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== Caravan of social services goes to Negros Occidental ==
*Source: http://www.pia.gov.ph/?m=1&t=1&id=44380
*Wednesday, July 20, 2011
:(JCM/EAD-PIA6 Negros Occidental)
NEGROS OCCIDENTAL, July 20 (PIA) -- True to its mission of promoting integrity, efficiency and high ethical standards in public service, the Office of the Ombudsman is embarking on a caravan of social services as it gathers national government agencies to bring its services to the people.
The Caravan of Social Services, which has already reached the provinces of Antique in 2008, Iloilo in 2009, Aklan and Capiz in 2010 is set to visit Negros Occidental on August 5 and September 9 in the cities of Kabankalan and Sagay, respectively.
Associate graft investigation officers Evangeline Nuñal and Maria Luvilla Gaurana met with Kabankalan City Mayor Isidro Zayco and Governor Alfredo Marañon Jr. together with their respective department heads and other partners like representatives from the Social Action Center and the PIA to finalize the dates and preparations for the caravan.
Zayco said he is happy for his constituents for they need not go to Bacolod City or Iloilo to transact with the different national government agencies; all they need to do is go to the Kabankalan Catholic College Gym on August 5 to deal with these agencies.
Together with the agencies that provide social services, the Caravan of Social Services will also conduct Medical Mission.
Nuñal during the meeting with Zayco revealed that the Department of Health in region 6 has already pledged some P50,000 worth of medicines for the medical mission during the caravan.
The Social Action Center in the Diocese of Kabankalan was tasked to invite the beneficiaries for the caravan together with the local government of Kabankalan.
Zayco is also inviting those from neighboring towns and cities of Kabankalan who wish to avail of these services.
A Public Accountability Seminar is also set in Kabankalan City on August 4 which will be attended by all 32 barangay captains, barangay treasurers and barangay kagawads who chair the committee on finance.
Expected to deliver their services during the caravan are the Office of the Ombudsman, Professional Regulatory Commission, Department of Agrarian Reform, Philippine Charity Sweepstakes Office, Department of Social Welfare and Development, Department of Trade and Industry, Bureau of Internal Revenue, Department of Health, Technical Education and Skills Development Authority, among others.
==Bacolod City to host water convention==
*Source: http://www.pia.gov.ph/?m=1&t=1&id=44287
*Tuesday, July 19, 2011
:CAD/JCM//PIA6/BACIWA)
BACOLOD CITY, July 19 (PIA) -– The Bacolod City Water District (BACIWA) and the Association of Negros Occidental Water Districts will host the 6th National Annual Convention of the Water Environment Association of the Philippines (WEAP), on July 21-22, 2011 in Bacolod City.
The convention theme is “WEAP 16 Years and Beyond...Committed to Protect the Water Environment.”
The event will be participated in by representatives from water districts, local government units, private companies, manufacturers, suppliers and consultants who will address the challenges of environmental protection.
It aims to renew the genuine friendship and to foster true camaraderie among stakeholders of the water industry.
Highlights of the convention are the technical sessions and a product and services exhibit. These will include topics for addressing the environmental issues and the latest innovations and technologies in the water industry.
== Bago Resort Set to Reopen Today==
*Source: http://ndb-online.com/jul1811/negros-events/Bago+Resort+Set+to+Reopen+Today
*Monday, July 18, 2011
Buenos Aires Mountain Resort, a resort owned and operated by the City Government of Bago, popularly known for its over-flowing crystal clear spring water is set to reopen today, July 18, 2011 after a year of closure due to major renovations.
Expected to arrive for the blessing and reopening ceremonies are Department of Tourism Regional Director Edwin Trompeta, Provincial Government officials headed by SP Committee on Tourism Board Member Nehemias dela Cruz, 4th District Board Members Mae Javellana and Jose Benito Alonso, Bago Mayor Ramon Torres, Vice Mayor Nicholas Yulo, City Officials and tourism stakeholders from the province and the city.
==Cadiz City officials launch in-school feeding program==
*Source: http://www.pia.gov.ph/?m=7&r=r06&id=43801
*Sunday, July 17, 2011
: (Cadiz City/JSC/LOL-PIA6 Negros Occ.)
BACOLOD CITY, Negros Occ., July 17 (PIA)-- Cadiz City officials led by Mayor Patrick Escalante and school superintendent Dr. Xz Dignadice launched last July 6 the city's school-based feeding program in support of the school health and nutrition program for all 51 elementary schools from pre-schoolers to Grade 3.
