government. US and UK governments try to keep out. The problem for Beijing is foreign ideas rather than foreign governments. ( 9) ‘I didn’t get to where I am today by backing down. I won’t start now.’

Xi said the Soviet Union fell apart in 1991 was that no one “had the balls to stand up for it”. Xi sees himself in the patriarch mold and believes robust leadership is the answer to China’s ills.

(10) It’s shaping up to be a lousy birthday. October is the 65th anniversary of China’s communist revolution.

Sixty-five years later, Xi leads a very different party and country. Rich, yes.

Powerful, yes.

But it has no unifying message beyond xenophobic nationalism. Xi Jinping urgently needs to define his “China Dream” in a way that inspires his fellow citizens, whether in the mainland or in Hong Kong.

SIDE BAR ... from P. 4 people’s mandate.

“The problem with groups claiming to be occupying the moral high ground is that they’re fair game for scrutiny,” Sun Star’s opinion editor Bong Wenceslao wrote. “I hold a modicum of respect for the retired cardinal, but he should not allow himself to be used by people with dubious agenda because the backlash on his image would be damaging.”

Was it coincidence? But NTC proposals surfaced when all current leaders of the Catholic Church – Cardinals Luis Tagle and Orlando Quevedo, among others --- are in Vatican City for the synod called by Pope Francis from Oct. 5 to 19.

The synod is discussing the “challenges of marriage, of family life, of the education of children, and the role of the family in the life of the church.”

Approximately 250 people are attending: presidents of 114 national bishops’ conferences, 13 heads of Eastern Catholic churches, three superior generals of religious orders, heads of

EXTRAJUDICIAL SETTLEMENT WITH SALE OF REAL PROPERTY NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that the property of the late APOLINARIA ACABO re a parcel of land located at Balatic, Brgy. Balud, Borongan City Eastern Samar, covered by ARP No. 08-014-00050, PIN: 037-230-014-04-009, designated as Survey No. 1747, Lot No. 009, Block No. 04, containing an area of 3,695.00 sq. m., was settled among her heirs and sold in favor of SPS. JOSE V. PALADA and EVA PALADA per Doc. No. 173; Page No. 36; Book No. XXVI; Series of 2014 of Notary Public Enrique C. Dala. EV Mail Sept. 29- Oct. 5, 6-12, 13-19, 2014

Erratum

The following notice was inadvertently ommited on the its last issue, September 22-28.

Extrajudicial Settlement and Partition NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that the heirs of the SPS. MANUEL YAP CON-UI and TRINIDAD PEPITO CON-UI have settled and partitioned among themselves their properties consisting of the following: Conjugal Properties 1.

Lot No. 9 of consolidation subdivision plan, Pcs-08-000542-D, situated in Brgy.

Cogon-Combado, Ormoc City, containing an area of 1,093 sq. m. covered by TCT No. 121-31841; 2.

Lot No. 3 of Consolidation subdivision plan, Pcs-08-000917-D, containing an area of 3,583 sq. m. covered by OCT No. 121-T-43081 Exclusive Properties of the late MANUEL YAP CON-UI consisting of ONE –TWELFTH (1/12) SHARE of: 3.

Lot No. 2992-A, situated in District 29, Nadongholan, Ormoc City, containing an area of 10,344 sq. m. covered by TCT No. 462; 4.

Lot No. 383-B, situated at Arradaza Street, District 11, Ormoc City, containing an area of 47 sq. m. covered by TCT No. 16144; Lot No. 382-Part, situated at J. Navarro Street, District 11, Ormoc City, containing an area of 47 sq. m. covered

by TCT No. 15881; 5.

Lot No. 381-B ,containing an area of 483 sq. m. covered by TCT No. 15880 ; Lot No. 2 of the consolidation subdivision plan of Lots 439 and 440, situated at Bonifacio Street, District 11, Ormoc City, containing an area of 208 sq. m. covered by TCT No. 24855; 6.

Lot No. 10031-A, situated at Brgy.

Matica-a Ormoc City, Leyte, containing an area of 12,869 sq. m. covered by TCT No. 15884; 7.

Lot No. 10031-A, containing an area of 12,869 sq. m. covered by TCT No. 15884; 8.

Lot No. 10038, containing an area of 8,000 sq. m. covered by TCT No. 24844; 9.

Lot No. 10040, containing an area of 10,097 sq.m. covered by TCT No. 24843; 10.

Lot No. 11768-M, situated at Brgy.

Cogon- Combado, Ormoc City, containing an area of 1,941 sq.m. covered by TCT No. 27199; 11. and One (1) unit residential house erected on said Lot No. 9 per Doc. No. 146; Page No. 30; Book No. L; Series of 2014 of Notary Public Aleah Rafel G. BataanTolibao. EV Mail Sept. 8-14, & 15-21,& 22-28, 2014

(Sgd.) GERMANA G. BARGASO Brgy. Himamaa, Bato, Leyte File EV Mail Sept. 22-28, 29- Oct. 5, & 6-12, 2014

Vatican offices, synod officials, and priests.

