Albasan Public Library Is Temporarily Useless
BY Ambrosio R. Villorente
In the Barangay Plaza in Albasan, Numancia stands an imposing building though small. Its floor area is estimated to be 50 square meters. It faces the Albasan Elementary School and about two blocks away from the Numancia National School of Fisheries. The building is beautifully constructed, made of strong and durable materials.
This building is called “Albasan Public Library”, as the sign in front says. Therefore, inside it are books, a depository of knowledge and information. However, this library appears useless as it is always closed. Every time I pass in front of that library, it is always closed. Hence, temporarily useless library. One can neither deposit nor withdraw information from it. It is closed all the time. It just occupies space in that barangay plaza. This conclusion is confirmed by the people around whom I asked if the said library is opened to the public. “That room is filled up of books, but we can not read it. The room is always closed”, they revealed.
While pupils and students of Albasan have limited copies of books, that library by their barangay is always closed, therefore temporarily inutile.
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Some 200 bottles of liquid fertilizer were distributed to the farmers from all the barangays of Kalibo. Each bottle contains one liter foliar fertilizer. Kalibo Mayor Raymar A. Rebaldo personally handed the fertilizer to the farmers who were gathered in Capt. Gil Mijares Memorial Building, Poblacion, Kalibo last Friday, July 14.
The fertilizer is highly recommended for hybrid rice, corn, vegetables and fruits.
It is highly effective if properly applied with the use of a sprayer after diluting it with water following the recommended quantity per crop. Proper timing of application must be observed to maximize its effectiveness.
The assistance of the agricultural technologist is highly needed by the farmer especially during the first application of this liquid fertilizer.
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This column sincerely congratulates Dr. Maria Magpusao. She was just sworn (July 20, 2006) in as President of the Aklan Blood Coordinating Council in a simple rites held in the PNRC Compound, Poblacion, Kalibo, Aklan. The council is composed of volunteer workers whose interest is for the production of adequate healthy blood for transfusion to patients who need additional blood.
That patient maybe our friends, our relatives and or ourselves
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In Navitas, Numancia, Aklan, a port is being planned for construction. Mayor Ernesto I. Templonuevo, leads the concerned local officials in the preparation of plan for the construction.
Last Tuesday, July 18 the Sangguniang Bayan of Numancia presided by Vice Mayor Adolfo Iligan held its session in Barangay Navitas with only one agenda: public hearing regarding the port construction. All the Barangay Captains of Numancia, Barangay officials and residents of Navitas and concerned officials were invited to the said public hearing.
Since the start of the public hearing until its adjournment, no person present opposed the port project. All indorsed the proposal in fact “start immediately”. But before the project commences, approval must pass a process. It will start from Barangay Navitas itself with an approval of resolution of the Sangguniang Barangay. This is not yet started, but that public hearing may serve as basis for the barangay resolution approving the pier construction. These local government units’ resolutions are necessary to get approval of the required Environmental Certificate of Compliance. Project feasibility study is yet to be presented. Concerned planners had yet to prepare engineering plan. Money for its initial construction is not yet released. The project is not yet bidded.
In short, ground and paper works of the project are yet to be prepared. But people are eager to start the project. Can it be started before the end of 2006? /MP mailto:madyaas_pen@yahoo.com
BY Ambrosio R. Villorente
In the Barangay Plaza in Albasan, Numancia stands an imposing building though small. Its floor area is estimated to be 50 square meters. It faces the Albasan Elementary School and about two blocks away from the Numancia National School of Fisheries. The building is beautifully constructed, made of strong and durable materials.
This building is called “Albasan Public Library”, as the sign in front says. Therefore, inside it are books, a depository of knowledge and information. However, this library appears useless as it is always closed. Every time I pass in front of that library, it is always closed. Hence, temporarily useless library. One can neither deposit nor withdraw information from it. It is closed all the time. It just occupies space in that barangay plaza. This conclusion is confirmed by the people around whom I asked if the said library is opened to the public. “That room is filled up of books, but we can not read it. The room is always closed”, they revealed.
While pupils and students of Albasan have limited copies of books, that library by their barangay is always closed, therefore temporarily inutile.
-o-
Some 200 bottles of liquid fertilizer were distributed to the farmers from all the barangays of Kalibo. Each bottle contains one liter foliar fertilizer. Kalibo Mayor Raymar A. Rebaldo personally handed the fertilizer to the farmers who were gathered in Capt. Gil Mijares Memorial Building, Poblacion, Kalibo last Friday, July 14.
The fertilizer is highly recommended for hybrid rice, corn, vegetables and fruits.
It is highly effective if properly applied with the use of a sprayer after diluting it with water following the recommended quantity per crop. Proper timing of application must be observed to maximize its effectiveness.
The assistance of the agricultural technologist is highly needed by the farmer especially during the first application of this liquid fertilizer.
-o-
This column sincerely congratulates Dr. Maria Magpusao. She was just sworn (July 20, 2006) in as President of the Aklan Blood Coordinating Council in a simple rites held in the PNRC Compound, Poblacion, Kalibo, Aklan. The council is composed of volunteer workers whose interest is for the production of adequate healthy blood for transfusion to patients who need additional blood.
That patient maybe our friends, our relatives and or ourselves
-o-
In Navitas, Numancia, Aklan, a port is being planned for construction. Mayor Ernesto I. Templonuevo, leads the concerned local officials in the preparation of plan for the construction.
Last Tuesday, July 18 the Sangguniang Bayan of Numancia presided by Vice Mayor Adolfo Iligan held its session in Barangay Navitas with only one agenda: public hearing regarding the port construction. All the Barangay Captains of Numancia, Barangay officials and residents of Navitas and concerned officials were invited to the said public hearing.
Since the start of the public hearing until its adjournment, no person present opposed the port project. All indorsed the proposal in fact “start immediately”. But before the project commences, approval must pass a process. It will start from Barangay Navitas itself with an approval of resolution of the Sangguniang Barangay. This is not yet started, but that public hearing may serve as basis for the barangay resolution approving the pier construction. These local government units’ resolutions are necessary to get approval of the required Environmental Certificate of Compliance. Project feasibility study is yet to be presented. Concerned planners had yet to prepare engineering plan. Money for its initial construction is not yet released. The project is not yet bidded.
In short, ground and paper works of the project are yet to be prepared. But people are eager to start the project. Can it be started before the end of 2006? /MP mailto:madyaas_pen@yahoo.com
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