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VOLUME 7 NUMBER 52WED - THU

OCTOBER 9 - 10, 2013

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BY DING CERVANTES

ANGELES CITY- Alliance of Concerned Teachers (ACT) chairman Benjamin Valbuena

advised yesterday Commission on Elections (Comelec) Chairman Sixto Brillantes to fi nd this early other personnel to fi ll in the role of public school teachers set to boycott the Oct. 28 barangay elections due to low honoraria.

Teachers vow polls boycottComelec told to fi nd alternatives

BY BONG Z. LACSON

CITY OF SAN FERNANDO – Candidates in the barangay polls fl ocking to the Capitol here bet-ter disabuse their minds. All that they can get from the governor is a good luck wish.

Gov to candidates: Good luck“Mikakabalu nako man king

baryu, oba’t kailangan yu pang gumastus. Balu dang kalulu ka, tapus papalwal kang dakal a pera, mipakarok ko pa. (Everybody knows everybody in the barrio, why still need to spend. They know you are poor and yet you spend a

lot, that will work against you),” Gov. Lilia G. Pineda last Monday told an assembly of callers from different barangays in different towns all seeking her personal endorsement and the hoped-for funds expected with it.

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Best wishes from Gov. Pineda to wannabes calling on her. PHOTO BY BONG LACSON

CITY OF SAN FER-NANDO -- No one knew whether the past tense should be used to refer to a species of the world’s largest fl ower, scientifi -cally known as Raffl esia manillana known to grow only in the Philippines, until foresters deter-mined recently that the present tense was still appropriate.

Rare species of world’s largestfl ower found in Aurora mountain

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Forester Max Millan, Jr. of the Department of Environment and Natu-ral Resources (DENR) stumbled on it recently during a routine biologi-cal survey in the thick for-ests of the Sierra Madre mountains in Aurora.

Considered critical-ly endangered, Raffl esia manillana is a genus of tropical parasitic plants

that do not contain a chlorophyll, and there-fore incapable of pho-tosynthesis, the DENR said.

Millan was accompa-nying a team of biologists from the National Mu-seum of the Philippines led by Dr. Edwin Tadiosa when they found a Raf-fl esia abloom while they

PAGE 2 PLEASERaffl esia manillana in full bloom. Photo courtesy of DENRRaffl esia manillana in full bloom. Photo courtesy of DENR

BY WILLIE E. CAPULONG

OLONGAPO CITY –Rousing welcome awaits the homecoming of Me-gan Young, 2013 Miss World when she arrives here on Saturday for a one day visit.

Both Olongapo City Mayor Rolen C. Paulino and Subic Bay Metro-politan Authority (SBMA) Chairman-Administrator

Rousing welcome awaits Megan homecoming

Young

BY ASHLEY MANABAT

CLARK FREEPORT – “It will no longer be legal to say that this is con-fi dential or this is not a matter of public interest.

Confi dential gov’t info illegal under FOIIt must now clearly fall under the list of the ex-ceptions.”

Thus said Atty. Nepo Malaluan, a leading ad-vocate of the Freedom of Information (FOI)

bill, during the “Balita-an” forum of the Capam-pangan in Media, Inc. (CAMI) at the Bale Bal-ita here last Friday, as he explained the salient points of the proposed

controversial bill.Malauan said there

are three key areas in the enjoyment of the right to access to infor-mation. He said the fi rst is the scope of the ac-

cess, the second is the procedure for access-ing the information, and the third is the remedy in case the request for in-formation is denied

Malaluan explained

that there are two thresholds for the deter-mination of the scope. The fi rst is if it is it a matter of public interests and the second are the

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were surveying reptiles and amphibian inside the 5,000-hectare Aurora Memorial National Park, the regional DENR offi ce here reported.

“The fl ower is in full bloom, with a diameter of 17 centimeters,” Mil-lan said.

Found only in the Philippines, Raffl esia manillana is in the DENR List of Threatened Spe-

Rare species of world’s largest fl ower found in Aurora mountainFROM PAGE 1 cies, noted Maximo Di-

choso, executive direc-tor of the regional DENR here. .

“The presence of this fl ower only proves the rich biodiversity in Auro-ra’s forests,” he noted, adding that “this parasit-ic plant also used to be found, although rarely, in Mt. Natib in Bataan, Mt. Makiling in Laguna, Mt. Labo in Bicol, and on Sa-mar Island Natural Park in Samar.”

Scientists estimate that there are 17 Raffl e-sia species distributed throughout Southeast Asia, including the Raf-fl esia manillana found only in the Philippines.

The Philippine spe-cies, however, is smaller compared with the R. ar-noldii found in Indonesia.

Aurora Memorial Na-tional Park spans more than 5,000 hectares of mostly lowland diptero-carp forests in the Sierra

Madre mountain range at the border of Nueva Ecija and Aurora.

Rising to 1,000 me-ters above sea level, the park is home to 19 spe-cies of amphibians, 30 species of reptiles, and eight species of birds in-cluding the endangered Philippine Eagle, the DENR said.

The park has been declared a protected area under Proclamation No. 744 of 1941 and was

dedicated to the late fi rst lady Aurora Aragon Que-zon.

Earlier, a team of bi-ologists and biodiversi-ty experts from the Uni-versity of the Philippines (UP) in Diliman and the Diliman Science Re-search Foundation dis-covered two murrid ro-dents, the Rhycomys tapulao and Apomys brownorum, found in Mt. Tapulao in Zam-bales.

In 2011, two species of forest mice of the ge-nus Apomys were also discovered in the Mingan Mountains in Aurora.

The biodiversity ex-pedition found at least 304 species of plants and 142 species of an-imals thriving in the 17,000-hectare forests in Central Luzon’s tallest mountain, including six other plant species that can only be found in Lu-zon.

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BY ASHLEY MANABAT

ANGELES CITY – In a continuing effort to intro-duce a culture of read-ing among the youth, the 2nd Kuliat KAbataang KAbasahan Festival or Kuliat KA.KA. is now un-derway until October 10 at the City Library and In-formation Center here.

“This aims to make Angeles City as the reading capital of Central Luzon,” said festival di-rector Roilingel Calilung.

Formerly named Chil-dren’s Book Festival, Kuliat KA.KA. is marked every October in line with the national cele-bration of children’s book month. It is organized by the Technical Service Unit and Children’s Li-brary of the city.

Highlighting the se-ries of activities in the festival is a memorial to Angeleño writer Renato “Katoks” Tayag dubbed “A Road to a Birth Cen-tennial in Angeles: The Inauguration of Renato ‘Katoks’ D. Tayag Memo-rial Lectures Series/Inter School Kapampangan Essay Writing” on Octo-ber 9.

Calilung said a “Ju-

City Library staff with guest speakers Cecil Yumul, Dr. John Jack Wigley and Angeles City’s First Lady Herminia Pamintuan at KAKA Juniors readers conference. PHOTO COURTESY FO CINDY M. NAVAL OJT-SPCF

2nd Kuliat KAKA Festival setnior Readers’ Confer-ence” was also held on October 7 as well as an inter-school contests the following day.

