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Amazing Energy race by PNOC
Highlighting the weeklong 5th Energy Camp, which is an annual summer recreational event organized by geothermal leader Energy Deve-lopment Corporation for their high school scholars all over the country, was the Amazing Energy Race where the youth campers hurdled a battery of physical and mental challenges to win the Survivor Champion Award. It was unmistakably inspired by the Amazing Race from the United States.
In Negros Oriental, forty-seven incoming fourth
year high school students were given a rare opportunity
to undergo experiential learning activities for
eight days at the PNOC EDC Energy Camp. There
were 200 more students in five other Energy Camps
around its geothermal sites in Bacon-Monito
Sorsogon, Tongonan Leyte ( 2 camps), Bago City
and Murcia in Northern Negros and Kidapawan,
North Cotabato.
A brain child of EDC President and CEO Paul
A. Aquino, the program aims to ensure fun and experiential
learning for the youth in the company’s where the youth campers
hurdled a battery of
physical and mental challenges
to win the Survivor
Champion Award. It was
unmistakably inspired by the
Amazing Race from the
United States.
In Negros Oriental,
forty-seven incoming fourth
year high school students
were given a rare opportunity
to undergo experiential
learning activities for eight
days at the PNOC EDC Energy
Camp. There were 200
more students in five other
Energy Camps around its
geothermal sites in Bacon-
Monito Sorsogon, Tongonan
Leyte ( 2 camps), Bago City
and Murcia in Northern
Negros and Kidapawan,
North Cotabato.
A brain child of EDC
President and CEO Paul A.
Aquino, the program aims to
ensure fun and experiential
learning for the youth in the company’s host communities
as well as children of
EDC employees to learn
more about life, environment
protection and geothermal
energy.
The EDC’s Energy
Camp has already been
cited not only by the LGUs
and host communities but
by the Public Relations Society
of the Philippines’
Anvil Awards and the International
Association of Business Communicator’s
(IABC) Gold Quill Awards
for being a more sustainable
program than a one-time PR
project. |
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MORE NEWS at Negros Chronicle |
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KAALAGBAY SPEAKS
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Good news kaalagbays...
NegOr delicacies to international expo
Seizing the opportunity of showcasing our enhanced local food products to foreign and local visitors, the Department of Trade and Industry announced that participation of the province of Negros Oriental to the International Food Exhibition Philippines (IFEX Philippines 2008) on May 16-18 at the SMEX Convention Center, Mall of Asia in Pasay City.
The five locally-produced food products are Sans Rival's jam squares; Chantily's bod-bod kabog, Orient Foods' energy food which is a combination of ampaw and dehydrated fruits, Tanjay City's bod-bod and Ivons baye-baye.
Company owners of these local delicacies have been given trainings and seminars to improve the quality of their products, food packaging development and lessons on how to efficiently market their products to foreign and local buyers.
The food products will be showcased along with those selected from other parts of the country during the 3 day IFEX exhibition.
Dumaguete cited as “Most Child Friendly"
For the third time in a row, Dumaguete City was declared once again as the Most Child Friendly City in Region VII.
The city of Gentle People got the highest score among other Local Government Units (LGUs) who participated in the Presidential Search for the Child Friendly Municipalities and Cities (Component/Independent City category) conducted by the Regional Sub-Committee for the Welfare of Children (RSCWC). A full committee meeting on the month of September this year at the Department of Social Welfare and Development Regional Field Office VII in Cebu City hailed Dumaguete as the regional winner.
City Social Welfare & Development Officer, Mrs. Marina C. Mendoza and City Health Officer, Dr. Ma. Sarah B. Talla, received the child friendly seal and a plaque of appreciation for making Dumaguete a regional finalist, yesterday, November 8, 2007 at Ayala Activity Center, Cebu City during the 17 th Regional Children’s Contest. As a regional winner, Dumaguete City will also receive a cash prize of Fifty Thousand Pesos (P50,000.00).
RSCWC will nominate Dumaguete to the National Awards Committee to compete at the national level against regional winners in the Component/Independent City Category.
Other winners include Cebu City for Highly Urbanized City Category; Inabanga, Bohol for 1 st - 3rd Class Municipality Category and Pilar, Cebu for the 4th - 6th Class Municipality Category. (Andrey Noel A. Tumulak, City Public Information Officer) - source: Negros Chronicle |
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 Cena: NegOr as the best island to live in
THE recent survey conducted by Island Magazine revealed that Negros Oriental, including of course Dumaguete being its capital city, is among the top 20 best islands to live in.
Perfectly elating!
After experiencing a series of petty crimes, scandals, and dysfunctional government officials, here comes a magazine acknowledging the island as among the best.
FULL STORY at Sun Star Dumaguete |
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