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MORE and more individ-uals and groups have joined the long journey

towards federalism, with Davao City Mayor Rodrigo R. Duterte—the new captain of the ship—navigating and pushing for its realization.

Never before has the cam-paign on federalism created this much noise. Never before has the advocacy to shift from the Presi-dential Unitary form of govern-ment to the Federal Parliamenta-ry form solicited such awareness

From politicians to profes-sionals, the business sector to students and even to the ordi-nary people, Mayor Duterte and his federalism advocacy are get-ting mass support.

“It is indeed surprising that federalism is acceptable even in Metro Manila and Luzon,” says Peter Laviña, a former Davao City councilor who is now volunteer-ing for Duterte’s advocacy.

When Duterte launched his campaign during the Mindanao Leaders’ Summit on Federalism in Davao City late last year, he was greeted with an overwhelm-ing support that he set out on a nationwide, island-hopping drive to make people understand the importance of having a feder-al form of government.

The “Listening Tour,” as the information campaign is called, has taken the colorful local chief executive to many places in Min-danao, Visayas and Luzon.

Laviña said everywhere Duterte goes, he is being mobbed by people like a rock star.

And everywhere the Listen-ingTour takes him, Duterte is being urged to run for President in the 2016 elections as people want him to save the country from its suffering.

To Duterte, there’s no bet-ter solution for an ailing coun-try than a shift to a federal form

of government. He also sees federalism as the best fallback position for the proposed Bang-samoro Basic Law (BBL), which is facing rejection in Congress in the wake of the tragic Mamasa-pano encounter.

During the formal opening of the 78th Araw ng Davao celebra-tion at Rizal Park Tuesday night, Duterte reiterated his stand against war.

“We cannot afford a war be-cause we cannot kill our own people,” Duterte said. “If you have hatred against Muslim, you have to rise above it and embrace your brother.”

Just last week, popular movie actor Robin Padilla was in Davao City to convince Duterte to join the Presidential derby in 2016 and pledged full support should the mayor decides to throw his hat into the ring.

Padilla, who was joined in the trip by elder brother Rommel

and his director Enzo Williams, even called Duterte the mod-ern-day Lapu-Lapu, the ruler of Mactan who resisted Spaniards colonization.

Duterte said he is not the first leader to advocate federalism.

“I don’t plagiarize anything. I just adopt a solution,” he said of federalism, whose past advo-cates include former Cagayan de Oro mayor Reuben Canoy and former Senator Aquilino “Nene” Pimentel.

Laviña, who is assigned in the Mindanao operations, said Dute-rte has gone to Butuan, Zambo-anga City, Dapitan and Dipolog in Mindanao; Cebu, Dumaguete, Iloilo and Ormoc in Visayas; and Palawan, Bulacan, Nueva Ecija, Pangasinan, Pampanga and Met-ro Manila in Luzon.

After the Ormoc sojourn, Duterte was in Manila just days ago to speak before the Rotarians before proceeding to Bacolod to

address a multi-sectoral forum.The mayor will resume his

federalism campaign in Cebu, Bohol, Ozamiz, Oroquieta, Iligan City, Tagyatay, Bukidnon, Quezon Province and Cagayan de Oro in the next two months.

“He continues to receive invi-tations from all over the country for various speaking activities,” Laviña said.

Despite repeated calls for him to seek the presidency, Dute-rte has continually rejected such proposal, saying he has no mon-ey and that he is too old for the job.

Somewhere in the city, there used to be a signboard with a message written in bold letters that definitely express the senti-ments of the majority of the peo-ple of Davao.

The signboard had long been removed, but the message was already delivered.

RUN RODY RUN.

 Why Rody is getting huge support in campaign for federalism

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By CHARLES RAYMOND A. MAXEY

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DEPARTMENT of Sci-ence and Technology Sec. Mario Montejo

announced recently science and technology (S&T) am-bassadors who will champi-on S&T programs in Davao Region.

The initial batch of sci-ence ambassadors include Senator Paulo Benigno “Bam” Aquino IV, chair of the Senate Committee on Youth; Representative Mario U. Pi-amonte, senior vice chair of the Committee on Sci-ence and Technology of the House of Representatives; Maria Belen Sunga-Acosta and Marissa S. Abella, Davao

City councilors; Joey Ayala and Ronulfo “Popong” Land-ero, both Davao-based sing-ers-songwriters.

Sen. Aquino, the young-est senator of the 16th Congress, is a member of the Senate Committee on Science and Technology. He authored the S.B. 1091: Magna Carta for Philippine Internet Freedom which in-cludes provisions on secu-rity and privacy of data and information, establishment of an executive department for information and com-munications technology, and penalties for cybercrimes

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THE BIG NEWS

MILESTONE. Housing Land and Use Regulatory Board (HLURB) regional director Miguel Palm Gil (third from left) and DLI vice president Ricardo Floirendo Lagdam-eo shake hands after DLI, developer of the prime Damosa Fairlanes, received a per-

mit from HLURB to start land preparation for its Seawind project. Others in photo are (from left), DLI assistant vice president Alex G. Gocotano, Atty. Norjay Doral of HLURB, Jose Manuel Floirendo Lagdameo, and DLI sales director Albert S. Alvaran.

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THE Davao City Police Office (DCPO) is looking into all possible angles

over the recent killing of a son of a prominent businesswom-an in Davao City.

Police Senior Inspector Milgrace Driz, DCPO spokes-person, said they have yet to establish the motive of the slaying of 33-year-old Wilburn Reagan Jo Chua.

Wilburn Reagan, son of well-known trader Helen Chua, was shot dead inside his vehicle along Mabini St., Thursday night.

However, Public Safety and Security Command Cen-ter (PSSCC) Chief Francisco Villaroman posted on his Face-book page that Chua’s killing

could be related to the murder of Cebu-based hotelier Rich-ard Lim King.

Helen Chua was the busi-ness partner of King, who was shot dead himself inside his office along Bo. Obrero on June 12, 2014.

But, Driz said police inves-tigation right now is not only focusing on the link between King and Chua.

“Titingnan pa namin lahat ng posibleing angolo (We are looking on all possible angles). We are still digging deeper in our investigation,” Driz said.

Based on initial police in-vestigation, Chua has several personal and business grudg-es.

“Considering nga daghan

daw sya og mga kalaban, didto ta mag sugod sa atong inves-tigation ug kung unsay gika-limbigitan aning biktima. Naa tay mga posibleng mga lead sa pag speculate nato sa pang-hitabo (Considering that the victim allegedly had so many enemies, our investigation will start from there, find out what he was into. We have a possi-ble lead over the incident),” Driz said.

Police said Chua was inside his car when three men on board two motorcy-cles approached his parked black Toyota Land Cruiser vehicle and opened fire. He succumbed to eight gunshot wounds from a .45 caliber

Is trader son’s murderrelated to King killing?By FUNNY PEARL A. GAJUNERA

THE Davao Light and Power Co. (DLPC) will conduct 15-minute

switching power interrup-tions on March 17 and 19 af-fecting customers connected to its Bunawan, Panacan, Ma-tina, Ecoland, Bangkal, Puan, Dumoy and Toril Substations.

Rossano Luga, AVP for reputation enhancement, said the scheduled outages are necessary to facilitate the up-grading works of the National Grid Corporation of the Philip-pines on its Davao Substation control facilities.

To prevent long duration of power interruptions, Davao Light will temporarily transfer the loads from the affected

lines to nearby substations.The first set of pow-

er interruptions will be on March 17, Tuesday, anytime between 1:00 a.m. to 2:00 a.m. and on March 19, Thurs-day, anytime between 12:00 a.m. to 1:00 a.m., both for 15 minutes only.

This will affect customers in the entire areas from cross-ing Ulas up to Mintal Public Market, Puan, Dumoy and Toril. Meanwhile, Matina and Bangkal areas will also experi-ence the short service disrup-tion on March 19.

Another 15-minute pow-er interruption will be experi-enced on March 17, Tuesday, anytime between 5:00 a.m. to

6:00 a.m.. Customers affected are those from Santol Street in Buhangin, areas along di-version road going to Pana-can, Bunawan up to Awad Bridge in Ilang and in the entire areas along McArthur Highway from Matina Town Square to Davao Memorial Park, Ecoland and Maa.

