Nuns appeal for more donors
BY JUDY F. PARTLOW

The Franciscan Sisters of the Poor assigned at the Diocese of Dumaguete celebrated their fifth anniversary in the Diocese of Dumaguete Monday, with a Holy Mass and lunch with donors, friends and feeding program beneficiaries, and marked the feast day of their founder, Blessed Francis Chervier, with hopes for more donors for the feeding program of the diocese that now has an increased number of beneficiaries each day.

Sr. Cristina, an Italian nun, said her wish is for their own place for the feeding program so the poor people on the streets, can feel at home there.”

She expressed gratitude to the donors who have sustained the feeding program but appealed for more help.

Mayor denies
dismissal of employee

Dumaguete City Mayor Manuel Sagarbarria denied insinuations he “footballed” an employee from his office for allegedly refusing to execute an affidavit on matters undertaken by a resident auditor of the Commission on Audit, while he was out of town on official business.

Sagarbarria said he revoked the designation of Alma Gatoc as secretary to the mayor, but said she is still an employee of the city government, with her appointment as executive secretary, and she is not barred from entering his office.

However, she is no longer authorized to sign anything in behalf of Sagarbarria.

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