Other activities in-clude a forum on Best Practices in Library Ser-vices and a forum on Creative Storytelling on October 10.

A Book Fair Exhibit by Circular Books Trad-ing, Great Books Trad-ing and Philippine Chris-tian Book Store is show-cased throughout the four-day event.

Private and public el-ementary schools in the city as well as in the cit-ies of San Fernando and Mabalacat were also in-vited in the Junior Read-er’s Conference which aims to encourage the public to read especially the children.

“I think we need to go back into the basics and go back to encouraging our youth to love reading. They say knowledge is power, where do you get knowledge if you don’t read, said Vice Mayor Vicky Vega-Cabigting who formally opened the festival.

Noted Kapampangan hostess and staunched

environmentalist Cecile Yumul said “when we get tickled, we become alive. All of our cells are awak-en and therefore we want children to become tickled to life. When I say tickle it is a ticket to trav-el around your imagina-tion at the same time, using the word tickle en-ables you to gain knowl-edge by the virtual power of reading books.”

Dr. John Jack Wig-ley, director of the In-stitute of Creative Writ-ing at the University of Santo Thomas, said “it’s important that we have to inculcate and devel-op our students’ love for reading because you don’t see children read-ing anymore.”

The festival is sup-ported by the Librari-ans’ Association of Met-ro Pampanga (LAMP); De La Salle Universi-ty Library Manila; De-partment of Education (DepEd); Makati Medi-cal Center and the Kati-punan da ring Tala-saliksik at Talaturung Kapampangan (Katata-gan Inc.) - Anthony Makaeran, LarricaCu-nanan, Cindy Naval SPCF-OJT

MARQUEE MALL, Ayala Mall’s fi rst dining, shop-ping and entertainment destination north of Ma-nila presents “Big Bite! The Northern Food Fes-tival” at the MarQuee Park, Angeles City, Pam-panga from October 18 to 20, 2013.

Big Bite! is a foodie’s dream come true with its huge outdoor food mar-ket featuring everything from cooked Filipino fa-vorites to famous native delicacies and baked goodies, fresh fruits, veg-etables and more. The food festival showcas-es over 100 food stalls featuring the best food products from across the provinces of Pampanga, Bulacan, Ilocos, Bagu-io, Tarlac, Nueva Ecija, Zambales, Bataan, Pan-gasinan, Cagayan and La Union. It’s a culinary showdown of the most mouth-watering heritage cuisines from Northern Luzon.

The brainchild of Mar-Quee Mall, Big Bite! is envisioned to be the go-to food gathering in the country. No better loca-tion lies than Pampanga, long hailed as the Phil-ippines’ culinary capital.

MarQuee Mall plays host to what will be the larg-est celebration of the Fili-pino’s love for great food.

Adding star power to the event, renowned chefs from the Asian Food Channel will also be at Big Bite! to do live cooking demos. Festival goers will get to see their favorite TV chefs cook up a storm onstage.

Families from across the north are also invit-ed to share their heir-loom recipes. They will demonstrate how their special dish has been handed down from past generations and contin-ue to be family favor-ites.

The food festival will also feature Big Ban-quet where a minimum of P500 receipt entitles shoppers to sample de-lectable treats at the Food Festival for free.

Students, chefs and other food enthusiasts will face off in culinary cook-offs adjudged by food industry experts and celebrities. Fun events for the whole family such as food eat-ing contests and live en-tertainment every night are scheduled through-

out Big Bite!.Opened in 2009,

MarQuee Mall is Aya-la Land’s fi rst mall north of Manila. The mall is just an hour’s drive from the metro and is stra-tegically located adja-cent to the Angeles exit of the North Luzon Ex-pressway (NLEX). With over 400 shops, exclu-sive boutiques, restau-rants and cinemas, Mar-Quee Mall is the region’s premier destination for shopping, dining and en-tertainment.

MarQuee Mall’s Big Bite! The Northern Food Festival is staged in part-nership with the Depart-ment of Tourism, Depart-ment of Trade and In-dustry, Manila North Toll-ways Corporation, Asian Food Channel, Cignal Digital TV, and Mercato Centrale Group.

For further details and inquiries, please call +639177527071 or email bigbiteMarQuee@gmail.com. Like and follow MarQuee Mall’s social networking sites:face-book.com/MarQueeMall, @MarQueetweets, and instagram: @iloveMar-Queemall.

–Press release

MarQuee Mall presents grandest

Northern Food Festival this October

BIG BITE!

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BY GEORGE HUBIERNA

BAMBAN, Tarlac--Two men are now facing charges of car theft and estafa after they were ar-rested in an entrapment operation conducted by the local police in front of a 7-11 convenience store along MacArthur Highway, Barangay Anu-pul here.

In a report submitted to Tarlac police director Senior Supt. Alfred Cor-pus by this town’s chief of police, Chief Inspector Eliseo Mangrobang, the suspects were identifi ed as Joselito Payumo, 40, married, of 6036 Bene-dict St., Pulong Bulo, An-geles City and Jhoven De Los Santos, 25, of Barangay Sauyo, Nova-liches, Quezon City.

Mangrobang said Payumo and a certain Israel Gonzales pawned a vehicle described as Hyundai Santa Fe with plate number TOC 844 for P350,000 to Rolando Gregorio, 43, married, of Sitio Rofel, Baran-gay Anupul and the two promised to redeem the car after a week.

Payumo failed to re-deem the car on the given time and date un-til it lasted for almost a month.

2 nabbed for car theft, estafaLater, Gregorio re-

ceived a call from a cer-tain Romel Lopez in-structing him to bring the pawned vehicle to Casino Filipino, Manila Pavilion, Ermita, Manila so that he could get his money back.

Based on the instruc-tion of Lopez, Gregorio brought the car at the mentioned place, and while thereat, Lopez in-formed Gregorio that ev-erything would be alright and requested Gregorio the copy of OR/CR of the car plus its key to test drive the said vehicle.

Three hours later, Lo-pez came back without the vehicle and told Gre-gorio that members of the National Bureau of Investigation (NBI) took the car for no apparent reason.

Gregorio then went back to Tarlac without the car and his money.

At about 3p.m. of the same date, Gregorio re-ceived a telephone call from Payumo and told him that he would pawn again another vehicle described as red Toyota Innova with plate num-ber UQA 923. The po-lice report did not men-tion whether Payumo and Gregorio met in Ma-nila though.

At that juncture, Gre-gorio reported the mat-ter to the police and im-mediately set up an en-trapment operation that resulted to the arrest of Payumo.

It was discovered later that the car which Payumo was about to pawn again to Gregorio was not the vehicle he had mentioned in their prior transaction instead a silver Toyota Innova bearing plate number UQB 671 which found to have been already pawned to a certain Joel Quiambao, a busi-nessman from Valenzu-ela, Metro Manila in the amount of P70,000.

During the follow-up investigation, it showed that said vehicle was just rented from a cer-tain Angelina Salas, 57, widow, of 1839 Rosal St., Timog Park Subd., Barangay Pampang, An-geles City on September 22, 2013.

When it was not re-turned on its due date of October 3, Salas re-ported it as carnapped to the Angeles Police Sta-tion headed by city di-rector Senior Supt. Eden Ugale.

