April 23 to 30, 2012

The Library comes alive! Kids work out their amateur origami skills to come up with folded flowers during the Summer Reading and Workshop at the San Carlos City Library. Volunteer facilitators from the Friends of the Library watch over the kids together with casual employees assigned at the library. 

Library’s 

fantastic four

‘Friends’ rejoice over more kids coming for workshop

                Three years after a group of concerned women formed the Friends of the Library to institutionalize the Summer Reading Program for elementary pupils, the project has finally soared high. Four Friends  are now ripping the fulfilling joy of seeing the program flourish and reaching more and more kids every year.

                The Summer Reading Program actually started in 2004 through the effort of City Librarian Fe M. Enilog but back then it was not a crowd drawer and did not have a varied set of activities to offer its few participants. City officials, even, could not be seen as its avid supporters.

Dalan sa Don Juan gipangalan 

kang Pres. Cory

Ni Rics Cañisarez

                Dalan sa Don Juan Subdivision, Barangay II gipangalanan agig pasidungog kang kanhi Presidente Corazon Cojuanco-Aquino nga inahan sa kasamtangang pangulo Beningno C. Aquino III.

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SCBI reaches out 

to neighbor communities

                For the first quarter of 2012, San Carlos Bioenergy, Inc. (SCBI) embarked on a number of community projects as part of its program on Corporate Social Responsibility.  Having suffered huge financial losses in prior periods due to unforeseen economic and market factors, SCBI adopted new corporate strategies to ensure the continued survival of the company despite economic odds.  Rather than closing the company completely to prevent further financial loses, SCBI opted to continue its production operations, cognizant of its positive impact in the improvement of the economy of San Carlos City.  Having gradually stabilized production operations in the past year and with better economic prospects in the coming years, SCBI likewise revived its community relations activities and implemented a number of social projects in the first three months of the year.

Feeding program. Judito Salvador, SCBI corporate community relations officer, hands bread to children during the supplemental feeding program. Photo Source: SCBI-PR

By The Campus Journalists of The Thomasian Chronicle-Colegio de Sto. Tomas-Recoletos

San Carlos teen’s

WYD 2011 journey  

                There is always something in our lives that changes the way we live it. We can feel it in our hearts. Perhaps you have already found it, or you haven't. There is this unexplainable feeling of excitement and joy rolled as one like a spark that makes you exclaim, "This is it!" It may change or may not change your life. Well, I just found my 'something.' My life changed when I joined the World Youth Day 2011.

                The World Youth Day is a youth-oriented Catholic Church event. The event itself celebrates the Catholic faith; it is an invitation to all youths, regardless of religious convictions. World Youth Day (WYD) was initiated by Blessed Pope John Paul II in 1985. It is celebrated during an international week-long gathering every two to three years in different locations. The international events attract hundreds of thousands of youths from different countries.

Soldier's Pen

By By BGen. Alexander Cabales (Ret.)

Relevance of CPP-NPA

"Those that are weak, unprotected and desperate always seek for borrowed power.  They seek refuge with any group that can give them strength, security and hope." 

                This was the gist of the exchange between the lead actor and another character in a movie that I watched very early on the morning of April 24.  The movie was based on a true story (less the cinematic twists that were placed to make it more saleable to the viewing public) of a young and idealistic lieutenant who was killed in a heroic battle against members of the New People's Army in Cabugao, Apayao sometime in 1985. 

                This article however, would not be about that officer's heroism but an attempt to answer the question as to why many of our fellow Filipinos still join the New People's Army, fight the government, and are willing to die for their cause.

                There were two reasons that were cited in that movie which made the natives of the Cordilleras join the NPA.  The first was their objection to the Chico Dam project of the government which may be difficult to understand and would not be of interest to most of my readers as it has something to do with their local culture and beliefs. 

Bantay Banat

Ni Rics Cañisarez

Walay aksyon

                Hangtud karon wala pa gihapon mag gimok ang taga SCBI bahin ining mulo sa kadaghanan labot sa polyusion nga dugay nang gi-antus sa katawhan sa San Carlos. Mulo sa katawhan ang proteksyon unta sa sa marine life. Hinuon wala na may angay nga panalipdan kay hurot na man ug kamatay diha sa mga sapa ug kanal nga agi-anan sa hugaw nga gikan sa planta sa ethanol.

                Gawas sa bahong baklag nga polyusion, nia pa gyud ning agiw nga gikan gyud sa panghaw nga makapuling sa mata ug makahugaw sa mga linabhan nga gihay-hay apan, wala gyud maminaw ang taga SCBI ug gani daghan na kaayo ang nag-ingon nga wala silay pagpakabana sa atong kina-iyahan. Kon sa tinagalog pa, mga taong walang pagmahal sa kapaligiran. Hindi ba kayo nahihiya?

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Friendly Observer

By Arthur Keefe

Pedestrian safety matters?

                Well of course it matters, but to whom? The following observations are based on San Carlos, but could be applied equally almost anywhere in the Philippines.

                There are two essential conditions for pedestrian safety. There must be clear, well-maintained pavements or sidewalks and provision must be made for people to safely cross the road. Two factors which are so self-evident they hardly need stating, but largely absent here.

                Firstly, the pavement. Some years ago, I was pleased when the City Council started creating pavements in many of the residential areas. However, the water company seemed to think those were for their benefit and started putting meters across them, forcing people into the road. VRESCO replaced many old wooden poles with new metal ones, but placed them and their retaining cables on the pavements, again forcing people into the road.

                Many householders, perhaps following the public utilities, began to colonize the pavements with flower pots, bushes, and often piles of sand and gravel while construction takes place.