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By Jason B. Neola
The Naga City Health
Office (CHO) is expecting
a 100% compliance with
the vaccination of children
under the Garantisadong
Pambata program of the
Department of Health.
This, after the team tasked
to monitor the implementa(Turn to page 6)
Fortuno favors
raising SK age range
Dr. borja
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Rep. fortuno
DENR-Bicol lines up
three Nov. activities
The
Department
of
Environment and Natural
Resources (DENR) Bicol
through
Environmental
Management Bureau (EMB)
V has slated three very
important
environmental
celebrations this month: the
National Clean Air Month,
the National Environmental
Awareness Month and the
National Climate Change
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editorial
Five books written or edited by Bikol authors
and/or published in the region are among this
years National Book Awardees. Why this
deserves an editorial can simply be answered by
the fact that it doesnt always rain in the summer
of our publishing landscape in the region. This
is also an award quite unlike the ones given by
dubious award-giving bodies based in some
dingy rooms in Sta. Cruz or Escolta which ask
for donations for souvenir programs, and
which victimize honor-hungry politicians and
public officials; or those where nominators pay a
sizable amount for their nomination. While there
are quarters who question the fact that some
members of the Board of the award-giving body
are themselves publishers and therefore gives it
some kind of a conflict of interest angle; there
is also no denying that the selection process
is above-board and done by independent peers
and authorities with impeccable integrity and
credentials.
The entry of the Ateneo de Naga University
Press among the elite list of University Presses
in the country which have produced National
Book Awardees is both a cause for celebration
and challenge, not only for the University but
also for those in the local production of books
the writers, editors, book designers, the
publishers themselves. A celebration because
AdeNUP had shown that regional publication
doesnt mean marginal or below par; or that
being a local writer doesnt come up to
national standards - qualitative distinctions
which are really constructed and thus always
permeable and refutable. A challenge, because
by being honored for their work, the awardees
have set a standard by which future or following
publications will be measured.
This recognition also opens up a new
opportunity for the development of a book
culture in the region amid the tantalizing
temptation of the new media or what National
Artist for Literature Cirilo Bautista calls the
tyranny of the eye. That kind of culture is not
the showcasing and spectacle kind, as most
local government chief executives understand
the word; but more of cultivating and improving
civilization, true to the words etymology.
Economic development, included.
So Bikol Reporter doff its hat to Kristian
Cordero, Paz Verdades Santos, H. Francisco
V. Peones Jr., Victor Nierva, and Merlinda
Bobis; as well as to Fr. Wilmer Tria, director of
the AdeNUP whose own translation of the Little
Prince into Bikol; and Maryanne Moll, whose
book, also made it as Finalists.
Arogon an Oragon!
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Lee G. Dullesco II
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By JASON B. NEOLA
NAGA CITY --- Gold
medalist bowman Danielle
Jasmine Espiritu is one of
the 5,000 athletes, technical
ALANO
ESPIRITU
Dr. inigo
appreciate good governance,
one of the best efficient cities, aside from highlighting
our objectives, and our advocacies as a corporation, he
explained.
The Run is among the major activities that PhilHealth
is organizing, to mark its 20th
year with the theme Ensuring Universal Coverage for
All Filipinos.
The second Nationwide
Simultaneous Run is slated
on February 15, 2015 in 13
regions all over the country.
Aside from Naga City, the
run will be simultaneously
held in other designated areas
like the cities of Quezon, Tuguegarao, Olongapo, Lucena,
Lipa, Iloilo, Cebu, Tacloban,
Davao and Koronadal, to
promote amongst the participants that an ounce of prevention is worth more than a
bikol reporter
Mayor John G. Bongat and Vice Mayor Nelson Legacion thank the LCC for donating a 2.8hectare parcel of land located in Cararayan near the Balatas boundary, for the City's urban
poor housing program.
bikol reporter
Pastidyong Lanob
Roldan W. Hervera
BSE- 4 English
Madya amigo
Dae magduwa-duwa
Ika maoogma
Rani sakong amigo
Itukod an mata asin magtago
Sa labot na sadit sa sakong pamago
An mag agom naglaog na
Dae ka magparisa
Dae magribok,
Asin tumultol
Saimong dalanon
An duwang dae man maturog
Tano nagtalikod?
An konsensya mo nakatukod?
Ta an sakong payo depende saimo
Kun ika masayuma o mapadara
etcetera
Pakatapos kan wasiwas ni Yolanda sa
Kabisayaan kan Nobyemre kan sarong
taon, nagpaluwas tulos nin sarong
pangapodan nin kontribusyon para sa
mga rawit-dawit manongod kan bagyo
para sa sarong antolohiya si Eileen
Tabios, sarong Fil-Am na parasurat asin
editor na nakabase sa Estados Unidos.
