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The former SRA Administrator Wilson Gamboa, Sr. wrote about a symbol back in the early 90s to picture how the sugar industry would score upon the onslaught of globalization under the terms of GATT-WTO-AFTA and the Comprehensive Agrarian Reform Program (CARP). He pictured globalization as a hammer and CARP as the sickle that will smash and slash the industry if stakeholders will not be reasonable enough to draw opportunities through production efficiency. His words were unheeded.

True to their commitment upon the culmination of Jam Step 21212, the Children of Bacolod together with Congressman Anthony Rolando “Doc Tony” T. Golez, Jr. and Ang Batang Pinoy Movement headed by Msy Jewel May Lobaton-Pimentel, donated 10,000 Magnolia Purewater to the children of the Gui-hulngan earthquake victims. There were ten thousand students who, after joining the Jam Step for 30 minutes and endured at least two hours of waiting, still managed to overcome thirst and decided to donate their ration of mineral water to the children of the said tragedy.

Mr. J. Abello’s PUREZA identified the enemies of the sugar industry, among others – Marcos, Benedicto, Cory Aquino’s Land Reform Program, towards the end, the century old sociological bad habits of lazy hacienderos, myopia that a hundred by-products can be manufactured and those hacienderos’ “queridas and cocks” and the social psychology of their laborers’ imitation, the non-implementation of the Sugar Restitution Law and the zero-tarification in 2015. Wow!

JCI Bacolod, Inc. officers inducted into office were: Martha Isiderio, president; Meliton Sillador, executive vice-president with Joan Toque, executive secretary and Maricel Sy, executive treasurer. Members of the Board of Directors also inducted into office were: Queeneline Lim - Business; Ivy Pagantihon - Individual; April Causing - International and for Community - Kenji Ota.

Piere Angeli G. Infante, Area Sales Manager for the entire Visayas of Directories Philippines was recently the guest of Pointblank, a public affairs TV program being aired by SkyCable Smile TV 10. The program is aired Mondays, Wednesdays and Fridays. She was interviewed by Point-blank’s host W. Henry O. Streegan.*

This third piece took some time because one library of documents was handed to me by former Councilor Wilson Gamboa, Jr., valuable documents which needed to see print as a “kabilin-bilinan sang napatay”, former SRA Administrator, Atty. Wilson Gamboa, Sr. If J. Abello’s PUREZA is a contribution to History, wow, in my possession now are legal documents of the late SRA Administrator who was lambasted by 56 sugar industry leaders Last 1996 printed in local and national papers for one week. They alleged Gamboa’s pretensions as a “modern messiah”. How I wish Mr.

Once again, Valentines has finally come and SM City Bacolod opens its doors to celebrating the season of LOVE by presenting romantic activities for the whole family in the mall.

In pursuit of giving its loyal shoppers the most heart-warming valentine experience, SM City Bacolod presents “EVERYTHING’S HERE INCLUDING LOVE“.

It is always a monumental task for me to write something as perfect as love. For love is encompassing, so vague for words and at the same time, so perfect for it. It is present in your life from the dawning of your existence till the hour when you will bid adieu to life with your last sigh.

As my favorite poet Kahlil Gibran put it, “Love has no desire but to fulfill itself. To melt and be like a running brook that sings its melody to the night. To wake at dawn with a winged heart and give thanks for another day of loving.”

It is Hollywood which popularized “vampirism” as a mystical, thrilling, horror-stricken combination of that organ music plus lightning-thunder-wind-rain sound effects. There are earlier records of vampire movies but in the 60s, perhaps over a hundred episodes of Christopher Lee - Peter Cushing Dracula tandem were shown and the whole world was entertained into a stylized seduction. The “True Blood” and “Twilight” series got away from such genre as these are attempts to make vampires lovable.

Bacolod lone district Congressman Dr. Anthony Golez, practically stuck out his tongue at his detractors primarily Councilor Homer Bais, believed to be a front man of the majority party headed by the Bacolod mayor. The Bacolod solon declared that the tens of thousands of schoolchildren who participated in the aerobics Jam Step came in full numbers, with the crowd swelling to its peak at more or less 87,700.

The Streegan brothers, namely, Hugo, Henry, Hernan, Emil and Bobby together with their nephews and nieces, with Fr. Ernesto Javier, S.J. recently held their family reunion at the Cebu Country Club in Cebu City.

Bobby Streegan and Margie Streegan entertain their kin with a bouncy song number.*