Among other things, the Synod will discuss issues of the eligibility of divorced and civilly remarried Catholics to receive Communion. It sets the agenda for a larger meeting of bishops, to be held at Vatican in October 2015.

That meeting will generate proposals for the pope’s approval.

Here, “Vidal and his group ask a president voted into office by majority of the people, through elections, to resign,” Sun Star noted in its editorial.

That would replace a duly elected President with unelected leaders. No matter how credible their integrity might be, (it) reduces the Constitution and our laws into mere documents that can easily be shredded by the noisy. The better call is for all of us to be true to our democratic tenets.”

Pope Emeritus Benedict XVI, who quietly retired, sets perhaps the best example.

VIEW FROM ORMOC ... from P. 4 which had become a natural barrier. Sophia, Ramon’s daughter who was still a toddler at that time, would become a good “Facebook” friend of mine.

A budding photographer, she shared photos of walls of water, as high as four meters high, as it barreled through the seas toward the land. The swells would break up when it breached Tabuk, and Palompon, though badly damaged, was spared from the storm surges that engulfed the eastern part of the island.

I can just imagine how far the water could have gone into the town center, had there been no mangroves at Tabuk.

Now, eleven months after Yolanda hit the town, Ramon and LGU officials have restored it that it seems the typhoon never hit them at all. By January of 2014, they were even ready to receive another visit from a luxury liner.

By summer time, they already had robust tourist arrivals. It was business as usual a bare four months after Yolanda struck. Now, they have a coveted trophy, one that I know the LGU truly deserves. Suya mode. :(

10 Republic of the Philippines REGIONAL TRIAL COURT, Branch 7 Eight Judicial Region BULWAGAN NG KATARUNGAN Magsaysay Blvd., Tacloban City OFFICE OF THE CLERK OF COURT & EX-OFFICIO SHERIFF EJF No. 3701 EXTRA-JUDICIAL FORECLOSURE OF REAL ESTATE MORTGAGE UNDER ACT 3135 AS AMENDED BY ACT 4118 AND PD 385 HOME DEVELOPMENT MUTUAL FUND (HDMF), Tacloban City, rep. by Paulino C. Talacay, Mortgagee, -versus – LOUBETH D. CHAVERO, Mortgagor, x----------------------x AMENDED SHERIFF’S NOTICE OF EXTRA-JUDICIAL FORECLOSURE SALE UNDER ACT 3135, AMENDED Upon Extra-Judicial Petition for sale under act 3135, as Amended filed by the HOME DEVELOPMENT MUTUAL FUND with office address at corner MH Del Pilar and Loopez Jaena Streets, Tacloban City, represented by Paulino C. Talacay against LOUBETH D. CHAVERO, of legal age, Filipino, married with postal address at P. DOMINGO ST., STA. CRUZ, PALO, LEYTE to satisfy the Mortgage indebtedness which as of MAY 19, 2014, Amounted to TWO HUNDRED SEVENTY EIGHT THOUSAND SIX HUNDRED NINETEEN PESOS & 41/100 (Php 278,619.41) Philippine Currency, excluding Penalties, Charges, Attorney’s Fees, expenses of the Foreclosure, Sheriff’s Lawful Fees, and expenses for conducting the PUBLIC AUCTION on OCTOBER 21, 2014, at 9:00 in the morning or soon thereafter, REGIONAL TRIAL COURT, Magsaysay Blvd., Tacloban City, to the highest bidder for cash and in Philippine Currency, the following Real Properties/Personal Properties, with all the improvements thereon, to wit; TRANSFER CERTIFICATE OF TITLE NO. TP-19120 Lot 1, Block 6, Psd-08-017384-D A parcel of land designated as Lot 1 Block 6 of the subdivision of Psd-08-017384-D, being a portion of lot 9731, Cad. 407, situated in Barangay Guindaponan, Municipality of Palo, Bounded on the NW., along line 1-2 by lot 3, block 6 of this subdivision; on the NE., along lines 2-3-4-5 by Road 4 (6.50 m. wide) of this subdivision; on the SE., along line 5-6 by Road 3 (6.50 m. wide) of this subdivision; on the SW., along line 6-1by lot 2, block 6 of this subdivision. Containing an area of SIXTY THREE (63) SQUARE METERS, more or less. Registered in the name of Loubeth D. Chavero, of legal age, Filipino married to Glenn P. Chavero.

PROSPECTIVE BIDDERS AND BUYERS MAY INVESTIGATE FOR THEMSELVES THE TITLE AND ENCUMBRANCES, HEREIN ABOVE-DESCRIBED REAL PROPERTIES IF ANY THERE BE. All sealed bids must be submitted to the undersigned on the above-stated time and date.

In the event the public auction should not take place on the said date, it shall be on OCT. 28, 2014.

