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SM Foundation extend assistance to its scholars in Eastern Visayas

TACLOBAN CITYThe SM Foundation extended assistance to all of its scholars in the region who were all victims of the supertyphoon Yolanda. However, out of the 20 scholars of the foundation, one of them perished due to the typhoon, said Carmen Linda Atayde, executive director for education of the SM Foundation. But Atayde hastened to add that the scholarship would be transferred to the victims brother. She said her team visited the houses of their scholars across the region not only to hear their sad experiences due to Yolanda but especially to check on their conditions and extend assistance to them as well. They have plenty of (harrowing) stories imparted to us that made us all cry, Atayde told Leyte Samar Daily Express. The SM Foundation official said that they provided P10, 000 of assistance to all their 20 scholars in the region who were the first group to avail the scholarship program of said foundation in Eastern Visayas. We know that our scholars need help because they are also victims of the supertyphoon Yolanda, Atayde said. (And) we are not disappointed with our scholars in the region because some of them are even deans lister while others have good grades, she added.
(RYAN GABRIEL LLOSA ARCENAS)

Scene in the film Football Wonder of Tacloban produced by United Nations Development Programme and the Embassy of Switzerland to help campaign funds for Yolanda-stricken areas . Photo courtesy of Daniel Kunz

Fisherfolks in E. Samar receive assistance

G U I U A N , Eastern Samar- Two hundred motor engines and another three hundred fishing boats were distributed recently by the Bureau of Fisheries and Aquatic Resources to fishermen coming from different towns of this province. About 143 cash for work fishermenbeneficiaries were also given financial assistance amounting to P1, 500 each. The distribution of the fishing facilities is under the Ahon!Sampung Libong Bangka para sa Dalawampung Libong Pamilya is a project of BFAR which aim to provide 10,000 fishing boats or bancas in three months to help rebuild the livelihood of some 20,000 fishermen hit by Yolanda. In Eastern Visayas, BFAR-8 reported that out of the projected 19,000 fishermen hit by Yolanda, 5,000 of them would be given assistance. The BFAR-8 reported that 1,864 fishing boats were either repaired or replaced for fishermen from the 11 municipalities of Eastern Samar. For Guiuan,880 units were distributed; 284 in Salcedo;135 in Quinapondan;130 for Lawaan;114 for Giporlos;106 for Llorente;89 for Gen. Mcarthur;79 for Hernani and other fishermen from other municipalities of the province.

DOLE slates job fair in Guiuan, E. Samar

TACLOBAN CITY -- The Department of Labor and Employment (DOLE) here will continue to hold job fairs to extend much needed assistance to job seekers. DOLE regional director Exequiel Sarcauga said that as early as now, he has instructed his field office in Borongan to start coordinating with managers of Public Employment Services Office (PESO) of various local government units in the province and other necessary preparations for the mega job fair in April. The mega job fair will bring in local and overseas recruitment placement agencies to Guiuan to bring employment opportunities to Eastern Samar. Guiuan was where the first landfall of Yolanda occurred early morning of November 8 last year. The proposed dynamics he said was to encourage local government units to support the program by providing transport facilities for applicants from their locality to the venue and vice-versa. The event will also serve as a one-stop-shop as DOLE intends to invite government offices that offer front-line service such as the National Statistics Office (NSO), Department of Foreign Affairs (DFA), Social Security System (SSS) and the Home Mutual to page 2

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survey to come up with an appropriate project and assistance that can be delivered to them under the same program. Under the auspice of the Sustainable Livelihood Recovery Program, the affected farmers shall render labor on their own respective areas; the UN-WFP shall pay the farmer for the labor rendered-one laborer per family under the cash for work sub-project of the program; and DAR shall implement monitor and supervise the implementation of the program in the identified affected areas. Per preliminary report from the Program Beneficiaries Development Division of DAR Samar, it reveals that about 200 farmers in 20 barangays within the ARCs of the said municipalities would benefit from the program. (DAR-Samar
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DAR help Samar farmers hit by Yolanda

C AT BA LO G A N CITY- It is over three months since super Tyhoon Yolanda wrought havoc in the Visayas regions that cost lives and leaving severe damages to the economic livelihood and properties in these regions, yet, the victims are still in dire need of assistance to which every agency and sector, local and foreign, is trying to address. At the Department of Agrarian Reform (DAR), the focus of its intervention is on the farmers in worst hit agrarian reform communities (ARCs). In an effort to revive the livelihood industry of the affected farmers in the ARCs, a rapid survey and assessment was conducted by DAR late last year in partnership with the United Nations World Food Programme to come up with information as to priority areas in the province needing immediate assistance. Headed by provincial agrarian reform program officer I Segundino L. Pagliawan, another round of survey is being undertaken in the ARCs of Marabut, Basey and Sta. Rita, having been identified as the worst hit municipalities in Samar per result of the rapid survey earlier conducted. The survey is to come up with a master list of the farmers in said areas who shall directly benefit from the program. Included in the survey is gathering of data on the available labor force of the affected family within the ARC; the extent of damage on community facility or assets specifically related to farming like irrigation; and farm areas still filled with debris caused by the super typhoon that needs clearing; or any other needed farm inputs. Information on family with no labor-abled body is also included in the

