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Screen grabbed from Malou Perez's Facebook postBuddy, a stray dog who found a home at a mall in Barangay Mandalagan, Bacolod City, was using the pedestrian lane when he crossed the street, as seen in the Facebook post of Malou Perez of PAWSSion Project, an animals group.Here's Perez Facebook post:Our beloved regular stray, City Mall doggie Buddy🖤To everyone worried about Buddy, he is well and good. He keeps the guards company and they look after him as well especially at night.Buddy is an abandoned dog. He was left by his previous owner at City Mall before and while others attempted to rescue and adopt him before, he’d always find a way to escape and find his way back to City Mall, probably still waiting for his owner 💔 Local Hachiko indeed.We have been feeding him daily for on...

One of the computerized hyperbaric oxygen chambers at the healthcare center in Bacolod City*Oxygen Therapy (HBOT) that helps one “heal faster and feel better” is now available in Bacolod City.The Advanced Hyperbaric Healthcare Center that is now fully operational is located at the corner of Narra and CL Montelibano Avenue in Barangay Villamonte.However, its official launching will be on March 20, Jonathan Lo, one of its owners, said. The other owners are Jesus Co, and Jacinto and Shirley Palma, Lo said.HBOT is a non-invasive, well-established medical treatment that enhances the body’s natural healing process and strengthens the immune system by using prescribed high-pressure oxygen, that treats a variety of health conditions and diseases, Dr. Philton Yu, a doctor at the cli...

Art, to be relevant, must be indigenized as it is globalized. Through a series of online and interactive dynamics, VIVA ExCon keeps to its mission of strengthening art communities throughout the Philippine islands and across the globe.February 6 Session: Part OneThe webinar “Art Market: Prospects for Visayan Artists” with art fair and gallery founders Trickie Colayco-Lopa, Rey Mudjahid “Kublai” Millan, and Cesar “Jun” Villalon Jr. was the first part of the fifth session of V-CON 2. The speakers were joined in by ExCon Director Mariano Montelibano, moderator Gina Jocson, and interpreters Ma. Teresa Buenaventura and Noemi Lacambacal from Benilde School of Deaf Education and Applied Studies.Art Fair Philippines co-founder Trickie Lopa said that they have participating galleri...

Photo from the Philippine Journal of Systematic BiologyScientists from the University of Kansas and California Academy of Sciences named a new species of reed snake after Dr. Angel C. Alcala, National Scientist and renowned Sillimanian, in honor of his contributions to the study of Philippine amphibians and reptiles and biodiversity conservation.Jeffrey L. Weinell, Alan E. Leviton, and Rafe M. Brown discovered the Calamaria alcalai in Sablayan, Occidental Mindoro. The Philippine Journal of Systematic Biology (PJSB) recently published their research on the said species.In the published article, the scientists wrote that they named the Calamaria alcalai in recognition of Alcala’s “numerous contributions on the systematics, biogeography, and ecology of amphibians and reptiles of t...

The Servants of Mary nuns and Token Lizares with the ambulance they bought without knowing where they would find the means to pay for it.*Love makes people do crazy things and a week before Valentine’s Day, love made a group of women do one of the craziest things they ever did: they bought an ambulance not knowing where they would find the means to pay for it.But love is what has been moving the Servias de Maria (Servants of Mary) nuns to do what they do everyday. They go to houses of the poor and the sick situated in the remote areas of Barangay Handumanan in Bacolod City where they serve, many times on foot and neither heat nor dust can stop them.They also tend to the sick in their St. Ezekiel Moreno clinic in Handumanan, serving the needs of the poor who cannot afford to go ...

Gov. Eugenio Jose Lacson and Kabankalan City Mayor Pedro Zayco Jr. joined the painting session of the young artists of Kabankalan City, today, February 9.*Capitol photoNegros Occidental Gov. Eugenio Jose Lacson and Mayor Pedro Zayco, Jr. joined the young artists of Kabankalan City in expressing their creativity and art through painting Tuesday, February 9, to mark National Arts Month.The National Commission for Culture and the Arts leads the national celebration that seeks to conserve, promote, and popularize Filipino artistic creations, integrate the arts in the community life, and harness the arts as catalysts for values education, a press release from the Capitol said.The National Arts Month 2021 themed, “Alab-sining, Alay-sigla,” aims to provide opportunities for artists to...

A hospital in the United Kingdom is mourning the death of a “much loved” Filipina nurse, whose husband is from Negros Occidental.The Norfolk and Norwich University Hospital announced on its website that it loss its Emergency Department nurse Estrella Bersamen Catalan, 52, one of its much loved staff members, to COVID-19 on Friday, February 5.Catalan, who is from Candijay, Bohol, was married to Melvin Catalan, an engineer from La Carlota City, Negros Occidental.The hospital statement said she had been receiving treatment in the hospital’s Critical Care Complex, when she passed away.Sam Higginson, NNUH chief executive, said: "She was a wonderful person and a caring and conscientious nurse, who loved to teach and mentor students…she will be terribly missed.”“We know this w...

The Kabankalan City Tourism Office, in cooperation with the City Culture and Arts Council (CCAC), will hold a mural painting activity in celebration of the National Arts Month this February, Anne Zayco said today, February 8.The mural painting will be dubbed “Pagsaulog sang Maragtas (A Celebration of Heritage).”The activity will be conducted at the Kabankalan Cultural and Sports Center starting February 9, until Thursday, February 11. The painting will showcase the city’s major festivals - the Sinulog de Kabankalan festival and the Udyakan Festival, Zayco said.It will serve as the backdrop of the Cultural Hub performance area. The Cultural Hub is the renovated municipal hall, she added.The painting’s formal installation is tentatively scheduled on March 14, during the 114th...

VIVA ExCon Dasun VCon 2 had a very interesting discussion on the responses of artists when calamity strikes, most especially during the pandemic.Featured are the national feeding initiative by the Art Relief Mobile Kitchen and local response in the form of waves of assistance from ArtHeals Fundraising.Alex Baluyut and Precious Leaño of Art Relief Mobile Kitchen, also known as ARMK, is marking seven years of 24/7 monitoring and addressing the hunger needs of people affected by tragedy and calamity.The operations began during typhoon Yolanda when they decided to brave ground zero and deliver 10 tons of food to Tacloban feed and serve them Christmas dinner. They then proceeded to Hernani, Samar which was the turning point for ARMK. Their community volunteers may be SK members...

Alyx Arumpac's "Aswang," a film that portrays the grim aftermath of the Duterte administration's war on drugs, is eligible for consideration in the documentary feature category of the 93rd Academy Awards.The film qualified after winning the prestigious White Goose Award at the 12th DMZ International Documentary Film Festival, Asia's largest documentary festival, which took place in Goyang, Gyeonggi Province, Korea in September 2020."I am very grateful to Jomari, Brother Jun Santiago of the Redemptorist Brothers, everyone who shared their lives and stories with us and everyone else that I worked with on this film. I am happy that our efforts to shed light on how vast a problem the drug war is in the Philippines is garnering more attention worldwide" says Arumpac."Aswang" follows...