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UTUAN City – The management of Surigao City Ai r p or t a n n ou n c e d Monday the upcoming resumption of regular Cebu Pacific Air flights in the city.

PRESIDENT Rodrigo R. Duterte has approved a P20-billion fertilizer subsidy as part of a broader food security program, the Department of Agriculture (DA) said.

The overall food security program also provides for P1 billion in funding for urban and peri-urban agriculture, P1 billion to support local production of animal feed, P1 billion for aquaculture and mariculture, and P1 billion to “food mobilization.” The DA provided no further details to explain food mobilization.

Agriculture Secretary William D. Dar said the funds will be raised by realigning the DA’s 2022 budget, as well as additional financing through the Land Bank of the Philippines and Development Bank of the Philippines. The financing will take the form of concessional loans extended to provincial governments to procure palay (unmilled rice) from farmers within their jurisdiction, in order to create a buffer stock of the staple grain.

Gender-based violence COTABATO City – In celebration of Women’s Month, the Bangsamoro Autonomous Region in Muslim Mindanao (BARMM), through its two major instrumentalities, is set to launch five “fatwa” or religious rulings on gender-based violence (GBV).

The Bangsamoro Darul Ifta (BDI) and Bangsamoro Women Commission (BWC) are leading the launch on March 8 of the “fatwa” aimed at ensuring women in BARMM are protected against violence and human trafficking.

On Monday, BDI Executive Director Mufti Abu Hurairah Udasan, assisted by BWC Chairperson Bainon Karon, announced in a statement that they officially signed the religious rulings that focused on violence against women, wife desertion and abandonment, husband forcing sexual relations with his wife, rape, and human trafficking.

BEACH CROW. Contrary to what many believe, the uwak (crow, a bird of the genus Corvu) is not a nocturnal bird. Here in Isla Jardin del Mar beach resort in Barangay Gumasa, Glan, Sarangani, about an hour from General Santos City, these black birds would greet beach goers with their crowing and playful flight among cottages by the beach front. mindanews photo by jules l. benitez

T he ai rl i ne’s f l i g ht s we re temporality halted after Typhoon Odette hit Surigao City and the rest of Surigao del Norte in December last year.

Junelito Abrazado, the airport manager, said Cebu Pacific Air will resume all its regular flights to Surigao City starting March 27.

“We welcome the resumption of the regular flights of Cebu Pacific Air to Surigao City,” Abrazado said.

The airline will resume its daily Manila-Surigao-Manila flights and its Cebu-Surigao-Cebu flights every Sunday and Thursday.

Abrazado said the supply of power at the airport has also been restored.

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NorMin cities suspend work, classes due to LPA TWO cities in Northern Mindanao Region on Monday suspended classes and work as the low pressure area (LPA) caused flooding in several communities.

A memorandum issued

by Iligan City Mayor Celso Regencia said Sunday’s torrential rains have caused major roads and bridges to f lood, making them impassable to vehicles.

He said some areas were affected by landslides as reported by the City's Disaster Risk Reduction Management Council (DRRMC), which damaged the roads and other infrastructures.

"For our constituents to clean their respective homes and prevent our workers and students from the effects of the LPA, work in both private SUSPEND/PAGE 11

Seawater rice JINGHAI district in northern China is hardly a rice-growing paradise.

Located along the coast of the Bohai Sea, over half of the region’s land is made of salty, alkaline soil where crops can’t survive. Yet, last autumn, Jinghai produced rice from 100 hectares.

The secret to the bountiful harvest is new salt-tolerant rice strains developed by Chinese scientists in the hope of ensuring food security that’s been threatened by rising sea levels, increasing grain demand and supply chain disruptions.

Known as “seawater rice” because it’s grown in salty soil near the sea, the strains were created by over-expressing a gene from selected wild rice that’s more resistant to saline and alkali. Test fields in Tianjin — the municipality that encompasses Jinghai — recorded a yield of 4.6 metric tons per acre last year, higher than the national average for production of standard rice varieties.

BATHING FROM A BROKEN PIPE. Children make use of water from a broken plastic pipe to take a bath the day after a flood submerged several barangays in Iligan City Sunday evening (6 March 2022) until the wee hours of the morning. The flood, brought about by a low pressure area, destroyed this Bailey bridge in Sitio Merila, Barangay Ubaldo Laya. mindanews photo by bobby timonera

Duterte: status quo for Bangsamoro Transition Authority appointees

By BONG S. SARMIENTO, MindaNews

KORONADAL City — President Rodrigo Duterte has approved the recommendation of the Security, Justice and Peace Cabinet Cluster (SJPCC) to maintain the status quo on the membership of the 80-member Bangsamoro Transition Authority (BTA).

In a joint statement on

Friday, Defense Secretary Delfin Lorenzana, Interior Secretar y Eduardo Año, Secretary Carlito Galvez, Jr. of the Presidential Adviser on Peace, Reconciliation and Unity and National Security, and Secretary Hermogenes Esperon, Jr. of the National Security Council announced t h at D ute r te approve d

their recommendation last February 21.

The SJPCC made the recommendation as only three months remain before the next President takes over the reins of government on June 30, 2022.

The remaining there-mont period, the joint statement, said, “will provide the incumbent members of the BANGSAMORO/PAGE 11

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OTABATO City -The Aboitiz-owned power firm here has urged consumers in the city and its environs to avoid “self-repair” or repairing home electrical issues themselves to prevent fire from taking place.

“This is to prevent household fires and raise public awareness as part of the distribution utility’s customer care program,” said Valentin S. Saludes III, president and chief operating officer of Cotabato Light and Power Company (Cotabato Light), in a statement Tuesday.

Saludes urged residents to allow only licensed and

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competent electricians to repair old and dilapidated electrical wires and cords in their households.

He said overloading electrical circuits can also start fires so consumers are advised to avoid plugging multiple appliances via extension cords.

“Do not overload electrical circuits by putting up additional lights or equipment” Saludes advised power consumers.

When not in use, electrical appliances should be unplugged which may result in two good things – preventing fire and reducing power consumption and power bills.

“These tips are to be observed all year round, not only during this month, to save lives and properties,” Saludes said as the Aboitiz firm joins the nation in observing fire prevention month.

“Whatever is the cause of a fire, may it be a defective installation of electrical wiring or accidental ignition, what is important is for people to understand and know the different ways to prevent fire from happening in residential houses or business establishment buildings,” he added.

He explained that household electrical equipment and appliances may trigger fire when

incorrectly operated and handled.

To prevent that, he added, homeowners are advised to inspect all electrical installations, ensuring that all are unplugged when not in use.

Illegal tapping Cotabato Light also warned the public against unauthorized tapping of electricity under Republic Act 7832, or the AntiElectric Transmission WARNS/PAGE 11

BUKIDNON -- The Department of Agriculture-Philippine Center for Postharvest Development and Mechanization (PhilMech) and the DA-National Food Authority (NFA) in partnership with DARegional Field Office 10, signed the Memorandum of Agreement (MOA) with the LGU of Maramag, Bukidnon, and the Central Mindanao University (CMU), February 22, 2022, to mark the construction of a P56 million Rice Processing System 2 (RPS 2) in said town.

DA-PhilMech Director Baldwin G. Jallorina, Ph.D signed the MOA with DA-NFA-10 Regional Director Engr. John Robert Hermano, DA-RFO 10 Regional Executive Director, Carlene C. Collado, CMU President, Jesus Antonio G. Derije, Ph.D, DVM and Maramag Municipal Mayor, Atty.

Jose Joel P. Doromal.

The said OneDA converged project is funded under the mechanization component of the Rice Competitiveness INKS/PAGE 11

Parent and Teacher Partnership in Delivering Modular Distance Learning

By CONCEPCION P. ZAMAYLA Teacher 1 Jasaan National High School Jasaan, Misamis Oriental

“The COVID-19 pandemic has created the largest disruption of education systems in history, af fecting nearly 1.6 billion le ar ners in more t han 190 countries and all continents.

Closures of schools and other learning spaces have impacted 94 percent of the world’s student population, up to 99 percent in low and lower-middle-income countries.” (United Nations Policy Brief: Education During COVID-19 and Beyond, 2020) This pandemic has affected the educational system, not only in our country but also the other countries around the world teachers and parents play a significant role in ensuring the continuity of learning amid the pandemic. Teachers as the provider and main facilitator of learning and parents as the co-facilitators of learning should work hand-in-hand to deliver the instructions of distance learning that the education provider has offered.

One of the modalities used in distance learning is modular distance learning. This modality allows the students to use selflearning modules, printed or

digitized format/electronic copy, whichever is more convenient.

This modality was opted by most parents in our school due to limited internet connectivity and lack of gadgets issues.This is where the role of parents takes place because they are the crucial link between the students and the school. The question now is what supporting role parents can play in delivering modular distance learning? and in what way can teachers effectively coordinate and communicate with parents for better learning outcomes?

All parents want the best for their children. By working in collaboration with teachers, they can contribute to the learning and well-being of their children. The demands of the education system for the new normal require the parents to proactively participate in minimizing the effect of the pandemic on the academic performance and well-being of their children. The role parents can play in this partnership in delivering modular distance learning are parents could be friendly teachers to their son/ daughter, parents should also

be routine builders and good communicators. Parents as friendly teachers should help their children when they have difficulties accomplishing their learning tasks and provide them a conducive learning space at home. This does not only limited to their academics but also learning and acquiring life skills that are necessary to survive and thrive in difficult times.

They also need to be a routine builder for their child to ensure that their student is consistently and actively participating in the modular learning offered to them. Lastly, they should be a good communicator, parents should share their concerns about the education of their child with the teacher. So, the teacher would know how to help and provide support to both students and parents.

Teachers have significant roles to play in this partnership as they are the provider and the main facilitators of learning.

T he y are re c om me nd e d to know their parents well, talk to parents, and build capacity.

To develop a strong relationship with parents, the teacher must have information about who they are, how are they communicated and what are their ways of coping with this pandemic. In that way, teachers could know their parents deeper and build a strong bond between them that could be helpful to the parent and teacher partnership. In keeping the parents engaged and informed of the activities that their student is having, teachers must contact parents regularly. This is to give some updates to the parents and ask for feedback from them.

Finally, teachers must create a one-stop platform for parents to keep them informed about all the learning activities, assignments, and teaching tools used by the school for distance education.

Through these, teachers can build the capacity of the parents to partake in the learning outcomes of their children.

This pandemic has generated an unprecedented crisis in the educational system across the world. It allowed the educational system to innovate and make use of all the things that could help in delivering quality education.

Parent-teacher partnership in delivering modular distance learning is a great way to help the student cope with this pandemic and it will improve their learning outcome and well-being. It also ensures the quality of learning the students are getting through this collaboration.

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Digitalization cuts SSS operating expenses as share of benefit payments by almost half in 2021 The stepped-up digitalization program of the Social Security System (SSS) implemented during the Duterte administration has reduced the pension fund’s operating expenses to only P4 for every P100 of benefits paid in 2021, cutting this cost by almost half from the P7.90 that

it spent in 2015 for the same activity, based on preliminary reports.

In a report to Finance Secretary and Social Security Commission (SSC) Chairman Carlos Dominguez III, the SSS said that if loan disbursements made by the Fund are included in

Diligence Towards Distance Learning

by JUNELYN N. ADIS, T-III Jasaan North District Jasaan, Misamis Oriental

A continued effort to do something despite difficulties is a persevering attitude called diligence.

The parents voluntarily enroll their children in school this school year amid this COVID 19 Pandemic the new normal way – drop box method or text messaging or online because they want their children to continue to learn or study even if they have to stay at home now that our country in heath crisis situation.

The children, the learners study via distance learning really needs diligence.

They have to be diligent in doing their learning tasks, activities in the selflearning modules – print or digital or online with the guidance and support of their teachers and their parents for their own good.

Considering the teachers commitment and effort in preparing the modules, and/

or lessons and discussions on-line, and most especially the effort of the parents or guardians in getting the modules in school and their guidance when their children do the answering of their self- learning at home. They should show gratefulness to them for this by being diligent. Having a systematic working method shows diligence. Being systematic to their study in this distance learning will do a lot in answering or doing the activities of each subject as scheduled. If the lessons need researching, then they should do it. They should remember that how they learn is sometimes more important than what they learn.

Diligence towards this new normal schooling, the distance learning, will make the learners appreciate the benefit it gives to them even if they are staying at home.

Adjusting Classroom Assessment during Pandemic By: JEANINA L. NADUMA Teacher III Balingasag Central School

The continuing threat of COVID-19 in the country and the world brings about unprecedented challenges to basic education. As schools, prepare for SY 2020-2021, t e a c h e r s an d p are nt s must adapt to alternative learning modalities to ensure that learners achieve essential curricular goals. This will require creative and innovative ways of designing optimal learning experiences and assessing learning progress effectively under adverse circumstances.

As stated in DepEd Order (DO) No. 8, s. 2015, the Policy guidelines in Classroom Assessment for the K to 12 Basic Education Program, assessment should be used to inform and improve classroom practices and promote learning o u t c o m e s . H o w e v e r, in distance or blended learning environments, it is necessary to utilize a lt e r n at i ve t o o l s an d strategies for assessing and supporting learning, while avoiding creating undue

pressure on the teachers, learners and families.