Davao Light apologiz-es for the inconvenience of these scheduled power in-terruptions. But it will exert all efforts to restore electric service as scheduled or ear-lier. However, there may be instances where restoration may extend beyond the schedule due to unavoidable circumstances.

PEOPLE of Davao City will enjoy a long weekend.

This, after March 17, Tuesday, has been declared a non-working holiday in the city.

City Information Office (CIO) head Leo Villareal said Executive Secretary Paquito Ochoa is set to sign on Monday the proclamation declaring March 17 as non-working holi-day in the city.

“As per Presidential Leg-

islative Liaison Office (PLLO) public announcement can al-ready be made,” Villareal said.

The City Government of Davao was given the go-signal to make the announcement and the CIO will post the proc-lamation as soon as it will be released.

March 16, Monday, was also declared special non-working holiday in Davao as the city celebrates its 78th founding anniversary.

March 17 a holiday in DavaoBy ARMANDO B. FENEQUITO JR.

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COLORFUL BALLOONS. A man arranges his colorful balloons while selling his products and taking advantage of the 78th Araw ng Davao celebration. Lean Daval Jr.

SMALL-SCALE banana farmers in the Davao Region have been urged

to plant high value crops and vegetables on their aban-doned plantations to combat Panama disease.

Department of Agricul-ture (DA) 11 focal person for fusarium Herma M. Pal-ma said they will help these farmers by allocating P2.9 million for the procurement of high value crops like cacao,

coffee, cassava and corn.“The DA11 will be sup-

porting small banana farmers if they would like to resort to crop shifting,” Palma said.

Palma said abandoned lands include areas that ei-ther cannot be planted with the Giant Cavendish Tissue Culture Variety (GCTCV) 219 or the owner or farmer doesn’t want to plant banana anymore.

The GCTCV 219 is a tissue

culture developed by Bureau of Plant Industry (BPI) with Taiwanese partners at Bago Oshiro, Tugbok District. The tissue culture is proven to be 90 percent resistant of fusarium wilt or the Panama disease.

Under the crop shifting program of the agriculture department, a total of 225 hectares (ha.) of abandoned land because of Fusarium wilt or Panama disease should be

planted either of the four high value crops.

“We are targeting 70 hect-ares for cacao, 20 hectares for coffee, 100 hectares for corn, 20 hectares for cassava and 15 hectares for vegetables,” Palma said.

However, these areas are yet to be identified by 10 newly-hired plant pathol-ogists who just underwent training this week, she said.

Palma said the areas of

Compostela Valley and Davao del Norte will be prioritized for DA 11’s project to mini-mize and eventually eradi-cate Panama disease.

The two provinces in Davao Region have the high-est level of infection, with Davao del Norte at 50 percent infection and Compostela Valley at 25 percent.

Based on the 2013 re-cord, the region has a total of 701,000 infected mats.

“These infected mats are not only cavendish banana, but also cardava, saba and lakatan, among others,” Pal-ma said.

Davao del Norte has the biggest number of infected mats at 430,256 as per geo-tagged; followed by Davao City with 109,837; Com-postela Valley with 91,838; Davao del Sur with 61,780; and Davao Oriental with only 7,769 infected mats.

Banana farmers encouragedto plant high value crops

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By CHENEEN R. CAPON

THE appliance and market-ing business local giant LYR Group of Companies

of Tagum City’s fame has re-cently opened an addition of its appliance business branches in the interior, diminutive town of Braulio E. Dujali.

The LYR appliance show-room and office opened last March 5 in time of the start of the town’s celebration for the its 17th founding anniversary last March 8.

It sells appliances and mo-torcycles.

Company president and chief executive officer Larry Y. Rubinos led the opening of the branch that has been added to the company’s several branches growing from its humble begin-

ning in Tagum City in 1983.Mayor Lolita Moral wel-

comed LYR’s pouring of invest-ment, saying that “LYR’s start can attract other investors” in BE Dujali, which is located at the in-terior midpoint of the surround-ing Tagum City, and the towns of Carmen and Sto. Tomas.

LYR has now branches in Davao City, Digos, Cagayan de Oro City and key urban areas mostly in southern Mindanao.

LYR’s Dujali branch comes after its Sto. Tomas branch opened August 28 last year.

Mayor Moral added that Rubinos has been known by the residents since when he donat-ed two hectares at town’s heart, just adjacent to municipal hall, during the mayorship of Grego-

rio “Goryo” Facula. The donated land provides

space for the present market site, where a P13-million public market building would be con-structed this year.

BE Dujali was formed on January 30, 1998 from parts of Panabo and Carmen and named after Braulio Estoperes Dujali, leader of the first group of set-tlers that came from South Co-tabato.

It is peopled by mostly Ilonggos- pioneers and descen-dants of Ilonggo migrants.

The town has close to 30,000 population and only five barangays- Dujali, the town cen-ter, Cabay-angan, Magupising, New Casay and Tanglaw.

LYR Group invests in Dujali town

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Suffer the cabbiesWHILE the city celebrates its 78th anniversary with

pomp and pageantry, taxi drivers begin their daily grind with a reduced flag down rate.

There would be no pomp and pageantry there for sure. With the streets busy on this day and with offices and business on holiday, much of the cabs will roam around the streets empty.

That’s a double whammy of sorts.The P30 flag down rate will be fully operative without any

adjustment on the rental rates of cabbies from their opera-tors. In this one-sided battle, the drivers are easy preys. They will solely bear the brunt of the fare reduction. The operators will not lose a penny.

It’s a one-sided battle, the sad reality is that taxi drivers in the city do not have an association to collectively pursue any demand or action arising from their own rights within the constitutional ambit of equal protection.

Poor taxi drivers will have to take this bitter pill to swal-

low.According to the Land Transportation and Franchising

Board (LTFRB) 11, they have already informed majority of the taxi operators in Davao City of the P10 reduction in the flag down rate and there is no stopping its implementation.

LTFRB 11 said 90 percent of operators and drivers have been fairly apprised of the provisional rollback on taxi fare mandated by the national office. That is the requirement of the new reduced rate.

With the plight of the taxi drivers in consideration, the LTFRB needs to consider protecting also the interest of the drivers and not just the interest of business. While we sub-mit that the reduced rates will benefit the public in general, we are likewise saddened that a good number of our hard-working countrymen will have to take the hit by themselves instead of sharing it with the operators who rake in the lion’s share in this transport business.

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DAVAO City’s firecracker ban or-dinance is now being replicated in other parts of the country ow-

ing to its success not just in preventing deaths and injuries but also in making fund savings from getting rid of inci-dents that are actually preventable.

The sale, distribution and use of fire-crackers and other similar pyrotechnic devices, have been strictly implemented in Davao City since 2001. At that time, the city government is in need of addi-tional funds to augment the allocations for its flagship health program.

When Mayor Rodrigo R. Duterte found out that there is a yearly alloca-tion to address the medical needs of people who get injured from firecrack-ers, he then declared the firecracker ban so that the allocated funds can be better rechanneled to where it is most needed.

An ordinance backing up his ban declaration was in fact passed only in the following year, the Ordinance No. 060-02 Series of 2002. Since the ban im-plementation, Davao City has achieved a two-fold gain: a zero-casualty from firecrackers specifically during the eves of Christmas and New Year and an in-creased fund allocation to better the health being of the people.

While other key cities of Mindanao and other parts of the country started to replicate the practice, Davao City’s ver-sion remains the most stringent when it comes to scope and range, offering no single exemption.

In fact, members of Filipino-Chi-nese com-munity in the city have had to explore an innova-tive way of celebrating Chinese New Year where a dragon dance is a key feature supposedly incomplete sans the bursts of pyrotechnics. In lieu of firecrackers, however, they still hold the dragon dance accompanied by fireworks display flashed from a wide screen ultra-sound TV.

An organizer of a fundraising fun run recently aired their difficulty in finding from every store in town the powder to be used in a starter pistol. Getting none of the substance which was aplenty be-fore the firecracker ban, they made use of flags to start the event.

