NAGA TOPS ECONOMIC DYNAMISM RANKING | LGU-NAGA TO TIGHTEN GRIP AGAINST ILLEGAL DRUGS IN SCHOOLS, BARANGAYS | NAGA CITY CBD III: ALMEDA HIGHWAY SEEN TO BE THE CITY’S NEXT BUSINESS HUB | 5-STOREY BUILDING MAY RISE ON PORTION OF NAGA PUBLIC MARKET | NAGA HOSTS 24TH SOUTHEAST ASIAN JUNIOR AND CADET TABLE TENNIS CHAMPIONSHIPS JOHN G. BONGAT RAFAEL RACSO V. VITAN JOSE V. COLLERA ALLEN L. REONDANGA This quarterly magazine City Mayor Layout and Graphics Design Editor SYLRANJELVIC C. VILLAFLOR ALEC FRANCIS A.SANTOS is published by the REYNALDO T. BAYLON PAUL JOHN F. BARROSA City Government of Naga, XERES RAMON GAGERO LILIBETH SANCHEZ thru the City Events, NELSON S. LEGACION ANSELMO B. MAÑO Photographers Technical Advisers City Vice Mayor Website Administrator Protocol and Public Information Vol. 9, No. 3 July - September 2018 Office, with editorial office at JOY SAN CARLOS City Hall Compound, A Quarterly Magazine of the ARMIE B. GUNAY FLORENCIO T. MONGOSO, JR. Drone Pilot ARMIE B. GUNAY J. Miranda Avenue, Naga City City Government of Naga Supervising Editor REUEL M. OLIVER JASON B. NEOLA 4400 Philippines Bicol, Philippines Editorial Consultants Writers JASON B. NEOLA Tel: +63 54 881-8328 ISSN 2094-9383 Managing Editor CHRISTOPHER E. ANTONIO +63 54 871-3098 RUEL P. SANDUCO Email: [email protected] NELSON D. SERRANO Web: www.naga.gov.ph Circulation DRONE PHOTO BY DADOY BIEN TABLE OF CONTENTS
Mayor’s Message Naga City celebrates 3 TRANSPARENCY, ACCOUNTABILITY AND GOOD GOVERNANCE 60 PWD month this July CITY EVENTS AND ACTIVITIES 6 Productivity and wages to be tackled in workshop EDUCATION, ARTS, CULTURE AND SPORTS DEVELOPMENT Naga tops economic 71 dynamism ranking Bicol Business Month 2018 The “An Maogmang Lugar” logo is 5 celebration opens in Naga Jesse Robredo’s biography Naga students an attempt to capture Naga as we 7 launched on JMR Day BARANGAY LEGISLATION: 61 win int’l math contests want it to be – a city that is progressive celebration in Naga 72 Naga ENABL2E convened for Farm, culinary tourism, sees outstanding SB award and yet environment-friendly, where 6 better hope for farmers The “Naga SMILES to the World” Naga celebrates Nutrition 62 Nagueño students shine in acad the people freely participate in the logo is composed of the two 8 Month Naga SP council holds day-to-day affairs of the government, baybayin characters, na and ga. CITY EVENTS AND ACTIVITIES 73 and where culture and arts are Naga hosts 24th Southeast Asian session in school 63 Junior and Cadet Table Tennis flourishing. Na, shaped like a mountain, Peñafrancia Activities championships 9 COMMUNICATION, TRANSPORT, AND URBAN DEVELOPMENT provides a strong foundation for the The stylized design of “NAGA” 11 Miss Bicolandia 2018 Coronation night Narra tree which grew abundantly PH bags silver, bronze in naga represents the city’s aggressive along the Naga River while a zigzag 13 Peñafrancia Traslacion Procession 65 tourney: Asean youth table tennis NAGA CITY CBD III: march towards modernization and championship ends line denotes the majestic Malabsay 74 Almeda highway seen to be the progress. The sky-blue background, Falls. 19 10th Bicol Regional Band, Majorettes and Fancy Drill Competition city’s next business hub the Narra tree, and the Naga River HEALTH AND NUTRITION represent our people’s desire for an 23 Marian Youth Congress Ga, shaped like a farmer’s plow, 75 City College of Naga soon ecologically-balanced community. is symbolic of the Nagueño’s 25 Regional Scouts Parade and Inter- school DBC/DXMC Competition to have new classrooms Naga youths learn teen agricultural roots and hardworking 31 Civic Parade and Float Competition 67 pregnancy risks, health education The ring of people surrounding the personality. entire design shows the Nagueños’ 36 Peñafrancia Voyadores Festival 2018 Street Dance Competition SOCIAL WELFARE AND COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT LIVELIHOOD, EMPLOYMENT AND HUMAN DEVELOPMENT participatory