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Ocials o the 8th In-antry Division said that

the series o arrests againsthigh-ranking CPP-NPA-NDF personalities is aclear maniestation thatinsurgents in this part othe country are losing itsmass base supports.

Another civilian tip-ster tipped o the pres-ence o a suspiciouscharacter in Barangay 8,Guiuan town in EasternSamar that resulted tothe arrest o Edna Montesin her rented sae houseTursday morning.

Te Amazon rebel wasarrested by combined ele-ments o the 14th InantryBattalion and policemenby virtue o a warrant oarrest or murder issuedby the Regional rialCourt Branch 8 o Oras,Eastern Samar.

Showing her post-al identication card,Montes claimed she wasEster Belicario but a or-mer rebel who allegedlyworked with Montes inthe underground move-ment positively identied

Te Department oLabor and Employment(DOLE) here is conductingan inormation drive in thebarangays o the province inpreparation or a provincewide orientation programon the Kasambahay Law(KL).

Marlon Arago o theprovincial DOLE said thebarangay orientation willbe an initial step in the en-orcement o the law that

BORONGAN CIYEASERN SAMAR, June28(PIA) Te newly sworn-in Vice Governor, EngineerFerdinand A. Picardal

vowed today to be sensitiveto the plight o the poor

and be compassionate otheir needs by leading theboard members in enact-ing ordinances, and alwaysbearing in mind the prin-ciple that the welare othe people, is the highestlaw(Salus Populi Est Su-prema Lex).

Picardal who was sworn-in by the Chie ExecutiveJudge Elvi Lim, also prom-ised to enhance laws thatprotect women and childrenand said likewise, that hisheart aches seeing peoplesuering due to the negli-

gence o the state.He added to help the

countrys booming econo-my by promoting trade andindustry, tourism, peace

Vice gub vows to promote trade,industry,local economy,others

Baybay 3,

Borongan City

Eastern Samar

EASTERN

PACIFIC

HARDWARE

By Alice Nicart and order, environmentalprotection and agriculturaldevelopment, adding thatthese will be a big concern othe new set o SangguniangPanlalawigan(SP) members.

With the rich shinggrounds o the province, hesaid, coupled with the er-

tile soils or agriculture andother natural resources, pro-gress and development isattainable within a certainperiod o time, provided theprovince leaders will worktogether and have the politi-cal will to do things whichare expected o them by theEastern Samarenos.

Picardal was mostly ap-plauded when he said thathe would not be an obstruc-tionist nor would be a col-laborator in any mannerthat would go against public

interest and welare o thepeople.Tere were times in

the recent past, when theOATH-TAKING. RTC Judge Elvie Lim administers the oath taking ceremony of newly elected Vice-Gov-ernor of Eastern Samar Hon. Dindo Picardal, looking on are his wife Daisy Erroba-Picardal, parents of theVice Governor.

Amazon NPA leader

falls in Eastern Samar her as Edna Montes - theperson stipulated in thearrest warrant.Captain Amado Gut-ierrez, spokesman o the8ID, said the captured re-bel is currently the heado the Educational De-partment o the EasternSamar Provincial PartyCommittee and Secretaryo the Eastern Samar Pro-

vincial White Area Com-mittee.

She used to be an Ex-ecutive Committee mem-ber o the Eastern VisayasRegional Party Commit-tee o the New PeoplesArmy, Gutierrez said.

Prior to the Montesarrest, the military net-ted Juan Paolo RodrigoVerzosa, said to be the in-telligence ocer o NPA-Samar and his wie Grace,sta reproduction bureaumember o the EasternVisayas Regional PartyCommittee o the NewPeoples Army in Mariki-na City last June 28.

Te couple was trans-ported back to this city onMonday and was brought

to the Samar Police Pro-vincial Oce (SPPO) or

processing and documen-tation and or presenta-tion to the court wherethey are acing theircharges.

Last May 8, residentso Samars Pinabacdaotown tipped o the pres-ence o a suspicious manwhich later turned out amember o the NPA. Acertain Renato Abadianoalias iboy o the NPAsSamar Provincial PartyCommittee, was arrested.

