1st Environment Week
fun walk, run and bike June 17

The Negros Occidental government Provincial Environment Management Office in partnership with the Bantay Bata Foundation of ABS-CBN Bacolod, will hold the 1st Provincial Fun Walk, Run and Bike on June 17 as part of the 20th Provincial Environment Week celebration.

The theme of the activity is “Green from Above...Blue from Below”, a press release from Capitol said.

The fun walk to kick off at 6 a.m. at the Bacolod public plaza in front of the BAC-UP 1; the run at Bangga Mandalagan-Bata in front of the gasoline station; and the fun bike from the New Government Center via Brgy. Alangilan and Shopping area. All participants will converge at the Provincial Capitol Lagoon and Park, the press release also said.

Prizes are at stake for the biggest contingent, best in costume, early bird, and the youngest and oldest participants. Those interested to join may call the PEMO at 432-2922, or the Bantay Bata Foundation, 433-9071, the press release said.

Meanwhile, the Community Environment and Natural Resources Office in Cadiz City, Negros Occidental, marked the Month of the Ocean 2012 in Tinangisan Island, Brgy. San Isidro, Calatrava, recently, a press release from the DENR said.

Tinangisan Island is part of the “No Take Zone” of the town’s marine protected area. It is home to various species of fish, shells, sea stars, sand dollars, sea urchins, and sea horses.

The celebration, on the theme “Buhay Dagat, Buhay Natin”, was also in line with the International Day of Biodiversity. It was attended by CENRO personnel and members of the Bantay Dagat of Calatrava, the press release added.*

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300 benefit from medical
mission in San Enrique

Free medicines and services were given to 300 residents of Barangay Tabao Rizal in San Enrique town, Negros Occidental, during the 3rd medical and dental mission of the Katilingban sang Paghili-usa, in cooperation with the Office of Vice President Jejomar Binay, 303rd Infantry Brigade Philippine Army, Life Line International Health Institute, and the Office of Mayor Mario Magno, a press release from organizers said.

The activity, led by Kasanag national chairman Ike Barredo, and founder and president John Chiong, is a continuing project to help take care of the medical needs of poor communities, the press release said.

Dr. Francis Balsomo said most of the medical cases in the barangay were hypertension, abdominal-related diseases, cough and fever. Children and adult came and queued for the consultation as this was the first mission conducted in their place this year, the press release said.

The 303rd IB, headed by Maj. Ritchie Neil Amancio, was assisted by volunteers in the free circumcision conducted during the mission that was coordinated by Pastor Allan Ablao through Victoria Baptist Church pastor Eduard Magliquian and Tabao Rizal Brgy. Captain Enriqueta Galimba, the press release added.*

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Bacolod project
area for FACES

Bacolod City was chosen as site for the 2012 Family-based Actions on Children and their Environs in the Slums project of the Local Government Academy under the flagship program on human rights of the Department of Interior and Local Government.

The core team of the city’s Millennium Development Goals FACES Project, headed by Councilor Em Ang, Sally Abelarde of the Department of Social Welfare, and Secretary to the Mayor Moises de la Cruz, attended the signing of the memorandum of agreement on the project in Manila recently, a press release from the office of Ang said.

As project site, Bacolod will gain technical as well as financial assistance, knowledge sharing and mentoring from the previous MDG FACES pilot cities, and the opportunity to access LGA-related programs, Ang, chair of the Sangguniang Panglunsod Committee on Social Services, said, the press release added.

The project aims to set targets, initiate actions, and provide solutions through the process that is inclusive, gender sensitive and rights-based; and the data will be provided by the community-based monitoring system and other baseline gathering instruments.

Mothers or women-headed households in the slums will be tapped and mobilized to take the lead at the household and community-levels to manage the Family MDG Covenant, a document that contains the MDG targets and proposed actions each family is committed to achieve and act on, the press release said.

Quick response mechanism will also be developed and established at the household, city and national levels.

This includes the mobilization of national and local governments, business, church, academe and civil society to provide critical interventions like the introduction of policy measures, expansion of service delivery, increased budget allocation, construction of public utilities, investing in human resources development, and capacity-building support, the press release said.

Bacolod City received P300,000 from the LGA to ensure the complete and effective delivery of project outputs; and will provide technical guidance together with the League of Cities of the Philippines, the press release added.*

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Solo piano recital set

The SOJ Music Studio will present Loreane Novem Fiesta Loriezo in a solo piano recital at the Bacolod Adventist Church, at about 7 p.m. on June 22, a press release from the studio said.

The official pianist and accompanist of the Bacolod Adventist Church choir, her repertoire includes religious and sacred piano compositions and transcriptions of Dino Kartsonakis, Andrae Crouch, Stuart Hine, Thomas Chisholm, Phill McHugh, Carol Bayer Sager, Dottie Rambo, and David Foster.

She will also perform a piano-organ ensemble with Dana Lei Zabala-Mahinay, a former student of Sylvia Ocsio-Javellana , the press release said.

Loreane is the daughter of Donald and Judy Jean Loriezo of Bacolod City, and is also a piano student of Javellana. She graduated recently from the University of St. La Salle with a degree of Bachelor of Science in Hospitality Management, the press release also said.*

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