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Northern Mindanao scores high in exports (http://www.sunstar.com.ph/cagayan-de-oro/business/northern-mindanao-scores-high-exports)
Saturday, October 30, 2010

EXPORTS in northern Mindanao scores an overwhelming increase of 180 percent in the first half this year against last year, records from the regional National Economic Development Authority (NEDA) revealed.

The NEDA-Northern Mindanao said the region exported a total of US$269.34 million worth of products, 50 percent of which came from Misamis Oriental, the region's consistent dollar earner.

Next in rank was Lanao del Norte province, which captured 27.64 percent of the total exports.

Except for Camiguin, the rest of the provinces posted substantial growth in exports, indicating huge demand for local products abroad.

Misamis Occidental, though it contributed 11 percent of the total exports, marked the highest growth for the second quarter this year among other provinces, registering US$28.7 million, or a 23,842 percent increase from US$120,000 during the same period in 2009. This tremendous increase was brought about by the resumption of the operation of two oil mills and two frozen prawn processing plants located n the province.

Lanao del Norte's main export of crude coconut and cochin oil valued at US$94.29 million accounted for over a third of the total export earnings of the region.

Oleochemicals, another coconut-based product, was the second biggest export earner with US$55.71 million, or 20.68 percent of the regional total.

Fresh bananas landed third among the top 10 exports of the region, accounting for 21 percent of total growth. The surge in demand for bananas in the foreign market resulted in expansion of farm operations of some Davao-based companies located in Bukidnon such as Soriano Fruit Corporation, Stanfilco, DOLE Philippines (North Skyland Zone) and AMS Farming Corporation.

The value of the region's top 10 exports in the second quarter is almost fourfold its value in the same quarter last year while six of the 10 export commodities are now in double-digit figures, compared to only two figures in the previous comparable period.

By sector, coconut-based products remain the major export earning US$170.97 million, representing 63 percent of the regional total. This is followed by fresh fruits with 11 percent share of total exports.

Among the major export gainers are fresh fruits, with 586 percent, iron and steel with 500 percent and coconut-based products at 399 percent. Special transactions jumped at 1045 percent from $0.11 to 1.26 million. (Loui S. Maliza)

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International riders to see action in Lanao del Norte motocross (http://www.pia.gov.ph/?m=12&fi=p101027.htm&no=76)

Tubod, Lanao del Norte (27 October) -- Six international riders from the US, New Zealand, India and Sri Lanka have already confirmed their participation in the biggest motocross event the country has ever seen.

Among the motocross superstars set to see action in Lanao del Norte are Daniel Blair, Tiger Lacey, Ron De Jesus, James Robinson, Santosh C.S. and Gayan Sandaruwan.

The province of Lanao del Norte has been acclaimed by professional and amateur racers as the motocross capital of the Philippines.

Riders admire the international standard race course as being "very technical yet very safe."

"We are taking motocross to the next level. It's time for our local and national riders to pit their skills against these international riders and see how much we need to improve in this sport," Gov. Khalid Dimaporo said.

The provincial government is stepping up its promotional development with the vision of transforming Lanao del Norte into the sports Mecca of the country.

"We welcome all sports that need help. They have a home here in Lanao del Norte and that is the Mindanao Civic Center," Dimaporo added.

The December motocross event is the result of the continued partnership between the provincial LGU and SEL-J Sports. (VNL/PIO-LDN)

Lanao Norte intensifies anti-illegal logging campaign (http://www.pia.gov.ph/?m=12&fi=p101014.htm&no=95)

Lanao Norte intensifies anti-illegal logging campaign

Tubod, Lanao del Norte (14 October) -- To preserve the abundant biodiversity and lush forest cover particularly in the interior municipalities of this province, Governor Khalid Dimaporo has ordered the concerned local agencies to step up its campaign against illegal logging.

"We need to significantly disable if not permanently dismantle the operations of these illegal loggers," urged Gov. Dimaporo.

The call was made during the coordination meeting held on October 11, 2010 at the Provincial Capitol Building, Pigcarangan, Tubod.

The Department of Environment and Natural Resources (DENR) ? Region 10 has identified 11 hotspot areas in the province. These are municipalities where illegal loggers are frequently sighted and caught operating.

"Illegal logging is a very destructive activity. Unabated logging can lead to flash floods and contribute to river siltation which will ultimately destroy our Panguil Bay," explained Environment Officer Ramon Serapio.

To strengthen the environmental campaign, the provincial government is creating an inter-agency, multi-sectoral task force that will focus on big-time illegal loggers operating in Lanao del Norte.

The anti-illegal logging task force will be chaired by Governor Dimaporo with PENRO Ben-Ali Decampong as its Vice-Chairman. Officials from the AFP and PNP as well as provincial heads will complete the composition of the new task force.

With an ever-increasing demand for timber products, regardless of their legality, the rate of forest destruction is also on the rise.

Lanao del Norte is taking the extra step to ensure that their trees stay protected from abusive illegal loggers and that their forest resources are preserve for future generations. (VNL/PIO-LDN)

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Lanao Norte ready for biggest bodybuilding contest (http://www.pia.gov.ph/?m=12&fi=p101020.htm&no=C2)

Cagayan de Oro City (20 October) -- It's all systems go as Lanao del Norte gets set for the biggest bodybuilding competition this province has ever seen.

In the official presentation of participants held at Gold's Gym-Makati on October 19, more than 20 professional and amateur body builders pledged to join the contest slated on November 20, 2010 at the Mindanao Civic Center gymnasium, Tubod, Lanao del Norte.

"National competition like this featuring renowned athletes only proves that Lanao del Norte is truly a peaceful place," said Gov. Khalid Dimaporo.

Dubbed as Maskulino Pilipino 2010 - Bodybuilding and Figure Championship, this will be the first-ever bodybuilding competition to be held in this fast-rising province.

Already acclaimed as the Motocross capital of the Philippines by top riders in the country, Lanao del Norte is fast-becoming the preferred sporting destination in southern Philippines.

"We want to share with the rest of the country our world-class sports complex," Dimaporo added.

Interested athletes can still join in the professional and amateur divisions of this open competition. Registration forms are available online at www.ironpinoy.com and www.lanaodelnorte.gov.ph. (VNL/PIO-LDN)

Bukidnon posts highest share in TRI of Northern Mindanao in 2Q (http://www.pia.gov.ph/?m=12&fi=p101015.htm&no=78)

by Rutchie Caahug-Aguhob

Cagayan de Oro City (15 October) -- Some Php4.176B worth of investments were monitored by the Dept. of Trade and Industry (DTI) to have been poured into Northern Mindanao, during the second quarter, this year, up by 89.18 percent compared to Php2.208B in the same period of 2009.

Regional Alice V. Eusena of DTI, region 10, said in terms of the total regional investments (TRI), the province of Bukidnon posted the highest share of Php1.902B or 45.55 percent, followed by Lanao del Norte, Php1.261B or 30.20 percent, Misamis Occidental, Php626.27M or 14.99 percent, Misamis Oriental, Php352.08M or 8.43 percent and Camiguin, Php34.6M or 0.83 percent.

Eusena said the investments in Bukidnon were due to the robust growth in agriculture-related activities, such as, mill upgrading, expansion of land area for banana and cassava, piggery, poultry and warehouse improvement while those in Lanao del Norte were expansion of commercial enterprises, transport services, cooperatives and non-bank financial services and a chemical-based and consumer manufacturing company.

As to increase in investments, Eusena said, Lanao del Norte posted the highest, from Php129.32M to Php1.261B or 875.46 percent, followed by Misamis Occidental, from Php342.76M to Php626.27M or 82.71 percent.

Mis. Or. was next, from Php197.49M to Php352.08M or 78.28 percent and Bukidnon, from Php1.462B to Php1.902B while that of Camiguin declined from Php75.92M to Php34M or negative 54.43 percent.

Classified by sector, investments in servicing posted the highest share of Php1.645B or 39.38 percent, followed by agri-based, Php788.59M or 18.88 percent, chemical-based, Php567M or 3.57 percent, infrastructure and services, Php567M or 10.58 percent and trading, Php338.6M or 8.11 percent.

Consumer and manufacturing, Php305.17M or 7.31 percent, mining and metallurgical, Php1.55M or 0.04 percent, forest-based, Php1.5M or 0.04 percent, metals, Php0.07M and other sectors, Php87.31M or 2.09 percent.

Eusena, also, said investments during the period was dominated by the banks with Php747.13M or 17.89 percent, followed by business name registrations (BSN), Php745.29M or 17.84 percent, Bureau of Investments (BOI)-registered, Php622.92M or 14.91 percent.

Local government unit (LGU)-initiatives, Php387.21M or 9.27 percent, Small Medium Enterprises/ One Town One Project (SME/OTOP) Cluster Projects, Php58.04M, financing, Php29.27M or 0.70 percent and other multi-sources investments, Php1.57B or 38 percent. (PIA 10)

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Filipino scientist turns tilapia fish bone, eggshells into ‘bioceramics’ (http://ph.yfittopostblog.com/2010/10/21/filipino-scientist-turns-tilapia-fish-bone-eggshells-into-bioceramics/)
By Anna Valmero, loQal.ph
For Yahoo! Southeast Asia

ILIGAN CITY, LANAO DEL NORTE - Waste materials like fish bones and eggshells can be turned into useful “bioceramics” for coating bone implants in humans, according to a study by Dr. Reynaldo Magdadaro Vequizo of Mindanao State University.

Vequizo headed a project at MSU-Iligan Institute of Technology on the synthesis of a bioceramic materials into a thermal spray coating for bone implants, among other medical and commercial purposes.

“In Mindanao, we found that there are a lot of agricultural and household waste like the bones of bangus (milkfish), tilapia and other fishes and the egg shells that are usually discarded as garbage and knowing their composition, we studied them as potential bioceramics,” said Vequizo, who is a professor at MSU.

During the recent ASEAN-India Review and Scientific Forum on Thermal Spray held in Tagaytay City, Vequizo presented studies that found the bangus, tilapia and egg shells as viable building blocks for bioceramics due to its calcium composition that is closely related to human bones.

In 2008, local universities like MSU were recommended provide outlines of possible studies on thermal spray.

“Our choice was between studying expensive processes and bioceramic materials. We chose the latter because the materials to make bioceramics made of fish bones and egg shells are there, we have a steady supply of that from Mindanao fish ports,” Vequizo recalls.

“We just pay the restaurants for collection of fish bones and we have a team that collects egg shells from homes and other sources as well.”

Thermal spraying is a coating process in which melted or heated materials are sprayed onto a surface to repair damage surfaces, to improve performance of movable mechanical parts or to prolong the lifespan of an equipment.

Specifically, the fish bones and egg shells are turned into hydroxyapatite compounds, which are inorganic materials that are suited for clinical applications. The material also exhibits “biocompatibility”, meaning it forms direct chemical bond with hard tissues and bones when used as bone filters or ceramic coating in surgical implants.

According to one of their studies, hydroxyapatite compounds made from tilapia bones has promising applications as chemical gas sensor and can be used in the field of chromatography, catalysts, drug delivery systems and fuel cells.

At present, there are already various techniques that are used to synthesize hydroxyapatite compounds from bioceramic materials but these are expensive. Thus, the resulting biocceramics produced are also expensive.

Citing data from the Bureau of Fisheries and Aquatic Resources, Vequizo added that inland tilapia fisheries in the country has produced 723,000 tons of tilapia in 2006, which can provide a good source of tilapia fish bones to make hydroxyapatite compounds .

Another study points to eggshells as source of hydroxyapatite bioceramics through heat treatment and “chemical route” method.

“This provides an alternative way to production of bioceramics that is cheaper than those produced using the wet chemical process that uses expensive materials,” says Vequizo.

Vequizo was sent for a month-long training in India’s Central Glass and Ceramics Research Institute.

“We are also planning to conduct similar studies to bones of tuna and blue marlin, which are also abundant products in Mindanao,” he says.

“There is a lot of promise in the area, especially that we are rich in possible sources of bioceramics in Philippines and we just disregard them as waste. I am optimistic we can make more relevant studies on this area.”

TKC Steel to commission blast furnace (http://www.manilatimes.net/index.php/business-columns/29554-tkc-steel-to-commission-blast-furnace) :banana::cheers::)
Friday, 22 October 2010

TKC Steel Corp. said it will start next week the commissioning work of its blast furnace in Iligan City.

In a disclosure to the Philippine Stock Exchange, TKC said the blast furnace in Northern Mindanao is scheduled for cold testing to ensure all components of the system including the material handling equipment will function properly when the facility is energized next week.

Upon confirmation of cold testing results, the facility will be scheduled for hot testing and actual firing.

TKC unit Treasure Steelworks Corp. (TSC) is undertaking the project.

Delays pushed back the commissioning work in the P450-million blast furnace in Northern Mindanao, which was originally scheduled in the third quarter.

“[The delay] was due to technical issues and also the inclement weather in Mindanao and the power shortage,” Wilfrido Gamboa, TKC chief information officer, said in a text message.

TSC said the full operation of its blast furnace would improve the ability of the company to produce steel from indigenous iron ore, completing the first fully integrated steel mill in the country.

TSC’s ore beneficiation plant and power generation plant will complement the blast furnace to ensure adequate raw material supply for efficient production of steel products, TKC said.

The company trimmed its losses to P202 million in the first half from P320 million last year due to higher sales and lower operating expenses.

Its shares were last traded on Wednesday at P3.52 each.
KRISTA ANGELA M. MONTEALEGRE

Lanao Norte strengthens local cooperatives (http://www.sunstar.com.ph/cagayan-de-oro/business/lanao-norte-strengthens-local-cooperatives)

TUBOD, Lanao del Norte - The Provincial Cooperative Office (PCO), in a bid to further strengthen the local cooperatives, conducted a Direction Setting Workshop on October 28 at the Macapagal Training Center here.

The activity was participated in by representatives from 14 cooperatives comprising the Lanao del Norte Food Processors Association (LANORFPA).

"We need to strengthen the food processors' federation for them to gain better access to government assistance," said PCO head Rod Gamit.

During the workshop, the participants were taught the strength indicators of an organization, which includes membership, financial stability and sound organizational structure.

The LANORFPA is a regular participant in food expos and tourism conventions to give their products more exposure in the regional and national market.

In recent food conventions, LANORFPA has noted an increasing trend in its product orders from new and previous clients.

Also assisting the PCO in its activities are ECOWEB, LAFCCOD, Golden Arrow View of Life Foundation Inc. and the Department of Trade and Industry-Iligan.

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Gaisano Citi Super Mall Iligan
Roxas Ave, Barangay Villaverde, Iligan City (http://www.cdrking.com/index.php?mod=branches&region=Mindanao&city=Iligan)

kanusa mag abre ang cd-r king? ga sugod na sila construct sa ila stall?

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Filipino scientist turns tilapia fish bone, eggshells into ‘bioceramics’ (http://ph.yfittopostblog.com/2010/10/21/filipino-scientist-turns-tilapia-fish-bone-eggshells-into-bioceramics/)
By Anna Valmero, loQal.ph
For Yahoo! Southeast Asia

ILIGAN CITY, LANAO DEL NORTE - Waste materials like fish bones and eggshells can be turned into useful “bioceramics” for coating bone implants in humans, according to a study by Dr. Reynaldo Magdadaro Vequizo of Mindanao State University.

Vequizo headed a project at MSU-Iligan Institute of Technology on the synthesis of a bioceramic materials into a thermal spray coating for bone implants, among other medical and commercial purposes.

“In Mindanao, we found that there are a lot of agricultural and household waste like the bones of bangus (milkfish), tilapia and other fishes and the egg shells that are usually discarded as garbage and knowing their composition, we studied them as potential bioceramics,” said Vequizo, who is a professor at MSU.

During the recent ASEAN-India Review and Scientific Forum on Thermal Spray held in Tagaytay City, Vequizo presented studies that found the bangus, tilapia and egg shells as viable building blocks for bioceramics due to its calcium composition that is closely related to human bones.

In 2008, local universities like MSU were recommended provide outlines of possible studies on thermal spray.

“Our choice was between studying expensive processes and bioceramic materials. We chose the latter because the materials to make bioceramics made of fish bones and egg shells are there, we have a steady supply of that from Mindanao fish ports,” Vequizo recalls.

“We just pay the restaurants for collection of fish bones and we have a team that collects egg shells from homes and other sources as well.”

Thermal spraying is a coating process in which melted or heated materials are sprayed onto a surface to repair damage surfaces, to improve performance of movable mechanical parts or to prolong the lifespan of an equipment.

Specifically, the fish bones and egg shells are turned into hydroxyapatite compounds, which are inorganic materials that are suited for clinical applications. The material also exhibits “biocompatibility”, meaning it forms direct chemical bond with hard tissues and bones when used as bone filters or ceramic coating in surgical implants.

According to one of their studies, hydroxyapatite compounds made from tilapia bones has promising applications as chemical gas sensor and can be used in the field of chromatography, catalysts, drug delivery systems and fuel cells.

At present, there are already various techniques that are used to synthesize hydroxyapatite compounds from bioceramic materials but these are expensive. Thus, the resulting biocceramics produced are also expensive.

Citing data from the Bureau of Fisheries and Aquatic Resources, Vequizo added that inland tilapia fisheries in the country has produced 723,000 tons of tilapia in 2006, which can provide a good source of tilapia fish bones to make hydroxyapatite compounds .

Another study points to eggshells as source of hydroxyapatite bioceramics through heat treatment and “chemical route” method.

“This provides an alternative way to production of bioceramics that is cheaper than those produced using the wet chemical process that uses expensive materials,” says Vequizo.

Vequizo was sent for a month-long training in India’s Central Glass and Ceramics Research Institute.

“We are also planning to conduct similar studies to bones of tuna and blue marlin, which are also abundant products in Mindanao,” he says.

“There is a lot of promise in the area, especially that we are rich in possible sources of bioceramics in Philippines and we just disregard them as waste. I am optimistic we can make more relevant studies on this area.”

congrats sir rey! he was my high school physics teacher! idol! :D:D:D

2008 Annual Financial Report of Mindanao Cities

Cities Gross Income Rank
Davao City 3,279,863 5
Zamboanga City 2,004,040 10
Cagayan de Oro 1,452,191 14
Iligan 1,081,773 22
General Santos 1,075,419 23
Butuan 879,633 28
Tagum 629,079 33
Kidapawan 428,914 50
Panabo 427,134 51
Gingoog 411,585 54
Digos 387,438 58
Koronadal 369,818 60
Dipolog 366,186 61
Ozamiz 364,900 62
Marawi 310,193 75
Dapitan 302,186 76
Oroquieta 243,681 93
Isabela 242,819 95
Lamitan 239,542 97
Tangub 222,491 99
El Salvador 169,724 103


I wonder how much Iligan earned in 2009.

Source: http://www.pueblophilippines.com/philippine-cities-financial-profile-200-income-and-expenses

You can see the full report at:

Source: http://www.coa.gov.ph/Financial_Reports.htm

-dp-

All set for Oplan Kaluluwa, says PNP Iligan (http://www.pia.gov.ph/?m=12&fi=p101028.htm&no=A2)
by Lorry V. Gabule

Iligan City (28 October) --aw enforcers from the Iligan City Police Office-Philippine National Police (ICPO-PNP) will be deployed to different cemeteries within the city starting October 31, in line with this year's celebration of "Undas" or the All Saints and All Soul's Day on November 1 and 2, respectively.

P/SSupt Bernardo L. Reamon, Jr., ICPO City Director, said that there would be Police Assistance Center (PAC) to be established in different cemeteries that will cater to the safety of the people coming in and out of the vicinity visiting their departed loved ones.

Also, mobile group or the Public Safety Company will conduct check points along the city thoroughfare, Reamon added.

The Task Force Depensa Iligan, composed of PNP and the Philippine Army (PA), will be conducting patrol to prevent entry of lawless elements indulged in terroristic activity.

While it is the function of the police to focus against criminalities in this time where some people would take advantage to disrupt the peace and order situation of the city, we also encourage everyone to help PNP by being vigilant, expressed Reamon.

All five (5) police stations shall maintain their normal routine of securing their area of concerns.

There are non-government organizations (NGOs), like the Task Force San Miguel, and other volunteers, tapped by the ICPO to become force multipliers who will assist the police in the operation during the period.

We still implement the gun ban in this election period, the lifting of this Election Order will be on November 10, 2010, Reamon said.

Reamon said, "Everything is set and our desire to attain peace is our concern, most especially in this occasion where we expect huge crowd to be protected." (PIA LDN)

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Gaisano Citi Super Mall Iligan
Roxas Ave, Barangay Villaverde, Iligan City (http://www.cdrking.com/index.php?mod=branches&region=Mindanao&city=Iligan)

WOW..sure? :banana: :banana: :banana:

when daw? unsa nga floor? thanks..:)

2008 Annual Financial Report of Mindanao Cities

Cities Gross Income Rank
Davao City 3,279,863 5
Zamboanga City 2,004,040 10
Cagayan de Oro 1,452,191 14
Iligan 1,081,773 22
General Santos 1,075,419 23
Butuan 879,633 28
Tagum 629,079 33
Kidapawan 428,914 50
Panabo 427,134 51
Gingoog 411,585 54
Digos 387,438 58
Koronadal 369,818 60
Dipolog 366,186 61
Ozamiz 364,900 62
Marawi 310,193 75
Dapitan 302,186 76
Oroquieta 243,681 93
Isabela 242,819 95
Lamitan 239,542 97
Tangub 222,491 99
El Salvador 169,724 103


I wonder how much Iligan earned in 2009.