In the new normal of Education during this pandemic, the integrity and reliability of classroom ass essment remain to upload the principle of quality assessment. Ideally, educational assessments are more than just tests. When done well, they are powerful learning tools for students as well as evaluation tools for educators. It helps educators track students’ pro g re ss s o t he y c an identify anyone who is struggling and provide remediation. It provides feedback to students about their own performance, which they can use to improve fur ther their knowledge and skills. It helps educators set learning objectives and outcomes and determine the best ways to help students reach their goals. Lastly, it can be used to evaluate teachers’ a n d s c h o o l s y s t e m s’ performance, as well as the effectiveness of different teaching practices.

the computation, it only spent P3.50 for every 100 benefits paid plus loans released in 2021.

As a share of the pension fund’s revenues, its operating expenses also went down from 5.5 percent in 2015 to 3.5 percent in 2021, SSS president and CEO Aurora Ignacio said in her report.

Dominguez had ordered the SSS in 2019 to trim its operating expenses as a share of benefit payments, which was at

5.1 percent at that time, to around 3 percent to ensure that member contributions to the pension fund are efficiently spent and maximized for their benefit.

“Our digitalization initiatives which we pursued upon the instructions of the Secretary way before the pandemic, played a big part in pursuing our goal of reducing our operating expenses as a share of benefit payments,” Ignacio

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Dominguez thanked the SSS for its "good performance and good run" under Ignacio's leadership.

Ignacio, in turn, said that "SSS did very well in the last three years" with Dominguez's guidance, "despite the challenges of the pandemic, and despite all the challenges that we had."

She said that for 2022, the SSS is targeting to further cut its operating expenses to P3.90 for every 100 benefits paid.

The SSS invested P807 million for capital outlay from 2019 to 2021 to improve its information technology (IT) capabilities and prepare for the digital transformation of the pension fund, Ignacio said.

She said the SSS also entered into a memorandum of agreement (MOA) last year with the Bureau of the Treasury (BTr), Government Service Insurance System (GSIS), Insurance Commission (IC), Philippine Deposit Insurance Corp. (PDIC), and the Land Bank of the Philippines (LANDBANK) to procure a Shared Cyberdefense Solution as an additional layer of protection for the SSS

against cyber hacking and other threats.

Last year, the SSS fully transitioned to processing online the various benefits claimed by its members, which include maternity, sickness, unemployment insurance, funeral, and retirement benefits.

Salary and calamity loan applications are now filed, processed and released 100-percent online.

Ignacio said the SSS also continues to provide its members with safe and convenient online access to their SSS records and transactions via the SSS Mobile app and webbased platforms under its ExpreSSS campaign.

From 7.4 million in 2020, the downloads of the SSS Mobile app grew to 12.02 million in 2021.

Total downloads of the SSS Mobile app since its launching in 2018 have already breached the 22-million mark, Ignacio said.

Payments collected via this app using digital wallets such as PayMaya, GCash, credit and debit cards, and through BPI amounted to P1.03 billion from 373,153 transactions last year.

As of the third quarter of last year, less than SSS/PAGE 10

Employing work flexibility as a school leader in the ‘new normal’

By CYRIL H. DALUGDUG Teacher III

With the recent health crisis we are now facing, it is of utmost significance that still, learning must continue among Filipino learners, with any possible modalities and resources available.

I agree, this posts a great challenge not only to the executive and legislative branches of the government, but to all government agencies and nongovernment organizations, and of course, the Department of Education is not exempted. As a public school teacher, I am now as well embracing to what they call the "new normal".

Face-to-face instruction now is not the thing, but distance learning is.

As we are most concerned with the health and safety of the learners, however learning must not stop, it must continue.

The Department of Education has implemented the Learning Continuity Plan, in which it has bannered on flexible and blended learning arrangements that would best fit every learner, maximing the resources at hand, the best way possible. Although, it has earned negative feedbacks most from the

parents and the community, DepEd has been on a hard work scheme to be able to lobby and fix every possible items and provisions of the LCP, not only to the parents, but also to all the stakeholders. This is in no way considered as an easy task, especially to us school leaders.

Where everyone now is on the adaptation stage for the new normal, it is not easy for us, school leaders and for every DepEd teaching and non-teaching employee. While a lot has been sending hate messages to the Department and telling us that we do not have a work to do, well, they are all wrong. Our lives have been twisted into a shift wherein we must quickly adopt to all the sets of policies and instructions, and the new normal now is that everything is on the line, on the technology, the Internet where every teacher, young and old, must know and adopt.

While work from home is being implemented, I cannot help myself but go to school, to update and check if everything is at place while monitoring and checking on the teachers' work

and performance through online meetings via Google Meet. Plus, I have been engaging myself to various webinars in order for me to be updated and for me to learn new schemes and strategies that I can effectively share with my teachers when it comes to education amidst this pandemic.

Yes, we are the flexible workers of the government and we are bannering for the continuation of learning amidst this crisis. It is not easy, however, I will do my best to still deliver the best and quality education guided

by DepEd principles.

This is only a health crisis and I strongly advocate and pray that the Department of Education will surpass this one with a winning film. We are important drivers and instruments of success, whatever the adversity maybe.

We are stronger and we will see to it that whatever changes may come and take place, I, together with my fellow teachers, will gladly and willingly accept the challenges for the good and benefit of every Misamisnon learner and every Sta. Ana learner.

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ORLAN R. RAVANERA Confucius once said, “If we focus our attention to the finger that is pointing to the stars, we will miss the beauty of the universe.”

Yes, it is election time and campaign period brings forth candidates bannering themselves as the ones to make life better to the Filipino people, the long awaited leaders to stop corruption, to bring peace, to stop climate change and to end armed struggle.

But we must not focus on these candidates with all of their body languages and rhetorical style. What matters is the roadmap that will put in clear categorical term how they will trailblaze the much needed social change.

Let it be understood that hunger and poverty, social injustice and gross inequities are the most h or r i bl e m an i fe s t at i on of “negative peace” aptly described as a condition where there is no on-going violence but the ingredients of conflict are present which can erupt anytime. Negative peace comes and presents itself in many ways. Where power and greed driven-

structures exist and tolerated with private armies of these politicians as the vanguards; where there are despotic leaders who belong to that category of those “whom the gods would like to destroy, they make mad first;” where poverty roars its ugly head st r ippi ng c om mu n it i e s of their human dignity ; w here t he const ituents have become beholden to the whims and caprices of politicians through their patronage politics; where social injustice are at its worst portrayed by the farmers tilling the land not their own, or even if they owned the land but they do not control the mode of production and marketing.

Where the people are further socially excluded and marginalized and consigned in the margins of development process; where the sacred act of choosing those who will govern us has been violated through “money politics” and cheatings. All of these are symptoms of societal flaws that have already caused so much bleedings to our people.

Honorable politicians, ang gagaling po ninyo magsalita.

But please your messages should b e on ef fecting social transformation in a highly skewed societal order controlled by the elites, cartels, conglomerates and the oligarchs. When the mentioned conditions exist, let us all beware. Physical violence will burst out anytime for even a flimsy of

reason as exemplified by the “Maguindanao Massacre,” a logical conclusion emanating from power-driven structures that have spawned utmost fear, dire poverty and great disparities. These are by t h e m s e l v e s s u bt l e a n d silent forms of violence, the epitome of negative peace.

Candidates, please address negative peace that must now be converted to positive or genuine peace by addressing head-on the roots of violence.

In a country where a few have much too much and the many who are poor have much too little, those who are living in luxury, well guarded in their mansions, will never be secured at all.

Senator Robert Kennedy once said, “If we cannot work to liberate the many who are poor, then, it is impossible to save the few who are rich.” This contention has become even more alarming where the rich have become richer at the expense of the poor. Our very own socioeconomic realities thriving on cartels, monopolies and “block capitalism” that have brought forth gross inequities are by themselves RES IPSA LOQUITOR which needs no further elaboration. This has made democratization of wealth and power more imperative than ever as the economy is controlled by some 50 families who are pocketing 70% of the Gross Domestic Products (GDP).

How do you liberate the rural people who are now living in extreme poverty as agriculture in this country

has contributed only .02% to the GDP in the last decade?

Don’t you know that the rural people are the ones most affected by climate change and the on-going protracted war? The five (5) million rice farmers are now the poorest of the poor because of the law that had been passed two years ago called the Rice Tariffication Law and the author-senator was even voted as the number one senator. Ganoon po ba ka himbing matulog ang mga Pilipino?

How do we then effect conflict transformation to establish a more just and humane society so that wars and unnecessary killings can be the things of the past, to be erased from socalled civilized society and Christians at that?

Candidates, some 93 chieftains of different tribal groups have been killed since 2016 in Mindanao alone. For what? For defending their land and water rights as their ancestral domains have been grabbed and transformed into massive plantations by powerful corporations in cohort with powers-that-be.

Not a single killer has been arrested. It is well known to the Indigenous Peoples (IPs) who ordered the killings, even paying the killers for job well done. The IPs are now asking why are they being treated as “disposable wastes?” Is it because the ownership of the rich means the dispossession of the poor?

Please, LET OUR PEOPLE BLEED NO MORE!

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Marks of maturity (Pt. 1) Think a minute… A little boy lost a footrace at school, so he came home angry and jealous of the other kids who won ahead of him. His father saw his son’s bad attitude and said: “Son, anybody can be kind when they win!

That’s easy! But when you lose, and you are still kind to the winners, then you are on your way to becoming a mature human being.” Today and tomorrow we will look at some marks of true maturity.

S elf-control of our physical desires and drives is one mark of our maturity. “The man who can master himself can master everything else.” A mature person controls his body instead of allowing his body to control him. This is true of any physical appetite, whether it is for pleasure, comfort, food, or even rest.

Mature people do not live life ruled by their urges and impulses, since they do not need instant gratification to be happy.

A mature person also has self-control in the area of honesty. Some people have a good reputation, but not a good character. They give

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JHAN TIAFAU HURST in public, but cheat and steal in private. A mature person, however, is controlled by his conscience and what he knows is right, not by what he can get away with. So even if no one will ever know he lied, stole or did something wrong, he still will not do it, because he himself will know, and he never wants to lose his own self-respect, good character and conscience.

“A mature man disciplines himself so others don’t have to.” His honest character and conscience steer him through every temptation, pressure, and problem, so he does not lose his way or his honor and integrity.

A mature person also has MARKS/PAGE 11

"If you are good at building bridges, you will never fall into the abyss!" said Mehmet Murat Ildan. Understanding is the bridge between two minds; love is the bridge between two souls.

We are all bridge builders during our whole life. I am not talking about the raised platform on a ship or a bridge mounting for false teeth or, as in the bony part of the nose. I am talking ab out spir itu a l br idges establishing connections between us and other people - or, between God and us.

A n ot h e r e l e m e nt ar y example is the "birthday bridge" or the turn to the year, that takes us from the old into a new period of life.

A very important bridge in life takes people to me and me to people. It does not matter if our skin is black or white, if we are rich or poor, man or woman, being sad or happy.

So obvious our daily life is that we might even forget simple things easily.

Self-esteem, respect and freedom from anxiety are the necessary and conclusive foundations for this kind of bridge.

Earl Nightingale discussed topics with regards to human character

development and behaviors.

He was known for his deep voice and clear diction.

He was the voice of 'Sky King', which was a radio adventure series.

Nig htingale als o coauthored a book called 'The Strangest Secret' which is considered to be one of the greatest motivational b o oks of a l l t ime. E arl Nightingale's 'Our Changing World’ was a five-minute radio commentary program which spoke about personal development.

Every person experiences a struggling period in their lives where they learn, and understand the wonders of life precisely.

“You r probl em is to bridge the gap which exists between where you are now and the goal you intend to reach”, Earl Nightingale describes the significance of the bridge and how it helps one to travel through the hard phase of our lives.

The bridge is a path and a direction that motivates us to move towards enlightened life.

What comes out from dark times is a whole new person who has risen up and has crossed the bridge for a brighter world. Try to be a rainbow in someone's

cloud.

Small but imp or t ant bridges ever y daily how e a s i ly are t he y to be built: gestures of love - like a medicine; a handshake together with commendation and praise, encouraging words, a warm smile, instead of a superficial "How are you?" and the expected "Fine" or "OKAY LANG!".

Allow me to say it cl e ar ly an d d i re c t ly to t h e p oi nt : S e p a r at i on s result from crumbled or fit for demolition bridges.

Destroyed spiritual bridges can be found at any corner. Look into your neighbourhood or, don't dr ive away and repress this topic in your family.

Insignificant trifling matters, minor arguing, misinterpretations, results in silence - and after the destroyed bridge follows an invincible wall not only between estates but also in the hearts and minds of stubborn human beings.

Men as well as women build too many walls and not enough bridges.

I was born and grew up together with my parents i n a p a r i s h h ou s e . Up to the time of my active p e r for m an c e s - am ong

HAVE MY SAY

KLAUS DORING many other things - I did learn this: "Build your own bridge to God and never d ou bt i n Hi m . A l w ay s remember His promise.

When a rainbow appears, it confirms His proximity and neighbourhood and His faith. God's unique bridge, a rainbow, is always there and durable, long lasting and solid. The main bridge, which affords passage to G o d, is t he i nst itut i on "church".

In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life: it goes on. +++ Email: dor ing klau s@ gmail.com or follow me o n Fa c eb o o k , Li n k e d i n or Twitter or visit www. germanexpatinthephilippines.blogspot.com or www. klausdoringsclassicalmusic. blogspot.com.

