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TACLOBAN CITY- The court declared mayor of San Policarpo town in Eastern Samar has yet to take her post with less than two years before the holding of the next elections.

Virginia Acol, who was earlier declared as the “rightful winner” could not just yet assume the post occupied at present by Mayor Conrado Nicart III af-ter the latter secure a 60-day temporary restraining order (TRO).

The TRO, issued by a regional trial court in Oras, also in Eastern Samar, is to expire on September 30.

“We respected the TRO thus we were constrained not to hold office for the meantime. We know how to follow the law” Acol said.

Court declared mayor in Eastern Samar fails to assume post

Oras town received seal of housekeeping from DILG

ORAS, Eastern Samar - The Depart-ment of the Interior and Local Gov-ernment (DILG) bestowed this town with the Seal of Good Housekeeping (SGH) last month.

As an awardee, the local government unit (LGU) will have access to other national program windows such as the Grassroots Participatory Budget Process, PAMANA, Salintubig and special local road fund, as may be eligible based on DILG policies.

PAMANA (Payapa at Masaganang Pamayanan) is the national government’s framework and pro-gram for peace and development in conflict-af-fected areas. Salintubig (Sagana at Ligtas na Tubig sa Lahat) is a government program in response to increase access to safe water in the community.

DILG conducts evaluation to all municipalities nationwide and chooses potential LGUs that per-form well and qualify special national government projects.

Launched in 2011 by former DILG Secretary Jesse Robredo, SGH is awarded by DILG to LGUs

TACLOBAN CITY – Eastern Visayas is bound to lose 1,183 daily tourists or 106,470 from Septem-ber to December due to limited air travel opera-tion at the Daniel Z. Ro-mualdez (DZR) Airport.

With this situation, the regional office of the De-partment of Tourism ad-

Region losing potential tourists, DOT exec saidBORONGAN CITY, Eastern Samar,

Sept. 28 (PIA) – To ensure that all local media practitioners in Eastern Samar are aware of child protection laws and proto-cols in proper handling of children, PLAN International Inc., conducted “Training on Child Protection and Child -Sensitive Re-porting and Local Media Briefing on Posi-tive Discipline” , on September 26, 2014 at Markyz Pension House, Brgy. Balud, this City.

During the training, a session on the concepts and measures of child protection, such as encouraging child participation

Interestingly, the court that issued the TRO was the same court that ruled that it was Acol who won the mayoralty race against Nicart, son of Eastern Governor Conrado Nicart.

In her ruling, Judge Juliana White, presiding judge of RTC- Branch 5 ruled that Acol was the real winner during May 2013 mayoralty polls against Nicart, who is now serving his second term.

Based on the court decision, Acol garnered 3,773 votes against Nicart’s 3,667 votes or a margin of 106 votes.

Nicart was proclaimed by the members of the

Local press attends training on child-friendly reporting

and treating children in a manner that is respectful of their rights, integrity, and dignity was conducted.

The training also discussed the guide-lines on child sensitive reporting, includ-ing the preservation of the privacy of chil-dren victims and compliance to children’s request if they do not want their photos to be taken.

In the afternoon, a field visit or local media briefing on child protection ini-tiatives and promotion of positive and

mitted that they could not possibly reach their target of tourist arrivals at more than 769,000 for this year.

“The DZR Airport serves as the gateway. With the limited operations of the airport, we are also faced with limited air seats for incoming and outgoing passengers,” said DOT Re-

gional Director Karina Rosa Tiopes.

“Limited flights and schedules also make travel to the region inconvenient to both visitors and the trav-elling public,” she added.

Before the runway problem, Tiopes recalled

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Superstar Nora Aunor to shoot a movie about Super Typhoon Yolanda. Locations for the movie are in San Jose iand in Anibo-ng. in the City of Tacloban. Photo by Mel Caspe