Seized rom the NPAleader was a caliber .45pistol, improvised explo-sive devices, blasting caps,subversive documents,personal belongings andother paraphernalia.

Te captured NPAghters were arrested by

virtue o Warrant o Ar-rest (WOA) or the crimesthey committed issued bythe Regional rial Court(RC) in Eastern Visayas.

Gutierrez said thesuccessive arrests o topranking NPA members

Priest urgeselected locallegislators to beSolomon-like

BORONGAN CIYEASERN SAMAR,-Reverend Father Leroy

Geli, Head, eam Min-istry o the BoronganArchdiocese, advised thenewly elected members othe Sangguniang Panla-lawigan here, to approxi-mate King Solomons doc-ile heart.

Tis was part o Fr.Leroys Homily duringthe Tanksgiving Massoered by the newly elect-ed SP members shortlybeore they were swornto oce today at the Gymo the Eastern Samar Na-tional ComprehensiveHigh School(ESNCHS).

Te priest told, thatthe Bible character Solo-mon, did not know whatand how to act like a King,when he was told by theLord to assume the King-ship aer King David.

So he prayed in Gide-on and oered the Lord1,000 pets, in his hopethat the Lord would bemerciul to give him help,Fr. Leroy narrated.

King Solomon how-

DOLE to hold barangay

orientation on

Kasambahay Lawinstitutes polices or the pro-tection and welare o househelpers.

DOLE deems it signi-cant to orient the barangayocials with regard to gen-erating data and developinga data base or monitoringand reporting purposes tothe Department o Inte-rior and Local Government(DILG) as mandated by thelaw.

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Governor Nicart sworn in

DTI urges mothers, local

canteens to replace junk foods

with locally produced food

Sharpening our charity

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Republic o the PhilippinesProvince o Eastern Samar

City o BoronganOFFICE OF HE CIY CIVIL REGISRAR

NOICE O HE PUBLIC

Date: May 28, 2013CCE-0060-2013

In compliance with the publication requirements andpursuant to OCRG Memorandum Circular No. 2013 - 1,Guidelines in the Implementation o the AdministrativeOrder No. 1, Series o 2012 (IRR on R.A. 10172), Notice ishereby served to the public that FERNANDO C. BUNA

,JR. has fled with this Oce, a petition or correction oentry in sex rom FEMALE to MALE in the BirthCertifcate o FERNANDO CELAYA BUNA, JR. whowas born on 13 June 1989 at Sabang North, Borongan,Eastern Samar and whose parents are FERNANDO L.BUNA and REMEDIOS P. CELAYA.

Any person adversely aected by said petition may lehis written opposition with this Oce not later than13 July 2013. (Sgd.) MA. LUISA M. AZUL III

City Civil Registrar

ESB: June 25- July 1, 2-8, 2013

Republic o the PhilippinesLocal Civil Registry OceProvince o Eastern SamarMunicipality o Can-avid

NOICE OF PUBLICAIONRA Form No. 10.1(LCRO)

In compliance with Rule 5 o R.A. 9048, a notice is

hereby served to the public that ELGIE C. LAZARRA

has fled with this Oce a petition or change o frst name

rom ELY to ELGIE in the Birth Certifcate

o ELGIE C. LAZARRA who was born on

JULY 10, 1971 at Can-avid, Eastern Samar and whose

parents are ALFONSO P. LAZARRA and MARIQUITA

B. CESISTA.

Any person adversely aected by said petition may lehis/her written opposition beore this oce not later thanJuly 10, 2013.

(Sgd.) GLORIA G. BAGACAYMunicipal Civil Registrar

ESB: June 25-July 1, 2-8, 2013

(rst name to be corrected)

(complete name of document owner)

(complete date of birth) (place of birth)

(name of father) (name of mother)

(rst name to be adopted)

(complete name of petitioner)

Republic o the PhilippinesLocal Civil Registry OceProvince o Eastern SamarMunicipality o Maydolong

NOICE OF PUBLICAIONRA Form No. 10.1(LCRO)

In compliance with Rule 5 o R.A. 9048, a notice is

hereby served to the public that ARGENE G. ALURA has

fled with this Oce a petition or change o frst name

rom ARJUN to ARGENE in the Birth Cer-

tifcate o ARJUN GESITE ALURA who was born on

March 28, 1984 at Pob. Brgy. 5, Maydolong, East-

ern Samar and whose parents are MARIANO B. ALURA

and EMELIE GESITE.