GRATEFUL. Fishermen from Tacloban City are all smiles after receiving their new motorized banca from the Bureau of Fisheries and Aquatic Resources(BFAR) during a simple turn-over rites at the Balyuan Amphitheatre, Tacloban. (Totex Arcueno)

Sec. Alcala names BFAR chief as point man of EV agri, fishery rehab
TACLOBAN CITY Agriculture Secretary Proceso Alcala designated Bureau of Fisheries and Aquatic Resources (BFAR) Director Asis Perez to supervise all interventions for the rehabilitation of farming and fishery sectors in the region. Alcala said during his visit in the city on February 28 that Perez will be regularly meeting the members of the regional management council (RMC), a body composed of regional directors of Department of Agriculture (DA) attached agencies to get updates of recovery efforts. I give him a memorandum to find out needed interventions for all industries in the agriculture sector of Region 8. We need to immediately rehabilitate the farming sector to restore the livelihood of people, Alcala said in a press briefing. Alcala signed Special Order No.134 on February 10, designating Asis as special supervising officer. Perez, in his message, said his primary task is to coordinate rehabilitation activities of the RMC member agencies and help create unity in assisting the farming and fishery sectors. Each agency needs to further improve the delivery of services through an operational strategy called the PPP approach or partnership among the people, public and private entities to deliver result through production, Perez said. The BFAR chief officially started to perform his duty through a special meeting on February 26 with DA-8 RMC members held inside the MV/DA-BFAR multi-purpose vessel. Through the PPP scheme, the BFAR

International aid groups donates chainsaws to PCA-8

TACLOBAN CITYAbout 500 chainsaws were donated to the Philippine Coconut Authority that would be used to clear debris in Yolanda-hit coconut planted areas. These chainsaws, donated by the Swedish power tool producer Husqvarna to the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) and later turned over to the other international organizations such as the US-based Catholic Relief Service (CRS) and the International Organization for Migration (IOM) for distribution would be a big help in their effort in clearing the areas where millions of coconut trees felled during the supertyphoon, PCA Edilberto Nierva said. Nierva disclosed in a press conference that with the 13 million coconut trees that felled during the typhoon, and at 528 trees to cut for each chainsaw, the agency will require 24,000 units of chainsaws to totally dispose the voluminous number of coco lumber. The 500 chainsaws donated by the UNHCR to the farmers through the CRS, IOM and other non-government organizations partners, augments the 171 chainsaws initially deployed by the PCA in badly hit areas in the region, particularly the provinces of Leyte and Eastern Samar. About 1.1 million farmers were adversely affected by Yolanda that walloped the eastern coast of the region with a 5 7 meter high storm surges and hurricane-type pouncing wind, the PCA regional manager said. Nierva reported about 40,000 coco lumbers that were sliced equivalent to 40 million board feet and involving 7,000 farmer beneficiaries. He added that of the 50 million coconut trees damaged, about 15 million of them were rendered crownless. What the PCA fears more, however, is the development of the population of the renovator. If the totally damaged trees are not disposed of immediately, this will cause another disaster, Nierva disclosed pertaining to the outbreak of the renovator, which he added is equally disastrous in the coco industry. He said he population of these renovators are expected to develop in six months, thus the agency has to do everything to avert this occurrence with the help of non-government partners in the face of its limited capacity. In the simple turn-over rite and MOA signing held at the Tacloban office of IOM, Nierva admitted that the agency could not do the entire rehabilitation program on its own, citing the cooperation among the performers in this process as key in achieving the ends sought for and accomplishing the purpose of these efforts, that is to rehabilitate the coco industry and help the affected coco farmer rebuild their shelters and re-establish their livelihood. Nierva was a witness in the turn-over ceremony attended by UNHCR head of office Stella Ogunalde, IOM head of office Bradley Mel licker and CRS regional training adviser Elizabeth Tromans.
Besides CRS, other conduits in the distribution of the chainsaws donated by Husqvarna to the UNHCR totalling to $370,000 or roughly PhP16.2million are Christian Aid, Oxfam International, People in Need and ZOA. Husqvarna, per report of Nierva, also donated chainsaws to the PCA during the Ormoc flash flood in year 1990. (EILLEN BALLESTEROS)

director recommended to get rid of donorbeneficiary mindset. We should consider the survivors as part of available resources that can be tapped to attain targets, he stressed. Perez cited the BFARs boat building strategy where affected fishermen are required to build their own fishing boat as their counterpart. Among the priorities identified by Perez is the deployment of teams on the field, creation of support structure to handle procurement, systematic documentation of all activities. The BFAR chief offered the MV/DA-BFAR vessel as the coordinating command center of the RMC members. The boat can also be used to transport supplies and implements for distribution to affected farmers. (SARWELL Q.MENIANO)

Over 1,000 young students takes their examinations in the hope to pass and avail the scholarship being offered by the SM Foundation. (RYAN GABRIEL RANI ARCENAS)

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FAO to continue to support Yolandaaffected farmers, DG da Silva said

