Congratulations CBIS *

* Text of the “Impression” of the Honorable Ronquillo C. Tolentino, Vice Governor, Province of Aklan, during the 1st Anniversary of the CBIS, Ati Atihan 98.5 Hot FM at the Capt. Gil Mijares memorial Bldg., Kalibo, Aklan on May 2, 2006. (Delivered by Mr. Odon S. Bandiola, Secretary To The Sangguniang Panlalawigan of Aklan.)


The honorable Ronquillo “Kel” COnanan Tolentino, Vice Governor, province of Aklan would like to extend his apologies to the management and staff of the Community Broadcast Information System, Ati Atihan 98.5 Hot FM for his failure to be with us tonight in this very significant occasion on the life of a radio station which has fast become a broadcast institution in this province.
The Honorable Vice Governor has to attend a prior commitment which is also happening at the same time we are celebrating here today.
Allow me therefore to read his impression for in his behalf.
Anibersaryo Uno it Ka-Tribu. A great line which is pleasing to the ears of people directly involved in Broadcast Journalism particularly to the management and staff of CBIS.
One year ago today, CBIS went on the air, a decision taken by the Municipal Government of Kalibo under the Honorable Raymar A. Rebaldo, the Municipal Mayor braving criticisms and pessimism coming from many sectors, the Aklan media community included.
One year after, until today, the municipal government, management and staff of Ati Atihan 98.5 Hot FM had proven the critics wrong.
98.5 Hot FM has indeed become hot, warmly welcome and received by avid listeners, established its own followings, and a horde of admirers and fanatics to some extent brought about by its quality programming and the choice of corresponding anchor persons to its broadcast time slots.
One year is too short but 98.5 Hot FM had gone far and established itself as a broadcast station worthy of our respect for its credibility, accuracy, fairness and adherence to truth, justice and as rescuer of people in distress and dire need.
True, the Municipal Government of Kalibo may had partly subsidized the operation of CBIS, but the resources poured into it by the Local Government Unit can be equally and justifiably compensated by the station fulfilling its mission to serve our people better if not the best.
98.5 Hot FM has become a dynamic partner of the LGU of the capital town in bringing truthful information to the constituents. As a matter of fact, it is not only the LGU of Kalibo which has benefited from the airwaves occupied by 98.5 FM but also other Local Government Units including the Provincial Government of Aklan. For that, we in the Provincial Government under Governor Carlito S. Marquez are thankful to CBIS for complimenting our information dissemination efforts in the province.
I foresee in the operation of this radio station to be self-liquidating and self-sustaining. There will come a time that this particular radio station can generate its own revenues for its operation and can even augment the revenue generating capability of the Local Government unit of Kalibo provided it has to stick to quality and responsible broadcasting with focus on developmental communication rather than the adversarial one.
Today, we celebrate the anniversary of an institution which has shown it has the capacity to attain supremacy in the airwaves like the other private radio stations in Kalibo and Aklan.
As we celebrate, and as active members of the media community in the province of Aklan, we are also saddened by the passing away of one of our colleagues whom we consider as among the pillars of community journalism, broadcast and print, in this part of the country.
While we celebrate, let us not forget to offer our prayers for the eternal repose of the soul of our dear colleague, the respected media practitioner, Selmar Selorio Maribojo.
On this first anniversary of CBIS, I wish to extend, in behalf of my family and the office of the Vice Governor and the Sangguniang Panlalawigan of Aklan, our warmest felicitations and congratulations to LGU Kalibo and the management and staff of the Community Broadcast Information System, 98.5 Hot FM in the Ati Atihan town of Kalibo. /MP mailto:madyaas_pen@yahoo.com

CICT Holds Summit

The Commission on Information and Communication Technology (CITC) held its 2006 eQuality Summit on April 27 – 29, 2006 at Sampaguita Gardens, New Washington, Aklan. Several topics were discussed anchored on the theme: Empowering State Universities and Colleges Thru ICT.
The summit was attended and participated by some 250 delegates from State Universities and Colleges (SUC) led by their respective SUC’s presidents from all over the Philippines.
Aklan Governor Carlito S. Marquez welcomed the delegates to Aklan and emphasized the importance of ICT in local governance and development. (See full text of speech on page 2).
Several topics were presented and discussed leading to the empowerment of SUC’s thru ICT. Dr. Maria Beebe discussed ”Connecting Schools and Communities” while Dr. James Beebe discussed “Leadership and Technology”. Other topics discussed were “Enterprise Architecture” by Prof. Derek Keats; “Mobility Solutions and Wimax” – by Carlo Subido. “Data Encryption Technologies” by Richmond Sy, “IntelliSite Corporation” by Bernardo Mitra and “UNV’s Spirit of Volunteerism” by Sandra Romero Ruiz.
Engr. Denis F. Villorente, Executive Director of Advanced Science and Technology Institute discussed “Enhancing Knowledge – Networking For Research and Education through PREGINET. /MP mailto:madyaas_pen@yahoo.com

SPECIAL REPORT

Brand New Car Worth P800,000 Slips Santillan’s Hands

By Alex P. Vidal


When millionaire Toshiaki Kobayashi first wagered a brand new Toyota car for Oriental Pacific Boxing Federation (OPBF) welterweight champion Rev. Santillan in a dinner the night prior to his title defense against unbeaten Hiroshi Yamaguchi at the Korakuen Hall in Tokyo, Japan on April 20, the agreement was for the 28-year old Iloilo-born champion to flatten Yamaguchi inside five rounds of their 12-round championship tiff.
“I will give Rev a brand new car if he will knockout the Japanese (challenger) within five rounds. Not eight rounds because I don’t want him to suffer cuts,” the 56-year-old Panchenko slot machine tycoon told Santillan’s manager Rex “Wakee” Salud and trainer Crisologo “Brix” Flores over a dinner at the glitzy Shinjuku district.
ACKNOWLEDGEMENT
“Thank you, sir,” replied the 5 feet and 11 inches tall Santillan who bowed his head to acknowledge the Good Samaritan’s benevolence.
Little did the Team Santillan know that Kobayashi, the boxer’s long-time admirer, actually was bent on giving the lefty Santillan the car even if the knockout would come after five rounds or even if the fight went the full route in favor of the Filipino boxer.
The morning before the fight, Salud said he learned that Kobayashi, chief executive officer of San-A Corporation, phoned by long distance the Cebu office of Toyota Corporation to reserve one brand new car worth P800,000.
If converted to cash, Santillan could end up pocketing P1,550,000 (including his US$15,000 purse win or lose).