Certainly, the implementation of the firecracker ban has altered the lives of people particularly those who have pre-viously made financial benefits from the unbridled flow of the trade. It also changed our conventional ways of cele-brating a cultural festivity or holding a sporting event.

But the overall gains from its imple-mentation far exceeded whatever cost

or inconvenience it may have caused to some segments of our community.

The same holds true in the strict im-plementation of speed limit. To address the alarming increase in the occurrence of traffic mishaps on highways and ma-jor streets caused by over speeding and reckless driving, the local government imposed a speed limit at 30 KpH, 40 KpH and 60 KpH starting from the downtown area towards the outer portions of the city.

Executive Order #39 Series of 2013, an order setting the speed limits for all kinds of motor vehicles within the terri-torial jurisdiction of Davao City, was ful-ly implemented in 2014.

The start of its implementation was not entirely welcomed particularly among taxi and jeepney drivers, claim-ing that it inhibits their opportunity by limiting the frequency to get more pas-sengers, thereby reducing their daily income.

The drivers’ complaints may sound valid but not necessarily sufficient to override the greater intent of the exec-utive order anchored on the encompass-ing road safety context prevailing in the city.

Before its implementation, the num-ber of road mishaps posted an annual increase of 37 percent with an average of 485 non-fatal physical injuries and 17 deaths each year.

Last year, traffic enforcers made a to-tal of 5,823 apprehensions for violating

E.O. #39. The number is relatively low considering that Davao City has 15,210 public utility vehicles plying the city’s more than a thousand kilometers of road serviced by 83 routes excluding the pri-vate and government-owned vehicles.

But its enforcement completely re-versed the trend in the city’s entire traf-fic situation. From a total of 18,239 road mishaps recorded in 2013, the figures decreased to 11,795 in 2014 or a de-crease of 35.33 percent, inverting the al-most equal rate of annual increase post-ed in the previous years.

The statistical data backed up the well-established concept, subscribed by a growing number of public health experts, which holds that traffic injuries and deaths are non-accident outcomes. It defines accidents as “unexpected occurrences that happen by chance,” whereas injury outcomes—although generally unintentional—are “charac-terized by well-established factors that could be addressed by intervention.”

The city’s strict implementation of firecracker ban and speed limit proves that injuries and even the loss of lives and properties are not actually unavoid-able. It demonstrates that high financial costs from irresponsible revelry and over speeding are completely unneces-sary.

In preventing deaths and injuries, these groundbreaking practices only re-affirm that Davao City is indeed, one of the world’s safest cities.

BORN to the Bagobo parents, Palad and Ontas, in 1886, Santiago Palad was originally named Agol until

he was baptized eight years later. He was one of those Bagobos with pierced ears sent from Davao to join the St. Louis Ex-position in 1904 in the U.S. where he was taught to write his name but was unable to read and write. On his return, he mar-ried Oyog, a Bagobo maiden. The union bore four children, namely Matilde, Fruc-tuoso, Francisco, and Leonila, also known by their Bagobo names as Inding, Olo, Oska, and Oning, respectively. When his wife died, he took another wife, Felicidad Ambat, whom he married under Roman Catholic rites.

His first and only foreign travel had a huge personal impact as soon as he re-turned from the exposition. He was now wearing the attire common to Christians and he acquired a taste for good articles and became a key village leader. After acquiring an understandable command of Cebuano and Tagalog, he was at times invited to make speeches during polit-ical rallies. It was in business, though, that he proved successful. Acquiring land through purchases from other Ba-

gobos and occupying unclaimed lands, he formed a 35-hectare hacienda. Palad’s transformation, in a way, hid his being Ba-gobo. In documents, he did not mention he was a Bagobo. Even his lawyer and those he conducted business with him were not aware he was a native.

But Palad’s agrarian deals also were not entirely smooth. Between Jan. 26, 1923 and September 27, 1924, he exe-cuted land-related documents. The first deed, notarized by Juan A. Sarenas, Pal-ad’s lawyer, was an antichresis, which ceded his abaca plantation at Guianga to

K. Saito, a Japanese, for P20,925.09. Court records also show the land value in ac-counts he had with the Ohta Development Co., Mintal Plantation Co., Vicente Uy Tan Chang, and K. Saito.

Palad, on the strength of another deed, transferred to Saito the buildings on the land, the five hemp stripping machines, and the three carabaos for P5,333.46, which were to be deducted from the land value. Another deed was also executed transferring the plantation to Jose Madra-zo in consideration of P3,500. The Japa-nese agreed to the sale since it was sub-ject to the encumbrance in his favor under the contract of antichresis. To validate the third deed, it was acknowledged before the clerk of court of Davao. A promissory note of P3,400 was signed by K. Ohsihiro, plus a sum of P100 in cash.

As a result of the deal, Madrazo want-ed possession of the plantation but was rebuffed. He filed two legal actions in 1925, one against Joaquin Ferraz, Santi-ago Palad, and Felicidad de Palad, who were favored to have ownership of the land in question, and the second was the charge filed by Palad against Saito and Madrazo as the principal defendants.

After Palad died, his widow and the chil-dren by this first marriage succeeded the cases.

Rightly or wrongly, the fraud case filed against Palad ended in his favor. First, the court said there was fraud in the execution of the documents and the culprit was Saito. And second, any and all lands transacted by “non-Christians” must get the endorsement of the Bu-reau of Non-Christian Tribes. Although a convert, Palad remained classified as “non-Christian” which, under Section 118, of Act No. 2874 or the Public Land Act, and affirmed by a circular issued by the BNT director on Jan. 22, 1925 and under BNT circulars of Feb. 1, 1924, and Nov. 28, 1927, should be interpreted ad-ministratively outside the religious un-dertones often associated with it.

The high tribunal, in affirming an earlier decision made by a lower court, also ruled that the defendants (those who claimed ownership of the plantation outside the Palad family) “jointly and severally… pay the plaintiffs the amount of P33,267.66.” No motions of reconsid-eration were allowed and no cost of liti-gation was awarded.

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ANOTHER Filinvest Land, Inc., (FLI) proj-ect will soon rise in

Davao City.The project, 8 Spatial

Davao, will be constructed in partnership with the Villa Abrille family and is envi-sioned to be an affordable mid-rise condo develop-ment in Maa.

Spatial is a 3.4 hectare medium-rise condo devel-opment that features more spacious units and a host of amenities in a secure and accessible. It is a under the

Futura Homes brand, FLI’s value homes.

“The construction of the first phase which include the first building and the amenities like pool will start by June,” Spatial’s project development officer Andy Galizon said during the ground breaking ceremony and blessing of site sales of-fice in Maa last Friday.

Galizon said the com-munity will have a total of eight buildings, each six sto-ry high with 32 units each floor.

“Spatial is a low-densi-ty enclave that offers only 1,536 units for an afford-able price starting from P1.8 million to P2 million each,” Galizon said.

He said that what is nice about FLI’s newest project is that it will be spacious be-cause only 30 percent of the total area will be developed for residential purposes

“So that there will be a lot of open space. Home-owners can walk around the community,” Galizon said.

Galizon, who has a con-do unit in Manila, said con-do units in other cities don’t give the ambiance of a home.

“It’s just like a sleeping area. It’s a house, but not a home,” he said.

Spatial’s units are most-ly 32 square meters (sqm.) two bedroom unit. Even though units are small, he said the spacious ground will give homeowners a breathable space.

Among the amenities that homeowners can enjoy are swimming pool, bas-

ketball court, play lots and lawns, and courtyards.

In addition, the project will be highly accessible through Mc Arthur Highway and near to malls and leisure destinations like NCCC Mall of Davao, SM City Davao and S&R membership shopping.

Homeowners have also high accessibility to major schools and universities in Davao City like Ateneo de Davao Matina Campus, Philippine Women’s Col-lege (PWC), and University of Mindanao (UM) Matina

Campus.FLI is targeting to finish

the first phase by 2016 and start the turn-over by 2017.

FLI’s president Lourdes Josephine Gotianun-Yap said that the giant property developer will continue to invest in Davao City because of its vibrant economy, growing market, and peace and order.