BASEY, Samar- The director general of the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization (UN-FAO) visited this town on March 10 to assess the progress of the projects implemented for the recovery efforts of the Yolanda affected agricultural areas and the farmers and fishermen who were victims and were displaced by the calamity. UN-FAO Director General Jose Graziano da Silva who was with the Department Agriculture Secretary Proceso Alcala distributed rice seeds, fertilizers and farming tools to the farmers. During the press conference, Silva expressed his satisfaction with the recovery efforts and celebrated the success of the UN-FAOs Yolanda response program and committed FAOs supports on the recovery of the fishing and farming livelihoods in the longer term. Silva said that FAO responded to the appeal of the national government for support to affected rice

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farmers. He informed reporters that the recovery program efforts of his agency continues and at present UN-FAO is distributing 4,000 tons of fertilizers to more than 80, 000 families along with 13,000 farming tools on the Yolanda affected agricultural areas which ensures planted rice seeds can reach full production potential and optimum yield, which in turn, ensures food security and full recovery of the farmers.(RESTITUTO A. CAYUBIT)

ASSISTANCE. Agriculture Secretary Proceso Alcala (hands raising) lead in the distribution of fishing boats to fishermen who lost their bancas during the supertyphoon Yolanda. Joining him was National Director Asis Perez (holding a microphone) of the Bureau of Fisheries and Aquatic Resources during the simple turn over rites held at the Balyuan Amphitheater in Tacloban last February 25,2014. (TOTEX ARCUENO)

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Also, at least 119 boat engines have been replaced and functional fishing boats were tallied at 482 for fishermen of this town, considered to have the highest number of fishermen affected by the massive typhoon. And under the cash-for-work program of BFAR, 156 fishermen availed such program receiving P1, 500 each of them. Also, fishing gears were distributed to 60 fishermen while seaweed culture inputs were provided to 369 beneficiaries.

DA-8 Regional Director Bernadette San Juan and BFAR-8 Regional Director Juan Albaladejo were on hand to distribute the fishing boats, engines and cash assistance together with other agricultural inputs given to the agriculture sector. Agriculture Secretary Proceso Alcala was present to announce the projects and rehabilitation being conducted by the Department of Agriculture for farmers and fishermen and the whole agriculture sector affected by Typhoon Yolanda. (AHLETTE C. REYES)

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Development Fund or Pag-ibig to also extend to typhoon-affected residents the services that they need, he explained. After Yolanda, DOLE has made available thousands of job opportunities to the people of Eastern Visayas. The latest job fair that was exclusively for local employment on Thursday brought in more than 3,000 vacancies. The other two mega job fairs were held last month at the Leyte Normal University (LU) and in Ormoc City in December last year. The DOLE is yet to announce the final date for the job fair in April. (PNA)

TACLOBAN CITYA group composed of Yolanda victims have asked President Aquino to sack Social Welfare Secretary Corazon Dinky Soliman over the alleged P580 million rotting rice fiasco. Firing Soliman from her post is justifiable considering that the sacks of rice found at the Subic Freeport that was supposed to be distributed to Yolanda victims were already declared as unfit for human consumption, said Efleda Bautista, vice president of the People Surge. According to Bautista, the sacks of rice valued at P580 million was supposed to be distributed to the victims of typhoon Pablo but for some reason did not reach to the victims. The fact that P580

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million worth of rice meant for Typhoon Pablo victims in December 2012 rotted in the Subic Freeport cries out a case of criminal negligence, Bautista, in a press statement, said. According to Bautista, the sacks of rice were to be distributed for the victims of Yolanda but were declared as no longer fit for human consumption. Two groups of typhoon survivors were victimized over this wasted rice, donated by the customs bureau from confiscated illegal shipments in 2012 because of the irresponsibility of the DSWD to which it was entrusted, she added. Bautista questioned why the DSWD had not been thoroughly investigated, particularly Sec. Soliman.

Sec. Dinky Soliman should resign or be removed from office after being shown to be unfit by this incident as well as the dismal performance of her department in general in the two major calamities of Pablo and Yolanda, she said. According to Bautista, firing Soliman would be too easy for the Aquino government without addressing the lack of relief and rehabilitation efforts. Thousands of storm victims trooped to Malacanang last February to submit their petition for Aquino to speed up delivery of relief goods, rehabilitation and a demand for P40,000 financial assistance which the President ignored.
(RONALD REYES)

Knights of Columbus extends financial assistance to families who lost members due to Yolanda
PALO, Leyte- The Knights of Columbus extended financial assistance to the 22 of its members who perished during the supertyphoon Yolanda. The giving of P5,000 cash assistance to the members of the family of those who were killed by the massive typhoon was led by no less than the Visayas State Deputy Rodrigo Sorongon last week. Of course I am happy for this financial assistance extended by the Knights of Columbus to us who lost their loved ones during Yolanda. Still, the money would remain to be not of big concern to us considering that in my case, I lost a grandson, said Emilio Lim who was among those who received the financial help. Lim lost his grandson Joven, 24, during the typhoon when their house located at Magallanes area was destroyed by the storm surge generated by Yolanda, considered to be the worst typhoon on record in the world. The giving of financial assistance to the members of the Knights of Columbus whose members died during the disaster was held at the San Joaquin Church, this town. The churchyard had become a mass gravesite with more than 200 people, including children, were hastily buried. Sorongon said that the financial assistance extended to the next of kin who lost their loved ones during the typhoon is just one way of showing their support to them. During the giving of the assistance, Sorongon was assisted by Allan Nicolas Ouano, administration assistance for Eastern and Central Visayas and Teofrido Lagrea, regional deputy. ( JOEY A. GABIETA)