HOW TO CLAIM THE CAR

The car, to be paid by Kobayashi’s San-a Corporation Lapu-Lapu City, Cebu office, would be claimed by Santillan only after repulsing Yamaguchi and upon his return to Cebu (he was booked on PR flight 434 Narita-Cebu last April 21.
The good news was reportedly relayed to Salud by Kobayashi’s wife Linda, a native of Leyte, inside Santillan’s dressing room at the Korakuen Hall hours before the title match.
The visibly tense Kobayashi, a frequent Cebu visitor and a casino habitué, talked to Salud near the ringside and reminded him that to win convincingly, Santillan (22 wins, 2 losses, 1 draw, 16 KOs), must score an early knockout.
Kobayashi’s two male staffs carried the two Philippine flags and waved them as Santillan climbed the ring.
In the opening round, 27-year-old Yamaguchi (14 wins, 0 loss, 1 draw, 11 KOs), egged and cheered by the partisan crowd, clearly outslicked the visitor with crisp combinations and his speed befuddled the taller champion.
In the second round, the 7th ranked Yamaguchi, showboating and teasing the champion like a clown, continued to be the superior fighter as he opened a nasty cut above Santillan’s right eyebrow with a wicked left straight. A stream of blood started to bother the former amateur champion from Jaro, Iloilo City as the faster Yamaguchi was connecting at well.

STILL NO KNOCKOUT

After five rounds, the dream knockout didn’t come. To compound the matter, Yamaguchi was leading on the scorecards of the three judges from Thailand, Philippines, and Japan. The only consolation for the defending titlist was that Yamaguchi, too, had a cut over his left eyebrow.
In the 11th round, the tired by still dangerous Santillan uncorked a dazzling right cross followed by a left uppercut to Yamaguchi’s chin sending the pesky but durable challenger to the canvas for a clean knockdown.
The bloodied Yamaguchi, hurt and embarrassed, struggled to his feet and managed to beat the mandatory 8 count administered by scoring referee Anek Hongtongkam.
Smelling a stoppage victory, Santillan poured his all in the 12th and final canto and the two gladiators exchanged heavy blows and totured each to the delight of the fans who were at the edge of their seats.

THE RESULT

When the verdict was announced, Yamaguchi toppled the OPBF crown off the head of Santillan with a split decision win. The final score: Anek Hongtongham (Thailand) 114-113 and Ukrid Sarasas (Japan) 115-113, both for Yamaguchi, and Alex Vidal (Philippines) 115-112 for Santillan.
As the crestfallen Santillan descended from the ring, Kobayashi rose to his seat and gave the 53-year-old Salud a somber look and wailed loudly: “Wakee (Salud), you climb up the ring and protest the decision.”
Salud speechless and visibly shocked, ignored the challenges and, with head vowed, callously walked away from the scene.
The brand new Toyota car slipped away from Santillan’s gripe. /MP madyaas_pen@yahoo.com

DOT to accredit transport vehicles

By BOY RYAN B. ZABAL

At least three tourist land transport vehicles of the Caticlan Boracay Transport Multi-purpose Cooperative-Shuttle Van Group (CBTMPC-SVG) will be given accreditation by the Department of Tourism (DOT).
“The issuance of accreditation to tour operators would guarantee the convenience and safety of tourists visiting the province and to the world famous tourist destination - Boracay Island,” said DOT Boracay officer-in-charge Judith Icotanim.
CBTMPC-SVG Business Manager Jingco said that his group submitted the requirements for DOT-6 accreditation and also sought partnership with Mabuhay Hosts Association to ensure quality service to local and foreign tourists.
Every tourist operator must be found roadworthy, properly equipped with adequate air-conditioning units, and with at least one portable fire extinguisher for the protection of its passengers, he added.
DOT accreditation had been issued to tourist land transport operator Southwest Tours much earlier but Icotanim said this is the first time a transport cooperative would be given Certificate of Accreditation by DOT 6 Regional Director Edwin Trompeta in Aklan.
CBTMPC-SVG recently opened its 800-square meter Kalibo transport terminal equipped with comfort rooms, passenger waiting area, canteen and a sprawling parking area for its 42 L300 utility vans plying the Kalibo-Caticlan route.
“This (accreditation) would regulate the fares and improve the tourist transport services to our visitors,” Jingco claimed./MP

FIRE SAFETY AWARENESS CAMPAIGN

BFP Aklan calls for public support
By BOY RYAN B.ZABAL

The Bureau of Fire Protection (BFP) Aklan is appealing to the communities for support in its fire prevention and protection awareness campaign.
Chief Insp. Dennis L. Daymon, Provincial Fire Marshal, said the support of every citizen in the fire safety and protection campaign would save lives and properties during fire incidents.
BFP Aklan is presently celebrating the Fire Prevention Month with the theme “Pamayanan Sama-Sama Laban sa Sunog.”
“We are stepping up our fire suppression and prevention campaign on nine identified fire-prone areas in Kalibo particularly C. Laserna and Oyo Torong. BFP Aklan is also conducting yearly fire drills in schools to ensure the readiness and alertness of its personnel during fire incidents,” he said.
Daymon, who was reassigned in Aklan on January 16, 2006 after his stint at BFP Guimaras, directed his 78 personnel in Aklan to intensify their fire safety awareness campaign in every barangay and establishments by getting the involvement of fire brigade volunteers.
SFO4 Darius Melgarejo of BFP Aklan noted 20 fire incidents from January to November last year claimed the lives of two persons and damaged P70.945-million worth of properties. Damage rose to 176.70 percent during that period.
The biggest fire that BFP Aklan recorded was the January 21, 2005 blaze at the talipapa of Boracay Island.
“To ensure the people’s safety, fire safety inspectors are conducting periodic inspection of establishments in Aklan and seminar / fire drill with barangay officials, students and tanods,” Melgarejo pointed out.
Meanwhile, Daymon thanked Kalibo Mayor Raymar Rebaldo for providing BFP the logistics in the conduct of fire safety and prevention campaign, including the proposal for a new site for BFP Aklan and the municipal fire station./MP

‘One-entry, one-exit scheme unfair to boat operators’