Any person adversely aected by said petition may lehis/her written opposition beore this oce not later thanJuly 10, 2013.

(Sgd.) ENGR. SUSANA D. ABERIAMunicipal Civil Registrar

ESB: June 25-July 1, 2-8, 2013

(rst name to be corrected)

(complete name of document owner)

(complete date of birth) (place of birth)

(name of father)

(name of mother)

(now rst name to be adopted)

(complete name of petitioner)

Republic o the PhilippinesLocal Civil Registry OceProvince o Eastern SamarMunicipality o Hernani

NOICE OF PUBLICAIONRA Form No. 10.1(LCRO)

ESB: June 25-July 1, 2-8, 2013

(rst name to be corrected)

(complete name of document owner)

(place of birth)

(name of father) (name of mother)

(rst name to be adopted)

In compliance with Rule 5 o R.A. 9048, a notice is

hereby served to the public that ROSITA CALVADORES-

NAVIDAD has fled with this Oce a petition or change

o frst name rom ROSIE to ROSITA in

the Birth Certifcate o ROSITA CALVADORES-NAVI-

DAD who was born on 05 JANUARY 1969 at BO.

BATANG, HERNANI, EASTERN SAMAR and whose

parents are PABLITO C. CALVADORES and BEBIANA

L. ECAP.

Any person adversely aected by said petition may lehis/her written opposition beore this oce not later than10 JULY 2013.

(Sgd.) CHARIO ABERIAMunicipal Civil Registrar

Republic of the

Philippines

Regional Trial Court

Eighth (8th) Judicial Region

Branch 2

Borongan City, Eastern Samar

PAG-IBIG FUND (HDMF)

Tacloban Branch,

Mortgagee,

-versus-

MANUEL DORADO

Mortgagor

EJF No. 375-13

EXTRA-JUDICIAL FORE-

CLOSURE OF REAL

ESTATE

MORTGAGE UNDER ACT

3135, AS

AMENDED BY ACT 4118

x- - - - - - - - -x

SHERIFFS NOTICE OF

EXTRA-JUDICIAL FORE-

CLOSURE SALEUpon extra-Judicial petition

for sale under Act 3135 as amended

by Act 4118 fled by HDMF Taclo-

ban City, Eastern Samar to satisfy

the mortgage indebtedness which

as of February 28, 2013 amounts

to FOUR HUNDRED THIRTY

THOUSAND SEVEN HUNDREDFIFTY ONE PESOS & 01/100

(Php430,751.01) PESOS including

interest and penalty charges but ex-

cluding attorneys fee and expenses

of foreclosure, the undersigned wil

sell at public auction on August 30,

2013, at the main entrance of the

Hall of Justice, Brgy. Alang-Alang,

Borongan City, Eastern Samar to

the highest bidder for CASH or

managers check and in Philippine

currency, the following property

with all its improvements to wit:

TRANSFER CERTIFICATE OF

TITLE NO. T-1238

TECHNICAL

DESCRIPTION

LOT 1511-E-3-8-2 Psd-08-

024378-D

A parcel of land situated at

Brgy. Balud, Borongan City, East-

ern Samar.

Bounded on the NE & E, & S,

along line 1-2-3-4 by lot 1511-E-

3-d, PSD-08-021891-D on the W.,

along line 4-5 by lot 1510, Cad-

434-D and on the N along line 5-1

by lot 1511-E-3-B-1 of this subdivi-

sion plan.

