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Cagayan de Oro City
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December 17, 2012
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REMEMBERING 12/17:
‘Honoring our loved ones one-year after Sendong’
A Eucharistic mass will be held simultanously in all relocation sites in Cagayan de Oro City today as local officials and residents commemorate the tragic events that killed hundreds of people and destroyed billions of property when tropical storm “Sendong” battered the city and its nearby towns, including Iligan City. Senator Manny Villar and former Las Piñas City Rep. Cynthia Villar will lead the unveilling of Sendong Memorial Monument at 2 p.m. today at Serate Property in Hinaplanon Highway (near the Mandulo bridge 2) in Iligan City. The couple is expected
Food Packs Distributed at Calaanan. Residents of the Calaanan Relocation Site lined up to receive food packs distributed during the People to People Program (PPP) held there last December 14, 2012. Free medicines, consultations, dental, veterinary, and other services were also freely offered to residents including a mass wedding in which several couples were officially wed by Mayor Vicente “Dongkoy” Y. Emano. Calaanan is one of the resettlement areas for the Typhone Sendong victims. CIO Photo
Opol mayor turns over new school buildings By GERRY LEE GORIT of Mindanao Daily News
OPOL Mayor Dexter B. Yasay led officials on Friday in turnover ceremonies for two newly constructed school buildings for the buildings | page 11
Cagayan de Oro City. After the mass, the Villar Foundation will hold the Children’s Caroling Contest. Today’s simultaneous eucharistic mass in Cagayan de Oro will be held at the Calaanan Relocation Site, SENDONG | page 11
Benaldo launches milk-feeding program to combat malnutrition By GERRY LEE GORIT of Mindanao Daily News
Cagayan de Oro City 1st District Rep. Benjo A. Benaldo on Friday led an orientation seminar for health officers and some beneficiaries of his milk feeding program, which to date has benefited some 5,208 people in all barangays of his district. Benaldo said the program aims to eradicate malnourishment among children, noting that it is the children who will be the responsible citizens in the future. The congressman was benaldo | page 2
Weather Update A newly constructed multipurpose building in Opol, Misamis Oriental, will be blessed on Monday by municipal officials. Costing some P4.5-million, the building will be used for the multisectoral engagement of the municipal government headed by Mayor Dexter B. Yasay who said that former senator Juan Miguel Zubiri and Senator Francis Pangilinan also contributed to the total amount spent for its construction. Photo by Gerry L. Gorit
to lead the memorial mass, also in remembrance of the victims of Typhoon Sendong that ravaged the city of Cagayan de Oro on December 17, 2011. The mass will be held at 4 p.m. at Golden Haven Memorial Park in Macapagal road in Barangay Bulua,
Northeast monsoon affecting Northern and Central Luzon. Tail-end of a cold front affecting Bicol region. Bicol region, Soccsksargen and the province of Samar will have cloudy skies with moderate to occasionally heavy rainshowers and thunderstorms which may trigger flashfloods and landslides. Cagayan Valley and the provinces of Aurora and Quezon will experience light rains. Metro Manila and the rest of the country will be partly cloudy with isolated brief rainshowers or thunderstorms. Moderate to strong winds blowing from the northeast will prevail over Luzon and Visayas and the coastal waters along these areas will be moderate to rough. Elsewhere, winds will be light to moderate coming. source : pagasa
Cagayan de Oro City 1st District Rep. Benjo Benaldo gestures as he stresses a point during an orientation seminar for his milk feeding program held Friday at City Hall. The seminar was attended by health officers and some beneficiaries from the different barangays of the city’s first congressional district. He said the project is aimed at eradicating malnourishment among children. Photo by Gerry L. Gorit