NEWS2 Easter Samar Bulletin Sept 21-27,2014

Republic of the Philip-pines

REGIONAL TRIAL COURT

8th Judicial RegionBranch 3

Guiuan, Eastern SamarRURAL BANK OF GUI-

UAN (E.S.), INC., Mortgagee,

-versus-SPOUSES TEOFILO

CABACABA and CON-STANCIA CABACABA,

MortgagorsEJF File No. 230

For:EXTRA JUDICIAL

FORECLOSURE OF REAL ESTATE MORT-

GAGE UNDER ACT 3135 as Amended By

ACT 4118x- - - - -- - - - - - -xSHERIFF’S NOTICE OF

RE-BIDDING/EXTRA-JUDI-CIAL SALE

Upon extra-judicial peti-tion for sale under Act No. 3135, as amended by Act 4118, filed by the RURAL BANK OF GUIUAN (E.S.), INC., against SPOUS-ES TEOFILO CABACABA and CONSTANCIA CABACABA, of legal age, Filipinos, with residence and postal address at Barangay Sulangan, Guiuan, Eastern Sa-mar, in order to satisfy the mort-gage indebtedness which as of March 31, 2009 amounts to FIVE HUNDRED NINE THOUSAND NINETY-THREE PESOS and 75/100 (509,093.75) Philippine currency, excluding penalties, charges, attorney’s fees and ex-penses of foreclosure and sale, the Ex-Officio Sheriff of Eastern Sa-mar, by and through undersigned will sell at public auction on No-vember 5, 2014 at 10:00 o’clock in the morning or soon thereafter, at the main entrance of the Region-al Trial Court, Branch 3, Guiuan, Eastern Samar, to the highest bid-der, for CASH and in Philippine currency, the following property/ies with all its improvements, to wit:

TAX DECLARATION No. ARP 09053-00979/00980

“A parcel of residential land together with all the buildings and improvements found there-on, located at Int. Imelda St., Brgy. Sulangan, Guiuan, Eastern Samar, declared for taxation pur-poses in the name of TEOFILO B. CABACABA under TD No. ARP 009053-00979/00980, as-sessed at P1,420.00, bounded on the N., by 633-Nestor Gapate; E., by 018-Teolfilo Badoc; S., by 018-Teofilo Badoc; and W., by 031-Adela Cobacha, having an area of 78 sq.m. more or less.”

All sealed bids must be sub-mitted to the undersigned on the above-stated time and date.

In the event the public auc-tion should not take place on the said date, it shall be held on No-vember 14, 2014 without further notice.

Prospective buyers/bidders are hereby enjoined to investigate for themselves the Title/Tax Dec-laration to the property/ies de-scribed above and encumbrances thereon if any there be.

Guiuan, Eastern Samar, September 17, 2014.

(Sgd.) ZORAIDA P. QUILONA

Clerk of Court VI andEx-Officio Sheriff

(Sgd.) ILBERTO C. MACALESheriff IV

Copy furnished:The Manager, Rural Bank of Gui-uan (E.S.), Inc., Mortgagee, Gui-uan, Eastern SamarAtty. Pedro L. Felicen, Jr., 116 Gor-gonia Ave., Lot 10, Blk. 2, Phase 2, V&G Subd., Tacloban CitySpouses Teofilo Cabacaba & Con-stancia Cabacaba, Brgy. Sulanga, Guiuan, Eastern SamarWARNING: It is absolute prohib-ited to remove, deface or destroy this Notice of Sale on or before the date of sale, under penalty of the law.

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UAN (E.S.), INC.Mortgagee,

-versus-ANTONIO O. IDA, ROSITA O. IDA and

FLORENCIA O. IDA,Mortgagors

EJF File No. 0213For:

EXTRAJUDICIAL FORECLOSURE OF

REAL ESTATE MORT-GAGE UNDER ACT 3135 AS Amended by

ACT 4118x- - - - - - - - - -x

SHERIFF’S NOTICE OF RE-BIDDING/EXTRA

JUDICIAL SALEUpon extra-judicial peti-

tion for sale under Act No. 3135, as amended by Act 4118, filed by the RURAL BANK OF GUIUAN (E.S.), INC., against ANTONIO O. IDA, ROSITA O. IDA and FLORENCIA O. IDA, all of legal age, Filipinos, with residence and postal address at San Francisco Street, Barangay 8, Guiuan, East-ern Samar, in order to satisfy the mortgage indebtedness which as of July 15, 2007 amounts to ONE MILLION EIGHT THOUSAND ONE HUNDRED ELEVEN PE-SOS and 11/100, (P1,008,111.11) Philippine currency, excluding penalties, charges, attorney’s fees and expenses of foreclosure and sale, the Ex-Officio Sheriff of East-ern Samar, by and through under-signed will sell at public auction on November 5, 2014 at 10:00 o’clock in the morning or soon thereafter, at the main entrance of the Regional Trial Court, Branch 3, Guiuan, Eastern Samar, to the highest bidder, for CASH and in Philippine currency, the following property/ies with all its improve-ments, to wit:

TAX DECLARATION No. ARP-09004-00166

“A parcel of commercial res-idential land together with all the improvements found thereon situated at Guimbaolibot Ave., Brgy. 4, Guiuan, Eastern Samar, declared for taxation purposes in the name of ANDRES IDA under TD No. 09044-00166, assessed at P16,190.00 and bounded as fol-lows: N., by Guimbaolibot Avenue; E., by Maria Pading; S., by Maria Pading; and W., by Domingo Calzita, with an area of 435 sq. m., more or less.”

TAX DECLARATION NO. ARP-09011-00063

“A parcel of residential land together with all the improvements found thereon situated at Guim-baolibot Ave., Brgy. 9-A, Guiuan, E. Samar, declared for taxation purposes in the name of ANDRES IDA under TD No. 09011-00063, assessed at P6,110.00 and bounded as follows: N., by 012-Felix Siguan; E., by 009-Esteban Sabulao, Sr.; S., by 009-Esteban Sabulao, Sr., and W., by Guimbaolibot Ave., with an area of 315 sq.m., more or less.”

TAX DECLARATION NO. ARP 130041

“A parcel of residential land located at San Jose Street, Baran-gay 11, Guiuan, Eastern Samar, declared for taxation purposes in the name of Milagros O. Lim (vendor) sold to DR. ANTONIO O. IDA per Deed of Absolute Sale under TD130041, assessed at P6,590.00 and bounded as follows: N., by 001-Ciriaco Pimentel; E., by 007-Gerardo Morrero; S., San Jose Street; and W., by 001-Jorge Raygon, known as Cadastral Lot No. 231 with an area of 650 sq.m., more or less.”



Prospective buyers/bidders are hereby enjoined to investigate for themselves the Title/Tax Dec-laration to the property/ies de-scribed above and encumbrances





UAN (E.S.), INC.Mortgagee,

-versus-SPOUSES FILEX G. DI-MAANGAY and ISABEL

DIMAANGAY,Mortgagors

EJF File No. 0217For:

EXTRA JUDICIAL FORECLOSURE OF

REAL ESTATE MORT-GAGE UNDER ACT 3135 as Amended By

ACT 4118x- - - - - - - - x

SHERIFF’S NOTICE OF RE-BIDDING/EX-TRA-JUDICIAL SALE

Upon extra-judicial petition for sale under Act No. 3135, as amend-ed by Act 4118, filed by the RU-RAL BANK OF GUIUAN (E.S.), INC., against SPOUSES FILEX G. DIMAANGAY and ISABEL DIMAANGAY, of legal age, Fili-pinos, with residence and postal address at Barangay Pagnamitan, Guiuan, Eastern Samar, in order to satisfy the mortgage indebtedness which as of July 15, 2007 amounts to ONE HUNDRED THIRTY-SIX THOUSAND EIGHT HUNDRED NINETY-FIVE PESOS and 10/100 (136,895.10) Philippine curren-cy, excluding penalties, charges, attorney’s fees and expenses of foreclosure and sale, the Ex-Of-ficio Sheriff of Eastern Samar, by and through undersigned will sell at public auction on November 5, 2014 at 10:00 o’clock in the morn-ing or soon thereafter, at the main entrance of the Regional Trial Court, Branch 3, Guiuan, Eastern Samar, to the highest bidder, for CASH and in Philippine currency, the following property/ies with all its improvements, to wit:TAX DECLARATION No. ARP-02-09044-00124“A parcel of residential land to-gether with all the buildings and improvements found thereon sit-uated at Brgy. Road, Brgy. Pagna-mitan, Guiuan, Eastern Samar, de-clared for taxation purposes in the name of FILEX G. DIMAANGAY under TD No. ARP-02-09044-00124, assessed at P2,870.00 and bounded as follows: N., by Baran-gay Road; E., by 006-Juan Caadan; S., by 007 Dolores Pagadora; and W., by Hrs. of Isidora Dimaangay, with an area of 241 sq.m., more or less.”All sealed bids must be submit-ted 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 November 14, 2014 without further notice.Prospective buyers/bidders are hereby enjoined to investigate for themselves the Title/Tax Declara-tion to the property/ies described above and encumbrances thereon if any there be.Guiuan, Eastern Samar,

September 17, 2014.(Sgd.) ZORAIDA P.