The suspects are now detained at the Bamban Police Station.

RECOVERED GUNS. Newly-installed PRO3 director Chief Supt. Raul Petrasanta, (center) Chief Supt. Wendy Del Rosario, deputy regional director for administration (left) and Nueva Ecija PPO director Senior Supt. Crisaldo Nieves (right) present to media 27 various fi rearms confi scated in raids. PHOTO BY GEORGE HUBIERNA

BY ARMAND M. GALANG

CABANATUAN CITY - A few weeks before the barangay elections, the police have netted at least 27 different kinds of fi rearms in various checkpoints and service of warrants as about 100 villages are being close-ly watched due to ex-pected intense contest among aspirants.

Senior Supt. Crizal-do Nieves, Nueva Ecija police director, said that among the confi scated weapons were M-16 Ar-malite rifl e, cal. 45 pis-tols, revolvers, cal. 9mm pistol, a cal. 25 pistol and several rounds of various ammunition.

Al least 22 per-sons were arrested in Comelec checkpoints set up at random in strategic places, Nieves said.

“We will continue run-ning after all these peo-ple who would cause distraction to the elec-tion,” Nieves said.

On Thursday, oper-

Ecija cops conduct checkpoints, make arrest for safe village polls

atives of the provincial public safety company arrested a certain Arnold Nagayo,47, of Barangay Malapit, San Isidro, Nue-va Ecija for alleged pos-session of an M-16 rifl e, two cal. 45 pistols, one .9 mm pistol and a cal. 22. The search on Nagayo’s residence was conduct-ed on the strength of a warrant issued by Gapan City Regional trial Court Judge Celso Baguio, po-lice said.

Nueva Ecija, a tradi-tional election hot spot, has a total of 849 baran-gays. At least 28 villag-es in the province were placed under watchlist in 2010, 17 of which under Category 1 and 11 under Category 2.

Under Category 1 were areas with a histo-ry of election-related vi-olence in previous elec-tions. Category 2, on the other hand, includes places where there have been reported activities or sightings of commu-nist rebels.

Nieves earlier re-lieved Supt. Bernard Orig as chief of Gapan City police in the aftermath of killings that marred the city in the past few weeks. He was replaced by Supt. Dionisio Ynigo.

An inquiry by the pro-vincial board headed by Vice Gov. Jose Gay Padiernos showed that Gapan police record-ed four high-profi le kill-ings in over two months. These include the attack on Emerson Pascual where four persons, in-cluding a rookie police-man, were killed and the gun attack on town councilor Danilo de Guz-man last August 31 and the failed attempt on the city election offi cer who was wounded in an am-bush staged by motor-cycle-riding gunmen in Jaen town on August 23.

“We have been pre-paring for the baran-gay elections since four months ago,” Nieves said, saying police continue to run after illegal fi rearms.

SUBIC, Zambales - Uma-lma ang mga opisyal ng barangay dahil sa kautu-san ng Commission on Election na maningil ng 10 porsiyento mula sa general fund ng mga ba-rangay sa bawat bayan sa lalawigan ng Zam-bales na siyang gagamitin sa nalalapit na barangay election sa Oktubre 28.

Nauna nang inabisu-han ang lahat ng mga opisyal ng barangay na isama sa kanilang bud-

get sa general appropri-ation fund ang Comelec kung saan ang bawat barangay ay magbibigay ng P20,000 na siyang magiging pondo na gag-amitin sa eleksyon. Ito ay sa kabila na nasa ilalim ng state of calamity ang Olongapo City at Subic, Zambales dahil sa matin-ding epekto ng habagat.

Ayon kay ABC Pres-ident, Barangay Cap-tain Ariel Apostol ng Ba-rangay Ilwas, hindi nito

kayang ibigay ang hal-agang P20,000 share ng barangay sa Comelec dahil aniya kapos ang kanilang budget at kasa-lukuyan pa silang nagsa-sagawa ng clearing op-eration sa kanilang ba-rangay dahil sa epekto ng matinding pagbaha.

Dugtong pa nito na pinag-uusapan pa ito sa national at wala pang kasiguruhan na ang P20,000 ay maapruba-han na bawat barangay ay magbibigay ng ganun kalaking halaga.

Pinag-iisipan pa ni Apostol kung bubuuin ni-tong ibigay ang kahilin-gang budget na hinihingi ng Comelec.

Batay naman sa memorandum na ipinal-abas ni Election Offi cer lll Grace Fortaleza San-tos ng Subic, Zambales, kanyang pinaalalahanan ang mga barangay trea-surers at captains sa 16 na barangay na kinakail-angan nang mai-submit ang kanilang mga ba-rangay share batay sa isinasaad sa Comelec Resolution No. 7939 na nilagdaan ni Comelec Chairman Sixto Brillan-tes at ang anim na com-missioners.

Ayon kay Santos, na-pag-usapan na nila ito sa meeting na na pare-pare-has na lang sila na mag-bigay ng P20,000 at hin-di na lingid sa kaalaman ng mga barangay offi -cials na tuwing nag-elec-tion ay may share silang ibinigay sa Comelec.–Johnny R. Reblando

Barangay offi cials umalma sa P20-K singil ng Comelec

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OOpinion

Ni ho, ni ha, ni hau? IT AIN’T over till it’s over. Or until the fat lady sings.

Aye, the striking teachers and employees may have been allowed to re-enter the rarefi ed sanctum of Holy Angel University on Monday, but all animosity and no goodwill obtained in the act.

The strikers of the HAU Teachers and Employees Union said they tried to go back to work Saturday – immediately after acting Labor Secretary Danilo Cruz assumed jurisdiction over their dispute with HAU management – but university offi cials stopped them.

Cruz issued an assumption-of-jurisdiction (AJ) order in response to the appeals of parents and students for the resumption of classes before the fi nal examinations scheduled Oct. 10-14.

Dutifully, the strikers followed the acting labor secretary’s order and returned to work on Monday. Only to be in a situation their president termed as “confusing.”

“Several clusters reported that the management informed them that it has not received a copy of the AJ. The others were not allowed to work if they have not fi nished a debriefi ng process in three to fi ve days.” So was HAUTEU President Dr. Edmundo Maniago quoted in the Inquirer.

And furthered: “We have only fi ve days left before this semester ends. It seems the management doesn’t want us to return to the classrooms until the semester is over.”

The return to work no more than compliance with the DOLE order, else the strikers lose their jobs, no resolution but an impasse exists at HAU. The bones of contention – succinctly put in the Inquirer story of Tonette Orejas as “a recomputation of the 70-percent incremental proceeds as shares of teachers and employees from the increase in tuition for school year 2012-13 and a provision of P5.4 million for the union” — still in the arena of battle.

And then there is the National Labor Relations Commission giving HAU a clean bill off the unfair labor practice charges HAUTEU foisted, which it has referred to the Court of Appeals.

Yea, it really ain’t over. And there’s no indication if the fat lady would even show up. Much less sing.