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Our lifelong warfare

WITH Lent in our midst, we should be reminded of our duty to hone up our skills in spiritual warfare. We should not let this Lenten season pass without doing anything to improve ourselves in this particular department. Christ already hinted this much when he said: From the days of John the Baptist until now, the kingdom of heaven suffers violence, and the violent bear it away. (Mt 11,12) We have to understand though that to be violent in this sense does not mean to be destructive but rather constructive, driven by love and the desire to be united with God and with the others in a way proper to us as children of God and brothers and sisters among ourselves. Our life here on earth cannot but be in some form of struggle. Aside from our innate urge to grow and develop that requires some effort, we also have to contend with enemies whose sole intent is precisely to bring us down, to divert us from our proper path toward holiness. We are not simply ranged against natural difficulties, challenges and trials in life, but rather with very powerful and subtle nemeses. The natural enemies alone are already formidable. St. John describes them this way: For all that is in the world is the concupiscence of the flesh, and the concupiscence of the eyes, and the pride of life, which is not of the Father, but is of the world. (1 Jn 2,16) Thats why we can talk easily about envy, jealousy, vanity, lust, greed, sloth, etc. For this type of enemies alone, we need an extensive spiritual pharmacopeia and moral regimen to cleanse us of their affliction. Thats why we are encouraged, especially during Lent, to intensify our fasting and abstinence, and other forms of mortification. We should not take this indication lightly. They are very necessary. Yes, we need to pray a lot and grow in the different virtues so we can be strong, optimistic and cheerful, prudent and capable of handling these challenges. We have to learn how to deal with our weaknesses and the usual temptations that come from the flesh and the world. But we still have enemies tougher than these. As St. Paul said, Our wrestling is not against flesh and blood, but against principalities and power, against the rulers of the world of darkness, against the spirits of wickedness in the high places. (Eph 6,12) This type of enemies affects us more deeply. They corrupt not only the body, but also our very spirit that is supposed to be our immediate and direct conduit with God. They bring our warfare from the arena of the natural to that of the spiritual and supernatural. With these enemies, our intelligence and will, our thoughts and desires would then operate outside the context of Gods will. Our thoughts and desires would then be at the mercy of evil spirits that can only be handled properly if we also use spiritual and supernatural means, and not just some natural power. When we fail to deliberately offer everything we think, say and do to God, as told to us in the gospel, then we open ourselves to the coming of another spirit that will offer us, at first, a lot of attraction and allurement, until we are so enslaved by it that it would be very difficult for us to detach ourselves from it. Thats why today we have such phenomena as atheism, agnosticism, materialism, and other forms of ungodliness, with their corresponding manifestations, such as, the legalization of abortion, the spreading culture of death, all forms of corruption, etc. This big and open hostility against God and also against our nature always starts in a small, unobtrusive way, cleverly spiced and glibly packaged to grab

shall promote and protect their physical, moral, spiritual, intellectual and social well-bring. In furtherance thereof, the state declares to likewise recognize the right of children to assistance, including proper care and nutrition, and special protection from all forms of neglect, abuse, cruelty and exploitation, and other conditions prejudicial to their development. This protection does not exclude such as against their parents and guardians. Recently, certain local government units in Metro Manila have concretized in their government policies this protection due the touted hope of the motherland. The LGU of Mandaluyong City is in full implementation of an ordinance penalizing the parents of minors who are found to

EDITORIAL Lest parents renege

he fundamental law of the land recognizes the vital role of children and youth in nation building for which it have committed infractions of law and violations of local ordinances. In as much as the minors are seemingly clothed with impunity under the Juvenile Justice and Welfare Act of 2006 (RA 9344), in that other sinister minds are utilizing them in the perpetration of crimes, the local edict will run after the parents or guardian who are remiss in their responsibility of looking after their own children or wards. The city governments of Muntinlupa and Quezon were reported to follow suit. These LGUs see the need to discipline not only the children in conflict with the law but the parents as well who are primarily reposed with the natural duty and obligation, not only to their Creator, but also to the society. Needing intervention are not
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Metropolitan Intelligence Security group ruled as Marcos torture chamber. It was one of the best things that happened, Imelda declared. Tayo ang nagligtas ng demokrasya. There are more ironies. The revolt left communists wringing their hands in their safe houses The Ilocos looked the other way resulting in a bizzare bed fellowship thats never been adequately explained.. Clad in fatigues, Ferdinand Marcos, Jr, harangued KBL partisans from a Malacanang porch as People Power surged. A day later, hed be bundled into Hawaiian exile with family and cronies. Today, 57-year old Senator Marcos sneers at Edsa as the five-percent revolution Hes also mired in the pork barrel scam. The Marcoses tried to scrub blank a nations memory about executions, torture to, theft. The first step in liquidating a people is to erase its memory, historian Milan Hubl cautions. K l e p t o c r a c y s benefeciary can speak freely, due to liberties that People Power restored. Bongbong, itches to run for the presidency in 2016 --- after being slammed by the US Federal Court ( 9th circuit) with a US$353.6 thousand fine for trying to smuggle out paintings and artwork held in evidence. Then Mayor Joseph Estrada hunkered down in San Juan, itching for Marcos troops to plaster the rebels. Hes the only Philippine president ever convicted for plunder., As Manila mayor today,. Erap vouched for his son Jinggoy enmeshed in the pork scam. Bang in ama kabang, in anak niya mayan tundukan, the Tausug proverb says. If the father is spotted, the son will be speckled. Ousted by People Power 2, Estrada called for crowds to spring him from the clink. Erap assumed People Power could be whistled up.,I can call spirits from