Beginning at a point marked

`1 on plan being N 06 deg. 21 W,

1227.29 m. from BLLM No. 1,

Cad-434-D Borongan Cadastre.

thence S27 deg., 14E, 7.97 m.

to point 2;

thence S. 05 deg. 47 W. 3.18m.

to point 3;thence N 88 deg. 18W., 31.71m

to point 4;

thence N. 08 deg. 26E., 9.87

m. to point 5;

thence S. 89 deg. 00E.,

26.96m. to point of

beginning. Containing an area

of THREE HUNDRED (300)

SQUARE METERS, ALL points

referred to are indicated on plan and

marked on the ground as follows

corners 15 are PS Cyl. Concrete

monument 15X50 cm. and the rest

are old PS Bearing Grid. The sub-

division survey was executed by

Geodetic Engineer RODELITO G.

MOMAR on March 10, 2009. Ap-

proved by the OIC, Regional Tech-

nical Director, Land ManagementService, DENR, Tacloban City on

April 17, 2009.

Prospective bidders and buy-

ers may investigate for themselves

the title and encumbrances herein

above described real property of

any there be.

All sealed bids must be submit-

ted to the undersigned on the above

stated time, date and place.

In the event the public auction

should not take place on said date, it

shall be held on September 5, 2013,

on the same place and time without

further notice.

Borongan City, Eastern Samar,

June 20, 2013.

FOR THE EX-OFFICIO PRO-

VINCIAL SHERIFF

(Sgd.) ALVARO A. CAPITO

Sheriff

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Te Department orade and Industry (DI)has urged mothers andschool canteen operatorshere to replace junk oodwith locally producedsnack items.

DI Provincial Care-taker Eleanor Alido saidthis is one interventionto address malnutritionprevalence in the prov-ince.

She said the DI inthe province takes prideon some locally madeproducts which the ocehas extended assistanceto in terms o process-ing, product costing andpricing and which canreplace the over-favoredjunk oods sold in gro-ceries and in stores.

She mentioned in par-ticular the pastillas deBorongan, cassava andtaro chips, biribid, bukopie, calamansi juice andconcentrate even thepineapple juice.

She said these prod-ucts are sure to meet theood quality assurance,adding that DI instills inthe minds o the produc-

DTI urges mothers, localcanteens to replace junk foodswith locally produced food

ers to be always mindulo the saety standards inood handling.

Tey are alwaystold to use gloves when-ever they would touchthe ood materials, she

pointed out.Alido said there are

also locally processeddried sh in Matarinao,Guiuan and San Poli-carpo towns which areguaranteed clean and saebecause o the technicalassistance they give to theamily-producers.

Te usual practicein processing o driedshes is usually exposedto dust, fies and otherdisease carrying insects,but ours, rom these localproducers are guaranteedsae, Alido said.

Provincial Nutrition-ist Sally Jabinal said mal-nutrition is not alwayscaused by inadequateood but is also due toparasites resulting romdirty surroundings andunsanitary handling ooods. (PIA-Eastern Sa-mar/aen)

province legislative andexecutive branches wouldnot meet their minds andhearts, which somehowrendered delay in some pro-grams and projects o thelocal government.

Picardals pronounce-ment today, however,brought a new hope and be-ginnings to the employeeso the provincial capitol inparticular and the people othe province in general.

A licensed Civil Engi-neer, the new Vice Gover-nor, who was a ormer Sem-inarian and who is ondlycalled Dindo by amilyand riends, was ormerlythe Provincial Engineer othe LGU province. He ismarried to a Medical ech-nology graduate, the ormerEldecita Daisy N. Errobawho gave him two sons.(PIA-Eastern Samar/aen).

Vice gub vows.....

ever, did not ask or

power, nor or riches, norame. Instead, he askedor a docile heart that hemight know what to door the good o his peo-ple and be able to distin-guish good rom evil, Fr.Leroy continued.

Because o theprayer, God was veryhappy with him, that hewas not only given a doc-ile heart but those whichhe did not ask, as well,the priest said, addingthat Solomon became a-

mous since then, becauseo his wisdom and judg-ment.