The PAT project dubbed as “Pagkaon Aton Tatapon” is a supervised eating program in all schools aimed to address the malnutrition problem and improve delivery of health and nutrition services and academic performance in public schools from kindergarten to Grade 3. It is a collaborative effort of the local government, Dep-Ed, Parents Teachers Association (PTA), and barangay officials.
Mayor Patrick Escalante said that “by keeping the children in school, increasing their nutritional status and at the same time improving their intelligence, the PAT project is just like hitting three birds with one stone. It would minimize tardiness, improve health, and maintain attendance in school.”
Based on the report, last year, Cadiz City ranked number two in the number of having the most number of malnourished children, but due to continuous feeding program, the record shows that the number of malnourished children had decreased.
The city has appropriated P3.7M taken from the city's general fund, 20 percent city development fund, and adopt-a-school program fund to finance the PAT project for one year.
The children had been weighed and dewormed before the feeding and their weights were regularly monitored by the city health workers. They will be fed at least three times a week - Mondays, Wednesdays and Fridays.
Under the program, the children will acquire incidental learning such as preparing the table, setting the table napkins, proper use of eating utensils, good manners, saying grace before meals, washing hands before and after eating, and other practical values like sharing food with others. The parents are tasked to do the preparation and cooking.
The program will be evaluated as to the increase in academic performance, children’s participation, rate of drop-out, and school children’s gain in weight at least every three months.
==Finance officers train on natural resource management==
*Source:http://www.pia.gov.ph/?m=1&t=1&id=43766
*Saturday, July 16, 2011
: (JCM/EAD-PIA6/PEMO Negros Occidental)
NEGROS OCCIDENTAL, July 16 (PIA) - - Financial officers, Sanggunian committee chairpersons on appropriations, budget officers and city or municipal accountants will undergo training on the Natural Resource Management (NRM) conducted by the provincial government and the European Union on July 19-20 at the Mambukal Mountain Resort.
This second batch of the training will have the financial officers of LGUs from the Central Negros Council for Coastal Resources Development (CENECCORD), Kabankalan-Himamaylan-Ilog Integrated Coastal Area Management Council (KAHIL-ICAMC) and Southern Negros Coastal Development Management Council (SNCDMC) areas.
The training activity aims to orient participants on natural resources management and generate their support in ensuring that NRM budget are reflected in the Annual Investment Plan.
Topics to be discussed involve the environmental situation of the upland, coastal and urban sectors.
There will also be sharing of best practices on NRM and Fund Management Models from alliances such as the Water Levy Fund of San Carlos City and the Sagay Marine Reserve Experience of Sagay City.
The first batch of the training held July 13-14 was participated in by 13 Local Government Units of Northern Negros Aquatic Resources Management Advisory Council (NNARMAC) and Northern Negros Natural Park Management Council (NNNPMC) from San Carlos City to Murcia town.
Participants of the first batch were brought on a guided tour approach on how the forest came about and how to protect it by resource speaker former Department of Environment and Natural Resources Regional Executive Director Raul Geollegue, who was one of the resource speakers.
At the end of the training, participants were made to do an action plan where they identified issues and concerns as to the delay in processing of budget and set recommendations on how to increase allocation on the NRM programs of their LGUs.
This is in line with the joint project of the Province of Negros Occidental and the European Union on “Effective Natural Resources Governance through Inter-LGU Alliances” (ENRG) in collaboration with Department of Interior & Local Government and German International Cooperation (GIZ). *
== DENR, Himamaylan City lead planting of 2,560 seedlings'''
*Source:http://www.pia.gov.ph/?m=1&t=1&id=43643
*Friday, July 15, 2011
: (EAD-PIA6/PENRO Negros Occidental)
NEGROS OCCIDENTAL, July 15 (PIA) -- the Department of Environment and Natural Resources and the local government of Himamaylan contributed to the success of the National Greening Program by planting 2,560 seedlings.
The tree planting was done in a 5.12 hectare area in the city’s watershed in Brgy. Carabalan, Himamaylan.
The NGP targets the planting of 1.5 billion trees.
An orientation regarding NGP was held before the deployment of groups to the NGP sites located at Sitio. Daat, part of the Daat Watershed presently co-managed and protected by the DENR and the City Government of Himamaylan.
The activity was headed by Mayor Agustin Ernesto G. Bascon and Community Environment and Natural Resources Officer Edgardo M. Rostata of CENRO Kabankalan City.