On the same time and place without further notice.

TACLOBAN CITY, SEPT. 1, 2014.

FOR THE CLERK OF COURT & EX-OFFICIO SHERIFF: (Sgd.) ELIAS N. ACOSTA Sheriff IV EV Mail Sept. 29- Oct. 5, 6-12, & 13- 19, 2014 Republic of the Philippines REGIONAL TRIAL COURT, Branch 7 Eight Judicial Region BULWAGAN NG KATARUNGAN Magsaysay Blvd., Tacloban City OFFICE OF THE CLERK OF COURT & EX-OFFICIO SHERIFF EJF NO. 3698 EXTRA-JUDICIAL FORECLOSURE OF REAL ESTATE MORTGAGE UNDER ACT 3135 AS AMENDED BY ACT 4118 AND PD 385 HOME DEVELOPMENT MUTUAL FUND (HDMF), Tacloban City, rep. by Paulino C. Talacay, Mortgagee, -versusWENDY C. BULAQUI, Mortgagor, x-------------------x AMENDED SHERIFF’S NOTICE OF EXTRA-JUDICIAL FORECLOSURE SALE UNDER ACT 3135, AMENDED Upon Extra-Judicial Petition for sale under act 3135, as Amended filed by the HOME DEVELOPMENT MUTUAL FUND with office address at corner MH Del Pilar and Lopez Jaena Streets, Tacloban City, represented by Paulino C. Talacay against WENDY C. BULAQUI, of legal age, Filipino, single with postal address at 0723 MONTEJO ST., CAVITE WEST, PALO, LEYTE, to satisfy the Mortgage indebtedness which as of MAY 19, 2014, Amounted to THREE MILLION EIGHT HUNDRED NINETY SEVEN THOUSAND EIGHT HUNDRED FORTY EIGHT PESOS & 01/100 (Php3,897,848.01) Philippine Currency, excluding Penalties, Charges Attorney’s Fees, expenses of the Foreclosure, Sheriff’s Lawful Fees, and expenses for conducting the PUBLIC AUCTION on OCTOBER 21, 2014, at 9:00 in the morning or soon thereafter, REGIONAL TRIAL COURT, Magsaysay Blvd., Tacloban City, to the highest bidder for cash and in Philippine Currency, the following Real Properties/ Personal Properties, with all the improvements thereon, to wit; TRANSFER CERTIFICATE OF TITLE NO. 1222011000302 IT IS HEREBY CERTIFIED that certain land situated in BO. OF SAGKAHAN, CITY OF TACLOBAN, ISLAND OF LEYTE, bounded and described as follows: A PARCEL OF LAND (LOT 2700- A OF THE SUB. PLAN (LRC) PSD-696, BEING A PORTION OF

NOTICES Republic of the Philippines REGIONAL TRIAL COURT Branch 10 Eighth Judicial Region Abuyog, Leyte SP. PROC. NO. 245 RE: IN THE MATTER OF A PETITION FOR CORRECTION/ CHANGE OF ENTRY IN THE MARRIAGE CERTIFICATE OF ALMA C. PALAÑA & JEAN-CLAUDE LUIGI SBAIZ CONCERNING THE CIVIL STATUS OF JEAN-CLAUDE LUIGI SBAIZ FROM SINGLE TO DIVORCE. ALMA C. PALAÑA, Petitioner, -versusLOCAL CIVIL REGISTRAR, MACARTHUR, LEYTE, Public Respondent. x--------------------x AMENDED ORDER A verified PETITION FOR CORRECTION/ CHANGE OF ENTRY IN THE MARRIAGE CERTIFICATE OF ALMA C. PALAÑA & JEAN- CLAUDE LUIGI SBAIZ CONCERNING THE CIVIL STATUS OF JEAN- CLAUDE LUIGI SBAIZ FROM SINGLE TO DIVORCE, petitioner, through counsel, allege: That, petitioner is of legal age, Filipino, married to Jean-Claude Luigi Sbaiz and a bonafide resident of Brgy. Causwagan, Macarthur, Leyte and the public respondent with office address at the Municipal Building, Macarthur, Leyte where they may be served with summons and other processes by this Honorable Court; That Petitioner was lawfully married to her husband Jean-Claude Luigi Sbaiz in the marriage ceremony solemnized on April 2, 2013 by the Municipal Mayor Rene R. Leria at the Office of the Mayor at Macarthur, Leyte; That the civil status of the petitioner’s husband Jean-Claude Luigi Sbaiz was divorce but in the entry

Republic of the Philippines REGIONAL TRIAL COURT Eighth Judicial Region Branch 16 Naval, Biliran SP. PROC. No. P-431 IN THE MATTER OF THE ADOPTION OF THE MINOR LUCAS WONG, SPS. WONG YENG HOONG and HENRIETTA S. NIERRA WONG, Petitioners, X----------------X ORDER A verified petition having been filed with the Court by petitioner, thru counsel, praying that after due notice, publication, and hearing the minor LUCAS WONG, be adjudged as the adopted child of petitioners for all legal intents and purposes.

