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Cagayan de Oro City

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December 23, 2011

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Traders warned on price escalation

By MIKE BAÑOS

AUTHORITIES moved swiftly to curb possible price escalations of bottled water and basic commodities in the wake of the Tropical Storm Sendong calamity.

During its regular session last Monday, the Cagayan de Oro City council passed Ordinance No. 12230-2011 which requires/mandates water refilling stations and similar establishments to freeze the prices of bottled

water and plastic water containers as of their December 16, 2011 levels.

The Department of Trade and Industry (DTI)-Misamis Oriental Provincial Office received reports that some refilling stations were

taking advantage of the water shortage following the devastating flash flood which severely damaged several production wells of the Cagayan de Oro City Water District and washed away the pipe bridge connecting bulk water supplier Rio Verde Water Consortium to the COWD. Rio Verde officials estimate it would take a best case scenario of three months to restore the pipe bridge though efforts were being

made to install a temporary 400mm pipeline through Taguanao Bridge. During the December 21 forum “Lihok Kagay-an” COWD General Manager Rachel Beja said bulk water comprised about 30-40% of COWD’s daily water production.

Due to the acute shortage of water, the Department of Trade and Industry (DTI)Misamis Oriental Provincial Office said they received reports that some refilling stations have unreasonably

raised the prices of their products.

Eliza Pabillore, DTI Misamis Oriental provincial director, said the Water Ralp refilling Station in Johndorf Opol and Aquasoft at the Johndorf main road had bottleedly raised their prices of bottled water from P30 to P80 per gallon, or by nearly 300%. Unscrupulous vendors had also reportedly been buying bottled water products cheap from TRADERS/p.4

Today’s Weather Eastern Mindanao w i l l have mostly cloudy skies with scattered rainshowers and thunderstorms while the rest of the country will be partly cloudy to cloudy with isolated rainshowers or thunderstorms.

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Sendong death toll rises further

By ABIGAIL KWOK, InterAksyon.com

HELPING HANDS FROM DAVAO. Cagayan de Oro City Mayor Vicente “Dongkoy” Y. Emano formally receives in his office Davao City Mayor Sara Duterte and Vice Mayor Rodrigo Duterte who came with cash and 3 truckloads of goods for the flood victims. (CIO)

Bise mayor sa Siay gibanhigan, patay Sinulat ni PJ TREMEDAL

IPIL, Zamboanga Sibugay–– Gibanhigan sa wala pa mailang mga armadong lalaki, sakay sa usa ka motorsiklo, ang bise mayor sa Siay ug asawa niini samtang naglakaw padulong sa usa

ka automated teller machine (ATM) sa Development Bank of the Philippines (DBP) ning lungsod.

Sa usa ka report nga nadawat sa Mindanao Daily Balita-Western Mindanao Bureau, ang pagbanhig nahitabo sa may alas-4:50 sa

hapon diin kini usab ang gikumpirma sa Zamboanga Sibugay PNP provincial office Sa imbestigasyon sa kapolisan sa Ipil, naila ang biktima nga si Bise Mayor Carlito Bayawa, 51, sa lungsod sa Siay.

Tungod sa 2 ka mga igo sa bala gikan sa usa ka kalibre 45 sa ulo sa bikltima, si Bayawa ang namatay “on the spot” samtang ang asawa niini nga nailang usa ka Susan ang nakadawt usab ug samad pinusilan sa iyang PATAY/p.4

THE death toll from storm “Sendong” has reached 1,018 on Thursday and is expected to increase further as several persons are still missing, according to the military.

Eastern Mindanao Command spokesman Col. Leopoldo Galon said that as of 7 a.m., the latest count of fatalities is now at 1,018, with majority of the deaths reported in Cagayan de Oro. At this time, 666 persons died in CDO, while 283 people died in Iligan City. Deaths were also reported in Bukidnon, as well as in Caraga region, Autonomous Region in Muslim Mindanao (ARMM), and in Western Visayas.

Latest data from the National Disaster Risk Reduction and Management Council (NDRRMC) showed that the number of affected persons has increased to over 641,000 or 92,964 families. A total of 28,030 were also damaged due to rains and flashfloods.

The NDRRMC reported that the total cost of damages from “Sendong” has almost reached P1 billion with over P999 million in damages both in infrastructure and agriculture.

In Cagayan de Oro City, forensic experts from the Philippine National Police are still identifying over 30 cadavers. The disaster victim identification (DVI) team composed of DNA experts, forensic odontologists and fingerprint analysts, is still to process nine bodies from St. Peter’s Funeral Parlor and 22 bodies at the Napocor hangar near the CDO airport.

Sr. Supt. Liza Sabong, deputy chief for administration of the PNP Crime Lab, said 75 bodies at the Somo Funeral Parlor and 24 more at the Cosmopolitan Funeral Parlor have been identified. This number does not include bodies being examined by the National Bureau of Investigation’s DVI team. Sabong said bodies that are in a decomposing state will be subjected to either to DNA analysis, fingerprint test or dental test.

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December 23, 2011

103 ka mga binilanggo gipagama og ‘lungon’

Sinulat ni ROSEMARY ALLO-GENON

ANG tagdumala sa First Bukidnon Electric Coopertive Incorporated (FIBECO) ang mitunol og mga hinabang Sinulat ni PJ TREMEDAL sa mga biktima sa lunop nga nahitabo sa Cagayan de Oro City pinaagi sa SAGIP KAPAMILYA PROGRAM. PAGADIAN City––103 ka mga biniKini nga hinabang mobili sa 300 Thousand Pesos kapin kinsa ang mga kawani nagtibangay sa tag 1,000 langgo sa Zamboanga del Sur Provincial Pesos matag usa lakip na ang mga Used Clothings nga Jail ang gipagama og dul-an 100 ka mga ilang gitigum aron dalhon sa dakbayan sa Cagayan de pulidong lungon aron idonar sa mga Oro City kauban ang ilang FIRE TRUCK alang sa tubig nangamatay nga mga Iliganons. mainum sa mga katawhan.

Si General Manager Engr. Renato S. Cortizano Ang nahisgutang mga gilayon sa gobernador ngaduban sa mga sakop sa hunta deriktiba og mga kawani “lungon” (coffins) alang kini to sa iyang Provincial Warang mibati sa dakung kalooy sa mga nanga biktima sa sa mgabiktima sa Bagyong den aron himoon angmaong maong trahedya.

Sendong, kini ang nasayran mga lungon alang sa mga gikan kang Provincial Infor- biktima. Niini 103 ka mga mation Officer Leo Santillan binilanggo sa Zamboanga sa mando ni Gobernador del Sur Provincial Jail.

Ang dali usab nga miAntonio H. Cerilles.

Sinulat ni SAMMY TE Gidungang sa pagpaday- tuman diin mismo si OIC Kini nga dalan paingon ag ni Santillan nga gimando Provincial Arnell Joe Arcoy HANGTUD karon nang a t u l o g p a a n g m g a sa barangay Lumintao diin opisyales sa B arangay sa tunga tunga sa Butong ug Butong,Quezon,Bukidnon Lumintao labihan kaayong tungod sa guba nga dalan pagkadaut.

Ang mga katawhan sa nga wala mabutangi og Sinulat ni PJ TREMEDAL maong baranagy naghisgrabas.

Ang maong dalan maay- got nga mas maayo kuno PROVINCIAL Capitol, baw ang mga empleyado ong gamiton alang sa OFF ang kanhi Kapitan kay nag Misamis Occidental–– ug malipayon saulogon ang ROAD CHALLENGE tun- atiman kanunay sa ma- Malipayon ug masadya- pasko kauban sa ilang mga god sa kalawom niini og ong dalan apan karon daw on ang mga empleyado sa mahal sa kinabuhi. mag kalisod ang mga saky- dili nila makita ang ilang kapitolyo ning lalawigan Dugang pa sa goberanan sa pag-agi, labi sa ang Kapitan,og kung ngano diin ang mga regular ug nador nga kung ang mga mga single motor nga habal ambot sa langaw. dili regular ang makadawat regular adunay madawat Sammy Te gayud og X’mas bonus. habal. nga 20 mil karong pasko iya Ning miaging adlaw atol kini dugangan ug 5 mil aron Ang Mindanao Daily Balita sa Flag Ceremony, gideklara mamahimong 25 mil pesos mismo sa gobernadora nga ang ilang bonus, samtang makita ug mabasa iyang pagadungangan ang ang mga dili regular nga na pinaagi sa Internet madawat sa tanang empleya- makadawat ugt 5 mil iya do sa kapitolyo regular man usab dugangan ug 2 mil o dili aron gayud matag- aron mamahimo kining 7 mil pesos nga bonus.

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angnahimuot sa pulidong mga lungon nga nahimo sa mga binilanggo ug human kini natapos gidsala gilayon kini ngadto sa syudad saIligan aron iapod-apod sa mga pamilya nga nagkinahanglan niini sa usa ka morgue.

Ang Iligan City mas duol kaysa syudad sa Cagayan de Oro gikan sa dakbayan sa Pagadian busa kini ang gi-una sa pagdonar gikan sa kagamhanang probinsyal sa Zamboanga del Sur. Sa laing bahin, Si Gobernador Antonio Cerilles duyog sa iyang asawa, kongresista sa segundo dis-

trito sa lalawigan, Aurora Cerilles ang mibisita usab sa Iligan ilabi na gayud sa mga lugar nga hilabihang nakaangkon og damyos ug nangamatay tungod sa bagyong Sendong. Sila ang mipadala gilayon sa 24 ka mga medical doctors gikan sa IPHO sa pagpangulo ni Dr. Maria Rovel Blancia.