Himamaylan City Mayor Agustin Ernesto Bascon committed his full support to the program, and by encouraging and convincing the participants to maintain the trees planted considering the importance of the watershed to the lives of the people in the city.
The tree planting was participated in by various stakeholders totaling to 419 from the city government, DENR, Local Water Utilities Administration, Department of Public Works and Highways, 47th IB and 542nd Engineering Battalion of the Philippine Army, the Philippine National Police, South Negros Bible Institute, students and teachers of Carabalan National High School and the barangay officials.
Recently, the DENR and the City Government of Himamaylan had conducted training to 36 proposed members of the Deputy Environment and Natural Resources Officers.
The three-day training is a requirement for issuance of Deputation Order by the DENR.
==Neg Occ farmers get medical attention ==
*Source: http://www.pia.gov.ph/?m=7&r=r06&id=43329
*Thursday, July 14, 2011
: by Lorenzo O. Lambatin Jr. (JCM/LOLO-PIA6)
NEGROS OCC., July 14 (PIA) —- The medical mission of the combined team of the provincial government and multinational biotechnology firm Syngenta surpassed its expected number of clients to be served as well medicines to be distributed.
From a target of 300, more than 500 farmers took advantage of the consultation while medicines given reached close to 15,000.
“There was an overwhelming positive response to the medical mission with most farmers expressing elation over the free check up and medicines given them,” Syngenta Sales Supervisor Loy Martinez III told Philippine Informationa Agency (PIA).
Most of those who came for examination were adults but there were also children, he added.
The Bayanihan spirit of Filipinos was also brought to life in the activity because their medical supplier, upon learning that they will conduct a medical mission, also donated boxes of medicines, Martinez said.
Furthermore, Aksyon Radyo also donated about 600 canned goods through its manager JJ De Ocampo.
Martinez also commended the government physicians who attended the patients in the recent medical mission- they are: Dr. Ma. Teresa Gonzaga and Dr. Orlando George Gonzaga, Dr. Giovanni Alvarado, Dr. Laarni Pornan, Dr. Hazel Pornan and an infirmary nurse Kilmer Villanueva.
Aside from the medicines given, Syngenta also turned-over One Blood Pressure apparatus each to Brgy Sagasa and Brgy. Tabunan Bago City and Brgy. Payao in the town municipality of Binalbagan.
Because of the success of this program, Martinez said they will propose to their higher office that the medical mission be made a continuing activity.
== Lakbay Buhay Kalusugan bus now in Sagay City ==
*Source: http://www.pia.gov.ph/?m=7&r=r06&id=43324
*Wednesday, July 13, 2011
: (JCM/EAD-PIA6/Sagay Negros Occidental)
NEGROS OCCIDENTAL, July 13 (PIA) -- The Lakbay Buhay Kalusugan of the Department of Health is now in Sagay City--one of the two cities in Western Visayas and one of the 10 local government units nationwide--where the project is being piloted.
Lakbay Buhay Kalusugan is part of DOH’s universal access to health program which aims to increase awareness on practices related to maternal and child health nutrition with the main message, “Walang Iwanan sa Byaheng Kalusugan.”
The program is anchored on a traveling bus that brings health services, information and entertainment through health festivals in target provinces.
Tali-ambong Activity Center was filled with project stakeholders, city officials and beneficiaries from the 25 barangays of the city during the launching held recently.
Sagay City Mayor Leo Rafael M. Cueva hopes that LBK will boost and strengthen Sagay City’s health program, one of the priority projects of his administration, as he called on his constituents to work together to eradicate malnutrition and strive to make Sagay a healthy city.
Dr. Ernell Tumimbang, Provincial Health Officer II of the Province of Negros Occidental congratulated Sagay City for successfully launching LBK and being the only recipient city in the province.
Dr. Marlyn Convocar, DOH Assistant Regional Director for Region VI urged Cueva to utilize the City Information Audio-Video Van to advocate health care programs in all its 25 barangays and called on the health stakeholders to advocate and implement correct health care information and methods in order to change the attitudes of our people towards positive health practices.
Dr. Irma Asuncion, DOH Director for National Center for Health Promotions thanked the local government of Sagay for its full support to LBK.
“This program values our health and our life and that good health is everyone’s responsibility,” Asuncion added.
Eight hundred-fifty families registered to participate in this program to avail of free check-ups, medicines, health classes for both expectant and lactating mothers and fathers as well.