Huli sa tabang kan internet, madaling
nakalakop an saiyang pangapodan, asin
madali man tulos nakatipon nin bilang
nin mga kontribusyon. Kaya, madali man
na nadara ini sa imprenta asin napublikar
sa Amerika. Kan Agosto, nagkaigwa nin
lokal na pagbunsod sa Tacloban, na saro
sa grabeng tinamaan ni Yolanda. Parte
kan maguguno sa kabakalan kan libro na
may simpleng titulong Verses Typhoon
Yolanda o VTY pinagmarhay ni Eileen
na itao bilang tabang sa mga biktima ni
Haiyan, an international na pangaran
ni Yolanda. An sakong rawit-dawit na
Bamboo Song saro sa mga napili para
sa antolohiya ni Eileen, na iyo man
an nagmamantinir kan online-blog na
Galatea Resurrects, kun sain pigpublikar
man niya an sakong repaso kan libro nin
rawit-dawit ni Eric Gamalinda na may
by j. henry danican
Bamboo Song
Here, in these islands,
Arm-in-arm we stand
Tall against tropical storms
And the tyrants water cannons.
On moonlit evenings
We let our songs and moans
Soar past our jointed bones
To a milky constellation.
(November 8, 2013)
DENR-Bicol lines up . . .
and Regulatory Board will be
held to apprise key players in
the transport industry on Philippine Clean Air Act or RA
8749 among other laws implemented for mobile sources
and likewise, to promote the
need to curb exhaust pollutants
from on-road motor vehicles
by maintaining them in good
working condition.
The Air Quality Management Section of the EMB and
the LTO will be conducting an
anti-smoke belching campaign
on November 12-14 in major
thoroughfares of the region to
complement the campaign of
lessening air pollution from
mobile sources.
DENR will also spearhead
an Interfaith Conference on
inner chess
PADUA
Kansyon Kawayan
Digdi, sa mga islang ini
Nakatindog kaming abra-siete
Pusog laban sa mga bagyo
Sagkod kanyon de agua kan
tirano.
Kun bangging bulanon
Pinapabayaan niyamo an samong
kansyon asin ugong
Maglayog lagpas sa tulang
niamong tugbong
Pasiring sa magatas na
konstelasyon.
(Nobyembre 8, 2014)
bikol reporter
"ORAGON! AROGON!".
bikol reporter
ERRATUM
DA REMAINS COMMITTED TO . . .
Albay Governor Joey Sarte Salceda celebrated his birthday with the evacuees. He was joined
by heads of NGA (DA, DENR, DSWD, DILG & AFP). In photo is DA 5 RTD Elena B. delos Santos
(right) turning over some inputs and groceries to Gov. Salceda. Said groceries and planting
materials were distributed to the school teachers (photo below)
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BIKOL REPORTER
Published: November 2 and 9, 2014
sea.
For the whole of last year until the early months of this year,
however, no whale shark arrived,
idling the tourism industry of the
municipality that in the past years
would be visited by an average of
25,000 tourists yearly.
During the period, the butandings have to stay away from the
high temperature of the Donsol
waters and lack of food due to
intense heat of summer, Amanse
said.
The ideal temperature ranges
between 26 and 27 degrees centigrade but it significantly rose
to 29-30 degrees centigrade
while the supply of plankton
also declined due to the same
factor.
That hurt badly the local
tourism industry affecting
severely not only the towns
revenue earnings but the livelihood of hundreds of industry
Fortuno favors . . .
to pass under the proposed SK
Reform and Empowerment Act
of 2014 once they resume their
plenary session on Monday, November 17, 2014.
He said that most of the members of the House agree that the
current age bracket covers youth
who are mostly in high school
and their involvement in the SK
will affect their education. The
solons are also concerned that
they will also be exposed to corruption early on.
On the other hand, those
covered by the proposed amendments are those who are already
in the so-called legal age, and
mostly are already in college, if
not already graduated. This will
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workers.
Whale sharks come to Philippine seas essentially to feed
on plankton; however, by themselves, our seas are not rich in
plankton, being located in an
area where upwelling, a process
that brings nutrients from the
bottom of the sea to the surface
and fertilizes the water column
which consequently results in
rich plankton production, does
not occur.
Instead, our marine waters
are fertilized by outwelling,
which is caused by the monsoon
flood and typhoon winds and
waves which either transport the
nutrients from the coastline to
the sea or stir the coastal bottom
sediments and fertilize the water
column, followed by plankton
production.
In other words, the lack of
typhoons in the recent years in
the region have rendered our
seas quite infertile, decreased the
plankton production, and made
our seas a poor source of food for
the whale sharks, Amanse said.
The prevailing rainy season
and the coming of typhoon "Glenda" last July must have helped in
making Donsol waters attractive
once more to the butandings and
the return of tourists would certainly relive the local tourism industry to its peak during the whole
season, Amanse said. -Danny O.
Calleja
bikol reporter
10 sets of garden tools during the forum. Photo shows Ako Bicol
partylist Rep. Rodel M. Batocabe and Rep Christofer Co with the
recipients of handtractors with trailer and palay threshers.