Lumad, Moro leaders reaffirm kinship, sign covenant

Iligan City-based Datu Diamla Rolando So-ong (right), over-all head claimant of an ancestral domain in Lanao del Norte embraces Hajji Datu Ismael Gonzales after they exchanged tokens during the IP-Moro reaffirmation of kinship in Songco, Lantapan, Bukidnon on March 8. 
Bukidnon News photo 

SONGCO, Lantapan, Bukidnon  – Representatives of eight Moro tribes and most of the Lumad or non-Islamized tribes in Mindanao yesterday signed a five-point kinship covenant in a gathering here filled with festive remembrance of historical relationships and aspirations for peace and unity in the island.

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 of Manila
sponsored the event to mark Satur’s death anniversary this year.

Rehab of Rio Grande de Mindanao, “a high priority, high impact” project

MALAYBALAY CITY (Bukidnon News Dispatch/ 29 Sept)– The Rehabilitation of the Rio Grande de Mindanao is one of the 10 high priority and high impact proposed projects as presented in the Mindanao River Basin Integrated Management and Development Plan, a copy of which was obtained by Bukidnon News.

In the last chapter of the 16-chapter master plan released in July 2011, the Presidential Task Force on the Mindanao River Basin Rehabilitation and Development outline the selected priority projects based on a list of programs and interventions “extensively and exhaustively” reviewed by the task force’s technical working group.

Fr. Nery Satur Memorial Run set on October 1

MALAYBALAY CITY – (Bukidnon News Dispatch/27 Sept) The Diocese of
Malaybalay and its media and environment apostolates along with a
sports gear partner will be holding a five-kilometer fun run in memory
of slain priest Fr. Nery Satur in this city on October 1, Saturday.

Run Briefer

Dubbed as the Fr. Nery Satur Memorial Run, the event aims to honor
Satur who lost his life in fighting for the environment two decades
ago.
On Oct. 14, 1991, three men, allegedly hired by the illegal loggers he
angered, killed the 29-year-old Satur. His head was smashed by a
rifle’s butt. Later, he was shot pointblank with a shotgun.

Fr. Nery’s martyrdom came during an era of logging concessionaires in Bukidnon.

[Updated] Impasugong proposed as Bukidnon’s tribal capital

MALAYBALAY CITY (Bukidnon News Dispatch/25 September) – Impasugong, Bukidnon’s
134-year old town has been proposed to be declared as the tribal
capital of the province.

Provincial Board member Nemesio Beltran Jr. said the proposal is now
in the hands of four committees of the board.

Established in 1877, Impasugong has been able to preserve its cultural
heritage and ethnic identity, Beltran added.

According to Mindanao historian Rudy B. Rodil, Impasugong is one of
only four Bukidnon towns where the majority of the inhabitants are
Lumads or indigenous peoples. Seven other towns in Mindanao are also
predominantly Lumads.

Probe sought on claim Bukidnon bananas stricken by ‘Panama disease’

MALAYBALAY CITY – (Bukidnon News Dispatch/22 Sept) The Sangguniang
Panlalawigan urged the Bukidnon provincial agriculturist in a
resolution passed Wednesday to investigate the veracity of a report
that a fungal disease has infected at least a thousand hectares of
banana plantations in Bukidnon.

Board member Jay Albarece (1st district), who authored the resolution,
urged provincial agriculturist Alson Quimba to produce a report to the
governor and the provincial board about the report raised by the
Davao-based Pilipino Banana Growers and Exporters Association (PBGEA)
in an ABS-CBN report this week.

SP eyes Impasug-ong as Bukidnon’s tribal capital

MALAYBALAY CITY (Bukidnon News Dispatch/22 Sept.) – Majority of the
members of the Sangguniang Panlalawigan are proposing an ordinance
declaring the town of Impasug-ong as Bukidnon’s tribal capital.

Eight members of the 14-member provincial board have sponsored the
proposed ordinance, Nemesio Beltran Jr., one of the proponents, said.

Bukidnon Views: Bukidnon Culture: The Rituals By Loreta Sol L. Dinlayan

Bukidnon Culture
By Loreta Sol L. Dinlayan

(First of a series)

(Note: Bukidnon News releases this five-part series on the Bukidnon
culture with permission from the author. These materials have been previously published by the BSU Ethno-cultural Museum and the Bukidnon Heritage Foundation.)

The script, Ms. Dinlayan says, in its simplest form, features the
tangible and intangible heritage of the culture of Bukidnon. She added
that culture is treated as a treasure in a precious container. In this
cultural presentation, the rituals, the history, the treasures, the
knowledge and the message of Bukidnons are portrayed.

She said this is a ‘cultural tour’ with a script.

“I invite each reader to treat each item as an access to explore the
depth and width of Bukidnon culture,” she said.)

THE RITUALS

“Amay day diyan ta langit
Tahuron sa ngaran nu.”

Another maintenance work turns power off in Bukidnon’s 6 northern towns

MALAYBALAY CITY – (Bukidnon News Dispatch/17 Sept.) The National Grid Corporation of the Philippines (NGCP) announced that six of Bukidnon’s 20 towns and two cities will experience a nine-hour power interruption Sunday.

