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==[[Mindoro Oriental News]]==
==[[Mindoro Oriental News]]==
'''Calapan Mayor among this year’s TOYM awardees'''
'''Nonstop rains make roads impassable'''
*Source: http://www.pia.gov.ph/?m=7&r=mim&id=67501
*Source: http://pia.gov.ph/?m=7&r=mim&id=67576
*Saturday, December 10, 2011
*Sunday, December 11, 2011
:by  Lanie Bolina Ronquillo
:by  Louie T. Cueto




CALAPAN CITY, Dec.10 (PIA) -- This year, seven distinguished young Filipinos made it to the prestigious list of this year’s Ten Outstanding Young Men (TOYM) search including City Mayor Paulino Salvador Leachon.
CALAPAN CITY, Or Mindoro, Dec. 11 (PIA) - The newly inaugurated national highway in the municipality of Puerto Galera, some 39 kilometers away from Calapan City, had become impassable to any type of motor vehicle due to
The TOYM award is widely recognized as the country’s most prestigious recognition for young men and women whose selfless dedication to their field resulted in significant contributions to the country and the people.
nonstop heavy downpour yesterday brought about by flash floods in barangay Villaflor in that town. The road had been heavily damaged.  Four major landslides occurred.
Leachon had juggled odd jobs as taxi driver and fastfood chain crew member before he became a lawyer and eventually a public servant. Leachon is also the national vice chairman of the League of Cities of the Philippines.
Some 50 passenger and private vehicles got stranded in between the landslides in the area and at the town proper.
President Benigno Aquino III awarded the trophies at a ceremony at the Rizal Hall in Malacanang on Wednesday.
The municipal government of Puerto Galera under Mayor Hubbert Christopher A. Dolor had taken action to ease the situation of the trapped commuters. 
Other winners this year included Ma. Antonia Arroyo, for biotechnology adocacy; Raul Destura,medical science; Sherwin Gatchalian,public service; Edgar Sia II, business entrepreneurship; Gerard Salonga,arts and music; and Antonio Tiu, agribusiness. (DOS/LBR/piaregion4b)
Continuous heavy rains rendered rehab work very difficult. If rains persist, it may take some two weeks to one month to fully open the road to traffic, it was gathered.
Due to the risks involved in commuting passengers, the usual fare of P80 had been upped temporarily to P300 from Puerto Galera to Calapan. Only single motorcycles and tricycles could traverse the highway. (DOS/Louie T. Cueto/PIA-4B)


==Photo Gallery of Mindoro Oriental, Philippines==
==Photo Gallery of Mindoro Oriental, Philippines==