Samtang usa ka medical mission usab ang gipahigayon ngadto sa mga bakwit sa Iligan Central Elementary School diin ubay-ubay ka mga pamilya ang kasamtangan nanimuyo sa maong evacuation center.

20+5, 5+2, X’mas bonus ang madawat sa PGO naningkamot ang buhatan sa gobernador ug pinaagi usab sa pag-abag ug rekomendasyon sa buhatan ni Vice Governor Henry S. Oaminal nga maoy presiding officer sa Sangguniang Panlalawigan ila usab kini nga paga-aprobahan kay kini usa man ka gasa ngadto sa mga empleyado ug kinahangla ihatag.

Kung mahinumduman niadtong nakalabay nga pasko, ang kagamhanang probinsyal ang mihatud usab ug mihatag sa insakto ug makatarunganong bonus alang sa mga empleyado

niini, bisan nga bag-o pa lang milingkod ang mga bag-ong napiling opisyales sa pagpangulo ni Governor Hermie Ramiro.

“Bisan nga adunay kitay mga problema kabahin sa atong pundo, dili gayud mamahimong wala kita’y madawat, Niini naningkamot ako nga madugangan ang inyong mga bonus aron mamahimong malipayon ang inyong pasko ug nanghinaut usab ako nga inyo kining bugti-an ug usa ka responsabling panerbisyo sunod tuig,” matud pa sa gobernadora.

COWD ADVISORY Status Updates: Production Wells #8, #16 and #2 are already operational. We have bypassed our Booster Pumping Station and these sources are being directly fed to our distribution system. This means a recovery of about 37% of the supply lost in the Central service area. Residents of Nazareth and neighboring vicinities may check their connection for water flow which is expected to be of lower pressure than the usual.

Water delivery is continually being facilitated to the different areas in the city through the assigned fire trucks, tankers and trucks.

Rio Verde has issued a formal notice that rehabilitation of their facilities is estimated to be completed by 180 days. However, they are exerting their best efforts to resume delivery of treated water to COWD within 30 days from December 20, 2011.

COWD MANAGEMENT

Date Released: December 22, 2011

Philippine National Police volunteers repack goods donated by the Cagayan de Oro Chinese-Filipino Community for the flood victims of Cagayan de Oro and Iligan City. The Filipino-Chinese gave 1,000 bags of rice, packs of noodles, canned goods, clothes and medicines worth P5-million. Photo by Gerry L. Gorit

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News in focus Globe opens Libreng Tawag, GCASH donate facility for Sendong victims GLOBE Telecom immediately responded to the need for communication services of Typhoon Sendong victims by setting up free calls or libreng tawag operations in heavily hit areas in Mindanao as well as opening its GCASH donate facility, accepting cash donations for its relief operations via text message.

Globe has set up Libreng Tawag Centers in various evacuation areas in Cagayan de Oro City, Iligan City, and Dumaguete City enabling evacuees to avail of free calls—5 minutes local calls to all networks and 2 minutes of international calls.

The Libreng Tawag Stations has been in operation since Sunday, December 18 in the following areas— covered court of Barangay Macasandig, City Central School in Velez Street, West City Central School in Brgy Carmen in Cagayan De Oro City; and Mindanao State University–Iligan Institute of Technology along Tibanga Hi-Way, and Iligan City National High School, and San Lorenzo Church in Hinaplanon in Iligan City; Batinguil Elementary School, Canduay Elementary School Dumaguete, Sibulan Municipal Market in Dumaguete City.

Globe has also opened its GCASH donate facility for its relief operations for victims of tropical storm Sendong. To help in the relief efforts, Globe subscribers can make donation by texting DONATE (space) AMOUNT (space) MPIN (space) SLB and sending it to 2882 for free. Globe is conducting its relief efforts in partnership with Simbahang

Lingkod ng Bayan (SLB).

As of Monday, Globe has already received donation amounting to P65,000 via the GCASH-SLB donation channel.

SLB, through its E-Ugnay program, an online map application powered by Globe enables it to receive real-time information on needed relief support (number of goods and urgency) in

calamity-hit areas. Partnering with SLB enables Globe to purchase, re-pack and distribute relief goods as quickly as possible.

Last December 19, Globe has already given relief assistance to Brgy Macanhan and Brgy Balulang in Cagayan de Oro City in partnership with Xavier University, one of SLB’s partner institutions for the E-Ugnay program.

December 23, 2011

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Year’s longest night is here GOOD news for night owls.

December 22, Thursday, will have the longest night this year as the sun reaches the winter solstice.

According to the astronomical diary of the Philippine Atmospheric Geophysical and Astronomical Services Administration, the sun will reach the winter solstice at 1:38 p.m. Thursday.

“This marks the time when the sun lies at its farthest point south of the equator. It signals the onset of winter in the northern hemisphere and summer in the southern hemisphere. The Philippine nights will be longer than daytime. Earth has now completed another annual circuit around the sun,” PAGASA said.

PAGASA administrator Dr. Nathaniel Servando said Thursday night will be 48 minutes longer than usual.

The sun rose at 6:16 a.m. and will set at 5:32 p.m.

There will be no effect on the weather but PAGASA said the public can expect cooler nights. Abigail Kwok, InterAksyon.com

DSWD to provide ‘noche buena’ packs

By CHARMAINE P. TADLAS

Globe Libreng Tawag Station in West City Central School

THE Department of Social Welfare and Development is now preparing 43,000 “Noche Buena Packs” to be given out to victims of typhoon “Sendong” in Cagayan de Oro City and Iligan City and other parts of Northern Mindanao on December 23, 2011, as a way to at least bring about the spirit of Christmas to the casualties, despite the difficult circumstances they are currently facing.

Each pack is worth P499.00 composed of fruit cocktails, luncheon meat, corned beef, cheese, spa-

ghetti noodles, spaghetti sauce, and candies.

President B enigno Aquino III ordered the DSWD to prepare these packs, prompting Secretary Corazon Juliano-Soliman to combine resources from other DSWD Regional Offices in Regions 9, 11, 12, and CARAGA for augmentation.

Soliman is also scheduled to personally hand some of the Noche Buena packs to the Internally Displaced Persons in Cagayan de Oro City. The exact venue is still being arranged.

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December 23, 2011

Editor: JOE DEL PEURTO FELICILDA

Ahensiya sa gobyerno nagtugot og emergency loan sa mga membro apektado sa bagyong Sendong Sinulat nila JEAN MARIE MENDOZA ug JUMALYN PICATO

CAGAYAN de Oro City–– Gi aprubahan na sa GSIS ang pagtugot sa emergency loan sa mga ‘eligible’ nga membro niini nga nagpuyo o nag- trabaho sa dapit nga labihang naapektohan sa bagyong “Sendong.”

Ang GSIS modawat niini sugod Disyembre 21, 2011 hangtod Enero 20, 2012.

Sakop sa maong loan ang tibuok lalawigan sa

Misamis Oriental ug Negros Oriental nga gilangkuban sa dakbayan ug lungsod sa Dipolog ug Polanco Zamboanga Del Norte; Ozamiz ug Clarin Misamis Occidental; Asuncion Davao Del Norte; Tagbina, Hinatuan, Bislig, ug Lingig Surigao Del Sur; Talacogon Agusan Del Sur; Valencia Bukidnon; Nabunturan, Montevista, Compostela, New Bataan,

ug Monkayo Compostela Valley; Iligan Lanao Del Norte; Bubong ug Kapai Lanao Del Sur. Ang kuwalipikadong membro mahimong makaapply sa emergency loan pinaagi sa GWAPS kiosk gamit ang ilang eCard o UMID eCard. Ang membro usab nga walay card o wala pa makakuha sa UMID eCard apan kuwalipikado sa maong loan mahimong maka apply pinaagi sa over-

makuting imbestigasyon ang gihimo sa kapolisan aron masayran ang motibo sa tangkugo ug kasamtan- maong pagpanhig ug kung Sinulat ni PJ TREMEDAL gang gidali usab pagdala sa kinsa ang mga suspetsado ngamatud mipahilayohu- OROQUIETA City––After usa ka ospital sa Ipil. receiving from the post Ning pagbalita, usa ka man sa maong krimen. evaluation of the City Disasselling for as much as P100. ter Risk Reduction ManageViolators of the new or- ment Council (CDRRMC) From page 1 dinance will be penalized report that the city has misupermarkets and resell- with an administrative fine nor damages during the ing them at extorbitant of P5,000.00 and cancel- wrath of Sendong, and spare lation of their business the lives of Oroquietanons. prices in waterless areas.

City Mayor Jason PareAlthough the Price Act of permits.

“It would continue to be des Almonte immediately 2002 prohibits the escalation of prices of basic commodi- in full force and effect until being the Chairman of the ties, bottled water is not such time that the declara- CDRRMC in indorsing to among the controlled goods tion of the state of calamity the Sangguniang Panlungand services. So was the City in the City shall have been sod to pass a resolution to Council’s Resolution No. lifted,” said Councilor Ian give him authority to use the Quick Response Funds 12380-2011 declared the Mark Nacaya.

The Department of Trade (QRF) from the city’s 5% entire city under a state of calamity which automati- and Industry Regional Of- Calamity Funds to share cally froze the prices of basic fice similarly warned es- some 100-T for the cities of commodities to what it was tablishment Pres. Benigno Iligan and Cagayan de Oro C. Aquino II had earlier for relief operations and on December 16, 2011.