Source: http://www.pueblophilippines.com/philippine-cities-financial-profile-200-income-and-expenses

You can see the full report at:

Source: http://www.coa.gov.ph/Financial_Reports.htm

ana, mas dako pa tag income sa GenSan..! ila population is around 400K while kita 300K lang..:lol:

^^Basically, Iligan is the Industrial City of the South:cheers:

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6th Mindanao Film Fest - Film Entries (http://www.facebook.com/notes/msu-iit-discarte/6th-mindanao-film-fest-film-entries/496164880411)

SHORT FILMS (Open Category)

1. Ug Libud A Tu Bubungan (I will go back to the mountains)

Director: John Paul Seniel

2. Busgak (Rupture)

Director: Nef Luczon

3. Bilog (Circle)

Director: Engelbert Paculanang

4. Lesson Plan

Directors: Geraldo Jumawan and Arnold Aure

5. Facebroke

Director: Alberto Egot Jr.

6. The Exit

Director: Genecel Laya

SHORT FILMS (Student Category)

1. Tulay

Director: Zenas Harvey Apal

2. Kwerdas

Director: Jon Jose

3. Thy will be done

Director: Kristian Somera

4. Lumon

Directors: Leo Jeorge Bautista and Mark Nicholas Dapitanon

5. The Red Balloon

Director: Norico Aiko Limsiaco

DOCUMENTARY SHORTS

1. Rhose, Where do your Dreams Go?

Director: Nawruz Paguidopon

2. The Empowered Filipina

Director: Kamil Roxas

3. This Is My Water

Director: Jeff McGary

4. Passe Compose

Director: Jeff McGary

GUERILLA FILMMAKING COMPETITION

1. Sepia

Directors: Herman Candelaria and Maricel Barbasan

Davao City

2. Metro

Director: Nawruz Paguidopon

Quezon City

3. Tago

Director: Ronald Gary Bautista

Davao City

4. Sipyat

Director: Ronald Gary Bautista

Davao City

5. Ampon

Director: Ryan Paco

Davao City

6. Dungkoy

Director: Jeffrey Delos Santos

Davao City

7. 50/50

Director: Zerich Bordios

Davao City

8. Lingin

Director: Ivan Macarambon

Cagayan De Oro City

Guys, can anyone post a pic of your coffeeworks?

Guys, can anyone post a pic of your coffeeworks?

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Coffee Works
Highway 30, Tibanga, Iligan City

Photos courtesy of Zedney Ditucalan
:)

kanusa mag abre ang cd-r king? ga sugod na sila construct sa ila stall?

WOW..sure? :banana: :banana: :banana:

when daw? unsa nga floor? thanks..:)

No date specified in their website.

Any news on NCCC mall? How bout SM? National Book Store? Any good news? Please...let us know..daghang salamat guys.

Its just too sad I'll be leaving my hometown... :(

To be sure, there are varieties of science museums. For example, the realm of Natural Science has very well invaded the Mindanao museum world. The finest and most equipped example is the Natural Science Museum of the College of Science and Mathematics of Mindanao State University-Iligan Institute of Technology in Iligan City which opened in the late 1970s.

Kris-Crossing Mindanao Henry Sy and science (http://opinion.inquirer.net/inquireropinion/columns/view/20101101-300834/Henry-Sy-and-science)

hours to go before my long vacation in Iligan is over. lots of memories to treasure. lots of new places ive been to. Ug naka botar pa jud ko sa brgy election. Dako jud ug kausbanan ang nahitabo sa Iligan. Daghan na ug establishments na natukod. Hinaut unta magdugay kini sila para makadani pod sa uban nga mag invest sa Iligan.

I was really impressed with G-Mall. Pati sa Pala-o, wow! ga inatbangay ang mga bar. heheheh :cheers:..
Despite sa mga improvement sa siyudad naa japon mga butang nga gitagaan ug gamayng pagtagad sa atong gobyerno; sama sa mga badjao sa dalan, sidewalk vendors nga naa na halos sa tunga sa dalan gatinda, mga abusado nga driver (pati taxi "kuno" nga wlay metro) ug ang atong pantalan nga halos walay barko nga mo dunggo.

Overall I really enjoyed my stay here. Bye Iligan.. See you soon.. Inshaalllah!!

PS

Mas lami japon ang pizza sa Park to Go kaysa Calda. :lol:

ana, mas dako pa tag income sa GenSan..! ila population is around 400K while kita 300K lang..:lol:

Of course, with influx of new residents due to migration because of the tuna industry, no doubt Gen San's population would bloat faster than that of ours.

That is why we really need dynamism and enthusiasm on the part of our city officials to zone areas in our city to become hosts of light to medium industries so that our local residents will be able to find jobs as well as other citizens in the nearby provinces and regions.

Without job generating industries our city will never be able re-establish its economy.

Of course, with influx of new residents due to migration because of the tuna industry, no doubt Gen San's population would bloat faster than that of ours.

That is why we really need dynamism and enthusiasm on the part of our city officials to zone areas in our city to become hosts of light to medium industries so that our local residents will be able to find jobs as well as other citizens in the nearby provinces and regions.

Without job generating industries our city will never be able re-establish its economy.

Exactly. and we don't have to put up with investors short on cash and sincerity to invest. Look at what happened to National Steel Corporation and now called Global Steel Corporation. They don't even have the right to claim to its name as a "Global" company. They didn't pay their Php1B electricity bills to NPC as well as the local taxes. And I don't understand why the present administration is coddling this indian owners and even lobbying for re-connection of their power supply (without paying). The Mayor and his councilors should look to the bigger picture and what is good for Iligan, rather than "shortsighted political gains" (pagpugong kuno sa pag lay off, pero kung mas dako og able ang mopuli ani, mas dako nga opprtunity of daghang trabaho pa ang madugang, kays purdoy og tigi-tigi nga kumpanya). This Indians should go, there's no reason to reward corporations who don't pay electricity bills and taxes.

^^Amazing Coffee Works there in Iligan :okay:

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Gaisano Citi Super Mall Iligan
Roxas Ave, Barangay Villaverde, Iligan City (http://www.cdrking.com/index.php?mod=branches&region=Mindanao&city=Iligan)

Good job! I've been waiting for a CD-R King to open in Iligan :)

Of course, with influx of new residents due to migration because of the tuna industry, no doubt Gen San's population would bloat faster than that of ours.

That is why we really need dynamism and enthusiasm on the part of our city officials to zone areas in our city to become hosts of light to medium industries so that our local residents will be able to find jobs as well as other citizens in the nearby provinces and regions.

Without job generating industries our city will never be able re-establish its economy.

Tourism is a good area to start. With our natural springs and numerous waterfalls, we could train tour guides and conduct guided tours around our falls (well, we have to improve our infrastructures first) :) I've been to Bohol and I'm impressed how their government has made it into a tourist destination.

^^ Yup. I've been to Bohol as my wife comes from there. Their tourism is a good example worth emulating.

If one would look at Bohol, everything is just simple: develop tourism areas and then media exposure. Chocolate Hills, Hinagdanan, Sagbayan Peak are of simple natural attractions. THey don't ask high entrance fees but everything is really in place. T-shirt souvenirs, flyers and tarps show the tourism aspect of the whole island. Everyone supports it. In fact, all of those places are a result of LGU and Provincial Gov't unity and dynamism. I wish we can do that here in Iligan too. We have our natural attractions as well. We only lack dynamism and enthusiasm here..

^^ Yup. I've been to Bohol as my wife comes from there. Their tourism is a good example worth emulating.

If one would look at Bohol, everything is just simple: develop tourism areas and then media exposure. Chocolate Hills, Hinagdanan, Sagbayan Peak are of simple natural attractions. THey don't ask high entrance fees but everything is really in place. T-shirt souvenirs, flyers and tarps show the tourism aspect of the whole island. Everyone supports it. In fact, all of those places are a result of LGU and Provincial Gov't unity and dynamism. I wish we can do that here in Iligan too. We have our natural attractions as well. We only lack dynamism and enthusiasm here..

I think it's highly possible in Iligan :) Maybe it's the lack of investors because of the perceived lack of security in our city :( I talked with a tour guide, and the reason they started training tour guides for Bohol is because there was a clamor from the private sector.

When I get rich, I'll create a business out of the tourism in Iligan :D

Any news on NCCC mall? How bout SM? National Book Store? Any good news? Please...let us know..daghang salamat guys.

here it is, KAILANI BUILDING along Roxas Ave. will house another MANG INASAL in town and will open very soon.:banana::banana:

nice updated.Cant wait to go home and taste the lechon of Iligan.

100 million for river control projects (http://www.iligan.gov.ph/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=4585&Itemid=368)
Wednesday, 03 November 2010

Gibutyag ni kanhi Konsehal Orlando Maglinao, Chairman sa Task Force Pakgang Baha sa Iligan, nga nakaung-ong sa 2011 Proposed National Budget ang 100 milyones pesos nga pundo alang sa duha ka mga dagkong river control projects sa dakbayan.

Sa asoy ni Maglinao atol sa press conference sa city hall ni aging semana, nasayran nga iagi ang maong gahin sa buhatan ni Congressman Vicente “Varf” Belmonte, Jr. isip mao’y naningkamot nga mabutang ang pundo alang sa Lone Legislative District sa Iligan.

Matud pa, paggamiton ang 50 milyones pesos alang sa pagsumpay sa riprapping project diha sa Iligan River partikular na ang maggikan sa Ubaldo Laya ngadto sa Pala-o. Samtang ang laing 50 milyones pesos paggagamiton alang sa riprapping project sa Mandulog River. (mta)

Desmark Iligan

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3D Illustration by Quint Michael Cloribel

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Exactly. and we don't have to put up with investors short on cash and sincerity to invest. Look at what happened to National Steel Corporation and now called Global Steel Corporation. They don't even have the right to claim to its name as a "Global" company. They didn't pay their Php1B electricity bills to NPC as well as the local taxes. And I don't understand why the present administration is coddling this indian owners and even lobbying for re-connection of their power supply (without paying). The Mayor and his councilors should look to the bigger picture and what is good for Iligan, rather than "shortsighted political gains" (pagpugong kuno sa pag lay off, pero kung mas dako og able ang mopuli ani, mas dako nga opprtunity of daghang trabaho pa ang madugang, kays purdoy og tigi-tigi nga kumpanya). This Indians should go, there's no reason to reward corporations who don't pay electricity bills and taxes.

I share the same sentiments about NSC. They should get a new and more able investor. I find it a shame that such a big plant is going to waste because of incompetent management :ohno:

Desmark Iligan

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3D Illustration by Quint Michael Cloribel

WOW.Eto ang tinatawag na simple but elegant and clssy na design. Sana lahat ng design ng mga bagong establishment na itatayo jan sa Iligan ay dadaan sa isang committee na mag aaprove sa isang design na dapat ganito yung uri ng design. Im sure pag ganyan lahat ang mga design na bldg jan sa atin, magiging maganda at malinis tingnan ang ciudad.Congrats sa designer nito. Saan ba eto itatayo?tnx.:banana:

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Source: More Bites Pizza Iligan (http://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=103275893074558&set=a.103275889741225.5290.100001764435070&comments&alert&ref=notif&notif_t=photo_comment_tagged)
Grand Opening: November 8, 2010

ano to bagong pizza na naman sa Iligan.Congrats

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ICI-Iligan’s website development training for teachers
Source: Iligan Computer Institute (http://www.ici.edu.ph/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=395:ici-iligans-website-development-training-for-teachers-&catid=1:latest-news)

In cooperation with Mr. Jeff Evans and DepEd Iligan, ICI facilitated the website development training for the high school teachers in Iligan. The training aims to unite Iligan through the use of technology. The first batch of the trainees was composed of the public teachers. They had their training last October 27-28, 2010 at Cl1 of the main building. The teachers were facilitated by Lorie Mae Lagario, one of the WebX staff.

The teachers found the training interesting. They learned a lot since the training covers how to make their own school website using Joomla. After the training, the teachers had their recognition. Mr. Rey Yabo of ICNHS Tambacan Annex, Ma’am Marla Marva of ABMHS-Abuno ANNEX AND Ma’am Eileen Villaruz of ICNHS-Palao Annex was the hailed as the outstanding students during the training. Special tokens were also given to them. Mr. Bryan Aron, the ICT coordinator of the division office and Mr. Jefferson Obial, the academic head of ICI was also present during the recognion.

Patrombon strikes, Patrimonio falters in Korean netfest
Source: GMAnews.tv (http://www.gmanews.tv/story/205052/patrombon-strikes-patrimonio-falters-in-korean-netfest)

The country’s top male junior netter Jeson Patrombon opened his campaign in the Seogwipo Asia-Oceana Closed Championships with a 6-4, 6-3 victory over Rishabdev Raman of India Wednesday in Jeju-do, South Korea.

Making adjustments against the gusty winds, Patrombon won crucial points against a crack opponent to advance to the Round-of-32.

“It was a good win. When you’re struggling with your game, and you dug deep and found a way to win the match, it means you will have another chance to do better and make adjustments for your next match," said coach Manny Tecson.

Patrombon’s next foe will be hometown bet Hogi Kang, who eliminated Shukhrat Gizatulin of Uzbekistan, 6-0, 6-1.

Seeded second in the tournament ranked B1 by the International Tennis Federation, Patrombon will need to endure the challenge of a hometown bet backed by a rowdy crowd.

“We will be dealing with not just one player, but an entire team cheering against us. We will be ready for a fight," added Tecson.

Patrombon is also seeing action in the doubles competition. He will join forces for the first time with Jaden Grinter of New Zealand.

The duo opens their bid against James Kong of Hong Kong
and Siyu Liu of China.

Patrombon’s compatriot Anna Clarice Patrimonio suffered a crushing blow in her campaign here. The daughter of Philippine Basketball Association four-time Most Valuable Player Alvin Patrimonio lost to 16th seed Kanami Tsuj of Japan, 1-6, 4-6.

Patrimonio, who will turn 17 on November 25, will try to salvage some measure of pride in the doubles competition where she will be paired with Zhu Ai of China.

They will meet Koreans Jeong Yeong Won and Kim Da Hye in the first round. - RCJ, GMANews.TV

Henry Sy and science
Source: Inquirer.net (http://www.sm.com/smic/index.php?p=259&type=2&sec=25&aid=7535)
By Antonio J. Montalvan II

IT IS probably the Rolls-Royce of science museums in the Philippines, and the fact that it attracts a mass of crowding schoolchildren each day should serve as an assurance that education in science and technology is benefiting many of our young, albeit in an alternative way outside the classroom. Located right in the midst of the SM Mall of Asia is taipan Henry Sy’s brainchild, the Nido Fortified Science Discovery Center.

Corporate museums in the Philippines are slowly growing by the handful, but the taipan chose a different genre of museum especially characterized by its hands-on interactive way of educating the museum audience. Managing the museum is Family Entertainment Center Inc., a subsidiary of the SM Group of Companies.

It would be an understatement to say that the place is filled with education. The basic scientific operations that any school child knows are all there. But it is much more than that. Many of the center’s features are both current and futuristic. A section on global warming actually teaches one to find ways to help mitigate the melting of polar ice.

Among its very interactive presentations is a virtual coral reef where a “fish friend,” Mr. T, actually answers questions on how we can take part in saving our seas. The museum viewer gets inspired by the motivational interaction. There is the Bug Rug where viewers walk through a virtual Madagascar forest floor and apply real techniques done by entomologists to know more about different critters.

There is the usual robotics section, but it goes beyond presentation by allowing children a hands-on learning process about building and programming robots. A section on “City Science” features miniature replicas of the tallest buildings in the world. Here, an exhibit shows how the largest cities of the world can be affected by tremors from an earthquake simulator. The “Smart Media City” has the latest software in information technology and computer graphics with hands-on computer terminals and LCD screens that allow for interactive learning on 3-D virtual worlds.

The crowning glory of the museum is the huge orb that one does not miss in the center of it all. It is called the “Digistar Planetarium” and is considered one of the best in Southeast Asia. Inside, it is actually a theater of the “stars” (the real variety) with a seamless domed screen that is awesomely enormous, literally bringing the viewer to the edge of one’s seat. Among several showings are the “Dawn of the Space Age,” “Stars of the Pharaohs,” “Cosmic Collisions” (simulations of cosmic impacts narrated by actor Robert Redford), “Passport to the Universe” (a virtual tour of intergalactic space narrated by actor Tom Hanks) and the “Seven Wonders of the World” and their present-day counterparts.

Ensuring both visual and aural pleasure is a digital surround sound system that enwraps the viewer’s perspective. The “Dawn of the Space Age” was a particularly moving presentation of man’s first landing on the moon in 1969. Neil Armstrong and Edwin Aldrin come alive with the now-famous words “one small step for a man, one giant leap for mankind.” It is as if one’s feet are literally on the moon’s Sea of Tranquility.

Science museums are actually a burgeoning trend in the country. That SM has joined the growing venture with an extremely high-tech investment is a good paradigm for corporate institutions to follow. Others have opined that where SM malls sprout, a conversely proportional decline in the values of young people takes place because of the crass materialism it lures them to. May SM Mall of Asia’s Nido Fortified Science Discovery Center be able to reverse that trend.

The trailblazer in hands-on science museums in the country is the Philippine Science Centrum, a victim of last year’s Typhoon “Ondoy” devastation in the city of Marikina. Building on the come-on that “science is fun,” that is exactly what it offers to the viewer, who may not necessarily be a child. The galleries feature interactions on electricity and magnetism, lights, water, earth science, vision and perception, mathematics, bioethics and biotechnology, mechanics and a host of other things.

Located at the Riverbanks Center, the centrum actually supports a network of science museums nationwide, apart from its popularly received traveling exhibits. It considers as its most active provincial counterpart the Oro Science and Technology Centrum of the Mindanao University of Science and Technology in Cagayan de Oro City. As expected, all of the exhibits are hands-on, a must for people of all ages and not just schoolchildren.

To be sure, there are varieties of science museums. For example, the realm of Natural Science has very well invaded the Mindanao museum world. The finest and most equipped example is the Natural Science Museum of the College of Science and Mathematics of Mindanao State University-Iligan Institute of Technology in Iligan City which opened in the late 1970s. There is a private initiative in Pagadian City by the visual artist Edison Abraham, the Metro Park Science Museum where replica fossils of prehistoric animals are exhibited. In a class of its own is the Mindanao Food Museum of UP Mindanao in Davao City.

Science museums are the new vehicles in the pursuit of science education. They come at a special time when we lament the decline of science knowledge among our school graduates. Science museums have become authorities of their own by creating a friendly environment for learning science in an alternative non-classroom atmosphere. Those with the wherewithal should take note not only of the pedagogical benefits of this venture but also of the capital profitability it can generate. Above all, it provides a healthy resource of weekend leisure for families.

Iligan City Timelapse

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Montery Meatshop plus Hungry Juan
Tibanga Highway

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Hungry Juan offers tasty and affordable chicken and meat –based meals and snacks to consumers on-the-go

Consumers will have the opportunity to choose from seven different sauces to spice up their meals – gravy, teriyaki, lechon, peanut sauce, sweet chili, bbq and toyomansi.

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Flying through the air on a zipline 40 kilometers per hour with a pulley
harnessed to a steel cable is a pure adrenaline rush, and the new, most
exciting, extreme sport on the planet.

Need a definition of ziplining? It’s flying 100 feet above the ground
at speeds near 30 to 40 kilometers per hour with nothing but a cable
and a harness to support you.

Nature’s Park Treetop adventure tours takes people into the air over
NPC AGUS 6/7 near Maria Cristina Falls. Phase 1. A 70 meters it will
run for about 10 seconds, B. 180 Meters will run for about 22 seconds,
C. 140 Meters will run for about 18 seconds, D. 160 Meters will run,
for about 20 seconds, E. 120 Meters will run for about 15 seconds.

Then you slide into a harness and you’re off to 670 Meters all total
of Phase 1 and visit different trees and provide vantage point for observation
of the site’s diverse flora and fauna into a river bank of Agus river.

NOTE: Phase 2, 3, 4 are still under Construction.

Phase (2) 300meters Canopy Walk & Zipline 400meters
Phase (3) 900meters Superman Zipline
Phase (4) 200meters Kids Zipline

maka mingaw og samot ang Iligan. thanks sa pag post sa mga pictures..

ngutana lang ko, aha makita ang mga smiley sa post?? wala pa lagi ko anang mga saging nga musayaw?? :DDD

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TREETOP ADVENTURE TOURS

Flying through the air on a zipline 40 kilometers per hour with a pulley
harnessed to a steel cable is a pure adrenaline rush, and the new, most
exciting, extreme sport on the planet.

Need a definition of ziplining? It’s flying 100 feet above the ground
at speeds near 30 to 40 kilometers per hour with nothing but a cable
and a harness to support you.

Nature’s Park Treetop adventure tours takes people into the air over
NPC AGUS 6/7 near Maria Cristina Falls. Phase 1. A 70 meters it will
run for about 10 seconds, B. 180 Meters will run for about 22 seconds,
C. 140 Meters will run for about 18 seconds, D. 160 Meters will run,
for about 20 seconds, E. 120 Meters will run for about 15 seconds.

