BULA BEAUTIES. Sherlyn Baldovia (third from left) was recently crowned Miss Bula 2007, during the town’s fiesta. She is shown in photo with her fellow titlists, from left: Hilda Dominguez, 2nd runner-up; Joflorenn Kristel Bigay, Miss Bula Bamboo Festival; Marissa Obrero, Miss Bula Tourism and; Sheena mark Uvero, 1st runner-up. ALEX BUSTAMANTE

KEEPING THEM HEALTHY AND SMART! The Camarines Sur Headstart Laboratory School pupils joins the Nutrition Month Celebration with a Culminating Activity held last July 27, 2007 at the ITC building, Capitol Complex with the theme “Healthy Lifestyleng Kabataan, Landas sa Kinabukasan”. (Upper left photo) projecting nutrition, protecting the kids - keeping them healthy and aware of the foods that prevent them from sickness is what this special project of Gov. LRay Villafuerte aims to inculcate in the young minds of these pupils. (Right photo) This smart and alert Headstart pupil proves to be a good model of a healthy, bright kid - a product of an exemplary preschool education combined with good, healthy and nutritional program of the provincial government. Trebb Gomez/JKCastro

EDUCATION PLUS. Naga City Mayor Jesse M. Robredo explains to parents of Jose Meliton Elementary pupils the significance of QUEEN and QUEEN Plus initiatives which are aimed at improving the holding power of public schools, to be measured by the students’ survival and completion rates. RANDY VILLAFLOR

RESCUE. A member of the Red Cross sustained bruises after he slipped and fell down from a speeding ambulance. Except for this incident, the disaster drill conducted at the Camarines Norte Provincial Capitol with members of the PNP, PA, BFP, Kabalikat and PNRC went on smoothly. FRANCIS ELEVADO

EXPLOSION. Unfazed by rumblings and ash explosions, local residents watch and take photos of Mt. Bulusan’s dazzling fury. RHAYDZ B. BARCIA

MATERIALS RECOVERY FACILITY. Its steel structure and some recycling equipment downed by Typhoon Reming last year, Naga’s MRF within the dumpsite whose replaced roof is now made of canvass continues to churn out at relatively lower pace the city’s mounting garbage into organic fertilizer as seen in the foreground ready for packaging. Mayor Jesse Robredo has admitted that the dumpsite is no longer tenable so that there is a need to look for better, more manageable location in the next three years. RHANDY VILLAFLOR