QUILONAClerk of Court VI and

Ex-Officio Sheriff(Sgd.) ILBERTO C.

MACALESheriff IV

Copy furnished:The Manager, Rural Bank of Guiuan (E.S.), Inc., Mortgagee, Guiuan, Eastern SamarAtty. Pedro L. Felicen, Jr., 116 Gorgonia Ave., Lot 10, Blk. 2, Phase 2, V&G Subd., Tacloban CitySpouses Filex G. Dimaangay & Isabel Dimaangay, Brgy. Pagnami-tan, Guiuan, Eastern SamarWARNING: It is absolutely prohibited to remove, deface or destroy this Notice of Sale on or before the date of sale, under penalty of the law.

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UAN (E.S.), INC.Mortgagee

-versus-CIRILA B. QUIZA and JEAN FRANCISCA Q.

JABAGAT,Mortgagors

EJF File No. 0187-03For:

EXTRA JUDICIAL FORECLOSURE OF

REAL ESTATE MORT-GAGE UNDER ACT 3135 as Amended By

ACT 4118x- - - - - - - - -x

SHERIFF’S NOTICE OF RE-BID-DING/EXTRA-JUDICIAL SALE

Upon extra-judicial peti-tion for sale under Act No. 3135, as amended by Act 4118, filed by the RURAL BANK OF GUIUAN (E.S.), INC., against CIRILA B. QUIZA and JEAN FRANCIS-CA QUIZA-JABAGAT, of legal age, Filipinos, with residence and postal address at Barangay 2, Poblacion, Salcedo, Eastern Sa-mar, in order to satisfy the mort-gage indebtedness which as of July 15, 2013 amounts to TWO HUNDRED SIXTY SIX THOU-SAND FIVE HUNDRED THIR-TY THREE PESOS and 33/100 (P266,533.33) Philippine curren-cy, excluding penalties, charges, attorney’s fees and expenses of foreclosure and sale, the Ex-Of-ficio Sheriff of Eastern Samar, by and through undersigned will sell at public auction on November 5, 2014 at 10:00 o’clock in the morn-ing or soon thereafter, at the main entrance of the Regional Trial Court, Branch 3, Guiuan, Eastern Samar, to the higher bidder, for CASH and in Philippine currency, the following property/ies with all its improvements, to wit:

TAX DECLARATION No. ARP-99-19002-00037

OCT No. 8082, Lot 3021, C-3, Pls-1044-D

“A parcel of residential lot together with all the buildings and other improvements there-on located at Poblacion, Salce-do, Eastern Samar, declared for taxation purposes in the name of CIRILA A. QUIZA under Tax Declaration No. ARP-99-19002-00037, covered by OCT No. 8082, Lot 3021, bounded on the SE-Lot 3022, 3030; SW-Lot 3056; NW-Lot 3020; NE-National Road, having an area of 212 square meters, more or less.”



Prospective buyers/bidders are hereby enjoined to investigate for themselves the Title/Tax Dec-laration to the property/ies de-scribed above and encumbrances thereon if any there be.Guiuan, Eastern Samar,



Ex-Officio Sheriff(Sgd.) ILBERTO C.

MACALESheriff IV

Copy furnished:The Manager, Rural Bank of Gui-uan (E.S.), Inc., Mortgagee, Gui-uan, Eastern SamarAtty. Pedro L. Felicen, Jr., 116 Gor-gonia Ave., Lot 10, Blk. 2, Phase 2, V&G Subd., Tacloban CityCirila B. Quiza and Jean Francisca Quiza-Jabagat, Barangay 2, Pobla-cion, Salcedo, Eastern SamarWARNING: It is absolutely pro-hibited to remove, deface or de-stroy this Notice of Sale on or be-fore the date of sale, under penalty of the law.