By BOY RYAN B. ZABAL

Provincial Ordinance 05-032 mandating the one entry, one exit scheme in this island is favorable to big resort owners with boats but unfair to local boat operators, claimed Jesus Jingco, business manager of the Caticlan Boracay Transport Multi-Purpose Cooperative-Shuttle Van Group (CBTMPC-SVG).
He cited Section 5 of the provincial ordinance exempting resorts with boats from following the single entry-exit scheme.
“If the ordinance is for security purposes, it should apply to all,” Jingco said.
The ordinance emphasizes the need to lessen motorized pump boats in the beachfronts and give more security to visitors and residents, but it is also prejudicial to individual boat operators plying the Caticlan-Boracay route if the province permits resorts to load and unload its guests in designated stations in the White Beach, he averred.
Jingco also challenged the provincial government to look into the operations of the Welcome Center, a privately owned port operated by a pool of resort owners. He said it directly competes with the Caticlan Jetty Port, the designated jump-off point to Boracay.
Every visitor of resorts and hotels is paying P30 for entrance fee and P50 for the environmental fee similar to the fees imposed at Caticlan Jetty Port, Jingco said.
Aklan Vice Gov. Ronquillo Tolentino said the Welcome Center was established even before the Caticlan Jetty Port started operating. It was allowed to continue operating by the local government of Malay because of the investments of the owners in the resort-island, he explained.
“The Welcome Center loading area is exclusively for their clients and has been there for almost eight years now,” he said.
April 1 after a regional trial court junked the petition for declaratory relief of the local government of Malay.
Jingco said the continued operation of Welcome Center compromises the security of the island.

Gloria ‘takes 2’ on Aklan Day

By BOY RYAN B. ZABAL

For the second time in four years, President Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo is the guest of honor in the founding anniversary of Aklan as an independent province.
Aklan was officially created as a distinct province from Capiz after President Ramon Magsaysay signed the Republic Act 1414 on April 25, 1956.
The Act was sponsored by Cong. Godofredo P. Ramos, hailed as the “Father of Aklan.”
In 2002, Arroyo graced the 46th anniversary at the Gov. Augusto B. Legaspi Sports Complex during the incumbency of former three-termer governor Florencio Miraflores.
Arroyo said Aklan is one of the best tourist destinations because it has world-class beaches, exciting caves and colorful festivals.
Aside from these, Aklan also has abundant agricultural products and highly competitive marine products.
“Let this anniversary (46th year) celebration be the start of our renewed effort to broaden the horizons of peace, progress and unity. And we thank Aklan because you have given Boracay to the entire Philippines,” said Arroyo in her speech on April 25, 2002.
In this year’s anniversary, the President will inaugurate the P139-million World Bank-financed second level referral (non-teaching) Dr. Rafael S. Tumbokon Memorial Hospital.
Arroyo also led the groundbreaking rites of the multi-million Shangri-La resort in Boracay Island on April 2005 and graced the celebration of the famous Kalibo Señor Sto. Niño Ati-Atihan festival on January 14, 2006.
Cong. Jose Alba-Urquiola and Eufronio Alba of the 2nd and 3rd Districts of Capiz were among the first Aklan leaders who presented a bill for the separation of Aklan from Capiz in 1920; however, many politically influential Capizeños were against them.
It was later renamed as Urquiola-Pastrana when Alba lost on Pastrana’s protest against the election of Alba. In 1925, Cong. Manuel Laserna and Teodulfo Suñer in 1930 tried to seek the separation of Aklan from Capiz but this also proved futile.
In 1934, Cong. Dr. Rafael S. Tumbokon of the 3rd District also introduced a separation bill and successfully secured the approval of the Committee on Provincial and Municipal Governments after the due hearings. But he failed to push through in November of 1934 due to lack of time.

Aklan Board condemns state of emergency

By RECTO I. VIDAL

Member of the Sangguniang Panlalawiganhere have collectively expressed expressed theiropposition and condemnation over a series of executiveorders made by President Arroyo over the weekend.

However, the approval of a resolution stronglycondemning Proclamation 1017 and General Order No.5 ofPresident Gloria Macapagal Arroyo and declaring thecollective voice of Aklanons for its immediate repealand revocation, was deferred after some of its member expressed concern over the strong language being usedby its sponsors Board members Franklin Quimpo andRamon Gelito.

"In essence, the members share the same sentiments incondemning the acts of the President however some ofthe SP members expressed their reservations inapproving said resolution due to its strong languangethus the proponents were urged to finetune the wordings of said resolution," SP member SelwynIbarretta, committee chair on laws, rules andordinances,told his colleagues.

Earlier, SP Member Plaridel Morania raised certainlegal and constitutional issues and expressed deepconcern over said resolution and warned his colleaguesto be "discreet and careful" due to the fact that theprovincial board is representing the people. "

I highly condemn the acts of our chief executive butlets be careful in approving this resolution for theseinvolves our people and they might get angry if weapprove this on a haphazard manner considering thatthe situation is still confusing and liquid."

President Arroyo has signed on February 24,Proclamation 1017, declaring a "state of emergency allover the country," and General Order No. 5," givingthe police and military powers to carry out necessaryand appropriate actions and measures to suppress andprevent acts of terrorism and lawless violence." "

Pursuant to this highly anomalous, immoral andillegal order, the police has effected severalwarantless arrests like the arrst of Professor RandyDavid, retired General Montano, People' Rep. CrispinBeltran (Anakpawis), Joel Virador of BayanMuna-Davao,Teodoro Casno (Bayan Muna), Liza Maza(Gabriela), Satur Ocampo (Bayan Muna) and raided theoffices of the Dialy Tribune, and the residence offormer Senator Gregorio Honasan and even tried to takeaway former Joseph E. Estrada in addition to thethreat of arrest of countless leaders of theopposition," Quimpo contended.

Considering the spirit and substance of the 1987Constitution of the Philippines, the Bill of Rightsand Civil Liberties are sacred rights that must beprotected by all, especially the wielders of power ndauthority, according to Gelito.

The twin proclamations is a major trespass of theabode constitutionally guaranteed rights like therights to free speech, right to peaceful assembly ndright against unreasonable searches, and show thatblack shadows of how people were abused and violatedduring the regime of Martial law.

Under a regime of justice and democracy these kind ofproclamations, are a major deterrent to a sound andpeaceful social and economic society whixh undulymakes the Philippines a major country forinternational concern nd anxiety whose damage to theeconomy, progress and stability cannot be fathomed.