Jerry writes 30IN THE early ‘70s, Jerry Lacuarta, a sacada from Manapla, Negros Occidental, joined the fi rst wave of Visayan migration – media, that is – to Angeles City and Pampanga.

A hegira of two really – Jerry and Frank Olingay of Ang Filipino Opinion who branched out to the R&R industry as an entertainment impresario around the Crossing area and later winning the barangay chairmanship of Amsic.

Jerry started off being public information offi cer of the National Cottage Industry Development Authority before going to the Manila Bulletin as Pampanga correspondent.

For a time, he served as stringer for Agence France Presse and Jiji Press too. And one of the founding staff of the Angeles Sun.

Jerry holds the distinction of having the most number of terms as president of the Pampanga Press Club – four, and the Central Luzon Media Association – three.

For his exposes, Jerry had his fair share of threats and intimidations. Let me now lift this piece from my book Of the Press (1999), subtitled “Pistol-packin’ Martin”:

The Pampanga Press Club and the Angeles City Press and Radio Club are one in condemning him for acts unbecoming of a government offi cial; acts that are transgressions of the rights of the working newsman.

The Publishers Association of Pampanga expressed solidarity with the two press clubs in condemning his high-handedness and (again!) acts unbecoming of a civil servant.

These newspaper lords even went to the extent of seeking a public castigation from concerned agencies and offi cials.

The National Press Club and the Federation of Provincial Press Clubs of the Philippines are all set to come up with “more damning” pronouncements and “more concrete” actions to teach him a lesson.

On the other end, press clubs all over the country have started sending their support to his victim.

The subject of this media solidarity is not a national fi gure. Neither is he of the stature of Burgos, Olivares and Babst.

He is Jerry J. Lacuarta, Bulletin Today correspondent in Pampanga and editor of Pampanga Profi le.

The object of the condemnations? The mayor of a southern Pampanga town.

The case? Threats, invectives and intimidations levelled by the alcalde at Lacuarta who had the guts to write about a Tanodbayan case lodged against the mayor.

Truly, the mayor may have gotten more than he bargained for. Indeed, that was a costly “tarantado” the mayor reportedly shouted.

But then, the alcalde is yet to make good his “I’ll deal with you later.”

Your move, Sir. (Pooled editorial headlined Media Solidarity in all Pampanga weeklies on Feb. 13-19, 1983.)

GONZALO MARTIN Jr., mayor of Candaba, hurled threats and invectives at and challenged Jerry to a fi stfi ght in a chance meeting at the Pampanga Agricultural College. The diminutive mayor may have been emboldened by his

coterie of bodyguards and a .9MM Llama pistol tucked in his waistband.

Martin was subsequently silenced by the editorials and resolutions denouncing his actions.

In less than a year, if I remember right, Martin died from self-infl icted wounds caused by that very .9MM Llama. What happened, reports said, was Martin boarded his pick-up truck then slammed its door. The door hit the cocked gun in his back pocket and it went off, hitting him. He was rushed to San Fernando but upon reaching the North Luzon Expressway overpass, the pick-up ran out of gas. There. Martin barely fi nished the Act of Contrition and died from loss of blood.

In the chapter of my book titled “The Libel Tradition” I fi nd another entry about Jerry:

Jerry Lacuarta had a much chilling case in the early ‘80s. There was this US Navyman named Thicke nabbed for international drug traffi cking. The haul was a considerable volume of high-grade heroin stuffed inside imported frozen tuna coursed through the Subic port.

Thicke, reputedly with a wide network of contacts in the underworld, did not only fi le a multi-million peso libel suit against Jerry but even put out a “contract” on the newsman. Friends in the Constabulary like Col. Teddy Carian and Maj. Rey Cabauatan helped neutralize the threat to Jerry’s life.

With the conviction of Thicke, the libel case just faded out.

Jerry was among the most sought after mediamen by both private and public personalities, for his confi dence and counsel. He was a confi dante of Lilia G. Pineda, then mayor of then Lubao; Willy Castor, president of the National Constructors and Contractors Association; Aber Canlas, undersecretary of the DPWH, among others. It was through Jerry that Pampanga mediamen got to know the then brash aspirant to the Candaba mayorship, Jerry Pelayo.

Jerry was among the heaviest drinkers of mediamen with regular stations at Remedian barbeque, Shanghai Restaurant, City Lunch, and Jail House Rock. And the luckiest of the lot – bar none – having hit the Casino Filipino jackpot not once but twice.

This is of course, before his own epiphany at the rampaging lahar fl ows of Abacan River in 1992.

In one drunken stupor, Jerry fell from the carabao cart he was riding to cross Abacan and nearly drowned, fi shed out muddied and all over a kilometre downstream. Thence comes his transformation into a Bible-toting, Bible-quoting, Christian-living newsman.

After his stroke in 2002, the “fi ghting priss” – as we called him on account of his heavy Visayan accent – retired from journalism and spent his days with his family and the Bible.

He joined His Creator last Sunday, Oct. 6. Rest well, our dear brother.

OCTOBER 9, 1934, a Com-mittee of Seven consisting of Manuel C. Briones, File-mon Sotto, Manuel A. Rox-as, Conrado Benitez, Vicente Singson Encarnacion, Miguel Cuadermo, and Norberto Ro-mualdez were appointed to

draft the 1935 Philippine Con-stitution.

The said Constitution was ratifi ed by a large majority of the Filipino people in a pleb-iscite on May 14, 1935. The Charter was written with an eye to meeting the approval

of the United States Govern-ment as well, so as to ensure that the U.S. would live up to its promise to grant indepen-dence to the Philippines.

The committe of seven is known now as the “Seven Wise Men”.

Committee of Sevenappointed to draft

the 1935 Constitution

TODAY IN PHILIPPINE HISTORYTODAY IN PHILIPPINE HISTORYSource: www.kahimyang.infoSource: www.kahimyang.info

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Napag-uusapanLangby Felix Garcia

Suspek pati naing Presidente?

DENING DIPUTADO ampon SenadoresA isipanan tang’ sangkut kang NapolesKeng PDAF scam a nu’ posibleng suspekPati e bala ken a mananahimik

E malaut king y PNoy misabit yaUling miyembru na la ning kabineti naDing menasa sangkut karing milyones aGisan dang linaso ampon pemubud da

King mialiwang lugal a pepalto retiBilang proyektu ra matulid a sabi,Pero ing katutuan metung man karetiA pepagawa ra a ngarang sasabi

Ala kang akit ken king tildu rang lugalA meyari mo sa’ karing kualtang dakalA megastus nune kaputut a dalanAmpon istrakturang posti la nung misan

Ding makatalakad karing dapat sana‘Muliti-purpose building’ ya ing pagawa raAt/o kaya naman kongkretung kalsada,Uli ding badyet den gisan dong pemulsa.

Dening mangatako at alang pikabsianA opisyales tang’ kine king tungkulan;At nu’ pasari ning kelan dang masabalKing ikanono ning mal tamung balayan

Pamagsimbambalu mu ing papakit dangMalasakit deti karing sasakupanPablasang sumangid ning sabla, ala lang Interes nung e mu sariling kanawan!