The new resolution man- declared a “state of nation- other help to augment the dates that all water refill- al calamity” following the national government initiaing stations in the city to Sendong disaster which tive in helping the victims freeze the prices of bottled automatically activated the of Typhoon Sendong.

“Yes we have some minor or mineral water in various provisions of Republic Act volumes as of December 7581 (Price Act) under Para- damages, some our baran16, 2011. Establishments graph 1 of Section 6 which gays were also affected, and selling water containers freezes the prices of basic some of the houses and city were likewise mandated to commodities or placed them streets were flooded during the typhoon wrath, however freeze their prices as of the under price control.

“Anyone who violates because of our alertness and same date.

The council had been the price control mandated CDRRMC Readiness we are receiving reports that the by the law will face pos- able to save and spare the common “gallon” water sible administrative and lives of Oroquietanons,” container which used to criminal charges,” said He said.

What we had share to sell for P30 has already been Ms. Pabillore.

Patay Gikan sa pahina 1

the-counter kon OTC ug credited kini isip temporary eCard nga gi-isyu sa GSIS. Subay sa maong emergency loan program, ang membro mahimong makahulam sa kantidad nga Php20,000 nga may ‘interest rate’ nga six percent (6%) matag tuig nga kompyutado na daan ug bayran sulod sa tulo (3) ka tuig pinaagi sa ‘monthly installment.’

Ang membro nga nakapahimulos na sa niaging

calamity loan mahimong makahulam pag-usab apan kinahanglang nakabayad na kini ubos sa 12 monthly installments ug wala niabot sa termino sa niaging loan.

Makuhaan usab sa 1.2 percent ang Loan Redemption Insurance (LRI) ang proceeds sa maong loan.

Kinahanglang ang membro nga mokuha sa emergency loan gi-ila nga empleyado sa ahensya diin gi-deklara sakop sa maong ‘calamity

area’; aktibo sa serbisyo; walay leave of absence without pay; walay gi-atubang nga kaso o administrative charges; walay arrears sa pagbayad sa mandatory social insurance contribution; ug walay loan nga gi-deklara nga rematado. Ang ahensya sa mga membro nga aplikante dili usab tugotan nga i-suspendi tungod kay wala kini nakabayad ug wala nag remitar sa premiums ug loans.

City of Good Life sends help to Sendong victims

Traders

Republic of the Philippines Department of Transportation and Communications LAND TRANSPORTATION FRANCHISING AND REGULATORY BOARD Caraga Administrative Region Capitol Avenue, Butuan City Case No. 2006-13-05385 CAR Control No. R13-2011-197 REN ROBERTO EDEN Petitioner x- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -x NOTICE OF HEARING APPLICANT/PETITIONER request authority to operate PUJ JITNEY SERVICE with the use of ONE (1) unit/s within the following route ROUTE EIGHT (8): BUTUAN INTRA-CITY ROUTES & VICE VERSA. This application/petition will be considered by the Board on 26 DECEMBER 2011, 10:00 a.m. at its LTFRB Office, Capitol Avenue, Butuan City where the applicant/Petitioner shall formally submit his/her evidences.

At least ten (10) days prior to the date of Hearing,. Applicant/Petitioner shall publish this Notice once in ONE (1) newspaper of general circulation to the Mindanao Island.

Parties opposed to the granting of the Application must file their written opposition supported by the documentary evidences honor before the above date furnishing a copy if the same to the Applicant/Petitioner and should they desire, appear on the said date and time above-mentioned.

This application/Petition shall be acted upon the Board on the basis of its records and documentary evidences submitted by the parties, unless the Board deems it necessary to receive additional documentary and/or oral Evidences submitted by the parties.

FAILURE TO APPEAR TO THE SCHEDULES DATE AND TIME OF HEARING SHALL MEAN DISMISSAL OF THE APPLICATION/PETITION. WITNESS OF THE HONORABLE ATTY. ALIM D. PANGANDAMAN, Regional Director, DOTC-Caraga region This 12th day of DECEMBER, 2011 (SGD) EDIVEE SUBLA-BUSICO Hearing Officer MDB: Dec 23, 2011

Coffins from Sultan Kudarat province are delivered Wednesday, December 21,

by KARANCHO (Kababayan Riders Association for New Cultural Harmony and Order) Sultan Kudarat chapter at the Capitol gymnasium, the central drop off point for the donation drive for flood victims in Cagayan de Oro City and neighboring affected areas that suffered the wrath of typhoon Sendong. (Cocoy Sexcion/ SARANGANI INFORMATION OFFICE) Cagayan de Oro and Iligan cities is only an small amount but this our way to thank the most high in sparing Oroquieta from the devastating Typhoon.” he adds.

The City of Oroquieta has 47 urban and rural barangays that is near the foot of Mt. Malindang, treacherous water shed.

Last December of the 1990’s Oroquieta suffered also from flashfloods that cause

some death of its people, and that’s the reason that during the Typhoon Sendong who in the first place the first typhoon that hit the City of Good Life, City mayor Jason P. Almonte and the CDRRMC after receiving the PAGASA Update immediately conducted an emergency meeting to prepare.

Meanwhile, the League of Municipalities-Misamis Occidental has also gathered

and individually share some amount from their own QRF’s of each 5% calamity fund to donate to the victims of Cagayan de Oro and Iligan cities, and will be joining the provincial government in its relief operations on December 22 with their solicited goods, foods, and clothing from their own people to give a hand in rebuilding the lives of the victims from wrath of Sendong.

Republic of the Philippines Department of Transportation and Communications LAND TRANSPORTATION FRANCHISING AND REGULATORY BOARD Caraga Administrative Region Capitol Avenue, Butuan City

Republic of the Philippines Department of Transportation and Communications LAND TRANSPORTATION FRANCHISING AND REGULATORY BOARD Caraga Administrative Region Capitol Avenue, Butuan City

Case No. 2011-13-617 CAR

Case No. 2011-13-615 CAR (2004-13-04386 CAR

Republic of the Philippines Department of Transportation and Communications LAND TRANSPORTATION FRANCHISING AND REGULATORY BOARD Caraga Administrative Region Capitol Avenue, Butuan City

Republic of the Philippines Department of Transportation and Communications LAND TRANSPORTATION FRANCHISING AND REGULATORY BOARD Caraga Administrative Region Capitol Avenue, Butuan City

Republic of the Philippines Department of Transportation and Communications LAND TRANSPORTATION FRANCHISING AND REGULATORY BOARD Caraga Administrative Region Capitol Avenue, Butuan City

Case No. 2011-13-618 CAR

Case No. 2011-13-619 CAR (2009-13-008 CAR)

Case No. 2002-13-01651CAR Control No. R13-2011-198 REN

MYRNA T. BEGIN Applicant THIS IS AN APPLICATION FOR ISSUANCE OF CERTIFICATE OF PUBLIC CONVENIENCE TO OPERATE TOURIST CAR SERVICE x- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -- - - - - - -x NOTICE OF HEARING APPLICANT/PETITIONER request authority to operate PUJ JITNEY SERVICE with the use of ONE (1) unit/s within the following route FROM NASIPIT, AGUSAN DEL NORTE TO ANY POINT IN CARAGA REGION & VICE VERSA. This application/petition will be considered by the Board on 27 DECEMBER 2011, 10:00 a.m. at its LTFRB Office, Capitol Avenue, Butuan City where the applicant/Petitioner shall formally submit his/her evidences.

At least ten (10) days prior to the date of Hearing,. Applicant/Petitioner shall publish this Notice once in ONE (1) newspaper of general circulation to the Mindanao Island.

Parties opposed to the granting of the Application must file their written opposition supported by the documentary evidences honor before the above date furnishing a copy if the same to the Applicant/Petitioner and should they desire, appear on the said date and time above-mentioned.

This application/Petition shall be acted upon the Board on the basis of its records and documentary evidences submitted by the parties, unless the Board deems it necessary to receive additional documentary and/or oral Evidences submitted by the parties.

FAILURE TO APPEAR TO THE SCHEDULES DATE AND TIME OF HEARING SHALL MEAN DISMISSAL OF THE APPLICATION/PETITION. WITNESS OF THE HONORABLE ATTY. ALIM D. PANGANDAMAN, Regional Director, DOTC-Caraga region This 12th day of DECEMBER, 2011 (SGD) EDIVEE SUBLA-BUSICO Hearing Officer MDB: Dec 23, 2011

NORMA H. RAMA Applicant THIS IS AN APPLICATION FOR ISSUANCE OF CERTIFICATE OF PUBLIC CONVENIENCE TO OPERATE PUJ JITNEY SERVICE PURSUANT TO M.C. 2011-005 DATED MAY 25, 2011 x- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -- - - - - - -x NOTICE OF HEARING APPLICANT/PETITIONER request authority to operate PUJ JITNEY SERVICE with the use of ONE (1) unit/s within the following route ROUTE FOUR (4): BUTUAN INTRA-CITY ROUTES & VICE VERSA. This application/petition will be considered by the Board on 27 DECEMBER 2011, 10:00 a.m. at its LTFRB Office, Capitol Avenue, Butuan City where the applicant/Petitioner shall formally submit his/her evidences.

At least ten (10) days prior to the date of Hearing,. Applicant/Petitioner shall publish this Notice once in ONE (1) newspaper of general circulation to the Mindanao Island.

Parties opposed to the granting of the Application must file their written opposition supported by the documentary evidences honor before the above date furnishing a copy if the same to the Applicant/Petitioner and should they desire, appear on the said date and time above-mentioned.

This application/Petition shall be acted upon the Board on the basis of its records and documentary evidences submitted by the parties, unless the Board deems it necessary to receive additional documentary and/or oral Evidences submitted by the parties.