Finding the petition being sufficient in form and substance, let the initial hearing be set on OCTOBER 30, 2014 at 8:30 o’clock in the morning at which date and time all interested person may appear and show cause, if any they have, why this petition should not be granted.

Let copy of this Order be published at the expense of the petitioner once a week for three (3) consecutive weeks in a newspaper of general circulation duly authorized by this Court.

Furnish copies of this Order and the petition to the Solicitor General, Makati City, the Provincial Prosecutor, Naval, Biliran Province, the Department of Social Development of Biliran Province the petitioner and counsel as well.

SO ORDERED. IN CHAMBERS this 28th day of August 2014 at Naval, Biliran, Philippines.

(Sgd.) BIENVENIDO M. MONTALLA Executive Judge Copy furnished: Atty. Redentor R. Villordon Prosecutors Office, Biliran, Province Solicitor General Sps. Wong Yeng Hoong and Henrietta S. Nierra Wong DSWD, Biliran Province EV Mail Sept. 29- Oct. 5, 6-12, & 13- 19, 2014 LOT 2700, TACLOBAN CAD. LRC (GLRO) CAD. REC. NO. 1060), SITUATED IN THE BO. OF SAGKAHAN, CITY OF TACLOBAN, ISLAND OF LEYTE, BOUNDED ON THE. NE., POINTS 4 TO 1 BY LOT 2701 OF TACLOBAN CADASTRE; ON THE SE., POINTS 1 TO 2 BY LOT 2700-B OF THE SUB. PLAN; ON THE SW., POINTS 2 TO 3 BY LOT 2699, TACLOBAN CADASTREE; AND ON THE NW., POINTS 3 TO 4 BY BARRIO ROAD CONTAINING AN AREA OF THREE HUNDRED FORTY FOUR (344) SQUARE METERS, MORE OR LESS, REGISTER IN THE NAME OF WENDY C. BULAQUI, OF LEGAL AGE, FILIPINO, SINGLE. PROSPECTIVE BIDDERS AND BUYERS MAY INVESTIGATE FOR THEMSELVES THE TITLE AND ENCUMBRANCES, HEREIN ABOVE- DESCRIBED REAL PROPERTIES IF ANY THERE BE. All sealed bids must be submitted to the undersigned on the above-stated time and date.

In the event the public auction should not take place on the said date, it shall be on OCT. 28, 2014.

On the same time and place without further notice.

TACLOBAN CITY, SEPT. 1, 2014.

FOR THE CLERK OF COURT & EX-OFFICIO SHERIFF: (Sgd.) ELIAS N. ACOSTA Sheriff IV EV Mail Sept. 29- Oct. 5, 6-12, & 13- 19, 2014

Sept. 29-Oct. 5, 2014

in their marriage certificate concerning his civil status was single instead of divorce, hence she filed the instant verified petition by reason that her application for issuance of Belgian Visa was denied due to the said incorrect entry of single instead of divorce; That Petitioner respectfully prays that an order be issued directing the Local Civil Registrar of Macarthur, Leyte to correct the entry in the marriage certificate of the petitioner concerning the civil status of her husband Jean-Claude Luigi Sbaiz from single to divorce; Finding the petition to be sufficient in form and substance, let the hearing of this case be reset for November 6, 2014 at 9:00 o’clock in the morning, before this Court.

Let copy of this Order be published once a week for three (3) consecutive weeks in a local newspaper of general circulation in the Province of Leyte. It is further ordered that the same together with the petition, be posted in three (3) conspicuous public places in the Municipality of Macarthur, Leyte, all at the expense of herein petitioner; The Clerk of Court is directed to furnish copy of this Order and Petition to the Office of the Solicitor General at 134 Amorsolo St., Legaspi Village, Makati City; the National Statistics Office, Manila; the Local Civil Registrar of Macarthur, Leyte; and the petitioner through counsel.

SO ORDERED. Abuyog, Leyte, September 30, 2014.

(Sgd.) BUENAVENTURA A. PAJARON Judge Evr/bap Copy furnished: -Office of the Solicitor General 134 Amorsolo St., Legaspi Village, Makati City - National Statistics Office, Manila - Local Civil Registrar of Macarthur, Leyte -Atty. Apolonio Quirino Tisado – petitioner’s Collaborating counsel Abuyog, Leyte EV Mail Sept. 29- Oct. 5, 6-12, & 13- 19, 2014 Republic of the Philippines Local Civil Registry Office Province : Samar Municipality: Sta. Margarita NOTICE FOR PUBLICATION CCE-00021-2014 R.A. 10172 Date: 08 September 2014 In compliance with Section No. 7 or Rule No. 7 of R.A. 10172, a Notice is hereby served to the public that FRETZ BALAGWIS BAGOLOR has filed with this Office, a petition for correction of clerical error in the entry of his GENDER or SEX from FEMALE to MALE in the Certificate of Live Birth of FRETZ BALAGWIS BAGOLOR with Registry Number 90-344 who was born on August 6, 1990 at Brgy. Solsogon, Sta. Margarita, Samar and whose parents are ROMEO CATALAN BAGOLOR and JUANITA ORTIZ BALAGWIS. Any person adversely affected by said petition may file his written opposition with this Office not later than fifteen (15) days from date of publication.

