Dependable troopers joins Brigada Eskwela 2016
TUESDAY, MAY 31, 2016
IMPASUGONG, Bukidnon – Army’s 8th Infantry Battalion joins the Department of Education (DepEd) on this year’s launching of “Brigada Eskwela 2016” with the theme, “Tayo Para sa Paaralang Ligtas, Maayos, at Handa Mula Kindergarten Hanggang Senior High School.”
This annual affair intends to prepare public schools ready for the opening of classes this coming June to ensure a child-friendly school conducive for learning. We love our youths so much that we want to spare time to extend our help to our students to have safer, cleaner and well prepared school buildings and facilities, said the 8IB
troopers. Let’s cooperate and support this endeavor. Let’s make the spirit of Bayanihan alive and burning!, urges 8IB. It is calling interested volunteers for any kind of assistance and visit DepEd schools near them from May 30 to June 4, 2016 and join the program. (8IB/PA)
DOST, DTI launch STARBOOKS in MisOcc OZAMIZ CITY, Misamis Occidental – The Department of Science and Technology in collaboration with the Department of Trade and Industry simultaneously launched STARBOOKS or Science and Technology Research-Based Openly Operated Kiosk Station at the Negosyo Center Center in Ozamiz and Oroquieta, Misamis Occidental recently. STARBOOKS is one of DOST’s strategies in making Science and Technology information accessible and available to the public. It is a stand-alone, on-site research and information kiosk that provides free access to science and technology and livelihood information. Further, it is geared towards the needs of students, researchers, and entrepreneurs, especially those from the countryside. In both launching, participants represented the local government units (LGUs) of Ozamiz and Oroquieta, the Provincial Government of Misamis
Occidental, Chambers of Commerce, academe, officers/representatives of the respective Student Body Organizations and the media. DTI Provincial Caretaker Jane Marie L. Tabucan took pride in especially acknowledging the presence of the officers of the chambers of commerce and the academe saying that they represent the active involvement of the business sector and the Negosyo Center partners in the programs and projects of the national line agencies especially DTI and DOST. She expressed her excitement towards the implementation and how
the Misamisnons would supposedly respond to this new project. She thanked DOST for extending the STARBOOKS to the Negosyo Centers. For his part, DOST Director Alfonso P. Alamban said in in his message that knowledge is never static. He shared how human beings are intended to move forward, develop technology and improve their lives this way. With the launching of more STARBOOKS, especially the ones installed at DTI, he hopes that the province of Misamis Occidental will go forward maximizing technology for information and eventual economic gains. Meanwhile, DOST Provincial Science and Technology Director Eufresnie Ann D. Simbajon conducted a demo presentation using STARBOOKS. In a response message, Ozamiz City Councilor Romeo Jimenez thanked the two agencies and said the local government is very thankful in behalf
of its people. He said that the people will now enjoy the facility as it is designed. In Oroquieta, City Administrator Engr Arecio A. Casing Jr. gave his response message in behalf of Mayor Jason Almonte. He said that with the convergence of the line agencies, LGUs, business sector, academe and NGOs, he is optimistic that we are all in the right path towards further economic development. Others in attendance who also shared their respective messages were Dhean Ann Arcadio, program chair of Misamis University-Ozamiz City – College of Business and Management; Wilnirose Malinao, CPA from Misamis University-Oroquieta; and Campus Director Dr. Glorimer Clarin from the Mindanao University Science and Technology-Oroquieta Campus. Misamis Occidental provincial government representative Gerardo O. Robin brought the launching to a close. (DTI-MisOcc)
Ethnic beadworks hands-on workshop in Iligan set by Lorry V. Gabule
ILIGAN CITY – While we all want to look good and fashionable, the statement we would like to make will even be more complete if we take cognizance and are sensitive to culture.
Thus said Agnes C. Maingat, Iligan City Tourism head, in the Handson Beadwork Seminar conducted in May, a summer workshop at the city plaza. The seminar is both lecture and practical applications, with Anthropologist and cultura guru Professor Christian T.N. Aguado of the Mindanao State University-Iligan Institute of Technology (MSU-IIT), Iligan City, the resource speaker/ lecturer. He said our ancestors utilized materials found in nature-seeds, wood, stones, and others, and with the advent of technology, synthetic materials have been produced as materials for beadwork. Aguado provided the participants cultural background and significance of beads among the ethnic communities especially the different designs and motifs such as Salay (women’s necklace), Dinumpas (men’s necklace), Binuklad (men’s
wrist-band), and Saliway (women’s anklet). Aguado is the artistic director of Kalimulan Cultural Dance Troupe of MSU-IIT, a renowned performer outside the Philippine archipelago. Around 30 participants from Bukidnon, Cagayan de Oro City, and Lumads from Rogongon in Iligan, including teachers from the Department of Education, this city, were on a hands-on/actual making of ethnic beadwork. Maingat further said, the workshop, closely related to culture, teaches the participants its color sensitivity, the symbol and meaning of colors reserve for royalty, and the ‘green’ reserve for ‘nature’ for lumads, therefore not a color, because it is nature. We encourage this ethnic beadwork to make it as livelihood for pasalubong using it as accessories, one to be developed in Iligan tourism other than food products.