FAILURE TO APPEAR TO THE SCHEDULES DATE AND TIME OF HEARING SHALL MEAN DISMISSAL OF THE APPLICATION/PETITION. WITNESS OF THE HONORABLE ATTY. ALIM D. PANGANDAMAN, Regional Director, DOTC-Caraga region This 13th day of DECEMBER, 2011 (SGD) EDIVEE SUBLA-BUSICO Hearing Officer

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JANE M. ORQUILLAS Petitioner x- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -- - - - - - -x NOTICE OF HEARING APPLICANT/PETITIONER request authority to operate PUJ DUAL SERVICE with the use of ONE (1) unit/s within the following route BUTUAN CITY KITCHARAO VIA CABADBARAN CITY & VICE VERSA & AS FOR CARGOES FROM SAID PLACE TO ANY POINT IN CARAGA REGION. This application/petition will be considered by the Board on 28 DECEMBER 2011, 10:00 a.m. at its LTFRB Office, Capitol Avenue, Butuan City where the applicant/Petitioner shall formally submit his/her evidences.

At least ten (10) days prior to the date of Hearing,. Applicant/Petitioner shall publish this Notice once in ONE (1) newspaper of general circulation to the Mindanao Island.

Parties opposed to the granting of the Application must file their written opposition supported by the documentary evidences honor before the above date furnishing a copy if the same to the Applicant/Petitioner and should they desire, appear on the said date and time above-mentioned.

This application/Petition shall be acted upon the Board on the basis of its records and documentary evidences submitted by the parties, unless the Board deems it necessary to receive additional documentary and/or oral Evidences submitted by the parties.

FAILURE TO APPEAR TO THE SCHEDULES DATE AND TIME OF HEARING SHALL MEAN DISMISSAL OF THE APPLICATION/PETITION. WITNESS OF THE HONORABLE ATTY. ALIM D. PANGANDAMAN, Regional Director, DOTC-Caraga region This 12th day of DECEMBER, 2011 (SGD) EDIVEE SUBLA-BUSICO Hearing Officer MDB: Dec 23, 2011

FERNANDO ILIGAN Applicant THIS IS AN APPLICATION FOR ISSUANCE OF CERTIFICATE OF PUBLIC CONVENIENCE TO OPERATE TOURIST CAR SERVICE. x- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -- - - - - - -x NOTICE OF HEARING APPLICANT/PETITIONER request authority to operate TOURIST CAR SERVICE with the use of ONE (1) unit/s within the following route FROM CLAVER, SURIGAO DEL NORTE TO ANY & VICE VERSA. This application/petition will be considered by the Board on 26 DECEMBER 2011, 10:00 a.m. at its LTFRB Office, Capitol Avenue, Butuan City where the applicant/Petitioner shall formally submit his/her evidences.

At least ten (10) days prior to the date of Hearing,. Applicant/Petitioner shall publish this Notice once in ONE (1) newspaper of general circulation to the Mindanao Island.

Parties opposed to the granting of the Application must file their written opposition supported by the documentary evidences honor before the above date furnishing a copy if the same to the Applicant/Petitioner and should they desire, appear on the said date and time above-mentioned.

This application/Petition shall be acted upon the Board on the basis of its records and documentary evidences submitted by the parties, unless the Board deems it necessary to receive additional documentary and/or oral Evidences submitted by the parties.

FAILURE TO APPEAR TO THE SCHEDULES DATE AND TIME OF HEARING SHALL MEAN DISMISSAL OF THE APPLICATION/ PETITION. WITNESS OF THE HONORABLE ATTY. ALIM D. PANGANDAMAN, Regional Director, DOTC-Caraga region This 12th day of DECEMBER, 2011 (SGD) EDIVEE SUBLA-BUSICO Hearing Officer MDB: Dec 23, 2011

RAMIL C. CURILAN Applicant THIS IS AN APPLICATION FOR ISSUANCE OF ERTIFICATE OF PUBLIC CONVENIENCE TO OPERATE PUJ JITNEY SERVICE PURSUANT TO M.C. 2011-005 DATED MAY 25, 2011 x- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -- - - - - - -x NOTICE OF HEARING APPLICANT/PETITIONER request authority to operate PUJ JITNEY SERVICE with the use of ONE (1) unit/s within the following route ROUTE TWO (2): BUTUAN INTRA-CITY ROUTES & VICE VERSA. This application/petition will be considered by the Board on 26 DECEMBER 2011, 10:00 a.m. at its LTFRB Office, Capitol Avenue, Butuan City where the applicant/Petitioner shall formally submit his/her evidences.

At least ten (10) days prior to the date of Hearing,. Applicant/Petitioner shall publish this Notice once in ONE (1) newspaper of general circulation to the Mindanao Island.

Parties opposed to the granting of the Application must file their written opposition supported by the documentary evidences honor before the above date furnishing a copy if the same to the Applicant/Petitioner and should they desire, appear on the said date and time above-mentioned.

This application/Petition shall be acted upon the Board on the basis of its records and documentary evidences submitted by the parties, unless the Board deems it necessary to receive additional documentary and/or oral Evidences submitted by the parties.

FAILURE TO APPEAR TO THE SCHEDULES DATE AND TIME OF HEARING SHALL MEAN DISMISSAL OF THE APPLICATION/PETITION. WITNESS OF THE HONORABLE ATTY. ALIM D. PANGANDAMAN, Regional Director, DOTC-Caraga region This 12th day of DECEMBER, 2011 (SGD) EDIVEE SUBLA-BUSICO Hearing Officer

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Development

December 23, 2011

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Valencia City distributes livestock to OFWs, dependents THE local government of Valencia City in Bukidnon turned-over three piglets, three goats and twenty native chickens with a total estimated cost of P15,000 to Barangay Colonia OFW and Beneficiaries Association (BCOFBA) under the livestock dispersal project of the City Agriculture Office.

According to Dr. Samuel Medidas, Valencia City Veterinarian, the livestock dispersal is a long running project of the local government unit.

Its purpose is to identify a “bayanihan group” that is willing to raise farm animals, he pointed out.

He added: “By the time these farm animals have reproduced, the group is obliged to return two offspring per animal received to the City Agriculture Office so that other groups may also be served by the project.”

The BCOFBA came to benefit the project through the initiative of Dr. Medidas, who was invited as a resource speaker in an OW WA sp ons ore d Hog Raising Seminar for Overseas Filipino Workers (OFWs) in June 2011.

After the training, Dr. Medidas included them in the list of the qualified beneficiaries which was then approved by Valencia City Mayor Leandro Jose Catarata.

The turn-over of the

livestock was formally announced last September 27, 2011 during the graduation of Balik Pinay Balik Hanap Buhay Haircutting Seminar. BCOFBA was represented by its president, Karen Barrientos, who was then tasked to distribute the animals to the respective members.

In an interview, Mayor Leandro Catarata said that he would have wanted for more livestock heads to be given to the group.

“It should be that each member should raise at least ten (10) piglets in order to maximize his or her time.

Taking care of one piglet or one goat would not have that big impact. What I am looking for is to let them have something worth their time,” he said.

Catarata also pledged the same support to future OFW groups in Valencia City that maybe formed through collaboration with OWWA. He explained that the welfare of OFWs has always been a part of his administration’s policy.

He mentioned the upcoming Information Technology (IT) Center Project which proposes for every outgoing OFW to be registered in the city for easier tracking.

Prospective OFWs will also be given free tutorials on how to operate the internet, so that they can

SM donates P10m to victims of Sendong THE SM Prime Holdings donated P10 million to victims of typhon Sendong in Cagayan de Oro City.

SM Prime Holdings, Inc. donated a total of 10-million pesos worth of assistance both in cash and in kind to the victims of typhoon Sendong in Cagayan de Oro City.

Through their AVP for Operations for Mindanao, SM turned over the cheque worth P3-million to the Cagayan de Oro City Mayor Vicente Emano.

“Thank you to the management of SM. This donation will help a lot of people,” Emano said.

With the relief operations still underway, SM Foundation Inc., SM’s socio-civic arm is working closely with the local government and with various agencies in distributing goods worth P7 million in the city’s affected areas and donating 10,000 bottles of water for the next several days, more than 10,000 bags of relief goods from SM Foundation Inc. and some of the SM affiliate companies.

A series of medical and dental missions in the affected barangays will also be conducted this coming week.

Davao Light bares holiday schedule DAVAO Light and Power Company’s frontline customer services will be available for the public on December 24, 30 and 31 but will be closed on December 25 and January 1.

Payment collection services will be available at Ponciano, Bajada, Panabo, Toril, Sto. Tomas, and Calinan offices.

Also available are the customer services at Ponciano and Panabo offices catering to walk-in billing, collection, and metering service inquiries and complaints. Opening these services during holidays will also benefit customers who are unable to make transactions during the normal workdays.

Collection hours in the Ponciano, Bajada, and Panabo

offices on December 30 will be from 7:00 AM to 5:00 PM, no noon break, while the Toril, Calinan and Sto. Tomas accredited offices will accept payments from 8:00 AM to 12:00 noon, and from 1:00 PM to 3:30 PM. However, on December 24 and 31, all collection offices will be open only until 3:00 PM. Ponciano and Panabo’s customer service area will be open from 7:00 AM to 5:00 PM, with no noon break on December 30 and from 7:00 AM to 3:00 PM on December 24 and 31.

Emergency service will remain available 24 hours through 229-DLPC (3572).

Regular office hours will resume on Monday, January 2.

communicate with their families while abroad.

