San Marcelino students win PIA’s ASEAN dance tilt at RMTU

A group of students from San Marcelino campus of the Ramon Magsaysay Technological University (RMTU) placed first in the ASEAN dance contest organized by the Philippine Information Agency (PIA) in Region 3.

Sining FG Highlights bested five other dance groups and took home P5,000 in cash prizes. Silent Breakers placed second and won P3,000, while Own D’ Street landed third with P2,000. Three other dance groups received P1,000 each as consolation prize.
The competition served as an ancillary activity of the ASEAN Campus Forum of PIA.

PIA Regional Director William Beltran said they will be holding campus forums in different provinces to educate and pitch support from the youth in hyping the Philippine chairmanship of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) this 2017.

RMTU was the sixth campus PIA visited in Central Luzon.
“Because of this competition, we learned about the 10 member-states of ASEAN and their flags by using them as props,” Sining FG Highlights member Marc Alaganda said in an interview. – Mar Jay S. Delas Alas / PIA 3

 

CASTILLEJOS PRIDE

Mayor Jose Angelo Dominguez of Castillejos, Zambales congratulates Dianne P. Villanueva for winning in the recent International Mathematics Open for Young Achievers (MOYA) in Singapore. Dianne brought home a bronze medal from the tournament.

 

Olongapo gets top Kalasag awards

THE city government of Olongapo received two top awards in the regional Gawad Kalasag Award 2017 held recently in Cabanatuan City, Nueva Ecija.

The City Disaster Risk Reduction Management Office-Fire Rescue Unit was named the Best Government Emergency Management Service in the advance search and rescue category, while James L. Gordon Memorial Hospital won as the Best Local Government Hospital in emergency preparedness.

Mayor Rolen Paulino received the award from Regional Director and RDRRMC Chairperson Edgardo Ollet during the ceremony.

Three schools from the city also joined the recent awards nomination and were given a certificate by the award-giving body for their active participation.
They are the Mabayuan National High School, Barretto National High School, and Kalalake National High School.

Paulino said the city is now constructing a building for the City Risk Reduction Management Office.

This will house a new command center that will connect and monitor all local responders, including traffic enforcers, the local police, barangay tanods, and emergency staff.

Taekwondo champ
Eight-year old Akian Manalad Tuazon, a student of Quiz Bee School in the Subic Bay Freeport, won two gold medals in the recently concluded 11th World Taekwondo Expo held in South Korea. The boy’s father, Norman Tuazon, said that they would donate half of his cash winnings amounting to P20,000, as well as assorted sports gears, to the city to further support the local sports community.