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By Onad Munalem   At least 36 rice farmers of barangay San Roque, Talibon recently received their certificates of completion during the closing program of their Palay Check Farmers Field School conducted at the barangay's public stage.        The seminar was designed to update help farmers of the new technology on tilling rice to increase yield to help uplift their living condition and encourage farmers to adopt and apply organic farming.        It is also done in consonance with the present program of the national government to fight difficulties that farmers face.        The program started on December 3 last year and clinched on April 15 this year, and required farmers to attend the training and hands-on activities at the demo farm.        Mayor Juanario Item initiated the program with the Municipal Agriculture Office (MAO), training arm of LGU-Talibon, facilitated the training headed by Rice Agricultural Technologist Ponciana Cruda, with the supported of i...

Poverty is a cause of malnutrition.    This, among others, was the finding of the Inabanga Municipal Nutrition Committee (MNC) that pre-evaluated the town's 50 barangays preparatory to the Provincial Nutrition Committee monitoring visit scheduled on June 3.    Halfway into its rounds now, the evaluators led by Municipal Health Officer Mae Lilibeth Melicor and composed of personnel from concerned departments and line agencies made Lapacan Sur their 26th barangay destination.    Critiquing the data presented by the barangay, the team discovered that from one malnourished child case, the number turned three last year of which only two children gained normal weight later. This year, four children have below normal weight.    The team discovered that apparently, the malnutrition cases were caused by lack of nutritious food. More often than not, this is aggravated by poor sanitation because the low family income can ill-afford toilets or build proper drainage. They do...

By GREGORIO A. TAVERA   On a trip dubbed as "Lakbay-Saya", some members of Makati Senior Citizens Association (MSCA) dropped by Jagna on April 16 from their tour in Talibon and Ubay.        From Jagna, they proceeded to Carmen, then Tagbilaran City.        In Jagna, Mayor Exuperio Lloren hosted the visitors in a half-day interaction.        Jagnaanons and officials of the Department of the Social Welfare and Development (DSWD), Jagna Federated Senior Citizens Association of the Philippines (FSCAP) and Senior Citizens Affairs (OSCA) joined the mayor in welcoming the visitors led by Makati City Administrator Emmanuel Villafuerte and Justiniano Iglesia of Viejo Progress led the group. Maribel Lumang special coordinator of the Makati group gave her lecture together with Villafuerte.        DSWD Officer-in-charge Marcionila Reyes, president of FSCAP-Jagna and OSCA head learned about the trip through a communication that the visitors sent weeks earlier.        ...

By Fred C. Fuertes   THE 145-strong Tagbilaran Team emerged over-all champion in the Bohol Community Children's Games 2009, the first in Bohol, held in three venues- -Tagbilaran City, Maribojoc and Loboc.        Tagbilaran excelled in athletics, basketball, football, badminton, tennis, chess and taekwondo.        Table tennis matches were played in singles for boys, singles for girls, doubles for boys, doubles for girls, and mixed doubles.        Over-all first runner-up, Maribojoc, clinched the championship in sipa, volleyball for boys and volleyball for girls and placed second in basketball, chess, football and taekwondo.        Second runner-up, Loay, grabbed the championship in badminton-doubles for boys and badminton-doubles for girls and settled for second place in volleyball for boys and athletics.        Division Physical Education Supervisor Cirilo Calatrava and Dr. Clemen Jala awarded the trophies to the winners during the closing and awarding cerem...

By Onad Munalem       Call it coincidence as itineraries of their respectice Lakbay-Aray brought the groups from Makati and Iloilo City together in Talibon- -a common destination they never planned.        The Makati group comprised of senior citizens, while the Iloilo group comprised of city officials, employees and NGO members.        The Makati delegation, headed by Emmanuel Villafuerte- -consultant to the city administrator, came earlier in the morning and paid a courtesy call to Mayor Jaunario Item.        Item, Office of the Senior Citizens Affairs (OSCA) head Dr. Apolonio Redulla, and officials of Federated Senior Citizens Association of the Philippines (FSCAP) of Talibon welcomed the visitors.        Item led the visitors to the President Carlos P. Garcia Memorial Session Hall where he gave a Power Point presentation on the updates of the town's projects, before proceeding to the town's interpretive center, the only one of its kind managed by a loc...