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On – King Solomon’s teaching that we must apprehend to days-- “A word aptly spoken is like apples of gold in a frame of silver.” The 1 st Mindanao Media Forum held at a cozy restobar in Iligan City on October 6, 2007   had a theme, “Unity for Truth and Development.” This media forum was jointly sponsored by the Call for Justice, TransCo, WATCH, Inc., and the City Government of Iligan. The keynote speech of the forum was given by City Mayor Lawrence Lluch Cruz in which he quoted one of the Rotary International’s mottos, “Is it the Truth,” and one of the 10 th Commandment of Moses, “Thou shall not tell lies.”   The attending media men were from the neighboring cities of Iligan, of whom most of them are print journalists, with few were broadcast journalists. With its moderator, Atty. Ver Quimco, the forum cited the important and big role of media men, both in print and broadcast media-- to be wary in the words they use. For it was observed that few KBP personalities use pro...

Death of Our Leader Linamon – On December 20, 2009 at four in the afternoon, 10-year old Matthew and his father: Lanao del Norte Board Member Rev. Robert   “Sharp” Matalinis went boating. A strong wind and heavy rain shook his boat so he held on to it. Pastor Sharp swam towards his son, but unfortunately, they were carried away by the gushing water. His dead body found at 3am on the following day, but his son who, as press time, is no where to be found. No one could tell whether the boy is dead or not. Reverend Sharp is one of our Shekinah Group Leaders. Shekinah is a Saturday Dawn Intercessory group of Pastors in Iligan City and Lanao del Norte. He is also our main leader who serves us to be partners of the Operation Christmas Child. A Samaritan Purse outreach program for Blessings of Children on Christmastime and is from the generous country of the United States . Our most heartfelt condolences to the bereaved family   of Reverend Robert Matalinis with his s...

greenery lifespot Mindanao Looming Power Crisis Until June 2010 Janet Braza Iligan City –City Councilor Atty Moises Dalisay, Jr (Chairman on the Committee of Energy) asked NGCP (National Grid Corporation of the Philippines) personnel about the intermittent brownouts experienced by the city constituents, is quite alarming adverse power distribution failure told only for rotation bases. Considering the 90 period for the Poll Automation to come, machines operated depending on electricity. Why you don’t let the people knew that we have coming brown outs so that we will be aware of. Bring this all to the media men so that we will know of this intermittent- severe brownouts in the city. . If May 2010 have this scenario, we better go back to the manual were people need not any education of how to vote. Dalisay stressed. Comes speculation on the failure of election as are now experiencing brown-outs! The Comelec are doing their rotation to every barangays for the poll automation educational dr...