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Get that extra glowing skin going with Blanche

By MARK FRANCISCO

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LANCHE Skin Care and Laser Clinic started in Naga City only last year when a young woman with an entrepreneurial spirit started to vend around in what was the trend then among young women – lip tint.

The lip tint line sold out like hotcakes and the businesswoman in Miss Dy thought on why not to extend her offers to skin care. After all, pandemic or not, women need to pamper themselves day in and day out. It’s definitely a basic necessity.

Word soon spread out about Blanche Skin Care and Laser Clinic in the Bicol region, most importantly the testimonials of the satisfied clients, that Miss Dy was able to successively open four more branches in the area.

It so happened that Miss Dy’s sister Bianca happened to be based in faraway Cagayan de Oro

in Mindanao that Blanche Skin Care and Laser Clinic tried to dip their business here.

Blanche Cagayan de Oro opened last February 12 at the 2/L At the Block Bldg., Ramonal corner Corrales.

Among the many services it offers, Blanche Cagayan de Oro’s top offerings include picosure laser, fractional laser, hydrafacial, emsculpt slimming, exils slimming, 70 Hifu ulthera and IV vitamins.

Hifu is treatment for the face and works as a non-invasive facelift. It tightens the skin, irons out wrnkles, shrinks pores, targets the V line formation and jowl lines.

Hifu improves overall skin tone, brightness and elasticity. Best results are seen after three to six months.

Emsculpt slimming is a revolutionary body contouring procedure that helps women eliminate bothersome

fat and increase muscle tone in the abdomen and buttocks. The demands of women on the go take a toll on their time for self-care. We believe that Blanche Sculpt offers an excellent solution.

Fractional laser is great for removing layers of sun-damaged skin as well as acne scars, wrinkles and pigmentation. Plus, it also minimizes pores to reveal smoother and healthier skin!

Hydrafacial is an invigorating treatment that can be given in as little as 30 minutes. It delivers long-term skin health and can be tailored to meet the specific needs of all skin types. It offers instant, noticeable results with no downtime or irritation. The Hydrafacial treatment removes dead skin cells and extracts impurities while simultaneously bathing the new skin with cleansing, hydrating and moisturizing serums. The

Republic of the Philippines REGIONAL TRIAL COURT OF MISAMIS ORIENTAL 10th Judicial Region BRANCH 39 Cagayan de Oro City PHIVIDEC INDUSTRIAL AUTHORITY, Applicant.

LRC CASE NO. LRC-2017-046 LRA Record No. E-ORD-2017000079

3rd NOTICE OF INITIAL HEARING Finding the verified Application for Registration over a parcel of land situated at Barangay Tambobong, Municipality of Villanueva, Misamis Oriental, containing an area of Nine Hundred Fifty Five (955) square meters, more or less, to be sufficient in form and substance, the same is set for hearing on 15 August 2022 at 2:00 pm, hereby requiring all those who may have interest over said parcel of land to appear on such time and place, and show cause why the application should not be granted.

Let copies of this Notice be published, at the expense of the applicant, in the Official Gazette, and once a week for three (3) consecutive weeks in a newspaper of general circulation in Cagayan de Oro City and the Province of Misamis Oriental.

Let copies hereof with the Petition attached be posted at the bulletin boards of the following offices and buildings, to wit: Municipal Hall of Villanueva, Miasmis Oriental, Barangay Hall of Tambobong, Villanueva, Misamis Oriental, where the land subject of this application is situated, and this Court, for at least thirty (30) days prior to the date of hearing.

Applicant is further ordered to furnish a copy of this Notice and the Petition to the Office of the Solicitor General, the Office of the Registrar of Deeds of the Province of Misamis Oriental, the Land Registration Authority and to the occupants and adjoining owners of the lot subject of this Petition at least thirty (30) days prior to the date of hearing.

SO ORDERED Cagayan de Oro City, 6 December 2021 (SGD) MARITES FILOMENA B. RANA – BERNALES Presiding Judge BWM: March 2, 9 & 16, 2022

treatment is soothing, refreshing, non-irritating and immediately effective.

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But wait, there’s more!

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Ensuring quality education in the time of Covid 19

By RUBILEE G. VIRTUDAZO Teacher 3 Jasaan National High School Jasaan, Misamis Oriental

Quality Education is what the Educational System is striving for. It is about 617 million children and adolescents around the world are unable to reach the minimum proficiency levels in reading and mathematics, eventhough two third of them are in school. This learning Crisis is the greatest global challenge to preparing children and adolescents for life, work, and active citizenship. This is according to UNICEF (United Nations Children's Fund).

There are various challenges in accessing education even before pandemic some of this are poverty, financial deficit of developing countries and many more. It makes it more challenging when COVID 19 pandemic hits the world. In this time the question that the educational system need to answer is how quality education be assured amidst

of this various challenges the world is facing?

Safe, friendly environment, qualified and motivated teachers, and instructions that students can understand are what quality learning requires.

Tt also requires monitoring the learning outcomes and feed back into instruction.

COVID-19 has greatly affected the educational system worldwide. Ensuring quality education in this time is really a must. Maximizing every platform available to deliver quality learning to the students through digital learning is one of the way to ensure quality education.

Digital learning should become an essential service as students stay at home at the same time striving to reach their goal through education.

Educators in this time of pandemic are somehow challenged in delivering

quality education to their students. They are doing their best to deliver quality education through digital learning and through their personal research on how they could deliver quality education in this time by maximizing the only platform available for education.

Even the education system faces so much challenges in delivering quality education in this time, they are doing their best to deliver education with utmost quality. Educators are going beyond what they could offer just to ensure quality learning for their students. All the efforts and sacrifices they are doing is not for themselves but for the future of the students they are teaching. It is through their selfless effort to teach, and maximizing the resources that they have are their ways to ensure quality education.

Heightening technology in the new normal By: ROY A. ABAD Master Teacher I El Salvador City National High School

The social media has indeed greatly impacted and affected our lives today, greatly including the lives and behavior of our young ones, our school children, our pupils. In this digital age, mostly every one of us have cellular phones, Twitter, Facebook, and are knowledgeable enough to handle and manage differing and various social media sites in the world wide web.

Yes, it has advantages and disadvantages.

On the other hand, at school, we can always integrate the use of the internet and the social media to our pupils. We can give them sites and pages that they can study over and visit and learn something from it. That is why, teachers must do the research first, check the page or what before suggest it to the pupils. We must be the one who will screen it first. As we cannot control what these pupils would do while using the internet, it is of great deed that should remind them of the pros and cons

when doing such. We should always lead to social networking sites that would best fit their taste. Also, sites that would uplift their moral and good values is best plus they can read and learn short stories and then probably encourage them to apply and follow it.

Exactly, we do not have the control over our pupils but we can always remind them to be always good and be responsible when using the internet, the most encourage them to think before they click sites and pages. As teachers, we should always remind them to use this new technology for their own development and betterment.

As these new discoveries have positive effects, we should not forget that they will surely have negative impacts as well and that it depends on them on how they will use it. The best, we should always guide our pupils and bring them to their desired path.

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DA-10 pours P65.6-M worth of agri aid to Bukidnon towns, cities

DA-10 pours agri assistance amounting to P65.6-M to 22 LGUs of Bukidnon province.

(DA-10)

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UKIDNON --Twentytwo local government units (LGUs) in the Province of Bukidnon received various agri interventions amounting to P65.6 million from the Department of Agriculture in Northern Mindanao, March 3, in Dalwangan,

Malaybalay City, here.

DA-10 Regional Executive Director Carlene C. Collado with Regional Technical Director for Operations Carlota S. Madriaga led the distribution of agri machinery and equipment, livestock and poultry animals, agri inputs

Republic of the Philippines Region X Province of Lanao del Norte Municipality of Kapatagan

(fertilizers, feeds, corn, vegetable, and seeds), and hauling trucks that will benefit the farmers in the said province.

Collado reminded the farmer-beneficiaries to protect and supervise the agri machinery and equipment to maximize its

operation and utilization, benefiting more farmers in their locality.

He also commended the 4th Infantry Division, Philippine Army for the support provided to the department and its partnership in the implementation of the whole-of-nation approach of Executive Order No.70 which formed the National Task Force to End Local Communist Armed Conflict (NTF-ELCAC).

Joannah P. Dumaguita of the MILALITTRA Farmer Agricultural Cooperative shared that DA’s assistance will help them preserve and maintain the quality of their coffee beans.

"We are grateful to DA for providing us the opportunity to boost and compete with consolidators that will allow us to have a voice in the market,” Dumaguita added.

Said farmer cooperative of Miarayon, Talakag,

RA Form No. 10.1 (LCRO) Republic of the Philippines Local Civil Registry Office Province: Misamis Oriental City/Municipality: Medina

Office of the Municipal Civil Registrar R.A. 10172 (Gender) NOTICE FOR PUBLICATION

NOTICE FOR PUBLICATION

In Compliance with Rule 7 of R.A. 10172. A notice is hereby served to the public that IRISH-MAY LATAO RODRIGUEZ has filed with this Office a petition for Correction of Clerical Error-Change of Gender from MALE to FEMALE in the Certificate of Live Birth of IRISH-MAY LATAO RODRIGUEZ who was born on MAY 12, 1994 at (HOME) TAGUITIC, KAPATAGAN, LANAO DEL NORTE and whose parents are DEOGENES BAYA RODRIGUEZ and MERLYN MANLANG LATAO. Any person adversely affected by saids petition may file his written opposition with this Office not later than 15 days.

In compliance with Section 5 of R.A. Act No. 9048 a notice is hereby served to the public that JENNIFER BANGOT APALISOC has filed with this office a petition for change of first name from MARYGEN to JENNIFER in the birth certificate of MARYGEN C. BANGOT who was born on SEPTEMBER 02, 1973 at Medina, Misamis Oriental and whose parents are LION E. BANGOT and EBAGRIA C. CAINOY. Any person adversely affected by said petition may file his written opposition with this Office not later than MARCH 25, 2022.

(SGD) IVY REYES TONGCO Municipal Civil Registrar

BWM: March 9 & 16, 2022

(SGD) FRIETCHIE V. REYES Municipal Civil Registrar

BWM: March 9 & 16, 2022

Bukidnon, is a beneficiary of the 1 unit hauling truck and coffee roasting machine under the HVCDP’s postharvest support services for coffee farmers.

Madriaga also conveyed to the farmers to encourage those who are not yet enlisted in the DA’s Registry System for Basic Sectors in Agriculture (RSBSA) for them to avail the services of

the agency.

The interventions were funded by the agency’s CY 2021 funds under its banner and special programs: Corn, Rice, High Value Crops Development, Organic Agriculture, Livestock, Special Area for Agricultural Development (SAAD), and Kabuhayan at Kaunlaran ng Kababayang Katutubo (4Ks).

(DA-10/PIA-10)

Vacant Position SP JAPAN SURPLUC TRUCKS CORPORATION,” a surplus Vehicles and Parts Company needs services of “General Manager” who can manage all affairs of the company including decision making, mentoring and leading the staff. The Incumbent must be a highly experienced, having track record of success and out of the box thinking person.

Qualifications: - 17 years education from a reputed institution.

- 7-8 years of experience of work with an esteemed organization - Well versed in use of computer and IT tools Apply with detailed CV and educational testimonials at below address.

ZONE 2A, Diversion Road, Igpit Opol, Misamis Oriental

Vacant Position

Republic of the Philippines DEPARTMENT OF LABOR AND EMPLOYMENT Regional Office No. 10 5F and 6F Trinidad Building, Corner Capistrano-Yacapin Streets, Cagayan de Oro City

NOTICE OF FILING OF APPLICATION FOR ALIEN EMPLOYMENT PERMIT (AEP) Notice is hereby given that the following employers have filed with this Regional Office application/s for AEPs.

Pak Asia Trading Corporation, a Surplus Vehicles and Parts Company needs services of “Chief Executive Office” who can manage all affairs of the company including decision making, mentoring and leading the staff. The Incumbent must be a highly experienced, having track record of success and out of the box thinking person.

Qualifications: - 17 years education from a reputed institution.

- 7-8 years of experience of work with an esteemed organization - Well versed in use of computer and IT tools Apply with detailed CV and educational testimonials at below address.

March 8, 2022 SGD. ALBERT E. GUTIB OIC - Regional Director

BWM: March 9, 2022

ZONE 2A, Diversion Road, Igpit Opol, Misamis Oriental

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Republic of the Philippines REGIONAL TRIAL COURT OF LANAO DEL NORTE 12th Judicial Region BRANCH 07 Tubod, Lanao del Norte NATIONAL GRID CORPORATION SPL. CVL. ACTION NO. 114-07-2021 OF THE PHILIPPINES,

Plaintiff, – for – - versus Expropriation HEIR OF FORTUNATO SOMONTAN; UNKNOWN HEIRS OF FORTUNATO SOMONTAN,

Defendants. x--------------------/ SUMMONS BY PUBLICATION TO: UNKNOWN HEIRS OF FORTUNATO SOMONTAN Address cannot be ascertained G R E E T I N G S! WHEREAS, on December 6, 2021, the Court issued an order granting the plaintiff’s Motion to Serve Summons by Publication, which reads: “On record is a Motion for Leave of Court to Effect Service of Summons by Publication to defendants Unknown Heirs of Fortunato Somontan. Finding the same motion to be proper and in order after plaintiff complied with the requirements of the rules, the same is hereby granted. Let summons by publication be served to defendants Unknown Heirs of Fortunato Somontan.