Meanwhile, Marilou Bayron, an OFW dependent and a recipient of four chickens and three goats, expressed her gratitude to OWWA and Valencia City for providing her the technical knowledge on the

basics of animal care and also for the small startup capital in form of the received livestock.

“These livestock are a big help to our family. I am grateful that the government has shown their concern to us in this manner,” said Bayron.

Able Seaman Sherwin Setosta, a recipient of one piglet A recipient of three goats, Marilou Bayron and BCOFBA President Kareen Barrientos. and BCOFBA President Karen Barrientos.

Steag joins relief drive for Oro flood victims VILLANUEVA, Misamis Oriental––Energ y firm STEAG State Power Inc. (SPI) joins the on-going relief efforts for the thousands of families affected by the flash flood that hit Cagayan de Oro City over the weekend.

SPI President and CEO Dr. Bodo Goerlich said he is deeply sad by the tragedy as he conveys his deepest condolences especially to families who have lost their loved ones.

“We’re deeply saddened by this calamity and we’d like to express our sympathy especially for those who have lost their loved ones” Dr. Goerlich said.

SPI has mobilized its corporate volunteers and equipment to ease the

burden of those that were affected. For several days now, SPI’s firetruck has been deployed to various evacuation centers for the much needed water supply.

In-kind donations were also mobilized from SPI personnel to provide immediate relief to the victims.

The company has released PhP 1 million for the procurement of blankets,

slippers, sleeping mats and medicines for distribution to the affected families.

“We are now working closely with the Social Action Center of the Archdiocese of Cagayan de Oro and the City Social Welfare Office for the distribution of these relief items” Steag spokesperson Jerome Soldevilla said in a statement.

Together with Xavier

Republic of the Philippines PROVINCE OF BUKIDNON Malaybalay City

OFFICE OF THE PROVINCIAL GOVERNOR

University’s Sustainable Sanitation Center, SPI is also putting up waterless toilets and urinals to address the looming sanitation problem in the major evacuation centers in Cagayan de Oro City.

The facility uses the Urine Dehydration Technology (developed in Germany) and is designed to address sanitation problems in water less communities. “ The UDDT toilets would certainly provide the solution to the looming sanitation problem especially at the West City Central School in Carmen where 2,500 families are currently evacuated” says Fr. Nathan Lerio of the Archdiocesan Social Action Center.

Opinyon

6 Ginansiya gihapon HANGTUD karon wala pa gihapoy tubig ang dakbayan sa Cagayan de Oro ug kini tungod sa matud pa dakong kadaut nga gidulot ni Bagyong Sendong nga mihapak sa amihanang Mindanao.

Miingon ang Cagayan de Oro Water District (Cowd) nga mga 31 pa ka adlaw ayha nila mabalik sa normal ang agas sa tubig.

Gawas niana, ang kadaut nga dulot ni bagyong Sendong ngadto sa Cowd hilabihan ka dako kay miabot man sa P30-milyones kapin ang damyos.

Apan basi sa impormasyon nga gihatag sa Cowd, sila gipahibalo sa Local Water Utilities Administration (LWUA) pinaagi sa ilang chairman nga si Rene Villa ang giaprubahan ni Presidente Benigno Aquino III ang salapi nga moabot sa P52,791,000.

Ang kadaut, P30-milyones apan ang gi-aprubahan sa presidente P52,791,000.

Ginansiya lang gihapon ang Cowd bisan unsaon.

Ang makatingala kay wala gyuy nahimo ang Cowd

EDITORIAL aron madali nila pagpabalik sa normal ang agas sa tubig dinhi sa dakbayan.

Karong panahuna, nagantos ang tanan tungod kay mobayad ka man gyud kung magpahakot og tubig ngadto sa ubang tawo.

Ang matag hakot sa tubig dili momenos P15 ngadto sa P25 ang bayad matag gallon.

Grabe sa kadako sa ilang singil sa tubig wala gyud sila kapangandam og igong pundo nga sarang magamit kung adunay katalagman nga moabot.

Asa na man diay ang ginansiya sa Cowd? Dili sab katoohan nga gansi ang pagpadagan sa Cowd dinhi sa dakbayan sa Cagayan de Oro kay dagko man og nangadawat nga bonus ug uban pa.

Kinsa gyud kaha ang nakasapi este kinsa gyud kaha ang dako og sweldo diha sa Cowd?

Pastilan, mahal ang singil sa tubig apan ang serbisyo grabe ka lousy. Maayo lang mo diha sa ginansiya!

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THINK a minute.

How’s your eyesight and vision?

A famous blind woman once said: “It’s better to be blind and see with your heart, than to have two good eyes and not see yourself as you truly are.”

As the well-known saying goes, “No one is as blind as those who will not see.”

A famous philosopher said that one of the most important priorities in life is to “know thyself,” because when we’re blind to ourselves, we believe that our way is always right.

Like the husband who said: “When I married her I knew she was Miss Right, but I didn’t know her first name was Always!”

Many of us are like that wife.

We think we see everyone else so clearly, but what about ourselves?

We can’t see what we need to correct and change in our own character, so we never reach our potential and live our life to the fullest.

December 23, 2011

Editor: RUEL PELONE

“

Blind spots

It’s better to be blind and see with your heart, than to have two good eyes and not see yourself as you truly are.”

We handle our marriage and other relationships, raise our children, and go through life never seeing ourselves as we really are.

So we develop wrong thinking and bad attitudes that hurt our family members and others.

Sometimes we might even believe the lie that we cannot change because that’s

Think A Minute

Jhan Tiafau Hurst just the kind of person we’ll always be.

But our blindness, and sometimes pride, doesn’t really want to see and admit our faults.

We might we even blame others for our problems and personality.

You see, until we honestly admit that we don’t have a healthy character, we’ll never know we need a doctor to get healed.

We need someone else with perfect, clear vision to show us what we don’t see in ourselves.

Jesus Christ came to do

that for us.

He will start changing your heart and help you to humbly admit when you’re wrong.

He’ll show you how to better treat your wife or husband and children.

He’ll give you an attitude and heart that easily forgives those people who wrong and hurt you.

He’ l l g i ve you t h e strength to always be honest, no matter how much you can get away with.

Jesus will also help you not be quick to see faults in others or gossip about them.

So today, if you’ll ask Jesus to forgive you of your pride and blindness to your own faults; and ask Him to start healing and changing your heart, He will.

Then, as you start living His way every day, you will start to see yourself becoming a new person who can reach your full potential.

That’s the only way you can have the successful, satisfying life Jesus created you to enjoy.

Just Think a Minute.

Spreading ripples of hope I WAS awakened at 1:00 am of December 17, 2011 after a friend phoned me asking whether flood water has crept into our place already.

I jumped out of my bed to find out what was going on outside.

I gasped at what I saw.

Residents of Burgos Street were already marching their way up to Capistrano Street on knee- to chest-level high flood water.

I was shocked, to say the least. How could flood water have reached the city streets?

The break of sunlight unraveled the wrath of Sendong. All of Burgos Street was mud, mud, mud. The Cagayan de Oro River appeared to be wider than it was the day prior.

The shanties by the bridge and under it were ravaged. The dikes were wrecked. There were long

Rantings queues in fastfood chains.

Traffic was doubly heavy.

People were restless. People were crying; their tears, brown on their cheeks. For the first time in the many years of what I have known of the city, Cagayan de Oro was in panic mode.

Sendong unleashed his wrath in the dark of the wee hours of the night. Taking advantage of the velvet black, he barely gave the people a saving chance. He did not just wash away houses and valuables––he deprived people of their breath.

At an instant, I tried to figure out who’s to blame in all of these: The illegal loggers who have rendered treeless the mountains of Bukidnon?

The concerned government agencies for not ring-

ing the alarm loud enough?

The local government officials for allowing people to live by the riverbend, knowing that such was a disaster already waiting to happen? The residents of riverside barangays for undermining the storm signals?

But, I realized that finger-pointing was not the most immediate concern now, but a concern nonetheless––later. Why? Because we need to hold some people accountable for their action or inaction, for their commission or omission!

My friends and I pulled our meager resources together, bought boxes of instant noodles and pouches of milk powder, repacked them in small handy packages, headed to an evac center, and handed in 56 packs of relief goods that were surely inadequate, but will suffice

for the moment’s need.

We took it upon ourselves that for being blessed with safety from the Charybdis of flood, we ought to help even if it may be counted minute comparable to overwhelming relief efforts of others.

What I would like to get across is…we can do something. And, many people from here and abroad have already and are already doing something. In the larger scheme of this unfolding of events, those who have been helping in ways they can, you are spreading ripples of HOPE for the people of Cagayan de Oro, for the people of Mindanao.

There is HOPE for us to correct errors so we shall not be bound to commit them again.

There is HOPE for us to get back on our feet after the mud has dirtied them.

Sayop ang kamanduan ni P-noy ANG kamanduan ni President Noynoy Aquino nga dili na ipabalilk ang mga biktima sa bagyong Sendong diha sa pagpabarog og utro sa ilang mga panimalay ilabi na sa mga dapit sama sa Kalakala, Isla de Oro, Isla Delta ug Isla Bugnaw aron dili na sila mahiagom pa sa susamang katalagman.

Iyang gimanduan ang mga kadagkuan sa atung kapolisan sa pagbantay sa maong mga dapit nga did-an na gayud ang nasangpit nga mga biktima sa pagbalik pa sa ilang panimalay.

Sayon kaayo kini iluwat nga pulong ni P-noy apan wala niya hunahunaa kung asa mamuyo ang mga apektadong biktima.