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We have a grand memory for forgetting, said the best president the US never had. Adlai Stevensons crack comes to mind as we mark the 28th anniversary of People Power. Without bloodshed, Filipinos shattered the 14year Marcos dictatorship . The Edsa model has replayed abroad. C z e c h o s l o v a k i as Velvet Revolution smothered communist rule.. Ecuadorsnoise barage sent its president packing. Lebanons Cedar Revolution forced Syrian troops out. Even the Arab Spring has not failed, the Economist. asserts., Not a

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Middle East single country became a stable democracy over the last three years.. True. But this ignores the long winter before... Most Arabs do not want to turn the clock back....where the dictators brothers and the first ladys cousins cream the best businesses.... The Arab spring is better described as an awakening from old deadening dictatorships. The journey may take decades. But it is welcome. Under the New Society, the Philippines became a gulag of safe houses. Citizens were tortured, maimed and salvaged there, Amnesty International noted. The

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..from page 4 the deep, Shakepeares Glendower boasted: To which Hotspur replied. .Or so can any man. But will they come when you do call for them? None came for Erap. In response to Jaime Cardinal Sins appeal, people massed from 22 to 25 February. They saved Juan Ponce Enrile from Marcos fury for plotting to take over. Cory had been cheated massively in his Cayagan bailiwick, Enrile said in Edsas afterglow. . But in later elections ,
Republic of the Philippines REGIONAL TRIAL COURT Eighth (8th) Judicial Region BRANCH 2 Borongan, Eastern Samar IN RE: PETITION FOR ADOPTION OF minor child JOHN ALFRED BUENAFE DALINA & CANCELLATION OF THE CERT. OF LIVE BIRTH OF JOHN ALFRED DALINA UNDER REG. NO. 2009-276. SPS. FREDDIE A. DALINA & THELMA B. DALINA Petitioners SPEC. PROC. NO. 15012 x- - - - - - - - - - - - -x ORDER

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Enrile apologized to Ilocano voters for People Power. Will amnesia save him from todays plunder charges lodged with the Ombudsman? To the end, Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo shivered at People Powers capacity to bring her corrupt regime down. In hospital detention today, GMA wonders, like pork cam queen Janet Napoles, what next?. Two hours after the Marcoses and cronies scrambled aboard escape helicopters, Journalist Lin Neumann wandered into hurriedly vacated Malacang bedrooms. I still recall the sweet odor rising from flagoons of channel no.5 and Joy perfume left behind in the rush to pack jewels and other valuables... Emerging from the palace , it was impossible not to be moved by people kneeling, praying the rosary... A peaceful fourday revolt toppled a dictatorship that once seemed impregnable. In the run-up to the revolt, Neumann recalled bumping into Minister Jose Jolly Benitez at, Manila Hotels bar How did you guys lose control? she asked. And a tipsy Benitez spat out: Nuns. How could we know those f***ing nuns were going to sit on the ballot boxes? Benitez then launched a crude string of ephitets, took another swig and added: There is no way out for Marcos. We dont know what to do,, then staggered off into the night. People Power restored freedoms. That was four decades ago. Did we cooperate by forgetting? Eight out of 10 students today barely recall the kangaroo trial of Benigno Aquino Jr. before Military Commission No. 2. Or why he was gunned down. Few recall that Juan Ponce Enrile and colonels, mostly from PMA class 72, staged repeated coups to unseat Cory. God Save the Queen, staged in November 1986, would have installed Enrile in power, reducing Corazon Aquino, to figurehead. So, we recall , compulsively perhaps, on the 28th anniversary of People Power, Maybe. our stories may offer insights, specially for those too young to remember. Forgetting embeds injustice. Falsification of history invites repeated abuse. It prevents healing. Systematic distortion of facts aborts essential reforms. Indeed, we forget at the cost of betrayal. Amnesia over past crimes reflects a weak sense of the nation and of the common good, Sociologist John Carroll writes in A Nation in Denial. Unless (the country reaffirms) those values, it may be condemned to forever wander in the valueless power plays among the elite.

