PHOTOS: SENDONG’S WRATH: Valencia City flood, 17 December 2011

Bukidnon authorities on alert for ‘Sendong’

MALAYBALAY CITY (Bukidnon News/16 December) Weather and disaster risk reduction and management officials are on alert as tropical storm Sendong unleashed its fury in Mindanao provinces.

Phivolcs: Bukidnon needs active fault study

MALAYBALAY CITY (Bukidnon News Dispatch / 28 November 2011) –There is a need to conduct a geologic study in Bukidnon to confirm if there is an active fault cutting through it following the 5.2 magnitude earthquake in Valencia City and the rest of the province this onth, Desiderio Cabanlit, officer in charge of the Philippine [...]

DALIT BISAYA – Miresponding bumbero sa sunog, nakabangga

MALAYBALAY CITY (Bukidnon News Dispatch/18 Nov 2011) Naka-bangga ang firetruck nga gi-maniho ni FO2 Arnold Tenorio nga nag-tangag ug plaka SCL 753 didto sa Fortich St. kanto Lunsayan, Sumpong, Malaybalay City niadtong Nov. 17, 2011.

Valencia engineers estimate quake damage to properties at P7.7 million

MALAYBALAY CITY (Bukidnon News/10 November) A total of about P7.688 million worth of properties have been damaged by the November 7 earthquake in Valencia City, according to partial estimates of the City Engineer’s Office as quoted in the November 9 Disaster Progress Report of the Valencia City Disaster Risk Reduction and Management Council.

[PHOTOS] QUAKE’S WRECK: The November 7, 2011 Earthquakes in Valencia City

Helpless against nature: Valencia rural folks on the quakes

CABANUANGAN, Valencia City (Bukidnon News/9 November) 73-year old Fabio Concha still couldn’t believe what happened.

31 people hurt, 82 houses confirmed destroyed in Bukidnon quake

CABANUAGAN, VALENCIA CITY (Bukidnon News/8 Nov) – Thirty one people were injured and a total of 21 houses were totally destroyed when a 5.2-magnitude earthquake jolted the city and the rest of Bukidnon Monday evening.

“It was so sudden; there was no time to run”

VALENCIA CITY—(Bukidnon News/08 November 2011)“It was so sudden, there was no time to run,” housewife Analie Alcular said of the 5.2 magnitude earthquake that hit Valencia City Monday.

Killer buses in Bukidnon highways: In 2011 – 9 deaths in 32 RTMI bus accidents

Special Report (First of a series) MALAYBALAY CITY (Bukidnon News Dispatch/06 October) –  Jerry Villamor, who works for the municipal government of Manolo Fortich was operating the town’s crane on September 6 in Mangima, Tankulan village. They were responding to a vehicular accident that happened earlier. A Starex van fell off the road and they [...]

Kalilangan lumber trader charged for transporting ‘excess’ forest products

MALAYBALAY CITY – (Bukidnon News Dispatch/27 September) The Community and Environment and Natural Resources Office of Malaybalay filed charges against the owner of a truck from Kalilangan town that transported naturally grown forest products beyond allowable excess. According to the criminal complaint filed by Leon C. Equipelag, special forestry prosecutor, before the Office of the [...]

Buseco apologizes; city council: apology not enough on brown outs

MALAYBALAY CITY – (Bukidnon News Dispatch/Sept 30-Oct.1) The Bukidnon Second Electric Cooperative (Buseco) apologized to the members of the Malaybalay City Council amid City Councilor Melchor Maramara’s inquiry on the frequent brownouts in Brgy, Kalasungay, where he lives. The city council invited Buseco officials including Malaybalay branch manager Juancho T. Chiong with public relations officer [...]

Fr. Nery memorial race draws 500 runners

MALAYBALAY CITY –  (Bukidnon News Dispatch/01-02 October) The first ever Fr. Nery Satur memorial run, organized in time for the commemoration of the 20th anniversary of his death, drew more than 500 participants on October 1. The five-kilometer run started around 6:45a.m. at the Freedom Park Covered Court. The Diocese of Malaybalay and the Archdiocese [...]

15 more rebel-returnees avail of city’s social integration program

MALAYBALAY CITY – (Bukidnon News Dispatch/30 Sept) Fifteen rebel returnees, including four women, from Upper Pulangi have received financial assistance from the city government of Malaybalay as part of the city’s local Social Integration Program, Randy Galula, SIP coordinator said.

Colonia Brothers top Malandog Trail Run

Malaybalay City – (Bukidnon News Dispatch/ 30 Sept) Running brothers Leonard and Leo Colonia topped the Malandog Ridge 10k Trail Run held on September 24, 2011 in BFI Compound, Sumpong, Malaybalay City. Fifty four out of the sixty eight actual registrants joined the race. Participants ran through the tough and challenging route which started from [...]