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thereon if any there be.Guiuan, Eastern Samar,



Ex-Officio Sheriff(Sgd.) ILBERTO C. MA-

CALE Sheriff IV

Copy furnished:The Manager, Rural Bank of Guiuan (E.S.), Inc., Mortgagee, Guiuan, Eastern SamarAtty. Pedro L. Felicen, Jr., 116 Gorgonia Ave., Lot 10, Blk. 2, Phase 2, V&G Subd., Tacloban CityAntonio O. Ida, Rosita O. Ida and Florencia O. Ida, San Francisco Street, Brgy. 8, Guiuan, Eastern SamarWARNING: It is absolutely prohibited to remove, deface or destroy this Notice of Sale on or before the date of sale, under penalty of the law.

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Republic of the Philippines

Eight (8th) Judicial Region


Branch 01Borongan Eastern Samar

IN THE MATTER OF THE PETITION FOR THE CORRECTION OF ENTRIES IN THE

CERTIFICATE OF LIVE BIRTH OF JOSEPHINE A. BAGON AND JASON A. BAGON RE: DATES OF BIRTH WITH THE

LCR, LLORENTE E. SAMAR

JOSEPHINE A. BAGON AND JASON A. BAGON rep. by

JUDITH A. BAGON as Petitioner-versus-

ASUNCION PAULINE B. DAYAG, OIC, LCR of LLORENTE, E. SAMARSPEC. PRO. NO. 156-13FOR: CORRECTION OF

ENTRYx--------------------------x

AMENDED ORDERThis is a verified petition

for Correction of Entry in the Certificates of Live Birth of Josephine A. Bagon and Jason A. Bagon praying that the erroneous entries in the certificates of live birth of the petitioners on file with the National Statistics Office be corrected and that the date of birth of Josephine A. Bagon be corrected from December 15, 1973 to December 15, 1968 and also the date of birth of Jason A. Bagon be corrected from January 24, 1979 to Janu-ary 24, 1976.

The petition in substance alleges among others that pe-titioners are the children of spouses Juan Bagon and Judith A. Aboy who were born on December 15, 1968 and Janu-ary 24, 1976 respectively; that upon verification at the NSO, the entries of petitioners’ dates of birth were erroneously en-tered as December 15, 1973 and January 24, 1979 respec-tively and that there is need for its correction; that since birth to the present petitioners have been using in the school re-cords the dates December 15, 1968 and January 24, 1976 and that petitioners being catho-lics have been baptized and in their baptismal certificates appears the dates December 15, 1973 and January 24, 1976 respectively; also petitioners being now residents of Italy have been using also in their passports the dates December

TACLOBAN CITY -- The Department of Agrarian Reform (DAR) recently turned-over Php15.5 million worth of farm machin-eries to five agrarian reform beneficiary or-ganizations (ARBOs) in Leyte, Samar and Eastern Samar to help them rebuild their lives after the destruction of super typhoon Yolanda last year.

Region 8 Director Sheila Enciso said the tractors were funded under the Agrarian Reform Communities Connectivity and Eco-nomic Support Ser-

DAR turnovers Php15.5-M machineries

to Samar and Leytevices (ARCCESS) proj-ect and were intended for the clearing and re-habilitation of farm lots in areas greatly affected by the typhoon.

Enciso said that three tractors were dis-tributed in Leyte and one tractor each for the provinces of Samar and Eastern Samar, respec-tively.

DAR entrusted to five ARBOs the opera-tions and maintenance of the machines which cost P3,117,920 per unit.

For Leyte, DAR turned over the ma-chines to the St. Ben-

edict’s Association for Sustainable Farm-ing which is based in Tunga; the Boroc Agricultural Primary Multi-Purpose Coop-erative in Ormoc; and the Zaragosa Agrarian Cooperative in Mata-lom.

Meanwhile for East-ern Samar and Samar, DAR turned over the machines to the Car-apdapan Small Farm-ers and Fishermen Producers Coopera-tive based in Salcedo, Eastern Samar and the Legaspi Farmers and Fishermen Association in Marabut.(PNA)

15, 1973 and January 24, 1976 as their dates of birth.

Finding the petition to be sufficient in form and sub-stance let the hearing of the petition be set on October 29, 2014 at 8:00 o’clock in the morning at the Session Hall of the Regional Trial Court, Branch 01, Borongan, East-ern Samar where all interested parties may appear in court and show cause why said pe-tition should not be granted.

