Davao Oriental News November 2011

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Wars of ancient history were about possessions, territory, power, control, family, betrayal, lover's quarrel, politics and sometimes religion.

But we are in the Modern era and supposedly more educated and enlightened .

Think about this. Don't just brush off these questions.

  • Why is RELIGION still involved in WARS? Isn't religion supposed to be about PEACE?
  • Ask yourself; What religion always campaign to have its religious laws be accepted as government laws, always involved in wars and consistently causing WARS, yet insists that it's a religion of peace?

WHY??

There are only two kinds of people who teach tolerance:
  1. The Bullies. They want you to tolerate them so they can continue to maliciously deprive you. Do not believe these bullies teaching tolerance, saying that it’s the path to prevent hatred and prejudice.
  2. The victims who are waiting for the right moment to retaliate. They can’t win yet, so they tolerate.
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Provincial Capitol Building of Davao Oriental

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1 NPA rebel killed in Davao Oriental

A suspected New People’s Army (NPA) guerilla was killed by the military after his group was caught setting up land mines in Davao Oriental Monday morning.

Armed Forces of the Philippines (AFP) Eastern Mindanao Command Spokesperson Col. Leopoldo Galon said a firefight erupted between members of the Army’s 6th Scout Ranger Command and some 70 NPA guerillas in Pantuyan, Caraga town at around 8:30 a.m.

Galon said the clash began after the military caught the communist rebels planting land mines in the area.

The firefight lasted for about an hour. The military recovered two M16 rifles from the rebels.

Bomb sniffing dogs were deployed to clear the area of land mines.

DepEd finances R-11 reading program

The Department of Education (DepEd) has included the nine schools divisions in Southern Mindanao or Region 11 in the agency’s P21,034,000 support financial assistance to its intensified reading program for elementary school children for School Year (SY) 2011-2012.

This was learned from DepEd Order No. 70, Series of 2011, issued by Education Secretary Armin A. Luistro that was received here recently by DepEd Region-11 Director Susana Teresa Estigoy.

Estigoy said Southern Mindanao is the only region in the country’s second biggest island region, which was included under the DepEd fund aid for reading program that also involved six regions in Luzon, and a region in the Visayas.

The fund allocation, Estigoy said, is earmarked to strengthen the implementation of DepEd’s “Every Child A Reader Program” (ECARP), particularly on its three major components.

These components are Reading Recovery (RR), administration of the Philippine Informal Reading Inventory (Phil-IRI), and development of the Philippine World Lists in English (PWLE) for first, second, and third grade pupils in Region-11’s nine schools divisions.

Estigoy said Region-11 is composed of the schools divisions of Davao City, Davao del Sur, Tagum City, Compostela Valley, Digos City, Davao Oriental, Davao del Norte, and the Island Garden City of Samal.

Quoting Luistro’s order, Estigoy said Region-11’s ECARP support fund aid for Reading Recovery will be specifically utilized for setting up Regional Reading Recovery Centers (RRRCs), and refurbishment of existing vacant rooms, expenses on teachers’ training, and for visits to schools of teachers-in-training, monitoring visits relative to the enforcement of RR in the regional level, conducting advocacy activities, management and maintenance of database, and procurement of equipment and story books for school children.

The DepEd chief’s directive, Estigoy said, described the ECARP as a national program designed to make every child an independent reader and writer at the end of Grade-3, even as it provides a year-long training to teachers to make them independent solvers of literacy problems in their respective learning centers.

RR, an early literacy intervention that aims at reducing reading and writing difficulties in schools, gives children, who are beginning to fall behind in reading and writing, a second chance before their problems become complicated.

An assessment component of ECARP, the Phil-IRI is a nationally validated assessment tool for measuring the reading proficiency level of pupils in both English and Filipino Languages, Luistro said, adding that the PWQLE is made up of the most frequently used words in English textbooks from Grades 1 to 3.

As this developed, Estigoy enjoined all elementary school teachers and administrators to effectively implement the ECARP, and to wisely utilize the DepEd financial support in their respective stations to ensure that every learner in the first three grades would benefit from the program.

She also fielded division and regional education supervisors to closely monitor the enforcement of the program.

Beyond Mati

Mati City, the capital of Davao Oriental province, was once a quiet seaside community now laden with beach resorts lining coconut-filled shores, offering amenities and island banca tours to islets and secret coves. It has now become a most visited destination three hours away from Davao City.

The young city successfully celebrated its Sambuokan Festival last October 20-31, 2011. This week-long celebration is both a thanksgiving and observance of the commemoration of its founding anniversary every 29th of October.

Sambuokan (“buok” meaning one) showcases Mati’s “oneness” despite diversity of fascinating culture and ethnic traditions, lifestyle and way of life. Add to it the blessings of abundance in natural resources carefully preserved and enhanced by ecotourism.

Highlights of the celebration include night shows and events at the Baywalk, parties, a pageant, photo competition, fun run, frisbee event, dance showdown, bikini open, trade fair, exhibits, a market showcase of local products, banca race and the most watched skimboarding competition set in the stunning clear blue waters and white shores of Dahican.

Sambuokan’s Indak – Indak sa Kadalanan (street-dancing competition) became a highly charged atmosphere of energy and colors as the crowd cheered the participants. Emerging as the winners were the Matiao National High School (last year’s champ) and Matiao Central.

Beyond the merrymaking, this festival aims to unite the people working together for a common good, turning this once unknown town into a fast-developing settlement and the next potential tourist destination.

When you visit Davao, try Mati on a sudden road-trip whim. Endowed with one of the longest and most beautiful white coastlines in Mindanao, travel to Mati involves zigzagging through well-paved roads that snake up and down a cliff overlooking the sea. The now familiar Barney-shaped Sleeping Dinosaur is a landmark that indicates you have arrived in the once quiet municipality and provincial capital.

Learn how to skimboard, a sport popularized on wild Pacific waves that fringe white sand shorelines. Dahican is a long strip of mesmerizing powdery white sands and startlingly clear aquamarine waters that gradually change into deep azure in the horizon. Skimboarders practically camp by the beach for an adrenalin encounter with the waves.

Meet the local heroes, athletic teens popularly known as the Amihan Boys. They bring skimboarding to a new level by winning various regional competitions and bringing home top prizes, thanks to their mentor George ‘Jun’ Plaza, who raises and disciplines them like sons while they work for a living. Plaza is also a staunch supporter of the turtles and dugongs who ply his beachfront headquarters.

A dolphin tour showcases hundreds of frisky species of the beautiful mammal (Fraser’s dolphin, Risso’s dolphin, long-snouted spinner dolphin, Indo-Pacific bottlenose dolphin, to name a few) freely cavorting alongside fishermen’s boats. Dive tours and island hopping packages are available for arrangement in the city tourism office.

The simple yet unique distinction of this new city and friendly locals are remarkable features that will keep you coming back for more.

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