SO ORDERED.” WHEREAS, Complaint reads: COMPLAINT (With Urgent Prayer for Issuance of Writ of Possession) Plaintiff, National Grid Corporation of the Philippines (NGCP), by counsel, respectfully states that: 1. Plaintiff is a private corporation created and existing under Philippine laws, with principal office address at NGCP Building, Quezon Avenue corner BIR Road, Diliman, Quezon City. It may be served with notices and other court processes through its Right-of-Way Department (ROWD) – Mindanao Division, Maria Cristina, Iligan City, copy furnished the aforementioned principal office.

2. Pursuant to Republic Act (R.A.) No. 9511, plaintiff was granted a franchise to operate, manage and maintain, and in connection therewith, to engage in the business of conveying or transmitting electricity through a high-voltage back-bone system of interconnected transmission lines, substations and related facilities, systems operations, and other activities that are necessary to support the safe and reliable operation of a transmission system and to construct, install, finance, manage, improve, expand, operate, maintain, rehabilitate, repair and refurbish the present nationwide transmission system of the Republic of the Philippines.

3. Under Section 4 of the same law, plaintiff was granted the power of eminent domain, subject to the requirements of the Constitution and existing laws.

4. Plaintiff is engaged in the business of transmitting electric power from the generating plants of power producers to distributors. As such, plaintiff’s business is imbued with public interest.

5. To address the country’s growing power demand and ensure continuous, reliable and efficient power supply, there is a need to interconnect the three (3) major power grids of Luzon, Visayas, and Mindanao into a single national grid. Aside from the sharing of systems reserve, the interconnection will also help optimize utilization of indigenous energy resources such as natural gas in Luzon, geothermal in the Visayas and hydro in Mindanao. Owing to this necessity, plaintiff must immediately construct the transmission lines that will transmit power to distributors of electricity not only in Mindanao but also in Luzon and Visayas. This undertaking is for the use and benefit of the public and part of it is known as the MINDANAO-VISAYAS INTERCONNECTION PROJECT (MVIP), integral part of which is the KOLAMBUGAN-LALA 20kv TRANSMISSION LINE PROJECT (Project).

6. The said MVIP of NGCP is the first project certified by the Department of Energy (DOE) as an Energy Project of National Significance (EPNS) pursuant to R.A. 7638 of DOE Act of 1992, as amended, entitled to all the rights and privileges provided under Executive Order No. 30, series of 2017, as evidenced by the Certification dated 8 May 2018 issued by the Energy Investment Coordinating Council. Hence, the immediate completion and energization of the said project is critically important.

7. Defendant Dr. Juanito Yu Somontan, Heir of Fortunato Somontan, is of legal age, Filipino and a resident of Brgy. Poblacion, Bacolod, Lanao del Norte, where he can be served with summons, notices, and other processes of this Honorable Court.

8. Considering that the other UNKNOWN HEIRS OF FORTUNATO SOMONTAN as well as the other alleged owners whose identities and specific addresses cannot be ascertained despite diligent inquiry, plaintiff undertakes to cause service of summons to them by publication pursuant to Section 14 and 15, Rule 14 of the Revised Rules of Civil Procedure.

9. Plaintiff intends to expropriate portion of a parcel of an unidentified and unregistered land situated in Brgy. Muntay, Kolambugan, Lanao del Norte. The said property is declared in the names of Heirs of Fortunato Somontan under Tax Declaration No. H-130008 (07). It is more particularly described below together with the affected area sought to be expropriated consisting of 1,248 square meters, as shown in the attached Sketch Plan and Technical Descriptions.

PRAYER WHEREFORE, premises considered, plaintiff most respectfully prays of this Honorable Court to:

Copies of the BIR Zonal Valuation applicable to the subject property and Reports on the Counts of Improvements are attached and made as integral parts of the complaint.

10. To enable plaintiff to construct and maintain the Project, it is both necessary and urgent to acquire, upon payment of just compensation, the portion of the subject property, to ensure stability and reliability of the power supply in Mindanao and other regions of the country.

11. Plaintiff negotiated with defendants for the acquisition of the affected portion of the subject property and to pay the cost of improvements therein that may be damaged by the construction of the transmission line project. However, no agreement was reached between the parties.

12. Considering the urgent need for plaintiff to enter the subject property to implement and commence the necessary construction activities for its Project, plaintiff has no other recourse but to file the instant complaint.

13. Pursuant to Section 13 of R.A. 11361, Rule 67 of the Revised Rules of Civil Procedure governs plaintiff’s expropriation cases. Under Section 2 of Rule 67 of the Revised Rules of Civil Procedure, plaintiff may already enter and possess the portion of the subject property during the pendency of the expropriation case.

14. Section 2 of Rule 67 of the Revised Rules of Civil Procedure states that: “SEC. 2. Entry of plaintiff upon depositing value with authorized government depositary. – Upon the filing of the complaint or at any time thereafter and after due notice to the defendant, the plaintiff shall have the right to take or enter upon the possession of the real property involved if he deposits with the authorized government depositary an amount equivalent to the assessed value of the property for purposes of taxation to be held by such bank subject to the orders of the court. Such deposit shall be in money, unless in lieu thereof the court authorizes the deposit of a certificate of deposit of a government bank of the Republic of the Philippines payable on demand to the authorized government depositary.”

[Emphasis supplied] 15. In compliance with the notice requirement, plaintiff notified defendants through a Letter Offer of its intention to file an expropriation case if the possession over the subject property cannot be timely secured and/ or issues regarding compensation for the subject property cannot be resolved except through judicial intervention. Plaintiff further serves, simultaneous with the filing of the instant Complaint, a Notice to Take Possession (attached as Annex “A”) upon the defendants.

16. To comply with the deposit requirement, plaintiff, notwithstanding that R.A. 10752 does not specifically apply to it, shall deposit with the Honorable Court an amount equivalent to the 100% of the BIR zonal value of the land sought to be expropriated, including the cost of improvements therein, in the total amount of ONE HUNDRED NINETY-FIVE THOUSAND SIX HUNDRED SIXTY-FIVE PESOS (Php195,665.00), consistent with the purpose of the said law and OCA Circular No. 113-2019 to simplify the deposit requirement in expropriation cases for the benefit of the defendants and in the interest of immediate implementation of the Project intended to benefit the public.

17. Upon deposit of the provisional amount, plaintiff would have fully complied with the requirements for the issuance of a writ of possession as mandated by law.

18. In a long line of cases and OCA Circular No. 113-2019, once the above requirements are complied with it, it becomes the ministerial duty of the trial court to issue the writ of possession in favor of the plaintiff, without need of any further hearing. Therefore, the Honorable Court can already immediately issue to the plaintiff an order to take possession of the portions of the property and start the implementation of the project.

19. Moreover, it must be emphasized that an expropriation proceeding is an action quasi in rem, wherein the fact that the owners of the property are made parties is not essentially indispensable insofar as it concerns the immediate taking of possession of the property and the preliminary determination of its value, including the amount to be deposited.

20. An action quasi in rem names a person as defendant, but its object is to subject that person’s interest in a property to a corresponding lien or obligation. In a proceeding quasi in rem, jurisdiction over the person of the defendant is not a prerequisite to confer jurisdiction on the court, provided that the latter has jurisdiction over the res.

21. The purpose of summons in actions quasi in rem is not the acquisition of jurisdiction over the defendant but mainly to satisfy the constitutional requirement of due process. Since the issuance of writ of possession is ex-parte, ministerial, and non-litigious in nature, the issuance thereof, even prior to the service of summons, will not violate defendants’ right to due process as the same can be done even without defendants’ participation. Besides, the issuance of a writ of possession does not prevent defendants from raising objections to and defenses against the expropriation of their property.

22. Plaintiff intends to present three (3) witnesses, namely: a) Engr.

Licinio B. Capili, b) Engr. Nolito L. Notar, and c) Michael E. Encarnado to establish, among others, NGCP’s authority to exercise the power of eminent domain, the propriety of its exercise in this case, and the bases for the determination of the just compensation. Copies of their Judicial Affidavits (with attached Exhibits “A” to “H”) are attached as Annexes B, C, and D and made an integral part hereof. Plaintiff intends to present additional witnesses if necessary.

1. ISSUE a Writ of Possession in plaintiff’s favor; authorizing plaintiff to enter and take possession of the property subject of this complaint that will be affected by the construction and implementation of the Project, consisting of a total area of 1,248 square meters, more or less, as described in paragraph 9 hereof; demolish the affected structures standing therein; order all defendants to vacate the same; directing the Philippine National Police (PNP) to assist plaintiff in the implementation of the said writ of possession so that project construction can immediately commence even during the pendency of the case; direct the Registry of Deeds for the Province of Lanao del Norte to enter the Writ of Possession in the Primary Entry Book and annotate the same in the Registration Book pursuant to Section 69 of Presidential Decree No. 1529; 2. ISSUE an Order of Expropriation declaring that the plaintiff has a lawful right to take possession and acquire the affected property specified in paragraph 9 hereof; 3. After the determination of just compensation, to authorize the payment thereof by plaintiff to defendants after deducting the capital gains and documentary stamp taxes for the transfer of the affected portion of the unidentified lot, in the name of plaintiff, all other outstanding taxes under the National Internal Revenue Code, and all outstanding realty taxes and dues under the Local Government Code, which plaintiff shall remit to the Government; 4. ISSUE a judgment after determination of just compensation, declaring plaintiff as the lawful owner of the affected portion of the unidentified lot consisting of a total area of 1,248 square meters, more or less, described in paragraph 9 hereof; 5. DIRECT the Municipal Assessor of Kolambugan and/or Provincial Assessor of Lanao del Norte to cancel Tax Declaration No. H-130008 (07) and issue new and separate tax declaration in the name of plaintiff covering the portion of the subject property sought to be expropriated herein.

Iligan City for Tubod, Lanao del Norte, 28 January, 2021 NATIONAL GRID CORPORATION OF THE PHILIPPINES Power Center, Quezon Avenue cor. BIR Road Diliman, Quezon City

By: WFH LUIS MANUEL U. BUGAYONG PTR No. 0599223 – 01/04/2021 – Quezon City IBP Lifetime No. 010191/Rizal Chapter MCLE Compliance No. VI-0012003 Roll of Attorneys No. 38002 WFH GORDON S. MONTOJO PTR No. 0599215 – 01/04/2021 – Quezon City IBP Lifetime No. 010193/Quezon City MCLE Compliance No. VI-0012024 Roll of Attorneys No. 44910 WFH JULES BOY R. VALDEZ PTR No. 0599221 – 01/04/2021 - Quezon City IBP Lifetime No. 012616/Quezon City MCLE Compliance No. VI-0012045 Roll of Attorney’s No. 63350 RIGHT-OF-WAY DEPARTMENT – MINDANAO DIVISION NATIONAL GRID CORPORATION OF THE PHILIPPINES Maria Cristina, Iligan City By: SIGNED KERTH JOSSEF M. ABLANQUE PTR No. 9890045 – 01/06/2021 – Iligan City IBP Lifetime No. 012019 MCLE Compliance No. VI-0011641 Roll of Attorneys No. 60170 SIGNED JUNELLA G. LIMPANGOG-ABARQUEZ PTR No. 9890044 – 01/06/2021 – Iligan City IBP No. 128123 – 01/04/21 – Iligan City MCLE Compliance No. V-0022527 Roll of Attorneys No. 58980 NOW THEREFORE, the above mentioned Defendants are hereby summoned and required to file with the Clerk of Court, Regional Trial Court, Branch 07, Tubod, Lanao del Norte, Philippines, their ANSWER to the above-quoted petition within sixty (60) days from publication of the summons and to serve copy of the said answer upon plaintiff’s counsel at their given address indicated in the complaint. Defendants are further reminded of the provision in the IBP-OCA Memorandum on Policy Guidelines dated March 12, 2002 to observe restraint in filing a Motion to Dismiss and instead allege the grounds thereof as defenses in the Answer.

Tubod, Lanao del Norte, March 7, 2022.

(SIGNED) FLORENCE O. PEROCHO Legal Researcher II/OIC – Clerk of Court BWM: March 9, 16 & 23, 2022

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Republic of the Philippines REGIONAL TRIAL COURT OF LANAO DEL NORTE 12th Judicial Region BRANCH 07 Tubod, Lanao del Norte NATIONAL GRID CORPORATION SPL. CVL. ACTION NO. 127-07-2021 OF THE PHILIPPINES,

Plaintiff, – for –

- versus Expropriation HEIRS OF DULCESIMA C. ROQUE, ET.AL.

