Alangilan

More than one hundred fifty senior citizens with low vision or poor eyesight availed of free eyeglasses and cataract screening during an eye camp sponsored by Bacolod City Councilor Em Ang and the Bacolod City Host Lions Club in Barangay Granada last Thursday, August 16, 2011. Punong Barangay Alfredo Talimodao, Jr., kagawad Armando Vito, barangay health workers and barangay nutrition scholars assisted during the eyecamp.

Is there quarrying being done at the end of the Circumferential Road in the northern portion of the highway in the guise of it being cleared for a memorial park project?

A concerned citizen who requested anonymity, said a construction company owned by one Charles Dumancas, has been digging soil presumably clearing the area for the construction of a memorial park.

But the soil is allegedly being brought to the nearby spaces behind the giant Robinsons mall to be used as filing materials for large spaces within the nearby grounds belonging to it, the concerned citizen said.

The Bacolod City Gender And Development (GAD) Council conducted a “Potting Session” at the Bacolod City Eco-Park in Barangay Alangilan, in connection with its Women’s Month program. GAD council officers led by chairman Councilor Em Ang prepared Mahogany, Mabolo, Bacan and Palosanto seedlings, transferring them to individual plastic bags as part of the National Greening Program. These seedlings will be planted in various public school campuses and open spaces. GAD Council chairman Councilor Em Ang said that the activity is part of the council’s initiative to help the environment and in line with this year’s Women’s Month celebration theme: “Women Weathering Climate Change: Governance and Accountability, Everyone’s Responsibility”. Ang added that this year’s theme highlights that disaster risk reduction is everyone’s responsibility and underscores the role of women in realtion to disaster risk reduction. “Women’s indigenous knowledge on climate change and disaster, because of their responsibilities and experience, should be utilized in DRR strategies,” Ang said.

The cancellation of the permit by the city government was requested by the Comprehensive Agrarian Reform-Extension Program (CARPER) beneficiaries through their legal counsel, the Ortiz, Sedonio and Abaygar Law Office after the motion for reconsideration (MR) of the Arceo family, the third one was denied by Executive Secretary Paquito Ochoa. Previously, the MR was denied by former Secretary of the DAR, Nasser Pangandaman and twice more by Malacañang, information sourced by NNF indicated.