Let this Order be pub-lished at the expense of the petitioner in a newspaper of general circulation in the Province of Eastern Samar and accredited by this Court, once a week for three (3) consecu-tive weeks before the sched-uled hearing.

Furnish copy of this or-der to Solicitor General, 134 Amorsolo St., Legaspi Village, Makati City, the Local Civil Registrar of the Municipali-ty of Llorente Eastern Samar, petitioner’s counsel, the pe-titioners, the Civil Registrar General, National Statistics Office (NSO), Manila and the Provincial Prosecutor of the Province of Eastern Samar.

SO ORDERED.In Chamber, August

28, 2014, Borongan City, E. Samar

(Sgd) Hon. ELVIE P. LIM

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OPINIONCOMMENTARY:

By Fr Roy Cimagala

Email: [email protected]

EDITORIAL

Easter Samar Bulletin 3

Dalmacio C. GrafilPublisher

Romeo CebrerosOIC

EASTERN SAMAR

Brgy. Songco, Borongan City Eastern Samar

(055) 261-3319

Aljim Denver M. ArcuenoEditor-in-Chief

Sept 21-27,2014

“THE kingdom of heaven is like a landowner who went out at dawn to hire laborers for his vineyard.” (Mt 20,1) Thus starts the gospel we heard recently at Mass. It’s a parable that contains a precious lesson—a warning, in fact—especially to those who feel advantaged and privi-leged in life for a number of reasons.

As the parable continues its story, the landowner agreed to pay the laborers who were hired at the first hour the “usual daily wage.” But since he noticed there were still idle people in the different parts of the day, even at the last hour, he decided to hire them just the same, promising to pay them what he thought would be just.

At the end of the day, when paying time came, he chose to pay all his laborers the same “usual daily wage,” including those who were hired at the last hour. Obvious-ly, those hired at the first hour felt unfairly treated.

“These last ones worked only one hour, and you have made them equal to us, who bore the day’s burden and the heat,” they said. But to this, the landowner said, “My friend, I am not cheating you. Did you not agree with me for the usual daily wage? Take what is yours and go…”

The parable simply tells us at bottom that God cares for everyone of us. He does not make distinction of per-sons insofar as loving is concerned. His love is universal. It covers all.

This is the thought that should be with us everytime we see the differences and the great variety of conditions we have among ourselves. Yes, we have to acknowledge our differences, our advantages and disadvantages, etc., but we should not forget that God loves all of us and that we too should love everybody else the way God loves all.

Let us remind ourselves that our differences are meant to develop, if not enrich, everyone through the dynamics of complementation and supplementation. Let’s see to it that we are not unduly entangled with the unavoidable tension and conflict, and that we manage to go past them and see the bigger picture.

What is incumbent on us is to give what we have, what has been entrusted to us by God—our talents and other gifts—as much as we could for the common good. This is where our true joy and self-fulfillment. It’s in giving that we truly love, and that we truly get blessed.

We should never think that our talents, gifts, blessings and other privileges and advantages we can have in life are a right to lord it over others, or to be proud and vain, or to expect more privileges. They are never meant to make us feel superior to others, turning us into conceited persons.

If ever, these things should only make us more aware of the greater responsibility we have to contribute to the common good. That consideration, which we should try to be with us always, should sober us and stop us from making fantastic, baseless ideas of ourselves.

These gifts and blessings should make us more hum-ble and more responsible, as well as more discerning as to what God has in mind for their proper use. That’s because when not referred to God, these things can have no other effect than to spoil us.

And that’s when we, unwittingly perhaps, lead our-selves down the road to a blinding self-righteousness. We have to be most wary of this danger which is very com-mon and can come to us in subtle ways.

The worst form is when we use our “sanctity” because we may be a priest, a nun or a monk, as a claim to superi-ority over others. This can happen when we have little or even no patience for those who may not behave “proper-ly” in certain liturgical celebrations and we feel we have the right to scold them in public.

The real saints and heroes never thought it beneath them to suffer the inadequacies and the mistakes of oth-ers, following the example of Christ who even went to the extent of washing the feet of his apostles, and who clearly

Warning against self-righteousness

said that he came to serve and not to be served.Since any authority on earth is a participation of the

authority of God, those who have it, especially the sacred ministers, should see to it that the exercise of their au-thority would make others see God instead of their own selves.