At igisa re ing balen king sariliNang taba ampon pang aliwang diskartiDing magkukunwari a bisang magsilbiKaring kabalen dang parating duhagi

At lakuan dasan ning malyap a tagimpanA pangakuanan dang pane neng alalanDinan dang matatag a pamangabiayanKapamilatan ning ngara obrang dakal

Pero nanu ngeni ing mayayakit ken?Wa, tutu dakal la pin sa’ aluban denPero angga mu king e la mipirmi renKeng obra uli ning mipairal karen

A ‘contractual’ la mu king karelang obraAt tia’nam mung bulan itang kontrata ra;Nung nu’ angga na king akua reting tumua,‘Casual’ la pa murin – mipirmi, ali la.

King puntong mesabi, obat ing bage yanIng e ra adinan pansin ditak mu man,Ding kekatang mangatikding ‘public servants’Ban itamu e ta’ mie paldak,sikaran

Ning kakaluluan a parating bibekutDing menasa alang isubu king asbukNune king abli rang bage a pemulutKaring tambakan basurang meging bunduk!

Inya nung atin lang konsensya marahilDing opisyal tamu a mapagmagaling,Ing bage iti yang dinan deting pansin,At e pamanako keni, keta’t karin.

Kalupa ning ngeni lubus mayayakit,Ing kalulung balen yang magkakasakitKeng pamangawan dang puru pamangupitKaring kualta niti a ibat mu keng buwis.

Matulid mu mekad ing mikasuan la nganDing anggang posibleng dinapat makanian,Ban keta ing bage yan ganap mirinanTamak a parusa kilub ning sukulan!

Pedicab LawyerAtty. Socrates A. Padua

OOpinion

A pen and a prayerFLASHBACK to 2005 at DLSU.

Took to the gate where the usual fervor was almost nil, only a handful of supporters were looking on those entering the gate. The sun was just breaking through the darkness with nary a sound of festivities I had been a part of the previous four years.

I probably had only 2 hours worth of sleep the night before. Almost felt like the fi rst day of school again. At least I still had it together and ate a heavy breakfast, quite routinary for me to do.

I was wearing red, an auspicious color according to many who have gone through the same gate and left victorious.

Clutching my blue sign pens blessed by prayers from my parents and other loved ones, I showed the security personnel proof that I will be part of the on coming slaughter. Stepping inside the campus I felt my stomach grumble. Gas? Anxiety? Realized that I should have eaten another extra rice during breakfast.

I was assigned a room closest to the other gate where the maddening crowd always chose to watch those brave enough to go through the last step to becoming vanguards of justice.

The McDonalds sign beside the crowd was just killing me.

Political Law was the day’s fi rst monster. I prayed to God for guidance and hoped that the Master of Political Law Dean Justino Morales had prepared me well to slay the monster.

Thirty minutes after the battle had begun, I was almost ready to give up and surrender. I could not write. It felt like my pen and the exam booklet were of the same pole, resisting attraction. My brain probably turned to glue.

The monster was winning the battle.Then a memory fl ashed. A moment hidden

somewhere uddenly revealed sitself. A teacher telling us in class what to do when the monster seems to be winning over you, “Close your eyes, relax, and say a prayer”.

Almost instantly after I say Amen, I held my weapon which was my pen and started writing, knowing that the monster can be beaten.

Ceteris ParibusRomeo Dyoco, Jr.

OOpinion

What’s in a name?“A ROSE by any other name will still smell as sweet,” according to Shakespeare’s Juliet. It should follow that the durian by any other name will still smell as bad.

What about the Priority Development Assistance Fund or the PDAF? Likewise there is this recent concoction called the Disbursement Acceleration Project or DAP. Are they the same dog with just different collars? Senators Joker Arroyo and Ping Lacson refer to both as “pork barrel”, which to their credit they have never availed of.

Others are less charitable and refer to both PDAF and DAP as “holdup!” Are these, by simile, roses or durian? To the legislators and facilitators who have shamelessly “plundered” these funds, these are sweet smelling roses. To the nation and the people, these are stinking durian or septic tanks.

What about the PDAF releases during the impeachment trial of Chief Justice Rene Corona? And in terms of the audacity of timing, there is the release of an additional around Php 50 million each or a total of Php 1 billion from the DAP to the senators who voted yes for Rene’s impeachment.

These senators even had the hypocrisy to browbeat and ask for an apology from one of the defense lawyers who revealed his inside information to the press about this fund release or budget for voting according to the wishes of Malacañang.

What do we call these releases? Choose your wild: regular entitlements, benefi ts, perks, incentives, savings/profi t sharing, bonuses, fund alignments, facilitation fees, tips, bribes or any other name. By whatever designation, terminology or branding, the whole act and process stinks, to high heavens!

There are other words and terminology which have come into use during this administration. There should be nothing wrong with good and accurate branding, tag lines and imaging in order to aid governance and the marketing of the administration and its programs to the people. The correct and honest communications must be consistent with the competent and credible product and its delivery. The talk must be walked.

“Boss” is supposed to be the people and their common good. The “boss” are not the political cronies or the “kaklase, kaibigan at kamaganak”. It is a terrifi c concept but it must be backed up by the consistent behaviour.

“Daan Matuwid” or what I interpret to be a straight, honest and competent path also communicates itself direct to the heart, understanding and wishes of the people. There are so many examples of the crooked road and the President himself knows and admits this.

Maybe, the straight road is not possible in a round world where the road has to curve or in a universe where space itself is curved.

It is probably true that the corruption and its benefi ts stop and do not involve the level of the President. This is certainly to his credit. But the accountability and the responsibility to address it is certainly up to the level of the President, where the “buck” reaches and stops.

This gives rise to another invented word, this time by the student leaders of UP, “Noynoying.” I will not provide their defi nition because I feel there is now an honest effort to remedy this and work within the limitations and dysfunctions of the political system, culture and practices.

The President will have to work with a lot of sons of bitches out there, both his own and the opposition’s. He has less than three years left. The previous three years have passed so quickly. He should be concerned about his legacy and the common good of his real bosses. I feel for him as these last three years start to pass. He will be defi nitely experiencing being a “lame duck.”

Many of these politicians and leaders will start preparing and positioning themselves for the coming presidential elections. I hope he will still be able to exercise effective and effi cient power and governance.

Then Joker Arroyo’s snide reference to the President’s setup and governance as a “student council” will not be accurate. This will be an insult to the many student councils.

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NOTICE OF EXTRAJUDICIAL SETTLEMENTWITH WAIVER OF RIGHTS

Notice is hereby given that the heirs of CARLITO M. SANTOS who died intestate on September 2, 2012 in Arayat, Pampanga executed an Extrajudicial Settlement with Waiver of Rights of his estate more particularly described as parcels of land, to wit:

ORIGINAL CERTIFICATE OF TITLE NO. 635822-RLot 5, Blk. 11 of the subd. plan Psd-68363, being a portion of Lot

3220-B (LRC) Psd-16957, LRC Cad. Rec. No. 145, situated in the Bo. of San Agustin, Mun. of San Fernando, Prov. of Pampanga.

