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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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The Art Association of Bacolod-Negros with the Balik Yuhum Foundation will mount the 1st On-The-Spot MassKara Painting Competition in celebration of art and creativity this MassKara Festival 2022. They are calling on artists who are bonafide Bacolod residents to join and interpret the theme “Balik Yuhum Ipadayon.”The painting competition will be on October 7 at the Robinsons Place Bacolod from 2:00 to 6:00 PM. This on-site art event will be for Bacolod artists screened by the art association beforehand. The official contestants will be painting on blank masks instead of the usual canvas or paper.“We believe that the artists of Bacolod City will have a great venue to show what they got. And as one of the oldest art group in the Philippines, the Art Association of Bacolod-Negros woul...

A 17-year-old student of E. B. Magalona won second place, out of 18 participants representing various local government units around Negros Occidental, in the provincewide Tour-Guiding Competition held at the Ayala Malls Capitol Central Wednesday, September 21, as part of the ongoing 22nd Provincial Tourism Week.Lauren Joy Palabrica, who hails from Barangay 2, and a Grade 11 STEM student of E. B. Magalona National High School (EBMNHS), received P6,000 cash prize, a plaque, and a certificate from the Negros Occidental Tourism Division, the organizer of the Provincial Tourism Week.Palabrica and her coach, Raffy Berina, a Contemporary Arts and English teacher of EBMNHS, also earlier received a cash assistance of P6,000 from the municipal government of E. B. Magalona as their allowance ...

The effects of food insecurity go beyond physical. Involuntary hunger has been a long standing problem in the Philippines, and during the pandemic, when millions lost their means of livelihood, this became more apparent with the surge of mental health concerns.A study by University of Arkansas professors Di Fang, Michael Thomsen and Rodolfo Nayga Jr., published by BMC Public Health in March 2021, found that food insecurity caused by the pandemic was also associated with increased risk of mental illness.It determined that “food insecurity is associated with a 257% higher risk of anxiety and a 253% higher risk of depression.” The study then recommended that public health measures should focus on getting direct subsidies of food purchases to poor families, especially families with chi...