Fire razes old shop post-Charter Day

Dawn of fire working an shop and store. A firefighter from the San Carlos City Fire Department struggles to put off the electrical fire on S. Carmona Street with only one fire truck. The old houses with four vehicles were all charred on the dawn of July 2. The night before, the long delayed 52nd Charter Day  fireworks display graced the city skyscape. 

Photo by: Concerned Citizen

Victims lament that fire 

truck’s short of water

It isn't so fun when varicolored sparks of fire gracing the night sky would turn to tongues of flame that charred a store and an embroidery shop fronting two houses. It even becomes disastrous when the fire truck runs out of water.

Barely five hours after sparks of fireworks shoot up the San Carlos sky to mark the 52nd Charter Day Anniversary, a fire turned two wooden houses on S. Carmona Street into ashes.

Ma. Linda Dejecacion, pre-school teacher who owns Corpus Christi Pre-School, recalled that it all started when she and her husband were asleep and their son Ed Joseph just came home from the street party at Center Mall. It was around three to four in the morning; it was still pitch dark.

   

Faster and faster. Bikers pass through a subdivision on their way up hill during the Invitaional Bikefest on June 30 and July 1. San Carlos Association of Mountain Bikers (SCAMB)organizes the yearly bike race which is now attracting competitors from all over the Visayas.  

Photo Source: Dateline City Hall

52nd Charter Day 
winners

San Carlos City's 52nd Charter Day was replete with activities from social hours to sports contests. Here are the winners:

Indigay sa Talento 2012

Champion - Edgardo Garcia, employee of Gaisano Capital San Carlos
First Runner-up - Abraham Enriquez,  Colegio de Sta. Rita
Second Runner-up - Reyzel Angcos, Calatrava

Football Cup

Girls U-12 Champion - School of the Future-Ramon Magsaysay Elementary School (SOFRAM)
First Runner-up - Tandang Sora Elementary School (TSES)
Second Runner-up - Cong. V. Gustilo Sr. Memorial Elementary School (CVGSMS)
Girls U-16 Champion - Tañon College
First Runner-up - Colegio de Sto. Tomas-Recoletos
Second Runner-up - Julio Ledesman National High School
Boys 6 to 8 (Inter club) Champion - SUDECOR
First Runner-up - Les Lions
Second Runner-up - Don's
Boys U-10 Champion - Les Lions (A)
First Runner-up - Los Amigos
Second Runner-up - Les Lions (B)

Boxing 

Champion - San Carlos Boxing Team (A)
First Runner-up - Don Salvador Benedicto
Second Runner-up - San Carlos Boxing (B)
Best Boxer - Lyka Batoc, 40 kg catergory (Barangay Ermita, San Carlos City)

No Baby Talk

By Georgene Rhena P. Quilaton-Tambiga

Dampened fireworks

How sad it was that the monsoon rains dampened the fireworks display on July 1.

My son and my nephews had anticipated watching sparks fly to the sky in merry colors exploding in gigantic shapes. But the rains came and we just had to send them to bed dreaming of fireworks for 10:30 is way past kid's bedtime.

Fireworks, a few minutes of display is worth hundreds of thousands. It doesn't fail to amaze me that despite our stark poverty and the budget cut that gets larger and larger every year, we and many other cities and municipalities (like Calatrava) in the country can still afford to throw money into the sky and let it dissipate like smoke.

The Wind

The wind that takes my
Words away as I say them
Will say them. Let it



World

Without God
Even death would
Lose its proper
Terror.




Birds 
(from Dylan Nelson’s preface to Birds in the Hand)



When birds fly they show
us we cannot. When birds seem
innocent, we are

- Cesar Ruiz Aquino

Locked! Young Taek Won Do jins are locked during a match on June 30 at the Barangay I Sports Center. The Taek Won Do fest is part of the Charter Day Activities and it has attracted enthusiasts of the martial arts both young and old. Other sports competitions were also held including basketball, football, chess and boxing.    

Friendly Observer

By Arthur Keefe

UK lessons

The news in the UK has been full of a historic handshake between the Queen and the man who used to command the IRA in Northern Ireland (NI). He is now deputy prime minister in the elected NI assembly, which has devolved responsibility for domestic affairs within the UK.

His “army” in 1979 murdered the Queen’s Cousin, Earl Mountbatten (who was the last British Governor in India before independence), and they are still dedicated to reuniting NI with the Republic of Ireland and ending the Queen’s rule over that part of Ireland.

Not too old to be beautiful, the British Queen Elizabeth greets her supporters. Photo source:  http://www.qub.ac.uk

Pikpik sa Abaga

Ni Henry Sandoval

Sunog!

Mga alas tres pasado sa kadlawon niadtong Hulyo 2, nagsugod ang sunog diha sa dalan S. Carmona. Ang maong sunog miugdaw sa duha ka balay tapad  sa Petron Gasoline Station. Matud pa sa silingan nga mitabang sa maong hitabo dali ra kaayo nga misilaob ang kalayo tungod sad sa mga dapat sa balay nga mga karaan na. Ang usa ka balay ila kang Boy Palomares ug ang usa giabangan ni Madam Ma. Linda Dejecacion.

Apil ang duha ka multi-cab, usa ka owner-type jeep, ug usa ka karaan nga motor ang naugdaw ug apil sa maong insidente. Mga alas kwatro sa kaadlawon nadawat sa Fire Station ang tawag gikan sa usa ka nagpahibalo. Mga alas sais y medya matud pa ni Chief Fire Marshall Jonathan Badel nga na clear ang maong sunog . Mitabang usab ang Chinese Chamber of Commerce Fire Brigade, ang Calatrava Fire Station ug ang San Carlos Bioethanol Inc.

Bantay Banat

Ni Rics Cañisarez 

Sugang pula

Sa Metro Manila, kining Red Light District mao kining lugar sa mga babaye nga kundatan kon babaye nga mugbo ug lupad.

Dinhi sa San Carlos, duna sad tay Red Light District pero, dili distrito sa mga babaye nga pula ug wa-it kon dili lugar sa mga mamaligya ug mga isda ug karne. Daghan ang mangutana nga mamalitay nga ngano nga kaniadto walay bisag usa diha nga mogamit ug pula nga sugang dagitab (bombilya) kay matud sa report dili mosugot ang market supervisor apan karon nganong daghan na man diha ang naggamit ug pula nga bombilya?