SAN JOSE, Antique, May 13 (PIA) – The Provincial Government of Antique and the League of Municipalities of the Philippines (LMP)-Antique Chapter are supporting the use of the Visayas COVID-19 Vaccination Operations Center (VVOC) manual turned over by the Office of the Presidential Assistant for Visayas (OPAV) recently here in San Jose.
Governor Rhodora J. Cadiao, during the program, expressed her gratitude to the team from OPAV and Inter-Agency Task Force (IATF) which turned over the manual and the conduct of orientation to the local and health officials in the province in order to cascade the use of the manual to the various local government units.
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Former mayor Alberto Bacaylan Acain of Libertad, Misamis Oriental and four other town officials have been sentenced to a prison term ranging from six to eight years in each of the two counts of graft charges filed against them in the irregular purchase of P4.9 million worth of fertilizers in 2004.
Also convicted by the Sandiganbayan were former municipal engineer Oscar Anino Benlot, municipal civil registrar Isidro Namocot Gervacio, municipal budget officer Elizabeth Abut Pagalan, and municipal assessor Sergio Agagaring Jacalan Jr.
The anti-graft court ruled that the purchase was “hastily conducted” and “was concluded even without any validation of the relevant documents submitted or background checks or post-qualification of the supplier,”
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Merry almost Christmas. Southern California has its very own Christmas berry called toyon, or California holly (
Heteromeles arbutifolia, for people who know their plants). You’re sure to see it along hillsides and trails at this time of year: clusters of bright red berries dangling from a tall shrub with long oval green leaves. They’re not for eating, just admiring.
Supposedly, stands of toyon on local hills were mistaken for holly and attached to the name of L.A. s most famous neighborhood. “This idea of floral origins for Hollywood is romantic,” Lila Higgins of L.A. s Natural History Museum writes in “How Hollywood Didn’t Get Its Name.” “It’s also not true. Hollywood got its name for a much more mundane reason: Someone wealthy liked the sound of it.”