ICT Training Center in Quezon Inaugurated
LUCENA CITY, July 25--The blessing and inauguration today of the Quezon Provincial Information Technology (ICT) center in Lucena City ushered in the nationwide celebration of the 2001 National Science and Technology Week. Located at the Quezon Convention and Training Center, the Provincial ICT center is the first of its kind in the Southern Tagalog Region. FULL STORY

FAITH GARDEN: Model for Backyard Gardeners

 

    LUCENA CITY, June 29 – One doesn’t need a big tract of land to insure a sufficient harvest and supply of fruits and vegetables for his family.  And sell the surplus to the market. Even in commercial centers and other highly urbanized areas, where lots are high priced and open areas are very rare, one can raise vegetables and fruits for his kitchen. A 120-meter lot beside the Governor’s Mansion and Kalilayan Cultural Center in the heart of Lucena City doesn’t attract tourists and visitors like the sprawling Perez Park at the Provincial Capitol compound. But this small lot boasts a model vegetable garden set up by Quezon Gov. Wilfrido L. Enverga, under the couple’s Food Always In The Home (FAITH) program. 

 

   Gov. Enverga put up the model garden last year as vital component of his food security program designed to insure a sufficient supply of vegetables and fruits in every Quezonian’s home. A visit to the FAITH model garden is a must for all backyard gardeners and agriculturists who will certainly draw lessons and experiences from this 120-meter model garden. The garden is planted to beans, bananas, ampalaya, pechay, cabbage, cassava, eggplant, corn, cauliflower, carrots, papaya—and even herbal plant like oregano and artamisa. The garden has compost boxes and faucets that water the plants.  A unique feature of the FAITH garden are the hauling bamboo trunks and old PVC pipes planted to beans, pechay, kangkong and other vegetables. The model garden is managed by a small staff headed by Linda Alina, a supervising agriculturist who was sent by Gov. Emverga to Sta. Cruz, Laguna to observed modern backyard gardening./ Benny Luzentales

 

 NEW QUEZON PROVINCIAL OFFICIALS TAKE OATH JULY  2

  

            Lucena City, June 28-  Reelected Quezon Gov. Wilfrido Enverga and other newly elected provincial officials of Quezon, premier province of Southern Tagalog, will take their oath of office July 2 at the Quezon Convention and Training Center in this city.

 

            Gov. Enverga will take his oath before Quezon Regional Trial Court Executive Judge Virgilio C. Alpajora.

           

            Judge Alpajora will also swear into office reelected Vice Gov. Jovito Talabong, who was Enverga's running mate in the recent May 14 polls.

 

            Gov. Enverga will administer the oath of office to the following newly elected/ reelected members of the Quezon provincial board:

First district-- Lawyer Eladio Pasamba and former Mayor Hernando P. Avellaneda.Second District-- Lawyer Dante Cadiz, Board Member James Rey Bico and Vicente J. Alcala.

Third district--  Rommel Edaño and Luisito Serrano Jr.

Fourth district--  Board Member Remedios Diestro, Narciso Malite and Abelardo Mendoza.

            A well known educator, lawyer and business leader, Enverga is the son of the late Rep. Manuel S. Enverga, chairman of the House foreign affairs committee, who changed the date of the Philippine Independence from July 4 to June 12.

 

Enverga served as congressman for nine years before he was elected provincial governor on May 11, 1998.

 

            During the May 14 gubernatorial polls, he defeated his opponent, former Gov. Eduardo Rodriguez, by more 100,000 votes./ Benny Luzentales

 

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Pasayahan 2001 Photo Gallery

DECS AT QUEZON PROVINCIAL GOVERNMENT

NAKAMIT ANG BEST GROUP AT BEST FLOAT

SA PASAYAHAN 2001

Maro Flancia / Aileen Pasacsac

 

 

LUNGSOD NG LUCENA- Nakamit  ng mga kinatawan ng Quezon Department of Education, Culture and Sports (DECS) ang pagiging Best Group, Flower Shop Owner of Lucena ang 1st Runner Up, at Rural Barangays ang 2nd Runner sa grand parade sa Pasayahan sa Lucena 2001 noong May 28 sa lunsod na ito. Samantala, sa float category ay nakamit ang Best Float ng Provincial Government, Queen Margarette sa 1st Runner Up at Bergs sa 2nd Runner Up. Ang ipinamalas ng Quezon-DECS ay ang kaanyuan ng Commonwealth government, ang Penagbenga Festibal sa FSOL at Mascara Festival sa Rural Barangays.  Sa float design ang Death March ng Provincial Government, Philippine Independence sa Queen Margarette at Battle of Mactan sa Bergs. FULL STORY

 

 

TYPHOONS NOW SPORT PINOY NAMES

Benny Luzentales

 

 

    For the past several years, the series of typhoons and tropical storms that hit the Philippines were named after ladies. Thus, we had typhoons Asiang, Bebeng, Kading, Dading, Didang, Gloring, Huaning, Isiang, Mameng, Omeng, Pitang, Rosing, Titang, Welming, Yeyeng, etc. Experts from the Philippine Atmospheric, Geophysical and Astronomical Services Administration (PAGASA) explain that typhoons that originate from above the equator are given female names. Bohol Congressman Ernesto Herrera four years ago, while a member of the Senate, questioned the use of female names among typhoons, saying it was unfair and derogatory to the opposite and weaker (really?) sex. FULL STORY

 

 

Quezon lawmaker behind June 12:

Observance of independence day

Benny Luzentales and Ma. Christina R. Villanueva

 

   For many years after July 4, 1946, the Philippines observed its Independence Day on the  fourth of July.  The local observance was patterned after the American celebration of Independence Day.  After all, it was the United States government which granted our independence on July 4. It took several years before Filipino historian and researchers discovered that the real independence of the Philippines took place on June 12, 1898 when then President Emilio Aguinaldo established the first Philippine Republic. Unknown to many Filipinos, particularly the younger generation, is the fact that the legislator who changed the date of Philippine independence from July 4 to June 12 came from Quezon Province.    He was Rep. Manuel S. Enverga (1st District), a staunch nationalist and statesman of the highest order. FULL STORY