About 500 trisikad drivers and 100 women and children in San Carlos City, Negros Occidental were benefited by the Sen. Mar Roxas medical mission at the city auditorium yesterday, a press release from his camp said.

Eight government and private physicians of the San Carlos Medical Society attended to the patients in the eighth medical mission of the senator.

Present at the giving of free consultation and medicines were Mayor Eugenio Lacson and other city officials.

Administrative officer Alexis Tugbo of the San Carlos City Health Office said the mission was aimed at helping those who are sick and indigent patients, the press release said.

Doctors who volunteered their services were Severo Atamosa, Jane Galle Garcia, Julius Nardo, Grace Nardo and Edgardo Quisumbing from  the City Health Office, and Leonardo Agraviador, Virgilio Tan Jr., and Ma. Fe Tomorong of San Carlos Medical Center.

A total of 200 gift packs from Roxas were also raffled off to the padyak drivers, the press release also said.

Eduardo Letegio Jr., 50, of Fatima Village, Barangay Rizal, in the city won the trisikad, it also said. 

Another medical mission also sponsored by Roxas will be conducted in Kabankalan City next week, the press release added.*

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Mobile passporting
set at Bacolod mall

SM City Bacolod, in cooperation with the Department of Foreign Affairs-Bacolod, will conduct a Mobile Passporting July 4 and 5, from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. at the Northwing Event Center, a press release from the mall said.

The DFA will be processing the new Machine Readable Passport to applicants with complete requirements. First time applicants must bring their duly accomplished application form, birth certificate in security paper issued by the National Statistics Office, or certified true copy issued by the Local Registrar duly authenticated by NSO, and proof of identity and other supporting documents indicating full name, date, date and place of birth and citizenship.

Other supporting documents to be honored by DFA are marriage contract, PRC/IBP identification cards, land title, driver’s license, government service record, old SSS-E1 form or digitized SSS ID, and school form 137 or Transcript of Records, the press release said.

Priority numbers for passport applicants will be released today, 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. at the Event Centre, the press release added.*

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La Carlota cops hold
 clean-up drive

Personnel of La Carlota City police station led by Chief Insp. David Cachumbo Jr. with other government agencies conducted a clean-up drive along the major streets yesterday, at the closing of the 17th Provincial Environment Week celebration.

Cachumbo entered into a Memorandum of Agreement on Adopt a Tree Park Program with Mayor Demie John Honrado, for the police to utilize certain parcel of land for reforestation, a La Carlota PNP press release said.

The MOA likewise stipulates that the city, through its Environment and Natural Resources Office, will provide La Carlota City PNP seedlings to be used for tree-planting activities.

Meanwhile, Cachumbo, in coordination with Petronilo Bartolo, school principal, assisted in the distribution of school supplies to pupils of Yubo Elementary School in La Carlota.

The activity was in line with the Free Distribution of School Supplies Program of Rep. Jeffrey Ferrer (Neg. Occ., 4th District), the press release added.*

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Icons exhibit slated

Artist Raymond Legaspi will hold a show called “How Big Is Your Faith?” at 5 p.m. July 2 that will run until August 7, at the Museo Negrense De La Salle Bacolod, University of St. La Salle, in Bacolod City, a press release from USLS said.

Legaspi says that during Jose Rizal’s time, land value was dictated by proximity to the church, and then as now, many people sought to curry favor with men of faith, plying them with earthly delights to secure a parking spot in heaven, the press release said.

It added that he notes that there was a perceived relation between the icons a family owned (in size and number) and how fervent one’s faith was. 

It also said that icons only have as much meaning as people are willing to assign them. Legaspi’s latest series invites audience to examine what the meaning of icons are for them, the press release added.*

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