ORIGINAL CERTIFICATE OF TITLE NO. 713660-RLot 48-D-14 of the subd. plan Psd-03-031746, being a portion of

Lot 48-D, Psd-10017, LRC Cad. Rec. No. __, situated in the Bo. of San Agustin & Paralaya, Mun. of Arayat, Prov. of Pampanga.

Punto! Central Luzon: October 9, 16 & 23, 2013

FROM PAGE 1

NOTICE OF EXTRAJUDICIAL SETTLEMENTNotice is hereby given that the heirs of ZOILO T. LACSINA who died intestate on June 4, 2010 in Angeles City and PAULINA CRUZ LACSINA who died intestate on December 27, 1994 in Los Angeles, California executed an Extrajudicial Settlement of their estate more particularly described as a parcels of land to wit:

Transfer Certifi cate of Title No. 35081Lot 535-E of the subdivision plan Psd-65695, being a portion of

Lot 535 of the Cadastral Survey of Angeles, L.R.C. Cad. Rec. No. 124, situated in the Barrio of Lourdes and Sto. Cristo, Municipality of Angeles, Province of Pampanga.

Transfer Certifi cate of Title No. 897Lote No. 18, Block No. 7 del plano de subdivision Psd-546, porcion de

los tres lotes consolidados Nos. 531, 532 y 832 de la medicion catastral de Angeles, situado en el lad SO. De la Calle No. 7, Municipio de Angeles.

Transfer Certifi cate of Title No. 12792Lote No. 109, Block No. 8 del plano de subdivision Psd-546, porcion

de los tres lotes consolidados Nos. 531, 532 y 832 de la medicion catastral de Angeles, situado en el lado NO. del Callejon No. 197, Municipio de Angeles.

Punto! Central Luzon: October 2, 9 & 16, 2013

REPUBLIC OF THE PHILIPPINESREGIONAL TRIAL COURTTHIRD JUDICIAL REGION

BRANCH 65Tarlac City

IN THE MATTER OF THE CORRECTIONOF THE BIRTH CERTIFICATE bearing Registry No. 95-10669, registered under The name DESIREE ANN VESTIDAS BACOLOD,

SPS. ANGELITO SOTTO BACOLOD and GENELYN VESTIDAS BACOLOD, Petitioners -versus- SPEC. PROC. NO. 5014

THE LOCAL CIVIL REGISTRY OFTARLAC CITY, Respondents.

x--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------xORDER

Before the Court is a verifi ed petition fi led by the petitioner through counsel, praying that after due notice, publication and hearing, JUDGMENT BE RENDERED;

1) Ordering the amendment and correction of the Birth Certifi cate of DESIREE ANN VESTIDAS BACOLOD, bearing Registry No. 95/10669 as follows:

a) On box 6 (pertaining to the name of mother)the full Maiden name of the child’s mother should be refl ected

And amended from “JENNYLYN VESTIDAS” to GENELYN VENERABLE VESTIDAS;

b) On box 18, the entry “January 28, 1994-Concepcion Tarlac” should be deleted and the notation “not married” Should be refl ected.

2) Ordering the civil Registry of Tarlac City, to annotate, register and record the amendment and correction on Birth Certifi cate bearing Registry No. 95/10669.

Finding the petition to be suffi cient in form and substance, the hearing of the same is set on November 8, 2013 at 8:30 o’clock in the morning at which date, time and place, all interested person may come and show cause, if there be any why the petition should not be granted.

Let this Order be published at the expense of the petitioner once a week for three (3) consecutive weeks in a newspaper of general circulation in the Province of Tarlac, Philippines.

Further, let copies of this petition be furnished to the Offi ce of the Solicitor General, National Statistics Offi ce, Offi ce of the Local Civil Registrar of Tarlac City and the Offi ce of the provincial Prosecutor.

SO ORDERED.Tarlac City, September 9, 2013.

MA. MAGDALENA A. BALDERAMA Judge

Punto! Central Luzon: September 25, October 2 & 9, 2013

In a telephone inter-view with Punto, Val-buena said the teach-ers would refuse to sign their appointments to be issued by the Comelec for them to serve in the Board of Election Tellers (BET) in the coming polls.

“For as long as they do not sign the appoint-ment, they cannot face any sanctions,” said Val-buena whose group ear-lier asked the Comelec to increase the barangay polls honorarium to at least P4,000 each at par with the pay given in the last national elections.

Valbuena said that the boycott decision could

Teachers vow polls boycottstill be reversed should the Comelec grant the teachers’ demand.

In a separate inter-view, ACT Teachers Par-tylist Rep. Antonio Tinio expressed support for the boycott move, not-ing that teachers have observed that barangay polls are more diffi cult to handle than other types of elections.

“Apart from being manual operations un-like the computerized national elections, ba-rangay elections tend to be more problematic for teachers who rather fre-quently end up in legal tussles,” Tinio said.

Valbuena also noted that teachers are more

burdened with com-plaints from people run-ning for barangay posts.

Valbuena said that three teachers act as BET per precinct. He noted that while ACT has only 50,000 mem-bers nationwide, he ex-pected the boycott move to be supported even by non-members among public school teachers.

“The teachers are simply fed up and much demoralized. The gov-ernment seems stingy on them while there are huge amounts of govern-ment funds being pock-eted by those involved in the pork barrel scam,” he noted. He also cited the increases in the price of

basic commodities, par-ticularly rice, as among the factors justifying the teachers’ demand.

Valbuena said that serving in the polls should not be limited to teach-ers, as he reiterated his call for the Comelec to recruit from other sectors should their demand for increase in honoraria be ignored.

Meanwhile, Tinio urged the government to consider his partylist’s proposal to increase the starting salary of pub-lic school teachers from P18,500 to P25,000 and use reallocated pork bar-rel funds for this.

Tinio noted that least P60 billion annual-

ly would be needed for such increase in the sal-aries of teachers.

Tinio’s partylist had earlier fi led House Bill 245 seeking such in-crease, but said he ex-pected it to be tackled only after the budget hearings for 2014.

At the Senate, how-ever, Sen. Juan Edgar-do “Sonny” Angara has pushed for the doubling of the salaries of pub-lic school teachers. His Senate Bill 61 aims to upgrade the minimum salary grade (SG) level of teachers from SG 11

to 19.If passed, the min-

imum salary of pub-lic school teachers will nearly double from its current monthly base pay of P18,549 to P33,859.

“I have fi led this mea-sure in the Lower House and I will continue to push for it here in the Up-per House as one of our top priority bills. The sal-ary increase, which will give relief to the 3.2 mil-lion fi nancially burdened teachers, is long over-due. They deserve more than what they presently get,” Angara said.

“Serbisyu karing me-maryu ing dapat panun-tunan a iyapag yu kare-la, ali pera (Service to the people is what you should offer them, not money),” Pineda said. “Nung ninu ing pe-ka-malugud, magmala-sakit, maserbisyu kareng tau, ita ing dapat ma-nungkulan (Whoever is most loving, most caring and most serving to the people is most deserving of the offi ce).”

Asked if she has en-

Gov to candidates: Good luck

Roberto Garcia are look-ing forward to Megan’s quick trip here as both called on residents and Freeport locators to give the newly crowned Miss World a wondrous recep-tion upon arrival.