Buot ba sabton nga pa-

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Sonny David

musasan oben pamusilon sila sa kapolisan kunng makit-an nga mobalik sa ilang nagusbat nga mga pinuy-anan o kaha sa lote nga maoy nabilin na lamang.

Ang pamahayag ni Presidente Noynoy, wala niya hunahunaa kung ensakto

ba ang iyang kamanduan.

Iyang giplano una sa dili pa moluwat og pamahayag.

Ang tukmang kamanduan unta mao nga sila dili na ipabalik sa ilang tagsatagsa ka dapit kung adunay lona sa yuta ug mga materiales para makatukod o makamontar sa ilang pinuy-anan.

Apan wala may gipasabot niana. Igo raman sa pagingon nga dili na ipabalik.

Insakto ba ka na?

Matod pa ni Magnum Manny Agustero sa Magnum Radyo and I’d like to quote “Ang pag-anhi ni Pres. Nonoy Aquino dinhi sa dakbayan sa Cagayan de Oro, dili ang pagtabang sa katawhang biktima apan ang paghatag og kaguliyang.”

Tinuod kana, tungod kay dili man maki-angayon ang pamahayag o kamanduan ni Noynoy. Maki-angayon ba kana nga makapasilo ug makapasakit naman hinuon sa isig ka tawo.

Husto ang gibuhat sa ubang mga senador sama nila ni Sen.Teofisto Guingona ug Bong Revilla sa pagdala og mga hinabang alang ngadto sa mga biktima. Ingon man usab sa pipila ka mga dagkong opiyal sa gobiyerno ug pribado nga mipakita sa ilang mga hinabang usab.

Ingon niana unta ang angayng buhaton sa usa ka opisyal ang pagdala og panabang, dili ang pagdala nga kutob ra sa estorya lamang.

Commentaries

7 Unrest and impunity drive Sympathy from Indonesia for journalist deaths in 2011 AMyLetter Friends in Editor: ALLAN MEDIANTE

NEW YORK 1- Political conflict and unrest proved deadly for journalists in 2011, while governments failed to prosecute those who targeted reporters for their work, according to the Committee to Protect Journalists’ year-end survey of journalists killed in the line of duty.

At least 43 journalists were killed worldwide in direct relation to their work this year. Seven deaths occurred in Pakistan, where 29 journalists have been killed in the past five years. Libya and Iraq, each with five fatalities, and Mexico, with three deaths, also ranked high worldwide for journalismrelated fatalities. Regionally, most deaths occurred in the Middle East, where 18 journalists perished this year, many while covering the uprisings that swept the Arab world.

“The combination of dangerous assignments turned deadly and targeted murders that remain unsolved is a double challenge to free expression,” said CPJ Executive Director Joel Simon. “Combatants must recognize the right of journalists to cover conflict, while governments must be held accountable for investigating and prosecuting those who carry out crimes against the press.”

Fatalities on dangerous assignments such as street protests reached the highest rate since 1992, CPJ’s survey shows, while the proportion of murders has declined over the years, accounting for less than half the deaths in 2011. Nonetheless, assassinations continued in places where governments have failed to prosecute previous crimes. CPJ research shows that about 90 percent of journalist murders go unsolved even though most victims-70 percent in 2011-reported receiving threats prior to their deaths.

“Of the seven journalists killed in Pakistan this year, five were murdered.

Mexico -- increasingly a global leader, which will assume the G20 presidency in 2012 -- holds a similarly atrocious record,” Simon said. “Despite many promises, authorities in Pakistan and Mexico have made no progress in solving these crimes, and their failure to do so perpetuates this climate of violence.”

The global tally is consistent with the 2010 toll, when 44 journalists died in connection with their work. CPJ is investigating another 35 deaths in 2011 to determine whether they were work-related; 20 of these cases are in Latin America, where the web of crime, official corruption, and weak law enforcement often obscures the motive.

More than 80 percent of those killed were local journalists. Photographers and camera operators suffered steep losses in 2011, constituting about 40 percent of the overall death toll -- approximately double the proportion since CPJ began documentation in 1992. Internet journalists registered eight fatalities this year, including a murder in Mexico which was the first worldwide directly linked to journalism on social media.

The number of freelancers killed on the job has also increased steadily over the years, constituting nearly a third of the 2011 poll. Five media support workers were also killed this year.

CPJ has compiled detailed records on journalist fatalities since 1992.

Staff members independently investigate and verify the circumstances behind each death. CPJ considers a case work-related only when reasonably certain that a journalist was killed in direct reprisal for his or her work; in crossfire; or while carrying out a dangerous assignment. Cases involving unclear motives, but with a potential link to journalism, are classified as “unconfirmed” and CPJ continues to investigate. ### CPJ is a New York-based, independent, nonprofit organization that works to safeguard press freedom worldwide.

December 23, 2011

Cagayan de Oro

I am sorry to hear and see what has happened to all my friends in Cagayan de Oro city and its’ entire region.

I cannot imagine how the people are there and how all my friends in Cagayan and its entire are now. Firstly, I could not contact them and I had tried hard to send emails but up to Tuesday, December 19, I had not yet got a reply at all. I had not got any news at all.

My God, my Lord, what have happened to them?

Where are the other missing ones? Please save them all!

I just got the reply from my best friend from the email, after waiting for two days.

My friends, Lesley, Brian, April, Doy and Glory, and other nice people had their homes affected.

I got this news about all the names and their condition with their homes now from my best friend, Dr. Genaro V. Japos. My other close friends, Dr. A. Anand and Dr. Roberto Padua are safe and they replied my emails giving me information about what had happened during the typhoon.

Cagayan and the people for me are like brothers and sisters. I had been there twice and I had spent nice time together with all the people there. I enjoyed the time even day and night. It was so natural and the night there was like the night in my country, Indonesia, especially in Surabaya city.

The nature and the weather as well as the plantation and other God’s creatures are the same as in my country, Indonesia.

Volcanoes, rivers, and mountainous areas as well as the grass on the land there, are the same color as those in my country.

DR. DJUWARI STIE Perbanas (College of Economics and Business) Surabaya, Indonesia The airs we breathe, the sun shine we stare at, the moon light at night we enjoy in Cagayan are all similar to those in my country. Cagayan and its nature which are so natural and agricultural appearance it has there make us and especially me feel as if I were in that natural environment. Yet, they are all now devastated by the typhoon and flood.

The typhoon and the flood that affected the homes there make me feel sad. All the nature I pictured above have gone and just left the disastrous nature and its remnants in their miserable condition.

I tried hard to follow the news by watching TV, browsing the news of the typhoon’s wrath through the Google-you tube, and Dear Mr. Dante M Sudaria

I am sorry to hear the condition of my friends in Cagayan. It is like the tsunami in Indonesia seven years ago in December 2004.

I really feel so sad to hear some emails from my friedns in Cagayan and other places about the disaster, typhoon and flood.

By the way, How are you and BWM staff and all?

Are you Okey? In print may not be possible because I got information that there is no electricity and water, basic necessities are also rare.

Please publish this article for all my friends there.

PS: if on line, I think it’s ok, right?

Truly Yours Djuwari Surabaya Indonesia

TRAVERSING THE TOURISM HI-WAY

Prescription for a Disaster!

A 2011 Map of Hazards Area prepared by the Bureau of Mines and Geological Science has been in circulation in the entire country. It can be bought from National Book Store, encoded in the internet, can be goggled and above all copy furnished to all branches of the local government units in the entire Philippines.

The Map provides geological studies and survey of areas pruned to landslides and flooding and it sketches low land areas and rivers photographed through satellite images.

In short, it was prepared by a government agency with money funded by the government to inform people through a scientific

data of how their daily lives are held in their respective environment.

A lot of resources, time and effort went to the preparation of the technical data. People in governance who own their mandate to the people must study, absorb and head the advice of the Bureau of Mines and Geological Science so it could be cascaded up to poorest of the poor in the Barangays including the people who live in a “Peso Peso” shelter and housing programs where majority of the casualties in the Cagayan de Oro catastrophe came from.

How the contour and boundaries of the map of Cagayan de Oro was interpreted by the Cagayan de

Oro City Planning Office on where to locate buildings and housing projects is a decision that clouds competence of those who evaluates and approve development. That is for the highest official of this country to review and admonish local officials. It may not be the right time for him to go the details now but a fact finding team should be created to find out what really caused the huge casualties and how should we prevent it from recurring?

Typhoon signal No. 2, is manageable, it has been proven in the Bicol Region where the officials and the population are used to this type of disaster. They have coped up in many times

typhoons more powerful than “Sendong” limiting lost of lives to an isolated level. They repeatedly rise to rebuild their communities and local economies.

In Cagayan de Oro, in contrast, it looks like it’s the end of the world in spite of our modernity and income bracket. What is in the Bicol Region that Northern Mindanao does not have?

This writer is just a kibitzer and an ordinary flood victim to the recent onslaught of typhoon “Sendong” who wrecked havoc in many lowland areas in Northern Mindanao. The misery brought by the disaster cannot be fathomed in terms of lost of lives and properties.

I could not imagine how they feel in that condition.

Suddenly, I remember the disaster happening exactly in December 2004, seven years ago in Sumatra, Indonesia. It was the tsunami that made the houses and public buildings devastated. It is also like when I saw the tsunami in Japan recently.

But, what happened in Cagayan is the same as that in Indonesia, the time in December nearing the New Year. And, I had had been there twice in August and September this year, too. Therefore, I still remember the nature and the lives there.

To all my friends and other people in Cagayan and its entire, I expresses from my deep heart a condolence and hope you all soon recover from that typhoon’s wrath. May our Lord save all the rest and provide those who died with the merciful and glorious lives in the heaven.

