Catanduanes Forum

SURFING CLINIC AND WALL CLIMBING EVENT FINALIZED
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A maximum of 20 participants per organization and 10 from every local government unit is sought to participate in the 1st Mayor Bong Teves Surfing and Wall Climbing Clinic in Baras Catanduanes by April.
In a meeting held last February 17, Wednesday at Marems Pension House, the board of organizers finally concurs on venue, the participants, facilities, invitations, the program, accommodation, nightly shows and the proper sequencing of the program of activities for this three-day event. No registration fee will be collected from interested partakers. 20 surf boards will be dispersed. Amateur surfers particularly the starters are encouraged to join. Each will receive a certificate upon completion.
Likewise, the event features free massage therapy training to be sponsored by TESDA. Hosr Agencies are as follows: DTI, DOT, TESDA, PIA, PNRC, Provincial Tourism Office, Greencat, CC-SSG, CSC-SSC, CPIC-SSC, GRGI Youth, Scouts Royale Brotherhood and other organizations.

MAYOR EDD BERNAL OFFICIATES KASALANG BAYAN 2010
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Forty Three (43) couples exchanged vows in a mass wedding popularly known as “Kasalang Bayan” on February 15, Monday last week in San Miguel. This was officiated by San Miguel Mayor Edna Bernal, who, on the same day is celebrating her birthday. Held at San Miguel Multi-Purpose Hall, it accommodated more than 300 people. The ceremony started 9 in the morning and ended noontime. In a speech delivered by Bernal, she ponders on true love differentiated from mere attraction. “Ang pagkamoot,” she said, “ay ang pinakamahalagang biyaya nin Kaguranganan”.

BONG TEVES IN THE PUBLIC EYE
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The hottest if not excellent Bong Teves seems advancing over his opponents in this political arena. Bong, born as a Barasnon, successor of Viracnon grandparents and a husband to a multi-millionaire Manileña is persistently and poignantly touching Catandunganons heart as he engages himself to taking a trip around the island, meeting people of different standing down to the simplest and the less fortunate.
Bong is a proficient businessman, a public servant, a leader and a true son of Catanduanes. In his blood runs a zealous power to govern, a leader during his school years and relentlessly a servant to his beloved island. Not only the master of brotherhood but a master to every individual had he made self-motivated, capable of serving not only himself but those who needs him. He has allocated more than 500 million through national funding for infrastructure projects in his town, an advantage not only to his constituents.
In Manila stand two factories which he and his wife supervise. Carpel Company, the country’s 3rd top grosser in recycling industry meets the outflow of more than 2 million pesos per month for wages, feeding families of thousands of employees.
In Catanduanes, he incessantly envisions a first-rate island, with the abundance of food, various health programs for its people and progress in tourism that Catanduanes may be recognized to the world.

- kriszle_teope@yahoo.com