“We will continue to come-up with residential projects that provide real places to real needs,” Yap said.

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By CHENEEN R. CAPON

EDGEDAVAO

COMPETITIVE EDGE

MOST of us have our own furry friends to take

good care of. But does every furry friend have someone who would give them a hug when they’re sad and alone in the dark?

Third year marketing students of Ateneo de Davao University hosted a fundraising event en-titled “PAWS for style” at the Roxas grounds on March 6, 2015.

PAWS is a non-profit organization dedicated to educating people about kindness to animals and responsible pet own-ership. 3MKC students through the leadership of Ms. Dodai Espina created and managed “PAWS for Style”, as a fundraising event that aimed to gen-erate donations for the benefit of the Philippine Animal Welfare Society’s “Homeless not worthless” campaign led by 3MKC student’s Public Rela-

tions teacher Ms. Donna Abrina.

To everyone’s sur-prise, PAWS earned P19,016 that will be do-nated to the said benefi-ciary. This is much more than what the team has expected. But of course, this is not just a fundrais-ing event but also a show for pets together with their pet owners as they flaunt and catwalk with their very adorable out-fits.

Y o k o , a poodle, with owner Mary Grace Baylon won first place with their peacock in-spired out-fit. Markus, a Siberian husky, with owner Cri-santo Pan-ao won sec-ond place followed by

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‘Homeless not Worthless’ campaign supported by AteneansInday, a Chihuahua, with owner Eric Romero won third place in the catwalk event.

A very cute Pomera-nian named Penny with owner Joan Anne Plana also bagged as the Peo-ple’s Choice while cud-dly shih tzu named Luke owned by Biena Lou Moncada was titled as the Most Photogenic pet in the event. All of them judged by Mr. Anthony Aguelo, Ms. Jeoffrey Ting-

son, and Mr. Benralph Yu. Ateneo Roxas Grounds

seemed like an open zoo on that very fine Friday af-ternoon as teachers, stu-dents and guests enjoyed participating in the event. Students were educated and given the chance to pet and take photos with the exotic animals from Southern Line Exotic Distributors, Indie Ex-otic Keepers and Davao Dog Lovers Community. Kerwin Haw, a 3rd year

BS-HRM student and dog trainer, showcased mon-dioring drills like defense and obedience skills with his 6 year-old dog Ger-man shepherd, Maxie. Riq dela Cruz, a special guest from the House of Hope and avid dog lover, drew the raffle tickets for the five five baby tarantu-la prizes.

This event was in part-nership with Dogworld.ph, Azure Productions, Baby Moon Lifestyle

and Tinga Animal Clinic. 3MK-C would also like to thank ABS-CBN, GMA, Edge Davao, Mindanao Daily Mirror, Atenews, Ateneo Photographers Society, Ateneo de Davao Office of Student Affairs, Davao City Central 911, House of Hope, Kinsley Sandoval of SLED, Kevin Gonzalez of IEK, Mr.Jessie Singson of Mars Philip-pines Inc and Davao Dog Lovers Society for lend-ing a PAW.

MAXIE. 6 year old German Shepered owned by Kerwin Haw, an Atenean, showcased his defensive and obe-dience skills during the event.

3MKC. Third Year Marketing students who supported and hosted the event extending their biggest gratitude to everyone who lended a PAW for the success of this event. FACE YOUR FEARS. An Atenean faced her fear of reptiles as she made there albino phyton snakes a headdress.

SLEEPING SNAKEY. Ateneans took a photo opportunity with the exotic animals from Southern Line Exotic Distributors, Indie Exotic Keepers and Davao Dog Lovers Community.

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The town, a rice grana-ry with banana enclave at its south, is now almost connect-ed by all-concrete road from Tagum City while road concret-

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and other prohibited acts, among others.

Moreover, in 2013, Aqui-no was unanimously adopt-ed by all the ten tribes of Davao City as “Datu Matu-langod”, meaning “the de-pendable, sincere and trust-ed leader.”

“This DOST plaque is very special to me,” an-nounced Compostela Vallley Vice Governor Manuel “Way Kurat” Zamora. “When I get home, I can throw away all of my awards and keep this one.”

Way Kurat was not kid-ding 100 percent. His hum-ble beginnings had him working as a farmer and an agriculturist who relied on science and technology to be more productive. In fact, he even invented a bicycle ped-al-powered peanut sheller that won him third prize at an inventor’s contest in Min-danao in the early 1980s.

Meanwhile, Rep. Mario U. Piamonte of the A-Teacher Party List is considered as a true advocate of science in the House. Among the bills he authored or co-authored include House Bill 3512, which mandates the provi-sion of computer laboratory in every school campus, the computerization of teaching modules and the equipping of teachers through training programs.

Other named S&T am-bassadors include Davao City Councilors Maria Belen Acosta and Marissa Salva-

dor-Abella, as well as Joey Ayala and Ronulfo “Popong” Landero, both Davao-based performer-song writers and environmental advocates.

The S&T ambassadors were awarded with plaques and officially charged with their envoy duties during the ScienceJam concert re-cently at the University of Southeastern Philippines Gymnasium - Obrero Cam-pus, Davao City. The con-cert likewise featured Lloyd Edisonne Montebon, World Championships of Perform-ing Arts - Grand Junior Per-former of the World, and a new band called BOB Band.

The announcement of S&T ambassadors is a part of the campaign called “Science Nation Tour” which aims to bring to the regions relevant science and technology pro-grams that help boost the economy of local govern-ments. The campaign uses conventional and alternative activities, such as concerts and physical fitness, to make people appreciate how S&T weaves into their daily lives.

Earlier in the day, Sec. Montejo turned over 56 hy-dro meteorological sensors to local chief executives in Davao Region. The Hydrom-et project, a component of Project NOAH or Nationwide Operational Assessment of Hazards, uses state-of-the-art weather tracking equip-ment to provide a better pic-ture of the country’s surface waters. (DOST)

handgun.Police also recovered from

the victim’s car were one .45 caliber gun, a .22 Barrett fire-arm, a sachet of shabu and drug paraphernalia, three handheld radios and cash.

Driz said that the .22 Bar-rett gun of Chua do not have a license.

It was also learned that Chua was previously confined in a rehabilitation center due to drug addiction.

After the incident, Vil-laroman posted the video on his facebook page showing

the three suspects riding in two motorcycles, The actual shooting, however, could not be seen clearly.

“This murder case has a relation to the murder last year of one Mr. King from Cebu City in his office of Vital C at the back of Mc Donalds along Ba-jada this city by still unknown suspects but some confessed witnesses pinned down P/Supt. Felonia as the brain of the murder case hence an ar-rest warrant was issued by the court with-out bail against the said officer,” Villaromna said.

GEORGE Cortes (not his real name) of Florida plans to go home for a

vacation to the Philippines next year. He saved up $3,000 for the flight home. But as soon as Filipino ring icon Manny Pacquiao and undefeated box-er Floyd Mayweather walked the rolled out Hollywood car-pet, faced off, did the tradi-tional staredown, gave a few statements to some 600 cre-dentialed media persons on Wednesday, George decided he will bet his hard-earned mon-ey for the Mindanawon boxer.

“Only two things can hap-pen,” he said. “Either my family will have a grand time with my winnings, or I’ll stay in Florida and work again for the entire year to save up for my next trip home.”

A strong believer of the Pacman, Cortes appears to wholly embrace Pacquiao’s

statement during the first and only press conference for the fight: “I believe I will win on May 2.”

Mayweather, 47-0 with 26 knockouts, on the other hand, projected a more subdued tone. Stressing he believes in himself and his skill, the un-defeated American boxer ex-plains “i can’t see how it will play out, I am not a psychic. But you best believe I will be in top shape and the best I can be.”

Mayweather is reported to be cashing in $120 mil-lion while Pacquiao gets $80 million when they clash for the welterweight unification world championship on May 2 at the MGM Grand Garden Are-na. Tickets range from a low of $1,000 to a high of $5,000.

Elsewhere in Los Angeles, a small organization of Min-danawons also planned to piggyback on the forthcoming

“epic” fight. It wants to raise funds for the organization by, again, placing a bet on Pac-quiao. An officer, who request-ed not to be named, said they can raise as much as $10,000 from among their member-ship.