Then you slide into a harness and you’re off to 670 Meters all total
of Phase 1 and visit different trees and provide vantage point for observation
of the site’s diverse flora and fauna into a river bank of Agus river.

NOTE: Phase 2, 3, 4 are still under Construction.

Phase (2) 300meters Canopy Walk & Zipline 400meters
Phase (3) 900meters Superman Zipline
Phase (4) 200meters Kids Zipline

Woot woot! I can't wait to try it out once everything is done :)

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TREETOP ADVENTURE TOURS

Flying through the air on a zipline 40 kilometers per hour with a pulley
harnessed to a steel cable is a pure adrenaline rush, and the new, most
exciting, extreme sport on the planet.

Need a definition of ziplining? It’s flying 100 feet above the ground
at speeds near 30 to 40 kilometers per hour with nothing but a cable
and a harness to support you.

Nature’s Park Treetop adventure tours takes people into the air over
NPC AGUS 6/7 near Maria Cristina Falls. Phase 1. A 70 meters it will
run for about 10 seconds, B. 180 Meters will run for about 22 seconds,
C. 140 Meters will run for about 18 seconds, D. 160 Meters will run,
for about 20 seconds, E. 120 Meters will run for about 15 seconds.

Then you slide into a harness and you’re off to 670 Meters all total
of Phase 1 and visit different trees and provide vantage point for observation
of the site’s diverse flora and fauna into a river bank of Agus river.

NOTE: Phase 2, 3, 4 are still under Construction.

Phase (2) 300meters Canopy Walk & Zipline 400meters
Phase (3) 900meters Superman Zipline
Phase (4) 200meters Kids Zipline



This is an Iligan City " Adventure " I'll never forget, although I seldom forget anything I learn about or do on my visits.


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zyOB4qglD8c


Iligan City


Simply Amazing !

^^Wow congrats @BobNewYorkUSA :okay: How's your first ride?
Next in line phase 3 - 900meters Superman Zipline when done :cheers:

^^Wow congrats @BobNewYorkUSA :okay: How's your first ride?
Next in line phase 3 - 900meters Superman Zipline when done :cheers:

Lets just say it was an adventure I will not soon forget LOL , more details later when I have more time. It has been another fantastic visit to Iligan ! More later....................


Iligan City

Simply Amazing

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LOL...my brod's in law 4x4

Guys, any update sa new gasoline station sa sta. felomina.

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Iligan City and Iloilo City will sign memorandum of Agreement as "Sister Cities" today.

Guys, any update sa new gasoline station sa sta. felomina.

passed by the area last week, it's not yet opened but almost finished.

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i like this arcade.. very cozy.. is that coffee works owned by paras? if yes, that could easily e their most beautiful branch. even better than the one in SM north Edsa.. :okay:

Anus-a man ning coffee works mo ngari sa Butuan? hehehe

sige akong storyahon si uncle Elpie unya... :D :lol:

guyz, good news GOLDILOCKS is comin' at Kailani Building beside the new Mang Inasal branch along Roxas Avenue.:banana::banana::banana:

Guys, any update sa new gasoline station sa sta. felomina.

unsay update sa SM ug Pryce sa Iligan? Madayon to?

i think Iligan is very much ready for an SM development...

Iligan City and Iloilo City will sign memorandum of Agreement as "Sister Cities" today.

wow,, do you have news/press releases about this? i cant find one here in iloilo,, but anyway,, cheers for both "I" cities :banana:

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Good evening Iligan ^^




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wOw..Goldilocks is coming to town na...Gratz!!

i see kanina lang the tarpaulin of Mang Inasal and confirm na ika duha xa nga branch..
mayra pd naay 2nd branch..pirme puno sa G-Mall..

i can't wait to see and buy at Goldilocks...ehehe

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PHOTO BY: Erwin Mascarinas



Naa pakay lain na angle ani? Paki post pod. Salamat. :)

Dakoa gyud diay sa Gaisano Mall oi. Murag ni gamay gud tan-awon ang Iligan tungod sa kadako sa building.

unsay update sa SM ug Pryce sa Iligan? Madayon to?

Still on process of negotiation kay ang pryce properties na-loan sa banko sa cdo.

guyz, good news GOLDILOCKS is comin' at Kailani Building beside the new Mang Inasal branch along Roxas Avenue.:banana::banana::banana:

Really? Kung ganun, my wife is gonna shout for joy with this one! paborito niya mamon ng goldies! :) Unsa man ni Sir Win, full resto or pastry/bakeshop outlet lang?

Excited ko sa 2nd branch of Mang Inasal and the 1st branch of Goldilocks in Iligan. :)

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Kiangon nako'g asa ni dapita, kung wala nako makita ang ABS-CBN... sa elena tower man diay ni...:lol::lol::lol: pagkadako ba uroy sa kabag-uhan diha. ang internetan diha sa una sa itaas, chowking naman diay karon ang naa sa ubos...kanang red ribbon pud diha, wala pa man tawon na sa una... congrats Iligan, padayon unta ang paglambo...

Naa pakay lain na angle ani? Paki post pod. Salamat. :)

Naa. Infact I'm using it as my avatar. I will ask the owner if sugot sya. He's a photojournalist.

Still on process of negotiation kay ang pryce properties na-loan sa banko sa cdo.

I hope the negotiations will bring forth the outcome we seek, an SM Mall in Iligan. :)

Guys, unsa nga shop ang mipuli atong daan nga location sa Smart Wireless Business Center?

N. Mindanao posts P1.4-B tax collection
Source: Manila Bulletin (http://www.mb.com.ph/articles/286308/n-mindanao-posts-p14b-tax-collection)

By MIKE U. CRISMUNDO
November 7, 2010, 3:26pm
CAGAYAN DE ORO CITY, Philippines – More infrastructure development is seen in Northern Mindanao as tax collection continues to go up, with this year’s second quarter internal revenue collections alone reaching P1.426 billion compared with last year’s P1.218 billion, it was learned Sunday.

Data gathered from the National Economic Development Authority (NEDA) disclosed that internal revenue collections in Northern Mindanao for the second quarter of 2010 posted 17 percent increase compared with the same period last year.

“We are expecting before the end of the year and early next year to increase this figure,” said a NEDA officer who requested anonymity.

The NEDA record showed that the biggest increase was posted by Revenue District (RD) 100 Ozamiz with 35 percent or P143.273 million this year compared with last year's P106.381 million followed by RD 99 Bukidnon with 28 percent or P191.657 million as against last year's figure of only P149.638 million.

NEDA data also disclosed that RD 98 Cagayan de Oro City also posted an increase of 24 percent or P847.697 million collection this year compared with last year's P682.030 million while RD 97 Gingoog has 21 percent increase or had a collection of P58.212 million this year compared with the 2009 figure of P47.838 million. RD 101 Iligan City also reached P185.049 million collection.

By type of tax collections, NEDA record also said other taxes registered the biggest increase with 29 percent from last year's P62.483 million to P80.779 million in the second quarter of 2010 followed by income tax with 21 percent increase, from P761.969 million last year to P925.343 million in 2010.

On the other hand, value-added tax registered 7.54 percent increase with R357.445 million this year compared with last year's R332.397 million while percentage tax had 3.11 percent increase with R61.937 million in 2010 from last year's R60.066 million.

Among all the types of taxes, only excise tax suffered negative 40.60 percent as this year's collection reached only P382,519 compared with last year's P643,978, NEDA record said. NEDA, however, is expecting this data to make positive record next year.

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Suhi by IPAG

Reworked from the Oedipus plot, "Suhi" transplants the Greek classic to our modern settings, of clan wars, of subterfuge, of the scramble for domination, where our fates are left to the powers of the gods. This latest IPAG production (writer and director: STEVEN PATRICK C. FERNANDEZ) completed a 29-show run, filling up the theatres with SRO attendances to glowing responses. Perhaps, it is the relevance of the theme that drew the audiences in.

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Origami at Capitol University

"Origami" by 2010 SEA Write awardee Marj Evasco is transcreated to performance by Steven Patrick C. Fernandez and the Integrated Performing Arts Guild (IPAG). Evasco's poem is celebrated in the multi-media "SugaTula" that includes the works of some of the more prominent poets with affiliations to the Southern Philippines.

Guys, unsa nga shop ang mipuli atong daan nga location sa Smart Wireless Business Center?

to me it looks like a resto but with the small area, i dont think so. Maybe it's a bank?

^^I believe it's East West Banking Corp. (EastWest Bank)

More Bites Pizza Iligan Branch Opening

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Iligan City and Iloilo City will sign memorandum of Agreement as "Sister Cities" today.

wow,, do you have news/press releases about this? i cant find one here in iloilo,, but anyway,, cheers for both "I" cities :banana:

It's not Iloilo City but sisterhood agreement between Iligan and Pototan, Iloilo

^^Thanks for the clarification @gORs. :)

[QUOTE=GearX;66782225]More Bites Pizza Iligan Branch Opening

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Ikaw ga-cut sa ribbon ani @GearX noh? :banana:

Really? Kung ganun, my wife is gonna shout for joy with this one! paborito niya mamon ng goldies! :) Unsa man ni Sir Win, full resto or pastry/bakeshop outlet lang?

it's an outlet with few tables kasi maliit lang yung space nila.perhaps this could be followed if they're successful with this branch.:)

Kiangon nako'g asa ni dapita, kung wala nako makita ang ABS-CBN... sa elena tower man diay ni...:lol::lol::lol: pagkadako ba uroy sa kabag-uhan diha. ang internetan diha sa una sa itaas, chowking naman diay karon ang naa sa ubos...kanang red ribbon pud diha, wala pa man tawon na sa una... congrats Iligan, padayon unta ang paglambo...

daghang kabag-uhan,ang ABS-CBN sauna naay TV Patrol Iligan pero karun merged with CdeO's TV Patrol Northern Mindanao; ang internetan kay NSO na karun;sauna maglisod ig parking diri pero karun dako na ug parking space sa likod.; red ribbon sauna bibo pero karun medyo hinay na kay daghan naman ug kumpitencya..ug uban pa...:lol::lol: kaabot paka sa Overpass sa IIT built in 1998? ang tibanga naa napoy Jollibee Drive Thru,Rose Pharmacy ug Mercury Drug.next ani will be mga BANGKO!yes!..

Naa ko'y nadunggan nga magbutang pud daw ug branch ang Loy's Pharmacy sa Tibanga. Ambot ug tinuod ba pod. :)

to me it looks like a resto but with the small area, i dont think so. Maybe it's a bank?

para sa ako pud kay bank pud!

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Good evening Iligan ^^




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PHOTO BY: Erwin Mascarinas


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Nindota ani nga angle uie. Gimingaw na jud nuun ko sa Iligan.

Iligan City Timelapse

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Wow nindota gud. Salamat kaayo ani.

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That guy in black..kay ako ka workmate before here in Dumaguete City...... More bites was his business pag resign niya....gud thing nga naay ni franchise from Iligan...Let's drink to that :cheers::cheers:

I hope the negotiations will bring forth the outcome we seek, an SM Mall in Iligan. :)

Wow! Ang Ganda pakinggan..SM City Iligan...
God Bless

Nindota ani nga angle uie. Gimingaw na jud nuun ko sa Iligan.

I ike this too. Ang ganda tingnan, parnag iisipin mong hindi sa Iligan, lalo na yung paligin very green. Yung ang kinaganda ng city of Iligan Developments and nature are in one. Clean and green nga. I love it this angle. lalo na cguro kng may SM City Iligan dun sa bakanting area, somewhere sa london biscuits .:banana:

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Tnx sa pic to Erwin Mascarinas n to sir bob also.

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Tnx sa pic to Erwin Mascarinas n to sir bob also.

@Uonno, what appropriate timing for you to post this.

I have just returned from another Amazing visit to Iligan, another sure-fire adventure for me. In addition to visiting favorite places from past visits, I also visited some of the new things that were presented here on SSC-Iligan since my prior visit.

Fontina Restaurant on Tibanga Highway next to Kingsway Inn
Opened within the past few months. A great place for a quick snack or a full meal from a wide variety on the menu. Indoor and outdoor dining available. Clean bright and cheerful. WiFi equipped, Great Food, Excellent service.

I ate here quite a few times and just to make sure the eating experience would appeal to Iliganons, I took my Iliganon friends there and they all agreed. Definetly a place for locals, Domestic tourists and International Tourists. Great deserts too and it seems I just couldn't drink enough of their Mango Shake ! I first saw this place right here on SSC-Iligan and really enjoyed it.


Spent an afternoon at a party at Timoga, fantastic !

Visited the studios of DXMA Iligans newest webstreamer in English Language to the world and locally on 95.9 FM better known as " The Edge " " Your iPod Radio. I had scheduled my visit here ahead of time and " as promised " to the fans of this station I ran " Bob New Yorks Pasalubong Trivia Contest " giving away special pasalubongs I brought with me for this event.

Another visit to NPC Natures Park. Lots of additions to it since my visit a couple of years ago. New Exhibits including live annimals such as austriches, a Monkey, Boa Constrictor ( caged of course ) and either an alligator or crocidile ( they look the same to me ). The covered pavilion area right on the river edge ( as I had learned of first right here on SSC-Iligan ) proved to be a great place to cool off on a ( to me ) hot and humid day with a nice, natural cool breeze blowing through it.

My " Big Adventure " of this visit was " Experiencing " the Zip Line. I had never been on anything like this before and it is something I will never forget.

A visit to the Mayors office and City Hall.

Another big highlight was my visit to the Iligan City jail.

my adaptation from the board game Monopoly,

" Go Directly To Jail, Do Not Pass Jollibee, Do Not Collect 200 Jolliburgers "

It was just by coincidence that my visit coincided with National Correctional Consciouness Week and in addition to touring the Jail I was invited to participate in some of the festivities. I learned how to do the " Iligan March " by watching a Youtube Video of inmates at this jail performing it a few months ago. My visit to the Jail enabled me to join in doing " Iligan March " with some of the inmates who performed it during this celebration. talk about " being in the picture " that I first saw a few months ago, can be an unforgettable experience and this surely was.

You may wonder, why would anyone want to tour a Jail ? Hey, I never said I am a " Typical " touist. When I learned from a video on Youtube a few months ago about " Iligan Citys Award Winning Jail " ( Best Jail in Northern Mindanao ) I wondered what makes an Award Winning jail. There is some interesting recent history on the Iligan Jail, too numerous to go into here. to put it in simple terms, certain aspects of it became something of community involvement for things that were really needed. I am very glad that now I have been able to make a small contribution to this continuing effort.


A visit and tour of Iligan Medical Center College ( IMCC ) which caught my attention by a Youtube Video last year of some of the students performing a song about IMCC. Along with that, a guided tour of Iligan Medical Center Hospital.

A more in-depth tour and visit to MSU-IIT. There are so many things that interest me here that it is just too much for me to absorb all in one visit and of course there are always new things to see as well.

Coffee Works at Highway 30 ( first seen here on SSC-Iligan ) I only had time to stop here a few times for some coffee to go ( take out ) and take a look around inside. I'd call it an " UpScale Coffee Shop " ( WiFi equipped ) very clean, well lit, and cozy inside. The coffee may cost you a few peso more here compared to fast food franchises take out coffee but there are times when you get what you pay for. A visit to Coffee Works at highway 30 on Tibanga Highway is one of those times.

For the first time, I was able to experience how WiFi works. I brought a small " Notepad, or is it Netpad with me with built in WiFi. I had never used Wifi before and I forgot to bring the instructions for the netpad with me. Thanks to faculty at MSU-IIT they were able to get me going with it. As I am learning about more and more new and existing places in Iligan City offering no cost WiFi service to its customers it was something I wanted to learn how to use and now I have !

There are times when I am actually in Iligan, I feel as though I am in a " Informational Blackout " of what is going on. Here at home half way around the world from Iligan I always have broadband internet and several PC's to websurf Iligan at any time. When I am there I am out and about visiting and seeing things that interest me leaving me little time for being on the internet.


Although sometimes previous arrangements have to be made, I have never been denied anything I have wanted to visit or tour in Iligan City regardless of being a customary tourist attraction or not. My thanks to all of you that have made this possible. SSC-Iligan , Youtube and more recently the many pages of Facebook about Iligan have always been my best tour guides in showing things that prompt my interest in future visits. My many thanks and gratitude to all Iliganons who keep posting on the internet.

It is just one more reason I feel my description is accurate :



ILIGAN CITY



SIMPLY AMAZING !





At the moment I am still dealing with " Jet Lag " from the long journey home.

@Uonno, what appropriate timing for you to post this.

I have just returned from another Amazing visit to Iligan, another sure-fire adventure for me. In addition to visiting favorite places from past visits, I also visited some of the new things that were presented here on SSC-Iligan since my prior visit.

Fontina Restaurant on Tibanga Highway next to Kingsway Inn
Opened within the past few months. A great place for a quick snack or a full meal from a wide variety on the menu. Indoor and outdoor dining available. Clean bright and cheerful. WiFi equipped, Great Food, Excellent service.

I ate here quite a few times and just to make sure the eating experience would appeal to Iliganons, I took my Iliganon friends there and they all agreed. Definetly a place for locals, Domestic tourists and International Tourists. Great deserts too and it seems I just couldn't drink enough of their Mango Shake ! I first saw this place right here on SSC-Iligan and really enjoyed it.


Spent an afternoon at a party at Timoga, fantastic !

Visited the studios of DXMA Iligans newest webstreamer in English Language to the world and locally on 95.9 FM better known as " The Edge " " Your iPod Radio. I had scheduled my visit here ahead of time and " as promised " to the fans of this station I ran " Bob New Yorks Pasalubong Trivia Contest " giving away special pasalubongs I brought with me for this event.

Another visit to NPC Natures Park. Lots of additions to it since my visit a couple of years ago. New Exhibits including live annimals such as austriches, a Monkey, Boa Constrictor ( caged of course ) and either an alligator or crocidile ( they look the same to me ). The covered pavilion area right on the river edge ( as I had learned of first right here on SSC-Iligan ) proved to be a great place to cool off on a ( to me ) hot and humid day with a nice, natural cool breeze blowing through it.

My " Big Adventure " of this visit was " Experiencing " the Zip Line. I had never been on anything like this before and it is something I will never forget.

A visit to the Mayors office and City Hall.

Another big highlight was my visit to the Iligan City jail.

my adaptation from the board game Monopoly,

" Go Directly To Jail, Do Not Pass Jollibee, Do Not Collect 200 Jolliburgers "

It was just by coincidence that my visit coincided with National Correctional Consciouness Week and in addition to touring the Jail I was invited to participate in some of the festivities. I learned how to do the " Iligan March " by watching a Youtube Video of inmates at this jail performing it a few months ago. My visit to the Jail enabled me to join in doing " Iligan March " with some of the inmates who performed it during this celebration. talk about " being in the picture " that I first saw a few months ago, can be an unforgettable experience and this surely was.

You may wonder, why would anyone want to tour a Jail ? Hey, I never said I am a " Typical " touist. When I learned from a video on Youtube a few months ago about " Iligan Citys Award Winning Jail " ( Best Jail in Northern Mindanao ) I wondered what makes an Award Winning jail. There is some interesting recent history on the Iligan Jail, too numerous to go into here. to put it in simple terms, certain aspects of it became something of community involvement for things that were really needed. I am very glad that now I have been able to make a small contribution to this continuing effort.


A visit and tour of Iligan Medical Center College ( IMCC ) which caught my attention by a Youtube Video last year of some of the students performing a song about IMCC. Along with that, a guided tour of Iligan Medical Center Hospital.

A more in-depth tour and visit to MSU-IIT. There are so many things that interest me here that it is just too much for me to absorb all in one visit and of course there are always new things to see as well.

Coffee Works at Highway 30 ( first seen here on SSC-Iligan ) I only had time to stop here a few times for some coffee to go ( take out ) and take a look around inside. I'd call it an " UpScale Coffee Shop " ( WiFi equipped ) very clean, well lit, and cozy inside. The coffee may cost you a few peso more here compared to fast food franchises take out coffee but there are times when you get what you pay for. A visit to Coffee Works at highway 30 on Tibanga Highway is one of those times.

For the first time, I was able to experience how WiFi works. I brought a small " Notepad, or is it Netpad with me with built in WiFi. I had never used Wifi before and I forgot to bring the instructions for the netpad with me. Thanks to faculty at MSU-IIT they were able to get me going with it. As I am learning about more and more new and existing places in Iligan City offering no cost WiFi service to its customers it was something I wanted to learn how to use and now I have !

There are times when I am actually in Iligan, I feel as though I am in a " Informational Blackout " of what is going on. Here at home half way around the world from Iligan I always have broadband internet and several PC's to websurf Iligan at any time. When I am there I am out and about visiting and seeing things that interest me leaving me little time for being on the internet.


Although sometimes previous arrangements have to be made, I have never been denied anything I have wanted to visit or tour in Iligan City regardless of being a customary tourist attraction or not. My thanks to all of you that have made this possible. SSC-Iligan , Youtube and more recently the many pages of Facebook about Iligan have always been my best tour guides in showing things that prompt my interest in future visits. My many thanks and gratitude to all Iliganons who keep posting on the internet.

It is just one more reason I feel my description is accurate :



ILIGAN CITY



SIMPLY AMAZING !





At the moment I am still dealing with " Jet Lag " from the long journey home.

WOW. What an awesome experienced yo had Mr. Bob. I will experience that this December when I go home for a vacation. Tnx a lot for the info.

