NEWS

MANKAYAN CELEBRATES 98TH FOUNDATION DAY

-Peter Murphy Guitelen

Mankayan held its 98th Annual Town Fiesta in celebration of its Foundation Day here last March 10-14.

           

            The parade started from the Guiwe Spillway to plaza down to MNHS ground where the main event was held.

           

            Plaza Open Gym was refurbished for fiesta activities like Coronation Night, Cultural Night and Awarding Night while the InterBarangay Sports Feastwhile held at the Dangwa Hall and the plaza open gym

           

            Meantime, the cockfighting was held at Tabbac Cockpit, Tabbac, Bulalacao and the Shootfeast was held at Upper Tram, Tubo.

           

            For the first time in town history, senior citizens ramps for the throne of Ms. Senior Mankayan where the crown was won by Ms. Lilia Bugtong of Barangay. Suyoc.

           

            Students excelling academically on different fields such as journalism, science, music, math, sports and social studies were also recognized during the Awarding Night.

            A Healing Crusade was held at the town plaza on the third night of the town fiesta to strengthen citizen’s spiritual life.

TCO OBSTRUCT GOLD MINING

-Peter Murphy Guitelen

BULALACAO, MANKAYAN- “Ti danum ket biag(Water is life),”This is the theme of the protest conducted by Tabbac Community Organization(TCO) against the gold mining activity in their place after experiencing depletion of water source and water shortage in this area.

            TCO conducts series of meeting with the Lepanto Consolidated Mining Company, Far Southeast Mining Company and  Local Government Officials to settle this matter since Nov.6.

            TCO successfully hindered mining activity when the LCMCo began pulling out drilling machineries and mining materials out of the site a week after the town fiesta celebration.

“Mining is good but we need to preserve water sources for the future generations. This is also to prevent further damgage brought by the mining activity. We have been experiencing landslides on the areas near the mining site. Furthermore, cracks were spotted at several sites within our area” said the TCO president when interviewed by the BaliTALK.

BANGAO-MOST OUTSTANDING JOURNALIST

OF CORDILLERA

-Peter Murphy Guitelen

Johanes K. Bangao, a fourth year science class student won the award of being the most outstanding journalist of Cordillera declared last February. She placed second in Sports Writing, Division Level held at Wangal, La Trinidad last October and placed  first in the Regional Level held last December 2010. This made her  qualify for the Nationals at Butuan City this April.         .

She is under the advisory of Mr. Manuel Agnaonao .

                Bangao was declared the most outstanding journalist because she was a sports writer who always win in competitions and can even beat higher levels.

 She went to Nationals when she was in 2^nd year last February 2009, Division in 3^rd year last October 2009 and again will go to the highest level of competition now that she is in 4^th year this coming April 2011.