Kapihan Sa Aklan will be re-launched on Feb. 28 at the Carmen Hotel in Kalibo, Aklan.
The Aklan Media Forum, to be managed by an advisory council with secretariat staff housed at the School of Mass Communication of the Northwestern Visayan Colleges (NVC), will be covered by local, regional, and nationally-circulated newspapers, with radio-cable television networks, signing up as media partners.
The organizing body are veteran journalists and Manila-based daily newspaper columnist, Juan P. Dayang, chairman; advisory council: Atty. Allen Salas Quimpo, president of the Northwestern Visayan Colleges, chairman; Dr. Ambrosio R. Villorente, former president, Aklan Press Club, vice chairman; Dr. Danilo E. Abayon, president, Aklan State University; Atty. Ronquillo C. Tolentino, former president, Aklan Press Club; Odon S. Bandiola, former president, Aklan Press Club; Butz J. Maquinto of RGMA Super Radio, and, a priest to be nominated by Kalibo Bishop Jose Corazon Tala-oc as members.
Ms. Rafaelina Abitang Arguelles, widow of the late Billy Regalado Arguelles, founding managing director of the erstwhile Kapihan Sa Aklan, will serve as managing director. She will be assisted by Edwin R. Ramos of PIA and Ms. Sally R. Villasis, former chairperson of the Kapisanan ng mga Broadkasters sa Pilipinas.
Gary F. Vargas, president of the Aklan Press Club, will serve as coordinator.
The Institutional Partners of the Kapihan Sa Aklan are the ASU, NVC, Boracay Chamber of Commerce and Industry, Panay Technological College, and other institutions and advocates of press freedom which include educational, cultural and civic organizations. /MP
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