Defendants. x--------------------/

8. Plaintiff intends to expropriate portion of a parcel of registered land identified as Lot No. 6456, PLS-89 EXT situated in Brgy. Muntay, Kolambugan, Lanao del Norte. Said property is registered and declared in the name of the late Dulcesima C. Roque, per Transfer of Certificate of Title (TCT) No. T-8189 and Tax Declaration (TD) No. H-130230 (07), respectively. It is more particularly described below together with the affected area sought to be expropriated consisting of 2,478 square meters, as shown in the attached Sketch Plan and Technical Description, as follow:

SUMMONS BY PUBLICATION TO:

HEIRS OF SPOUSES JUANITO C. ROQUE and ELEONOR ROQUE, namely:

JUANITO KARL P. ROQUE

OTHER UNKNOWN HEIRS Cebu City ALL OTHER DEFENDANTS WHO COULD NOT BE PERSONALLY SERVED WITH SUMMONS G R E E T I N G S! WHEREAS, on February 22, 2022, the Court issued an order granting the plaintiff’s Motion to Serve Summons by Publication, which reads: “On record is a Motion for Leave of Court to Effect Service of Summons filed by the plaintiff and it appears from the Sheriff’s Return of Summons that defendants Heirs of Spouses Juanito C. Roque and Eleonor Roque, namely: Juanito Karl P. Roque and Other Unknown Heirs whereabouts, cannot by diligent inquiry be ascertained, as prated for in the Plaintiff’s aforesaid motion, let summons by publication be served upon defendants Heirs of Spouses Juanito C. Roque and Eleonor Roque, namely: Juanito Karl P. Roque and Other Unknown Heirs and all other defendants who could not be personally served with summons in a newspaper of general circulation, once a week for three (3) consecutive weeks in a local newspaper.

Meanwhile, the defendants are given sixty (60) days after the completion of the last publication of summons to file with this court their Answer to the complaint filed against them in the above-captioned case.

SO ORDERED.” WHEREAS, Complaint reads: COMPLAINT (With Urgent Prayer for Issuance of Writ of Possession) Plaintiff, National Grid Corporation of the Philippines (NGCP), by counsel, respectfully states that: 1. Plaintiff is a private corporation created and existing under Philippine laws, with principal office address at NGCP Building, Quezon Avenue corner BIR Road, Diliman, Quezon City. It may be served with notices and other court processes through its Right-of-Way Department (ROWD) – Mindanao Division, Maria Cristina, Iligan City, copy furnished the afore-mentioned principal office.

2. Pursuant to Republic Act (R.A.) No. 9511, plaintiff was granted a franchise to operate, manage and maintain, and in connection therewith, to engage in the business of conveying or transmitting electricity through a high-voltage back-bone system of interconnected transmission lines, substations and related facilities, systems operations, and other activities that are necessary to support the safe and reliable operation of a transmission system and to construct, install, finance, manage, improve, expand, operate, maintain, rehabilitate, repair and refurbish the present nationwide transmission system of the Republic of the Philippines.

3. Under Section 4 of the same law, plaintiff was granted the power of eminent domain, subject to the requirements of the Constitution and existing laws.

4. Plaintiff is engaged in the business of transmitting electric power from the generating plants of power producers to distributors. As such, plaintiff’s business is imbued with public interest.

5. To address the country’s growing power demand and ensure continuous, reliable and efficient power supply, there is a need to interconnect the three (3) major power grids of Luzon, Visayas, and Mindanao into a single national grid. Aside from the sharing of systems reserve, the interconnection will also help optimize utilization of indigenous energy resources such as natural gas in Luzon, geothermal in the Visayas and hydro in Mindanao. Owing to this necessity, plaintiff must immediately construct the transmission lines that will transmit power to distributors of electricity not only in Mindanao but also in Luzon and Visayas.

This undertaking is for the use and benefit of the public and part of it is known as the MINDANAO-VISAYAS INTERCONNECTION PROJECT (MVIP), integral part of which is the KOLAMBUGAN-LALA 20kV TRANSMISSION LINE PROJECT (Project).

6. The said MVIP of NGCP is the first project certified by the Department of Energy (DOE) as an Energy Project of National Significance (EPNS) pursuant to R.A. 7638 of DOE Act of 1992, as amended, entitled to all the rights and privileges provided under Executive Order No. 30, series of 2017, as evidenced by the Certification dated 8 May 2018 issued by the Energy Investment Coordinating Council. Hence, the immediate completion and energization of the said project is critically important.

7. Defendants HEIRS OF DULCESIMA C. ROQUE, namely: Heirs of Juanito Roque, namely: (1) Juanito Karl P. Roque; Heirs of Esmeraldo Roque, namely: (1) Ma. Sylvia R. Ilagan and (2) Mario Silvino P. Roque; and Heirs of Josefa Luzminda Roque Echiverri, namely: (1) Rosalie Sabina E. Yanong, (2) Angeli Solidad R. Echiverri, (3) Emma Michelle Echiverri, and (4) Enrico R. Echiverri, are all of legal age and Filipinos. They may be served with summonses, notices and other processes of this Honorable Court at their respective addresses, to wit:

Copies of the BIR Zonal Valuation applicable to the subject property and Reports on the Counts of Improvements are attached and made integral parts of this complaint.

9. To enable plaintiff to construct and maintain the Project, it is both necessary and urgent to acquire, upon payment of just compensation, the portion of the subject property, to ensure stability and reliability of the power supply in Mindanao and other regions of the country.

10. Plaintiff negotiated with defendants, through Enrico R. Echiverri and Ma. Sylvia R. Iligan, for the acquisition of the affected portion of the subject property and to pay the cost of improvements therein that may be damaged by the construction of the transmission line project. However, no agreement was reached between the parties 11. Considering the urgent need for plaintiff to enter the subject property to implement and commence the necessary construction activities for its Project, plaintiff has no other recourse but to file the instant complaint.

12. Pursuant to Section 13 of R.A. 11361, Rule 67 of the Revised Rules of Civil Procedure governs plaintiff’s expropriation cases. Under Section 2 of Rule 67 of the Revised Rules of Civil Procedure, plaintiff may already enter and possess the portion of the subject property during the pendency of the expropriation case.

13.

Section 2 of Rule 67 of the Revised Rules of Civil Procedure states that: “SEC. 2. Entry of plaintiff upon depositing value with authorized government depositary. – Upon the filing of the complaint or at any time thereafter and after due notice to the defendant, the plaintiff shall have the right to take or enter upon the possession of the real property involved if he deposits with the authorized government depositary an amount equivalent to the assessed value of the property for purposes of taxation to be held by such bank subject to the orders of the court. Such deposit shall be in money, unless in lieu thereof the court authorizes the deposit of a certificate of deposit of a government bank of the Republic of the Philippines payable on demand to the authorized government depositary.” (Emphasis supplied)

14. In compliance with the notice requirement, plaintiff notified defendants through a Letter Offer of its intention to file an expropriation case if the possession over the subject property cannot be timely secured and/or issues regarding compensation for the subject property cannot be resolved except through judicial intervention. Plaintiff further serves, simultaneous with the filing of the instant Complaint, a Notice to Take Possession (attached as Annex “A”) upon the defendants.

PRAYER WHEREFORE, premises considered, plaintiff most respectfully prays of this Honorable Court to: 1. ISSUE a Writ of Possession in plaintiff’s favor; authorizing plaintiff to enter and take possession of the property subject of this complaint that will be affected by the construction and implementation of the Project, consisting of a total area of 2,478 square meters, more or less, as described in paragraph 8 hereof; demolish the affected structures standing therein; order all defendants to vacate the same; directing the Philippine National Police (PNP) to assist plaintiff in the implementation of the said writ of possession so that project construction can immediately commence even during the pendency of the case; direct the Registry of Deeds for the Province of Lanao del Norte to enter the Writ of Possession in the Primary Entry Book and annotate the same in the Registration Book pursuant to Section 69 of Presidential Decree No. 1529; 2. After issuance of Writ of Possession, ISSUE an Order of Publication allowing plaintiff to effect service of summons to Defendant Unknown Heirs of Juanito Roque, Juanito Karl P. Roque, and other defendants, if applicable, by publication, pursuant to Sections 16 and 17, Rule 14 of the Revised Rules of Civil Procedures; 3. ISSUE an Order of Expropriation declaring that the plaintiff has a lawful right to take possession and acquire the affected property specified in paragraph 8 hereof; 4. After the determination of just compensation, to authorize the payment thereof by plaintiff to defendants after deducting the capital gains and documentary stamp taxes for the transfer of the affected portion of Lot No. 6456, PLS-89 EXT, in the name of plaintiff, all other outstanding taxes under the National Internal Revenue Code, and all outstanding realty taxes and dues under the Local Government Code, which plaintiff shall remit to the Government; 5. ISSUE a judgment after determination of just compensation, declaring plaintiff as the lawful owner of the affected portion of Lot No. 6456, PLS-89 EXT consisting of a total area of 2,478 square meters, more or less, described in paragraph 8 hereof; 6.

DIRECT: a. The Registry of Deeds for the Province of Lanao del Norte to register and annotate the Order of Expropriation and Judgment on the TCT No. T-8189 or any certificate of title that may hereafter be issued covering the property subject of this case pursuant to Section 85 of Presidential Decree No. 1529; b. The Municipal Assessor of Kolambugan and/or Provincial Assessor of Lanao del Norte to cancel Tax Declaration No. H-130230 (07) and issue new and separate tax declaration in the name of plaintiff covering the portion of the subject property sought to be expropriated herein.

Plaintiff prays for other relief as just and equitable under the premises.

Iligan City for Tubod, Lanao del Norte, 3 April, 2021.

NATIONAL GRID CORPORATION OF THE PHILIPPINES Power Center, Quezon Avenue cor. BIR Road Diliman, Quezon City

By:

15. To comply with the deposit requirement, plaintiff, notwithstanding that R.A. 10752 does not specifically apply to it, shall deposit with the Honorable Court an amount equivalent to the 100% of the BIR zonal value of the land sought to be expropriated, including the cost of improvements therein, in the total amount of TWO HUNDRED FIFTY-FIVE THOUSAND FOUR HUNDRED TWELVE PESOS AND 60/100 (Php255,412.60), consistent with the purpose of the said law and OCA Circular No. 113-2019 to simplify the deposit requirement in expropriation cases for the benefit of the defendants and in the interest of immediate implementation of the Project intended to benefit the public.

WFH JULES BOY R. VALDEZ PTR No. 0599221 – 01/04/2021 - Quezon City IBP Lifetime No. 012616/Quezon City MCLE Compliance No. VI-0012045 Roll of Attorney’s No. 63350

17. In a long line of cases and OCA Circular No. 113-2019, once the above requirements are complied with it, it becomes the ministerial duty of the trial court to issue the writ of possession in favor of plaintiff, without need of any further hearing. Thus, as cited in the said OCA Circular: “Municipality of Cordova v. Pathfinder Development Corporation cases emphasizes the mandatory issuance of the writ of possession upon the receipt of the required deposit. “No hearing is actually required for the issuance of a writ of possession, which demands only two (2) requirements: (a) the sufficiency in form and substance of the complaint; and, (b) the required provisional deposit x x x x Upon compliance with these requirements, the petitioner in an expropriation case is entitled to a writ of possession as a matter of right and the issuance of the writ becomes ministerial.” (Emphasis supplied) 18. Moreover, it must be emphasized that an expropriation proceeding is an action quasi in rem, wherein the fact that the owners of the property are made parties is not essentially indispensable insofar as it concerns the immediate taking of possession of the property and the preliminary determination of its value, including the amount to be deposited.

19. An action quasi in rem names a person as defendant, but its object is to subject that person’s interest in a property to a corresponding lien or obligation.

In a proceeding quasi in rem, jurisdiction over the person of the defendant is not a prerequisite to confer jurisdiction on the court, provided that the latter has jurisdiction over the res.

21. Plaintiff intends to present three (3) witnesses, namely: a) Engr. Licinio B. Capili, b) Engr. Nolito L. Notar, and c) Michael E. Encarnado to establish, among others, NGCP’s authority to exercise the power of eminent domain, the propriety of its exercise in this case, and the bases for the determination of the just compensation. Copies of their Judicial Affidavits (with attached Exhibits

WFH LUIS MANUEL U. BUGAYONG PTR No. 0599223 – 01/04/2021 – Quezon City IBP Lifetime No. 010191/Rizal Chapter MCLE Compliance No. VI-0012003 Roll of Attorneys No. 38002 WFH GORDON S. MONTOJO PTR No. 0599215 – 01/04/2021 – Quezon City IBP Lifetime No. 010193/Quezon City MCLE Compliance No. VI-0012024 Roll of Attorneys No. 44910

16. Upon deposit of the provisional amount, plaintiff would have fully complied with the requirements for the issuance of a writ of possession as mandated by law.

20. The purpose of summons in actions quasi in rem is not the acquisition of jurisdiction over the defendant but mainly to satisfy the constitutional requirement of due process. Since the issuance of writ of possession is ex-parte, ministerial, and non-litigious in nature, the issuance thereof, even prior to the service of summons, will not violate defendants’ right to due process as the same can be done even without defendants’ participation. Besides, the issuance of a writ of possession does not prevent defendants from raising objections to and defenses against the expropriation of their property.

Considering that there are other unknown Heirs of Juanito Roque and that the specific address of Juanito Karl P. Roque cannot be ascertained despite diligent inquiry, plaintiff undertakes to cause service of summons to them by publication pursuant to Sections 16 and 17, Rule 14 of the Revised Rules of Civil Procedure.

“A” to “K”) are attached as Annexes B, C, and D and made an integral part hereof. Plaintiff intends to present additional witnesses if necessary.

