Cadiz Climate - Information Center: 2011

Thursday, 29 December 2011

Candidates for Dinagsa Queen 2012 bared

The City Government of Cadiz has finally chosen the eight (8) official candidates for Dinagsa Queen 2012 to highlight the Cadiz City 38^th Dinagsa Festival on January 22-29, 2012.

Candidate number one is Herme Rose Salazar, 21; candidate number two, Jesslou Cornito, 18; candidate number three, Joana Diane Magbanua, 19; candidate number four, Kimberly Dingcong, 16;

candidate number five, Janeth Drawa, 17; candidate number six, Rachel Ann Sanchez, 19; candidate number seven, Shermen Rose Perez, 18; and candidate number eight, Jennybeb Bedejo, 16.

The talent competition will be on January 26, while the pageant night will fall on January 27, 7PM, at the Don Bernardo Benedicto Community Center.

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Thursday, 8 December 2011

PAMASKWA SA CADIZNON 2011

NIGHTLY PRESENTATION

Cadiz City Hall

December 11, 2011 (Sunday) Dr. V.F.G.M.N.H.S

December 12, 2011 (Monday) Northern Negros Private School

December 13, 2011 (Tuesday) Cadiz East I, Cadiz East II, GSP

December 14, 2011 (Wednesday) Cadiz west I, Cadiz West II, BSP

December 15, 2011 (Thursday) Cadiz Christian Community

Learning Center, CEDAR College

December 16, 2011 (Friday) SPED Training Center

December 17, 2011 (Saturday) North Negros College

December 18, 2011 (Sunday) Holy Infant Academy

December 19, 2011 (Monday) Daga Elementary School, SPED

High School

December 20, 2011 (Tuesday) Banquerohan Elem School,

Banquerohan High School

December 21, 2011 (Wednesday) Zone I, SK Federation and United,

Fraternities, Sororities Assocation

December 22, 2011 (Thursday) Zone II, Agape Church

December 23, 2011 (Friday) Cadiz City Government Employees

December 24, 2011 (Saturday) Sto. Niño Parish Church &

Catholic, Religious Organization

December 25, 2011 (Sunday) Zone III, Cadiz Bible Baptist

Church

December 26, 2011 (Monday) Zone IV, Senior Citizen’s

Federation

December 27, 2011 (Tuesday) Christian Church of the

Philippines International,

Brgy. Banquerohan

December 28, 2011 (Wednesday) Zone VI, Cadiz Alliance Church

December 29, 2011 (Thursday) Zone V, Cadiz Evangelical Church,

Brgy. Daga

December 30, 2011 (Friday) Cadiz City Ukelele Band,

Brgy. Tinampa-an

December 31, 2011 (Saturday) Umagat Drumbeaters and Co.

Friday, 11 November 2011

Cadiz launches New Garantisadong Pambata

City Mayor Dr. Patrick G .Escalante, Dr. Merle Jane Regalado City Health Officer and Dentist III Dr. Jeffrey Guanzon led the launching of New Garantisadong Pambata (GP) Program with a theme “Kalusugan ng Bata, Sigurado Basta I-GP Mo” various activities last October 10,2011 at the City Health Office in Cadiz City.

The New GP is an enhanced version of the old which was comprised of four (4) health services designed for children aged 0 to 5 years namely, Immunization, Vitamin A Supplementation, Deworming and Information Dissemination. The new GP now adds to the Hand washing, Tooth brushing, Proper Use of Toilet, Breastfeeding and Campaign against Smoking for children aged 0 to 14 years.

GP is meant to be practiced every day, everywhere and by everybody and not only every October and April when GP is celebrated. It is not only applied in health centers and schools but also in the homes and GP is everybody’s responsibility.

Mayor Escalante administered the ceremonial giving of Vitamin A and deworming drugs to the recipients. The activity was followed by the awarding of prizes to “Orally Fit’ Children Stacy Europeo of Barangay Zone 6 Day Care Center, Mary Kris Tan of Brgy. Zone 3 and to John Michael Lecita of Brgy. Sicaba. These children were selected because of their healthy gums, absence of unrestored Dental Caries, Oral Debris and Handicapping Dento-Facial Anomaly.

Simultaneously, Puericulture Center Attendant Lina Jaspe lectured on Oral Health for Post Partum mothers including Newborn Care and instructions at the Cadiz Emergency Clinic while CHO Dentist Dr. Jeffry Guanzon talked on the Oral Health of Pre-School Children and Adolescence.

