ORIENTATION
SEMINAR AT ROBERTO’S FOOD EXPRESS. QUANTUM GLOBAL marketing
groups headed by Glenn Sison (left) goes on Provincial tours to
promote their expansion program and new marketing plan of Direct
Selling in the Local Market aside from its regular National TV
Shopping. Photo shows Ms. Gemma Punzalan (2nd from right), the New
Business Center Offices for Naga and CSur and Sales Director of
Quantum Ms. Pearl Macob and Ben Bernaldez.
KEEPING
UP WITH THE FAIR PLAY. The 65-year COMELEC Camarines Norte can
best illustrate the one upright thing to do for a moment -
Celebrate. Camarines Norte employees took time out to celebrate
its 65th anniversary at Tierra del Soledad Nature Park and Resort
in Daet, this province. Region V COMELEC asst. regional director
Atty. Liza Zabala-Cariño joins them in enjoying the 65 years of
keeping up with fair elections time and again.
HERBAL
TRAINING and PROCESSING - Shown in photos are the officials
and members of (BUGCOS) Foundation Inc. - a service and
Christ-centered institution and an independent non-political
Social Action Center initiated a two-day seminar, scheduled August
21-22, 2005 focusing in the actual processing of medicines derived
from herbal/medicinal plants and in making organic fertilizers,
foliar fertilizers from organic materials being trained by the
Magsasaka at Siyentipiko para sa Pag-unlad ng Agrikultura (Masipag)
Trainors and facilitators - Mr. Ed Callada (with
hat-demonstrating) - Provincial MASIPAG Coordinating officer
together with Mrs. Imelda Velarde (at back party hidden) and Mr.
Nick Neakega - Technical Staff - MASIPAG - Luzon - Bicol cluster.
(extreme right lower photo). The two-day training was held at St.
Mary Magdalene Parish in Bula, Camarines Sur under Rev. Fr.
Dioscono Ibanita. (Alex B. Bustamante)
A
VENUE FOR SOLIDARITY IN MEDIA. Spearheaded by the Archdiocese
of Caceres, a press conference was launched last Saturday, August
20 at the Archbishop’s Palace, announcing the 6th Catholic Mass
Media Awards to kick-off August 22, this year. Shown in photo,
Archbishop Leonardo Legaspi speaking before the press as he
re-affirms his commitment to bring the best in local media and
calls for solidarity among them. Looking on (from left) Execom
member, Tess Bañares-Delfin, CCCom Exec. Director Fr. Louie
Occiano, Most Reverend Legaspi and CMMA Project Director E. Daniel
De Leon.
SAFE
ROAD. The Rolando R. Andaya Highway undergoes repainting of
directional signs to assure motorists of safe travel, especially
with the onset of the Peñafrancia fiesta next month.
LUZON
DEVELOPMENT AGENDA. Camarines Sur Governor LRay Villafuerte
(right), concurrently chairman of the Bicol Regional Development
Council (RDC 5) and the Luzon Development Coordinating Council (LADCC)
in a one-on-one huddle with Metro Manila Development Authority (MMDA)
chairman Bayani F. Fernando during a break at the second meeting
of the LDCC held August 19 at the RDC IV Conference Room of the
NEDA Complex in Quezon City to rationalize priority inter-regional
development concerns for Luzon area. Among the issues threshed out
were recommendations for inter-modal transportation linkages,
particularly vital road networking, rehabilitation and resumption
of the PNR service to Bicol, and the on-going RORO and ports
development projects, geared at promoting closer physical
integration of Luzon provinces; issues related to poaching in
Philippine territorial waters; and a proposal to require business
establishments with head offices in Metro Manila or elsewhere to
pay their business taxes in the revenue district where the
business is located or operated. (GBC/DRANERA)
COUNTRYSIDE
DEVELOPMENT GAB - In a meeting of the Federation of Regional
Development Councils (FRDCs) of the Republic of the Philippines,
Inc. held last August 12, 2005 at the Multi-Purpose Hall, DBM
Arcache Bldg., in Malacañang, Manila, Camarines Sur Gov. LRay
Villafuerte (second from right) current FRDC vice president for
Luzon and presiding officer, discussed various LGU concerns among
them the Regional Lump-Sum Appropriations for repair and
maintenance of school buildings, status of LGUs share from Road
User’s Tax, and Kilos Asenso (a grassroots response to the MTPDP).
With him during said discussions were (left to right) Usec.
Carmencita N. Delantar with Sec. Romulo L. Neri both of DBM, Gov.
Rolando E. Yebes, FRDC PRO and Gov. Salvacion Z. Perez, FRDC VP
for Visayas. (JMTS/DOMING RANERA)
CONSERVATION
MEASURES – Aside from zeroing in on illegal fishers and other
miscreants in coastal areas along more than 1,400 kilometers of
coastline in Camarines Sur, other missions of the Bantay Dagat
task force launched by Governor LRay Villafuerte include
coordinating with the DENR in conservation efforts to protect
threatened and endangered marine species like the loggerhead
turtle shown above caught by fishermen last August 19 at Agay-ayan,
Tinambac, measuring 18 inches (carapace length), tagged No. 145 A
and released the same day. GBC/JOVIE
INAGURACION
KAN HOUSING PROJECT - 27ng mga harong sa Villa Asiaret, Bombon,
Camarines Sur na proyecto kan Consuelo “Chito” Madrigal
Foundation, Inc. - Bikol an binasbasan sa ginibong actividad kan
Agosto 19, 2005 na inaapod “A Day with Implementing Partners”.
Nasa retrato hali sa wala si Alcalde Loreto Arevalo, Fr. Joel E.
Tabora, S.J., Fr. Wilmer S. Tria, Program Manager asin Most Rev.
Joel Z. Baylon, D.D., Obispo kan Masbate.