Amen.

Merry Christmas to all of you there! I always remember you all there, Cagayan and the people.

Dr. Djuwari, from STIE Perbanas Surabaya, Indonesia, had been in Cagayan for twice in August and September this year, 2011.

An estimated unofficial figure of affected areas in Cagayan de Oro indicates 1,118 hectares of devastation. It has an average of 207 population densities per hectare as of year 2009 census. With a population growth of 4% per annum, it could be roughly more than 75,910 people that could have been dislocated that represents 10.04% of the populations now homeless and hungry. This figure is an extrapolation and can be disputed by competent government agencies that are now in the field whose findings could even be higher?

This is not an act of God alone or the wrath of nature from man’s abuse of the resources but a confla-

PED T. QUIAMJOT gration of ignorance and negligence of those who governed over the last 20 years.

I sympathize to our friends who live on wooden or bungalow houses along the river banks. Many were destroyed or uprooted. I pray to those who perished and may these dark pages of the Cagayan de Oro history be not repeated?

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December 23, 2011

Editor: SONNY DAVID

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Tayador sa Swertres, Milyonaryo na!

“Ikalimang Yugto” ALANG sa imong kasayuran kuya Sonny, kung kwentahon ang pagbuhat nako sa formula gikan gayud sa sinugdanan niini miabot na ngadto sa upat ka tuig ayha nako nakuha ang ig-anan.

Morag nag-eskwela sab ako sa college nga nagkuha og kurso sa upat ka tuig.

Kaupat ako naka-igo sa lainlaing outlet sa tag 2 thousand nakong taya ug gibulag-bulag kini nako sa mga lotto outlets didto sa Iligan, Gingoog, Bukidnon ug dinhi sa Cagayan de Oro aron dili ma soldout, diin kini nahitabo sa miaging duha ka tuig na ang nakalabay. Ang total nga daug

nako niadto mikabat ngadto sa 3.6 million pesos.

Nakapalit ako niadto og house and lot ingon man halapad nga yuta para tikaran sa uma. Gibaratohan usab nako ang akong pamilya. Ug ang sobra akong

gidugang sa pagdeposito ngadto sa banko.

Bisan unsaon nako’g estudyo Kuya nga unta sa matag simana ako modaug o kaha kung mahimo pa kada adlaw gayud apan lisod makuha ang formula niini

SONNY G. DAVID

kay walay maayong laki nga mangumpyutay kinsa maka-kuha niana kay dili lalim ang tulo ka numero nga imong pasudlon kada adlaw.

Hinuon ka-usa o kaha kaduha sa matag bulan, adunay kahigayonan niana apan dili usab permi kay may panahon nga mag-usab-usab ang pattern sa numero.

Gani sa akong kabahin, adunay panahon nga moabot ngadto sa duha ka bulan nga mapildi ako ug kini kinahanglan ang pasensya niini kay dili man sa tanan higayon ang kadaugan. Kung kwentahon, wala gayud ako maalkansi kay sureball man ang akong numero ka-usa o kaduha kada bulan. (Atung ipadayon ugma alang sa katapusang yugto niini)

TEXT2x EXPERIENCE GOOD day Kuya Sonny, tagoa lamang ako sa pangalan nga Jun, 21 years old, bag-o lang naminyo, factory worker ug taga dinhi sa Bugo, Cagayan de Oro City.

Ang akong ka-textmate kaniadto mao ra usab ang akong na-asawa diin kauban kami sa trabaho sa dakong Companya dinhi sa among dapit. Siya mao si Estela, 20

years old ug taga lalawigan sa Misamis Oriental.

Bisan tuod kauban ra kami sa trabaho apan kanunay gayud kami mag TEXT2X kay dili man kami magkaestorya panahon sa trabaho tungod kay bawal man kana sa companya.

Hangtod gisugot ni Estela ang akong gugma pinaagi sa cell.

Day off namo kadto, mao misuroy kami ngadto sa Limketkai Center aron magpalamig ug magshopping usab.

Human niana, nahitabo gayud ang dili unta angay nga mahitabo. Nabuhat namo kadto tungod kay pulos kami nagkahinigugmaay.

Hangtod nagmabdos siya.

Tungod niana gipatawag ako

sa iyang mga ginikanan aron manubag sa dungog sa ilang anak.

Gikasal gayud kami kuya ug karon nanganak na ang akong asawa sa maanyag namong anak. Thanks and more power Kuya Sonny.

(J UN )

tungod kay daghan baya nga mga lalaki’ng bakanti sa ilang kinabuhi. Palihug Kuya tambagi ako niini.

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DAMGO:Nagdamgo ko og linaw ug tin-aw kaayo nga tubig sa suba. Unsay buot ipasabot niana Kuya Sonny. Frm: 163 KAHULOGAN:Ang imong mga transaction pulos kini magmalampuson.

000 DAMGO:Nagdamgo ko Kuya Son og dako kaayo nga halas morag lubi ang iyang lawas apan ang dagway niini susama man sa tawo.

Unsay kahulogan niini. Frm: 231 KAHULOGAN: Basta gani magdamgo og halas bisan unsa ang sizes niini ang meaning gayud niana mao ang kapakyasan ug kagul-anan sa kinabuhi.

000 DAMGO:Nagdamgo ko og hinog kaayo nga saging ug ako kining gikaon. Unsa bay meaning niini Kuya Son. Frm: 210 KAHULOGAN:Adunay moabot nga swerte sa imong kinabuhi. Paabota lang kana.

TILIMAD-ON:Ang mga bagyo nga mahitabo sama sa bagyong sendong diin bag-ohay pa lamang nahitabo dinhi sa Mindanao nga mikalas sa pila ka libo ka mga kinabuhi ug ang uban niini na-missing. Unsa bay tilimad-on niana Kuya Sonny. Frm: 562

KATIN-AWAN: Walay makapugong sa bagyo kung kini mokusokoso na sa atung palibot tungod kay kinaiyahan na ang nagpatigbabaw. Bisan unsaon pa sa pagpugong ang dakong baha, dili gayud kini mapugngan. Ang atung buhaton mentras wala pay mahitabong bagyo mao ang kanunay sa pagpangandam sa atung kaugalingon sama sa lubid, flashlight apil ang daghang battery, medisina, pagkaon, sulbabida o kaha container nga plastik (Walay sulod ug nakaserado). Sama sa usa ka pamilya nga taga kalakala, Macasandig, Cagayan de Oro kinsa nag-andam na og sulbabida nga gipabukad na daan apil lubid sa wala pa mahitabo ang bagyo,naluwas gayud sila ug gibanlas didto sa kadagatan.

HOROSCOPE AQUARIUS (Enero 20-Pebrero 18) Pantasya mo ang maka-angkon og kalinaw sa kinabuhi apan sa pagkatinood dali kang laayon busa mas gusto nimo nga bibo kanunay ang imong kinabuhi.

PISCES (Pebrero 19-Marso 20) Daghan ang gusto mo-kontak nimo apan angay nga atimanon mo una ang imong trabaho sa panimalay ug ubang mas importanteng responsibilidad.

ARIES (Marso 21-Abril 19) Tungod sa kadaghan sa imong responsibilidad maguba ang imong naka-plano ng daan nga mga gimbuhaton busa kung aduna kay panahon nga trabahoon ang usa ka butang mas maayong hatagan mo dayon sa imong igong panahon.

TAURUS (Abril 20-Mayo 20) Nasinatian mo na ang kalisod sa kinabuhi. Karon mao na sab ang panahon nga moangat ang imong estado sa kinabuhi apan kini dili dali nga moabot busa angay nga magpasensiya.

GEMINI (Mayo 21-Hunyo 20) Kung mahitungod sa imong personal nga kinabuhi angay nga makig-uban ka niadtong mga tawo nga haruhay sa imong paminaw.

CANCER (Hunyo 21-Hulyo 22) Karon ang panahon aron ikaw maglipay busa angay nga positibo kanunay ang imong panlangtaw sa kinabuhi bisan tuod og ang imong mga pangandoy wala mo pa makab-ot.

LEO (Hulyo 23-Agosto 22) Kung mo relaks ka niining panahon sa Christmas, adunay mga tawo nga modami kanimo nga mogasto nga sobra sa imong kinitaan.

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LIBRA (Septiyembre 23-Oktobre 22) Ang ubang tawo mag-duda nga aduna kay gitagoan nga mga sekreto kini tungod kay sa ilang tan-aw wala mo sila sultihi sa tanan busa angay nga pasabton mo sila sa unsa man nga detalye nga aduna ka.

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Entertainment Editor: JHO PANTOJA

December 23, 2011

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Kris, Robin reunited in 2012 teleserye?

Sinulat ni WILLARD CHENG, ABS-CBN NEWS

KRIS Aquino won’t say the name but gave hints that her leading man in an upcoming teleserye has the initials R and P. In an interview with reporters, Kris said that the actor has agreed “in principle” to be the leading man in a teleser ye that would start taping in 2012. She said it has the title, “Kailangan Ko’y Ikaw” and would also star Anne Curtis.

“Umoo na sa amin in principle kung sino ‘yung

magiging leading man namin. Pero inawat ako ng ating mga kapamilya na i-announce. Pero bigyan ko kayo ng clue. His first name starts with an ‘R,’ and his last name starts with a ‘P.’ Mag-isip kayo.

Siguro alam n’yo na kung sino ‘yun. So excited na excited talaga ako kasi sabi ko nga, alam ng Diyos kung ano ‘yung tamang panahon so binigay n’ya sa ganitong panahon na sa 2012, I am a mother, I am an actress and I am a

producer,” Kris said.