For residents of the city devastated from the

Rousing welcome awaits Megan...FROM PAGE 1 worst fl ood that hit 16 out

of the 17 barangays here two weeks ago, the visit will provide them a short respite.

Megan, who grew up and studied inside the former US Naval Base where her American fa-ther was assigned, will be given a motorcade around Olongapo and

Subic Bay. She will be met by both Paulino and Garcia upon arrival at the Subic Bay Freeport entrance at Tipo.

After the motorcade, Miss World will distribute relief goods to the fl ood victims of Tabacugan, Barangay Sta. Rita.

According to May-or Paulino total dam-

age to private properties and government infra-structure projects such as roads and bridges amounted to P 2.5 billion.

More than 1,000 pri-vately owned motor vehi-cles were submerged by fl ood waters and almost all big motor shops here are teeming with water damaged motor vehicles.

FROM PAGE 1 dorsed anyone in the wake of reports of her photograph being print-ed in tarpaulins with those of prospective candidates, the governor said she would not pre-vent anyone from using her photograph in their posters.

“Nung gagamitan de ing litratu ku, di gamitan ya naman. Pare-pare-hu na ko man kanaku (If they use my picture, do the same. You are all equal before me),” she said.

The governor said

she would “abide strictly and fully to the non-par-tisan nature of baran-gay elections” and would not endorse any candidate.

This, even as she cautioned all candidates to refrain from personal attacks and heated dis-cussions “to keep peace and order in the cam-paign, in the elections, and in the aftermath.”

“Nanu mang malyari, mibaryu-baryu ta pa mu rin, any dapat mung in katahimikan ampon pro-gresu ning kekatamung

balayan ing mumuna ta-mung isipan king nanu mang gawan (Whatev-er happens, we still live with one another so it is the peace and progress of our community that must be foremost in our minds, in whatever we do),” the governor told her visitors who asked her for photo opportuni-ties before they left.

Waves of prospective candidates for barangay captain and their tickets reportedly now outnum-ber charity seekers at the Capitol.

exceptions.He said “the pro-

posed FOI bill in effect already makes the gen-eral rule that every in-formation in the hands of the government is of public interest and can only be denied based on the list of exceptions.”

Malauan said “in ef-fect, the exceptions also confi rmed what was al-ready laid down by juris-prudence except that now there are certain standards in the excep-tions on national securi-ty or foreign affairs.”

He said among these standards are foreign af-fairs matters which can be withheld if the dis-closure can damage the negotiating capacity of the Philippine govern-ment in an on-going ne-gotiation.

“It also introduc-es certain standards against abuse like the exceptions cannot be used to cover up a crime

Confi dential gov’t info illegal under FOIFROM PAGE 1 or graft and corruption”

Malaluan said.He added that the

aspect of “public inter-ests override,” which is provided under the FOI bill, empowers the or-dinary citizens’ access to pertinent information which will lend transpar-ency and full account-ability in government transactions.

But he said if they have a valid exemption which is clearly on the list “the citizens can still resort to remedy which allows you to go to court by fi ling a petition for mandamus to compel an agency to disclose the information.”

Malaluan said under the FOI bill, information on a tortured victim can-not be denied based on the exemption on na-tional security.

But at present, he said government agen-cies can be adamant in not giving out informa-tion since there is no ad-ministrative or criminal

liability.The agencies are

less concerned if a court case is fi led because of the process under the present situation, he said.

Meanwhile, mem-bers of the media told Malaluan that access to information is never unraveled. “Ninanakaw namin yan (We steal that),” said CAMI vice president and veteran newsman Ernie Tolen-tino citing as an exam-ple the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC), a government agency that registers and records corpora-tions and partnerships status in this country and the repository of all fi nancial statements of corporations.

But Tolentino said under the present law, SEC records are sup-posed to be public docu-ments and anybody can have access to them. “But in our experience, there are certain re-

cords which up to now we failed to gain access to,” he lamented.

CAMI director Willie Capulong regrets that only those that have fi -nancial capability can use the “remedy” by go-ing to court.

Malaluan said it is for this reason that the FOI bill must be passed into law.

“We have been say-ing that is not really just a media legislation. It is a citizens’ legislation. It is the access of ordinary citizens to pertinent pub-lic information,” he said.

Malaluan is a trust-ee at the Action for Eco-nomic Reforms and Co-Director of the Insti-tute for Freedom of In-formation. He is also co-convenor of the Right to Know. Right Now! Coalition, a network of more than 150 organiza-tions from various sec-tors that have long been campaigning for the passage of the Freedom of Information Act.

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The Gossipmillerby Cesar Pambid

Cristine Reyes mabuting taosa tingin ni Derek Ramsay

HINDI MAGANDA ang pakiramdam ni Derek Ramsay kahapon sa presscon and screening ng bago niyang weekly primetime drama na For Love or Money and in fact, namumula ang kanyang mga mata at parang nagluluha. Papunta nga raw siyang doktor after ng event.

“Parang over fatigue na ’to, I don’t sleep. My sleeping is affected already and if I get like a chance to go to bed at 8 in the morning, hindi ako makatulog. Nagsi-shake nga ako and my hands keep sweating, I really need to see a doctor,” he said.

Pero kahit masama ang pakiramdam, nag-stay pa rin ang aktor even after the Q and A portion at nakipag-interbyuhan pa rin sa press and answered all the questions thrown at him. Very professional, we must say.

Siyempre, isa sa pinakamaraming tanong na natanggap niya ay ang tungkol sa recent breakup nila ni Cristine Reyes pero ani Derek, ang masasabi lang niya ay walang may kasalanan.

“Walang may mali, walang may kasalanan, walang may masama. It was just a decision that was made, there’s nobody wrong. It’s just nangyari. Nangyari lang ang nangyari,” paliwanag ng aktor.

Marami kasing espekulasyon ang lumabas at isa na rito ang tsikang masama raw ang ugali ni Cristine pero pinasinungalingan ito ni Derek.

“Kung sa ugali, guys, tatlong taon ko siyang kilala, tatlong taon ko siyang kaibigan. Bakit siya ang inaano, bakit ang ugali niya (ang sinasabing dahilan). Walang ganu’n. Kilala ko ang ugali ni AA (tawag kay Cristine) and she’s a wonderful person.”

May communication pa ba sila ngayon?“No, right now, we’re giving each other space kasi masakit naman, ’di ba? Pero kita mo naman,

we’re still following each other’s Instagram and Twitter accounts. There’s no disrespect coming from both parties and that’s what matters and that’s why, we want to keep this private.

“’Yung relationship namin ni AA, tatlong taon (as friends) and I’m always gonna be there for her, as a friend, her best friend, it’s just time will fi x everything.”

When asked kung ano ang nangyari sa post niya sa Instagram account nang nagsisimula pa lang ang relasyon nila ni Cristine na “this is forever,” ayon kay Derek ay ayaw na raw niyang mag-react tungkol dito.

