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moNday | FEBRUARY 4, 2013 Editor: JOE DEL PUERTO FELICILDA Asst editor: ARJAY S. FELICILDA • Email: msbmdn@yahoo.com.ph Editorial : mindanaodailynews@gmail.com Advertising : mindanaodaily.ads@gmail.com
PBSP hands over Spanish-funded school buildings By Danilo C. Escabarte
AGUSAN del Norte - Providing access to basic education is the driving force behind the humanitarian endeavor of the Government of Spain in the province’s depressed communities. Yesterday, newly-completed school buildings were turned-over to Department of Education officials and recipient communities at the Rizal Integrated School in Buenavista town. Executive Director Rafael C. Lopa of the Philippine Business for Social Progress (PBSP) officiated the turnover of said school buildings to Mr. Rizalino D. Rivera, DepEd undersecretary for regional operations, witnessed by members of the Parents
Teachers Association and some officials. Since the project started, 89 classrooms have already been built benefitting more than 50,000 school children in 35 schools of Agusan del Norte. Beneficiaries of threeclassroom buildings were the Rojales Elementary School, Culit Integrated School, Agay Elementary School, Humilog Elementary School, Buenavista National High School, Cahayagan High School, Gosoon
Elementary School, Jagupit National High School, Santiago National High School, Magallanes National High School, Maningalao National High School, Nasipit National Vocational School, Carmen Central Elementary School, Sangay Integrated School, Dahican Elementary School, Manoligao Integrated School, Nasipit Central Elementary School, Santiago Central Elementary School and Manapa III Integrated School. Two-classroom school
Firm employee shot-dead By PO3 Darlin Cabalinan-Migullas
CAMP Rodriguez, Butuan City – Riding-in-tandem persons, using an undetermined caliber of short firearm, shot-to-death an employee of the PHILSAGA Mining Corporation (PMC) in San Andres, Bunawan, Agusan del Sur, late afternoon of January 28, 2013. Police said the victim, Edilmero Luna Peñera, 32
years old, married and a resident of Purok-1, San Teodoro, Bunawan town, was driving home his motorcycle from the PMC compound in Brgy Bayugan 3, Rosario town when attacked by the assailants. He sustained four bullet wounds in different parts of the body resulting in his untimely death.
Recovered from the crime scene were four fired cartridges believed to be of a caliber .45 pistol. A slug was extracted from the victim’s body during the post mortem examination, conducted by Dr. Generosa M Carmona, municipal health officer of Bunawan town. (DCM/ MMG/asf)
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“I absorbed so much from my training on radio broadcasting at the BusinessWeek Mindanao Media Center in Cagayan de Oro City. My campus journalism adviser, Maria Christina M. Ganas, was right when she said that the training wasn’t just an ordinary one. Even this page wouldn’t be enough to cover all the lessons I had. We have learned things we didn’t expect to. The most important thing to remember was that there are types of information, news events, straight news and radio news. Another thing that I focused most on was the script writing. As our trainer, Mr. Joe del Puerto Felicilda, said it is very important to make the best out of the time given in making your script. Your whole flow of delivering the news also depends on the script you did. Wherever you go, news awaits you. At the simplest form of activity or event, news can be made from it. In the making of the news, it is also required to investigate, confirm and reconfirm the gossips you hear for safety reasons. I do treasure such lessons, as I start my broadcasting activities. And this could really be memorable to me, as a I take another step further.”
buildings were also constructed in 15 schools in the province, namely Casiklan Elmenetary School, Vinapor National High School, Ambacon Elementary School, Marcos Calo National High School, Agong-ong Integrated School, Tabon Elementary School, Kinajangan Elementary
School, Dona Telesfora Ong Elementary School, Sacol Elementary School, Marc o s C a l o E l e m e n t ar y S ch o ol, Ma l i c ato Elementary School, Matabao Elementary School, Casiklan National High School, Carmen National High School, Tagcatong Elementary School and
Rizal Integrated School. Funded by Agencia Espanola de Cooperacion Internacional para el Desarollo (AECID), the school building project had been implemented by the Madrid-based Fundacion Humanismo Y Democracia (H+D), in partnership with PBSP. (DE/arjaysfelicilda)
Fortun, Nery top Butuan SP attendance in 2012 By Pat Samonte
BUTUAN CITY – ViceMayor Lawrence Lemuel Fortun and Councilor Virgilio Nery, Jr. recorded the most number of attendance in sessions conducted by the Sangguniang Panlungsod here in 2012. Based on official records, out of 49 regular and three special sessions or a total of 52 sessions, Fortun and Nery posted a near perfect attendance of 51. Among
city councilors, Nery topped the attendance record for the second straight year. Administration ouncilors Ryan Anthony Culima and Ramon Carampatana were absent in only two sessions while Councilor Jaime Cembrano failed to attend three council sessions. SP members Angelo Calo and Nestor Amora were absent in six sessions. Councilor Audie Ber-
nabe was absent 30 times out of 52 sessions, while SP member Randolph Plaza did not attend 25 council sessions. Rounding up the list were SP members Josephine Marticion-Salise who was absent 21 times, Rauzil Carampatana, who missed 20 sessions, Raul Amoc with 16 missed sessions, and Erwin Dano who failed to attend 11 SP sessions. (E.D.,CMO/ PIO.)
Health office warns public vs 'chikungunya' By Robert E. Roperos
- MONIQUE M. MEGUILLO Gusa Regional Science High School
We grow minds!
BUTUAN CITY - The city health office has warned the public of a new virus where the affected patient will have the same signs and symptoms of a dengue victim. Speaking before the City Peace and Order Council (CPOC), Resident Nurse Michelle Mae Que of the city health office said, “chikungunya” is a relatively rare form of viral fever. Ms. Que pointed out that same with dengue fever, this is transmitted by “Aedes aegypti,” “albopictus,” “Culex,” and “Mansonia” species. “Among the symptoms are fever of up to 39 degrees Celsius, macupapular rash, arthritis, and headache,” she said. Ms. Que added this can be detected by using antigens or antibodies in the blood using Enzyme-Linked Immuno Sorbent Assays (Elisa) or polymerase chain reaction tests. According to the World Health Organization (WHO) Media Centre, Elisa may con-
firm the presence of IgM and IgG anti-chikungunya antibodies. IgM antibody levels are highest three to five weeks after the onset of illness and persist for about two months. She further said there is no active treatment, “only symptomatic treatment, selflimiting… however, there is no marketable vaccines available as of the moment,” Que explained. According to the World Health Organization (WHO), chikungunya is a mosquitoborne viral disease first described during an outbreak in southern Tanzania in 1952. It is an alphavirus of the family Togaviridae. The name chikungunya is derived from a root verb in the Kimakonde language, meaning "to become contorted" and describes the stooped appearance of sufferers with joint pain. WHO Media Centre also explained that the virus is transmitted from human to human by the bites of infected female mosquitoes.
The mosquitoes are Aedes aegypti and Aedes albopictus, two species which can also transmit other mosquitoborne viruses, including dengue. These mosquitoes bite during daylight hours, although there may be peaks of activity in the early morning and late afternoon. Both species bite outdoors, but Ae. aegypti will also readily feed indoors. Illness lasts between four to eight days but can range from two to 12 days. To prevent and control the virus to spread and/or developed, the official advised the public to cover old tires, drums, and others that are possible breeding sites for mosquitoes. Ms. Que also said frequent change of stagnant waters of vases, and dish drainers must also be dried. Most importantly, Que said the public must conduct frequent cleaning of the environment “inside and outside the house.” (RER, PIA 13 Caraga/asf)