Fr. Leroy explainedurther, that a docileheart is not only an or-gan o the body but thecenter o mans being. Inshort, he said, it is mansconscience that is not cal-loused but that, which issensitive and listens tothe voice o the truth andis able to discern what isgood and what is evil.

Conscience is alwaysin harmony with God,

one which listens to Him,

he pointed out.According to Fr. Geli,

all o us are like Solo-mon, we have our own

jobs and responsibilities,and each o us have ourconscience so, we have tolisten to the truth.

In this Oath ak-ing Ceremony, we gaveauthority to our ocialsbut mind you, the biggeryou have responsibilities,the more you need God.Others are resistant to lis-ten to their conscience,which is not pro-God,because i you want to begood leaders, there is noother way but to be withGod, who is the sourceo everything, Fr. Leroy

concluded.Te Oath aking Cer-emony was led by ViceGovernor Ferdinand Pic-ardal, with the SP mem-bers o the 1st District:SPM Byron Suyot andSPM Karen Alvarez. Forthe 2nd District: SPMGorgonio Cabacaba,SPM Jonas Abuda, SPMNestonette Cablao, SPMMaricar Sison-Goteesanand SPM Jenny Baldono.Tey were sworn to oceby Executive Judge ElvieLim.(PIA-Eastern Samar/aen)

Priest urgeselected......

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EDITORIAL

3OPINION

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JULY 2-8, 2013

I DID not come tocall the righteous butsinners. (Mt 1,13) Tatsquite clear. Christ came tosave all men. Tats whatsalways in his mind. Whilenot neglecting anyone, hehowever gives some spe-cial attention to the sick,the weak, the sinners.

Its an attitude that weshould also have. We can-not think that we can justget contented with lovinga ew people, or even alot, but not all. We have tolove everyone i we wantto be consistent with ourChristian identity. Weeven have to love our en-emies, as Christ himselcommanded us.

Love has a univer-sal scope. And its givenwithout measure. We cannever say enough o it.Tese are truths that weneed to chew on slow-ly and deliberately, ormany are the elementsin us and around us thatwould tend to underminethem.

We always have preer-ences and biases. We havepet peeves. We are alwayssubject to certain condi-tionings, cultural, social,political, that somehowput limits in our concernor the others.

Tese are naturalthings that are unavoid-able. But it doesnt meanthat we just get stuckthere. We have to go be-yond them, or abovethem. And we can do thatbecause our spiritual na-ture and the grace o Godallow us to go beyondthese conditionings.

It would be good toacknowledge as clearlyand as strongly as possi-ble these conditionings,but we should also asclearly and as strongly dosomething so that we cango beyond them. Insoaras Gods grace is con-cerned, it will never belacking. What is neededis our generous corre-spondence to this grace.

Tus, we need toconsciously sharpenour charity, using all themeansmaterial, hu-man, spiritual, supernat-uralto make it refectand act out Gods veryown love. Rememberthat Christ himsel gaveus the new command-ment, which serves as thesummarizing and perectcommandments, to loveour neighbour as he lovesus.

And how does he loveus? Aside rom creatingus and endowing us withthe best o thingswehave been created in hisimage and likeness and,with his grace, adoptedchildren o hishe has

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Sharpening our charitygiven us his mercy in re-turn to our disobedienceand sinulness, a mercyhe acted out by oeringhis lie on the cross.

Tats the supreme acto love, or Christ him-sel said that No manhas greater love than hewho lays down his or hisriends. (Jn 15,13) Andthat love abides, becausethat lie-oering kind olove is made a sacramentthat he himsel com-manded us to renew tillthe end o time.

How important there-ore that we be theologi-cal in our attitude towardthis duty. We cannot relysimply on our emotionsand other external actorsand conditionings. Nei-ther can depend solelyon our own will. We haveto have the orce o gracethat made available in thedoctrine o our aith andin the sacraments.

We need to be moreserious with our duty tolove. We have to make itmore specic, more di-rect, more rened, moreenduring. It has to bemore and more universal.

Yes, we do it in stages,going through the stageso eros, lia and agape,and starting with thoseclose to us and radiatingto ever widening circleso people, but we justhave to be persevering init, even i it suers vari-ation o pace and even iit strays rom its properpath rom time to time.