^^Welcome @Bob :) Always good to read positive feedback from you. I'm glad you enjoyed you're recent trip to Iligan.

I don't know if this has been posted before...

Iligan City
The City of Majestic Waterfalls

http://www.nscb.gov.ph/ru10/profile/iligan/images/iligan_LDN_map.jpg

Overview

Chroniclers say that centuries ago, long before Legaspi’s expedition reached the Philippines in 1565, the Tala-andigs and the Banwahons, two of the known peace-loving Higa-onon tribes of Mindanao, had to build an ilihan or iliyan, meaning a “fortress of defense” on the coastal plain to secure them from the frequent attacks of pirates and savage tribes. Hence, the place came to be called as ILIGAN.

ILIGAN, City of Majestic Waterfalls, as of latest count has 23 waterfalls distributed in the 44 barangays of Iligan. Most famous of these waterfalls is the Maria Cristina Falls which is harnessed by the National Power Corporation-Mindanao Generation and provides electricity not only for the city but the entire Mindanao island as well.

http://www.nscb.gov.ph/ru10/profile/iligan/images/image001.jpg

Iligan is an industrialized city with an income of PhP 1,929,603,147 which is 87% higher of its income in the previous year. The increase of income was brought about by the new investments in the city like the construction of a bigger Gaisano Citi Super Mall and the opening of NPC’s Nature Park which boasts tourist attractions such as a zip line, ostriches, pythons, a bat park and butterfly garden, a lagoon, waterfalls, a viewing deck and wall climbing.

Iligan is not only known for its rich natural resources, but is also the home of nationally accalaimed artists, poets, film makers, cultural workers, and writers and geographically, the crossroad of the cultural mix of the Maranaos of Lanao del Sur, Higaonons of Bukidnon and the dominantly Christian settlers and migrants from Luzon, Visayas, and other places of Mindanao.

more here:
http://www.nscb.gov.ph/ru10/profile/iligan/default.html

I don't know if this has been posted before...

Iligan City
The City of Majestic Waterfalls

http://www.nscb.gov.ph/ru10/profile/iligan/images/iligan_LDN_map.jpg

Overview

Chroniclers say that centuries ago, long before Legaspi’s expedition reached the Philippines in 1565, the Tala-andigs and the Banwahons, two of the known peace-loving Higa-onon tribes of Mindanao, had to build an ilihan or iliyan, meaning a “fortress of defense” on the coastal plain to secure them from the frequent attacks of pirates and savage tribes. Hence, the place came to be called as ILIGAN.

ILIGAN, City of Majestic Waterfalls, as of latest count has 23 waterfalls distributed in the 44 barangays of Iligan. Most famous of these waterfalls is the Maria Cristina Falls which is harnessed by the National Power Corporation-Mindanao Generation and provides electricity not only for the city but the entire Mindanao island as well.

http://www.nscb.gov.ph/ru10/profile/iligan/images/image001.jpg

Iligan is an industrialized city with an income of PhP 1,929,603,147 which is 87% higher of its income in the previous year. The increase of income was brought about by the new investments in the city like the construction of a bigger Gaisano Citi Super Mall and the opening of NPC’s Nature Park which boasts tourist attractions such as a zip line, ostriches, pythons, a bat park and butterfly garden, a lagoon, waterfalls, a viewing deck and wall climbing.

Iligan is not only known for its rich natural resources, but is also the home of nationally accalaimed artists, poets, film makers, cultural workers, and writers and geographically, the crossroad of the cultural mix of the Maranaos of Lanao del Sur, Higaonons of Bukidnon and the dominantly Christian settlers and migrants from Luzon, Visayas, and other places of Mindanao.

more here:
http://www.nscb.gov.ph/ru10/profile/iligan/default.html

Majority of the Iligan photos in their site were taken from SSC Iligan's FB page "Explore Iligan 9200" :cheers:

^^I am proud of Explore Iligan 9200. :okay:

I don't know if this has been posted before...

Iligan City
The City of Majestic Waterfalls

http://www.nscb.gov.ph/ru10/profile/iligan/images/iligan_LDN_map.jpg

Overview

Chroniclers say that centuries ago, long before Legaspi’s expedition reached the Philippines in 1565, the Tala-andigs and the Banwahons, two of the known peace-loving Higa-onon tribes of Mindanao, had to build an ilihan or iliyan, meaning a “fortress of defense” on the coastal plain to secure them from the frequent attacks of pirates and savage tribes. Hence, the place came to be called as ILIGAN.

ILIGAN, City of Majestic Waterfalls, as of latest count has 23 waterfalls distributed in the 44 barangays of Iligan. Most famous of these waterfalls is the Maria Cristina Falls which is harnessed by the National Power Corporation-Mindanao Generation and provides electricity not only for the city but the entire Mindanao island as well.

http://www.nscb.gov.ph/ru10/profile/iligan/images/image001.jpg

Iligan is an industrialized city with an income of PhP 1,929,603,147 which is 87% higher of its income in the previous year. The increase of income was brought about by the new investments in the city like the construction of a bigger Gaisano Citi Super Mall and the opening of NPC’s Nature Park which boasts tourist attractions such as a zip line, ostriches, pythons, a bat park and butterfly garden, a lagoon, waterfalls, a viewing deck and wall climbing.

Iligan is not only known for its rich natural resources, but is also the home of nationally accalaimed artists, poets, film makers, cultural workers, and writers and geographically, the crossroad of the cultural mix of the Maranaos of Lanao del Sur, Higaonons of Bukidnon and the dominantly Christian settlers and migrants from Luzon, Visayas, and other places of Mindanao.

more here:
http://www.nscb.gov.ph/ru10/profile/iligan/default.html


Is the income figure above for 2009?

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Coffee Works
Highway 30, Tibanga, Iligan City

Wow! Lovely!

Wow! Lovely!

credits to the one who took the picture...:cheers:

Tinago falls, Iligan city

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^^I believe it's East West Banking Corp. (EastWest Bank)

confirm! EAST-WEST BANK :banana::banana::banana:

One Secret Ingredient (http://www.sunstar.com.ph/cagayan-de-oro/lifestyle/one-secret-ingredient)

By Enrico Lluch
Thursday, November 11, 2010

CROSSING over can be very risky if one is not ready and equipped, and propped up with the right reasons. Lea Padilla, the visual artist I know, just did that, and not only is she ready, equipped and backed with substantial rationale, but also, she has a cause.

Driving to Fontina Cafe from Cagayan de Oro seemed very long for I could not wait to get lost in Lea’s cooking all over again. She used to do our meals sometime ago when we “camped out” as a band of artists in the lanai of their family home in Camague, Iligan City. She had a way with sauces, a kaleidoscopic variety in the menu and presentation, and how it titillated our palates and other sensibilities. She promised to do me another breakfast, this time with my photo-shoot retinue.

To invoke the gourmand in her is like rousing the artist in a post blank-canvas stage. It is when the artist is immersed in passion with forms, colors and textures in relation to her guts. Throw Lea in the kitchen and she blends with the rest of the kitchen staff, not only because she is diminutive but also that she goes with the work flow instantaneously. Like, fish in water. Nonetheless, Enderun trained!

After I handed her my long promised gift, she ushered us all into the dining area. Lea offered no less than a sincere smile to new acquaintances, and gleefully called out to each of them in their first names like an old friend. She can truly make one very at home. Though the breakfast was brief and hearty, it was everything else except unexciting. Imagine sunny-side-up eggs, ham and bacon, over a delicate layer of robust tomato sauce, fresh herbs galore as garnish, and sprinklings of triple-cheese over an ultra thin crust pizza that is baked to perfection; freshly brewed coffee; and, followed by freshly baked apple-tart -- crust folded and tucked with aplomb, as opposed to the usual cover and fluting. Both pizza and apple pie are not yet on Fontina’s menu. Quite an exchange gift, I may say. The textures and feel of the breakfast is reminiscent of one I had in my youth on a visit to Navarra, Barcelona.

Lea has been making art since early in her grade school. While in her grade 1, her nimble hands crafted bookmarks which she gave to classmates. At home, she would frolic in Mom’s kitchen and fashioned gum paste into flowers etcetera, of course to Mommy Chol’s delight. Mom was in the peak of catering and baking in the late 60s and 70s. Somehow, Lea became the “cook” among the siblings.

Perhaps through genetic predisposition, if there is anything of that sort, and through her own volition and willful designs, she became the accomplished visual artist that she is now. Armed with a Bachelor of Fine Arts major in Painting degree, from no less than the University of Santo Tomas, throughout her life, she has shaped a school of art disciples in Iligan. Approaching art-making with a pedagogy of art-appreciation as its basis, her tutelage is such that her students end up becoming interior designers, decorators and even architects, if not becoming accomplished as artists themselves.

She has not been at painting since the resto-cafe opened. Thus, all the creative juices are all poured into her cuisine. No doubt, the flavors that one is treated with in every dish ordered is approaching gourmet levels with anthropologic significance û very much like her paintings: detailed, textured and rich with cultural, as well as, personal significance.

Food and the business of it are borne from a concoction of processes and ingredients, and of course, purpose.

Fontina cafe is family owned. Siblings Roberto Padilla (corporate and trial lawyer), Agnes Clipp (based in Maryland, USA), Ruby Sta. Maria (pediatrician), Cynthia Padilla, and Ampoy Siao (businesswoman, councilor’s wife, and law-student) all pitch in, in one way or another, to get the act right. With two other chefs in their employ, managing-chef Lea gets zealous team playing with Cynthia in the administration. Save for the one in the US, the siblings would drop by when time allows for them to relish their enclave which just opened last summer. Renowned lawyer and former vice-mayor of Iligan, father Henry beamed at my explanation why I was there with camera and all. With his continuous zest for legal counseling and his usual charm, one would have no hint that he is in his mid-80s. The family is the secret ingredient if one observes.

“Our food is not fusion because it sounds like confusion. As with culture, food adapts to some variation. The right ingredients and processes elevate the food as guide to places of their origin.” Lea proffers when I provoked her with an interjection, “Asian-fusion?” as a definitive tagline for Fontina’s cuisine.

Through all her trips abroad, of all names, why pick, Fontina?

Fontina cheese has been made in the Alpine Val d’Aosta in Italy since the 12th century. It is Lea's preferred cheese because “it can be appreciated as it is, it can also be used as an ingredient in soups, cakes, sauces and dips”.

The price is prohibitive but she sees it as “an investment” in her cuisine and in the family-owned restaurant-cum-cafe.

"The longer it is aged, the stronger and richer the flavours become. The perk in the palate is just priceless." Fontina Val d'Aosta is essentially "made from raw or unpasteurized milk from a single milking" (Wikipedia).

I can never have enough of it, as it can be eaten with Moutarde de Meaux, a grainy mustard, as an aperitif to a wide choice of main courses and desserts, that might as well involve Fontina cheese, together with other cheeses.

When in Fontina Cafe, try asking for a platter sampler of the namesake cheese from either of the Ms Padilla's around. They might just indulge you, but do not cringe at the tag, it may comes all the way from the Italian Alps, Denmark, Sweden or France. Pray it is Italian, if you love strong cheese.

The name Fontina for the resto-cafe is family picked, as Lea insists. She floated several other prospective names, and in a vote by the family -- nephews, nieces, grandchildren included, it creamed its way thru.

Lea was not content serving us breakfast. She arrayed for lunch some Ravioli in tomato sauce, roast beef on her unique fresh take on Java rice, samosa with yogurt dip, grilled Norwegian pink salmon sitting on a bed of greens and some slices of tropical fruits, and family-recipe lengua.

How playful can Lea be with our palate! Somosa is traceable to a Persian origin that has its variants across Mediterranean Africa, Greece, Arabian countries, India, and Southeast Asia. Indeed, very playful because her samosa blended so well with the ravioli, and the grilled salmon, and the roast beef.

Cilantro, cumin, fresh ripe mangoes, yogurt, and of course Fontina cheese were coming through in the merry combination. You would not dare down these in soda! Fresh pineapple juice regaled the gourmand in me.

Easily, the Fontina Cafe courts a cross-culture market. And how! Patrons flood the dining area; turn after turn, through the end of the interview and the final clothes-change, that merienda time came so quickly and unnoticed. I was so bemused at Stylist Sunshine Casiño muttering softly “naa na sad na...” (here it comes) referring to the cast-iron stand being placed ahead as though heralding the entrance of the earthenware pizza platter that cradled a fresh-from the oven paper thin, spinach pizza û also with three cheeses. Again, Fontina cheese included.

Lea and kin, and the rest of the IHARA (Iligan Hotel & Restaurant Association) can only wish the Iligan City government will follow the lead of Cagayan de Oro in lowering business taxes for the restaurant and hotel industry, which ideally should be below 1%. If only to encourage investors, as well as diners and the other gourmands the city has known.
“I am very fulfilled when in the kitchen.”

Better than as an artist?

“I can't say that. I have been an artist all my life. Being a chef and being an artist have differences as well as similarities. The culinary arts is akin in discipline with visual arts. But unlike painting where one begins with her own concept and execution, without need of collaboration, and without care whether people would appreciate much less buy it, with cooking, there is an end cause of wanting to satisfy people.”

The artist in her is let loose in the kitchen, from raw material procurement, to menu planning to food preparation. Fontina Cafe, serendipitously, houses some of her significant works and collection of works by other artists, and now, hers and the two other Fontina cooks' cuisine. Apart from the function-hall at the second floor, it is a potential alternative exhibition space.

With Lea having her family as main ingredient to her reinvention of herself as a restaurateur-artist, the burning cause to share continues to glow. And in a symbiosis, Fontina glows as Lea grows.
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gimingaw na nuon ko sa big star(caltex)...daghan ayos na bar dri, pero magpangita gihapon sa caltex ug Iliganon...

Night Market Preparations Underway
Thursday, 11 November 2010
by:Melvin T. Anggot,Virgilio C. Garcia


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Iligan City, Philippines - Preparations are underway on the plan of the Committees of Trade and Commerce and Ways and Means in the creation of a night market in Iligan City.

City councilors Frederick Siao and Ruderic Marzo together with concerned businesses discussed the substance of the ordinance in the planned night market in a public hearing in yesterday’s session of the Sangguniang Panlungsod.

The night market will be operated only on Fridays and Saturdays at the public plaza.

The night market will include dry goods and ukay-ukay, footwear, kitchenwares, groceries, and general merchandise. There will also be eateries like turo-turo, barbecue stands, softdrinks, alcoholic drinks, and other food stuffs. The night market will allow the entry of various services like reflexology and massage clinics, gift items like flowers, plants, appliances, furniture, and entertainment/recreation like video-singko, computer games and stationary rides.

Siao and Marzo will tackle next the standard size of stalls and the corresponding fees.

Iligan City Website (http://www.iligan.gov.ph/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=4622&Itemid=762)

In addition to the very enjoyable meals and good company I enjoyed at Fontina one afternoon I took some time out from a busy day to just sit at one of the outside tables, have a Mango Shake ( or two LOL ) and just watch the traffic go by. That may seem like nothing special for those of you that live there and see these things every day. For me, things like the Jeepneys and the transit tour busses and Super 5 are things that for most of the year I can only see here on my internet screen on SSC-Iligan.

Being able to sit back and relax while enjoying a freshly made cool and sweet Mango Shake and experience these things " Live " right in front of me may seem like a simple pleasure but a very memorable one to me.


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This is why mr alingatong's pictures are so precious. They show everyday scenes of rural Philippines that are so hard to come by. I am in tHe same boat that you are, mr bob. Except that you have been there recently and I, on the other hand, do not yet know when I might be so lucky to enjoy the real presence in those parts. As the eagles sang in hotel California, this could be heaven or it could be hell. But personally, I don't care. Just get me home.

Night Market Preparations Underway
Thursday, 11 November 2010
by:Melvin T. Anggot,Virgilio C. Garcia


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Iligan City, Philippines - Preparations are underway on the plan of the Committees of Trade and Commerce and Ways and Means in the creation of a night market in Iligan City.

City councilors Frederick Siao and Ruderic Marzo together with concerned businesses discussed the substance of the ordinance in the planned night market in a public hearing in yesterday’s session of the Sangguniang Panlungsod.

The night market will be operated only on Fridays and Saturdays at the public plaza.

The night market will include dry goods and ukay-ukay, footwear, kitchenwares, groceries, and general merchandise. There will also be eateries like turo-turo, barbecue stands, softdrinks, alcoholic drinks, and other food stuffs. The night market will allow the entry of various services like reflexology and massage clinics, gift items like flowers, plants, appliances, furniture, and entertainment/recreation like video-singko, computer games and stationary rides.

Siao and Marzo will tackle next the standard size of stalls and the corresponding fees.

Iligan City Website (http://www.iligan.gov.ph/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=4622&Itemid=762)

Cool! I hope this will click in Iligan and not become just an inuman place. This reminds me of Banchetto in Manila, though Banchetto is strictly for food because it caters to the call center crowd :)

I just want to share this modern construction marvel. :cheers:


Chinese Build 15-Story Hotel In Just Six Days, Rest On Seventh


Ps0DSihggio

Six days. That's how long it took to build this level 9 Earthquake-resistant, sound-proofed, thermal-insulated 15-story hotel in Changsha, complete with everything, from the cabling to three-pane windows. The foundations were already built, but it's just impressive.

The wonders of prefabricated construction modules and modern construction techniques will never cease to amaze me. I just can't understand why every single building is not pre-made in factories first, for optimal energy, material and time savings, not to talk about a more efficient and cheaper end result and, in the case of the Ark Hotel, only 1% construction waste. [Archdaily (http://www.archdaily.com/88245/video-ark-hotel/) via Gizmodo (http://gizmodo.com/5687521/chinese-build-15+story-hotel-in-just-six-days-rest-on-seventh)]

In addition to the very enjoyable meals and good company I enjoyed at Fontina one afternoon I took some time out from a busy day to just sit at one of the outside tables, have a Mango Shake ( or two LOL ) and just watch the traffic go by. That may seem like nothing special for those of you that live there and see these things every day. For me, things like the Jeepneys and the transit tour busses and Super 5 are things that for most of the year I can only see here on my internet screen on SSC-Iligan.

Being able to sit back and relax while enjoying a freshly made cool and sweet Mango Shake and experience these things " Live " right in front of me may seem like a simple pleasure but a very memorable one to me.


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That's not simple @Bob! for me it's very memorable and worthwhile. I feel the same thing one time i thought i would be in the states or somewhere else in the world: i would just sit at one place of the city and observe the people, the atmosphere of the place, and see what makes them all move in just one day. :)

I also thought too that someday I would be somewhere in Cincinnati or upstate New York to do exactly as you did. But for now, only net pics for me since it's very hard enter the states nowadays. That's despite the American background we have of my mother's side! :)

@Tonzi , Yes it is a shame that my Iligan friends, and others may never realize a chance to visit the USA. I have researched this over the past few years and it seems that in the past so many from not only The Philippines but many other places in the world, once here go " T N T " ( your words tago ng tago I think ) and do not return to their home country when they are supposed to. It is too bad that this has ruined the dreams of honest people that would just like to come for a visit and see the USA.

In more recent times now it seems the primary problem of illegal immagration is happening from some of the South American countries as there are places where they can just walk across the border because it is nearly impossible to control the hundreds of miles of the USA / Mexican Border. Once here, the illegals expect and many times get, free welfare, free medical attention, free schooling for their children, and more, all at the expense of the USA Taxpayer.

In two nearby towns to me, the " downtown " areas have completely changed in recent times. Businesses have closed down or moved out, there are illegal immagrants from South America, and possibly elsewhere, hanging out on the sidewalks all day waiting to be picked up by contractors and paid cash as Temporary Day Laborers who get paid off the books at sometimes less than the Federal minimum Wage. One of these towns recently had to for the first time create an anti-public urination law. The long time residents of these localities don't even go in the " downtown " areas any more.

Now I would not go as far as saying " all " of these people are bad, after learning so much about your country in the past few years, I can understand they are here for the same basic reason many Philippine OFW's are here for. The major difference if those that enter legally and leave when or if they are supposed to, as opposed to those that enter Ilegally, try their best to stay under the radar and hide from authority and at times, yes they can create problems.

Situations like this are contributing factors that make it so difficult and nearly impossible for you and others just to come here for a vacation.

I hope that someday you can realize your dream Tonzi, just as I have by visiting your city.



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I just want to share this modern construction marvel. :cheers:


Chinese Build 15-Story Hotel In Just Six Days, Rest On Seventh


Ps0DSihggio

Six days. That's how long it took to build this level 9 Earthquake-resistant, sound-proofed, thermal-insulated 15-story hotel in Changsha, complete with everything, from the cabling to three-pane windows. The foundations were already built, but it's just impressive.

The wonders of prefabricated construction modules and modern construction techniques will never cease to amaze me. I just can't understand why every single building is not pre-made in factories first, for optimal energy, material and time savings, not to talk about a more efficient and cheaper end result and, in the case of the Ark Hotel, only 1% construction waste. [Archdaily (http://www.archdaily.com/88245/video-ark-hotel/) via Gizmodo (http://gizmodo.com/5687521/chinese-build-15+story-hotel-in-just-six-days-rest-on-seventh)]

:bash: :bash: :bash: so this method can build a 60-storey edifice in a month.