We have to follow the example of St. John the Baptist who said, “He must increase, but I must decrease.”

T here is no doubt that the sincere desire of Vice President Jejomar Binay to become President of the republic has been shaken and could be

VP Binay’s presidential bid in peril?

shattered for good if nothing effec-tive and credible moves be made to enhance his image and change the seeming ugly perceptions about his credibility now before the start of the 2016 presidential campaign.

The alleged graft and corruption charges hurled at him in the past few months that regularly appear in print, seen and heard in broadcast channels nationwide have somehow eroded his once-upon-a time high credibility as a person and as a mod-el public servant.

His address to the nation last Sept. 18 at the Philippine International Convention Center (PICC) purport-edly to explain, defend and justify the alleged overpricing of the mod-ern parking lots in Makati that were constructed during his incumbency as mayor of Makati, was not con-vincing.

However, it is too early to predict that the Vice President is already a goner in his presidential bid. It is still a year and a half before the 2016

elections and many developments relative to this issue will still surface that could change the present per-ceptions of the Filipino people about the Vice President.

Besides it appears that, while there are already several presiden-tial dreamers and hopefuls who have albeit clandestinely expressed a de-sire to become head of state, they still have to create a strong and con-vincing massive impact of accep-tance from our people at this point in time.

It is still a wait and see stance on whom among them will eventually capture the imagination of Filipino electorates to vote for on Election Day.

However, Vice President Jejomar Binay must appear before the blue ribbon committee to answer ques-tions about this graft and corruption issue leveled at him to clear his name and put the issue at rest.

NEWS4 Easter Samar Bulletin Sept 21-27,2014

board of elections inspectors as the winner based on the strength of the votes he garnered, 3,945, as against Acol’s 3,857 votes or a difference of 88 votes.

Acol, a businesswoman, said that she tried to get inside the municipal hall last July 23 but failed to do so as the building’s entrance was locked with dump trucks placed just outside the front of the building.

Upon the advice of her lawyers, she rented a pri-vate place where she holds office as mayor of the town, Acol said.

Acol said that while she is supposed to hold office in just over a year before the conduct of the 2016 elec-tions, she still want to discharge the functions as may-or so she could serve her people. (LIZBETH ANN A. ABELLA)

Court dec-..... all over the Philippines that successfully meet the re-quirements of the full disclosure policy and proven to have no adverse or disclaimer audit findings by the Commission on Audit.

DILG scaled up SGH into the Seal of Good Local Governance (SGLG) examining LGU’s performance in terms of good financial housekeeping, disaster pre-paredness, social protection for the basic sector, busi-ness-friendly and competitiveness, environmental compliance, law and order, and public safety.

“We are positive that Oras will be one of the first awardees of the Seal of Good Local Governance (SGLG) in 2014,” said Engr. Norina Dag-um, munici-pal planning and development coordinator, said.

Dag-um added that they are doing their best to follow the criteria given by the DILG for the SGLG award. (NIZA APRIL M.PORTEZA, LNU In-tern)

Oras town..... non-violent discipline was conducted in the municipalities of Maydolong and Llorente.

According to Jason Lozano, Project Manager of the said organization, given its impact to society, the media plays an important role in ensuring that all children are protected.

Lozano further said, aside from being the voice to stop violations of children’s rights, journalists can also serve as models on how to properly engage with children based on their child-sensitive reporting procedures.

Plan International Inc., an international humanitarian, child centered development organization is implementing a project called the Collective Action to Promote Non-Vi-olent and Protective Society for children.

This project is supported by the European Union and in coordination with Lihok Filipina Foundation, Inc. and Philippine Legislator’s Committee on Population and De-velopment (PLCPD).

Some 15 local media practitioners both government and private attended the said training. (jrc/sdc/PIA8-E. Samar)

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that the Tacloban airport had nine flights per day with an average airline seats per plane of about 70. “That means we lost 79% of our airline seat capacity,” she said.

Based on their tourist target for this year, 2,109 tourists are to arrive a day in the region using the DZR Airport. Assuming that 80% or 1,687 visitors arrival via Tacloban Air-port, the region will have a significant gap between visitor air seat demand and supply, Tiopes said.

“Presuming that of the 630 passengers from nine flights per day, 80% or 504 of them are visitors, then we are losing about 1,183 tourists per day,” she ob-served.