What can help is toassume a pro-active at-titude toward this dutyto love. We should notwait or some inspira-tion, nor or the others toprove that they deserveour love. We have to lovethem a priori, and all theway, putting more im-pulses to make that lovealways active. We need toreinorce it with an end-less supply o theologicalmotives.

Imagine how the worldwould be i we just put ourmind and heart toward thisduty to love, which actuallysummarizes all our dutiesand responsibilities towardeverybody.

We need to overcomethat primitive thinking thatbeing serious with char-ity would make us soand mushy and all that.Te contrary is true. Lovewould make us strong asit demands us nothing lessthan willingness to be pa-tient and tolerant, to su-er, to orgive, to reconcile,to step on our own ego, thelogic o our fesh and thealse values o the world. Itsnot araid o death.

Lets always sharpen ourcharity.

Farmers across the country had stuck totheir primitive methods not so much ortheir resistance to scientic arming butdue to lack o support or the shi. Tey

had been tilling our rice elds that ed the na-tional breadbasket on a per capita consump-tion o our growing population. Teir seeds hadevolved through continuous breakthrough inrice research where our country is host to theprestigious International Rice Research Insti-tute that is based in UP Los Baos, Laguna.

But the emergence o new rice varieties thatare designed or high yield could not ully sprouton rice elds that lack supply o water. Te ricevarieties are high yield in a shorter period otime but or lack o water in most parts o thecountry, rice production could not be maxi-mized. Our armers had lived with the promiseo adequate water to their rice elds in order tosustain the target number o cropping per year.

Unortunately, or lack o adequate water,the new varieties could not be planted as oen.Farmers are lured into trying the new varietiesthat require arm inputs and chemicals or it toattain its maximum yield. But apart rom thearm inputs in the orm o ertilizers and othersynthetic products, the armers need water toensure that their palay will grow to the ullest.Our armers had held to the promise o armsupport through irrigation that could make

possible the optimum cropping every year.So much volume o rain causes damage to our

rice elds and crops as we ail to manage our wa-ter resources and mitigate its adverse efects onour agriculture. Excess water during rainy sea-sons could eed our rice elds but or lack o ir-rigation system, we continue to sufer in our riceproduction, causing our country to resort to im-portation. Tis, because most o our armers arestill gazing at the clouds waiting or the rain.

Rain

Popes John XXIII andJohn Paul II could be can-onized as saints together,possibly this December 8,La Stampa newspaper oRome reported. . Tat dayis east o the ImmaculateConception.

Te Congregation orCauses o Saints meetuesday, said the VaticanPress Oce But it didntcomment on an AssociatedPress report that membersormalized their recom-mendation to canonizePope John Paul II.. Allproceedings, in sainthoodcauses, are secret until thepope issues the relevantdecrees.

Filipinos eel a special

No other wayanity or John Paul II. Herst visited here in 1981and told a poker-aced dic-tator Ferdinand Marcos tohis ace: Government can-not claim to serve the com-

mon good when humanrights are not saeguarded.During the Marcos years,there were 3,257 extraju-dicial killings, 35,000 tor-ture victims, and 70,000imprisoned.,historian Al-red McCoy notes in a YaleUniversity study. Tatdark legacy hobbles Fer-dinand Jrs bid to seek thepresidency in 2016..

Pope John Paul presidedover World Youth Day, atRizal Park, in January 1995,.Over our million attended

the closing Mass. Tats thecurrent world record or

the largest papal gathering..Filipinos will host PopeFrancis January 2016. Hellattend the 51st Interna-tional Eucharistic Congressin Cebu City..An advanceteam is here now to nalizedetails. Filipinos will lookbeyond church institution-al deadwood and identiywith Francis concerns orthe poor..

Te likelihood then isthat o a two-John canon-ization.. Tat ans an ongo-ing debate where. laymen

and scholars compare theman wholl be honored andthe ponti wholl presideover the ancient rites.