“Manny is going to win,” the officer said citing obser-vations by Freddie Roach, Pacquiao’s trainer, that the Filipino southpaw has a bet-ter chance of winning because Mayweather has slowed down.

“I think Manny knows how to beat him,” Roach said.

Down here in the Rio Grande Valley, on the other hand, it will be the first time Hispanics and Filipinos will be rooting for the same boxer – Manny Pacquiao.

Mary Jameson, a retired math teacher, said Filipinos and Hispanics have been on opposing sides in most of

Pacquiao’s fights because the Filipino boxer is often paired with a Hispanic. Restaurants, bars and pub houses here are always packed whenever there is a scheduled Pacquiao bout. “We love Pacquiao, but we love more our Hispanic boxers.”

It’s a different scenario this time, she said, as she has invit-ed Filipino friends to be at her house at the posh Cimarron Subdivision in nearby Mis-sion City. “We will shout only one name – Manny Pacquiao, while we feast on pancit, chick-en adobo, taco, tamales and menudo.”

Superstars Mayweather and Pacquiao, whose cross-over appeal transcends the sport and has made them household names, will com-pete in an event that is expect-ed to eclipse any and all pay-per-view, live gate and closed circuit records.

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Norwegian lifestyle brand, SWIMS is best known for its achievement in reinventing the galosh (overshoe). Having added functionality, lots of col-ors, and a more contem-porary shape to its lineup of footwear styles, SWIMS has reinvented the humble galosh into a modern, hip, style that is now gaining popularity in major met-ropolitan cities around the world – including the Phil-ippines. Davao’s famous and revered Mayor Rodrigo Duterte, had tried on a pair of SWIMS and found the George Lace Loafer collection to fit his style. Its semi-formal sleek de-sign appealed to the good mayor and all he could say when he tried it on was “Perfect!” With SWIMS’ vision to enhance the lifestyle of people at work and leisure, we decided to give Mayor

Rody Duterte a pair to give him a feel of SWIMS comfort and functionality while going about with his hectic schedule. In line with the brand’s philosophy of “Reinvent-ing Classics”, SWIMS aims to create functional and smart products with the highest quality. After the success of the galosh, SWIMS has another excit-ing product that is sure to delight local footwear fans. Reinventing the classic loafer, SWIMS has been able to turn it into some-thing that is more func-tional through the integra-tion of high-tech materials and state-of-the-art tech-nology. And how func-tional is it? Well, for water babies, they’d be happy to learn that they can now start wearing loafers even in the ocean, by the pool, on the deck of a boat – ba-sically a comfy loafer that you can “loaf” around in

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ONE of the latest up-and-coming brands from popular concept store Res-Toe-Run, SWIMS is already making a “splash” in the fashion scene with its unique take on popu-lar footwear styles with premium on comfort and function.

the beach instead of the usual flip flops. But for city folks or those that are looking for SWIMS’ more practi-cal advantage like Mayor Rody, they’d be happy to know that SWIMS, most especially its galoshes, are perfect for rainy days when you don’t want to get your shoes ruined and of course, keep your feet dry. SWIMS is truly a fine example how the merg-ing of practical innova-tions and style can result to something that is truly exciting. Check out SWIMS’ lat-est collection at Res-Toe-Run branch in Abreeza and nationwide. Res|Toe|Run is owned and operated by The Prim-er Group of Companies, Asia’s next retail giant. SWIMS would like to thank Mayor Rody Duterte for wearing SWIMS shoes; to Mr. Bong Go, his Executive Assis-tant for allowing SWIMS a few minutes to honor the good Mayor. Our warm-est thanks also goes out to Ms. Jojie Alcantara, writ-er-blogger-photojournalist

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ing other renowned is-land destinations such as Hawaii, Mozambique, Australia, and Greece. Palawan’s tourism jew-els, El Nido and Honda Bay, were also named the “Most Beautiful Island Beach” and “Best Island Beach for Swimming and Snorkeling,” respectively in February 2015. For her part, AirAsia Zest CEO Joy Cañeba said, “It’s a shared vision

for all of us to bring tour-ism into Palawan. Pala-wan is known for deliver-ing world- class service as a world-class tourist des-tination and as a regional airline with massive con-nectivity across all Asean countries including Chi-na, Australia and India, it’s just fitting that this partnership come to life.” AirAsia has increased frequencies for Manila-Puerto Princesa City

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Women’s Treats, Maxene Magalonaand Flawless at SM Lanang Premier

Year-round low fares to Palawan from Manila are now available at www.airasia.com

THE most beautiful night in the country is about to happen. With 34 stunning Filipinas soak-ing in the limelight, the question as to who will shine and impress the crowd and judges the most will be answered as Binibining Pilipinas names its brand new winners on Sunday (March 15). The coronation night will air live on ABS-CBN and a replay will be aired on Lifestyle Network on Monday (March 16). Expected to be another grand coronation night, the 52nd Bb. Pilipinas coronation night show-cases a wonderful mix of candi-dates composed of previous local pageant winners, working profes-sionals, graduates from reputable schools, and celebrities. Back in the competition this year are Pia Wurztbach and Hannah

KAPAMILYA TV host-ac-tress Alex Gonzaga will open the magical sum-mer season of TV view-ers as ABS-CBN’s new-est fantasy-drama series “Inday Bote” premieres on Monday (March 16). In the series, Alex will be paired with Mat-teo Guidicelli and Kean Cipriano. “The story of ‘Inday Bote’ is perfect for the whole fam-ily this summer season. In the teleserye version, view-ers will get to know Inday as a person, daughter, sister, and a young woman who learns to fall in love. The youth, especially teenagers, will surely learn a lot from Inday’s determination and her belief that there is noth-ing you cannot do, if you will follow your dreams,” said Alex about ABS-CBN’s TV ad-aptation of the masterpiece of veteran komiks novelist Pablo Gomez. In “Inday Bote,” Alex will portray the character of In-day, a joyful young woman who has many dreams for

herself and her family. In-day’s life begins to change when she is given a magic bottle inhabited by dwarves who have superpowers. Completing the power-house cast of “Inday Bote” are Aiko Melendez, Alicia Alonzo, Smokey Manaloto, Nikki Valdez, Malou Crisolo-go, Jeffrey Santos, Nanding Josef, Alora Sasam, Biboy Ramirez, Izzy Canillo, and in-

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World’s Best Island partners with the World’s Best Carrier and major tourism players

route from 3x to 5x daily starting 29th March 2015 with promo fares from as low as P1,099 base fare only for guests traveling now until 10th June 2015. World’s Best Island program is supported by the Department of Tour-ism and the United States Agency for International Development under its Advancing Philippine Competitiveness project (USAID-COMPETE).

IN celebration of In-ternational Women’s Month, SM Lanang Premier is giving all ladies well deserved shopping rewards on all Wednesdays and treats on selected dates in March. On March 18 and 25, women can enjoy up to 30% off at The SM Store and participating tenants mall-wide. SM Advantage Card hold-ers can get 10% off on a minimum P1,500 single-receipt purchase of reg-ular-priced items. BDO Shopmore Mastercard holders can also avail of

extra 10% rebate on a minimum purchase of P5,000 and extra 20% re-bate on a minimum buy of P20,000. The metro’s premier shopping and lifestyle destination also has a special event for all women on Saturday, March 21, as celebrity Maxene Magalona grac-es SM Lanang Premier Atrium for the Beauty by Flawless event. Program starts at 5pm. Shoppers are invited to see Maxene as she shares her beauty and skin care tips and well-ness regimens with

Davaoeños. The event is co-presented by Flaw-less, which is located at the Lower Ground Level of SM Lanang Premier. Can’t get enough of make-up products? Get ready as the Mad for Make-up Fair happens at the Atrium on March 27-29. Choose from a wide range of make-up op-tions and enhance your looks by whipping up a few cosmetic tricks. For inquiries, contact 285-0943 or visit SM La-nang Premier on Face-book, Twitter and Insta-gram for event updates and sale alerts.