RIGHT-OF-WAY DEPARTMENT – MINDANAO DIVISION NATIONAL GRID CORPORATION OF THE PHILIPPINES Maria Cristina, Iligan City By: SIGNED KERTH JOSSEF M. ABLANQUE PTR No. 9890045 – 01/06/2021 – Iligan City IBP Lifetime No. 012019 MCLE Compliance No. VI-0011641 Roll of Attorneys No. 60170 SIGNED JUNELLA G. LIMPANGOG-ABARQUEZ PTR No. 9890044 – 01/06/2021 – Iligan City IBP No. 128123 – 01/04/21 – Iligan City MCLE Compliance No. V-0022527 Roll of Attorneys No. 58980 NOW THEREFORE, the above mentioned Defendants are hereby summoned and required to file with the Clerk of Court, Regional Trial Court, Branch 07, Tubod, Lanao del Norte, Philippines, their ANSWER to the above-quoted petition within sixty (60) days from publication of the summons and to serve copy of the said answer upon plaintiff’s counsel at their given address indicated in the complaint. Defendants are further reminded of the provision in the IBP-OCA Memorandum on Policy Guidelines dated March 12, 2002 to observe restraint in filing a Motion to Dismiss and instead allege the grounds thereof as defenses in the Answer.

Tubod, Lanao del Norte, March 7, 2022.

SIGNED FLORENCE O. PEROCHO Legal Researcher II/OIC – Clerk of Court BWM: March 9, 16 & 23, 2022

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Republic of the Philippines REGIONAL TRIAL COURT OF LANAO DEL NORTE 12th Judicial Region BRANCH 07 Tubod, Lanao del Norte

area sought to be expropriated consisting of 15 square meters, as shown in the attached Sketch Plan and Technical Description, as follow:

NATIONAL GRID CORPORATION SPL. CVL. ACTION NO. 135-07-2021 OF THE PHILIPPINES,

Plaintiff, – for –

- versus Expropriation HEIRS OF SPOUSES JUANITO C. ROQUE AND ELEONOR P. ROQUE, ET.AL.

Defendants.

Copies of the BIR Zonal Valuation applicable to the subject property and x--------------------/ Reports on the Counts of Improvements are attached and made integral parts of this complaint.

SUMMONS BY PUBLICATION TO: 9. To enable plaintiff to construct and maintain the Project, it is both necessary and urgent to acquire, upon payment of just compensation, the portion of HEIRS OF SPOUSES JUANITO C. ROQUE the subject property, to ensure stability and reliability of the power supply in and ELEONOR ROQUE, Mindanao and other regions of the country. namely:

JUANITO KARL P. ROQUE 10. Plaintiff negotiated with defendant Juanito Karl P. Roque via phone call,

OTHER UNKNOWN HEIRS for the acquisition of the affected portion of the subject property and to pay Cebu City the cost of improvements therein that may be damaged by the construction of the transmission line project. However, no agreement was reached between ALL OTHER DEFENDANTS WHO COULD NOT the parties.

BE PERSONALLY SERVED WITH SUMMONS 11. Considering the urgent need for plaintiff to enter the subject property to G R E E T I N G S! implement and commence the necessary construction activities for its Project, plaintiff has no other recourse but to file the instant complaint.

WHEREAS, on February 22, 2022, the Court issued an order granting the plaintiff’s Motion to Serve Summons by Publication, which reads: 12. Pursuant to Section 13 of R.A. 11361, Rule 67 of the Revised Rules of Civil Procedure governs plaintiff’s expropriation cases. Under Section 2 of “On record is a Motion for Leave of Court to Effect Service Rule 67 of the Revised Rules of Civil Procedure, plaintiff may already enter of Summons filed by the plaintiff and it appears from the Sheriff’s and possess the portion of the subject property during the pendency of the Return of Summons that defendants Heirs of Spouses Juanito C. expropriation case.

Roque and Eleonor Roque, namely: Juanito Karl P. Roque and Other Unknown Heirs whereabouts, cannot by diligent inquiry 13. Section 2 of Rule 67 of the Revised Rules of Civil Procedure states that: be ascertained, as prated for in the Plaintiff’s aforesaid motion, let summons by publication be served upon defendants Heirs “SEC. 2. Entry of plaintiff upon depositing value with authorized of Spouses Juanito C. Roque and Eleonor Roque, namely: government depositary. – Upon the filing of the complaint or at any Juanito Karl P. Roque and Other Unknown Heirs and all other time thereafter and after due notice to the defendant, the plaintiff defendants who could not be personally served with summons shall have the right to take or enter upon the possession of in a newspaper of general circulation, once a week for three (3) the real property involved if he deposits with the authorized consecutive weeks in a local newspaper. government depositary an amount equivalent to the assessed Meanwhile, the defendants are given sixty (60) days after value of the property for purposes of taxation to be held by such the completion of the last publication of summons to file with this bank subject to the orders of the court. Such deposit shall be in court their Answer to the complaint filed against them in the abovemoney, unless in lieu thereof the court authorizes the deposit of captioned case. a certificate of deposit of a government bank of the Republic of SO ORDERED.” the Philippines payable on demand to the authorized government depositary.” (Emphasis supplied) WHEREAS, Complaint reads: 14. In compliance with the notice requirement, plaintiff notified defendants COMPLAINT through a Letter Offer of its intention to file an expropriation case if the (With Urgent Prayer for Issuance of Writ of Possession) possession over the subject property cannot be timely secured and/or issues regarding compensation for the subject property cannot be resolved except Plaintiff, National Grid Corporation of the Philippines (NGCP), by counsel, through judicial intervention. Plaintiff further serves, simultaneous with the filing respectfully states that: of the instant Complaint, a Notice to Take Possession (attached as Annex “A”) upon the defendants.

1. Plaintiff is a private corporation created and existing under Philippine laws, with principal office address at NGCP Building, Quezon Avenue corner 15. To comply with the deposit requirement, plaintiff, notwithstanding that BIR Road, Diliman, Quezon City. It may be served with notices and other court R.A. 10752 does not specifically apply to it, shall deposit with the Honorable processes through its Right-of-Way Department (ROWD) – Mindanao Division, Court an amount equivalent to the 100% of the BIR zonal value of the land Maria Cristina, Iligan City, copy furnished the afore-mentioned principal office. sought to be expropriated, including the cost of improvements therein, in the total amount of SIX THOUSAND SIX HUNDRED SEVENTY-FIVE PESOS 2. Pursuant to Republic Act (R.A.) No. 9511, plaintiff was granted a franchise (Php6,675.00), consistent with the purpose of the said law and OCA Circular to operate, manage and maintain, and in connection therewith, to engage in No. 113-2019 to simplify the deposit requirement in expropriation cases for the business of conveying or transmitting electricity through a high-voltage the benefit of the defendants and in the interest of immediate implementation back-bone system of interconnected transmission lines, substations and related of the Project intended to benefit the public. facilities, systems operations, and other activities that are necessary to support the safe and reliable operation of a transmission system and to construct, install, 16. Upon deposit of the provisional amount, plaintiff would have fully complied finance, manage, improve, expand, operate, maintain, rehabilitate, repair and with the requirements for the issuance of a writ of possession as mandated by refurbish the present nationwide transmission system of the Republic of the law.

Philippines.

17. In a long line of cases and OCA Circular No. 113-2019, once the above 3. Under Section 4 of the same law, plaintiff was granted the power of eminent requirements are complied with it, it becomes the ministerial duty of the trial domain, subject to the requirements of the Constitution and existing laws. court to issue the writ of possession in favor of plaintiff, without need of any further hearing. Thus, as cited in the said OCA Circular: 4. Plaintiff is engaged in the business of transmitting electric power from the generating plants of power producers to distributors. As such, plaintiff’s “Municipality of Cordova v. Pathfinder Development Corporation business is imbued with public interest. cases emphasizes the mandatory issuance of the writ of possession upon the receipt of the required deposit. “No hearing is actually 5. To address the country’s growing power demand and ensure continuous, required for the issuance of a writ of possession, which demands reliable and efficient power supply, there is a need to interconnect the three only two (2) requirements: (a) the sufficiency in form and (3) major power grids of Luzon, Visayas, and Mindanao into a single national substance of the complaint; and, (b) the required provisional grid. Aside from the sharing of systems reserve, the interconnection will also deposit x x x x Upon compliance with these requirements, the help optimize utilization of indigenous energy resources such as natural gas petitioner in an expropriation case is entitled to a writ of possession in Luzon, geothermal in the Visayas and hydro in Mindanao. Owing to this as a matter of right and the issuance of the writ becomes ministerial.” necessity, plaintiff must immediately construct the transmission lines that will (Emphasis supplied) transmit power to distributors of electricity not only in Mindanao but also in Luzon and Visayas. This undertaking is for the use and benefit of the public 18. Moreover, it must be emphasized that an expropriation proceeding is an and part of it is known as the MINDANAO-VISAYAS INTERCONNECTION action quasi in rem, wherein the fact that the owners of the property are made PROJECT (MVIP), integral part of which is the KOLAMBUGAN-LALA 20kV parties is not essentially indispensable insofar as it concerns the immediate TRANSMISSION LINE PROJECT (Project). taking of possession of the property and the preliminary determination of its value, including the amount to be deposited.

6. The said MVIP of NGCP is the first project certified by the Department of Energy (DOE) as an Energy Project of National Significance (EPNS) 19. An action quasi in rem names a person as defendant, but its object is to pursuant to R.A. 7638 of DOE Act of 1992, as amended, entitled to all the subject that person’s interest in a property to a corresponding lien or obligation. rights and privileges provided under Executive Order No. 30, series of 2017, In a proceeding quasi in rem, jurisdiction over the person of the defendant is as evidenced by the Certification dated 8 May 2018 issued by the Energy not a prerequisite to confer jurisdiction on the court, provided that the latter Investment Coordinating Council. Hence, the immediate completion and has jurisdiction over the res. energization of the said project is critically important.

20. The purpose of summons in actions quasi in rem is not the acquisition of 7. Defendant Heir of Spouses Juanito C. Roque and Eleonor P. Roque, jurisdiction over the defendant but mainly to satisfy the constitutional requirement Juanito Karl P. Roque, Jr., is of legal age, Filipino, and is reportedly residing of due process. Since the issuance of writ of possession is ex-parte, ministerial, in Cebu. Considering that his specific address cannot be ascertained despite and non-litigious in nature, the issuance thereof, even prior to the service of diligent inquiry, plaintiff undertakes to cause service of summons to him by summons, will not violate defendants’ right to due process as the same can publication pursuant to Sections 16 and 17, Rule 14 of the Revise Rules of Civil be done even without defendants’ participation. Besides, the issuance of a Procedure. In the same manner with the Unknown Heirs of Spouses Juanito writ of possession does not prevent defendants from raising objections to and C. Roque and Eleonor P. Roque, since their identities and whereabouts cannot defenses against the expropriation of their property. be ascertained, plaintiff undertakes to cause service of summons to them by publication.

21. Plaintiff intends to present three (3) witnesses, namely: a) Engr. Licinio B. Capili, b) Engr. Nolito L. Notar, and c) Michael E. Encarnado to establish, 8. Plaintiff intends to expropriate portion of a parcel of registered land identified among others, NGCP’s authority to exercise the power of eminent domain, the as Lot No. 7, (LRC) PCS-20902, situated in Brgy. Muntay, Kolambugan, propriety of its exercise in this case, and the bases for the determination of the Lanao del Norte. Said property is registered and declared in the name of the just compensation. Copies of their Judicial Affidavits (with attached Exhibits late Juanito C. Roque married to Eleonor P. Roque, per Transfer Certificate “A” to “K”) are attached as Annexes B, C, and D and made an integral part of Title (TCT) No. T-8179 and Tax Declaration (TD) No. H-130210 (07), hereof. Plaintiff intends to present additional witnesses if necessary. respectively. It is more particularly described below together with the affected

PRAYER WHEREFORE, premises considered, plaintiff most respectfully prays of this Honorable Court to: 1. ISSUE a Writ of Possession in plaintiff’s favor; authorizing plaintiff to enter and take possession of the property subject of this complaint that will be affected by the construction and implementation of the Project, consisting of a total area of 15 square meters, more or less, as described in paragraph 8 hereof; demolish the affected structures standing therein; order all defendants to vacate the same; directing the Philippine National Police (PNP) to assist plaintiff in the implementation of the said writ of possession so that project construction can immediately commence even during the pendency of the case; direct the Registry of Deeds for the Province of Lanao del Norte to enter the Writ of Possession in the Primary Entry Book and annotate the same in the Registration Book pursuant to Section 69 of Presidential Decree No. 1529; 2. After issuance of Writ of Possession, ISSUE an Order of Publication allowing plaintiff to effect service of summons to Defendants Juanito Karl P. Roque, Jr. and other Unknown Heirs of Spouses Juanito C. Roque and Eleonor P. Roque, by publication, pursuant to Sections 16 and 17, Rule 14 of the Revised Rules of Civil Procedure; 3. ISSUE an Order of Expropriation declaring that the plaintiff has a lawful right to take possession and acquire the affected property specified in paragraph 8 hereof; 4. After the determination of just compensation, to authorize the payment thereof by plaintiff to defendants after deducting the capital gains and documentary stamp taxes for the transfer of the affected portion of Lot No. 7, (LRC) PCS-20902, in the name of plaintiff, all other outstanding taxes under the National Internal Revenue Code, and all outstanding realty taxes and dues under the Local Government Code, which plaintiff shall remit to the Government; 5. ISSUE a judgment after determination of just compensation, declaring plaintiff as the lawful owner of the affected portion of Lot No. 7, (LRC) PCS20902 consisting of a total area of 15 square meters, more or less, described in paragraph 8 hereof; 6.