mechanism which is The baybayin Naga characters 42 10 th Bicol Regional Military Parade Competition part and parcel of the city’s way Naga supports new rest on a wave-like element which 77 of doing things. It also shows the 47 Regatta sa Salog Mushroom production sees better anti-hazing measure represents the Naga River and the 68 market opportunity- a growing people’s concern and unity in serpent, which is read in Sanskrit 49 Peñafrancia Fluvial Procession livelihood in Naga everything that is good for the city. as naga. LGU-Naga to tighten grip 78 against illegal drugs in schools, PEACE AND ORDER AND PUBLIC SAFETY barangays Today, the city, as Maogmang Lugar, This new branding for Naga, 57 City, newsmen convene P’francia information center aims to portray more than a happy launched in 2010 by the dynamic Naga drivers to learn basic life place but a happy people who are the Bongat administration, envisions a 58 FIESTA 2018 Naga to start clean up drive with volunteers 69 support, first aid skills FEATURES true beneficiaries of everything good more livable city that is world-class. that is happening in the city.
AFTER THE PEÑAFRANCIA CELEBRATION: CLEANLINESS AND ENVIRONMENT PROTECTION 79 Naga River boat wedding 59 Prelate lauds city hall, JOC for successful fiesta SK chairmen, CCN students in 70 Envirocamp 2018 at MINP 60 Gov’t frontline offices learn sign language to better aid PWDs
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Warm Naga SMILES!
this 3rd quarter issue of the Naga SMILES Magazine for this year, we continue to celebrate our faith in the Divine as Nagueños— faith that manifested itself in the many challenges that we overcame and the visions that we realized together as INone people. At this time of the year, we welcome the many changes in our city— new developments in the legislations, policies, programs, infrastructure, business, and economy that are all for the common good.
Indeed, the City Government of Naga is more than grateful for all the support and hard work extended by the whole community in the implementation of these endeavors of the local government— a proof of our selfless zeal and our legacy in people governance that, truly, we are all together in all of these undertakings amidst difficulties.
We also commend those people who, through their own special and individual ways, have brought honor and recognition to the City of Naga.
With our Ina’s Magnificat as our guide and inspiration, we will move on from this phase carrying the same unison in faith— always enduring in the face of greater adversities for the love of our people and our city. PHOTO BY Let our faith shine as one united people under the loving mantle of our Ina!
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3 JULY - SEPTEMBER 2018 JULY - SEPTEMBER 2018 4 CITY EVENTS AND ACTIVITIES FARM, CULINARY TOURISM, SEES BETTER HOPE FOR FARMERS By ARMIE B. GUNAY, CEPPIO BICOL BUSINESS
2018MONTH CELEBRATION OPENS IN NAGA
By ARMIE B. GUNAY, CEPPIO help the farmers sector, the Bicol amongst other sectors, despite its utmost Business Month (BBM) 2018 importance in food production. TO celebration of the Metro Naga Chamber of Commerce and Industry (MNCCI) In the conducted Farmers congress, introduced farm owners in Naga City and the Chairperson Lani Peñas Botor shared that they surrounding municipalities to the benefits of farm would like to help farm owners in Metro Naga and culinary tourism in the Farmers Congress to open linkages and establish partnerships held at the Sonrisa Farm, July 10. with various government agencies so as they could utilize the fund accorded them to better The Department of Agriculture (DA), their marketing strategies and production together with the Department of Tourism (DOT), development. has been promoting farm and culinary tourism, as the farmers sector seems being left behind The Sonrisa Farm for one, has been thriving as an eco-tourism farm and school accredited by the DOT and the TESDA.