THE province of Palawan, represent-ed by the Provincial Government and Palawan Tourism Council, is part-nering with AirA-sia Philippines, the Filipino Low Cost Carrier that flies hand in hand with AirAsia, voted the World’s Best Low Cost Airline for six consecutive years by Skytrax, to draw more and more tourist both for-eign and domestic to Palawan’s over 1, 700 islands. During the formal launch held at the Provin-cial Capitol last March 4, Palawan Governor Jose “Pepito” Alvarezsaid, “This is Public-Private Partnership in action, where all the stakeholders share a common goal in increasing tourist arrivals in Palawan.” Alvarez also lauded the partnership as a “good ex-ample of unity and strong collaboration among all the major players in tour-ism” and that every prov-ince should adopt as part of Visit Philippines 2015 campaign program. Aside from provid-ing year-round low fares, AirAsia is also partnering

with local hotels and tour operators to bring them to Manila and around the country for a series of travel expos and promo-tional activities for Pala-wan. Home to natural won-ders acclaimed globally, Palawan was hailed the world’s best island in the Conde Nast Traveler’s Readers’ Choice Awards in 2014. The province topped the survey, best-

AirAsia Zest CEO Joy Caneba, Palawan Governor Jose Alvarez, Palawan Tourism Council President Deborah Tan with AirAsia cabin crew in their iconic red uniform during the MOA signing in Palawan last March 4.

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ABS-CBN, Lifestyle Network to air 52nd Bb. Pilipinas Coronation NightTHE most beautiful night in the country is about to happen. With 34 stunning Filipinas soak-ing in the limelight, the question as to who will shine and impress the crowd and judges the most will be answered as Binibining Pilipinas names its brand new winners on Sunday (March 15). The coronation night will air live on ABS-CBN and a replay will be aired on Lifestyle Network on Monday (March 16). Expected to be another grand coronation night, the 52nd Bb. Pilipinas coronation night show-cases a wonderful mix of candi-dates composed of previous local pageant winners, working profes-sionals, graduates from reputable schools, and celebrities. Back in the competition this year are Pia Wurztbach and Hannah

Ruth Sison, who both managed to be part of the top three in past ‘Binibini’ coronation nights. Wurz-tbach who bagged first-runner up in 2013 failed to enter the top five last year while Sison hopes to take home one of the five crowns after her strong second runner-up finish last year.

Meanwhile, rookies Ann Lor-raine Colis, Alaiza Flor Malinao, Kylie Verzosa, and Teresita Ssen “Wynwyn” Marquez are all set to charm the judges to emerge tri-umphant at the coronation night. Marquez, the daughter of Joey Marquez and Alma Moreno, who is also starting a career in showbiz

just like her parents. The pressure is on Marquez as well since her aunt, Miss International Melanie Marquez, is assisting in her train-ing. Who are the ladies who will shine and represent the country in prestigious international beauty tilts? Find out at the Binibining Pili-pinas 2015 coronation night at the Smart Araneta Coliseum with a live telecast on ABS-CBN on Sunday at 9:30PM. Catch the replay on Life-style Network on Monday at 6:30 PM. For more information, visit www.bbpilipinas.com, www.facebook.com/realbbpilipinas, the Lifestyle Network’s official Facebook page (www.facebook.com/LifestyleNet-work), and www.lifestylenetwork.com.ph.

herself and her family. In-day’s life begins to change when she is given a magic bottle inhabited by dwarves who have superpowers. Completing the power-house cast of “Inday Bote” are Aiko Melendez, Alicia Alonzo, Smokey Manaloto, Nikki Valdez, Malou Crisolo-go, Jeffrey Santos, Nanding Josef, Alora Sasam, Biboy Ramirez, Izzy Canillo, and in-

troducing Alonzo Muhlach. It is directed by Malu Sevilla and Jon Villarin. “Inday Bote” is part of the magical summer campaign of Dreamscape Entertain-ment Television, the group that created top-rating TV masterpieces such as “Walang Hanggan,” “Ina Kapatid Anak,” “Juan dela Cruz,” “Ikaw Lamang,” and “Bagito,” which will air its fi-nale on Friday (March 13). Don’t miss the beginning of the inspiring and magical story of “Inday Bote” soon on ABS-CBN Primetime Bida. For more information about the program, visit the offi-cial social networking site of Dreamscape Entertainment Television at Facebook.com/DreamscapePH, Twitter.com/DreamscapePH, and Instagram.com/Dreamsca-pePH.

GMA News pillar and multi-awarded news an-chor Mel C. Tiangco re-newed ties with GMA Net-work at a contract signing held on March 9. Present during the con-tract signing were GMA Network Chairman and CEO Felipe L. Gozon, Presi-dent and COO Gilberto R. Duavit, Jr., EVP and CFO Felipe S. Yalong, and SVP for News and Public Affairs Marissa L. Flores. Tiangco, who has been with the Network since 1996, expressed her con-tinued loyalty to GMA Net-work. “The day I entered GMA, I knew it was going to be my home forever,” says the veteran broad-caster. Apart from co-anchor-ing GMA’s flagship news-cast 24 Oras with Mike En-riquez and Vicky Morales, and hosting the award-winning drama anthology Magpakailanman, Tiangco is also the EVP and COO of GMA’s socio-civic arm, GMA Kapuso Foundation. In these various roles, she is highly regarded by GMA’s top manage-ment with Gozon saying, “Napakaganda ng aming experience, not only with each other but also with the Network, so that it has come to the point na ma-hirap nang isipin na may

GMA without Tita Mel.” Moreover, Duavit ex-tols Tiangco’s credibility and commitment to ser-vice as seen in her work with the Kapuso Founda-tion and GMA News and Public Affairs. “Madalang makatagpo ng isang tao na lahat halos nasa kanya na,” he says. “Sa madaling salita, isang tao kung saan napapaloob ang lahat ng ibig nating sabihin sa ser-bisyong totoo. Mapalad tayo na si Mel ay bahagi ng Kapuso and we are proud to be Kapuso dahil sa mga katulad ni Mel,” he shares. Of her contributions to the Network, Flores shares, “Tita Mel has been instrumental in cement-ing GMA News and Public Affairs’ reputation as the most credible news orga-nization in the country. We look forward to more years of working with her.” Indeed, Mel Tiangco has consistently shown the heart of a Kapuso

throughout her years of service. ““To say that I love this company is an under-statement. I have served

it with all my heart and with all my soul and I will continue to do so,” she ex-presses.

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“COULD you send me your curriculum vi-tae?” wrote Christine T. Dompor, the pro-vincial tourism officer of Compostela Val-ley, in her text to me.

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I asked why and she an-swered, “Because we have chosen you as one of the members of the board of judges in our forthcom-ing contest during the Bu-lawan Festival.” True enough, a few days later, I got a letter of invi-tation from Jayvee Tyron L. Uy, the festival’s action officer. “This year’s cel-ebration is… showcasing the province’s bounties --culture, golden-hearted people, talents and skills, and great harvest,” he wrote. I was asked to judge its Talentadong Comvalen-yo. Since it was to be held at the Provincial Capitol in Nabunturan, we had to travel all the way from Davao City. The driver of the van picked me up at the hotel where I was staying at around 4 pm. We also passed by Museo Dabawenyo, where Oscar Casaysay, another judge, was waiting. It was a long trip -- al-

most three hours. It was there I met the other judge in the person of Edson “Etchok” Cachuela. We were having our dinner when someone gave us the details of the contest. “It’s a real-ity show with no limits,” she said. The contest is open to individuals, pairs or groups (a maximum number of 10 members). The criteria we used for judging the three winners were: technique and ex-ecution, 40 points; degree of difficulty, 30 points; and overall performance, 30 points. There were only 12 con-testants. DMX Comvale-nyos emerged the grand winner bringing home the P30,000 cash prize. Wild Hip Clovers was adjudged second prize winner and took the P25,000 cash prize. The P15,000 cash prize went to JC Beat for winning the third prize. The following received P3,500 cash prize each as