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Night Market Preparations Underway
Thursday, 11 November 2010
by:Melvin T. Anggot,Virgilio C. Garcia


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Iligan City, Philippines - Preparations are underway on the plan of the Committees of Trade and Commerce and Ways and Means in the creation of a night market in Iligan City.

City councilors Frederick Siao and Ruderic Marzo together with concerned businesses discussed the substance of the ordinance in the planned night market in a public hearing in yesterday’s session of the Sangguniang Panlungsod.

The night market will be operated only on Fridays and Saturdays at the public plaza.

The night market will include dry goods and ukay-ukay, footwear, kitchenwares, groceries, and general merchandise. There will also be eateries like turo-turo, barbecue stands, softdrinks, alcoholic drinks, and other food stuffs. The night market will allow the entry of various services like reflexology and massage clinics, gift items like flowers, plants, appliances, furniture, and entertainment/recreation like video-singko, computer games and stationary rides.

Siao and Marzo will tackle next the standard size of stalls and the corresponding fees.

Iligan City Website (http://www.iligan.gov.ph/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=4622&Itemid=762)

Wow. This can give added income to the city and stimulates business at night. I know this one will be successful. Maayo ni na plano pero dapat kusgan ug higpitan jud ang security para malikayan ang mga panghitabo na buot mo sabotahe ani. Way to go Iligan.

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Nice find. What's that btw, a port or fishing village?

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It was so " refreshing " to drink Coca-Cola and other such beverages from " Real " Coke Bottles while I was in Iligan. The kind you need a can opener to remove the cap, where the empty bottles are returned and re-used. Most all of that has vanished in the USA in favor of plastic bottles and pop-top cans, all being disposable or for material re-cycling. The " real " bottles of years ago ( here ) can withstand more internal pressure than the disposable kind which means more pressure = more carbonization = a better tasting beverage, at least I think so. Re-fillable bottles have less impact on the inviornment too. It is nice to know that some places in the world still use them. It is probably the cost of labor here in the USA that made the use of refillable Coca-Cola bottles obsolete here.

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16-year-old Iligan high school stude joins Davao indie filmfest
Source: Mindanao GoldStar Daily (http://www.goldstardailynews.com/urban-life/16-year-old-iligan-high-school-stude-joins-davao-indie-filmfest)

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The first time I heard " Iligan March " on a Youtube Video, even though I could not understand the words, and the song was nicely sync'd with still pics of Iligan to illustrate the lyrics of the song I was quite fascinated by it.

Additional Youtube videos posted later revealed to me that a kind of dance went with the song. The first of these videos were a bit too " fluid " or individual, amoungst the performers for me to be able to grasp many of the steps and moves.

About 1 year ago a video on inmates at Iligan Citys " Award Winning " Jail got my attention as the performers were more closely precise and for the most part in unison with eachother , such as you would expect of a Military Drill Parctice. After watching this a few times I thought maybe I could learn this from watching and practicing with that video, which i eventually ( well, almost ) have !

Recently there have been 3 Youtube Videos showing Iligan March at the Monday Morning Flag raising ceremony at the Amphetheater near City Hall. Before my recent visit I was hoping that I might be able to join them as it looks like something fun to me.

As the time got closer to my recent visit, I was informed that the only Monday I would be in Iligan it would be a Holiday so there would be no Flag Raising ceremony at City Hall that week.

I had already planned a visit to Iligans " Award Winning " jail and while there I met a City Hall employee who has an office at the Jail. I mentioned about how I wished I could have been at the Flag Raising ceremony to try my skill at doing the " Iligan March " which I had learned from the video of the inmates doing it at the Jail.

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I was then informed that if I wished to do the Iligan March, there would be a performance of it at the jail that week and I would be welcomed to participate !

This was certainly an unexpected surprise and I would be able to demonstarte my skill ( or lack of it ) in the very same place I had learned it from Via Youtube Video . As most of the lyrics of Iligan March are in a language that for the most part is unknown by me, keeping in sync with it can be a bit challenging at times so at some times I try to keep up syncing with certain sounds and at other times words that I can remember. I'll continue working on it for a future visit.

To me this is an " Only In Iligan " experience for me. When I thought something I could participate in could not happen because of a holiday, something even better happend in being able to try my skill at Iligan March at the very place the " Instructional Video " had been made that first attracted my interest. At the time the video of the inmates performance was being recorded, they never knew they would be teaching someone the " Iligan March " on the other side of the world.

Nice Job Inmates ! Thanks to many people I was able to come there and show you the results and I had a great time doing it.



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Bob New York doing Iligan March with the Female Inmates at Iligan City's " Award Winning " Jail.




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I guess they liked it ?

( photos from " Iligan Web " )




Iligan City and the " Award Winning " Iligan Jail




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Iligan City and Iloilo City will sign memorandum of Agreement as "Sister Cities" today.

this is sweet...
coincidentally i am both an ilonggo and an iliganon:cheers:

hope to see a revival of direct transport links between the two cities... i hope this would translate to more business exchange between the two... i'd especially love to see a madelicious, chedeng, and bigben in iloilo and more mang inasal, ted's or deco's batchoy and coffeebreak in iligan...

Good morning to all. Wala pa bang decorations jan sa Iligan for christmas? Post naman kayo.tnx

I noticed many Christmas Decorations in various places in Iligan during my recent visit and a very nice one even came back home with me. For me, it is kind of unusual seeing so many Christmas Decorations while it is 80 to 85 Degrees F. and humid outside. For me, my mind says " Summer " when I am in Iligan and when I think or see something of Christmas I also think of cold weather and maybe even snow on the ground LOL !

I now have a small table top Christmas Tree that I will use this year that was hand made in Iligan, the land of endless summer , to me.


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Christmas Decorations at Gaisano City Mall, Iligan are Alive and Well during my recent visit.



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tnx sir Bob for that pics. I really miss Iligan.

I am new here and from iligan of course. I just read all the forums here and all you people (including me) are just pleased with what is going on to iligan..i know, new places to hang out and new buildings. But i am totally disgusted how the goverment of iligan manage the beautification of iligan. By the way, I just returned home for about 2 decades stay in the west. Anyway, back to my topic. First of all, the road from la salle going to redemtorist, my god...it is still lubak2x, much more going to st. michaels tibanga lubak2x napud...naunsa man tawon na...i remember that road during my la salle days because i used to walk when going home and still it is not yet cemented, imagine for almost 20 years na and the street on the side of unitop, why is that not cemented whereas the street between loys and dy pico is cemented?!! Second, The street lights is not functioning during the night, that is why crimes is around the corner, and lastly, the most disgusted thing that is in iligan right now, is when I went to city hall to get something, goverment employees are just sitting around and compute nang compute ug swertres..by golly, mismo sa city hall they are doing that?!! I also noticed that there are many sikads na sa major streets in iligan but I dont mind that because these sikad drivers are just earning a living...and by the way Bob of new york, when you get back in our city again, please try to go to la salle and pass by that road going to redemtorist and st. michaels tibanga and what can you say about it? I think this is all for the moment...

Open na ng BIG FISH Sports Club and Bar? (near Iliganon Bar). I heard from some people na ang mga tag-iya daw ani kay mga halangdon natong mga opisyales sa syudad. di lang ko magtell kung kinsa :lol:

I am new here and from iligan of course. I just read all the forums here and all you people (including me) are just pleased with what is going on to iligan..i know, new places to hang out and new buildings. But i am totally disgusted how the goverment of iligan manage the beautification of iligan. By the way, I just returned home for about 2 decades stay in the west. Anyway, back to my topic. First of all, the road from la salle going to redemtorist, my god...it is still lubak2x, much more going to st. michaels tibanga lubak2x napud...naunsa man tawon na...i remember that road during my la salle days because i used to walk when going home and still it is not yet cemented, imagine for almost 20 years na and the street on the side of unitop, why is that not cemented whereas the street between loys and dy pico is cemented?!! Second, The street lights is not functioning during the night, that is why crimes is around the corner, and lastly, the most disgusted thing that is in iligan right now, is when I went to city hall to get something, goverment employees are just sitting around and compute nang compute ug swertres..by golly, mismo sa city hall they are doing that?!! I also noticed that there are many sikads na sa major streets in iligan but I dont mind that because these sikad drivers are just earning a living...and by the way Bob of new york, when you get back in our city again, please try to go to la salle and pass by that road going to redemtorist and st. michaels tibanga and what can you say about it? I think this is all for the moment...

i feel you. some of our inner roads in the central business district (city proper) are not yet even concrete. i noticed that they prioritized the colorful light bulbs in the public plaza than our busted street lights. :ohno:


Masarap magsulat kapag ‘di ka binabayaran ng isang tao o grupo ng mga tao. At lalong masarap magsulat kapag hindi ka nadidiktahan ng isang tao o grupo ng tao na may pansariling interes na isinusulong.

i feel you. some of our inner roads in the central business district (city proper) are not yet even concrete. i noticed that they prioritized the colorful light bulbs in the public plaza than our busted street lights. :ohno:


Masarap magsulat kapag ‘di ka binabayaran ng isang tao o grupo ng mga tao. At lalong masarap magsulat kapag hindi ka nadidiktahan ng isang tao o grupo ng tao na may pansariling interes na isinusulong.

Ano company or cooperative ang electric distributor ninyo dyan??? good partnership betwen the distributor and the LGU can solve that problem I think..

I am new here and from iligan of course. I just read all the forums here and all you people (including me) are just pleased with what is going on to iligan..i know, new places to hang out and new buildings. But i am totally disgusted how the goverment of iligan manage the beautification of iligan. By the way, I just returned home for about 2 decades stay in the west. Anyway, back to my topic. First of all, the road from la salle going to redemtorist, my god...it is still lubak2x, much more going to st. michaels tibanga lubak2x napud...naunsa man tawon na...i remember that road during my la salle days because i used to walk when going home and still it is not yet cemented, imagine for almost 20 years na and the street on the side of unitop, why is that not cemented whereas the street between loys and dy pico is cemented?!! Second, The street lights is not functioning during the night, that is why crimes is around the corner, and lastly, the most disgusted thing that is in iligan right now, is when I went to city hall to get something, goverment employees are just sitting around and compute nang compute ug swertres..by golly, mismo sa city hall they are doing that?!! I also noticed that there are many sikads na sa major streets in iligan but I dont mind that because these sikad drivers are just earning a living...and by the way Bob of new york, when you get back in our city again, please try to go to la salle and pass by that road going to redemtorist and st. michaels tibanga and what can you say about it? I think this is all for the moment...


I think it would be out of place and a bit difficult for me to comment on the politics and funding distributions of the Iligan City Govt. I am not even all that knowledgable on that in my own town let alone anyone elses.

Iligan may not be " perfect " but can you tell me anyplace in the world that is ? Even here where I live in the USA we have roads that were proposed to be widened 25 years ago to acomodate the thousands ( yes, thousands ) of commuter passenger cars that use it every day and it is still waiting to be done ! The road surface of this particular road is an Auto Mechanics delight from the extra wear and damage it can do to cars. New York State Govt claims they are " Broke " , I'll leave it to you to wonder why.

I think just about everyone everywhere wants improvements, top notch maintenance and repair of existing things, upgrades to outdated or outmoded things and much more. This once again all comes down to " Funding ". Where does this funding come from ? The taxpayers of course and who wants higher taxes ? More or higher taxes equals even less money in the working persons pocket to spend for necessities and hopefully a little extra to go out and have a good time or save up buy something new that is not a necessity like maybe a new TV, iPod, PC etc.

Where I live, the taxes are so high, many people can no longer afford to live here when they retire and have to move to another part of the country where the cost of living is more reasonable. The kids growing up here today will not be able to afford to live here when they grow up and have their own families and the same thing happened to my own home town. Little by little more affluent people moved in and demanded " perfect ", and most of the " average working class " people could no longer afford to live there.

The best suggestion I could give you for first hand information would be to make an appointment with the Mayor and make your views known in a polite kind of way. From what I undersatnd there are many times he is in his office late for residents, groups and organizations to meet with him, provided he is not called away on a priority or emergency situation. I did exactly this last year when I just wanted to say hello and make a positive comment or two about my visit.

You have to remember that I am a visitor, guest and to the extent that I can be, a friend to Iligan. It was only by accident that I ever even found Iligan in the first place and although I have spent many many hours learning about your city over the past 5 years or so I'll never know every single detail about it.

I believe there is a very careful " Balance " as to how much people can be taxed, and then how to use the taxes for the best possible advantage of the residents that pay it. Without knowing nearly all the facts and figures involved one can only speculate.

P.R.C., C.H.E.D. LIST 7 ‘TOP’ SCHOOLS
November 15, 2010, 6:44pm


CAGAYAN DE ORO CITY, Philippines — At least seven government and private universities and colleges in Mindanao have been identified by the Professional Regulations Commission (PRC) and the Commission on Higher Education (CHEd) as among the top 20 tertiary schools in the country today. A report entitled “Top 20 Universities in the Philippines,” shows the result of a joint study lately conducted by PRC and CHEd based on the average passing in the board examinations of all courses of all institutions of higher learning in the Philippines. The report listed Davao City’s Ateneo de Davao University as No. 1 among the seven Mindanao-based tertiary schools even as the Jesuit-run school placed overall fifth in the national ranking. The Iligan Institute of Technology (IIT) of the Mindanao State University (MSU) emerged No. 2 in Southern Philippines and came out eighth in the national level, while Xavier University in Cagayan de Oro City captured overall 12th place and garnered third in Mindanao. (Tony Pe. Rimando)

Manila Bulletin (http://www.mb.com.ph/articles/287814/mobile-mentors-assigned-south)

^^

Top 20 Universities of the Philippines
By Blogboy2010– November 9, 2010
Posted in: Art, Building, Events, General


Study conducted by the Professional Regulations Commission(PRC) and the Commission on Higher Education (CHED), based on the average passing in the BOARD EXAMINATIONS OF ALL COURSES of all universities and colleges in the country, here is a list of the Top 20 Universities of the Philippines:

1. University of the Philippines
(Diliman Campus /Luzon)

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University of the Philippines

2. University of the Philippines
(Los Banos Campus/ Luzon)

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University of the Philippines (Los Baños)

3. University of the Philippines
(Manila Campus /Luzon)

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University of the Philippines (Manila)

4. Silliman University
(Dumaguete City / Visayas)

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Silliman University

5. Ateneo deDavao University
(Davao / Mindanao)

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Ateneo De Davao University

6. Ateneo de Manila University
(Manila /Luzon)

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Ateneo De Manila University

7. University of Sto. Tomas
(Manila / Luzon)

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University of Santo Tomas

8. Mindanao State University
(Iligan Institute ofTech/ Mindanao)

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MSU (Iligan)

9. Pamantasan ng Lungsod ng Maynila
(Manila/Luzon)

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Pamantasan ng Lungsod ng Maynila

10. Saint Louis University
(Baguio City / Luzon)

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Saint Louis University

11. University of San Carlos
(Cebu City / Visayas)

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University of San Carlos

12. Xavier University
(Cagayan de Oro / Mindanao)

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Xavier University (Cagayan)

13. Mindanao State University
(Main / Mindanao)

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Mindanao State University

14. Urios College
(Butuan City / Mindanao)

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Urios College

15. Polytechnic University of
the Philippines
(Manila/ Luzon)

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Polytechnic University of the Philippines

16. De La Salle University
(Manila / Luzon)


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DLSU Manila

17. Mapua Institute of Technology
(Manila / Luzon)

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MAPUA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY

18. Adamson University
(Manila /Luzon)

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Adamson University

19. Central Mindanao University
(Bukidnon/Mindanao)

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Central Mindanao University

20. University of Southern Philippines
(Davao /Mindanao)

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USP

World Top Reviews (http://www.worldtopreviews.com/2010/11/top-20-universities-of-the-philippines/)

congratz but sad to say another :badnews:..:ohno:

pwede ta mag eb kung mo visit kog iligan? ironic kaayo kay dugay ko naka stay og iligan pero wala pako naka kita sa ssc iligan... az en!!!

keir unsaon ni?

keray gi indiana jones gud ko ai..traidor kau..dah bahala xa oi ka cheapan pod ang show niya noh...hehe

^^ merese nimo... az en!!! :rofl:

ei guys, wala bang EB diyan?

I am new here and from iligan of course. I just read all the forums here and all you people (including me) are just pleased with what is going on to iligan..i know, new places to hang out and new buildings. But i am totally disgusted how the goverment of iligan manage the beautification of iligan. By the way, I just returned home for about 2 decades stay in the west. Anyway, back to my topic. First of all, the road from la salle going to redemtorist, my god...it is still lubak2x, much more going to st. michaels tibanga lubak2x napud...naunsa man tawon na...i remember that road during my la salle days because i used to walk when going home and still it is not yet cemented, imagine for almost 20 years na and the street on the side of unitop, why is that not cemented whereas the street between loys and dy pico is cemented?!! Second, The street lights is not functioning during the night, that is why crimes is around the corner, and lastly, the most disgusted thing that is in iligan right now, is when I went to city hall to get something, goverment employees are just sitting around and compute nang compute ug swertres..by golly, mismo sa city hall they are doing that?!! I also noticed that there are many sikads na sa major streets in iligan but I dont mind that because these sikad drivers are just earning a living...and by the way Bob of new york, when you get back in our city again, please try to go to la salle and pass by that road going to redemtorist and st. michaels tibanga and what can you say about it? I think this is all for the moment...

bai, bisayaon ko lang para di masabtan sa uban.... nakarelate ko sa imoha. pero kung ipakita nato ni sa atong mga bisita hilabi na sa mga turista, pasayloa ko pero dili kini maghatag ug maayong resulta. dili ko taga iligan pero ang pagpuyo nako diha sa una naghatag nako ug concern para sa syudad... ang ako lang buot ipasabot nga ang mga bisita ug mga turista maghatag ug dugang kwarta nga magcirculate sa atong mga kumunidad pinaagi sa ilang mga paggastus sa ilang mga kaugalingon nga kwarta nga ilang dala. kini pud, makadugang ug income para sa atong syudad nga magamit alang sa mga proyekto nga giplanuhan. pero kung ang atong ipakita sa ilaha ang di maayo nga side sa atong kumunidad, sa tan-aw ba nimo nga mobalik pa kaha sila'g bisita sa atong lugar?

ingon pa sa uban, kung gusto nato makatabang sa atong lugar hilabi na sa atong nasud, magsulti na lang ta ug maayo pahitungod sa atong lugar para makatabang ta ug ingganyo nila nga mobisita... kay kung puro di maayo ang atong isulti, kinsa pa kaha''y mobisita kanato. kadaghan pa siguro nga lugar nga mas maayo pa sa atoa di ba? basi'g magplano na hinoon sila nga didto na lang sa ubang lugar sila magbakasyon...

kini pud taa ang dapat panaminan sa atong mga kababayan sa media. di dapat front page kanang mga di maayo nga balita. ingon pa sa uban, unsaon na lang pagkagusto sa ubang tao nga ma-ingganyo sila nga mobalik sa Pilipinas kung sa pagbasa mo pa lang sa newspaper sa eroplano, puro away, patayan, demandahan ug ubang pang di maayo nga balita ang musugat sa ilang mga mata pa-ingon pa lang sila sa Pilipinas. sa tv pud, tana kanang mga awayan sa magkasilingan o magkabarangay, di na dapat igawas kay makadugang lang na pagpaubos sa atong lugar... kay kung permi, ing-ana, one day, mastroke na lang ta sa kadaghan nga problema...

sana maging solid tayo na parte sa pagbuo at pag-angat ng ating bansa...:)

Tanan man na siyudad daghan ug problema. Diri sa New York kaingon nimo ug pachada kaayo pero naa gihapon lugar diri na lain kaayo tan-awon sa mata. Sama sa Queens naay lugar na murag Rizal Ave nga ang taas LRT. Diri pud sa Bronx grabe nga vandal sa mga pader ug naa pud hugaw nga area. So dili jud ka kaingon na ang siyudad perfecto. Ang atong siyudad sa Iligan mas arangan nalang tanawon na dili kaayo gubot ug traffic. Ang importante na ang mga tao mag tinabangay ug disiplinado para makab-ot jud ang kalamboan. Dayon daghan pa ug e-improve ang atong siyudad so magtinabangay nalang tanan ta diha.

^^

Top 20 Universities of the Philippines
By Blogboy2010– November 9, 2010
Posted in: Art, Building, Events, General


Study conducted by the Professional Regulations Commission(PRC) and the Commission on Higher Education (CHED), based on the average passing in the BOARD EXAMINATIONS OF ALL COURSES of all universities and colleges in the country, here is a list of the Top 20 Universities of the Philippines:



8. Mindanao State University
(Iligan Institute ofTech/ Mindanao)

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MSU (Iligan)


World Top Reviews (http://www.worldtopreviews.com/2010/11/top-20-universities-of-the-philippines/)

Congratss sa atong siyudad. Tiyak na daghan jud mga studyante manganha diha sa ato. Dako pud kini nga katabang sa economiya sa Iligan ang IIT kay mang dayo man to ang mga studyante nga gikan sa probinsya.

Congratss sa atong siyudad. Tiyak na daghan jud mga studyante manganha diha sa ato. Dako pud kini nga katabang sa economiya sa Iligan ang IIT kay mang dayo man to ang mga studyante nga gikan sa probinsya.