DIRECT: a. The Registry of Deeds for the Province of Lanao del Norte to register and annotate the Order of Expropriation and Judgment on the TCT No. T-8179 or any certificate of title that may hereafter be issued covering the property subject of this case pursuant to Section 85 of Presidential Decree No. 1529; b. The Municipal Assessor of Kolambugan and/or Provincial Assessor of Lanao del Norte to cancel Tax Declaration No. H-130210 (07) and issue new and separate tax declaration in the name of plaintiff covering the portion of the subject property sought to be expropriated herein.

Plaintiff prays for other relief as just and equitable under the premises.

Iligan City for Tubod, Lanao del Norte, May 5, 2021.

NATIONAL GRID CORPORATION OF THE PHILIPPINES Power Center, Quezon Avenue cor. BIR Road Diliman, Quezon City

By: WFH LUIS MANUEL U. BUGAYONG PTR No. 0599223 – 01/04/2021 – Quezon City IBP Lifetime No. 010191/Rizal Chapter MCLE Compliance No. VI-0012003 Roll of Attorneys No. 38002 WFH GORDON S. MONTOJO PTR No. 0599215 – 01/04/2021 – Quezon City IBP Lifetime No. 010193/Quezon City MCLE Compliance No. VI-0012024 Roll of Attorneys No. 44910 WFH JULES BOY R. VALDEZ PTR No. 0599221 – 01/04/2021 - Quezon City IBP Lifetime No. 012616/Quezon City MCLE Compliance No. VI-0012045 Roll of Attorney’s No. 63350 RIGHT-OF-WAY DEPARTMENT – MINDANAO DIVISION NATIONAL GRID CORPORATION OF THE PHILIPPINES Maria Cristina, Iligan City By:

SIGNED KERTH JOSSEF M. ABLANQUE PTR No. 9890045 – 01/06/2021 – Iligan City IBP Lifetime No. 012019 MCLE Compliance No. VI-0011641 Roll of Attorneys No. 60170 WFH JUNELLA G. LIMPANGOG-ABARQUEZ PTR No. 9890044 – 01/06/2021 – Iligan City IBP No. 128123 – 01/04/21 – Iligan City MCLE Compliance No. V-0022527 Roll of Attorneys No. 58980

NOW THEREFORE, the above mentioned Defendants are hereby summoned and required to file with the Clerk of Court, Regional Trial Court, Branch 07, Tubod, Lanao del Norte, Philippines, their ANSWER to the abovequoted petition within sixty (60) days from publication of the summons and to serve copy of the said answer upon plaintiff’s counsel at their given address indicated in the complaint. Defendants are further reminded of the provision in the IBP-OCA Memorandum on Policy Guidelines dated March 12, 2002 to observe restraint in filing a Motion to Dismiss and instead allege the grounds thereof as defenses in the Answer.

Tubod, Lanao del Norte, March 7, 2022.

SIGNED FLORENCE O. PEROCHO Legal Researcher II/OIC – Clerk of Court BWM: March 9, 16 & 23, 2022

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Role of Parents warrants Modular Distance Learning

By QUENNIE M. CUABO Teacher 3 Jasaan National High School Jasaan, Misamis Oriental

Parents plays a vital role in the learning of their child.

Covid-19 pandemic has brought too many changes, modular distance learning is one of them. Parents and teachers have a common goal: to facilitate the best educational experience possible for the learners even with the presence of this pandemic. The modular learning approach situates learners to learn in the comfort of their homes which also indicates that they have limited contact with teachers. Parents, therefore, shall be the core guide of their child’s academic achievement with this modality.

Parents primary role in modular learning is to establish a connection and guide children in dealing with their modules. By designating an area of home learning, they can also keep an eye on the progress and learning styles. Noting behaviors, opportunities and barriers, allow parents to adapt or adjust the standard as necessary to create the ideal path for their child or children. Parents involvement is associated with various benefits for the learners of all ages. It

doesn’t need to be a high le vel of commitment; simply guiding the child throughout the modular learning process and simply asking the child how he or she doing in modular basis can positively influence the student’s future. Learners, on the other hand, should looked up to their parents as their greatest cheerleaders and coaches, knowing a coach won’t be misleading but constructive and goaloriented. They need to reinforce the bigger picture and how the responsibilities of today point out the larger intentions.

Parents and teachers should work hand-in-hand specially in this trying times.

When parents and teachers communicate well, they can be able to work towards common goal: to facilitate the best educational experience possible for the learners – each party contributes their own specific skills and knowledge towards meeting the objective as they play a vital role in holistic development of the child.

Above all, good parental support helps learners to be positive, healthy and lifelong learner even in the midst of this pandemic.

Program, (WISP) which now has 3.6 million members with total contributions amounting to P13.8 billion.

The membership in WISP is automatic to those with Monthly Salary Credit of more than P20,000.

From P444.4 billion in 2015, the SSS grew its total assets to P 705.54 billion in 2021, while reducing its liabilities from P8.87 billion in 2015 to P7.91 billion in 2021, based on prel im inar y re p or t s and excluding Insurance Contract Liabilities.

Its res er ves sto o d at P435.52 billion in 2015, which went up to P697.63 billion in 2021.

Ignacio said the SSS has been adopting the Philippine Financing Reporting Standards (PFRS) 4 for insurance entities, starting from its 2020 Audited Financial Statement as instructed

by Dominguez last year, and has submitte d t his on Au g u s t 2 0 2 1 t o t h e C o m m i s s i o n o n Au d i t (COA).

The COA gave the SSS an unmodified opinion, the highest auditing mark granted if an agenc y is free from “material misstatements.”

Republic of the Philippines Local Civil Registry Office Province: Lanao del Norte Municipality: Sultan Naga Dimaporo NOTICE OF PUBLICATION

REPUBLIC OF THE PHILIPPINES. ) PROVINCE OF LANAO DEL NORTE ) SS. AFFIDAVIT OF LOSS I, EDUARDO B. MAGSALAY, Filipino, of legal age, married to Mrs. Teresita L. Magsalay, and a resident of Purok 1, Liangan East, Bacolod, Lanao del Norte, after having been duly sworn in accordance with law, hereby depose and say; 1. That my older brother deceased Federico Magsalay was the lawful holder and possessor of a Certificate of Land Title with No. P-11872; 2. That I was the one who kept the said document; 3. That I used to put the said document to an envelope; 4. That the said document was accidentally misplaced beyond my control; 5. That diligent effort to locate and search in places where I could put, the said document was nowhere to be found; 6. That said document was not confiscated by the authorities of government by any reason. Neither I violated any rules and regulations; 7. That I am executing this affidavit to attest to the truth of the forgoing facts and to request for a renewal of said document.

IN WITNESS WHEREOF, I have hereunto affixed my signature this 2nd day of September 2019 at Maigo, Lanao del Norte, Philippines.

Any person adversely affected by said petition may file his written opposition with this office not later than 15 days.

(SGD) JOCELYN R. COLORADA Municipal Civil Registrar

Department of the Interior and Local Government (DILG)10 conducts a seminar on Republic Act 11032 or the Ease of Doing Business and Efficient Government Service Delivery to LGU Quezon, Bukidnon, March 1. (DILG-10)

improvements in quality, speed of service and cost efficiency.

Imparting her knowledge and expertise on the matter, Local Government Capacity Development Division (LGCDD) Chief Hazel L. Occeña served as the resource speaker where she discussed about the

standards in processing business and nonbusinessrelated transactions of LGUs, as well as the guidelines in the streamlining of relevant processes.

Before the seminar concluded, the participants convened for a workshop on a Client Journey Map, TRAINS/PAGE 11

EXTRAJUDICIAL SETTLEMENT KNOWN ALL MEN BY THESE PRESENTS: This DEED, made and executed in the City of Cagayan de Oro by and between the following: We, MA-AN PALMERO ABANGAN (Widow), MIKYLA SHANE PALMERO ABANGAN and MATHEO PALMERO ABANGAN (17 years old), of legal age, Filipinos and all residents of Cagayan de Oro City; WITNESSETH: That we are the heirs of the deceased MARC THEODORE SATURNINO ABANGAN, who died last October 24,2021 in Quezon City; That the deceased died intestate, without will or testament, and without any outstanding debts in favor of any person or entity; That during the lifetime of the deceased MARC THEODORE SATURNINO ABANGAN, who died last October 24,2021 in Quezon City has a FULLY PAID Vehicle loan obligation with Bank of the Philippine Islands (BPI), under Account No. 0249-0552-98, secured by Chattel Mortgage over Chevrolet Trailblazer bearing plate number MSA 114; WITNESSETH FURTHER: That we the heirs hereby adjudicate unto ourselves the above described vehicle in the manner provided and mandated by the pertinent laws of Succession. That no other personal properties are involved in this Extrajudicial Settlement, other than the subject Chevrolet Trailblazer; That the deceased died intestate, without will or testament, and without any outstanding debts in favor of any person or entity; That a true copy of this Extrajudicial Settlement had been published once a week for three consecutive week in BUSINESSWEEK MINDANAO a newspaper of general circulation in the Province of Misamis Oriental; IN WITNESS WHEREOF, we have hereunto set our hands, this JAN. 25,2022 of January 2022 at Cagayan de Oro City, Philippines.

SUBSCRIBED AND SWORN TO BEFORE ME, a notary public in and for Maigo, Lanao del Norte this 2nd day of September 2019. Affiant personally came and appeared with his SSS's ID with No. 10-0427704-5 issued at Zamboanga City, bearing this photograph and signature, known to me as the same person who personally signed the foregoing instrument before me and avowed under penalty of law to the whole truth of the contents of said instrument.

In compliance with Section 7 of R.A. No. 9048, a notice is hereby served to the public that GENEVIEVE D. DIANGCO has filed with this office a petition for Correction of Clerical Error IN THE CERTIFICATE OF LIVE BIRTH from “PATRICIO” to “ROLDAN”. ANITA AGUHOB TO ALEJANDRA CONSTANTINO” 17 MARCH 1967 at Brgy. BANSARVIL II, (KAROMATAN) NOW SULTAN NAGA DIMAPORO, Lanao DEL NORTE, and whose parents are: MARIANO DIANGCO and ANITA AGUHOB.

BMW: March 2 & 9, 2022

BUKIDNON--As part of its mandate to provide technical assistance to local government units, the Department of the Interior and Local Government (DILG)-10 responded to the request of the Local Government of Quezon, Bukidnon to conduct a seminar on Republic Act 11032 or the Ease of Doing Business and Efficient Government Service Delivery, March 1.

Per request of the LGU, the seminar-workshop will give guidance to the LGU functionaries on how to simplify their processes of putting up and running a business in their locality without affecting the quality of their service.

Said undertaking is pursuant to Section 5 of the EODB Act or the ‘Whole-ofGovernment’ (WOG) Process Reengineering, which aims to redesign government processes towards fundamental

EDUARDO B. MAGSALAY Affiant

R.A FORM no. 10.1 (LCRO)

DILG-10 trains LGU Quezon on ease of doing business, government service delivery

Doc. No. 207 Page No. 42 Book No. 02 Series of 2019.

ATTY. ABDUL MAHID M. ATI Notary Public Serial No. 18-199 untile December 31, 2019 Roll No. 67588 - IBP No. 048058 IBP Lifetime No. 017308. 05/19/2018 TIN No. 462-870-589 PTR No. 8326184 7/30/18 ILIGAN CITY, LANAO DEL NORTE

BWM: March 2, 9 & 16, 2022

Republic of the Philippines ) Cagayan de Oro City ) ACKNOWLEDGEMENT BEFORE ME, a Notary Public in Cagayan de Oro City, JAN 25,2022 of January 2022, personally appeared the above named persons with proof of identities, known to me to be the same persons who executed the foregoing instrument of Extra Judicial Partition consisting of two (2) pages including this page where the Acknowledgement is written, and they acknowledge that the same is their voluntary act and deed.

WITNESS MY HAND AND SEAL

BWM: Feb 23, Mar 2 & 9, 2022

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“ We a r e r e a d y f o r operations and the only repair we have now is in the terminal area. All the other facilities in the airport, including the runway and the tower, are now ready for operation,” he said.

He said Cebu Pacific Air is continuously communicating with them for the resumption of its flights.

Abrazado s aid t he Philippine Airlines is yet to communicate with them as to the resumption of its flights in the area. (PNA)

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BTA the time to complete their crucial tasks.”

Moreover, maintaining the status quo in the BTA will enable the incumbent Pre s i d e nt t o fo c u s on ensuring that the key aspects of the transition process in the Bangsamoro, such as building the capacity of the BTA parliament and the Bangsamoro Autonomous Region in Muslim Mindanao (BARMM) Cabinet for good and accountable moral governance, are effectively carried out, it added.

