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 ==[[Southern Leyte News]]==
-'''OCD-SoLeyte enhances LGUs’ knowledge on disaster preparedness'''
+'''Big business pledges to discontinue selling cigarettes in Maasin City'''
-*Source: http://pia.gov.ph/news/index.php?menu=2&webregion=R08&article=1291332731184
+*Source: http://pia.gov.ph/news/index.php?menu=2&webregion=R08&article=1281332767237
-*Monday 26th of March 2012
+*Tuesday 27th of March 2012
-:by  Rebecca S. Cadavos
+:by   (EOPT/ESG-PIA 8)
-SOUTHERN LEYTE, March 26 (PIA) -- To strengthen the local government units’ knowledge on disaster preparedness, the Office of Civil Defense (OCD) conducted a two-day community-based multi-hazard mapping at Silago, this province.
+MAASIN CITY, Southern Leyte, March 27 (PIA) -- One of the superstores in Maasin City pledges to discontinue selling cigarettes especially when they are located within the 100-meters radius from an elementary school.
-OCD-Southern Leyte Provincial Coordinator Marichu Tan reported that the training held at Silago Municipal Audtirorim, Thursday and Friday was attended by Municipal Disaster Risk Reduction Management Council members, barangay officials throughout the municipality, teaching staff and personnel and Silago Rescue Team.
+“I have talked with Dr. Edward Gaisano, the Maasin Hiper (Gaisano) owner and he agreed to stop selling cigarettes at the superstore," a Maasin City Mayor Maloney Samaco said.
-It is aimed at strengthening the capacities of the local government unit, enhancement of knowledge in disaster preparedness – how to respond and how to identify multi-hazard situation in their areas, among others.
+The incessant campaign to prohibit smoking in public places had now reached newly established superstores in the city that are still selling cigarettes to those who live within the 100 meter–radius from schools, he disclosed.
-Tan disclosed that the topics discussed during the seminar-training were the Incident Command System, Rapid Damage and Needs Assessment and orientation on the DRRM policies and strategies, while the speakers include Epinfanio Pabilona and Ms. Tan.
+The mayor even requested the Hiper owner to also put down the billboards of cigarettes set up inside the superstore.
-“An actual identification of hazard-prone areas was made by each barangay-participants which was identified as Poblacion 1 and Poblacion 2, as pilot barangays which are considered as high-risk barangays in Silago town,” Tan revealed.
+“As long as I am still the mayor of Maasin City, I will not issue any business permits allowing any establishment to sell cigarettes particularly those that are located within the prohibited areas,” he further said.
-The participants were required to identify the problems within the area of concern such as the problem of drainage system and its proper construction, houses if properly elevated, among other possibilities for a 2-day heavy rainfall and the possibility of flooding, and the like.
+He also gave instructions to the city employees to always wear the anti-smoking pins together with their ID cards in slings as the city government is expecting national evaluators to visit in the city by next week.
-OCD Southern Leyte had been conducting community-based hazard mapping, contingency planning, fire and earthquake drills, DRRM orientation, to name a few in municipalities throughout Southern Leyte, Tan said. Other municipalities are yet to be scheduled, she added. (PIA 8-Southern Leyte)
 ==Photo Gallery of Southern Leyte, Philippines==