(Sgd.) ENGR. AIVIZE G. LIBUNAO Municipal Civil Registrar Name of Newspaper: Eastern Visayas Mail Place of Publication: Samar EV Mail Sept. 22-28, & 29- Oct. 5, 2014

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Republic of the Philippines Local Civil Registry Office Province of Samar City of Calbayog NOTICE OF PUBLICATION 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) / Administrative Order No. 1 Series of 2001 (IRR on R.A. 9048) Notice is hereby served to the public that CHRISTIAN CACHO BATO has filed with this Office, a petition for CHANGE OF SEX from FEMALE to MALE in the Certificate of live birth of CHRISTIAN CACHO BATO at Calbayog City, Samar and whose parents are ERNESTO BARTINA BATO and SUSAN DEOLOGO CACHO bearing registry number 93-00108.

Any person adversely affected by said petition may file his/her written opposition with this Office not later than October 07, 2014 (Sgd.) FE D. QUEROLJICO City Civil Registrar Name of Newspaper: Eastern Visayas Mail Place of Publication: Calbayog City, Samar EV Mail Sept. 22-28, & 29- Oct. 5, 2014 Extrajudicial Settlement and Partition with Sale NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that the property of the late JUANITO C. ALONZO re a parcel of land Lot 3 of the consolidation subdivision plan, Pcs-08-001009-D, situated at Brgy.

Ipil, Ormoc City, containing an area of 3,417 sq. m. covered by TCT No. 47066 was settled and partitioned among his heirs and 500 sq. m. sold in favor of SPS. JOSE P. ALONZO and SUSAN S. ALONZO per Doc. No. 430; Page NO. 86; Book NO. XLI; Series of 2014 of Notary Public EV Mail Sept. 15- 21, 22-28, & 29- Oct. 5, 2015 Extrajudicial Settlement and Partition NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that the properties of the late SPS. VICTOR MAGLASANG and CRISTITA DASIGAN re parcels of land Lot No. 1381-B-3-A situated in Barangay Alta Vista, Ormoc City, containing an area of 835 sq. m. covered by TCT No. 121-2011000454 ; designated as Lot 2834-C-1, Psd-08-027903-

Republic of the Philippines REGIONAL TRIAL COURT Eighth Judicial Region Branch 16 Naval, Biliran SP. PROC. NO. P-430 IN THE MATTER OF THE ADOPTION OF THE MINOR MARK STEVEN ATIBULA-ELORDE, SPS. JAIME ALAGASI FERNANDO And ANNALIZA ATIBULA- FERNANDO, Petitioners, x------------------x ORDER A verified petition having been filed with the Court by petitioner, thru counsel, praying that after due notice, publication, and hearing the minor MARK STEVEN ATIBULA-ELORDE, be adjudged as the adopted child of petitioners for all legal intents and purposes and that his name be changed to Mark Steven Atibula Fernando.

Finding the petition being sufficient in form and substance, let the initial hearing be set on OCTOBER 30, 2014 at 8:30 o’clock in the morning at which date and time all interested person may appear and show cause, if any they have, why this petition should not be granted.

Let copy of this Order be published at the expense of the petitioner once a week for three (3) consecutive weeks in a newspaper of general circulation duly authorized by this Court.

Furnish copies of this Order and the petition to the Solicitor General, Makati City, the Provincial Prosecutor, Naval, Biliran Province, the Department of Social Development of Biliran Province and the petitioner and counsel as well.

SO ORDERED. IN CHAMBERS this 28th day of August 2014 at Naval, Biliran, Philippines.

(Sgd.) BIENVENIDO M. MONTALLA Executive Judge Copy furnished; Atty. Redentor R. Villordon Prosecutors Office, Biliran, Province Solicitor General Sps. Jaime Alagasi Fernando and Anna Liza Atibula Fernando DSWD, Biliran Province EV Mail Sept. 29- Oct. 5, 6-12, & 13- 19, 2014

Gemmary Pawnshop & Jewellery

AUCTION SALE

This is to inform the public that we will be conducting an AUCTION SALE on OCTOBER 1, 2014 at 9:00am to 6:00pm at Real Street, Ormoc City, Leyte, for all unredeemed pledge articles for the month of APRIL 2014 pawned on the following branches: ORMOC BRANCH: (053) 561-0733 Real Street, Gaisano Bldg., Ormoc City BAYBAY BRANCH: (053) 563-8336 A. Bonifacio St., Baybay, City Customers are enjoined to verify their receipts.