From the moment ohis introduction to theworld as Pope Francis, JorgeMario Bergoglio resembledAngelo Giuseppe Roncalli,or Pope John XXIII, morethan any other ponti,.John Borelli o GeorgetownUniversity wrote. in the in-ternational Catholic week-ly: Te ablet.

Both were 76 whenelected. Roncallis electors

gured on a short-termcaretaker ---- 54 months it

turned out. But John XXIIIstunned everyone by con-vening the Second VaticanCouncil. Only 20 such gen-eral councils met in the lasttwo thousand years.

Pope Francis turns 77this December Barely lessthan 200 days on the chairo St. Peter, he is correct-ing the churchs immedi-ate past, as did John XXIII.He is setting directions orthe uture, notably imple-menting stalled Vatican IIreorms...

Pope Benedict was 78when elected, recalls Eu-gene Cullen Kennedy pro-essor o psychology atLoyola University , Chicago.Benedict XVI spent eightlong -- and I mean long-- years as our Holy Fa-ther. Francis entered ourlives only a season ago. So,why does Francis seem likesomeone weve known along time? O Benedict, weall back on the Irish sayingthat we hardly knew ye.

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in Eastern Visayas is aresult o the cooperationo peace loving people in

the area as well as otherstakeholders desire orpeace and development.

Tese series o arresto NPA personalities areexpected since commonpeople are now report-ing the locations o NPAleaders and their subor-dinates, Gutierrez added.

Meanwhile, MajorGeneral Gerardo Layug,Commander o the 8thInantry Division, hailedhis men and the peopleo Region 8 or a job well

done. Without the inor-mation coming rom thepeople o their wherea-

bouts, we could not havepossibly arrested them.

In March, 2008, theAFP claimed that the NewPeoples Army (NPA)rebels had only around4,900 members, signi-cantly down rom 26,000at its peak in 1980s. NPAscurrently ght in 10 o 81provinces in the coun-try rom 69 in 1986. It issaid that orty thousand(40,000) people have diedin the confict since 1969.(RICKY BAUTISTA)

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Dole to hold..John and Francis re-

semble each other most intheir being anything butthemselves. By its very na-ture, that quality cannot beaked. As they did aboutJohn XXIII, people sensethere is no pretense thatkeeps them rom easy rela-tionship with Francis.

Almost overnight,Francis began to restorecredibility o his churchjust by being himsel. Hewashed the eet o pris-oners, including a Mus-lim woman, at the HolyTursday liturgy. Tus,he panicked ar-rightCatholics but spoke otrue religion to the world,

Te act spoke moreo Francis understandingo Islam than the learned( but oen misunderstood) theologically dense ad-dresses o Benedict XVI.Tat, alas, was not Bene-dicts strong suit Kenndyadds. He was determinedto diminish the infuenceo a Vatican council thathe insisted had been mis-interpreted.

In contrast, Francisseems to be dened by thespirit o Vatican II Tat iswhy we eel we have knownFrancis a long time. Anddespite his catalog o virtues,Benedict ades into the pasthe loves a little more everyday.

Roncalli chose the nameJohn, Tat broke a 175-yearpattern o usual names: Pius,Leo, Gregory and Bene-dict. Bergoglio broke twoeven larger traditions. He isthe rst Jesuit to be electedpope. No one beore eltbrave enough to choose thename o the universally be-

loved 13th-century saint: StFrancis o Assissi. . By 1964,the council athers adoptedinter religious dialogue, es-pecially with Muslims

Nine days into his papa-cy, Francis told the Vaticandiplomatic corps: He hopedto intensiy dialogue amongvarious religions, specially

with Islam Tat remindedBorelli o .St Francis o As-sisi, crossing military linesto dialogue with Sultan Ma-lik al-Kamil.

As cardinal in BuenosAires, Borgolio co-authoredSobre el Cielo y la ierra(On Heaven and Earth).with Abraham Skorka, a sci-entist and Jewish rabbi. Ithink hes going to changeeverything that he believesneeds to be changed, Slorkatold the ablet.