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Republic of the Philippines OFFICE OF THE MUNICIPAL CIVIL REGISTRAR Maydolong, Eastern Samar

NOTICE FOR PUBLICATION

Publication Notice R.A. 10172

In compliance with the publication requirement and pursuant to OCRG Memorandum Circular No. 2013-1 Guidelines in the implementation of the Administrative Order No. 1 Series of 2012 (IRR on R.A. 10172), Notice is hereby served to the public t\ that Gertlie Vidal Loste has filed with this Office, a petition for Correction of entry in sex from Female to Male in the Certificate of Live Birth of Gerlie Vidal Loste at Maydolong, Eastern Samar and whose parents are Gerry Loste and Rosalie Vidal. Any person adversely affected by said petition may file his written opposition with this Office not later than March 24, 2014. (Sgd.) ENGR. SUSANA D. ABERIA Municipal Civil Registrar

This is a verified petition for adoption of minor John Alfred Buenafe Dalina filed by petitioners-spouses Freddie A. Dalina and Thelma B. Dalina praying that after due publication, notice and

hearing, judgment be rendered (1) granting the adoption of herein minor child by herein petitioners spouses Freddie A. Dalina and Thelma B. Dalina and forthwith, a decree of adoption be issued placing herein minor child John Alfred B. Dalina in the category of a legitimate child of herein petitioners; (2) granting and bestowing upon said minor child all the rights and privileges appurtenant to a legitimate child; (3) ordering the Local Civil Registrar of Maydolong, Eastern Samar and the National Statistics Office, the cancellation of the Live Birth Certificate of John Alfred B. Dalina under Registry No. 2009-276 which for all legal intents and purposes is a null and void document having been issued through inadvertent misrepresentations of herein petitioners; (4) ordering the registration anew of the fact of birth of herein minor John Alfred B. Dalina of the Local Civil Registrar of Maydolong, Eastern Samar, and (5) other reliefs which are just and equitable under the premises are likewise prayed for. Finding the petition to be sufficient in form and 215,192.60), excluding penalties, charges, attorneys fees and expenses of foreclosure, the undersigned or his duly authorized deputy will sell at public auction on MARCH 26, 2014 at 10:00 a.m. at the main entrance of the Municipal Building of Can-avid, Eastern Samar to the highest bidder for CASH or MANAGERS CHECK and in Philippine currency, the following property with all its improvements, to wit: ARP No.: 05-0500800243 LOCATION: Brgy. 08, Can-avid, Eastern Samar LAND AREA: 94 SQ.M. CADASTRAL LOT NO.: 2912 ASSESSORS LOT NO.: 026 BLOCK NO.: 07 BOUNDARIES: North 025-Casarino; South L. Gales Street; East 024 A. Hicao; West 027-J. Concan All sealed bids must be submitted to the undersigned on the above stated time and date. In the event the public auction should not take place on the said date, it shall be held on APRIL 8, 2014, without further notice. Dolores, Eastern Samar, Philippines, February 19, 2014,

Petition for Sale under Act No. 3135/1508 filed by METRO ORMOC COMMUNITY COOPERATIVE (OCCCI), against PORTIA G. MENDOZA, of L. Gales St., Brgy. 8, Can-avid, Eastern Samar, to satisfy the mortgage indebtedness which as of March, 2013 amounts to TWO HUNDRED FIFTEEN THOUSAND ONE HUNDRED NINETYTWO PESOS AND SIXTY CENTAVOS (PhP

Republic of the Philippines REGIONAL TRIAL COURT Eighth (8th) Judicial Region BRANCH 4 Dolores, Eastern Samar METRO ORMOC COMMUNITY COOPERATIVE (OCCCI), Mortgagee, -versusPORTIA G. MENDOZA, Mortgagor, EJF No. 315 For: EXTRA-JUDICIAL FORECLOSURE OF REAL ESTATE MORTGAGE UNDER ACT NO. 3135, AS AMENDED x- - - - - - - - - - - - -x NOTICE OF EXTRAJUDICIAL SALE Upon Extra-Judicial

substance, set this case for hearing on May 2, 2014, at 9:00 oclock in the morning at the session Hall of this Court. Any person having or claiming any interest in the adoption of minor John Alfred B. Dalina, may, within fifteen (15) days from Notice of the petition or from the last date of the publication of this Order, file his/her opposition thereto. Let a copy of this Order be published once a week for three (3) consecutive weeks in a newspaper of general circulation in the Province of Eastern Samar and accredited by this Court to publish judicial and legal notices, at the expense of the petitioners. The Provincial Social Welfare and Development Officer (PSWDO) is hereby directed to conduct a Child and Home Study Report, and to conduct counseling sessions with the biological parents on the matter of adoption of the adoptee, and to submit her reports thereon before the date of hearing. Furnish copy of this Order, together with a copy of the petition to the Office of the Solicitor General (OSG), 134 Amorsolo St., Legaspi Village, Makati City, to the Provincial Prosecutor, the PSWDO, Borongan City, Eastern Samar, Atty. Apelado and the petitioners. SO ORDERED. Borongan City, Eastern Samar, December 5, 2013.