THE MANAGEMENT EV Mail September 29-October 5, 2014

NOTICE OF AUCTION SALE ON REMATADOS OF M. LHUILLIER PAWNSHOPS ALL BRANCHES AT LEYTE REGION, ORMOC 1,2 & 3, NAVAL, PALOMPON, CARIGARA, ISABEL, KANANGA, VILLABA, SAN ISIDRO, TABANGO, ALBUERA, LEYTE, BILIRAN, MATAGOB, CALUBIAN, TACLOBAN BRANCHES 1,2,3,4, & 5, PALO, CALANIPAWAN (V&G) TANAUAN, ALANG-ALANG, JARO, DAGAMI, DULAG, BURAUEN, MARASBARAS, ROBINSON, BAYBAY, 1, & 3, INOPACAN, HILONGOS, ABUYOG, MAASIN 1 & 2, BATO, SOGOD 1 & 2; MACARTHUR, SAN JUAN (CABALIAN), LILOAN, HINDANG, HINUNANGAN, PINTUYAN, MALITBOG, & ST. BERNARD. Commencing OCTOBER 15, 2014 at 9:00 am the above mentioned pawnshop will sell on Public Auction Sale all overdue pledges left in the same up to MAY 31, 2013. Patrons are enjoined to verify their receipts.

MANAGEMENT Sa OKTUBRE 15, 2014, sa alas 9:00 and takna sa buntag isubasta sa publiko ang tanang butang naremati diri sa tag-sa-tagsa ka buhatan sa gihinganlan sa itaas. Tanang butang pinerenda nga wala malukat hangtud sa MAYO 31, 2013 maapil sa subasta. Gi-awhag ang tanang suki sa pagsusi sa ilang mga resibo.

TAGDUMALA EV Mail Sept. 29 - Oct. 5, 2014

D,containing an area of 7,440 sq. m. covered by TCT No. 121-2011000455 ; One Unit residential house located at San Pablo Street, Ormoc City erected on Lot NO. 329 & 330 covered by TD No. 21666; One-Tenth (1/10) share of a parcel of land Cad. Lot No. 1381-B-11, situated in the Brgy. Alta Vista, Ormoc City, Leyte, containing an area of 464 sq. m. covered by TD No. 00084-00342; and One-Tent (1/10 share of a parcel of land Cad. Lot No. 1381-B-12, situated in Brgy. Alta Vista, Ormoc City, containing an area of 850 sq. m. were settled and partitioned among their heirs per Doc. No. 286; Page No. 48; Book No. XXIV; Series of 2012 of Notary Public Aleah Rafel G. Bataan- Tolibao.

EV Mail Sept, 15-21, 22-28, & 29- Oct. 5, 2014 Extrajudicial Settlement and Partition NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that the property of the late EDUVIGIS VDA. DE PAREJA re a parcel of land Lot No. 6986, situated in Barangay of San Jose, Ormoc City, containing an area of 4,388 sq. m. covered by OCT No. 0-26997 was settled and partitioned among his heirs per Doc. No. 479; Page No. 96; Book No. XXXV; Series of 2013 of Notary Public Aleah Rafel G. Bataan-Tolibao. EV Mail Sept. 15- 21, 22-28, & 29- Oct. 5, 2015 Extrajudicial Settlement and Partition NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that the properties of the late ARNULFO P. SALINAS re parcels of land a portion known as Lot 5772-G-2 consisting of 1,026 sq. m. of a parcel of land Lot 5872-G of the subdivision plan, Psd-76322, containing an area of 9,189 sq. covered by TCT No. 16911; Lot 9006-A, Psd-115117, situated in Barrio Valencia, Ormoc City, containing an area of 187 sq. m. covered by TCT 13223; (1/4 share of a parcel of land lot 2 consolidation – subdivision plan. Pcs-08-000066 situated in the Barangay San Jose & Balion, Ormoc City, containing an area of 14,600 sq.m covered by TCT No. 22056; ¼ share of a parcel of land Lot 1 of the consolidation – subdivision plan, Pcs-08-000066, containing an area of 31,237 covered by TCT No. 22055; 1/5 share of a parcel of land Lot No. 6998, situated in Barrio of San Jose, Ormoc City, containing an area of 37,448 sq. m. covered by TCT No. 22208 ; Lot 1 of the consolidation – subdivision plan, Pcs 21457, situated in Barrio Punta, Ormoc City, containing an area of 20 sq. m. covered by TCT No. TP-241; Lot 4 of the consolidation – subdivision plan, Pcs-21457, containing an area of 327 sq. m. covered by TCT No. TP-244 ; Lot No. 5874-A of the subdivision plan (LRC) Psd-218364, situated in Barrio Nasunogan (now) Ormoc City, containing an area of 3,974 sq. m. covered by TCT No. 12580 ; Lot No. 10098 , situated in Barrio San Jose ang Naghalin, Ormoc City, containing an area of 35,696 sq. m. covered

by TCT No. 14089; and One (1) unit residential house erected on Lot 9006-A were settled and partitioned among his heirs per Doc. No. 578; Page No. 76; Book No. XXXIV; Series of 2013 of Notary Public Aleah Rafel G. Bataan- Tolibao.

