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===Escalante City News===
PIA Press Release<br>
2009/12/14<br>


Escalante City reports near completion of SWM compliance<br>
'''NorMin rice production to improve with P1.8-B irrigation project'''.<br>
Escalante City (14 December2009) -- The City of Escalante is moving swiftly to fight the global warming and climate change with the implementation of Solid Waste Management Law.  
CAGAYAN DE ORO CITY - Rice production in Northern Mindanao is expected to improve after the PHP1.8-billion irrigation projects were turned over to different organizations during ceremonies here on Tuesday. The turnover ceremony was at the conference room of the Chali Beach Resort in Barangay Cugman. Dimatimpos Tomarompong, the president of the Lindongan Farmers Irrigators Association (FIA), Inc. from Tangkal, Lanao del Sur, said in his speech with the irrigation projects of the National Irrigation Authority (NIA), he hopes that local farmers can better contribute to the country’s food security with less dependence on imports.
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'''3 nabbed, P373-K shabu seized in Zamboanga'''<br>
ZAMBOANGA CITY – Lawmen have arrested three suspects, including a visual merchandiser, and seized some PHP373,000 worth of shabu in separate anti-drug operations here and in Zamboanga del Sur province, police officials said Tuesday. The arrested suspects were identified as Hassan Jehandal, 52; Alnijar Aripin, 30; and Jason Feguracion, 24, a product display merchandiser of an alcohol company. Maj. Shellamie Chang, Police Regional Office (PRO) 9 (Zamboanga Peninsula) information officer, said Jehandal was arrested by the Regional Drug Enforcement Unit in an anti-drug operation around 3:55 p.m. Monday in Sitio Asinan, Barangay Kasanyangan here.


It is currently strengthening its anti-littering law in support to the waste segregation city ordinance 138 that imposes no-segregation no-collection policy, Environment Management Specialist Stephanie Pamati-an, said.  
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City officials are also drafting moves for the closure of the existing dump site as the new one is being developed at Hda. Amparo, Brgy. Mabini.
 
She said out of the 17 hectare lot owned by the city, three hectares will be utilized as dump site.
 
In the same area, the Escalante government will implement an intensive Vermicomposting project and a Materials Recovery Facility (MRF) will rise.
 
A Memorandum of Agreement (MOA) is now being worked out for the city to co-manage its garbage residuals with the City of Sagay.


==Escalante City supports [[Philippine Cycling]]==
==Escalante City supports [[Philippine Cycling]]==

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