Bacoleña anesthesiologist gets
outstanding physician award

A Bacolod anesthesiologist, Dr. Erlinda de los Reyes, is one of the five Top Outstanding Physicians in Community Service awardees in the 30th awarding rites of the Auxiliary to the Philippine Medical Association, held at the Unilab Bayanihan Center in Pasic City in line with the 34th Physician’s Day, recently.

De los Reyes, who is district governor of the Canlaon Medical Society, is the first TOPICS awardee from Bacolod City and Western Visayas. She was given the highest points by the awards committee for her multifarious projects in the community.

As president of the Philippine Medical Women’s Association-Negros Occidental Chapter from 1976 to 1977, she was responsible for the construction of the Nutrition Feeding Center and donation of water-sealed toilets to 100 squatter families in the province.

As president of the Negros Occidental Medical Society from 1978 to 1979, she spearheaded the construction of the Negros Occidental Medical Society Multi-Purpose Center, the daycare center in Brgy. Singcang-Airport and a small police outpost near the fire department in Brgy. Banago, Bacolod City.

She also donated 17 houses costing about P1,190,000 to Gawad Kalinga in Brgy. Cabug, Bacolod, when she was president of the Canlaon Medical Society, aside from conducting other activities, like free surgical operations, cancer awareness program, disaster and calamity aids and health education and public information.

She is past president of the Philippine Society of Anesthesiology-Western Visayas, Philippine College of Occupational Medicine-Neg. Occ., the UST Alumni Association, Catholic Physician’s Guild of the Philippines-Neg. Occ., Bacolod City Lioness Club, and was Lioness District President of District 301-B Philippines.

She took up medicine at the University of Sto. Tomas, with anesthesiology and occupational medicine as specialty. She was married to the late Lions past district governor Dr. Telesforo de los Reyes Jr., who was also once president of the Philippine Medical Society-Negros Occidental, and the mother of Ma. Elena de los Reyes, the late Telesforo de los Reyes Jr., retired Army Col. Isabelo de los Reyes, Dr. Antonia Erlinda Cruz, and grandmother of Emory Lourdes Reyes and Adrian de los Reyes.*CGS

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Magsie’s son
runs for mayor

Also running with him are reelectionists Sangguniang Bayan members Gerany Suatengco, Federico Montilla, Ernesto Amechachura, Ronald Tenero, Alfabeto Udani, Alberto Jacildo, and two new candidates for the SB, Wenie Espinosa and Ericson Cepida.

Miguel Peña was accompanied by his wife and son, his father and aunts Vicky Yulo and Sylvia Suatengco, when he filed his COC before Tess Parroco of COMELEC-Pulupandan.*

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SP dismisses raps
vs. councilor

The Sangguniang Panlalawigan of Negros Occidental, in an en banc session, yesterday, dismissed the complaints of dishonesty, grave misconduct and grave abuse of authority filed by Candoni Mayor Jechonias Manzano against town Councilor Aldrin Diego, for lack of jurisdiction.

The complaint involved the alleged taking over by Diego of a 14,400 square-meter lot in Brgy. East, Candoni that had been earmarked for a farm laboratory of the Negros State College of Agriculture in the town

In his complaint, Manzano said that Diego, with grave abuse of authority as member of the Sangguniang Bayan of Candoni, ordered the occupation, plowing and cultivation of the lot in Sept. 13, 2010, that he claimed to own.

While Diego’s workers complied with the Cease-and-Desist Order he issued to stop the cultivation, Manzano said the respondent ordered the destruction of a fence put up by the municipal government, plowed and occupied it, before planting it with rice on. Nov. 1, without permission from the Office of the Municipal Mayor.

Board Member Raul Rivera, chairperson of the SP committee on Laws and Ordinances, yesterday recommended that both parties elevate the case to the court.

Rivera said both parties failed to present land titles to show ownership of the disputed lot. *GPB

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