Ramos Holds Cabinet Meeting in Iligan

President Fidel Ramos held his 23rd regional Cabinet meeting at the MSU-IIT gymnasium, Iligan City, last May 20.
While in Iligan, the President, accompanied by City Mayor Alejo Ybanez, inspected several projects along the Cagayan de Oro-Iligan Corridor, such as the Laguindingin airport, the city abattoir, the planned integrated bus terminal, and the Balo-i airport, which will soon be reopened. The newly elected barangay officials also took their oath of office before the President.

Pres. Ramos also announced during the Iligan multisectoral assembly the release of P534 million for the government's poverty alleviation program in Mindanao.

A separate allocation of P49 million will be released for the repair of the seven-kilometer Aurora-Iligan Road; P60 million for the completion of the Lake Lanao Circumferential Road; and P5 million for Iligan River Flood Control.

DXIC Commentator Nabbed

A radio reporter-commentator was arrested for libel inside the announcer's booth while conducting his daily program last May 19.

Philip Ken Jaudian, 32, a reporter-commentator of DXIC was arrested while conducting his program "Tora-Tora sa 711". He was handcuffed by SPO3 Demetrio Teofilo Jr. on the strength of an arrest warrant issued by RTC Judge Amer Pukunum Tuntugar.

Jaudian was arrested after Salome Timajo, an employee at the City Mayor's Office, filed a libel charge against him for allegedly bismirching her name. Jaudian allegedly mentioned in his program, after receiving complaints from students, that an undisclosed amount of money intended for the mayor's scholarship program was deposited by Timajo in her own account.

DXIC station manager Richard Vallar, on his part, said, "We suspect this is an act of vengeance but we also believe that you cannot put down a good man."

CdeO Golf Course Opens December

The Pueblo de Oro, Cagayan de Oro's newest, world-class, all-weather championship golf course located in Km 6, Upper Canitoan, is set to open in December this year.

The 18-hole, par-72 links is crafted by world-famous golf course designer Robert Trent Jones II International. The Pueblo de Oro golf links will be the centerpiece of the P1.9 billion, 360-hectare Pueblo de Oro Township, a mixed-use, real estate development that will also include residential estates, a commercial center, a business park, a church and schools.

Forty per cent of the all-weather terrain sand which will enable the course to operate round the clock has already been delivered. The drainage system is 85% finished, the cart-path base course laying is 90% done and the grassing of all lakes completed.

Blessing of new GSL Store

The new store of GSL Merchandise, owned by Gil S. Lim, had its blessing last May 18. It's located on the new Emilia Building along Juan Luna st., Iligan City. On hand to grace the occasion were Gil's relatives and close friends like Robert and Joy Co, Joselyn Ang, Santi Ong, Henry Uy, and Guido Samson, among others.

Correction

Janet Lee is the manager of the Security Bank and Trust Corp., Iligan Branch, and not PCIB as reported in our last issue. Her married name is now Janet Lee-Tan. She is married to Joe Tan, manager of Allied Banking Corporation, Iligan Branch.

Spectrum in HTML

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Traditions
An American tourist, amused by an array of food offered by a Chinese family on the grave of a departed kin, asked sarcastically, "When do you think your ancestors will rise to eat your food?"

The elder Chinese replied, "Ah, at the same time your ancestors will rise to smell your flowers."

This issue's QUOTE comes from the wisdom of a great man, Gen. Douglas MacArthur, contributed by Rene Tio, an LCHS alumnus and now a successful businessman in Cagayan de Oro:

Time of Your Life

"Youth is not a time of life. It is a state of mind. It is a temper of the will, a quality of the imagination, a vigor of the emotions. Nobody grows old by merely living a number of years. People grow old by deserting their ideals. Years wrinkle the skin, but to give up enthusiasm wrinkles the soul. Worry, doubt, self-distrust, fear, and despair--these bow the head and turn the growing spirit back to dust.

You are as young as your faith, as old as your doubt; as young as your self-confidence, as old as your fear; as your heart receives messages of beauty, cheer, courage, grandeur, and power from the earth, from man and from the Infinite, so long are you young. When the wires are all down, and the central place of your heart is covered with the snows of pessimism and the ice of cynicism, then, and only then, are you grown old indeed, and may God have mercy on your soul. Live every day of your life as though you expect to live forever."