In this book with RabbiSkorka, the then uture

pope remembers being veor six and accompanyinghis grandmother. wo Sal-

vation Army ladies passedby and he.asked her i theywere nuns. No, she re-plied, they are Protestants,but they are good. Bergo-glio refected back on theincident as archbishop andpraised his grandmotherswisdom o true religion.

A theoretical povertyis no use to us,. Francistold a May 8 worldwideassembly o women reli-

gious: And this Friday, hestressed in his morninghomily:: Reaching outto our wounded broth-ers in works o mercy istouching the Cruciedown woundsTere is noother.way ###

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In the orientation pro-gram, some agencies willshare some inputs on con-cerns relative to the KL.Tese are the Social Secu-rity System (SSS), Pag-IBIGFund, Philippine Health In-surance Corp. (PhilHealth)and DOLE.

Arago said barangay o-cials will also have to con-duct a survey on the num-ber o households in theirrespective areas that employhouse helpers and other re-lated data.

Arago also conrmedthat Secretary RosalindaBaldoz have lodged certainamendments due to severalissues emanating rom thelaw, but these are still un-dergoing ne-tuning.

He cited a certain ex-ample in a town, where

a complaint was led by ahouse helper because hisemployer decreased hismonthly wage to conormwith the standard pay stipu-lated by the KL.

It is also a violation,Arago said, because asprovided by the KL, the em-ployer cannot suddenly al-ter what has been the usualpractice in the payment othe helpers monthly ee,nor could she/he be termi-nated outrightly, except ora just cause.

He said there might be

a need to amend certainprovisions o the KL aer athorough study.

Te Kasambahay Lawtook eect on June 3, 2013which is believed to protectthis particular sector, com-prising some 2.5 million.Te law entitles them to adened minimum wage,paid leaves and insurancecoverage such as SSS andPhilHealth.

Te Kasambahay Lawserves as the countrys com-pliance mechanism to the

International Labor Or-ganizations (ILO) Domes-tic Workers Convention(C189). (AEN/EP)

Governor Conrado B. Nicart, Jr. is being congratulated by Judge Juliana

White after taking his oath, Monday July 1, 2013.(PHOTO BY PIA-8, EASTERN SAMAR )

BORONGAN CIY-Reelected Governor,Conrado Nicart, Jr. wassworn-in last Monday atthe provincial gymnasi-um to ocially begin hissecond term in oce asthe highest public ocialo the province.

Witnessed by the pro-vincial employees, guests,other municipal and ba-rangay ocials, Gov. Ni-cart took his oath beore

Judge Juliana Lim o Orasas the 7th elected gover-nor o Eastern Samar.

Beorehand, Nicartsaid his report o accom-plishment or his rstthree years, where he al-most hit 100 percent hisrice suciency target aswell as other crop and

vegetable productionthrough the Rice Su-ciency EnhancementProgram.

Among others, he alsomentioned o more than4,000 college scholars hesupported at the EasternSamar State University(ESSU) in all the campus-es: Guiuan, Salcedo andCan-avid. About 112 othem have already gradu-ated he said.

Gov. Nicart added thathe also has given sup-port to other educationprograms, water systems

and sanitary toilets inelementary schools, cov-ered walks and nancialsupport to the athletes orthe Eastern Visayas Re-gional Athletic Associa-tion meet (EVRAA).

PhilHealth member-ship was also given em-phasis he said whereabout 10,000 amilieswere enrolled, 23 RHUsaccredited and 21 o themnow have lying-in clinics.

For his next threeyears in oce, Gov. Ni-cart vowed to achievemore, but, he said he willnot be able to do all thosealone, adding that he willneed the support o allconcerned ocials, thelegislative branch, andthose rom the privatesectors.

Gov. Nicart receiveda resounding applausewhen he announced

that in 2014, the provin-cial local governmentunit(LGU) might justbe able to ully pay allits previous nancial ac-countability, which is wayahead o scheduled dateo ull payment.

In the aernoon, Gov.icart presided the cere-monial management con-erence with the heads othe provincial oces.(ALICE NICART)

Governor Nicart sworn in