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Athletics and Classic win in the start of the quarterfinals of Maharlika league
BATANGAS
CITY-
Batangas City Tanduay
Athletics and Valenzuela
Classic
emeged
victorious on Tuesday
night, opening up their
quarterfinal bid in the
2018 Maharlika Pilipinas
Basketball
League
Anta Rajah Cup at the
Batangas City Sports
Coliseum.

Inspired by the
crowd’s show of support,
the Athletics controlled
the game early on behind
their unrelenting drive
on the way to a wire-
to-wire 88-75 victory
over the visiting Bataan
Defenders.

Moncrief Rogado
was the player of the
game with 12 points, 8
rebounds and 5 assists
while veteran Lester
Alvarez added 8 points,
three
rebounds
and
season high 14 assists
for Batangas, leading
to
several
30-point
leads. Home grown star
Marvin Macalalad also
contributed for Batangas
with his 4 points coming
off the bench.

Defenders gunner
Gary David finished with
a team high 18 points
on top of six rebounds
and two assists but was
forced to make several
turn-overs by the strong
Athletics defense.
Meanwhile,
Roderick Acidre came up
with 21 points, together
with 4 rebounds, 5
assists and 3 steals as
the Classics turned back
Quezon City Capitals,
96-89.
Point
Guard
Krentz Carlos put in 12
points, 4 rebounds, two
assists while 3 other
players scored in double
digits for the Classics.

Big man Jessie
James Collado made
19 points while Jason
Santos added 14 points
in a losing game for the
Capitals, who dropped to
0-1 in the quarters. (PIO
Batangas City)
Native pig industry players
convenes; vows development
Phres Evardone
SAN JUAN, Batangas, (PIA)
-- Members of the Philippine
Native
Pig
Owners
Network Association, Inc.
(PNPONAI) met on March
17, 2018 at Don Leon Nature
Farm for the 2nd Native Pig
Raisers General Assembly.

With this year’s
theme,
“Joining
Hands
Towards The Development
of the Philippine Native
Pig Industry,” the assembly
aimed to promote native
pig raising, discuss the
benefits of being part of a
local community unit and
build network among native
pig raisers and government
organizations.

The one-day general
assembly treated association
members to lectures and
forum on national and
provincial
government
projects/support for native
pig raising and production
costing as well as farm tours.

In her message, ATI
RTC IV-A Center Director,
Ms.
Marites
Piamonte-
Cosico said, “The decision to
use the technologies offered
by the ATI 4A lies on you. We
are just here to guide you.”
The
Agricultural
Training Institute (ATI)
through its Regional Training
Center IV-A continuously
facilitates trainings and other
activities to boost the native
pig production industry in
the region.

Atty. Rhaegee B.
Tamana Chief of Staff
of Senate Committee on
Agriculture and Food Chair
Senator
Cynthia
Villar
represented the Senator
during the occasion.

PNPONAI is a non-
stock, non-profit organization
formed by Mr. Maximillan
Cabriga in 2015 devoted to
bring together native pig
raisers and help them develop
products from their livestock.

A look at the group’s
Facebook page, it has 2,113
members and describes itself
as dedicated to promote
and establish the Philippine
native pig industry in the
country. (CP Gonzaga, PIA-
4A with reports from Ric
Jason T. Areza, ATI-4A)
Moncrief Rogado was the player of the game with 12 points, 8 rebounds and 5 assists while veteran Lester Alvarez added
8 points, three rebounds and season high 14 assists for Batangas
DENR 4A director underscores Agency priorities
and challenges at management conference
DENR IV-A
CALAMBA CITY, Laguna,
(PIA) -- Newly-assigned
Department of Environment
and Natural Resources
(DENR)
Region
IV-A
Director Sofio B. Quintana,
Ph.D., CESO IV, stressed
Secretary Roy A. Cimatu’s
priorities and challenges
for the region during the
office’s 1st Management
Conference
on
March
14-15, 2018 in Tayabas,
Quezon.
Quintana
shared
that during a conference,
the Secretary emphasized
the need for the regional
offices to coordinate with
the legislators on the plans,
programs and activities of
the agency. “For instance,
during the budget hearing,
Representatives
are
asking for the projects
being implemented by the
respective offices,” the
director said.

The ENR 4A chief
likewise stressed the vital
function of the Department
in
implementing
environmental policies.
“We
are
not
enemies, we are to work
together. But we have to
assert our authority – that
the DENR takes the lead
in
the
implementation
of ENR laws”, he said,
relating to the initiatives of
the local government and
other government agencies
in implementing projects
in Taal Lake without
coordination
with
the
DENR.

“Let us (DENR)
show to the world that ENR
laws have to be respected”,
said Quintana.

“Another challenge
of the Secretary is for us to be
quick. We should minimize
receiving
memorandum
from Dir. Rolando Castro
(of the DENR – Human
Resource
Development
Service) on delayed actions
on cases… we should not
be charged because of slow
processing,” the Director
conveyed. He was referring
to the special instruction of
the President to efficiently
attend to the concerns of the
public.

“Let us be very
quick, but cases should
be decided judiciously”,
Quintana reminded the
senior officials of the DENR
regional office, and the
Provincial and Community
ENR Offices (PENROs and
CENROs).

Quintana
relayed
also the special directive
of the Secretary to have
a close watch of all the
beaches, seashores, and
lakeshores
within
the
region. “We do not want to
experience what Boracay is
now experiencing”, he said.
The
director,
who was assigned in the
regional office last January
26, recalled the previous
challenge of Sec. Cimatu
to the PENROs of Rizal
and Laguna to rehabilitate
the Laguna Lake. He said
the PENRO of Laguna has
already presented to him
his plans for the renowned
water body, to which, he
assured
that
whatever
financial assistance needed
in the implementation of
said plans shall be covered.

On
the
priority
improvement of Manila
Bay,
Quintana
pointed
out the need for the
complementation
of
PENROs and CENROs
in the implementation of
activities which have been
planned by the Manila Bay
Site Management Office of
the regional department.
He
said
the
expectations
from
the
DENR 4A is very high,
and that there is a long
line of activities yet to be
accomplished.
“I
encourage
everybody to work very
hard, but don’t put too
much stress on your health
because if you are sick, you
cannot work in the way you
want”, he advised his senior
staff. (Czarina Maria P.
Gandeza, Communications
Development Office II,
DENR-4A/cpgPIA-4A)