EV Mail Sept, 15-21, 22-28, & 29- Oct. 5, 2014 Deed of Extrajudicial Partition NOTICE IS HEREBYGIVEN that the real property of the late SPS. JOSE VENEZUELA and LOURDES SACAY-VENEZUELA re a parcel of land, Lot No. 8408-F in Brgy. Valencia, Ormoc City, containing an area of 17,449 sq. m. covered

by TCT No. T-28064, under the name of Lourdes Sacay – Venezuela was settled among their heirs per Doc. No. 25; Page No. 5; Book No. VI; Series of 2008 of Notary Public Philip A. Albeos II. EV Mail Sept. 15- 21, 22-28, & 29- Oct. 5, 2015 EXTRAJUDICIAL SETTLEMENT WITH WAIVER AND QUITCLAIM NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that the property of the late LEON DURAN re a parcel of land located at U.S. Navy Road, Brgy. Lupok, Guiuan , Eastern Samar, covered under ARP No. 11-090040-00050 designated as 2742, CAD-430, Case 11, containing an area of 6,457 sq. m. was settled among his heirs and 1,173 sq. m. waived in favor of MICHAEL ANGELO BAGO per Doc. No. 270; Page No. 54; Book No. III; Series of 2014 of Notary Public Vincent A. Cablao. EV Mail Sept. 15-21, 22-28, 29-Oct. 5, 2014 Extrajudicial Settlement NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that the property of the late TEOFISTO R. ESPREGANTE re a parcel of an agricultural land situated in Brgy.

Catmon, Naval, Biliran denominated as survey No. 3965-P and Lot No. 027 under TD/ ARP No. 00244 with an area of 11,761 sq. m. was settled among his heirs per Doc. No. 294; Page No. 59; Book No. 49; Series of 2014 of Notary Public Redentor C. Villordon. EV Mail Sept. 22-28, 29- Oct. 5, & 6-12, 2014 Deed of Extrajudicial Settlement with waiver NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that the personal property of the late TEODORO S. FENELLERE re a bank deposits with the Development Bank of the Philippines (DBP) Catbalogan Branch, Catbalogan City, Samar, under Account No. _____ was settled among his heirs and waived in favor of MA. CONCEPCION DAIZ FENELLERE per Doc. No. 8508; Page No. 1702; Book No. XVIII; Series of 2014 of Notary Public Hernando Hernandez, Jr. EV Mail Sept.

22-28, 29- Oct. 5, & 6-12, 2014 Deed of Extra-Judicial Settlement with waiver and quitclaim NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that the personal property of the late ELPEDIO MATIGA LUZARES married to VALENTINA ALCANTARA LUZARES re a ISUZU JITNEY UTILITY VEHICLE; C.R. NO. 13217354; PLATE NO. HAZ363; ENGINE NO. 4BE1-121101; CHASSIS NO. LTC7349-DANC; YEAR MODEL 1998; OFFICIAL RECEIPT NO. 424868850 was settled among their heirs and waived in favor of EMARITO A. LUZARES per Doc. No. 420; Page No. 84; Book No. IV; Series of 2014 of Notary Public EV Mail Sept. 22-28, 29- Oct. 5, & 6-12, 2014

Deed of Extrajudicial Settlement with Waiver of Rights NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that the personal property of the late ERLINDA PARINGIT AMOROTO re a bank deposits with the Rizal Commercial Banking Corporation (RCBC), Calbayog Branch, Calbayog City, under Account No. ____ was settled among her heirs and EMMANUEL P. AMOROTO and EMMABETH A. SKACH waiving all their rights & interests over the said personal property in favor of their co-heir and sister EMMALYN A. TAN per Doc. No. 8675; Page No. 1735; Book No. XVIII; Series of 2014 of Notary Public Hernando Hernandez, Jr. EV Mail Sept. 29- Oct. 5, 6-12, & 13- 19, 2014 Deed of Extrajudicial Settlement with Absolute Sale NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that the property of the late HONORATO DURON re a parcel of land, located at Brgy. Tinaplacan, Tinambacan District, Calbayog City Samar, with Cadastral Lot No. 854, containing an area of 74,089.89 sq. m. under TD No. 99-03022-00446 was settled among his heirs and 64,857 sq. m. sold in favor of ADELA R. ROSALES per Doc. No. 754; Page No. 51; Book No. IXXXIV; Series of 2013 of Notary Public Ma. Rowena L. Urot.

