NegOr to award
GPAK 2012 winners

The Negros Oriental provincial government will award this year’s winners of the Gulayan sa Palaisdaan Alay sa Kabataan provincial evaluation on July 17 at Plaza Ma. Luisa Suites Inn, Dumaguete City, a government press release said.

The awarding rite will mark the 10th year that GPAK, a Galing Pook awardee, was implemented in Negros Oriental to improve food production in the province by allotting unused lots within school grounds for vegetable production and tilapia ponds.

Winners under the Gulayan category for the first district are the Tinaogan Elementary School in Bindoy, first; Gaboc Elementary School in Canlaon City, second; DVLM Elementary School in Vallehermoso, third; Lower Lumapao ES in Canlaon, fourth; and San Jose ES in La Libertad, fifth; with a special citation for San Jose ES in Manjuyod, the press release said.

Essay-writing,
art winners announced

Environmental essay-writing and on-the-spot artwork contests on the theme “Simplicity In Nature: How I See It In The Future”, were initiated by the Ecological Society of the Philippines and JRS Express at Silliman University recently, ESP volunteer project organizer Malu Gacuma said.

Winners in the environmental artwork contest were Tevet Margaret Vanguardia, first place, who received P5,000 in cash; Vince Andrean Bandiala, second, who won P3,000; and Sha’Anne Lawas, third, who received P1,500.

Winners in the essay-writing contest were Diane Petersen, Mel Ann Clair Bagaipo, and Mariella Bustamante, who received P5,000, P3,000 and P1,500, respectively.

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