A visit to a ‘GP Pilot House’ located at Barangay Zone 4 was conducted. A GP Pilot House must have a mother who breastfeeds, a fully-immunized baby, a garden, a sanitary toilet and an entire household that abstains from smoking. criteria, Purita Magallañes was given a prize for meeting these in the presence of Zone 4 Chairperson Zenaida Po, CHO officer Dr. Merle Regalado, Midwife Vilma Penaranda, Chief Midwife Brigida Manguino and Zone 4 Barangay Health Workers (BHW’s).

In the afternoon, Tooth brushing and Hand washing drills were conducted among pupils of Zone 3 DCC by Day Care Worker Josephine Bermejo, GP Coordinator Susan Ascura and Dr. Guanzon. These drills have become regular activities in a number of DCC’s in Cadiz, citing their importance in reducing the incidence of respiratory, diarrheal and dental diseases among schoolchildren.

BHW’s from Zone 3, under the supervision of Midwife Liberty Fernandez, and Dental Aide Arthur Abonales provided physical support for the event./*

Tuesday, 18 October 2011

Tourism Month 2011 culminates with Body Painting Competition

Mayor Patrick Escalante installs Solar Power Energy

Civil Service Week 2011 culminates

Mayor Patrick Escalante plants trees for a greener society

Cadiz City spearheads the Walk for a Cause

Monday, 12 September 2011

NEWS FEATURE: P.A.T. changes Gen's Life, a twist to school

By: Erwin R Mabugat

Genelyn Apawan surprises her parents when she wakes up early at 6 a.m., picks her bag and rushes to school. That’s Wednesday, July 6.

At 15, Gen, as her friends fondly call her, is still at grade one of Cadiz East I Elementary School.

Ms. Leony Panes, her teacher, revealed Gen got sick and had become school returnee for several times. She only stands four feet tall.

Gen has suffered of ‘global developmental delay’. The medical term refers to a ‘child who is not reaching developmental landmarks at her usual age’. Lack of proper nutrition contributes to the growth problem.

This laborer’s daughter got to school late. Sometime, she failed to attend classes for their family’s ‘hapag’ or simple dining table was amputated with food to eat for breakfast. Nor had she P5 for her daily ‘baon’ or for tricycle fare. “Absent ko ah (I may be absent)”, said Gen.

She lives near the slaughterhouse in Barangay Tinampaan, which is a 5-minute tricycle travel and 30-minute walk to her school.

But that sad reality no longer haunted the young girl: Gen always gets up at 6 a.m., takes half an hour of bathing, sprints away to school and savors the nutritious breakfast.

She for all time wears a happy smile on her face. Every day!

Neneng and Tony, her proud parents, have perfectly noticed of that transformative adjustment on their youngest daughter. In fact, they became misty eyes as the two continued to narrate how Gen suddenly changed.

Now, Gen’s parents, a simple family of ambition, beseech that the positive effect will prolong as their daughter grows older and healthy. Neneng is a plain housewife while Tony works in the dried fishing venture.

What inspires this literally food-deprived kid to catch the early plum is the fact that her teacher advises her, together with other classmates, to go to school before time for the wonderfully good news: free breakfast, a healthy breakfast.

Heartened by the grim reality that the city’s schoolchildren have suffered of malnutrition for years, Mayor Patrick Escalante, a physician himself, has remarkably initiated the ‘Project P.A.T.’ or ‘Pagkaon Aton Tatapon’. It is the Mayor’s advocacy on proper education, nutrition and health among local schoolchildren.

The P.A.T. is the feeding program to combat malnutrition and increase academic performance of pupils.

The P.A.T. serves thrice a week nutritious meals for breakfast for children in the city’s 51 elementary schools.

Just like Gen, Elmark Castroverde, also a 1st grader of the same school, always wears the same happy smile on his face. He keeps coming to school on time and attentively listens to what his teacher discusses.

Mark, as energetic as he has been, always excites himself on every feeding day. Monday, Wednesday and Friday. He lives at Purok Ponong Kho in Barangay Daga.

Neneng and Tony, and Elmark’s parents, have been among the many parents who have been thankful of Mayor Patrick Escalante for implementing the feeding program for schoolchildren.

This is relatively a pleasant indication that schools would no longer suffer a population decrease or the rate of annual drop-out.

According to Ms. Helen Caceres, principal of CEES I, her office sees a favorable improvement of the pupils’ attendance and academic performance in almost two weeks of feeding program. She added her pupils are getting healthier./*