EV Mail Sept. 29- Oct. 5, 6-12, & 13- 19, 2014 Extrajudicial Settlement with Sale NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that the property of the late MARTINIANO PITAO re an agricultural land situated in Brgy. Calumpang, Naval, Biliran, Biliran denominated as survey No. 1125, under TD No. 01366 with an area of 0.6788 has. was settled among his heirs and 300 sq. m. sold in favor of NESTOR G. SACAY per Doc. No. 160; Page No. 32; Book No. 48; Series of 2013 of Notary Public Redentor Villordon. EV Mail Sept.

29- Oct. 5, 6-12, & 13- 19, 2014 Extrajudicial Settlement with Absolute Sale NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that the property of the late FACUNDO DELOS SANTOS re a parcel of land, located at Rosales Blvd., Brgy.

Central, Calbayog District, Calbayog City, Samar, with Cadastral Lot No. 1942-Part, containing an area of 164 sq. m. under T.D. No. 99-0100700289 was settled among his heirs and sold in favor of TIBURCIO T. CHAN, JR. per Doc. No. 1596; Page No. 317; Book No. X; Series of 2014 of Notary Public Eduardo P. Tibo. . EV Mail Sept.

29- Oct. 5, 6-12, & 13- 19, 2014 Extrajudicial Settlement with Deed of Absolute Sale NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that

the property of the late ZACARIAS GARCIA re a parcel of residential land situated in Brgy.

Sto. Rosario, Naval, Biliran covered by TD No. 00261 denominated as survey no. 7-P, containing an area of 71.73 sq. m. was settled among his heirs and sold in favor of BRYAN SENO and SIMON GARCIA per Doc. No. 94; Page No. 19; Book No. 49; Series of 2014 of Notary Public Redentor Villordon. EV Mail Sept. 29- Oct. 5, 6-12, & 13- 19, 2014 Extrajudicial Settlement NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that the property of the late COSME VICERA re a parcel of residential land situated in P. Inocentes, Naval, Biliran denominated as survey no. 659 under No. 01390, containing an area of 301 sq. m. was settled among his heirs per Doc. No. 270; Page No. 54; Book No. 46; Series of 2012 of Notary Public Redentor C. Villordon. EV Mail Sept. 29Oct. 5, 6-12, & 13- 19, 2014 Extrajudicial Settlement with waiver NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that the properties of the late NORMA ADOLFO LABRA re One –half (½) portion or share of parcels of land, residential house and vehicle (the remaining one-half (½) portion being the conjugal share of LIBRADO S. LABRA), situated in Brgy. Sirao, Cebu City, containing an area of 2,225 sq. m. covered by TCT No. 6325 under the name of Librado S. Labra ; Lot No. 7105-A-5-E, situated in Brgy. Luna, Ormoc City, containing an area of 500 sq. m. covered by TCT No. 33567; Lot No. 2363-B-4-C-8, situated in Brgy. Doña Feliza Mejia, containing an area of 27 sq. m. covered

by TCT No. 22303; Residential Lot No. 2363-B4-A, situated in Brgy. Doña Feliza Mejia, Ormoc City, containing an area of 300 sq. m. covered

by TC No. 17236; residential house erected on Lot No. 2363-B-4-A ; Personal Property Vehicle Make/Body Type: Mitsubishi Strada; Engine No. 4D56UCBW5163; Chasssis No.: MMBJNKB40AD021511; Plate No. HBB699; O.R. No. :204122785; C.R. No. 10847069-2; and cash money currently deposited in the Development Bank of the Philippines (DBP) Savings Account No. 0765-248724-560 were settled among her heirs and LIBRADO S. LABRA waiving all his RIGHTS & INTERESTS over the said properties including his conjugal share in favor of his children APRIL JOAN L. RENACIA and LIBB-NORMAN A. LABRA per Doc. No.307; Page No. 62; Book No. XXXV; Series of 2014 of Notary Public Philip A. Albeos III. EV Mail Sept. 29- Aug. 5, 6-12, & 13- 19, 2014

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NEWS

Sept. 29-Oct. 5, 2014

Congratulations to the LGU officials and the People of Palompon for bagging the

Best Tourism Oriented LGU in the Philippines 2014 Award From:

Richard & Rep. Lucy Torres-Gomez When I first saw you, I saw love.

And the first time you touched me, I felt love.

And after all this time, you’re still the one I love.

Looks like we made it Look how far we’ve come, my baby We mighta took the long way We knew we’d get there someday They said, “I bet they’ll never make it.”

But just look at us holding on We’re still together, still going strong You’re still the one I run to The one that I belong to You’re still the one I want for life You’re still the one that I love The only one I dream of You’re still the one I kiss good night Ain’t nothing better We beat the odds together I’m glad we didn’t listen Look at what we would be missing You’re still the one I run to The one that I belong to You’re still the one I want for life You’re still the one that I love The only one I dream of You’re still the one I kiss good night I’m so glad we made it Look how far we’ve come, my baby

From the song “You’re still the One”

Sabin & Rosie Larrazabal

63 years after they walked down the aisle