“I don’t want to say anything. Like I said, this is a private situation to me, we’re going to handle it together or individually. After sometime, I think, we’re gonna be okay and we’ll be going back to the normal friendship that we used to. ’Yung kulitan, ’yung tawanan.”

Kahit break na sila, magkatrabaho pa rin sila ni Cristine ngayon because they’re doing a movie under Viva Films and in fact, nakatakda silang magkita today sa Hawaii for a show.

Ayon kay Derek ay hindi naman daw siya uncomfortable na makita ang ex-gf.“Most defi nitely not. I’m not uncomfortable to see my friend. I’m

excited to see her, she’s my friend,” he said.Samantala, ipinapanood sa entertainment press ang pilot

episode ng For Love or Money mula sa direksyon ni Mac Alejandre at marami ang pumuri nito. First episode pa lang ay maeengganyo ka nang subaybayan ito na mapapanood every Thursday night, 8:30-9:30 starting Oct. 17.

Kasama ni Derek sa weekly seryeng ito sina Ritz Azul and Alice Dixson bilang kanyang leading ladies and Edward Mendez.

Nadine Samontetype nang magpabuntis

SEXY NGAYON si Nadine Samonte. She also

looks sexier with her new sultry hairstyle.“Pumayat na, pero mas nagpapapayat

pa,” sabi pa niya. Nadine is glad to be part of TV5’s 7:30

nightly drama show, “The Gift,” where she plays Ogie Alcasid’s new love interest after the fi rst one, Ara Mina, dies in a car crash. “Kakaiba ang show kasi ang batang anak ni Ara na si Ogie na ang nag-aalaga, may third eye and he gets to talk to dead people,” kuwento pa niya.

She was on with non-showbiz BF Emerson Chua for a long time but they’ve since broken up. After being linked to Leandro Muñoz, she’s now offi cially engaged to Richard Chua, son of actress Isabel Rivas.

Dagdag na jewelry ni Nadine Samonte ang engagement ring na bigay ng fi ancé niyang si Richard Chua.

Pumayag itong kunan siya ng picture na ipinapakita ang engagement ring na ibinigay

noong July 13 nang mag-propose ang fi ancé sa swimming pool ng Sofi tel Hotel.

Ready nang mag-asawa si Nadine, sana raw ready na rin ang mommy niya at gusto niya magka-baby agad dahil hinahabol niya ang body clock niya dahil she’s 25 years old na.

Nainggit din siya kina Jennylyn Mercado, Katrina Halili at Yasmien Kurdi, mga kasama sa Starstruck 1 na may mga anak na.

Mag-asawa man, wala pa ring balak tumigil sa showbiz si Nadine dahil kaya naman daw niya at sayang kung may magandang offer ang TV5.

Kasama si Nadine sa cast ng The Gift bilang love interest ni Ogie Alcasid na magpa-pilot sa October 14.

Excited ito at fi rst time makakasama si Ogie sa The Gift na mula sa direction ni Mike Tuviera.

Thankful ito sa TV5 na patuloy siyang binibigyan ng project at sa Archangel Media Inc. na producer ng

drama series.

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Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs 2 (GP)1200FS • 1220MF • 230 • 440 • 650830LFS • 900LMF • 1040END

Kung Fu Divas (PG13)1040FS • 1100MF • 130 • 400 • 630830LFS • 900LMF • 1100END

Gravity (PG13)1050FS • 1100MF • 100 • 300 • 500700 • 830LFS • 900LMF • 1030END

Insidious Chapter 2 (PG)1130FS • 1140MF • 200 • 420 • 640835LFS • 900LMF • 1055END

Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs 2 (G)1200FS • 1220MF • 230 • 440 • 650830LFS • 900LMF • 1040END

Gravity (PG)1050FS • 1100MF • 100 • 300 • 500700 • 830LFS • 900LMF • 1030END

Escape Plan (R13)1100FS • 1120MF • 145 • 410 • 635830LFS • 900LMF • 1055END

Alagwa (PG)1200FS • 1240MF • 245 • 450 • 655825LFS • 900LMF • 1030END

Kung Fu Divas (PG)1050FS • 1100MF • 130 • 400 • 630825LFS • 900LMF • 1055END

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Pamagmasusi king pang-100 a aldo

TULOY TULOY ang Tune serbisyo, Tune Fernandino. Sa ating pag-angat bilang Vice Mayor, ang ating sipag sa pagpapaabot ng tulong para sa mga Fernandino ay patuloy na walang patid.

Nitong pasukan, bilang out going City Councilor at Vice-Mayor elect, gaya ng nakagawian natin sa loob ng nkaraang 9 years, dinalaw natin ang ating mga principal at teacher, isang commitment ko sa edukasyon ng bawat mamamayang Fernandino.

Mahalaga na maipaabot ang pangangailangan ng ating mag-aaral hindi lang sa larangan ng libro pati na rin sa kanilang gamit sa eskuwela.

Sa tulong ng donors sa Consular Offi ce natin sa Malta, nakapagpaabot tayo ng mga sapatos sa ating mga mag-aaral sa elementarya. Sa susunod na mga pagkakataon, sisikapin pa nating makalikom ng mas marami pang sapatos upang mapalawak ang ating hangad na mabigyan din ang ating high school na mag-aaral.

Kung noong konsehal ako, nakatuon ang aking atensyon sa edukasyon, good governance at environment, ngayong Vice-Mayor na tayo, pa-iigtingin po natin ang ating mga galaw at kilos tungo sa mga batas na naaukol sa peace and order, security at sa mga programang lalo pang ikauunlad ng City of San Fernando.

Sa loob lamang ng 100 araw, ang 5th Sanggunian Panlungsod ay nakapasa ng 35 na Resolusyon at 2 Ordinansa.

Sa isang banda hindi po tayo tumigil sa mga personal nating mga programa, sa loob lamang ng isang daan araw tayo po ay nakapagdaos na ng:

• Libreng Gamot at Libreng Gamutan • Relief Operations sa mga barangay na nasalanta

ng Bagyong Maring• Mga konsultasyon at dialogo sa pagitan ng mga

iba’t ibang civil society groups• Partisipasyon sa Tree plantingPauna pa lang ito sa pagtanaw ko ng utang na

loob sa lubos na tiwalang ipinamalas ninyo sa aking sa aking karera bilang public servant.

Makakaasa kayo na ipamamalas ko ang aking galing sa pamamahala sa konseho at bilang presiding offi cer, ilalatag natin ang tamang direksyon sa konseho para sa pagbalangkas ng mga ordinansa sa lalo pang ikaaangat ng ating lungsod.

Malaki ang tiwala ko sa multi sectoral governance council. Susi ito sa check and balance ng ating lipunan. Ito rin ang nakakapag pabilis ng repormang kailangan natin para sa iba’t ibang sector ng ating lungsod.

Walang iisang indibidual ang mag-isang makakapagpaunlad ng ating lungsod. Ang mahalaga, iisa ang direksyon na tinatahak ng ating mga pinuno - ito ay ang pag angat at pagunlad ng City of San Fernando.

Luid Ya Ing Fernandino.

Hon. Jimmy LazatinVice MayorPresiding Offi cer, Sangguniang Panlungsod ng San Fernando, Pamapanga