Aklan is for Charter Change

Kalibo, Aklan – Aklan will soon have an OFW Migrant Desk to cater to the needs of the province’ Overseas Filipino Workers (OFWs) with the recent signing of a Memorandum of Agreement between the Overseas Workers Welfare Administration (OWWA) and the Provincial Government of Aklan.

Aklan Governor Carlito S. Marquez said this OFW Migrant Desk which would be located at the Provincial Employment Service Office (PESO) is the first to be opened in Region 6.

The MOA Signing was held at the Conference Room of the Provincial Guest House here March 17, with OWWA Administrator Marianito D. Roque and Governor Carlito S. Marquez as the main signatories, and witnessed by Vice Governor Ronquillo C. Tolentino and several Aklan mayors.

Adm. Roque said the opening of an OFW Migrant Desk in Aklan is very essential as Aklan has many OFWs. According to him, queries about family members abroad who failed to communicate could be made possible through the Migrant Desk or problems being experienced by OFWs abroad and other concerns could be aided by the OWWA through its welfare offcials in 30 embassies all over the world.

Roque said besides taking care of OFWs’ welfare when they get out of the country to work, OWWA also helps in the mediation process when problems between OFWs and employers arise, assists in repatriation of OFWs, has an existing scholarship program for children of OFWs and offers livelihood programs to OFWs and their families.

Governor Marquez said the opening of the migrant desk is timely because Aklan sends hundreds of OFWs abroad working as domestic helpers, nurses, marine officers and many others and this is evidenced with the upliftment of lives of their families and their beautiful houses found in the different parts of the province today.

Aklan, according to Vivian Ruiz R. Solano, PESO- Manager has 561 documented OFWs, traced through a survey done by the office.

Solano said there is a big number of Aklan OFWs but many failed to answer the survey.

Continuing efforts by PESO-Aklan are being done to obtain the real number of OFWs in the province, according to Solano.

Those from OWWA who came with Adm. Roque to Alan were Regional Director Raul Debris, Noel Chavez and Allen Arroyo, Family Welfare Officer. (VGVillanueva/PIA-Aklan)

Region’s first OFW Migrant Desk to open in Aklan

Kalibo, Aklan – Aklan will soon have an OFW Migrant Desk to cater to the needs of the province’ Overseas Filipino Workers (OFWs) with the recent signing of a Memorandum of Agreement between the Overseas Workers Welfare Administration (OWWA) and the Provincial Government of Aklan.

Aklan Governor Carlito S. Marquez said this OFW Migrant Desk which would be located at the Provincial Employment Service Office (PESO) is the first to be opened in Region 6.

The MOA Signing was held at the Conference Room of the Provincial Guest House here March 17, with OWWA Administrator Marianito D. Roque and Governor Carlito S. Marquez as the main signatories, and witnessed by Vice Governor Ronquillo C. Tolentino and several Aklan mayors.

Adm. Roque said the opening of an OFW Migrant Desk in Aklan is very essential as Aklan has many OFWs. According to him, queries about family members abroad who failed to communicate could be made possible through the Migrant Desk or problems being experienced by OFWs abroad and other concerns could be aided by the OWWA through its welfare offcials in 30 embassies all over the world.

Roque said besides taking care of OFWs’ welfare when they get out of the country to work, OWWA also helps in the mediation process when problems between OFWs and employers arise, assists in repatriation of OFWs, has an existing scholarship program for children of OFWs and offers livelihood programs to OFWs and their families.

Governor Marquez said the opening of the migrant desk is timely because Aklan sends hundreds of OFWs abroad working as domestic helpers, nurses, marine officers and many others and this is evidenced with the upliftment of lives of their families and their beautiful houses found in the different parts of the province today.

Aklan, according to Vivian Ruiz R. Solano, PESO- Manager has 561 documented OFWs, traced through a survey done by the office.

Solano said there is a big number of Aklan OFWs but many failed to answer the survey.

Continuing efforts by PESO-Aklan are being done to obtain the real number of OFWs in the province, according to Solano.

Those from OWWA who came with Adm. Roque to Alan were Regional Director Raul Debris, Noel Chavez and Allen Arroyo, Family Welfare Officer. (VGVillanueva/PIA-Aklan)

Nabas corners regional awards

Nabas, a western municipality of Aklan leading to Caticlan, the jump-off point to the world-famous Boracay Island, has seemingly cornered several major regional awards given by the Department of Interior and Local Government (DILG) 6 and other award-giving agencies recently.

One much-coveted award the town has cornered is for the Best Performing Local Government Operations Officer V in the region for 2005, given to Emmie Macogue-Cawaling, the Municipal Local Government Operations Officer (MLGOO) of Nabas. Cawaling bested all other LGOOs in the region vying for the award.

Cawaling’s collegues at DILG-Aklan said she was cited for initiating innovations in Nabas town that motivated barangay officials to submit much-needed reports on time and on regular basis.

As a regional awardee, DiLG-Aklan said Cawaling would compete for the same award in the national level.

Another regional award received by Nabas is for the Best Barangay Tanod Individual Category, given to Chief Tanod Ed T. Sabigon of Barangay Union, Nabas. The award was given by the Regional Search Committee composed of the DILG, the Philippine National Police (PNP), the Bureau of Fire Protection (BFP) and the PNPA Regional Offices.

On the other hand, for the town’s effective implementation of the Early Childhood Development Program (ECCD)), Nabas was also awarded as the Best Performing Local Government Unit for 2005. The award was given by the Department of Social Welfare and Development (DSWD), Department of Education (DepEd), Department of Health (DOH) and the Council for the Protection of Children in the region.

Outside Nabas, one other regional award received by the province is the Best Model Gabay Sa Mamamayan Aksyon Center (GMAC) 2005 Rural Category, received by Brgy. Odiong, Altavas, Aklan.

