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City celebrates 11th Phil-Chi friendship day

Wed, 06/13/2012 - 21:36 — p_rillorta

BAGUIO CITY – Lion dances have again marked the celebration of the long lasting friendship between Filipinos and Filipino-Chinese here.

A simple program was launched in SM-Atrium Baguio, Saturday (June 9) where City Officials along with the Filipino –Chinese Executive Committee graced the event.

The ‘Fil-Chi Friendship Day’ is being celebrated yearly as per Presidential Proclamation 148 issued in January 22, 2002 declaring June 9 of every year as Filipino-Chinese Friendship Day in the country.

Search for Best performing brgy starts

Wed, 06/13/2012 - 21:35 — p_rillorta

BAGUIO CITY – The city wide search for the Best Performing Barangays officially started Friday here.

The search will cover the period January to December 2011 where at least 29 barangays have confirmed their participation in the search.

Gov. pack buses back by july

Wed, 06/13/2012 - 21:35 — p_rillorta

BAGUIO CITY – Bus lines now occupying the Baguio Convention Center parking lot as loading and unloading area will have to wait for the second week of July before being able to utilize Gov. Pack road as such.
This was confirmed by Mayor Mauricio Domogan during the Transport and Traffic Management Committee (TTMC) meeting at city hall last week.
A thorough curing period for the repaired road is needed, it was known.

Third chemo up for mother of four

Wed, 06/13/2012 - 21:27 — p_rillorta

As in her second chemotherapy session, Veronica Sallayao-Bitaga, a 56-year old mother of four from Pucsusan Barangay here, has to depend on Samaritans for her third treatment set on June 6 at the SLU Hospital of the Sacred Heart here.
A couple recently called up her daughter, Verolyn, asking that they meet at the city social welfare and development office at Upper Session Road. There, the pair handed her P20,000 for her mother’s treatment.
They declined to be identified, saying they just wanted to help.

barangay fun-run raises P52 grand for cancer patients

Wed, 06/13/2012 - 21:26 — p_rillorta

Organizers dubbed it “Run for Life”, and the 175 who answered the starting gun at dawn last Sunday just couldn’t care less about the accuracy of the distance or their individual clockings and placements.

After the last runner hit the finish line beside the barangay hall, Outlook Drive barangay captain Mike Arnaiz admitted that the actual route was longer than the three-kilometer distance announced in the flyers. Still, measuring it was of no moment.

Sporting tans, spes studes cherish field work

Wed, 06/13/2012 - 21:25 — p_rillorta

The letdown came onthe first day of the city’s Special Program for the Employment of Students (SPES) last April 23. Majority of the 250 students the local government hired this year expected to be assigned to office work. To their chagrin, at least 20 of them were told they would be doing manual labor in Busol Watershed and at the clonal nursery in Pacdal.

council okays P26M for hauling; summons pro tech

Wed, 06/13/2012 - 21:24 — p_rillorta

BAGUIO CITY – The city council last Monday approved the realignment of P26.2 million from two fund sources to finance the city’s solid waste disposal operations as it directed the withholding of the retention fee to Pro Tech Machinery Corporation for the payment of the Environmental Recycling System (ERS) machines.
The body also invited Pro Tech representatives to its session on Monday to explain its side on its seeming non-compliance with its obligation to haul out residual wastes, among other conditions contained in its contract with the city government.

additional improvement works approved for block 4; application deadline for stalls on june 15

Wed, 06/13/2012 - 21:23 — p_rillorta

BAGUIO CITY – The city government will implement additional improvement work for the Block IV section of the city market.
Mayor Mauricio Domogan on Wednesday said the new project is separate from the original development work started by the city last year costing P18 million and covered the construction of a covered court-style open structure with a total of 412 stalls.

penalty for erring contractors urged

Wed, 06/13/2012 - 21:22 — p_rillorta

BAGUIO CITY – Mayor Mauricio Domogan on Wednesday said contractors of public works projects who incur work slippage leading to public disturbance should be penalized through outright termination of their contracts.
The mayor said that while most of the road projects being implemented by the Dept. of Public Works and Highways Baguio City District Engineering Office (DPWH-BCDEO) are on schedule, there are some that are now behind their target dates of completion and are sure to cause inconvenience especially as classes are about to open.

boarding houses face lock-up for violations

Wed, 06/13/2012 - 21:22 — p_rillorta

BAGUIO CITY – Boarding houses with violations as to the building code, fire safety measures, and sanitation code shall be locked up, Mayor Mauricio Domogan pointed out during the regular media Ugnayan last week.
Baguio, as educational center of the north caters to an increasing number of students resulting to a demand for accommodation facilities; boarding houses, apartments and dormitories.With schools and colleges’ opening this week, students are expected to fill available housing facilities.

Baguio breaks all time high in PNG hammer throw

Wed, 06/13/2012 - 21:21 — p_rillorta

DUMAGUETE CITY – an athlete of Baguio has broken the Philippines all time record high in hammer throw in the women’s category for the best distance here.

Lorelie Amahit Sermona, a member of Philippine Team landed a distance of 50.03, the best record so far in Hammer Throw for the women’s category at the Perdices Sports Complex, Dumaguete City during the POC-PSC National Games (PNG) May 30.

Sermona’s distance of 50.03 literally erased her own record of 49.79 during the 24th South East Asian (SEA) Games in 2007.

Baguio Arnisadores takes over PNG

Wed, 06/13/2012 - 21:20 — p_rillorta

DUMAGUETE CITY – the unrelenting Arnisadores of Baguio proved their worth in bagging the over-all crown in Arnis Anyo and Labanan for the second POC-PSC National games here.

First to draw blood for team Baguio is Elmer Batani where he dominated Arnis Anyo-Solo baston category at the Casco Gymnasium right in the center of the city which started May 26.

Batani, a second year college student of the University of Baguio proudly showed-off his form wearing only the wanes impressing ten judges which gave him the highest score attainable.

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