Archive - Apr 2012

Bacolod Mayor Evelio Leonardia with Vice Mayor Jude Thaddeus Sayson (to his left) and Councilor Al Victor Espino (to his right) proudly raise the symbolic check worth P1M out of the P3M grand prize won by Bacolod Masskara Dancers in ABS-CBN’s "It’s Showtime" Program Inter-town competition last Saturday, April 28, 2012, at the New Government Center gounds.* (M/CMO-PIO photo)

Bacolod MassKara Dancers Grab the ‘It’s Showtime’ Grandfinal Crown

The Bacolod MassKara dancers bagged the grand champion crown in the Inter-Town Edition of It’s Show-time entertainment program of ABS-CBN and received a cash prize of P3.0 million, P1.0 million of which went to the Bacolod City Government.

MONTELIBANOS’ WORLD WAR II HIDEOUT. Hidden in the thick forest cover above Barangay Pandanon in Don Salvador Benedicto town, Negros Occidental, accessible only through rivers, giant rocks and punishing climb with both hands and feet hugging the sometimes loose mountainsides — is the former mountain "hideout and temporary home" of the late Negros Island Governor Alfredo "Peding" Montelibano Sr. during the Japanese invasion and the war years. Tyo Peding was Bacolod’s first city mayor. Mediamen Arman Toga (Negros Daily Bulletin editor and Negros Press Club president), 4th from left, and broadcaster Boy Ciocon (DYAF Veritas and NPC treasurer), 2nd from left, dared Sunday (April 22) the difficult and risky terrains to reach the historical bunker. With them was Pandanon kagawad Elmo Amit, 3rd from left, and some guides, who said that as far as they can remember, it was the first time media people reached the area.*

MONTELIBANOS’ WORLD WAR II HIDEOUT. Hidden in the thick forest cover above Barangay Pandanon in Don Salvador Benedicto town, Negros Occidental, accessible only through rivers, giant rocks and punishing climb with both hands and feet hugging the sometimes loose mountainsides — is the former Mountain "hideout and temporary home" of the late Negros Island Governor Alfredo "Peding" Montelibano Sr. during the Japanese invasion and the war years. Tyo Peding later became Bacolod’s first city mayor in 1938. Mediamen Arman Toga (Negros Daily Bulletin editor and Negros Press Club president), 4th from left, and broadcaster Boy Ciocon (DYAF Veritas and NPC treasurer), 2nd from left, spent some hours yesterday, Sunday to tackle the difficult and risky terrains to reach the "mini bunker" beside a river. With them was Pandanon kagawad Elmo Amit, 3rd from left, and some guides, who said that as far as they can remember, yesterday was the first time media people reached the area.* (READ THE ENTIRE STORY AND SEE MORE PHOTOS IN TOMORROW’S NDB ISSUE).*

PRESIDENT AQUINO while in Cebu yesterday questioned the basis of the power rate hike in the Visayas.*