BAGUIO CITY, March 8 The Department of Science and Technology – Cordillera Administrative Region (DOST-CAR) together with partners from the public and private sectors, underscored the significance of improved economic empowerment of Women Micro Entrepreneurs (WME) and their workers through the Gender Responsive Economic Actions for the Transformation of Women (GREAT Women Project 2).
“Be counted as contributors to our regional development in the best way you can as empowered, enlightened and beautiful women inside and out,” DOST-CAR Regional Director Nancy Bantog said during the Regional WME Assembly held on-site at the Venus Parkview Hotel and webcast live via Zoom on March 4, 2021. The event was attended by 108 participants from WMEs across the region.
Robert C. Gunnon
Robert (Bob) C. Gunnon died on February 4, 2021 at his home in Rochester following a lengthy battle with pulmonary fibrosis. Bob was born on March 2, 1938 to Albert C. and Florence (Johnson) Gunnon in Northfield, Minnesota. He attended grade school in Faribault, Minnesota. His family then moved to Portage, Wisconsin where Bob attended high school. He excelled in academics, was involved in a number of singing groups while at the same time working to help support his family. Bob attended St. Olaf College in Northfield, Minnesota, receiving a Bachelor of Arts degree with double majors in Chemistry and English Literature in 1960. He did graduate work in the Master of Business Administration program at the University of Minnesota.
A police investigator works at the Overlanders Bridge in this file photo.
In keeping with a nationwide downward trend, Kamloops saw half the number of homicides in 2013 compared with 2012.
This year Kamloops police investigated three instances of homicide - one deemed manslaughter, one categorized as operation of a motor vehicle causing death and one that is still under investigation. For a city this size that number is fairly reasonable, said Kamloops RCMP Staff Sgt. Grant Learned.
The Kamloops RCMP tally does not include the Anglemont murder-suicide of 45-year-old Tracy Nicol and 15-year-old Christian Robert Tallick.
The manslaughter stems from a house fire on St. Paul Street last May that took the life of 44-year-old Cheryl Williams. A Kamloops man, 32-year-old David Peter Gordon, makes his next court appearance on charges of manslaughter and arson on Jan. 2.