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Publication Notice R.A. 9048

Republic of the Philippines City Civil Registry Province of Eastern Samar City of Borongan

NOTICE FOR PUBLICATION

In compliance with Section 5 of R.A. 9048, a notice is hereby serve to the public that MA. BELEN BALBIN CASPE-ASAYAS has filed with this Office a petition for change of first name from BELEN to MA. BELEN in the Birth Certificate of BELEN BALBEN CASPE who was born on May 24, 1964 at Borongan, Samar and whose parents are JOSE CASPE and FELOMINA A. BALBIN. Any person adversely affected by said petition may file written opposition with this Office not later than 25 March 2014. (Sgd.) MA. LUISA M. AZUL III City Civil Registrar

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substance, the same is hereby set for hearing before this Court on March 26, 2014 at 8:00 oclock in the morning at which any interested person may appear and oppose the petition. Let a copy of this Order be published at the expense of the petitioners once a week for three (3) consecutive weeks in a newspaper of general circulation in the Province of Eastern Samar duly accredited by this Court. Furnish copy of this order and of the petition to the petitioner, her counsel, LCR of Dolores, E. Samar and the Solicitor General. SO ORDERED. Dolores, Eastern Samar, January 28, 2014.

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(Sgd.) NATHANIEL E. BALDONO Presiding Judge

(Sgd.) Atty. MA. JALICE B. LATOJAIRASGA Clerk of Court VI And Ex-Officio Sheriff

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Republic of the Philippines REGIONAL TRIAL COURT Eighth (8th) Judicial Region BRANCH 2 Borongan, Eastern Samar IN THE MATTER OF THE CORRECTION OF ENTRY IN THE CERTIFICATE OF LIVE BIRTH OF BYRON BUENAFE BAULA BYRON BUENAFE BAULA, rep. by CARIDAD BUENAFE BAULA, Petitioner -versusTHE LOCAL CIVIL REGISTRAR OF LLORENTE, EASTERN SAMAR, THE CIVIL REGISTRAR GENERAL, NSO, MANILA, Respondents SPL. PROC. NO. 130-11 x- - - - - - - - - - - - - -x

This is a verified petition for correction of entries in the Certificate of Live Birth filed by petitioner Byron Buenafe Baula, represented by Caridad Buenafe Baula, through counsel, praying that after due notice and hearing, judgment be rendered directing the Local Civil Registrar of Llorente, Eastern Samar and the Civil Registrar General, National Statistics Office, Manila, to correct the entry in his record of birth, particularly his gender and sex from female to male, his true and correct gender, and also his first name from Viron to Byron. Finding the petition to be in due form and substance, set this case for hearing on May 6, 2014, at 9:30 in the morning, at the session hall of this Court. Any person having or claiming any interest under the entries in the record of birth the correction of which is being sought may, within fifteen (15) days from notice of the petition or from the last date of publication of this Order, file his opposition

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thereto. Let copy of this Order be published once a week for three (3) consecutive weeks in a newspaper of general circulation and duly accredited to publish judicial or legal notices in the province of Eastern Samar at the expense of the petitioner. Send a copy of this Order, together with a copy of the petition to the Office of the Solicitor General, 134 Amorsolo St., Legaspi Village, Makati City and to the Local Registrar of Llorente, Eastern Samar, the Civil Registrar General, National Statistics Office, Manila and to petitioner and his representative Caridad Buenafe Baula, and his counsel. SO ORDERED. Borongan City, Eastern Samar, January 21, 2014.

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(Sgd.) FILOTEA M. ESTORNINOS Presiding Judge

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(Sgd.) NATHANIEL E. BALDONO Presiding Judge

A verified petition had been filed before this Court by petitioner KRIZZIA IMARI A. PRADO thru counsel, praying among others that after notice and hearing, an order be issued canceling the annotation in the Certificate of Live Birth of the petitioner that she is legitimated by the subsequent marriage of her parents. The petition being sufficient in form and

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WORLD CLASS. A Tacloban-born fashion designer Tipay Caidic is making waves in the international fashion show, particularly in London with Yolanda-related stories serving as her inspiration in making her creations.

Designer from Tacloban makes waves in London runway

TACLOBAN CITY A fashion designer who traces her root in this Yolanda-hit city is making waves at the London fashion scene with the massive typhoon serving as her inspiration. Tipay Caintic, 25, got to showcase her designs now getting raves at the prestigious London Fashion Week, an experience she finds as surreal. Its surreal to be here, being at an exhibit in London Fashion Week. The genuine appreciation and attention the collection has been getting is still is, Caintic said in an online interview. The fashion showcase, participated by 120 young designers from 30 countries, ran for 10 days from February 12-22 at 180 The Strand, London. Caintic, who made her concept just in two weeks, was interviewed by Kellie Morgan and Myleen Klass both of CNN and another one in News Arise of Sky Channel. The young designer specializes in knitted street wear with pineapple fiber as her main material. (But) for my IFS collection, I also used bamboo yarn, rubber silicone, acrylic and molded plastic. This has a personal take on me, my family and even strangers during the typhoon, Caintic said. Calling her collection Hell Knows No Wrath like Yolanda at the International Fashion Show 2014 of London Fashion Week, Caintic made waves and moved fashion critics with her fresh collection. This collection is a reflection of what my hometown Tacloban City experienced during the supertyphoon Haiyan (local name Yolanda) last November 8, 2013. It has six looks and each look is a stage that described a certain feeling or theme during and after the typhoon. The devastation wrought by Yolanda is my inspiration here, Caintic said. The first stage of the collection is downpour, how the surge, the black, dirty water swallowed the city of Tacloban. The lines are cut refers where there was no electricity and communication lines for days. Next line was no one is watching you with the staggering magnitude of devastation, it seems
life is always a choice between God and ourselves, between God and the devil, between God and the world. We have to be humble enough to choose God always. The humility involved here would lead us to feel the need to continue asking for the grace of God, since without him, we can