LBK is supported by the US Agency for International Development (USAID), Victory Liner Inc., Melawares, Air21, OMF Literature, Philippine Daily Inquirer, Dakila, Center for Community Journalism and Development, Manila Broadcasting Company, UNTV, Probe Media Foundation, Philippine Press Institute, and the Alliance of Young Nurse Leaders and Advocates International, Incorporated.*
==Gov. Marañon: NEGROS FIRST Family Health Cards “Beyond Politics” ==
*Source: http://negros-occ.gov.ph/current-events/press-release/capitol-news/gov-maranon-negros-first-family-health-cards-%E2%80%9Cbeyond-politics%E2%80%9D/
*Tuesday, July 12, 2011
: (Capitol News)
With its cardholders reaching to almost 5,000 at present, Talisay City is among local government units (LGUs) having the most number of NOCHP beneficiaries in the province.
This was revealed by Gov. Alfredo G. Marañon, Jr. during the simultaneous distribution of health cards to different barangays in Talisay City over the weekend, as he stressed that the distribution of the Negros Occidental Comprehensive Health Program (NOCHP) cards or the Negros First Family Health cards, is beyond politics.
As a matter of fact, he said, it was in Talisay where he got the biggest margin of loss during the last elections. Despite that, he said that all qualified indigents in Talisay City will be given the Negros First Family Health Cards.
Meanwhile, Talisay City Mayor Eric Saratan thanked the governor for giving priority to the Talisaynons and added that that the enrolment of members and distribution of cards will continue until it covers the 14,000 target members in the city.
At present, a total of almost 50,000 indigents from all over the province are NOCHP beneficiaries and Gov. Marañon named Rep. Albee Benitez of the Third District as the strongest NOCHP advocate.
Rep. Benitez said he is working hand in hand with Gov. Marañon as they share the same agenda of ensuring the public’s health.
Health services is one of the priority programs of the provincial government as embedded in the NEGROS FIRST Development Agenda of the administration of Gov. Marañon and Vice Gov. Genaro Alvarez, Jr., with some 40 percent of the province’s budget allocated for health.
Present in the distribution were Rep. Albee Benitez, Third District Board Member Manuel Frederick Ko, the members of the City Council and barangay captains, NOCHP Program Manager Roy Balicas, Executive Asst. to the Governor, Nonong Verdeflor, Provincial Planning and Development Coordinator and NOCHP Core Group head, Ma. Lina Sanogal, and NOCHP Management Office Head, Mina Pellejo, among others.
==Bacolod City growing, reaps awards==
*Source:http://www.pia.gov.ph/?m=7&r=r06&id=42813
*Monday, July 11, 2011 03:07 PM
:by Lorenzo O. Lambatin Jr.(JCM/LOL-PIA6)
ACOLOD CITY, July 11 (PIA) -- Bacolod City has grown consistently in many fronts over the years, as shown by the awards and recognitions it has received from credible local and international awarding body and from surveys commissioned by well-known institutions.
During the recent Peace and Order Council meeting here, Mayor Evelio Leonardia cited a project of the Asian Institute of Management, German Technical Cooperation and the USAID, which listed Bacolod as one among the areas of growth in the country.
In the survey, the city ranked no.2 in dynamism of economy based on infrastructure, cost of doing business, manpower and training and quality of life.
Bacolod ranked 1 in the area that measured the responsiveness of the government or LGUs; that is, whether it hinders or facilitates the business.
The city also ranked high on the quality of life that took into account the security of the people noting that POC has always been on the top five most outstanding councils in the country every year and was once on the second spot.
From the its previous 5th place among New Wave Cities of the country, Bacolod is now on the 3rd spot where it ranked 1st on the aspects of business environment and risk management.
In the past, Bacolod City was also chosen as the Most Business Friendly City in the whole country by the Chamber of Commerce Organization of the Philippines.
Through the years, he said, the awards and recognitions given are consistent.
“These are all apolitical and professional giving award bodies,” he claimed.
With these accomplishments, he told the council that the city should further move forward and not rest on its laurels.
Meanwhile, he said the recent graduation of 24-man SWAT team complements the growth of the city, now having a population of 540,000.
The team finished a 25-day intensive training partly sponsored by the city government.
The city also gave P1 million worth of equipment and gears to its members.
==P1.22-B Infra Projects in NegOcc Completed==
==P1.22-B Infra Projects in NegOcc Completed==
*Source: http://ndb-online.com/jul0911/negros-local-news/P1.22-B+Infra+Projects+in+NegOcc+Completed
*Source: http://ndb-online.com/jul0911/negros-local-news/P1.22-B+Infra+Projects+in+NegOcc+Completed
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