In an advisory emailed by the NGCP Corporate Affairs Department this week, they cited that power interruption will be experienced from 8 to 5p.m. in the towns of Malitbog, Manolo Fortich, Libona, Sumilao, Baungon and Impasug-ong, all in Northern Bukidnon.

LIFE IN THE PLATEAU: Starting the change in a meal

By Walter I. Balane

On the road to a resort in Lianga, Surigao del Sur one early evening last year, our Grassroots Documentation and Reporting Training Team talked about the application of science in the food that we eat. It was a humorous but “meaty” chatter. The usual one you get into inside the vehicle while heavy rains slow your trip down.

A check on the timepiece showed dinner should go ahead before check in. We talked about the chicken in the fast food chains. We talked about the poultry products in our breakfast table. Then the conversation extended to the synthetics of food preparation in the world of fast food chains and how they alter way of life and relationships.

Fast food vs. slow food.  Old vs. new ways to prepare food.

We even also talked about that World Toilet Summit in Beijing (yeah, that’s for real (laugh!) but that would probably be another story)

Just a week before, I sat next to a Vegan. That’s how people who live on plant-based diet are called, y’know. So I had some inputs to make in the car ‘conversation’: that natural diet is a healthier choice.

Arrived at the resort safe and sound and later, dinner was served. To my shock and amusement, there on the dinner table, is the immortal fried chicken.

Valencia eyes city museum

This November 6, 1960 photo shows government officials during the laying of the cornerstones of the Valencia Municipal Hall (now being reconstructred as the new city hall), a part of the exhibit of the Valencia Bukidnon Historical and Cultural Society in the Integrated Terminal in Hagkol, Valencia City.

VALENCIA CITY – (Bukidnon News Dispatch/09 September) The Valencia Bukidnon Historical and Cultural Society (VBHCS) has pushed for the city government to operate a city museum in a resolution passed in April 2010 and endorsed to Mayor Leandro Jose Catarata Friday as they launched their historical photos and cultural exhibit at the New Valencia Integrated Terminal in Hagkol, this city.

Implementation of 4Ps “difficult to monitor” in Bukidnon

MALAYBALAY CITY – The Department of Social Welfare and Development’s conditional cash transfer program dubbed Pantawid Pamilyang
Pilipino Program (4Ps) is difficult to monitor, Christopher Capinpin,
the program’s provincial coordinator, admitted to the Sangguniang
Panlalawigan Wednesday.

Capinpin spoke in an inquiry by provincial board members on the status
of the program’s implementation in the province. There have been
previous reports that some recipients are not qualified, and some
qualified ones did not use the fund assistance to address the
conditions required in the program.

[PHOTOS] Life, unedited…

Children watch as a carabao feeds on the green grasses near the village's Purok Center in Purok Logdeck, Dagat Ki Davao, Valencia City

Pop rice and baked products vendor Roberto Dahay, 60, fixes his goods after his delivery in Purok Logdeck, Dagat Ki Davao, Valencia City

Photos by : Walter I. Balane

‘Provincial historical officer’ proposed in Bukidnon

MALAYBALAY CITY –  The Bukidnon Provincial Board has passed a resolution Thursday proposing the creation of the position of a provincial historical officer to pull together Bukidnon’s history, lead the creation of a provincial library, and propose ways to honor past leaders.

The resolution urged the provincial governor to hire a provincial historical officer using general funds.

The officer is tasked to collate and annotate the history of the province, including its towns and cities and to recommend the construction of a provincial library. The proposed officer will also be assigned as the head of the proposed provincial library.

In his explanatory note, proponent board member Nemesio Beltran Jr, said it is important for the people of Bukidnon and for the next generations to know their past, including their past leaders.

The new officer will also be tasked to study the feasibility and possibility of constructing monuments for all the departed governors and vice governors, and recommend where the monuments will be erected, including budgetary requirements.

Beltran, a son of a vice governor who later assumed as governor, also proposed the giving of appropriate memorabilia to the family of the governor and vice governor honored.

The historical officer will also become a protocol officer to arrange necrological services in behalf of the Provincial Government of Bukidnon and do other functions as may be instructed by the governor.

The resolution was passed following the death on July 27 of World War II veteran and local hero Esmeraldo Cudal, who was a survivor of the Bataan death march. He was elected vice governor March 1980 to April 1986. (Walter I. Balane)

 

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[PHOTOS] PRIME in Malaybalay City

Bae Inatlawan Adelina Tarino of the Bukidnon Daraghuyan tribe officiates in an opening ritual for the launching of the Department of Education's Philippine Response to Indigenous Peoples and Muslim Education (PRIME) in Malaybalay City on July 22.

 

 

The Bukidnon State University chorale performs a series of songs on the indigenous peoples in the launching of the Department of Education's Philippine Response to Indigenous Peoples and Muslim Education (PRIME) in Malaybalay City on July 22.

 

Photos by Walter Balane/Bukidnon News