GMAC is a barangay-based and barangay focused facility, which serves as an information action center to ensure people’s immediated access to information on government services (PIA/DILG)

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EDITORIAL - February 25, 2006

The Wrath of God

Brigadier General Danny Lim, Col. Ariel Querruben and Chief Supt. Marcelino Franco were invited last night, February 23 for a conference regarding the plan to break the chain of command and to withdraw their support to the Commander-In-Chief. According to General Senga, Col. Querruben and Gen. Lim are now in camp Aguinaldo while Chief Supt. Franco is in Camp Crame. In the words of Col. Dodoy Suerte, Gen. Lim, Col. Querruben and Chief Supt. Franco “are neutralized”.
For the last three weeks, three principal disasters happened. First is the Ultra Stampede where 79 persons perished and some 300 injured. Last week, there was mudslide in Barangay Guinsaugon, St. Bernard, Southern Leyte. The whole barangay, two (2) square kilometers was wholly covered with 30 feet of mud with only less than a hundred survivors. To date, only 129 dead bodies were recovered while some 2,500 are still missing. Less than 50 persons survived.
Yesterday, in Adriatico Street, Manila, portion of the road caved in on a deep excavation for a building construction. Two vehicles parked on the road were partly buried and an engineering heavy equipment was toppled.
It is hard to believe that such engineering failure in Adriatico Street will happen in the construction site of DM Consonji Inc. This engineering construction firm has a long, tested excellent records in the field of construction not only in the Philippines but also abroad.
Before these three disasters, there were some accidents that happened like the military chopper crash in Bulacan. The captain of that chopper died. Are these disasters happening in coincidence with the national governance of President Gloria Macapagal Arroyo? Or regardless of who is the head of state of the Philippines, those disasters would have happened? Or if someone else headed the country, would the accident may not have happened?
According to the Catholic Bishops’ Conference of the Philippines (CBCP) the root of all the major problems in the political life in the Philippines is the lack of morality, absence of truth, justice, unity and peace among our people. Hence, CBCP recommends the continuous search for truth. It also urges the political leaders to show adequate changes so as to restore just and fair politics and change to those corrupt public officials at all levels. To do this, CBCP recommends not to scrap the election in 2007.
But President Gloria Macapagal Arroyo has been alleged to have cheated in the election of 2004 and had lied the Pilipino people. Some people like former President Cory Aquino, Senate President Franklin Drilon and some members of her cabinet have asked President Arroyo to step down from the presidency since last year. They questioned her legitimacy and moral ascendancy to the presidency. But she resisted them. Only God knows of what President Arroyo has been doing. Did she cheat? Did she lie? She, herself and those of her allies know the truth. To a certain extent, Ms. Arroyo has been impeding her allies to disclose the truth as she issued Executive Order No. 464 which prevents officials from testifying in any investigating committee without the consent of President Arroyo.
If the allegations that President Arroyo cheated in the election and lied to the people, are these disasters happening to us today the Wrath of God? /MP mailto:madyaas_pen@yahoo.com

Entrepreneurial Farmer

By Ambrosio R. Villorente

Time To Share

Aklan, especially Kalibo showed its best to some 3,000 delegates and guests to the 2006 National Schools Press Congress (NSPC) during its opening day in the afternoon, Monday, February 20, 2006. Prior to their arrivals, DepEd Aklan, schools conducted repairs, swept the grounds and rooms clean. Where comfort rooms were lacking, they constructed additional and repaired the old ones. Local government units made their communities clean.
In Numancia, it lived up to its title as the cleanest and greenest community. No garbage, stones along the streets were painted white and hedges trimmed. The Numancia National School of Fisheries with the PTCA solicited funds for the construction of additional toilets. Today there are more toilets than the classrooms.
Aklan is “on time”. During the opening day, the parade from Pastrana Park to the ABL Sports Complex started on time. The ambiance at ABL was so conducive brought about by the most fitting venue arrangement from its backdrop to chair arrangement. The acoustic at ABL was highly improved.
The conduct of the program was so snappy hosted by our very own Butz Maquinto, Station Manager of RGMA-DYRU and Area Manager of GMA AM radio. Kaibahang Butz displayed the best of himself and of the Aklanons. What more can we ask? He has done it in a national magnitude, he will do it in the international level. It is just a matter of time. DepEd chose the best man for the occasion.
Likewise, Madalag choir did not only displayed the best of piña fiber through their dresses, they displayed the best quality and blend of voices as they sang the Philippine National Hymn. The priests showed their best in rendering the doxology. A salute to them. Congratulations to the organizers.
There was only one hitch in the opening program. The stand of the Philippine National flag on the stage and the flag itself collapsed for two times.
As I conversed with a delegate from San Bartolome National High School, Quezon City, I learned that his delegation was enjoying its stay. “Food is fresh and very much cheaper”, he said. “We ate our lunch today at RML Kamayan & Manokan House. For the quantity and quality 11 of us ate, I thought we will be charged P3,000. But we only paid P1,900.00”, he confided. Asked what did they eat, he answered, “chicken, prawn, vegetables and of course rice plus soft drinks and mineral water.”
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Alaska condensed sweetened creamer, Great Taste Coffee, refined and brown sugar are among the prime commodities which prices increased from seven (7) to 20 percent over a one month period. According to the DTI-Aklan Monthly Price Monitoring Report on Basic Necessities, refined sugar per kilogram basis increased from P31.80 to P38.00 or 19.5 percent; brown sugar from P24.65 to P29.00 or 17.65 percent; Great Taste coffee (25 grams) from P14.50 to P15.60 or 7.6 percent and Alaska Condensed from P30.50 to P32.5 or 6.5 percent price increase.
In the case of cement, all brands increased ranging from two (2) to 4.2 percent . G.I. sheets and other steel products prices went down except for Galvalume which increased from P24.50 to P25.00 a piece or 2.04 percent.
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The Sangguniang Panlalawigan of Aklan has approved a resolution authorizing Provincial Governor Carlito S. Marquez to donate P100,000 out of the provincial fund to the victims of the mudslide in Guinsaugon, St. Bernard, Southern Leyte as a relief assistance. This was announced during the press conference Governor Marquez held in the morning of Wednesday, February 22, 2006 in the guest House.
Governor Marquez also launched the relief assistance project for the victims of St. Bernard, Southern Leyte tragedy. He called and appealed to all able, willing and generous Aklanons to give assistance to those mudslide victims. The relief contributions shall be coursed through the Provincial Disaster Coordinating Council, c/o P/Maj. Paquito S. Saratiosa, ABL Sport Complex, Estancia, Kalibo. It can also be coursed through in any editorial offices, radio stations and TV offices in Kalibo.
Yes, this is the time to demonstrate the Aklanon generosity and compassion to our countrymen in Southern Leyte. “It is much better to give than to receive.” /MP mailto:madyaas_pen@yahoo.com