consolation: The Cordz, Chester Lara, Leonides Laude, Beyond Soi, Rod-ney Christ Mainit, Hip-mix Crew, Richelle Joy Lora, Mars Hiphop Com-munity, and Elizalde Movers. In his reaction, Casay-say said, observing only one woman contestant, that women should join more in such contest like this. Cachuela, in his face-book account, wrote: “But I would love to make spe-cial mention of contestant No. 8 -- that kid who did ‘BALAK’ completes my experience. It was thrill-ing to hear deep poetic verse with rhymes come to life competing against dance, music and other acts. BALAK is a vanish-ing oral tradition and see-ing it on stage rendered by a kid is even more touch-ing. I learned that it is the mother who wrote the piece and taught it to the child then I see tradition handed to the new gen-eration unfolding before our very eyes.” The contest started

with a performance by Neil Rey Garcia Llanes, yes the grand winner of the 2014 Talentadong Pi-noy of TV 5. He took the stage by storm by show-casing his beatbox tal-ent. It was the first time I saw him performed but I agreed that he is the best among the top contenders in the reality TV show. If Llanes stole the show at the start, Jeffrey Tam ended it with a big bang. There was too much fun, laughter and bonding with the audience. In 2012, he was given the Merlin Award by the American Society of Ma-gicians. This prestigious award saw him join the ranks of previous Merlin Award winners including David Copperfield and Criss Angel.

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REGIONAL TRIAL COURT11TH JUDICIAL REGION

OFFICE OF THE CLERK OF COURT-SHERIFFDAVAO CITY

HOME DEVELOPMENT MUTUAL FUND Or Pag-ibig Fund,

Mortgagee

-versus- EJF-REM CASE NO. 15,104-15

ALLAIN LICINIUS O. ALONSO, Mortgagor/s.

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NOTICE OF EXTRA-JUDICIAL SALE

Upon extra-judicial petition for sale under Act 3135, as amend-ed, filed by the above-mentioned morgagee against Allain Licinius O. Alonso with postal address at LOT 4 , Block 4, Samantha Homes, Matina, Aplaya Davao City to satisfy the mortgage indebtedness in the total amount of ( Php 247,126.49 ) Philippine Currency, in-clusive of interest, penalty charges as of October 17, 2014, plus attorney’s fees equivalent to TEN (10%) of the total indebtedness plus other legal expenses incident of foreclosure and sale; the un-dersigned Sheriff IV of the Regional Trial Court, Davao City, will sell at public auction on April 17, 2015 at 10:00 A.M. or soon there-after, at the main entrance of Hall of Justice, Ecoland,Davao City to the highest bidder for Cash or MANAGER’S CHECK and in Philippine Currency, the real property with all its found thereon particularly described below to wit:

Transfer Certificate of Title No. T- 146-2011013173“A parcel of land xxx (Lot 4, Blk. 4, xxx) situated in Barangay

Matina, City of Davao Island of Mindanao.xxx Containing an area of ONE HUNDRED TWELVE (112) SQUARE METERS, more or less”

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 May 15, 2015 without further notice.

Prospective buyers are hereby enjoined to investigate for them-selves the condition of the unit property/ies and encumbrances thereon, if any there be.

Davao City, Philippines, February 24, 2015

FOR THE EX-OFFICIO SHERIFF: (SGD.) NICOLAS L. SUMAPIG Sheriff IV

Noted by:(SGD) ATTY. EDIPOLO P. SARABIA, JR.Clerk of Court VI & Ex-Officio Provincial Sheriff

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IT’S a busy weekend of golf.

I woke up early Sat-urday morning with barely a few hours of sleep. I had to rush to the Apo Golf and Country Club, a good 20 min-utes from home.

I have not woke up early for a flight in golf for a long time. I’ve been used to play-ing the 11 am slot on shotgun starts. But the day was not a time to play golf. It was time to work. So off I went with my pole-mounted GoPro instead of my golf clubs.

The event was Mayor

Rodrigo Duterte Invitational Golf Tournament which also coincided with the celebra-tion of the Araw ng Davao. My new kumpadre Bong Go, executive assistant to the mayor, pieced together the 18-holer and flew in some of the country’s golfing Gen-erals. Throw in too other military and police officials, businessmen, government officials and friends of the mayor.

My good buddy Cho Le-onor, his brother Gerry along with Denden De Castro were on the same flight with vice

mayor Pulong Duterte who has dusted off his golf clubs and got back to the swinging groove again.

Gerome Escandor, broth-

er of Glenn, was on the first flight, savoring the cold Apo morning.

In this kind of golf event, you wouldn’t mind how you play or who is playing. Shanks and look-ups are a regular menu and wayward balls hit even the warning signs that are supposed to warn everyone in the fair-ways.

Bottomline is, everyone is having a great time.

Finding myself at the fairways in a small gallery of mediamen covering the event was not the one I pre-

pared for in this weekend. I was supposed to be in anoth-er fairways at Rancho Palos Verdes playing at the 7th Phoenix Open.

I had to beg off from my 11 am flight as there was no time to jump from one course to another.

At the Phoenix Open, a record field of over 200 was on hand for the seventh edi-tion of the tournament spon-sored by the country’s lead-ing independent oil firm.

Two big tournaments over the weekend attracted close to 500 golfers in the

two courses.Sports fraternity buddies

Jon Develos, Lito delos Reyes and Tommy Inigo were luck-ier to have a golfing weekend to themselves. Not me. I had to work.

The early morning walk on the fairways though is enough to make my day. Sleepless but soothing to the soul.

Notes: Listen to “Let’s Get It On with Neil Bravo” at 105.9 Balita FM every Saturday 8 am to 10 am. You may write the author at bravoneil@rocketmail.com.

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Busy golfing weekend

Neil Bravo

LET’S GET IT ON

TOP Rank promoter Bob Arum sincere-ly believes that eight

division world champion Manny Pacquiao will win by a knockout or a convinc-ing twelve round decision over undefeated pound for pound No1 Floyd Mayweath-er Jr when the face-off in the “Fight of the Century” at the MGM Grand Garden Arena in Las Vegas on May 2.

In an interview with the New Standard and Viva Sports boxingmirror.com, Arum said he thinks the Mayweather fight “will be a replay of the Oscar De bLa Hoya fight” in which Pac-quiao mauled “The Golden Boy” and forced him to quit while seated on his stool at the end of the 7th round.

Arum said that if Pac-quiao doesn’t knock out Mayweather he will “win by a convincing twelve round decision. In other words not even a doubt who wins the fight.”

He said that like the De La Hoya fight Pacquiao will have to use the same strategy of going at Mayweather from different angles with flurries of punches and move in and out.

However, Arum com-mended Mayweather point-ing out that “he’s always in shape and hasn’t had a drink in his life” meaning liquor.

He said that contrary to rumors that the people of Al Haymon, Mayweather’s man-ager was offering Pacquiao’s sparring partners more money to stay away from the Wild Card Gym, they have “no problems with sparring part-ners. Freddie Roach with the help of Bruce Trampler (Top Rank’s Hall of Fame match-maker) has lined up sparring partners that have the same style as Mayweather.”

In the latest development in the on-going war over sparring partners, Roach has revealed that he had enticed a so-called “secret sparring partner” from May-weather’s gym in Las Vegas to help Pacquiao prepare for the multi-million dollar fight although he didn’t reveal the identity of the sparring part-ner.

One of the identified sparring partners of Pac-quiao who will show up at the Wild Card Gym on Tues-day, former amateur stand-out Rashid “Speedy” Ellis (13-0, 10 KO’s) will fight Co-

lombia’s Victor Gonzalez (12-9, 11 KO’s) in Puerto Rico in an eight round bout on Sat-urday.

The issue of sparring partners cropped up follow-ing a report by photographer Chris Robinson that May-weather had knocked out an unidentified sparring part-ner last week with a body shot.

Strength and condition-ing coach Alex Ariza who was fired by Roach and is now working with Mayweather confirmed the report telling us “its very true. He knocked the guy out.”

Ariza pointed out that Mayweather has around 15 sparring partners including 27 year old southpaw super welterweight Zab Judah (42-9, 29 KO’s) who had fought and lost to Mayweather some years ago and 40 year old su-per lightweight Demarcus “Chop Chop” Corley (42-22-1, 25 KO’s).