Kris said that she would also do two movies in 2012: a family drama and another one in time for the 2012 Metro Manila Film Festival.

“Finally, nagtiwala na ang Star Cinema na bigyan ako ng drama, family drama talaga. The second movie, last night right after we got graded A (for “Segunda Mano”), si Tita Malou (Santos) said, ‘Binoblock off ko na ha ang Kris said.

Metro Manila Film Festival Kris and Robin had 2012, meron na tayong an ill-fated romance that magandang konsepto,’” was reportedly opposed

by Aquino’s family. The Last year, they again two teamed up on T V teamed up to co-host the for ABS-CBN’s “Basta’t short-lived noontime show Kasama Kita” in 2003.

“Pilipinas Win na Win.”

Floyd Jr. gets six-month jail term for beating GF

By ED DE LA VEGA

JUDGE Melissa Saragosa of Las Vegas handed down her sentence for Floyd Mayweather Jr. The sentence was for domestic violence––beating his girlfriend and in front of the children.

Mayweather was so brazen that he did not mind doing the beat down in front of his kids. Plus he also threatened the kids as well.

Mayweather could have gotten a longer sentence as prescribed by law if he went to trial and proven guilty. But his high-priced lawyer(s) got him to cough a plea and therefore the reduced sentence.

Saragosa sentenced Mayweather to six months in jail, 3 months of which are suspended. In addition, he must attend a 12 month

domestic violence program, pay a fine of $2500 and serve 100 hours of community service. He was also given a total of three days jail time credit.

Thus, theoretically when he

starts serving on January 6th, he will serve two months and 27 days.

But with good behavior, he can get out in 45 days.

Judge Saragosa should have thrown everything on Mayweather, including the kitchen sink.

That would have serve as a high profile example that in the State of Nevada, or anywhere in this country, one can not just go around beating women because of their high profi le name and the money they have in the bank.

But who is to know what went on during the plea deal? Such is the justice system in this country.

Now that the court proceedings are done, the ball is in the court of the jail and the probation system.

Hopefully those that run the jail system will not give Mayweather

preferential treatment just be cause who he is.

Incidentally, now Mayweather is a nobody. He is just a convict like the rest who are in jail. Therefore, he should serve his sentence just like everybody else.

He should be with the general population and not in some solitary cell where he can thumb his nose to the rest of the inmates.

Putting Mayweather in the general population where he needs to be alert to stay alive is the only way to make him realize that beating a woman is a no-no. It’s even worse if it’s done in front of the children.

Mayweather has been living the high life for long. True he earned that but that does not give him the right to beat women.

TRIVIA Black-Eyed Pea-Basmati Salad

Facts about space

Planetary scientist and crater expert Dr. Jay Melosh, from the University of Arizona, has estimated that about half a ton of Martian material falls to Earth each year.

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The moon is one million times dryer than the Gobi desert.

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The plot of Thomas Hardy’s 1883 novel “Two on a Tower” incorporates a transit of Venus. Hardy himself visited the Royal Greenwich Observatory prior to the 1882 transit of Venus.

Ingredients For the Salad: 1/2 cup dried black-eyed peas, rinsed Kosher salt 1/2 cup basmati rice 1 teaspoon minced garlic 1/4 cup thinly sliced red onion 1/2 cup finely chopped red bell pepper 1/3 cup Spanish olives, halved For the Dressing: 2 tablespoons coarse-grain dijon mustard 4 tablespoons apple cider vinegar 3 tablespoons extra-virgin olive oil 1 tablespoon honey 1 tablespoon chopped fresh cilantro Kosher salt and freshly ground pepper •

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The English astronomer Jermiah Horrocks, who first saw a transit of Venus, is the basis for one of the characters.

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Because the first Venusian transit was only predicted in the 1600s, by Johannes Kepler, only five have been recorded, in 1639, 1761, 1769 and 1874 and 1882.

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Venus is named after the Roman goddess of love and is about the same size as the Earth.

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Directions Prepare the salad: Put the peas in a saucepan with 3 cups water and 1/2 teaspoon salt. Bring to a boil and cook 4 minutes. Remove from the heat, cover and let sit 1 hour.

Drain, then return to the saucepan with 1 cup fresh water.

Bring to a simmer and cook, partially covered, until just al dente, about 10 minutes. Let cool in the liquid.

Meanwhile, put the rice in another saucepan with 1 1/2 cups water and the garlic. Bring to a simmer, cover and cook 16 minutes. Remove from the heat and let cool, then fluff with a fork.

Make the dressing: Whisk the mustard, vinegar, olive oil, honey, cilantro, 1/2 teaspoon salt and 1 teaspoon pepper in a nonreactive bowl. Adjust the seasoning if necessary.

Assemble the salad: Drain the peas and toss with the rice in a large bowl. Add the onion, bell pepper and olives, then add the dressing and toss. Refrigerate until ready to serve.

Now, its time for him to taste the low life in jail where surviving means he has to be constantly on his toes. Further, it eliminates his access to those people who does what he wants at his beck and call.

Hopefully the jail time he will serve no matter how short will slap him hard on the face to wake him up so that when the jail suit comes off, he becomes a better man.

Mayweather after all needs a taste of the humble pie There is no better time for it to eat it than seating in a cold jail cell.

When he get finally serve out his very short sentence, hopefully the probation department will assign him to the coroner’s office so he can help pick up the dead bodies of women who are victims of domestic violence.

Videoke All By Myself Celine Dion

by Eric Carmer/ Sergei Rachmaninoff When I was young I never needed anyone And making love was just for fun Those days are gone Livin’ alone I think of all the friends I’ve known When I dial the telephone Nobody’s home All by myself Don’t wanna be All by myself Anymore Hard to be sure Sometimes I feel so insecure And loves so distant and obscure Remains the cure All by myself Don’t wanna be All by myself Anymore All by myself Don’t wanna live All by myself Anymore When I was young I never needed anyone Making love was just for fun Those days are gone All by myself Don’t wanna be All by myself Anymore All by myself Don’t wanna live Oh Don’t wanna live By myself, by myself Anymore By myself Anymore Oh All by myself Don’t wanna live I never, never, never Needed anyone

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CAGAYAN DE ORO MAIN BRANCH P & J Lim Bldg., Tiano Brothers – Kalambagohan Sts., Tel. # (08822) 727-829 * Telefax # (088) 856-1947 CAMIGUIN BRANCH B. Aranas St., Poblacion, Mambajao, Camiguin Tel. # (088) 387-0491 CORRALES BRANCH Corrales Ave., Cagayan de Oro City DIVISORIA BRANCH AƩy. Erasmo B. Damasing Bldg., #61 Don A. Velez St., Cagayan de Oro City Tel. # (088) 857-3631 LAPASAN BRANCH Lapasan Hi-way, Cagayan de Oro City Tel. # (088) 231-6739a

NEW DAWN PENSIONNE

BODYFLEX MASSAGE THERAPY SERVICES

EVChaves Building, Capistrano corner Cruz Taal Sts. Cagayan de Oro City Tel. No. 721197 and 8562671 Cell No. 0908-885-5643 Email: redpalm_inn07@yahoo.com

Chali Beach Resort

Cugman,CDO,Tel. No. 723929 / 855-2108 E-mail:chali_beach@yahoo.com Toribio Chavez Sts., CDO Tel. No. 723598 / 723718 / 857-2274 Velez-Macahambus Sts, CDO Tel Nos. 8571776, 721776 email : gchreservaƟon@yahoo.com

(Cagayan de Oro, Butuan, Davao, Cebu, Camiguin, Iligan & Gingoog City)

Malasag Eco Tourism Villages Cugman, CDO Tel. No.855-6183 [088]309-3752

AG’s INE’s MOTOR PARTS and ACCESSORIES Justo Ramonal Cogon St., CDO City

All kinds of Motors (Surplus) Parts and Accessories

For more info, pls. contact Cell #s: 09067398361-TM 09483376411-Smart Mr. & Mrs. Celso Lagrada - prop.

NONOY LECHON SERVICES OFFERED OUT OF TOWN ORDER

Wedding • Anniversary Birthday • Party Located at 31-22 Brgy. Nazareth, CDO & Westfield Subdivision, Brgy. Iponan, Entrance Brgy. Balulang, Cagayan de Oro City For more details, contact Tel. No.: 309-5276 Manager: HERMILINO VILLALON

“ORDER NA OG LECHON”

PANEDOTTE PASTRIES are available at Tagoloan, Misamis Oriental, just in front of the Senior Citizens Center in Tagoloan, Misamis Oriental with Tel Nos. (08822) 740-211, (088) 856-2419; Cell Phone Nos. 0917-706-2247 and 0917706-1516, or visit them at 162 M.H. del Pilar –Velez Sts., Cagayan de Oro City Available at GAISANO SUPERMART and at LUMBIA AIRPORT PRE DEPARTURE AREA

LOT FOR SALE BEACH HOUSE Baloy, Cagayan de Oro City By appointment only Tel. #: (088) 855 3898

Services Offered: Shiatsu, Swedish, & Sensual Massage.

By: trained, & gorgeous male/ female massage therapist.

HOME / HOTEL SERVICE ONLY #s: (088) 5886363/ 09061149906/ 09187958578 - REY

PRETTY @ TRENDY BOTIQUE Ficco Bldg. Lapasan, Cagayan de Oro City Tel no. 08822-723344 Cel. 09264874974 Look for Ai/Rose New styles of brand new branded dresses and blouses, sandals and bags.

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December 23, 2011

Editor: DUEFEEL SANTILLAN

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