WATER…BASIC TO LIFE ROTARY’S WORKING ON IT

By: PAG Vady Marin and Rtn. Megs S. Lunn

To most of us, water is such a common fact of life that we don’t realize what a precious resource it is. Clean water is essential for life and health. Yet, most people in developing countries, including the Philippines, do not have enough water for household use, more so for drinking purpose.
The province of Aklan, where the Rotary Club of Kalibo, RI D3850 is situated, is composed of 17 municipalities, most of which are agricultural rural communities. Although the municipal town centers have potable water supply, the outlying barangays especially in far-flung areas where majority of the poor people live, do not have access to safe water. It is to be expected then that, during rainy season, outbreaks of diarrhea diseases among children occur every year as evidenced by increased consultations in health centers and admissions in hospitals. A good example is in Barangay Aquino, Ibajay, Aklan where people suffered of typhoid fever for lack of potable water just this February.
Potable Water Management is one of the major thrusts of Rotary International.
In line with the thrust to have access to clean and safe water, and in support to the Community project of the RC Kalibo, District Assistant Hyun Song Lee of Rotary Clubs of Sae Onyang and Director for International Service and Woon Young Yeo of the Rotary Club of Onyang and Rotary Club of Onah, R.I. District 3620, South Korea came last September 2005 to RC Kalibo to donate directly the amount of US$3,600 for the potable water project.
The project is geared to help increase the percentage of households with access to safe water by providing water pumps to rural communities. With the money, water pumps were installed in twelve {12} barangays. Each water pump serves at least fifteen {15} clusters of houses, benefiting about 90 inhabitants per cluster.
In addition, there were two {2} Drinking fountains installed at Aklan National High School for Arts and Trades, Kalibo, Aklan, and one (1) direct line connection to the system of MKWD was done. Some 17 deep wells with jetmatic pumps were installed on the following depressed areas:

2 units – Brgy. Andagao, Kalibo 2 units – Brgy. Pook, Kalibo
2 units – Brgy. New Buswang, Kalibo 2 units – Brgy. Old Buswang, Kalibo
1 unit – C. Laserna St. Purok 3, Kalibo 1 unit – Brgy. Tinigao, Kalibo
1 unit – Brgy. Tigayon, Kalibo 2 units – Brgy. Pinamuc-an, New Washington
1 unit – Brgy. Tugas, Makato 1 unit – Brgy. Jawili, Tangalan

1 unit – Poblacion, Tangalan 1 unit – Brgy. Estancia

All the expenses in the construction were of the Rotary Clubs of Kalibo and the three Rotary Clubs from Korea.
With this water Management project, safe and potable water supply is now available in the above stated places. Hopefully, the project will help reduce the incidence of food-borne and water-borne diseases among children in the community; reduce the financial burden to the community’s indigent population brought about by hospitalization and other medical expenses; and improve the health and well-being of the children of the community. /MP mailto:madyaas_pen@yahoo.com

SUNSHINE IN A BOTTLE *

by: CL Megs Lunn

{* The winning piece of Competent Leader CL Megs S. Lunn delivered during the
International Prepared Speech Area Competition sponsored by Toastmasters International on January 28, 2006 at Sugarland, Bacolod City}


“Everybody sees how you seem. However, only some knows who you are.”
It is like drinking wine. Wine drinking is an art and not for those who simply want to get drunk. Swishing the wine around the mouth allows the taste buds and sense of smell to detect the finer flavor of the wine.
The older the wine, the better it tastes. Just like me, the longer I become your friend, the more you know me better and deeper, though it does not mean you need to taste me.
The nose is invaluable in wine tasting-a specialized nerve. The nose is necessary to identify the subtle flavor. And you do not need the nose of Panchito to increase your quality control.
Now as a friend, the more you being nosy about me, the more you will know the real me – the real sexy voluptuous me.
Who is Megs? According to Megs, I am a survivor. When I say a survivor, neither of hurricane, landslide nor of a big C. I am a survivor of a stormy college life. Who can survive the life in the city where loneliness and loneliness beset you while your brain is struggling with loads of school assignments and thinking of tomorrow’s fare and meal? Yes, I am proud to survive the life in the city alone with my strong belief that this would lead to something worthwhile. That something worthwhile is my college degree – mind you without the help of leakage.
Moving ahead, this wine is my companion wherever I get invited to a party. It is the only way out for me to forget loneliness, but just for a while. The next morning I wake up, the world is still the same. I am Megs, I still use my left hand in scratching my left ear and I use my right hand in brushing my teeth – although sometimes – I use toothbrush. But here I am, lonely as ever, alone as usual – although sexier.
In marriage, people come into your life for a reason, a season or for a lifetime. That is why they say marriages are made in heaven – but some are made for a lesson. You know which one it is for a person, you will know what to do with that person. Get him to marry you. Right DTM Greg?
I met my late husband, Toastmasters Lew Lunn in a conversation over a bottle of wine. My husband died last September 30, 2005 of Lung Cancer. And before he died, he already knew that today, I will be talking about him, not to him. Toastmasters Lew passed away and left me with only one bottle of wine in the fridge, but I tell you what, he was a big fan of wines and beers. No wonder, I love it too. Because of that bottle of wine, I met him. Like the three steps in wine tasting: LOOK, SMELL and TASTE. That’s how I judged him and told him, okay, we’ll get married. O looked at him he looked like Robert Redford. So I shook my head off and he became Lew again. Fondly then he told me jokes and made me laugh. He smelled like beer and not wine. So you have to believe me when I say that our marriage was inspired by the famous Saint San Miguel. And of course, the wine tasted good but who cared? You know what happened next? he asked”, “Yes, Melrose I will marry you” this proposal happened over a group of friends having fun in a small dinner party, overflowing with wines and beers.
The next thing I knew, Toastmaster Lew was calling me non-stop, talking about how he loved me, the wine and the beer. Well, not exactly in that order. After we got married, he told me, his first love was the army. Oh great! what a revelation! Now, I’m totally confused of the billing and his favorite song, it goes like this. {sing} you are my sunshine, my only sunshine, you make me happy, when skies are gray. . .
The true color of marriage life is like the color of the wine that reveals much about its character and hints at its taste. The wine should be poured into a clear glass and held in front of a white backdrop. Married to Toastmasters Lew has never been the same again. Like the wine, the longer, the more tastier. The longer you are married, the more you appreciate life to the fullest.
Swirling the wine in the glass helps the sense of sight and smell. When deep colors remain consistent even when the wine is swirled, it is an indication of full body. Swirling releases the aroma of a wine, called the bouquet or nose.
The most important quality of wine is balance between sweetness and acidity like in a marriage, sweet & sour to get the full taste, take note of the following: get the initial taste after taking a sip. Swish the wine inside your mouth and draw in some air to detect the deeper texture and flavor of the wine. Is it light or rich? Smooth or harsh? Notice the after taste. How long did the taste last? Was it pleasant? Wine drinking becomes more pleasurable with each sip.
Toastmasters Lew and our daughter Clouds are my life, my happiness, my sunshine. Some people come into your life for a reason, because your turn has come to share, grow, or learn. They bring you an experience of peace, or make you laugh. They may teach you something you have never done. They usually give you an unbelievable amount of joy. Believe it! It is real! /MP mailto:madyaas_pen@yahoo.com

