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Comval Holds 8th Summer Sport Festival 2016 and Nabunturan Over-all Champ

Comval holds 8^th Summer Sports Festival 2016, Nabunturan over-all champ

Compostela Valley Province --- The provincial government holds once again this year’s 8^th Provincial Summer Sports festival with the theme “Have a Better Life, Yes to Sports” from May 25-27, 2016.

Participated by competent athletes of the eleven (11) municipalities of Compostela Valley, the various sports events are Basketball (Male), Volleyball Women, Football Boys, Futsal Girls, Badminton-Male and Female, and Billiard.

Nabunturan emerged as the over-all champion of the 3-day event which is the annual activity of the Provincial Physical Fitness and Sports Development Council (PPFSDC) of the province.  The awarding was held with Gov. Arturo Uy and Sports Coordinator Francis Secuya during the Employees regular convocation on May 30 at the provincial capitol.

Meanwhile, attending the opening program are Vice Governor Manuel “Way Kurat” Zamora, Sports Coordinator and Councilor-elect of Nabunturan Francis Secuya, Board Member-elect Nena “Ate Nenz” Atamoza representing Governor-elect Jayvee Tyron Uy, Municipal Coordinators and Coaches of the 11 municipalities.

According to Atamosa on her opening remarks, “This is not to compete each other but to have new friends.” She added that Gov.-elect Uy hopes that this year’s event will promote camaraderie and inculcate sportsmanship among different municipalities in the province.  “He also wants the youth to be involved and spend a healthy summer through sports and to stay away from drugs,” she said.

As an added excitement during the opening program, the different delegates also witnessed the extreme dance number of the pride of Comval, the DMX Dancers who recently emerged as the Pilipinas Got Talent (PGT) Finalist of ABS-CBN talent competition.

The torch lighting and official declaration of the opening is headed by Vice Governor Zamora with the provincial officials, Sports Coordinator and Nabunturan SB Member-elect Francis Secuya, event and municipal Coordinators.  While the Oath of Sportsmanship is led by Azeneth F. Ducaze, the Palaro Futsal Player. (Rey M. Antibo, IDS Comval)

MANGROVE PLANTING, COASTAL CLEAN-UP

HIGHLIGHT 8^th COMVAL SUMMER BEACHFEST

MABINI, Compostela Valley – This year’s summer beach sports festival along the coasts of this province’s two coastal towns intends to break its past records on the number of mangrove seedlings planted during the annual celebration.

In last year’s festival, scores of students, soldiers from the 10^thInfantry Division of the province, beach resorts owners and workers, government employees, and coastal villagers among others planted about 300 seedlings at the Casilac site in Brgy. San Antonio, Mabini.

Seedlings planted the same site three years ago have already grown waist-high, enhancing the threatened but still abundant mangrove strands.

“In this festival, the Community Environment and Natural Resources Office in Maco is again joining the festival as part of their Ocean Month celebration. CENRO Martiniano Rotol and Protected Area Superintendent Julie Española have provided 500 mangrove seedlings for the activity,” provincial tourism officer Christine Dompor said.

Mabini, approximately 70 kilometers away from Davao City and located in the southeastern section of the province of Compostela Valley is part of the 3,433-hectare Mabini Protected Landscape and Seascape of Davao gulf.

Mangrove planting is a regular activity of the beach festival to augment the existing mangrove forests of the protected seascape.  An important part of the marine ecosystem, mangroves act as a buffer zone for sea storms and provide a spawning ground for fish and other marine lives.

All of the five marine turtle species in the Philippines found in Davao Gulf are the Hawksbill, Oliver Ridley, Green Sea, Loggerhead, and the Leatherback turtles. Two – the hawksbill and the leatherback turtles – lay their eggs on the coasts of Kopiat, an island about 800 metres from mainland Mabini..

The Philippine Environmental Governance Project 2 (EcoGov), a technical assistance project in the Philippines funded by the United States Agency for International Development (USAID), identified Davao Gulf as a feeding ground to 11 species of cetaceans including sperm whales, killer whales, and bottle-nose dolphins.

A number of these species regularly swims the channels between the islands and mainland Mabini to feed on the seascape’s seagrasses, rich planktons and krill. But sightings of these endangered marine mammals have become rare in the last years.  (jra/tss/ids)

  

Comval holds Farmers and Fisherfolk’s Month Celebration

By: Rey M. Antibo

Compostela Valley Province---The Provincial Agriculturist Office (PAGRO) in partnership with the Department of Agriculture (DA) recognizes Farmers and Fisherfolks for their invaluable contribution to the economic growth of Philippine Agriculture and food sustainability through the conduct of Farmers and Fisherfolk’s Month Celebration on May 26, 2016 stage at the Municipal Gymnasium, Poblacion, Montevista, Comval.  This year’s theme: “Magsasaka’t mangingisda, Katuwang sa pag-uunlad ng bansa.”

Attending the program are Mayor Eutropio Jayectin of Montevista, Mayor Lema P. Bolo of Compostela, Assistant DA Regional Director for Operations Phoebe S. Orbe, Supervising Agriculturist Minda Agarano of PAGRO, Raymundo Pajarito representing Governor Arturo T. UY and Governor-elect Jayvee Tyron Uy, National Agencies, Municipal Agriculturist, Program Coordinators, MAGRO and PAGRO staff and Farmers of the entire province.

According to Agarano who gives the rationale of the activity, “the conduct of this celebration is pursuant to Proclamation No. 33 signed by the late President Corazon C. Aquino in 1989, declaring the month of May as “Farmers’ and Fisherfolk’s Month” where the men and women of the agri-fishery sector are given due recognition and tribute for their major role in economic recovery.”

She added that this year’s celebration coincides with the continuous campaign of DA to help farmers and fishermen amidst the damage wrought by prolonged dry spell or the El Niño phenomenon.

During the program, a mass turn-over of the of DA projects was also held such us four (4) wheel drive tractors, Sprayers, Hybrid Corn and Rice Seeds, Fertilizers, Vegetable Seeds, and other Agricultural Equipment to the farmers, cooperatives, PLGU and MLGU as the recipients of the said projects.

Mayor Jayectin said he is very happy that his municipality is one of the recipients of the 4 wheel drive tractor saying “rest assured that this equipment will be used by the farmers especially in the land preparation.”

Meanwhile, the PLGU also recognizes the Gawad Saka winners for this year by giving Cash Prizes and Certificates as well as an oath taking of the newly elected Comval Cacao Industry Council (CCIC) officials headed by their Chairman Juanito Aquino. (Rey Antibo, PGO-IDS Comval)

  

KOPIAT SWIMMING CHALLLENGE. This is not your ordinary swimming competition as participants to this Kopiat Swimming Challenge show off their skill and stamina traversing the 800-metre Kopiat-Mainland channel from the shores of Beach View Resort, Mabini on May 22. The event is part of the Summer Beach Fest scheduled on weekends of May spearheaded by Comval Tourism Office. (a. dayao/ids comval)

FIREDANCE COMPETITION. Another fiery night in Mabini with the firedance and reggae band competition on May 21 spearheaded by the Provincial Tourism Office of Comval. The event is part of the Summer Beach Fest scheduled on weekends of May spearheaded by Comval Tourism Office. (a. dayao/ids comval)