Referring to the cordial atmosphere at the press con-ference Arum remarked “I think everybody was blown away by the magnitude of this event that nobody want-ed to lower themselves to take away from it. We never

had a press conference like this with the red carpet and hundreds of media from around the world. Nobody wanted to act like a jerk.”

Meantime 2012 “Train-er of the Year” Robert Garcia whose three successful fight-ers that year were Nonito “The Filipino Flash” Donaire who was named “Fighter of theYear”, Marcos Maidana and his brother Mikey Garcia said the Pacquiao-Mayweay-her fight which features the two best fighters in the world will be “very interesting.”

He said “I’ll be honest with you. It’s very difficult to prepare for Manny. He has power and speed and I’m sure Freddie (Roach) has worked something out.”

Garcia echoed an earlier caution from Mexican legend Juan Manuel Marquez who told Pacquiao he needs to win by a knockout because if it goes the distance May-weather could depend on the judges to hand him the decision.

Among the Hollywood celebrities who showed up at the Wild Card Gym to wish Pacquiao “good luck” yester-day was multi-titled actor-di-rector Robert Duvall.

THE bigheaded warrior has metamorphosed into a meek lamb, intriguing both

the reporters and diehard boxing fans here.

Does it portend an impend-ing defeat of a pompous Ameri-can fighter by a self-effacing Pi-noy ring gladiator?

In past media events staged to promote his fights, Mayweath-er used to spew diatribes against his opponents.

Bravado was his hallmark as a boxer.

During last Wednesday’s kick off press conference, howev-er, he was a different man. May-weather was a tame fighter.

Wise men say the eye is the mirror of one’s soul.

And so, when Mayweather made his grand entrance to the Nokia Theatre, I looked straight into his eyes.

There’s a gnawing fear deep inside him. He was a portrait of a nervous creature.

Maybe, because for the first time in his boxing career he was pitted against a prize fighter who’s not scared of his skills and unbeaten track record.

He is up against a man – somewhat a super human – whose achievements in life is nonpareil.

Pacquiao is the world’s only eight-division boxing champion, a congressman and a reservist holding the ranks of lieutenant colonel in the Philippine Army

and a Commodore in the Philip-pine Coast Guard respectively.

He is a lay preacher, singer, former actor, coach/player in a professional basketball league, a holder of an honorary doctorate degree and a second-dan black-belt in karatedo.

Pacquiao as ever was oozing with charisma, smiling and jest-ing to a horde of journalists from all over the world who came over to cover the event.

Mayweather was a stark contrast with his strange de-meanor.

The two legendary fighters were neither hostile nor cordial to each other. There was no trash talking or shaking of hands from the start until the end of a press conference.

Was it a proverbial calm be-fore the storm?

Nevertheless, the mutual in-difference is fueling up the drama of the Pacquiao-Mayweather epic battle come May 2 in Las Vegas.

Mayweather claimed he has never wanted a fight so bad in his life. Just this time.

Would he dare slug it out or seek refuge back to his defensive cocoon once he is pummeled by a barrage of solid punches from the Pinoy boxing superstar?

Reading between the lines as he spoke, he vowed to make the fight exciting. Good!

The fans all over the world are looking forward to a great fight, Floyd.

MAYOR DUTERTE GOLF. (L-r) Cho Leonor, Gerome Escandor and Major Jake Obligado hit from different sides of the Apo Golf and Country Club course during Saturday’s Mayor Rodrigo Duterte Invitational Golf Tournament. Boy Lim and Lean Daval Jr.

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Arum convinced Pacquiao will win by knockoutBy AQUILLES ZONIO

Has Floyd gone meek?

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A RECORD field of over 200 golfers answered the twin shotgun starts

on Saturday for the Araw ng Dabaw 7th Phoenix Open Golf Tournament at the Rancho Palos Verdes Golf and Country Club.

Phoenix Petroleum Phils. Inc. chairman Domingo Uy and his son Dennis, president-CEO of the country’s leading inde-pendent and fastest-growing oil company, personally led the ceremonial balls of the biggest

golfing event in the city.Results of the tournament

is not yet available as of press-time.

This year’s tournament dangled two brand new cars Vista Ignis and Manza Aura, two brand new motorcycles Skygo Wizard 125 and CT100 BAJAD plus fuel cards worth P100,000 from Phoenix Petroleum as the hole-in-one prizes at stake.

The tournament is an 18-hole Stableford team, partner and individual competition.

Pioneer Insur-ance is the tour-nament presentor with co-presen-tors Mechatrends Contractors Corp., Tata Motors and Trans-Overseas In-dustrial Corp.

The major sponsors are Mar-ra Builders, Bren-ton Engineered and Juben Con-struction, while the gold sponsors are Davao Custom Grafix Advertising, Coffee Bean and

Tea Leaf, Cebu Pacific Air, Cebu DLS, Globe Telecom, Realsoft Inc., RBP Petro Star, Kairosa Oil Trading PTE Ltd., Novalco Enterprise Singapore, Seadove Maritime Services Inc., Fast-track ERP Solutions Inc.

Also backing up the tourna-ment are Trans-Asia Oil & Ener-gy Development Corp., Gov. Ar-turo Uy, Aelos/Servityre, F2 Lo-gistics, Mithras Security Agen-cy, Philippine National Bank, Banco de Oro Unibank, CTBC Bank, Simpson’s Phils., Interna-tional Engineers, Visayan Sure-ty Insurance, Western Guaranty Corp.; Chinabank, DBP, Land-bank, United Coconut Planters Bank, Unionbank, AB Capital and Investment, Penta Capital Investment, Emcor, Park Inn, Marchael Ventures Inc., Pollo Porco, Greenflex, Green Future Innovations, Magsaysay Trans-port & Logistics, Multinational Investment Bancorp., DDBS Advertising, RA Hao Group, Measurement and Controls, HR Apilado, Innovative Events, Motortrade, Pilipinas Golf Bag, Blessy Marketing, Unifruitte, Lairon Enterprise, Norland Bottling Inc. and Infinity Suites.

Ch r i s t o p h e r “Bong” Go es-tablished him-

self as the deadliest pistolero this side of the country.

Taking a break from his busy chores as the executive as-sistant of Mayor Ro-drigo Duterte, the 5-7 shooting guard fired consistently from all the racks for a total of 17 points to win the 3-Point Shootout in the PBA On Tour in Davao City at the USEP Gym in Obrero.

Go started the contest with 13 points in the eliminations besting a field that included CMO team-mate Glenn Escandor and four collegiate standouts from John Paul College, Ateneo de Davao University and University of Min-danao.

Advancing to the finals of the aperitif of the Talk N’ Text-Pure-foods Star Hotshots

setto set later in the afternoon, Go proved to everyone in the gallery that his scorch-ing figures in local tournaments were no fluke as he torched the hoops from all angles.

Go later on played for his team CMO which bested Acer-Ev-erball 104-102 in the exhibition match. He fired 35 points to lead the City Hall Execs. Escandor, who just flew in from Manila, backed him up with 14 points.

The Execs were ahead for most parts of the game but squandered the big lead in the final canto. The Computer Spe-cialists, however, lost steam in the endgame and lapsed into errors for their own down-fall.

The Tropang Tex-ters were to meet the Star Hotshots in the main event of the PBA out-of-town game.

THE PRESIDENT-CEO. Dennis Uy, president and CEO of the Phoenix Petroleum Phils. Inc. in action during last year’s golf tournament at Palos Verdes. BOY LIM

THE TRIGGERMAN. Executive assistant to the city mayor Christopher “Bong” Go scored 17 points to rule the three-point shootout competition event of the PBA On Tour in Davao City last Saturday at the University of Southeastern Philippines (USEP). Lean Daval Jr.

GOLF’S A VICE. Vice Mayor Paolo Duterte putts on hole no. 9 of the Apo Golf and Country Club course during Saturday’s Mayor Rodrigo Duterte Invitational Golf Tournament. Boy Lim

RECORD SETTINGAnother record-setting edition for Phoenix Open Golf

Go wins 3-Point contestBy NEILWIN JOSEPH BRAVO