The athletes of Region III have posted record breaking perfor-mance in this year’s 56th Palarong Pambansa (also known as 2013 Palaro) held in the city of Duma-guete, Negros Oriental on April 21-27, establishing new records to con-quer for next year in four sporting events and went on to take home 12 gold medals to boot from seven categories played during the event.

Leading the pack of warriors who triumphed during the ac-tivity is Bryan Jay Pacheco who raised the bar in Javelin Throw by scoring a powerful hurl reach-ing 57.81 meters overthrowing old records set by Alleloid Lumabao in 2002 and Danilo Abra in 2012.

Meanwhile, the feat was also equaled by the swimming team with Rafael Barretto of Bulacan as he matched the seven-gold swim romp in the boys’ elemen-tary division while setting three Palaro marks and was awarded as the Most Valuable Player in Swimming Elementary Boys.

Barretto, the swimming lead-

ing contender, made a debut by topping the following swimming events: 50 meter butterfly, 50 meter freestyle, 100 meter but-terfly, 100 meter freestyle and the two medley relays of their swim-ming team by winning double gold medals and a record in one of the three categories where he joined 100 and 200 meter freestyle and the legendary 400x100meter medley relay with Bieber Pangan.

“ Commitment-Driven Performance by our Leaders, Character-Based Instruction for our Learners”

By Eva B. Imingan, EPS-OICRO3 athletes break records in Palaro’13

Great Triumph. Region III is on top of the game as RD Dr. Isabelita M. Borres, Education Program Supervisors II Guillermo Bog-

not and Odon Santiago receives the trophy as 4th Runner-up during the 2013 Palarong Pambansa as DepEd Sec-retary Armin Luistro and Dumaguete Mayor Manuel Chiquiting Teves Sagarbarria strike a pose to celebrate the great moment.

RD Borres distributes Reading Recovery toolkits

The Regional Director, Dr. Isabelita M. Borres distributed Reading Recov-ery Toolkit thru the Supply Division of the regional office to 20 recipient schools during Regional Training for School Paper Advisers held May 27-29 at RELC, Pulungbulu, Angeles

City. This is in consonance with the region’s total commitment to provid-ing quality basic education for all children, youth, and adults by the year 2015 which is the main objec-tive of the “Every Child a Reader Program” (ECARP) of the DepEd.

The said kits were received by winning SPAs Allan P. David (Ca-banatuan City); Perlita C. De Guz-man (Bulacan); Don Peter Bada (Zambales); Elizabeth Sto. Domingo (Olongapo City); Dan Mark Nieto and Romeo Valderama (SJDM); Rowena N. Dela Cruz, (Prenza NHS); Nar-

ciso Mendiola (Pampanga); Miro-zon Valdez (Cabanatuan City) just to name a few.The reading toolkit serves as an instructional material and a guide for developing effective balanced reading programs based on the principles for early grades developmental reading program .

Marie Ann Ligsay, EPS II