Mao gyud, kay ako nakaan-ha diha tungod sa IIT nga akong alma mater. btw, di ba ning ubos ang ranking sa IIT karong tuiga? di ba nag no. 3 naman 'to s'ya last year? unsa kahay hinungdan?

bai, bisayaon ko lang para di masabtan sa uban.... nakarelate ko sa imoha. pero kung ipakita nato ni sa atong mga bisita hilabi na sa mga turista, pasayloa ko pero dili kini maghatag ug maayong resulta. dili ko taga iligan pero ang pagpuyo nako diha sa una naghatag nako ug concern para sa syudad... ang ako lang buot ipasabot nga ang mga bisita ug mga turista maghatag ug dugang kwarta nga magcirculate sa atong mga kumunidad pinaagi sa ilang mga paggastus sa ilang mga kaugalingon nga kwarta nga ilang dala. kini pud, makadugang ug income para sa atong syudad nga magamit alang sa mga proyekto nga giplanuhan. pero kung ang atong ipakita sa ilaha ang di maayo nga side sa atong kumunidad, sa tan-aw ba nimo nga mobalik pa kaha sila'g bisita sa atong lugar?

ingon pa sa uban, kung gusto nato makatabang sa atong lugar hilabi na sa atong nasud, magsulti na lang ta ug maayo pahitungod sa atong lugar para makatabang ta ug ingganyo nila nga mobisita... kay kung puro di maayo ang atong isulti, kinsa pa kaha''y mobisita kanato. kadaghan pa siguro nga lugar nga mas maayo pa sa atoa di ba? basi'g magplano na hinoon sila nga didto na lang sa ubang lugar sila magbakasyon...

kini pud taa ang dapat panaminan sa atong mga kababayan sa media. di dapat front page kanang mga di maayo nga balita. ingon pa sa uban, unsaon na lang pagkagusto sa ubang tao nga ma-ingganyo sila nga mobalik sa Pilipinas kung sa pagbasa mo pa lang sa newspaper sa eroplano, puro away, patayan, demandahan ug ubang pang di maayo nga balita ang musugat sa ilang mga mata pa-ingon pa lang sila sa Pilipinas. sa tv pud, tana kanang mga awayan sa magkasilingan o magkabarangay, di na dapat igawas kay makadugang lang na pagpaubos sa atong lugar... kay kung permi, ing-ana, one day, mastroke na lang ta sa kadaghan nga problema...

sana maging solid tayo na parte sa pagbuo at pag-angat ng ating bansa...:)

pasabot nimo na mamakak nalang ta...unya, daun pag.anhi sa mga turista dire, madismaya lang kay bakak ang mga promotion ila na basahan..
bai, wala man koy pasabot lain ani akong post, na-obserbahan lang nako sa akong lugar...

Tanan man na siyudad daghan ug problema. Diri sa New York kaingon nimo ug pachada kaayo pero naa gihapon lugar diri na lain kaayo tan-awon sa mata. Sama sa Queens naay lugar na murag Rizal Ave nga ang taas LRT. Diri pud sa Bronx grabe nga vandal sa mga pader ug naa pud hugaw nga area. So dili jud ka kaingon na ang siyudad perfecto. Ang atong siyudad sa Iligan mas arangan nalang tanawon na dili kaayo gubot ug traffic. Ang importante na ang mga tao mag tinabangay ug disiplinado para makab-ot jud ang kalamboan. Dayon daghan pa ug e-improve ang atong siyudad so magtinabangay nalang tanan ta diha.

sakto ka..daghan problema ang mga syudad!! pero bai, ayaw lang compara ang new york sa iligan kay wala jud ka one-sixteenth and iligan ana...daun, kanang problema na akong pasabot sa iligan...almost 2 decades nana...maski ikaw, kabalo ka ana kay dont tell me na wala jud ka kalabay anang lugara dira sa la salle...pamati nimo..dako na nga problema sa syudad sa iligan na hangtod karon dili nila ma-simento? pareha rana sa tubig pud...daghan kau ta ug falls ug springs pero walay halos tubig sa uban parte sa syudad...sakto jud to akong na dungan na VACUD ILIGAN...vacud ang mga iliganon sa tunga sa gabie para musalod ug tubig!! ug bahin anang traffic sa iligan, tungod man na sa mga sikad pero dili nalang nato na labtan kay nanginabuhi man na sila pero kanang mga semento sa main road sa iligan, daghan backjobs, sumaha dira sa city high, g-back job na kay nay galabaw na seminto ug dili level ang dalan ato, mao back job na...dapat gali dili na usbon ang mga seminto na dalan, dapat ana kay widening!!hay.....kaluoy sa akong syudad...

^^

Top 20 Universities of the Philippines
By Blogboy2010– November 9, 2010
Posted in: Art, Building, Events, General


Study conducted by the Professional Regulations Commission(PRC) and the Commission on Higher Education (CHED), based on the average passing in the BOARD EXAMINATIONS OF ALL COURSES of all universities and colleges in the country, here is a list of the Top 20 Universities of the Philippines:

1. University of the Philippines
(Diliman Campus /Luzon)

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University of the Philippines

2. University of the Philippines
(Los Banos Campus/ Luzon)

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University of the Philippines (Los Baños)

3. University of the Philippines
(Manila Campus /Luzon)

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University of the Philippines (Manila)

4. Silliman University
(Dumaguete City / Visayas)

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Silliman University

5. Ateneo deDavao University
(Davao / Mindanao)

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Ateneo De Davao University

6. Ateneo de Manila University
(Manila /Luzon)

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Ateneo De Manila University

7. University of Sto. Tomas
(Manila / Luzon)

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University of Santo Tomas

8. Mindanao State University
(Iligan Institute ofTech/ Mindanao)

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MSU (Iligan)

9. Pamantasan ng Lungsod ng Maynila
(Manila/Luzon)

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Pamantasan ng Lungsod ng Maynila

10. Saint Louis University
(Baguio City / Luzon)

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Saint Louis University

11. University of San Carlos
(Cebu City / Visayas)

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University of San Carlos

12. Xavier University
(Cagayan de Oro / Mindanao)

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Xavier University (Cagayan)

13. Mindanao State University
(Main / Mindanao)

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Mindanao State University

14. Urios College
(Butuan City / Mindanao)

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Urios College

15. Polytechnic University of
the Philippines
(Manila/ Luzon)

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Polytechnic University of the Philippines

16. De La Salle University
(Manila / Luzon)


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DLSU Manila

17. Mapua Institute of Technology
(Manila / Luzon)

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MAPUA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY

18. Adamson University
(Manila /Luzon)

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Adamson University

19. Central Mindanao University
(Bukidnon/Mindanao)

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Central Mindanao University

20. University of Southern Philippines
(Davao /Mindanao)

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USP

World Top Reviews (http://www.worldtopreviews.com/2010/11/top-20-universities-of-the-philippines/)

Congrats IIT!

ang problema sa Iligan dugay na pero dili pud ingon nga halos sa 20 ka tuig wala'y nausab. Hinuon na ghapon mga daot nga dalan. Ang nahitabo lang is that hinay gyud ang kausaban kay tungod wala kaayo investors nga moanhi og isa pa, wala pa kaayo dakong political will atong mga opisyal bahin sa pagpawala sa mga gahi og ulo og pagpataw og fines mahitungod aning overloading sa mga dagkong sakyanan nga gapangagi sa atong mga kadalanan. Isa pa diha wala tay weighing facility para mahibal-an ang mga nakalapas niini.

Naay foreigners nga ganahan sa iligan bisan ingon ani ang sitwasyon. Ako bitaw aduna may mga foreigners nga ang mga bata schoolmate sa akong anak. Pero nangutana ko nila nga despite sa mga bomba og daot nga serbisyo, nganong ganahan sila diri? Ang tubag, mas gusto nila diri tungod kay barato ra ang mga palitonon, ang ilang dollar/euro value dako dako. Dayon ang atong mga tawo mo respeto kanila og dili daw preha sa ila nga halos stranger lang sila didto. Pero diri sa atoa mas feel nila ang family atmosphere.

sa amo diri nga naa sa iligan, of course, dismayado mi nga ingon ani ang service sa atong siyudad, apan pipila ra man mi? dili man gani mi madunggan sa atong mayor og bisan pa nga anaa ang internet, buta-bungol man ghapon na sila..sa eleksyon ra na sila maminaw kunohay aron makatigum og boto.

Troll alert.. maayong buntag ug gabii sa tanan.

^^ang problema sa Iligan dugay na pero dili pud ingon nga halos sa 20 ka tuig wala'y nausab. Hinuon na ghapon mga daot nga dalan. Ang nahitabo lang is that hinay gyud ang kausaban kay tungod wala kaayo investors nga moanhi og isa pa, wala pa kaayo dakong political will atong mga opisyal bahin sa pagpawala sa mga gahi og ulo og pagpataw og fines mahitungod aning overloading sa mga dagkong sakyanan nga gapangagi sa atong mga kadalanan. Isa pa diha wala tay weighing facility para mahibal-an ang mga nakalapas niini.

Naay foreigners nga ganahan sa iligan bisan ingon ani ang sitwasyon. Ako bitaw aduna may mga foreigners nga ang mga bata schoolmate sa akong anak. Pero nangutana ko nila nga despite sa mga bomba og daot nga serbisyo, nganong ganahan sila diri? Ang tubag, mas gusto nila diri tungod kay barato ra ang mga palitonon, ang ilang dollar/euro value dako dako. Dayon ang atong mga tawo mo respeto kanila og dili daw preha sa ila nga halos stranger lang sila didto. Pero diri sa atoa mas feel nila ang family atmosphere.

sa amo diri nga naa sa iligan, of course, dismayado mi nga ingon ani ang service sa atong siyudad, apan pipila ra man mi? dili man gani mi madunggan sa atong mayor og bisan pa nga anaa ang internet, buta-bungol man ghapon na sila..sa eleksyon ra na sila maminaw kunohay aron makatigum og boto.

^^

the main reason why investors be it foreign/local are reluctant to enter Iligan and splurge their money here is because of SECURITY reason.Although we the Iliganons can attest that the situation is not that bad but there has been some incidents that has stained the city's image. Another important thing is the accessibility,Iligan is not that accessible.Iligan is one of the 2 cities in NORMIN that is dependent to another city when it comes to air transport. Ozamiz and Pagadian has an edge over Iligan as they have their airport open and investors do come by plane most of the time. Why would they venture to a city which is another bus/car ride away when they have CGY sighted as soon as they stepped in the tarmac.. Although LADP is groomed to replace IGN and Lumbia but our LGU should think twice on this. Having our own airport open to commecial service is always an advantage to the city. For sea transport,well it's not really that bad but IGN has meanwhile has been an extension route in the past years.At the moment all the vessel serving IGN-CBU route has to go to Ozamiz first. 2x a week service by ATS and 1x a week trip to TAGB-CBU-MNL by NN. I think our LGU should look into this. I don't think corruption is so GARAPAL here in the city. Yes we do have some pot holes in some of our streets in the city but who has tried to traverse the famous Divisoria in CGY,a place considered to be a city center...Iligan may have been overtaken by other cities but she's still dear to me as it is to others...:)and yes I do agree our city officials find it hard to hear our sentiments... I don't know if they are really doing it on purpose heheh.

pasabot nimo na mamakak nalang ta...unya, daun pag.anhi sa mga turista dire, madismaya lang kay bakak ang mga promotion ila na basahan..
bai, wala man koy pasabot lain ani akong post, na-obserbahan lang nako sa akong lugar...

bai, di man kinahanglang nga mamakak ka. kasabot man pud ko ba sa imong gustong mahitabo. pero ang gusto ko lang ipasabot nimo nga di maayo nga atong ibutang ang issue sa atong syudad sa atubangan sa atong mga bisita ug mga turista.

pareho ra gud na sa atong panimalay. kung naa ta'y bisita, ato bang i istorya sa ilaha ang pinaka dimaayo sa atong panimalay? o i guide nato sila sa kung asa ang pinakamaayo nga area sa atong balay para sila mainganyo mobalik ug bisita sa atong balay. for sure naman, nga wala'y bisita nga gusto mobisita sa atong lugar nga puro problema ang atong iatubang sa ilaha, di ba?

pahitungod sa panghimakak. kung mag-istorya ta ug mga kaayuhan o di ba maayong nahitabo sa atong lugar, di man na s'ya panghimakak kay naa man ta'y maipakita. pero kung moingon ta nga tanan sa atong lugar maayo, siguro panghimakak na gyud na. daghang pamaagi nga maipasigarbo nato ang atong lugar. basta ang ikatambag lang nako, ayaw gyud ug sulti ug di maayo ilabi na sa atubangan sa atong mga bisita ug turista. kay kung kita kita lang ang mag-istoryahanay, ok lang nga hisgutan nato kana nga issue.

sakto ka..daghan problema ang mga syudad!! pero bai, ayaw lang compara ang new york sa iligan kay wala jud ka one-sixteenth and iligan ana...daun, kanang problema na akong pasabot sa iligan...almost 2 decades nana...maski ikaw, kabalo ka ana kay dont tell me na wala jud ka kalabay anang lugara dira sa la salle...pamati nimo..dako na nga problema sa syudad sa iligan na hangtod karon dili nila ma-simento? pareha rana sa tubig pud...daghan kau ta ug falls ug springs pero walay halos tubig sa uban parte sa syudad...sakto jud to akong na dungan na VACUD ILIGAN...vacud ang mga iliganon sa tunga sa gabie para musalod ug tubig!! ug bahin anang traffic sa iligan, tungod man na sa mga sikad pero dili nalang nato na labtan kay nanginabuhi man na sila pero kanang mga semento sa main road sa iligan, daghan backjobs, sumaha dira sa city high, g-back job na kay nay galabaw na seminto ug dili level ang dalan ato, mao back job na...dapat gali dili na usbon ang mga seminto na dalan, dapat ana kay widening!!hay.....kaluoy sa akong syudad...

mas makaluluoy ang syudad kung wala na'y mobisita nga turista kay kinsa pa kahay investor nga magkainteres kung moabot na sa ing-ana.

kahibalo ba mo nga usa ka factor kung ngano mahadlok ang mga turista moari ug Pilipinas? tungod na sa mga negative nga balita nga permi ipagawas sa atong mga tv stations. kung gusto nila mag impart ng positve vibes sa mga tao, they should refrain nga ipagawas kanang mga negaribo nga isyu. nakamatngon kaha sila ng sa pagpaggawas ing-ana nga mga isyu, mura'g gi educate nila ang tawo on the other side kung unsaon pagpatay, pang snatch, pangawat ug unsa pa diha nga mga negatibong isyu... I mean, mas maayo pa siguro mutan-aw ug cooking show ka'y naa pa ta'y bag-ong mahibulaan pagluto nga ginahimo nato mata'g adlaw ug di pa ta problemado pagkatapos motan-aw kaysa news nato sa karon nga pirtiha gyud ka negative. ambot lang kung nakabantay ba mo nga after motan-aw ug mga balita karon, naging encouraging ba kaha ang dating sa inyoha o naging dismayado lang ang impact? basta ako, maging encouraging lang siguro ang ilahang balita kung magfeature sila ug encouraging na news like diferrent tourist destinations diri sa atoa, ug nakakaeducate sila sa mga audience nila in a positive way like featuring livelihood projects/programs na sigurado ako nga daku ang maitabang sa atong mga kumunidad.

pasabot nimo na mamakak nalang ta...unya, daun pag.anhi sa mga turista dire, madismaya lang kay bakak ang mga promotion ila na basahan..
bai, wala man koy pasabot lain ani akong post, na-obserbahan lang nako sa akong lugar...

Whatever you see that you dont like. Do something about it. Whatever you see that is good, Share it to others rather than talking about the bad things. Nothing will happen. They say WELL DONE is better than WELL SAID.

Whatever you see that you dont like. Do something about it. Whatever you see that is good, Share it to others rather than talking about the bad things. Nothing will happen. They say WELL DONE is better than WELL SAID.


You are exactly right bai. What I observed now is that Iligan is a better place to live than in the past. Whatever negatives that you can see are overwhelmed by the good things that happen in our city.

For me I don't entertain TROLLS, ga create lang ug argument dayon puro negatibo ang hunahuna. Go Iligan.

You are exactly right bai. What I observed now is that Iligan is a better place to live than in the past. Whatever negatives that you can see are overwhelmed by the good things that happen in our city.

For me I don't entertain TROLLS, ga create lang ug argument dayon puro negatibo ang hunahuna. Go Iligan.

Precisely, anywhere in the world has a bad news in their place even in metro manila, cebu or cagayan de oro. Let's just think on the positive side.

Whatever you see that you dont like. Do something about it. Whatever you see that is good, Share it to others rather than talking about the bad things. Nothing will happen. They say WELL DONE is better than WELL SAID.

sakto! kabalo man ta nga dili perfect ang Iligan, pero kabalo man pud ta nga nilambo gyud pud ang Iligan. sa positive side lang ta para pud naay positive nga aura ang Iligan.
:banana: :banana:

Tanan man na siyudad daghan ug problema. Diri sa New York kaingon nimo ug pachada kaayo pero naa gihapon lugar diri na lain kaayo tan-awon sa mata. Sama sa Queens naay lugar na murag Rizal Ave nga ang taas LRT. Diri pud sa Bronx grabe nga vandal sa mga pader ug naa pud hugaw nga area. So dili jud ka kaingon na ang siyudad perfecto. Ang atong siyudad sa Iligan mas arangan nalang tanawon na dili kaayo gubot ug traffic. Ang importante na ang mga tao mag tinabangay ug disiplinado para makab-ot jud ang kalamboan. Dayon daghan pa ug e-improve ang atong siyudad so magtinabangay nalang tanan ta diha.

Precisely, anywhere in the world has a bad news in their place even in metro manila, cebu or cagayan de oro. Let's just think on the positive side.

sakto! kabalo man ta nga dili perfect ang Iligan, pero kabalo man pud ta nga nilambo gyud pud ang Iligan. sa positive side lang ta para pud naay positive nga aura ang Iligan.
:banana: :banana:


True, even big cities has their own weaknesses, I've been to Paris and London maski ako naa japon koy ikasaway ani na mga syudad

:cheers:mate

^^

^^

the main reason why investors be it foreign/local are reluctant to enter Iligan and splurge their money here is because of SECURITY reason.Although we the Iliganons can attest that the situation is not that bad but there has been some incidents that has stained the city's image. Another important thing is the accessibility,Iligan is not that accessible.Iligan is one of the 2 cities in NORMIN that is dependent to another city when it comes to air transport. Ozamiz and Pagadian has an edge over Iligan as they have their airport open and investors do come by plane most of the time. Why would they venture to a city which is another bus/car ride away when they have CGY sighted as soon as they stepped in the tarmac.. Although LADP is groomed to replace IGN and Lumbia but our LGU should think twice on this. Having our own airport open to commecial service is always an advantage to the city. For sea transport,well it's not really that bad but IGN has meanwhile has been an extension route in the past years.At the moment all the vessel serving IGN-CBU route has to go to Ozamiz first. 2x a week service by ATS and 1x a week trip to TAGB-CBU-MNL by NN. I think our LGU should look into this. I don't think corruption is so GARAPAL here in the city. Yes we do have some pot holes in some of our streets in the city but who has tried to traverse the famous Divisoria in CGY,a place considered to be a city center...Iligan may have been overtaken by other cities but she's still dear to me as it is to others...:)and yes I do agree our city officials find it hard to hear our sentiments... I don't know if they are really doing it on purpose heheh.

undeniably, security reasons is one of the culprits of why investors are not coming in. Zamboanga which has a population of 700k hasn't had a share of investments that Gensan and CdeO gotten. Yes, truly it is security. BUT, if that 's the case here in Iligan, It is high time that our city officials do something about it. The problem with our officials here is that they are not able to fully emphasize on re-imaging Iligan to the visitors. That is why, sometimes, re-inventing is also important. By and by, if we do it slowly, we will surely reap blessings in the future if we start now.

Maybe they can start re-innovating our city business district and introducing new growth areas where new businesses can locate? Since our city has a relatively small CBD, we need to expand. Why not reclaim some part of our waterfronts and introduce a public mall on it and then, sell some parts of the remaining lands to prospective private entities?

On the part of the airport, i dont think it is viable for our city to put up its own airport. We cannot just put airports near the others. LADP is merely 60 kms and just about 35 - 40 mins drive.

By the way, I saw GOLDILOCKS has put a tarp at the new Kailani Bldg. Sakto gyud ka Sir Win, Goldies gyud tong tapad sa 2nd branch sa Mang Inasal! Asa naman tong KFC woi!? DUngan ra ba to, Butuan og Iligan...

Maayong buntag sa tanan nga mga Iliganon.

undeniably, security reasons is one of the culprits of why investors are not coming in. Zamboanga which has a population of 700k hasn't had a share of investments that Gensan and CdeO gotten. Yes, truly it is security. BUT, if that 's the case here in Iligan, It is high time that our city officials do something about it. The problem with our officials here is that they are not able to fully emphasize on re-imaging Iligan to the visitors. That is why, sometimes, re-inventing is also important. By and by, if we do it slowly, we will surely reap blessings in the future if we start now.

Maybe they can start re-innovating our city business district and introducing new growth areas where new businesses can locate? Since our city has a relatively small CBD, we need to expand. Why not reclaim some part of our waterfronts and introduce a public mall on it and then, sell some parts of the remaining lands to prospective private entities?