The BARMM was created in January 2019 following the plebiscite that ratified Republic 11054 or the Organic Law for the BARMM. The following month, Duterte named the members of the DEED OF EXTRA-JUDICIAL PARTITION WITH SALE KNOW ALL MEN BY THESE PRESENTS: That the late ROSA OLAPE who died _____ at ________, Philippines, at the time of her death left a parcel of land with Transfer Certificate of Title No. T-16024-A situated in the Poblacion, Cagayan de Oro City, Island of Mindanao, containing an area of TWO HUNDRED TWENTY FIVE (225) SQUARE METERS, more or less, and has been the subject of an DEED OF EXTRA-JUDICIAL PARTITION WITH SALE, filed by the heirs of ROSA OLAPE, in favor of DAISY CORAZON P. CATULONG per DOC #159; PAGE #325; BOOK #380; Series of 2013 under the Notarial Registry of ATTY. MACODI M. AGUS. BWM: March 2, 9 & 16, 2022

EXTRAJUDICIAL SETTLEMENT OF ESTATE OF DECEASED PERSON KNOW ALL MEN BY THESE PRESENTS: That the late DANILO DAUG who died March 31, 1998 at Poblacion, El Salvador City, Misamis Oriental, that the said deceased acquired a certain propety that he inherit from his late parents SPS. REYMUNDO DAUG AND FEDELINA ENGUITO by way of EXTRAJUDICIAL SETTLEMENT OF ESTATE WITH SPECIAL POWER OF ATTORNEY docketed with Doc No. 275, Page No. 55, Book No. 102 and Series of 2019 under the Notary Public of ATTY. TIBURCIO M. PALASAN JR., at the time of his death left a parcel of land with Transfer Certificate of Title No. T-82708 situated in the Barrio of Carmen, City of Cagayan de Oro, Island of Mindanao, containing an area of TWO HUNDRED SIXTYONE (261) square meters more or less, and has been the subject of an EXTRAJUDICIAL SETTLEMENT OF ESTATE OF DECEASED PERSON, filed by the heirs of DANILO DAUG, per DOC #378; PAGE #76; BOOK #184; Series of 2022 under the Notarial Registry of ATTY. TIBURCIO M. PALASAN, JR. BWM: Feb 23, Mar 2 & 9, 2022

BTA, led by Ahod Ebrahim, popularly known as Al Haj Murad Ebrahim, chair of the Moro Islamic Liberation Front (MILF).

The cre at ion of t he Bangsamoro region is the major component of the Comprehensive Agreement on the Bangsamoro, the final peace agreement signed by the government and the MILF in 2014 after 17 years of negotiations.

In a resolution passed in October 2021, the BTA requested Duterte to allow the incumbent BTA members to continue carrying out their mandate in order to preserve the gains achieved under the body’s various programs, projects and legislative measures.

In the same resolution, the BTA emphasized that their appeal to the President to keep the status quo is being made “in view of the diverse ethnic-cultural and professional background of the body’s membership; their polic y advocacies and accomplishments; and the extensive trainings on governance they have received from academic and other development institutions.”

The BTA likewise issued a resolution last month appealing to Duterte to give primary consideration to the re-appointment of BTA members who are nominated by the national government, “as this will ensure a smooth transition process without the possibility of any political disruptions taking place.”

Republic of the Philippines Department of Transportation LAND TRANSPORTATION FRANCHISING & REGULATORY BOARD Regional Office No.10, Apovel, Bulua, Cagayan de Oro City MANOLO FORTICH TRANSPORT SERVICE COOPERATIVE (MAFORTRANSCO) Rep. by: MYRNA G. ANGCAHAN CASE NO. R10-EV-CC-PUJ 2018-431-B

NOTICE OF HEARING APPLICANT/ PETITIONER requests the authority to amend his/her/its application/ petition and to add Two (02) unit/s to their previous Petition for Consolidation of Cases to operate PUJ SERVICE on the route: MANOLO FORTICH- CAMP PHILIPS-ALAE AND VICE VERSA, with a total use of Twenty Five (25) unit/s.

This amended application/petition shall be considered by this Board on March 16, 2022 at 10:00 A.M. at this Board on which date Applicant/Petitioner shall formally submit his/ her/its evidence.

The Applicant(s)/Petitioner(s) shall publish said notice at least Five (05) DAYS prior to the date of hearing once in a newspaper of local circulation.

Party(s) opposed to the approval/granting of the application/petition must file his/her/its written opposition with supporting documents, unless this Board deems it necessary to require additional documentary evidence and/or his/her/ its oral testimony(s).

WITNESS, AMINODEN D. GURO, Regional Director, LTFRB-Region X, this 7th day of March 2022 at Cagayan de Oro City, Philippines.

(Sgd.) ATTY. MOHAMAD FAHDEL S. PIMPING HEARING OFFICER BWM: Mar 9, 2022

The President also approved t he 41 MILF nominees for the BTA as submitted by Ebrahim.

Although the SJPCC recommended maintaining the status quo in the BTA, it must be noted that the President has the authority to replace those members who may be elected into office during the 2022 national elections, the joint statement said.

The status quo in the BTA will be done in the exigency of public service, it added.

“Undoubtedly, the BTA has over the past two years played an instrumental role in uplifting the lives of the Bangsamoro people and unleashing the economic potential of the region. Given these major accomplishments, its current membership must not only be given due recognition, but must also be given the chance to complete what it has started,” the SJPCC members said.

“By keeping the status quo in the BTA, we are not only building on and sustaining the gains of the Bangsamoro peace process; we are laying the foundations where genuine development and long-lasting peace can take root and flourish, and where our Moro brothers and sisters can look ahead to a better and brighter future,” they added.

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and public government offices and classes in all levels in public and private schools are hereby suspended," Regencia said.

The mayor though required workers in the public safety services, emergency response, medical services, and disaster response to continue with their operations.

As of Monday morning, EXTRAJUDICIAL SETTLEMENT WITH DEED OF SALE OF A PORTION OF LAND KNOW ALL MEN BY THESE PRESENTS: That the late ANECITO N. BACALSO died intestate at Gango, Libona, Bukidnon on Janaury 7, 2017, leaving a parcel of land situated at Gango, Libona, Bukidnon, consisting of ELEVEN THOUSAND TWO HUNDRED THIRTY ONE (11,231) square meters, land with Transfer Certificate of Title No. ET-264 and has been the subject of an EXTRAJUDICIAL SETTLEMENT WITH DEED OF SALE OF A PORTION OF LAND, filed by the heirs of ANECITO N. BACALSO, per DOC #35; PAGE #7; BOOK #40; Series of 2022 under the Notarial Registry of ATTY. REYNALDO A. VITORILLO. BWM: March 2, 9 & 16, 2022

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the Iligan-DRRM Office conducted several rescue operations, one of which was at Zone Caugmaran, Barangay Suarez, from midnight to 7:40 a.m.

Rescuers extracted around 17 people trapped in their houses due to flooding.

In Misamis Oriental, Gingoog City Mayor Erick Cañosa also suspended classes as a preemptive move, especially in flood-prone areas.

The province's DRRMC has continued to monitor water levels of major rivers.

In El Salvador City, Misamis Oriental, the Tagilas Spillway in Barangay Hinigdaan, was still overflowing at 7 a.m. after heavy rain on Sunday night.

A video shared on Facebook by the El SalvadorDRRMC showed that some motorists were careful in crossing the flooded road.

(PNA)

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Enhancement Fund (RCEF), as provided under RA11203 or the Rice Tariffication Law (RTL).

Being the funding agency, PhilMech appropriated the funds required for the RPS2 implementation, while the NFA provided the site needed for the project.

The LGU and CMU on the other hand shall jointly operate the RPS 2, with the technical assistance of the latter. Once completed the Rice Processing System will feature 1 unit of Multi-Stage Rice Mill and two units of Recirculating Dryer.

Collado said the facility is instrumental in improving the local rice farmers' efficiency in terms of post-production and distribution system, reducing post-har vest losses, and maximizing the utilization of rice by-products.

"We thank PhilMech and NFA for the materialization of this project. We are hoping that more areas in northern Mindanao will be provided with the RPS 2 in the future so we can further boost the region's rice industry" he said.

He underscored that the OneDA undertaking is material to the DA-10’s ultimate goal of attaining food security in the region.

Construction and installation work for the RPS 2 shall

commence this year and are expected to be fully operational before the end of 2023. (DA-10/PIA-10/ Bukidnon)

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Lines/Materials Pilferage Act of 1994.

Thepower firm has so far apprehended 560 violators, and they are required by law to pay for the stolen electricity and face criminal charges.

Stressing that electricity is not the only source of fire in homes and establishments, Saludes said the Cotabato Light also issues some fire prevention tips for nonelectrical items like candles and gas lamps that many residents still use at home.

“Lighted candles and gas lamps should be placed far from curtains and highly combustible materials like waste p ap er and ot her easily burned items should be properly disposed of,” Saludes said.

He said the Cotabato Light has an emergency response team working round-the-clock to respond to fire incidents, whether it is electrical-related or not.

Whenever a fire occurs in a particular area, Cotabato Light emergency personnel cut power around the eye of the fire to prevent the spread of conflagration, he said.

(PNA)

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self-control of his emotions.

You can tell how strong a man is by how much it takes to make him upset and lose control of his anger. “The more you grow up, the less you blow up.” A mature person masters his moods and understands that “The results of anger are usually worse than the cause

of it.” Nothing is important enough to become so angry we deeply hurt, damage, or even destroy those we love and care about.

Remember, you only get one life, so why not make yours the best it can be by becoming your best? Ask Jesus to take full charge of your heart and character. Only He can give you the power you need each day to become the mature man or woman of self-control He created you to be. Then, you can start reaching your potential and living your life to the fullest. Just think a minute.

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a tool used to assess the p r o c e s s e s i nv o l v e d i n customer engagement of the different agencies in order to further identify impractical steps and hasten the customer-centric processes.

With the easing of mobility and travel restrictions, DILG-10 Regional Director Arnel M. Agabe encouraged all LGUs in the region to go full blast on their recovery efforts, especially on their local economy which was adversely affected by the pandemic.

The seminar was attended by re pre s e nt at ive s and department heads of the following local regulatory offices: Municipal Treasurer’s Office, Office of the Building Of f icials, Accounting Office, Business Permits and Licensing Office, Office of the Civil Registrar, Municipal Administrators, Environment and Natural Resources Office, Social Welfare and Development O f f i c e, Bu re au of F i re Prot e c t i on ( B F P ) , an d Philippine National Police (PNP). (DILG-10/PIA-10/ Bukidnon)

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Closing the loop between Charity and Good Intentions

By TITO MIKE

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Bebot Santos with one of her Salted in Heaven aged duck eggs. (right photo) Lucy, Salted in Heaven's mascot.

IVE years ago, Ruby Asuncion Corrales Santos founded One Indigo Project to assist children of indigent indigenous peoples’ communities in Bukidnon, Davao and Cotabato improve their academic performance in school.

With donations from like-minded companies like LBCFoundation, Century Tuna, and Sierra Falcones , One Indigo

donated simple items such as ‘tenderly used clothing’, toys, shoes, and face masks aimed at assisting the lumad families cope with the demands of educating their children.

However, Bebot (as she is known to friends) began to feel the pinch as the years went by since she was basically financing all of One Indigo’s activities out of her own pocket, down to the snacks for volunteers who helped her sort

Bebot wiith a Pigsag-an tribal community, children of Empowered Moms.

Women workers sorting duck eggs prior to further processing.

donations for distribution.

In December, 2021, she decided to undertake a salted eggs production project to help finance One Indigo Project’s feeding programs to remote IP communities in Talakag and Maramag, Bukidnon, and to indigent areas and homes for the aged in Cagayan de Oro. However, before production started at her farm at Libona, Bukidnon, she experimented with various processes from salting to boiling and coloring, but was not satisfied with the results, which pushed her to research some more until she hit perfection, hence the brand “Salted in Heaven”.

“The secret is actually in the curing and boiling,” she shares with a wink.

“The salted duck eggs that you've been craving for are made eggs-tra special as they're soaked in turmeric with less salt and larger than usual salted duck eggs.”

“I love our authentic creamy, not quite salty, aged duck salted eggs,” she added. “Our eggs go great with salads of dried cranberries, nuts, fresh arugula, sliced tomatoes, white onions, cucumber, and thinly sliced garlic for added oomph!”

To ensure the local community benefits from the project as well, she decided to simply source her supply locally from duck egg producers in

Libona. She also hires three to four people locally, mostly single moms and battered wives whenever they undertake production, which has now increased to 35 trays every three weeks.

From a huge dying cypress tree in the farm (known locally as “saypris, sipris or cipris”), the workers use chips from its dead branches to start a fire for cooking the eggs, and mixed them with giant ipil-ipil firewood producing a fragrant wood smoke.

Besides the salted duck eggs, the project has also undertaken pest control under the brand name “Unipest” as an additional

revenue source for One Indigo and Bebot’s other projects (Kain Ko with Century Tuna canned goods, Books for lumad kids from Sierra Falcones, clothing from LBC Foundation).

Consumers willing to help One Indigo and Bebot’s other advocacies can order “Salted in Heaven” aged salted duck eggs from mobile 0976.053.9888 or by Messenger through https://www.facebook. com/saltedinheaven and deliveries will be made through riders. Premium custom gift wrapping and packaging must be preordered.

(left photo) Salted in Heaven duck eggs on a bed of fresh arugula with dried cranberries and walnuts, paired with fresh herb tarragon tea, dill and basil from Herbs&More. (right photo) Salted in Heaven Aged Salted Duck Eggs