The farm and culinary tourism as a means for better harvest is being seen to encourage more individuals celebration of the 2018 Bicol Business Month (BBM), officially opened last Thursday, and entrepreneurs to engage June 5, with an exhibit and trade fair conducted in one of the biggest shopping centers in farming with the help of in Naga City. government agencies. THEThis year’s theme of the celebration is ‘Bigger, Better and More!’. PRODUCTIVITY AND WAGES The BBM is a yearly activity of the Metro Naga Chamber of Commerce and Industry (MNCCI) that aims TO BE TACKLED IN WORKSHOP to promote Micro, Small, and Medium Enterprises (MSMEs) in Metro Naga.
Naga City Mayor John Bongat cited that the business enterprises contribute largely to the economic USINESS owners, as well as employees and workers, have been invited to dynamism of Naga City— making it land on top among the Most Competitive Component Cities in the “Usapang 2Ps: Pasahod and Productivity,” a whole day seminar and workshop that will help assist business enterprises in the region to boost their business Philippines. performance, reduce unnecessary costs and wastes, improve the quality and Bdelivery of products and services, and increase both the company and employees’ income.
Mayor Bongat has always been thankful of the good collaboration and relationship existing among As One of the activities of the ongoing Bicol Business Month, “Usapang 2P’s will also seek to government agencies and business sectors in Naga City and surrounding municipalities, as mirrored by the strengthen public information campaign on wage and productivity programs of the government. Bicol Business Month celebration— ensuring much better opportunities in the growth of the business sector OIC Regional Director Rovelinda de la Rosa of the Department of Labor within Metro Naga. and Employment Bicol Office will give the program overview of the seminar workshop that will take place on July 28 at Carmen Hotel in downtown Naga.
Alegria Limjoco, the President of the Philippine Chamber of Commerce and Industry (PCCI) was present “Usapang 2Ps: Pasahod and Productivity” is pursuant to the Memorandum of during the opening ceremonies of the BBM 2018, and took notice of the products unique to the Bicol region, Understanding on productivity Toolbox and Two-Tiered Wage System entered into between the Employers Confederation of the Philippines (ECOP)/Metro Naga Chamber of Commerce from and those other regions in the country. and Industry (MNCCI) on one hand, and the National Wages and productivity Commission (NWPC) and the Regional Tripartite Wages and Productivity V (RTWPB V), on the other. Aside from the exhibits and trade fair, other activities of the BBM 2018 for the whole month of July The expected output of the activity is to showcase the programs include the Farmers Congress, Angat Kabuhayan, Apad Bicol, DA Agri Fair, Bicol Construction and Building and services of the NWPC/RTWPB relative to wages and productivity. Expo, Cardio Marathon, Color Fun Run, ECOP Seminar, Wheels 2018, Bicol Business Youth Summit, Bicol MNCCI President Ferdinand Sia will welcome participants who will Tourism and Hospitality Congress, Techno Lounge, Women’s Congress, Education Summit and the Halyao come from various business establishments in the Metro Naga area. Awards. ECOP-Bicol President and PCCI Regional Governor for Bicol Clarine P. Tobias will give the closing remarks after the Productivity Toolbox, Incentivising Performance Schemes, and Q&A Cliniquing shall have been successfully tackled by the participants.