For 60-room Hotel Ale-jandro, the situation since early September has been unusual.

“Our occupancy rate since September 4 was just 70% to 80%. Prior to airport problem, we have been fully booked. We lost walk-in clients due to flight

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BORONGAN CITY, - Provincial environment and natural resources officer Arturo Salazar warned against burning of garbage in one’s backyard or open burning, locally known as “pagtap-ong,” as it is one of the causes of global warming and climate change.

Salazar said this during the Kapihan Para sa Ka-likasan, a radio program of the Philippine Informa-tion Agency and the Department of Environment and Natural Resources aired over Radyo ng Bayan Boron-gan-DYES on Friday, September 26.

He also added that aside from effects on the environ-ment, burning garbage is also against the law.

The Ecological Solid Waste Management Act or RA 9003 prohibits open burning.

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cancellations,” said Nellie Abiertas, front desk officer of Hotel Alejandro.

The airport was shut-down on September 3 for emergency patching of large pothole, as recom-mended by airline compa-nies. After 24 hours, the runway has reopened, but only for propeller driven aircraft to give way to long term repair.

The situation prompted airline companies to cancel flights to DZR Airport.

Only the Manila-bound Philippine Airlines tur-boprop planes and Ce-bu-bound Cebu Pacific’s small aircraft use the air-port.

The DZR Airport has 2,100-meter runway. Un-like Airbuses, smaller air-crafts can only use half of the runway, paving the way for the massive rehabili-tation of runway’s asphalt overlay.

Civil Aviation Au-thority of the Philippines (CAAP) Tacloban area manager Efren Nagrama said that massive runway

rehabilitation works may end early December.

The DZR Airport is one of the country’s busiest air-ports in the country, cater-ing 611,397 inbound and outbound travellers from January to July 2014.

The CAAP office has no available comparable 2013 data since all records were swept away by big waves.

Tiopes, on the other hand, said that the limit-ed operation will contrib-ute to sustainable tourism growth in the future as it will ensure “long term safety.”

“If we were to weigh the effect of having an airport with limited operations versus ensuring the safety of passengers and the in-tegrity of the aircraft, latter takes precedence. We just have to bear the short term inconvenience,” she added.

Eastern Visayas is tar-geting an 8.5% growth this year from the 709,498 ar-rival in 2013. (SARWELL Q.MENIANO)

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RA 8749 or the Clean Air Act also bans burning of garbage because the process leads to “poisonous and toxic” fumes as well as greenhouse gases which cause global warming.

He explained that when garbage is burned, it not only contributes to air pollution. It will, in the long run contribute to global warming and ultimately cli-mate change.

Salazar emphasized the importance of waste seg-regation and proper waste disposal in mitigating the effects of climate change.

Also, he reiterated the other ways of protecting the environment like conserving energy and planting trees. (PIA8- ESamar)

TACLOBAN CITY-The Department of Agriculture (DA-8) is now monitoring the rice areas in the region in anticipa-tion of the El Nino phenomenon.

“Nearly half of the region’s 169,502 hectares of rice ar-eas that most of them are in Samar areas are endangered to drought during an El Nino phenomenon,” said Elvira Torres, DA regional technical director for research and regulation.

Its priority is the 81,096.79 hectares of rain fed rice areas that are sensitive to unfavorable impact of a dry season.

The rice farmers are encouraged to use the diversified rice farming and to adopt an effective water management approach as a way to lessen the impact of the phenomenon.

DA readies for possible impact of El Niño to farmers in the region

The Department of Science and Technology had earlier announced that El Niño phenomenon may start affecting the Philippines in June and peak by end-2014.

Among the 44 provinces in the country projected to be hit by the weather phenomenon, Samar was identified to be as “moderately vulnerable.”

Agriculture Secretary Proceso Alcala had earlier an-nounced that their department has identified some interven-tions as the country braces for the El Nino phenomenon.

Among these interventions include cloud seeding and giv-ing of shallow tube wells and introduction of drought tolerant crop varieties.

The region has a total 74,143.09 hectares of irrigated areas and a total 14,263.05 hectares of upland rice areas.

The DA has its promotion of the Green Super Rice Variety for 22 pilot areas in the region. (JONA MAE ESTIL, LNU Intern)

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