MKWD Consumers Must Oppose Water Rates Hike

By Boy Ryan B. Zabal

Concessionaires of the Metro Kalibo Water District (MKWD) must take the lead in asking the National Water Resources Board (NWRB) to disapprove the water rate increase of the water district, said Vice Gov. Ronquillo Tolentino.
The 31 percent increase will start appearing in their March 2006 billing.
Curiously, the 50 percent decrease in water meter rental and maintenance fee for MKWD’s 14,000 concessionaires was glossed over.
“The legislative body opposes the hike. Considering the current economic hardships, consumers should appeal the decision with NWRB in Manila,” he said.
MKWD General Manager Renato Albar said the increase was approved through MKWD Board Resolution No. 01, Series of 2006 implementing the NWRB decision dated November 18, 2005 on Case No. 03 – 059.
The water rates increase will affect concessionaires of the towns of Kalibo, Banga, New Washington and Balete.
“Although the MKWD justified the water rates hike, the reconsideration should be with the NWRB,” Tolentino pointed out.
MKWD claimed that “the water district is left with no recourse but to impose the charges as part of averting a possible negative cash flow this year.”
They said the NWRB freeze order in MKWD’s water rates increase in 2003 affected their capability to manage the water district.
That year, the water district was embroiled in a P25-million controversy on the purchase of materials and for the additional infrastructure projects in the town of Balete.
MKWD will also reduce the water meter rental and maintenance fee by 50 percent from P20 to P10 per month per concessionaire. Starting next year, the water utility will charge P205 from the P170 minimum rate for residential consumers or 44 percent compared to 2005 water rates schedule
To ensure prompt payment of water bills, MKWD is offering a 10 percent discount during the March 2006 to February 2007 billing period; and 7.5 percent during the March 2007 – February 2008 period. /MP mailto:madyaas_pen@yahoo.com

Government Agency Sets Fund For Entrepreneurs

The government is setting aside funds through the National Livelihood Support Fund (NLSF) as total loanable amount to local entrepreneurs who want to start or expand their businesses.
Besides allocating P1.7 billion that will be loaned to entrepreneurs, the government lending agency has also tied up with the Philippine Center for Entrepreneurship (PCE) which will be conducting summit and exposition this month.
“The PCE was successful in bringing together stakeholders and leaders from the academe, the government, business, diplomatic and non-profit sectors. And through this summit and exposition, we hope that we will be able to help small and medium entrepreneur start and expand their businesses,” said Jose Conception III, the Presidential consultant for entrepreneurship, and also one of the event’s organizers.
The NLSF said the applicants could avail themselves a maximum loan of P150,000. This is under a micro-financing scheme with a loanable amount ranging from P150,000 and below. However, the NLSF, which is also a conduit of other government financing institutions, said it is lending money to wholesalers not retailers.
According to Concepcion, the exposition will showcase many business ideas, entrepreneurship schools, NGO-led programs, micro-lending facilities, award-winning business plans, marketable inventions and free seminars for would be entrepreneurs.
“With these initiatives, we hope that small businesses would be able to market many other products aside from leading commodities such as food. The idea is to assist them explore other areas and move out of the “survival products like foods,” he said. (PIA) mailto:madyaas_pen@yahoo.com

A Paradox No One Can Explain *

{*Eulogy Delivered By Atty. Ronquillo C. Tolentino, Vice Governor Province of Aklan, in honor of the late Professor Dominador I. Ilio, held in Parish of St. Joseph the Worker, Malinao, Aklan, February 17, 2006.}

