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The E. B. Magalona Team composed of Municipal Human Resource Management Officer Isabel Armila Patrata, Municipal Legal Officer Saviya Basille Albestor, and Executive Assistant Debbie Ann Monte (l-r).*EBM PIO photoThe Municipality of E. B. Magalona clinched the champion’s trophy in the Municipal/City Category of the LG (Local Governance) Quizzard held at Robinsons Place Bacolod on Tuesday, October 4.The team was composed of Municipal Legal Officer Saviya Basille Albestor, Municipal Human Resource Management Officer Isabel Armila Patrata, and Executive Assistant to the Mayor Debbie Ann Monte, a press release from EB Magalona said.Mayor Marvin Malacon congratulated the team, saying, “Your win simply shows we have the best people in our municipal government.”“Our town has a lot...

The EOC training course participants*The San Carlos City government, through its City Disaster Risk Reduction and Management Office with technical assistance from the Office of Civil Defense VI, recently held a two-day Emergency Operations Center (EOC) training course at Seda Hotel in Bacolod City.Thirty-eight San Carlos City heads of offices and representatives participated in the training, Joe Recalex Alingasa Jr., San Carlos CDRRM officer, said Friday, September 30.The EOC Training is aligned with the conceptual framework of the Incident Command System (ICS) that is designed to enhance the disaster response capability of every organization, he said.San Carlos City has a state-of-the-art Emergency Operations Center that serves as the nerve hub of information and data for ...

Employees mark the SMC’s and Bacolod Brewery’s 132nd and 32nd anniversary, respectively, with the tree-planting activity.*Employees of San Miguel Brewery marked the 32nd anniversary of its Bacolod plant with a tree-planting activity in Barangay Estefania, Bacolod City.The activity also coincided with the 132nd anniversary of the plant’s parent company, San Miguel Corporation, and part of the annual Trees Brew Life project under the Buhayin ang Kalikasan flagship environmental program of SMB.For this year, the employees planted more than 2,000 seedlings in the perimeter areas of the brewery property that crosses boundaries of the company’s host communities – Barangays Estefania and Granada.The pandemic has scaled down the implementation of the project, which used to have par...

Ma. Teresa Alvarez (2nd from right), designated municipal tourism officer of E. B. Magalona, accompanied by Norie Santillan (1st from right), receives a plaque of recognition from the Provincial Capitol, represented by Provincial Administrator Atty. Rayfrando Diaz, (2nd from left) and Provincial Tourism Officer Cheryl Decena (1st from left), as witnessed by ATOP President Arwin Paul Lingat (3rd from left), for the municipality’s high tourist arrivals last year, at rites at the Provincial Tourism Week.*Despite the community restrictions due to COVID-19 last year, tourist arrivals in the four tourist destinations in E. B. Magalona had contributed to a high number of tourist arrivals in the municipality in 2021.These four establishments are Tomongtong Mangrove Eco-Trail in Barangay To...

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