On the part of the airport, i dont think it is viable for our city to put up its own airport. We cannot just put airports near the others. LADP is merely 60 kms and just about 35 - 40 mins drive.

sakto jud. perhaps the circumferential road project will expand the city and developed into a new commercial district. that would surely make more advantageous to businessmen to have available new lots or buildings available and make the rents more competitive. sa karon gamay ra ang siyudad, mag-ilog og renta sa building maong medyo taas ra ang rate, vis a vis sa income generated sa business.

By the way, I saw GOLDILOCKS has put a tarp at the new Kailani Bldg. Sakto gyud ka Sir Win, Goldies gyud tong tapad sa 2nd branch sa Mang Inasal! Asa naman tong KFC woi!? DUngan ra ba to, Butuan og Iligan...

I have a friend who used to work for KFC and he said they already had a feasibility study for Iligan City. I don't know what's stopping them from making a branch. I'm sure they will earn a lot here.

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Good news. Anytime soon, mag-start na ang repair sa dalan Del Pilar (kilid sa public plaza). :banana:

Good news. Anytime soon, mag-start na ang repair sa dalan Del Pilar (kilid sa public plaza). :banana:

Maayo ni para mas pachada na tan-awon ang siyudad. Tapos kadto pud ang 800M na pork barrel ni Mr. Congressman mapuslan to sa siyudad.

I think it would be out of place and a bit difficult for me to comment on the politics and funding distributions of the Iligan City Govt. I am not even all that knowledgable on that in my own town let alone anyone elses.

Iligan may not be " perfect " but can you tell me anyplace in the world that is ? Even here where I live in the USA we have roads that were proposed to be widened 25 years ago to acomodate the thousands ( yes, thousands ) of commuter passenger cars that use it every day and it is still waiting to be done ! The road surface of this particular road is an Auto Mechanics delight from the extra wear and damage it can do to cars. New York State Govt claims they are " Broke " , I'll leave it to you to wonder why.

I think just about everyone everywhere wants improvements, top notch maintenance and repair of existing things, upgrades to outdated or outmoded things and much more. This once again all comes down to " Funding ". Where does this funding come from ? The taxpayers of course and who wants higher taxes ? More or higher taxes equals even less money in the working persons pocket to spend for necessities and hopefully a little extra to go out and have a good time or save up buy something new that is not a necessity like maybe a new TV, iPod, PC etc.

Where I live, the taxes are so high, many people can no longer afford to live here when they retire and have to move to another part of the country where the cost of living is more reasonable. The kids growing up here today will not be able to afford to live here when they grow up and have their own families and the same thing happened to my own home town. Little by little more affluent people moved in and demanded " perfect ", and most of the " average working class " people could no longer afford to live there.

The best suggestion I could give you for first hand information would be to make an appointment with the Mayor and make your views known in a polite kind of way. From what I undersatnd there are many times he is in his office late for residents, groups and organizations to meet with him, provided he is not called away on a priority or emergency situation. I did exactly this last year when I just wanted to say hello and make a positive comment or two about my visit.

You have to remember that I am a visitor, guest and to the extent that I can be, a friend to Iligan. It was only by accident that I ever even found Iligan in the first place and although I have spent many many hours learning about your city over the past 5 years or so I'll never know every single detail about it.

I believe there is a very careful " Balance " as to how much people can be taxed, and then how to use the taxes for the best possible advantage of the residents that pay it. Without knowing nearly all the facts and figures involved one can only speculate.

well said, Bob.:applause:
God bless you for loving Iligan City. you're one of a kind.:cheers2:

Good news. Anytime soon, mag-start na ang repair sa dalan Del Pilar (kilid sa public plaza). :banana:

well, its about time!! but only that street? what about there at the back of our police station, in front of unitop, la salle road going to redem and in front of st. michaels-tibanga?

Maayo ni para mas pachada na tan-awon ang siyudad. Tapos kadto pud ang 800M na pork barrel ni Mr. Congressman mapuslan to sa siyudad.

napuslan na ang uban part...ang kanang c3 road project ug padaun pag.simento sa iligan bukidnon road...pero pangutana, kanus.a ni mahuman?

^^ mas paspas ni ang trabaho karon bai kay ang development fund under na man gyud sa Iligan og dili na kahinanglan i-share sa Lanao del Norte.

well, its about time!! but only that street? what about there at the back of our police station, in front of unitop, la salle road going to redem and in front of st. michaels-tibanga?

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Ngano kaha wala nila i-priority ang Ramiro St. (kilid sa DepEd ug Unitop)? Mas giuna pa nila tong hilit nga lugar like kilid sa Tita Fannies.

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‘Mga gipatumang imprastraktura, pagpangandam alang sa dugang umaabot nga kalambo-an sa siyudad’

Monday, 15 November 2010


Mipahayag si Mayor Lawrence Lluch Cruz nga kinahanglang andam ang Dakbayan sa Iligan sa mga nakaung-ong nga mga kalambo-an dinhi sa Rehiyon 10.

Mao kini ang hinungdan nga naghinam-hinam na siyang mahatagan og katumanan ang mga nag-unang imprastraktura sama sa kusog nga supply sa tubig, tukmang hiposanan sa basura, Circumferential Road 3, drainage projects, housing projects ug uban pa.

Nagtoo si Mayor Cruz nga makabenipisyo ang Iligan sa pagbukas unya sa operasyon sa Laguindingan International Airport ug pagkatibawas sa Iligan-Bukidnon Road. Nalantaw sa amahan sa siyudad ang posibilidad nga madugangan ang mga hotels ug ubang balay-patigayon ang atong dapit, ug nga kini nagkinahanglan sa naasoy’ng mga imprastraktura.

Nadismaya si Mayor Cruz nga aduna gihapo’y naningkamot nga dili mahinayon ang nahisgutang mga proyekto diha sa paghimo og mga sayop nga alegasyon. (boy decena)

Iligan City Website (http://www.iligan.gov.ph/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=4628&Itemid=368)

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wala na chinabank diri?? unsa i puli ani?

^^ It's still China Bank. They're undergoing renovation (interior and exterior) :)

Off topic: Mag ask unta ko kung asa diri sa Iligan naay for sale na Whey Protein Supplements, I know one in Shelves & Hangers pero mao rapod ako nahibal-an na namaligya diri iligan.

Kinsay makasuggest ug place? Ok pod kung naa sa CDO na palitanan.

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Concreting of road at Del Pilar Street (from junction of PBCom to Hanaka Merchandise)

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Concreting of road at Del Pilar Street (from junction of PBCom to Hanaka Merchandise)

Nice one Alingatong. Kang Mr. Congressman ni nga project no. Maayo unta daghan pa nga project like that ang ma implementar.

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In an earlier post I described how Iligan City Hall come through for me when I thought something I was looking forward to on my recent visit was not going to happen.

Here is the video of my " Debut Attempt " at doing the Iligan March and by special arrangement from some of those at City Hall, I was able to do it for those that had taught it to me via " long Distance " via their vidio posted one year earlier, the inmates at the Iligan City " Award Winning Jail " .

They or for that matter no one else knew I was learning to do this watching their video on youtube from half way around the world.

Not to disapoint me, this video has me virtually doing Iligan March for those that unknowingly taught it to me, and also with those at the Monday Morning Flag Raising Ceremony at City Hall at the same time !

Thanks to the City Hall Website team for the many hours of production and editing that went into making this video possible. This is one of the best souveniers ( pasalubong if you like ) I could have ever imagined of my visits to Iligan.


( if any of the more experienced posters here can put the vid here, please do but for now, here is the link. )


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ysUe3RA-ooY&feature=autofb


Take a look and you should no longer wonder why I say:


Iligan City

Simply Amazing !

Gov't to prioritize Mindanao Railway
November 22, 2010, 7:30pm
Manila Bulletin


MANILA, Philippines – The government is exploring the possibility of prioritizing the development of the proposed Mindanao Railway, a proposal which was originally hatched during the Estrada administration and was pushed by then ARMM chairman Nur Misuari.

“Explore the possibility of prioritizing the Mindanao Railway,” stated an aide memoire of the National Economic and Development Authority following the recent consultation on the chapter on infrastructure under the 2010-2016 Medium-Term Philippine Development Plan.

Most recent project estimates have placed the total project cost at P66.5-billion, approximately $1.33-billion.

It is envisioned to be implanted in four phases: initially from Laguindingan to Cagayan de Oro City; second from Laguindingan to Iligan City ; third from Cagayan de Oro to Phividec area in Tagoloan, Misamis Oriental and the fourth phase from Iligan City to Linamon town, Lanao del Norte. The project aims to cut the present 90-minute travel time by buys between Cagayan de Oro and Iligan to 15-20 minutes.

The initial Mindanao strategic railway development plan will link urban centers like Cagayan de Oro, Iligan, Zamboanga, Pagadian, Dipolog, Marawi, Cotabato and Davao cities.

The Mindanao Railway System project aims to provide a sage and economical transport alternative for moving goods and people in Mindanao , which in the long run, will help in the socio-economic development of the island.

The Mindanao Railway System is part of the list of projects identified and presented to investors for medium-term rollout at the recently-concluded Public-Private Partnership forum.

A feasibility study for the project is being reviewed and deliberated by the NEDA Regional Office 10, but a more detailed FS still need to be determined. Initial timetable points to a phased project implementation through PPP to be undertaken in 2011.

The proposed rail will span the entirety of Mindanao with a total length of approximately 2000 kilometers.

The master plan indicates connections to all major population centers in Mindanao . The railway network will be implemented in phases.

Phase 1 calls for the construction of a 124-km railway line from Iligan City to Cagayan de Oro City in Mindanao.

It will traverse ten coastal municipalities in Misamis Oriental, namely: Lugait, Manticao, Naawan, Initao, Libertad, Gitagum, Laguindingan, Alubijid , El Salvador and Opol.

Earlier, the project was scheduled to start in 2011 with the initial spur of the first phase between Cagayan de Oro City and the new airport in Laguindingan, Misamis Oriental.

But the entire project would take 5-7 years to complete. (BCM)

:)

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kung duha ka dekada, pasabot, 1990's...bai, 2 lanes pa ang dalan sa la salle atong panahuna, mismo ang lasalle wala pa gikural kaniadtu. karon, 4 lanes na, dili ba na sinyales na adunay kausaban?

di man siguro sa ingon nga mamakak kita aron mudagit ug mga dayuhan diri sa atong syudad. Ang ako lang, bag-o ta mag reklamo, angay siguro nato pangutan-on atong mga kaugalingon ug unsa atong gibuhat isip usa ka manulupyo aning syudara. matud pa ni Pres. John F. Kennedy "ask not what your country can do for you - ask what you can do for your country."

Planning coordinator sa Iligan nagdasig sa publiko pagtambong sa ipahigayon nga mga konsultasyon

Monday, 22 November 2010


Nagdasig si Architect Gil Balondo sa mga katawhan ilabi na sa mga nanag-iya og luna ning siyudad sa pagtambong sa ipatawag unya nga konsultasyon kalabot sa ipahigayon nga updating sa Comprehensive Land Use Plan (CLUP) sa Iligan.

Mipahayag ang City Planning and Development Coordinator nga gitinguha ni Mayor Lawrence Lluch Cruz nga masayod gayud ug makapabati sa ilang mga huna-huna o sugyot ang publiko sa pagpanday sa pagabag-ohon nga plano.

Gibutyag ni Balondo nga nahikay na karon ang final draft sa CLUP ug andam nang ipresentar sa sunod-sunod nga konsultasyon ning mosunod nga mga adlaw.

Unod sa nasangpit nga plano ang tukmang zoning sa Iligan ingon man ang ubang kasayuran nga himoong basehan sa nasudnong kagamhanan alang sa pundohan nga mga dagkong proyekto sa atong dapit. (mta)

Iligan City Website (http://www.iligan.gov.ph/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=4654&Itemid=368)

^^Ay salamat naman at ma semento na rin ang mga kalye sa downtown:cheers:

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I sthis new one Gors?
Seductive kaya ang color red

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Is this new one Gors?
Seductive kaya ang color red Yes:)

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Concreting of road at Del Pilar Street (from junction of PBCom to Hanaka Merchandise)

In preparation sa proposed night market in the city?

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Concreting of road at Del Pilar Street (from junction of PBCom to Hanaka Merchandise)

:applause::applause::applause:

i love iligan.:cheers:

In an earlier post I described how Iligan City Hall come through for me when I thought something I was looking forward to on my recent visit was not going to happen.

Here is the video of my " Debut Attempt " at doing the Iligan March and by special arrangement from some of those at City Hall, I was able to do it for those that had taught it to me via " long Distance " via their vidio posted one year earlier, the inmates at the Iligan City " Award Winning Jail " .

They or for that matter no one else knew I was learning to do this watching their video on youtube from half way around the world.

Not to disapoint me, this video has me virtually doing Iligan March for those that unknowingly taught it to me, and also with those at the Monday Morning Flag Raising Ceremony at City Hall at the same time !

Thanks to the City Hall Website team for the many hours of production and editing that went into making this video possible. This is one of the best souveniers ( pasalubong if you like ) I could have ever imagined of my visits to Iligan.


( if any of the more experienced posters here can put the vid here, please do but for now, here is the link. )


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ysUe3RA-ooY&feature=autofb


Take a look and you should no longer wonder why I say:


Iligan City

Simply Amazing !


Nice video Bob.

kung duha ka dekada, pasabot, 1990's...bai, 2 lanes pa ang dalan sa la salle atong panahuna, mismo ang lasalle wala pa gikural kaniadtu. karon, 4 lanes na, dili ba na sinyales na adunay kausaban?

di man siguro sa ingon nga mamakak kita aron mudagit ug mga dayuhan diri sa atong syudad. Ang ako lang, bag-o ta mag reklamo, angay siguro nato pangutan-on atong mga kaugalingon ug unsa atong gibuhat isip usa ka manulupyo aning syudara. matud pa ni Pres. John F. Kennedy "ask not what your country can do for you - ask what you can do for your country."


Nice observation bro. When I was still a high school student I usually pass thru La Salle Road to IIT by using a bicycle. two lanes pa jud to sa una. molabay pa ko sa kabayoan tapos sa Redemptorist.

sakto jud during 90's two lane pa na diha sa LSA kay maglakaw ra jud gkan sa la salle padung sa unahan sa ILPI after school inig uli. Dako na jud ang kausaban diha ug dili lang diha hasta sa uban dapit sa iligan.

sakto jud during 90's two lane pa na diha sa LSA kay maglakaw ra jud gkan sa la salle padung sa unahan sa ILPI after school inig uli. Dako na jud ang kausaban diha ug dili lang diha hasta sa uban dapit sa iligan.

tinuod jud ka bai dira pud ko mag baklay pauli gkan skwela. mo hapit dayun sa pepsi cola nga planta kai mangayu ug pepsi hehehe!. kana cgurong gina ingun ni dodong dencio nga dalan kato manang paliko sa unahan,kanang dalana cge nag ka baha-an mao ingun ana ang iyang hitsura. tapus part pud na cya sa brgy. dira so kung gusto na e pa ayu ang mo request ana ang taga brgy.:bash:

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Concreting of road at Del Pilar Street (from junction of PBCom to Hanaka Merchandise)

Daghan naman diay kausaban diha nga area. I just wonder kung naa pa gihapon diha ang PIA.

Naa pa siguro gihapon. Mao ra ba jud na ako hapitanan sa una basa ug newspaper.

guys kinsa na adto sa gaisano mall lately? have u notice sa gawas sa 2nd floor kipang ibot lage nila ang mga railings, unsay plano sa gaisano dinha dapita?

Mayor Cruz mangulo sa pagpabarog sa usa ka monumento sa kalinaw karong buntag
Wednesday, 24 November 2010

Natakdang ipabarog karong alas nueve ang takna sa buntag diha sa usa ka parke duol sa Overton Sub-station sakop sa Barangay Maria Cristina ang usa ka Peace Pole kon monumento sa kalinaw dinhi sa Dakbayan sa Iligan.


Ang peace pole mao’y usa ka proyekto sa World Peace Prayer Society (WPPS) nga gi-rekognisa sa United Nations isip pamaagi sa pagpakaylap sa mensahe ug pag-ampo alang sa kalinaw sa tibuok kalibutan.

Una nang napabarog ang susama niini nga landmark sa kalinaw didto sa Allenby Bridge sa taliwala sa Israel ug Jordan, War Museum sa Vietnam, Robben Island sa South Africa, taliwala sa mga pyramids sa Egypt, Kyber Pass sa mga utlanan sa Pakistan ug Afganistan, Mt. Everest sa Nepal, US Pentagon, World Bank ug ubang dapit sa kalibutan. Dinhi sa Pilipinas, una nang nakapabarog ang Carmen, Bohol, Leyte, Baguio City ug uban pa.

Mangulo sa seremonya alang niini mao si Mayor Lawrence Lluch Cruz kauban ang presidente sa WPPS-Philippines nga si Mario Fungo, Sister President Lorina Jumawan sa St. Michael’s College ug mga sakop sa Iligan City Peace and Order Council.

Kabahin kini nga kalihukan sa pag-obserbar sa Mindanao Week of Peace. (mta)

http://www.iligan.gov.ph (http://www.iligan.gov.ph/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=4662&Itemid=368)

cguro usbon nila ang design sa facade anazng 2nd floor para mas magamit n nidot.

Hope naay pics sa pagpabarog anang monumento sa kalinaw.

‎1st Youth Congress for Entepreneurship and Leadership Training Program
Iligan Capitol College
November 23-24, 2010

8th Iligan City Computing Fair
MSU-IIT
November 25-26, 2010

Regional Schools Press Conference
Iligan City National High School
November 25-27, 2010

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MSU-IIT hosts 8th Iligan City Computing Fair
Source: PIA (http://www.pia.gov.ph/?m=12&fi=p101113.htm&no=16)

Iligan City (13 November) -- Another milestone for the School of Computer Studies, Mindanao State University-Iligan Institute of Technology (MSU-IIT), being the host to the Iligan City Computing Fair (ICCF) slated November 25-26, 2010 at the MSU-IIT campus, this city.
Ernesto E. Empig, dean, School of Computer Studies, MSU-IIT, said as part of their yearly activity, the ICCF, which is on its 8th year, features technical seminar, student projects presentation, quiz shows for high school and college students, open programming competition, digital arts open competition, and computer hardware servicing competition.
The event will be highlighted with the information communication technology (ICT) exhibits bearing this year's theme, "The Role of ICT: Promoting Socio-Economic and Cultural Development in Mindanao."
We encourage participants not only from the academe here in Iligan but the whole Visayas-Mindanao regions, including the industry and business sectors, to join this event, enriching their experiences, and to gain knowledge, skills and views on ICT.
This will also be a good opportunity to reach prospective clients and strengthen customer-supplier relationships, added Empig.
For more information about the activity, interested participants may call the Office of the Dean of the School of Computer Studies, MSU-IIT with telephone number (063)221-2002 or email at iccf@g.msuiit.edu.ph. (SCS/MSU-IIT)

Lanao del Norte recognizes latest graduates of VIHIMS training
Source: PIA (http://www.pia.gov.ph/?m=12&fi=p101105.htm&no=B9)

Tubod, Lanao del Norte -- To efficiently manage the provincial hospitals of Lanao del Norte, the Provincial LGU has set out to implement a fully integrated hospital information management system.

The Vertex Integrated Hospital Information Management System (VIHIMS) is created by Vertex Business Applications, Inc., a software company based in Cebu City, will generate a summarized data on the general operations of each of the hospitals that will provide the provincial leadership with the necessary information to make decisions that can further improve its healthcare services.

After six months of actual on-the-job training by a transition team from Vertex, 37 employees of Kapatagan Provincial Hospital finally received their graduation certificate from Engr. Mark Gesalem (Vertex General Manager) and Provincial Governor Khalid Dimaporo.

"The difference is like day and night. Now all the information that we need is just one click away," testified Chief of Hospital Dr. Medel Tomada.

Prior to Kapatagan Hospital, 2 provincial hospitals have already undergone the system's training and have also successfully produced graduates; these are Kolambugan Provincial Hospital and Lanao del Norte Provincial Hospital.

Next to be trained by system implementers from Vertex will be the provincial hospitals in Sultan Naga Dimaporo and Kauswagan.

"We are equipping our provincial hospitals with everything that they need, so they can also provide the best healthcare services for our people," Governor Dimaporo said. (VNL/PIO-LDN)

Upgrading of Lanao Norte's provincial hospitals underway
Source: PIA (http://www.pia.gov.ph/?m=12&fi=p101111.htm&no=A2)

Tubod, Lanao del Norte -- Three provincial hospitals in Lanao del Norte have recently finished the upgrading of their facilities as part of the Health Facility Enhancement Program of the Department of Health (DOH).

First to benefit from this DOH program are provincial hospitals in the coastal towns of Kapatagan, Kolambugan and Kauswagan. A fund of P2 million has been earmarked for each of the hospitals to upgrade its existing buildings.

"We are very thankful for the infrastructure support given by DOH. The expansion projects would enable our hospitals to cater to more patients from in and around Lanao del Norte," Governor Khalid Dimaporo expressed.

For Kolambugan Provincial Hospital, the upgrading program included the construction of 10 additional comfort rooms, the repair and reconstruction of operating rooms, delivery rooms, wards, dietary and laboratory sections.