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no one was in charge. Blame game follows, then picking up the pieces and blind hope the humanitarian organizations and countries giving help to bring hope to all survivors. She was not in Tacloban when Yolanda pummeled the city as she was in Manila. It took four days before she was able to contact her family in the city and with the help of their friends, she was able to hire a van to bring her family out of Tacloban. Caintic, a graduate of Bachelor of Science in Visual Communication at University of the P h i l ippi n e s - D i l i m an , pursued her passion in design and enrolled at School of Fashion and the Arts (SoFA) Design Institute in Makati City and eventually became a scholar. Caintic was part of PEFTA (Preview Magazines Emerging Fashion Talent Awards) in 2012. She is grateful that PEFTA and SoFA endorsed her to IFS. This is her first time to be part of the International Fashion Showcase (IFS) in London. (VICKY ARNAIZ)
accomplish nothing that would bring us to our eternal life. The humility involved here would lead us also to trust in God, especially when we see our own weaknesses, mistakes, failures. With such trust, we simply begin and begin again in our struggles

President Benigno Noynoy Aquino visited the town of Tanauan on February 25 as he lead in the groundbreaking of the towns memorial park to give honor and remember those who died during Yolanda in said town. He was joined by the town mayor, Pelagio Tecson and Leyte Governor Leopoldo Dominico Petilla. Photo by Totex Arcueno

only the children, but the parents, too, who are accountable to the community for whatever wrong their children do that mar the peace and orderliness in their locality. The children in their custody are their accountability. Is it not the rationale in putting the children under the custody of a reception center, preferably a rehabilitation facility? Parents are duty-bound to discipline their children and ensure the society that they will be raised as well-meaning citizens. However, if by the misdeeds of their children they provide the state and the society the impression that they renege in their responsibility, their children are placed in an institution that the latter will be reformed. Notwithstanding this deprivation of direct parental supervision, there are parents who rather push their children to err and be placed in correctional institutions as way of escaping their elementary responsibility of caring and providing the basic needs of their misguided children. Therefore, to break this unproductive habit and seen as a measure to effectively minimize the incidents of children involving in crimes, the parents should be penalized.

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our attention. We have to be most wary of these little openings to sin by making our conscience more refined and sensitive, and by growing in the virtues. We have to understand that at every point of our

Before this Court is a verified Petition filed by VILMA CORTEZSALVEDIA, through counsel, praying of this Honorable

Republic of the Philippines REGIONAL TRIAL COURT 8th Judicial Region Branch 3 Guiuan, Eastern Samar VILMA CORTEZSALVEDIA, Petitioner -versusTHE LOCAL CIVIL REGISTRAR OF GUIUAN, EASTERN SAMAR, Respondent Special Proceeding No. 1379 For: CORRECTION OF ENTRIES x- - - - - - - -x ORDER

Court that, after due notice, publication and hearing, an ORDER be issued directing the Local Civil Registrar of Guiuan, Eastern Samar to correct the entries in the Certificate of Live Birth of Petitioner, with Local Civil Registry No. 85-680, particularly the following: A. Petitioners Middle name: from CORTEX to CORTEZ; B. Petitioners Last name: from SALVEDEA to SALVEDIA; C. Middle name and last name of Petitioners Mother (Maiden name): From DIONESIA C. SALVEDEA to DIONESIA R. CORTEZ; It appearing that the Petition is sufficient in form and substance, let the initial hearing of the petition be set on April 24, 2014 at 8:30 in the morning in the Session Hall of this Court, Regional Trial Court, Branch 3, Guiuan, Eastern Samar. Let a copy of this Order be published in a newspaper of general circulation in Region VIII

and the Province of Eastern Samar at the expense of the petitioner, once a week for three (3) consecutive weeks prior to the date of hearing to afford person or persons who may have opposition to file the same, stating among others the grounds why said Petition should not be granted, and attend on said hearing at the date, time and place as above-stated. Let a copy thereof be furnished to the Solicitor General, Office of the Civil Registrar, Guiuan, Eastern Samar, and the Assistant Provincial Prosecutor, for information and appropriate action. SO ORDERED in Chambers. February 13, 2014 in the afternoon. Guiuan, Eastern Samar, Philippines.

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(Sgd.) ROLANDO M. LACDO-O Presiding Judge