There is a curious paradox which no one can explain. Who can explain the secret of the reaping of the grain? Who can explain spring after winter’s laboring pain? Or why must we all die in order to grow again?
In “Thanatophsis” of William Cullen Bryant are these words; “So leave that when the summons come to join, the innumerable caravan which moves to that chambered realm where shall take, his place in the silent halls of death.”
So great a man has left this world to join God’s kingdom.
It is with a feeling of trepidation that I pay tribute to a great and outstanding Aklanon.
I first read the name of Professor Dominador I. Ilio in my studies of high school literature, specifically in the Philippine Prose and Poetry where his literary works and poetry ranked with literary greats like NVM Gonzales, and others. Much later, I would read his poetry in the 1946 book titled “The Guerilla Flowers”, a book of poems of the guerillas of World War II in Panay together with Aklanon guerilla poets like Beato A. dela Cruz, Roman A. dela Cruz, Jose J. Parco and Leopoldo A. dela Cruz. Actually, “The Guerilla Flowers” is a collection of poems written by soldiers of the Panay Guerilla Unit under the command of General Macario Peralta. I remember that professor Ilio’s poems: Camp Agsasaging and Sinaeangan were anthologized by Manuel E. Buenafe in The Voice of the Veteran. Camp Agsasaging is included in Philippine Prose and Poetry Volume III, and in Gems in English and American Literature, an anthology by Mercado, Sanches, et. al.
Permit me, to quote, what was written about Professor Dominador I. Ilio in the book titled “An Oral History of the Second Generation of Writers in English” written in 1987 by Edilberto Algre and Doreen Fernandez, thus: “He is a rare combination – an engineer, specifically a teacher of hydraulics for decades, and a poet. Even to Dominador Ilio himself the two abilities are separated, unrelated. His hobby is the key, perhaps. Even now he has a passion for bridge. Given a specific number of objects and a set of rules, the fun and the challenge rest in the permutations and combinations – in anticipating them, in predicting them, and when one is a player, in bringing them about.
“No wonder he writes of Percival in Times Square, of St. John in Chicago, of Icarus in catechism class. No wonder too that his favorite Filipino poet is Jimmy Abad. He has completed 250 pages of the story of pre-barter Panay in verse. Like his famous poems, this is a juxtaposition of legend, geography, and imagination. Physiographical is what he calls the description of setting. Surely it would be layer upon layers of historical and geologic time. Between the layers would be spaces for people and events imagined and real.
“The formation of the poet Ilio must be set in the educational system of his time, the public school educational system specifically, which furnished the opportunities for a quick mind like his. One recalls T.D. Agcaoili, Sinai Hamada, and Manuel Viray. The educational system provided the channel through which they could move from the periphery to the center. And the center was the University of the Philippines. The trip from Malinao, Aklan, to the UP at Padre Faura followed the pattern of a centralized structure of power.
“The next step was to go to the US. Although Professor Ilio averse that, in his case, engineering and poetry do not mix, he did get an M.S. in Engineering from the University of lowa, and at the same time the most advanced training in the writing of poetry in the Creative Writing Workshop of the same university. If the two indeed did not mix, they took place in the same place at the same time.
“The names of publication venues attest to the encouragement given by media to new and established writers in English: Graphic, Sunday Tribune, Saturday Evening News, UP’s Philippine Collegian, and the UP Writers’ Club annual Literary Apprentice. Then there were the public high school libraries and the National Library, whose lending facilities fed the minds of about all writers of this generation. The national weeklies paid contributors of poetry and fiction. No wonder then that Ilio developed a lifelong fascination for reading and writing. Capturing Philippine experience in English was a natural assumption, as writing of Icarus, Percival, and St. John was to become a natural extension.
“Professor Ilio is quiet and withdrawn, but he has always had friends who believed in his writing – Abelardo Subido, Manuel Viray, Sinai Hamada, Katoks Tayag, NVM Gonzales, and then later in lowa American friends in the College of Engineering, and lastly in the UP, the Beta Epsilon fraternity of the College of Engineering. A small coterie, but a faithful one.
“Now that he is retired, he has more time for writing and for bridge. He has focused his mind on pre-barter Panay – a return to his past, a recapturing of the stories he heard when he was a child, a forging of a reality which is the product of locale, milieu, and creative powers”.
Rabindranath Tagore once said that death is not extinguishing the light. It is putting away the lamp because the dawn has come.
I remember the Ash Wednesday reminder of death when the priest says, “Memento homo, quiae pulvis est et pulverem reverteris.” “Remember man, that dust thou art and to dust you shall return.”
Death, it is said, is the liberator of him, whom freedom cannot release, the physician of him whom medicine cannot cure; the comforter of him whom time cannot console.
Daniel Webster, the great American orator and statesman said: “One may live as a conqueror, a king or a magistrate but he must die a man. The bed of death brings every human being to his pure individuality to the intense contemplation of that deepest and most solemn of all relations - - the relation between the creature and his Creator”.
Death is the crown of life. Where death denied the poor man would live in vain; to live would not be life; even fools would wish to die.
We seem to have an erroneous concept of death. We picture death as coming to destroy; let us rather picture Christ as coming to save. We think to death as ending; let us rather think of life as a beginning, and that more abundantly. We think of losing; let us think of gaining. We think of parting, let us think of meeting. We think of going away; let us think of arriving. And as the voice of death whispers “You must go from earth,” let us hear the voice of Christ saying: “You are but coming to me.”
Professor Domiador I. Ilio, a literary genius, is gone – from earth to earth, ashes to ashes, dust to dust, in sure and certain hope of the resurrection.
Death is the golden key that opens the palace of eternity. So it is for Professor Dominador I. Ilio who now rests in the loving bosom of his Creator.
To Professor Dominador I. Ilio’s dearest ones, to his beloved Clotilde who he shall now join in God’s kingdom, to his children, Mayor Dominador Y. Ilio, Jr., Engr. Dennis Y. Ilio, Dr. Kenneth Y. Ilio; to his daughter-in-law, Fatima Arnie; his grandchildren, Christian, Lara, Lani, Lisa and Jon Dominador and to his brothers, sisters, nephews, nieces, friends and relatives, I extend our deepest sympathy and condolence, and this prayer.

“Now the laborer’s task is o’er
Now the battle day is past;
Now upon the farther shore
Lands the voyager at last,
Father, in thy gracious keeping
Leave we now thy servant sleeping.” /MP

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Music Soothe The Savage Breast

By Paquito S. Saratiosa

R. David Paul Zorc will arrive Kalibo on March 5, 2006. His arrival will relieve the days when Zorc dared to make the first English – Aklanon dictionary. It will also bring to mind his formation and training of the Boys Choir in Kalibo while he was a Peace Corps Volunteer where he trained all the 120 boys.
On the same year when Zorc formed the Boys Choir, the late Kalibo Mayor Federico O. Icamina along with the late Kalibo Vice Mayor Gaudioso C. Martelino formed the more known and famous Kalibo Men’s Choir. The Kalibo Men’s Choir had their debut during a Philippine National Red-Cross-Aklan Chapter musical presentation on June 17, 1967 at the Aklan College gym-auditorium which was filled to the rafters. Thereafter, they performed in several occasions.
The Kalibo Men’s Choir still exists and when occasion demands, they can still sing. Some of its members had already departed to the great beyond but to recall some names of the Kalibo Men’s Choir, as follows: Edwin Formaran (+), Roberto Matoree (+), lawyers Arturo R. Quimpo, Daniel Y. Martelino, Diego M. Luces and Ronquillo C. Tolentino; Rosauro Roldan, Rhett Roldan, Tito Payad, Jesusimo Laurente, Flocerpido Gonzales, Ben Quimpo, Cipriano Maribojo, Jr., Gil F. Martelino, Johnny Tonel, Felipe Oquendo (+), Stephen Concepcion (+), Sergio Salazar and Ruben Salazar.
Summer is again here. Aside from the various athletic tournaments lined up in the province, municipalities and barangays, may we see more Information of choirs like the Boys’ Choir and Kalibo Men’s Choir. For, indeed, music, has charms to soothe the savage breast, to soften rocks, and bend the knotted oak.
The musical revival of old songs started five years ago during the governorship of now congressman Joeben T. Miraflores, by Attorneys Allen Salas Quimpo and Ronquillo C. Tolentino shall have another presentation on the 50th Anniversary of Aklan on the first term of Governor Carlito S. Marquez.
More power to haunting and unforgettable music of the good old days! /MP mailto:madyaas_pen@yahoo.com