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NAGA CELEBRATES Aika Robredo NUTRITION MONTH By JASON NEOLA, CEPPIO
HE month of July is not only a PWD month in this city but a nutrition month as well, when the city government holds various activities that give emphasis on its campaign to raise the Tlevel of awareness of the public on proper nutrition and food production. “Along with the activities being conducted this month for the celebration of the National Disability Prevention and Rehabilitation (NDPR) week are the activities that were organized by the City Nutrition Committee which is being spearheaded by Mayor John Bongat,” says City Population and Nutrition chief Teresita Del Castillo.
With the theme, “Ugaliing Magtanim, Sapat na Nutrisyon Aanihin,” the activities for this year’s nutrition month began to reel off last July 2, this year, with the hanging of colorful streamers in the city’s 27 barangays followed by massive information-dissemination campaign on JESSE ROBREDO’S BIOGRAPHY nutrition and nutrition month activities.
LAUNCHED ON JMR DAY CELEBRATION IN NAGA Last July 2 and 3, two competitions were held at the Naga City People’s Hall: the contest on By ARMIE B. GUNAY, CEPPIO PINAKA as in PINAKAdakula, PINAKAmasiram, and PINAKAmagabat booth contest.
Today, the Punong Barangays, and barangay kagawads who head the committees on health and nutrition along with Barangay Agricultural Technicians, QUEEN and 4Ps members, Barangay HE Jesse Robredo Foundation Nutrition Scholars and other volunteer workers in the barangays will launch Team Gulayan launched the book on the life Awareness Campaign at the Garden Eco Tour in Barangay San Felipe. and works of Jesse Robredo last Saturday, August 18, 2018, during Other activities in the city as part of the nutrition month celebration include the On-the-spot the celebration of the Jesse Robredo cooking contest (different kinds of vegetables as snacks) to be participated by the Grade 6 pupils TDay in Naga City. from 29 Public Elementary School; Nutrition Mo, Aramon Mo! for the Naga City Hall Employees It has been the 6th year since the with ages ranging 50 and above; Tree Planting; Orientation on vegetables production for School death of the former Naga City mayor and Nutrition Coordinators, School nurses and physicians, representatives from MNWD; and forum on Department of Interior and Local Government what foods to be eaten (NDAP) for the CNC and BNC members. (DILG) secretary.
Aika Robredo, one of the daughters of information from his close friends, relatives, Jesse and Vice President Leni Robredo, led workmates and all other possible sources. DISPERSAL the book launch activity. Aika is the present chairperson of the Jesse Robredo Foundation In behalf of the foundation, Aika shared that has long been working on ways to their utmost desire for the biography of Jesse, propagate the good governance initiatives of that his life, published in a book, will be an Jesse Robredo since his death in 2012. inspiration to many in taking the extraordinary road and be heroes, too, in their own ways. Aside from yearly youth leadership camps and the Young Leaders for Good The program proper of the celebration Governance Fellows that had its second was held at the Museo ni Jesse Robredo batch now, one of the projects they have grounds. been working on for the past six (6) years is the book on the biography of Jesse Robredo A memorial mass was conducted, entitled, ‘Jesse Robredo: His Story’. attended by the Robredo families, relatives, Earlier, a fingerlings dispersal activity in Vice President Leni also made a brief visit at the friends, acquaintances, government officials, the Naga River was initiated by the city officials, tomb of Jesse Robredo at the Eternal Gardens. With the many activities already the academe, and fellow Naguenos. together with Vice President Leni Robredo. conducted in honor of Jesse, as well as books One of the other projects being planned for In her message, VP Leni continuously encouraged published in memory of him, the foundation The Camarines Sur 3rd District the rehabilitation of the river, the fingerlings the government officials and the people to practice worked on a biography that scrupulously Representative, Congressman Gabriel Bordado, dispersal activity shows the utmost importance simplicity in their lifestyle and in their service for the tells of the story of the life of Jesse—gaining also graced the occasion. being given by the City of Naga in caring for the city and the country—same with the example lived by Naga River. her deceased husband, Jesse Robredo. 7 JULY - SEPTEMBER 2018 JULY - SEPTEMBtER 2018 8 10
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