The Center for Health Development of DOH-Region 10 headed by Dr. Jaime Bernadas has already requested for additional funds from the DOH Central Office to upgrade the other government hospitals in Lanao del Norte under the Province-wide Investment Plan for Health program or PIPH.

Lanao del Norte has seen a steady increase in the admission of patients in its provincial hospitals after Gov. Dimaporo introduced major health reforms in the provincial healthcare system. (VNL/PIO-LDN)

NERBAC Iligan launches One-Stop Express Business Center
Source: PIA (http://www.pia.gov.ph/?m=12&fi=p101113.htm&no=14)

by Lorry V. Gabule

Iligan City -- In adherence to President Benigno S. Aquino's call and advocacy for good governance, the Department of Trade and Industry (DTI), in coordination with the local government unit (LGU-Iligan) and four (4) other national government agencies (NGAs), agreed to establish the National Economic Research and Business Assistance Center (NERBAC) in Iligan City.

Provincial Director Ruel B. Paclipan, Department of Trade and Industry (DTI), Iligan City/Lanao del Norte Provincial Office, said the Center serves as a One-Stop Action Shop for business registration and investments promotion.

The launching activities will include a two-day business registration and investments promotion campaign at the ground floor lobby of Gaisano Citi Mall, 10:30am, November 15.

The launching proper at DTI in Pala-o, this city, on November 17, at 2:00pm is set for the unveiling and blessing of NERBAC Iligan, where the Center is officially located.

The creation of the NERBAC is provided under Republic Act (RA) 7470, otherwise known as the National Economic Research and Business Assistance Center of the Philippines Act of 1992.

It specifically aims to provide comprehensive and highly integrated business support services to prospective investors and businessmen.

The cooperating government agencies such as the Bureau of Internal Revenue (BIR), DTI, Pag-IBIG Fund, Philhealth Insurance Corporation (PHIC), and Social Security System (SSS), involved in business registration, permitting and licensing, will be represented and converged in this one-stop action shop, to include LGU offices from the Permits & License Division, City Treasurer's Office and Iligan Investment Promotions Center (IIPC).

It will give businessmen here in Iligan a hassle-free processing required by the above-concerned agencies, expressed Paclipan.

At NERBAC office, investors and business people can expect assistance on the following concerns: business permit and licensing; business name registration; information for investors; and investment procedures, incentives, and assistance.

Also, business counseling and investment promotion services shall be rendered by DTI and IIPC authorities.

NERBAC Iligan aims to ensure that accurate and timely information and assistance will be provided to clients, developing the city's business environment to be more friendly and conducive for investments.

This is a single entry point for investors on comprehensive and highly integrated business support by pooling government resources in the said Express Business Center, thereby reducing red tape and improving effectiveness and efficiency in government services.

It offers a myriad of government services for start-up and expanding business that include business licensing and registration, knowledge and information management and proactive investment marketing.

Furthermore, it is an all-in-one center that houses all concerned agencies in the government tasked to provide prospective investors and entrepreneurs basic information on various business options that are open to them, in accordance with investment priorities of the government.

NERBAC Iligan is the first provincial center to be established in Region 10, other than the one in Cagayan de Oro City which was categorized as a regional center.

The establishment is made possible by the concerted efforts of the head of offices of cooperating five (5) NGAs and the unwavering support of Mayor Lawrence Ll. Cruz; and Frederick W. Siao, chairman of SP Committee on Trade, Industry and Commerce, all of this city.

The center is open for business transactions, Monday to Friday, 8:00am to 5:00pm.

Every Wednesday, representatives of all cooperating agencies will report to the center for various seminars, briefings or fora to be conducted.

The center will cater clients, businessmen and would be investors, not only from Iligan City but also from the neighboring towns of Lanao del Norte.

NERBAC Iligan will strive to provide clients with a faster, better and more efficient service, as it is also an investment arm. (PIA LDN/DTI Iligan)

CCIFII eyes more investors with establishment of NERBAC Iligan
Source: PIA (http://www.pia.gov.ph/?m=12&fi=p101120.htm&no=41)

by Lorry V. Gabule

lligan City (20 November) -- We are glad that the businessmen's aspiration of having a One-Stop Action Shop or the so-called National Economic Research and Business Assistance Center (NERBAC) for business registration and licensing has come to realization.

Thus expressed Emily M. Pascua, president, Chamber of Commerce and Industry Foundation of lligan, Inc., (CCFII), as she delivered her message after the unveiling and blessing of the NERBAC lligan at the Department of Trade and Industry (DTI) Provincial Office, located at Durias Building, Quezon Avenue Extension, this city.

This is very timely, that we in lligan Chamber, together again with DTI and other cooperating agencies, and the local government unit (LGU) of lligan to look into the business permits and licensing system (BPLS) reforms. Together, it would complement with the overall cycle of business registration, Pascua said.

Our ability to provide fast business registration to eligible investors would greatly enhance Iligan City competitiveness with the rest of our neighbouring cities. For one person to decide to go into business, we would think that it would just then be easy for him/her. For so many, it is just the start of myriads of processes and delays either from the local or the national offices, said Pascua.

I understand NERBAC is considered one of the flagship projects of the government especially as an anti-red tape endeavour, added Pascua.

She revealed that knowing from the DTI and the LGU-permits and license division that in a year lligan's record of those who filed for business registration and licensing (old and new) reached only up to 7,000 more or less, as compared to other cities that registered triple or more than we have here, per record at DTI 10 regional office.

"We, in the business community, looks very positively on this launching, which is the first provincial NERBAC established in region 10, aside from the NERBAC in DTI-regional office in Cagayan de Oro City, and we expect to have more investors in lligan to experience NERBAC's delivery of better, faster and more efficient service that it can offer, to a hassle-free business registration," Pascua said. (PIA LDN)

Lanao Norte employees undergo newswriting, photojournalism workshop
Source: PIA (http://www.pia.gov.ph/?m=12&fi=p101120.htm&no=41)

Tubod, Lanao del Norte (22 November) -- Writing news articles and taking quality photos are necessary skills for any media practitioners. Like any skills it should be honed and practiced to gain expertise and become adept journalists.

Participants of the News Writing and Photojournalism workshop exercise their journalistic skills during the one-day training organized by the provincial government.

Tapped to give his expert advice to aspiring and budding journalists was Bobby Timonera, a renowned journalist and multi-awarded photographer. Presently, Timonera is also the editor of online news provider MindaNews.

"Write to inform not to impress," Timonera stressed.

"One should be creative, to think first what to shoot and what to write and to constantly practice," Timonera added.

The MindaNews editor presented in the one-day workshop the basics of news writing and photo-journalism.

Through his in depth knowledge on photography and his extensive experience as a journalist, Timonera gave useful tips on how to be effective in both fields.

The participants came from different offices in the provincial government particularly those that are in the frontline of government services.

The seminar stressed the need for government to inform the people of the various services offered by its national and local line agencies.

"We need to tell our constituents that we are doing something on their concerns, that their government is working for them," Information Officer Lyndon Calica said. (mc/vnl)

guys kinsa na adto sa gaisano mall lately? have u notice sa gawas sa 2nd floor kipang ibot lage nila ang mga railings, unsay plano sa gaisano dinha dapita?

Matod pa sa akong source, i-close daw nila ang kana nga area aron maapil sa aircon. Init man gud daw na labi na inig kahapon mao nga wala kaayoy interesadong mo-renta. I hope nga glass ang ilang i-dingding aron nindot tan-awon. :)

Aussies eye Northern Mindanao as next booming economy
Wednesday, November 24, 2010



TUBOD, Lanao del Norte - Australian officials expressed optimism on the economic growth potential of Northern Mindanao during a visit here on November 23.

"I'm of the belief that Northern Mindanao will become the growth center of Mindanao in the future," predicted Sam Chittick, Governance Adviser to the Australian Aid Agency (AusAID).

Chittick and Australian diplomat Jason Mundy were here to personally evaluate the province's socio-economic conditions and to consult with provincial and municipal leaders regarding their priority projects and programs.

"We come here because Lanao del Norte is an important part of the Philippines and we have associations with Governor Khalid Dimaporo," Mundy said.

The Australian officials were impressed with the provincial leaders' local peace initiatives aimed at uniting the Muslim and Christian residents in both the coastal and interior municipalities.

"Lanao del Norte is a bridging community between Muslims and Christians," Chittick said.

The Australian government has several partnership programs in the Visayas and in some cities of Mindanao. Its biggest project assistance focuses in the areas of education and infrastructure.

Former Rep. Abdullah Dimaporo provided the foreign representatives firsthand information on the latest peace and order situation in the region and the impact of poverty-intervention programs implemented by national government.

"Support from foreign governments and agencies are very important to the development of Lanao del Norte," Dimaporo said.

The facts gathered by the Australian representatives will help determine the kind of assistance their government can extend to Lanao del Norte to spur economic growth in Northern Mindanao.

Published in the Sun.Star Cagayan de Oro newspaper on November 25, 2010.

Legalidad sa gilaraw’ng 50 hektaryas nga reclamation project sa siyudad, gitun-an na

Wednesday, 24 November 2010


Gitun-an na karon ni Mayor Lawrence Lluch Cruz ug sa City Legal Office (CLO) pinaagi ni Atty. Santiago Hortelano ang legalidad sa gilaraw nga 50 hektaryas nga reclamation project dinhi sa dakbayan.

Sa asoy sa pamuno-dakbayan, nahimong bisita sa siyudad niadtong miaging adlaw ang usa ka imbestor kinsa interesadong mohatag og katumanan sa naasoy’ng proyekto. Kini mao ang Resources Pioneers Incorporated nga nailang kapitalista sa Agus 3 power plant project ug ubang proyekto nga nag-promote sa green energy o paggama og enerhiya nga mahigala-on sa kina-iyahan.

Giabi-abi ni Mayor Cruz ang maong tinguha sa mibisitang negosyante sanglit nakita man niini ang dugang unya nga paglambo sa ekonomiya sa Iligan. (boy decena)

Iligan City Website (http://www.iligan.gov.ph/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=4662&Itemid=368)

^^Where in Iligan could this be? I'm hoping investors will put up a business park and an IT Park if the reclamation project would materialize. :)

WOW Iligan. thast good news to all of us. In the future we will be having a place called "Iligan Business Park" if that project will be materialized.tnx sa info.

Global Climate Change Forum
A forum that tackles about the alarming issue of Climate Change with former DENR Secretary Elisea Gozun.

SMC Auditorium
8:00 am - 5:00 pm / Saturday, 27 November 2010

Peace Monument for Iligan City (http://www.iligan.gov.ph/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=4664&Itemid=762)
Wednesday, 24 November 2010
by:Melvin T. Anggot,Virgilio C. Garcia

Iligan City, PHILIPPINES - A peace pole is unveiled today at 8:00 a.m. in a park at the Overton Sub-station at Barangay Maria Cristina, a monument of peace for Iligan City.

The peace pole is a project of the World Peace Prayer Society (WPPS) and recognized by the United Nation as a way of spreading the message of prayer for peace for the world.

The landmark for peace can be found in Allen Bridge in the middle of Israel and Jordan , War Museum in Vietnam, Robben Island in South Africa, in the pyramids of Egypt, Khyber Pass at the boundary of Pakistan and Afghanistan, Mt. Everest in Nepal, US Pentagon, World Bank and other places in the world.

In the Philippines, the peace pole was first erected in Carmen, Bohol, Leyte, Baguio to mention a few.

Unveiling of the peace monument will be lead by Mayor Lawrence Ll. Cruz and Mario Fungo, president of WPPS-Philippines, Sister Lorina Jumawan, president of St. Michael’s College and members of the Iligan City Peace and Order Council.

This is in conjunction with the observance of Mindanao Week of Peace.

Matod pa sa akong source, i-close daw nila ang kana nga area aron maapil sa aircon. Init man gud daw na labi na inig kahapon mao nga wala kaayoy interesadong mo-renta. I hope nga glass ang ilang i-dingding aron nindot tan-awon. :)

ah ok, ka sayang sa design hope na nice pud ang labas sa after sa apag tabon nila.

Global Climate Change Forum
A forum that tackles about the alarming issue of Climate Change with former DENR Secretary Elisea Gozun.

SMC Auditorium
8:00 am - 5:00 pm / Saturday, 27 November 2010

Indeed very alarming as most of us and even most governments are still thinking more on the global warming side. But did we hear that the earth is now cooling? Did we know that some if not most of the glaciers are now increasing in size? Did we know that as early as now, the northern part of the globe is now being battered by severe and record breaking winter storms which is very unusual at this point in time?

Some says that the effect of man generated green house is only less than 10% or probably 5%. So asa gikan ang nagcause kung ngano nag-ing-ani ang atong climate? I mean, did they try to look on the present situation of the sun as the main source of heat or solar energy that we have?

Di lang ko manghadlok pero at present, we are in solar minimum since 2007. Solar minimum in the sense that the sunspots count is really at minimum. Unsa may buot pasabot anang sunspots? Kung gamay lang ang sunspots count means lesser activity that will result to lesser radiated energy from the sun. And I think that is the main reason na nagkaworse every year since 2008 ang winter sa north and south.

Wala ma'y problema kung magminimum ang sunspots kay naa man na s'ya 11-year cycle. Pero what is of major concern at the moment, the sunspots now looks not following the 11-year cycle. Supposedly, we are at solar maximum (around 100-150 sunspots) by 2011 pero until now wala pa gihapon motaas: this day 1 sunspot lang ang na count.

A similar scenario happened before, 16th and 17th centuries, and that resulted to what they called now the little ice age or maunder minimum. I just hope na di ta moabot ana or else sa kadaghan na sa tawo karon, basi'g famine ang abuton ana sa kalibutan.

Btw, as early as October, US has already declared a shortage of food supply kay sayo lagi daw ming abot ang winter, daghan daw wala maka harvest kay nagstart na magfrost... FYI

I encourage you to visit the site www.iceagenow.com for more updates...

i hope maka stop over ko sa iligan...

Privatization of Hydro-Electric Complexes Deferred
Thursday, 25 November 2010
by:Melvin T. Anggot,Virgilio C. Garcia

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Iligan City, Philippines -The plan of the Energy Power Industry Reform Act or EPIRA to privatize the Agus and Pulangi Hydro-Electric Complexes in 2011 will not push through.

The Department of Energy Department of Finance, Power Sector Assets and Liabilities Management Corporation (PSALM), National Power Corporation and the Committee on Energy of Congress were in favor of House Resolution No. 107 by Iligan City Representative Vicente “Varf” Belmonte, Jr.

A committee hearing was conducted on November 23 with regard to the resolution in the Lower House.

Congressman Belmonte sees this development as a positive step in Iligan’s fight against the continued rise of power rates. Belmonte was thankful of the full support of Mayor Lawrence Ll. Cruz, Vice Mayor Henry Dy and the members of the City Council, civil society groups and all concerned individuals.

http://www.iligan.gov.ph (http://www.iligan.gov.ph/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=4668&Itemid=762)

In an earlier post I described how Iligan City Hall come through for me when I thought something I was looking forward to on my recent visit was not going to happen.

Here is the video of my " Debut Attempt " at doing the Iligan March and by special arrangement from some of those at City Hall, I was able to do it for those that had taught it to me via " long Distance " via their vidio posted one year earlier, the inmates at the Iligan City " Award Winning Jail " .

They or for that matter no one else knew I was learning to do this watching their video on youtube from half way around the world.

Not to disapoint me, this video has me virtually doing Iligan March for those that unknowingly taught it to me, and also with those at the Monday Morning Flag Raising Ceremony at City Hall at the same time !

Thanks to the City Hall Website team for the many hours of production and editing that went into making this video possible. This is one of the best souveniers ( pasalubong if you like ) I could have ever imagined of my visits to Iligan.


( if any of the more experienced posters here can put the vid here, please do but for now, here is the link. )


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ysUe3RA-ooY&feature=autofb


Take a look and you should no longer wonder why I say:


Iligan City

Simply Amazing !

:dance::applause::cheers2:

just want you to know this iliganons!!

im in a conversation with a new friend in manila..

tao: taga san ka nga pala?
ako:iligan..sa mindanao
tao:san yan?malapit lng ba yan sa davao o cagayan??
ako:oo,malapit lng naman.
tao:di ko kasi masyadong narinig yang lugar mo eh..hehe..yan ba yung palaging binobomba??
ako:tama ka jan..<though ashamed>

i want to change what other perceives to our city!!lets make it better!!we should take this constructively!!

^^ dapat kinorect mo na sana na "dati yon.. ngaun very peaceful na" dapat tayong mga pinoy ang kusang gumawa ng paraan, e-encourage sana na maganda ang lugar natin instead na OO nalang tayo... kahit ba sabihin na tin na may nangyaring ngang ganun.. dapat sabihin sana natin na gumawa na ng paraan ang LGU in cooperation sa mga Police para sa seguridad ng syudad....sa nangyari, pinapahamak natin lalo ang lugar natin eh...

just want you to know this iliganons!!

im in a conversation with a new friend in manila..

tao: taga san ka nga pala?
ako:iligan..sa mindanao
tao:san yan?malapit lng ba yan sa davao o cagayan??
ako:oo,malapit lng naman.
tao:di ko kasi masyadong narinig yang lugar mo eh..hehe..yan ba yung palaging binobomba??
ako:tama ka jan..<though ashamed>

i want to change what other perceives to our city!!lets make it better!!we should take this constructively!!

Naawa ako sa friend mo kasi di niya alam kung saan at kung ano ang tunay na sitwasyon ng Iligan. Pero mas naawa ako sa yo kasi mas lalo kang walang alam. Gaano ba kalapit ang Iligan sa Davao? Gaano rin ba kadalas binobomba ang Iligan? :ohno:

Kung gusto mong maiba ang tingin ng ibang tao sa Iligan, simulan mo sa sarili mo.

just want you to know this iliganons!!

im in a conversation with a new friend in manila..

tao: taga san ka nga pala?
ako:iligan..sa mindanao
tao:san yan?malapit lng ba yan sa davao o cagayan??
ako:oo,malapit lng naman.
tao:di ko kasi masyadong narinig yang lugar mo eh..hehe..yan ba yung palaging binobomba??
ako:tama ka jan..<though ashamed>

i want to change what other perceives to our city!!lets make it better!!we should take this constructively!!

basta mindanao, negative gyud ila paglantaw..pero kung huna hunaon mas grabe man ila kay puro bagyo, taga bulan bagyohon..

anyway, murag layo man ang iligan sa davao..

just want you to know this iliganons!!

im in a conversation with a new friend in manila..

tao: taga san ka nga pala?
ako:iligan..sa mindanao
tao:san yan?malapit lng ba yan sa davao o cagayan??
ako:oo,malapit lng naman.
tao:di ko kasi masyadong narinig yang lugar mo eh..hehe..yan ba yung palaging binobomba??
ako:tama ka jan..<though ashamed>

i want to change what other perceives to our city!!lets make it better!!we should take this constructively!!
you should have fired back...you could have said,"noon yun (then reinforce him/her with some knowledge about MILF MOA-AD thing and that's if you're knowledgeable about it)", then say our place is safer, less polluted than his/her place...then ask where he/she in manila really, sabay sabi, "ahh dun ba, polluted at andumi ng lugar nyo, andami pa holdaper at squatter..."

...take this as a joke (jokes are half meant)

you should have fired back...you could have said,"noon yun (then reinforce him/her with some knowledge about MILF MOA-AD thing and that's if you're knowledgeable about it)", then say our place is safer, less polluted than his/her place...then ask where he/she in manila really, sabay sabi, "ahh dun ba, polluted at andumi ng lugar nyo, andami pa holdaper at squatter..."

...take this as a joke (jokes are half meant)

grabe naman yan...sa bomba more or less 10 ang namamatay..sa bagyo more or less 100 ang namamatay...ok lang naman sabihin sa manila lagi binabagbagyo.:lol::lol::lol:

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A peace pole was planted in a park at the Overton Sub-station at Barangay Maria Cristina, a monument of peace for Iligan City.

The peace pole is a project of the World Peace Prayer Society (WPPS) and recognized by the United Nation as a way of spreading the message of prayer for peace for the world.

Unveiling of the peace monument was led by Mayor Lawrence Ll. Cruz and Mario Fungo, president of WPPS-Philippines, Sister Lorina Jumawan, president of St. Michael's College and members of the Iligan City Peace and Order Council.

This was in conjunction with the observance of Mindanao Week of Peace 2010.

video by Rodrigo G. Balendra

just want you to know this iliganons!!

im in a conversation with a new friend in manila..

tao: taga san ka nga pala?
ako:iligan..sa mindanao
tao:san yan?malapit lng ba yan sa davao o cagayan??
ako:oo,malapit lng naman.
tao:di ko kasi masyadong narinig yang lugar mo eh..hehe..yan ba yung palaging binobomba??
ako:tama ka jan..<though ashamed>

i want to change what other perceives to our city!!lets make it better!!we should take this constructively!!

Change to outside perception? your answer to your friend should have been the start bai..i mean, you are an Iliganon and you can't just let somebody say a stereotypical description of your hometown.

"Palaging binobomba" ? If we say "palagi", that's like every now and then something blasts off from our city when in fact it isn't. You could have just answered "a few years back"..or "that was before but now it is peaceful"..."there are even foreigners who prefer it than Manila"..

Change to outside perception? your answer to your friend should have been the start bai..i mean, you are an Iliganon and you can't just let somebody say a stereotypical description of your hometown.

"Palaging binobomba" ? If we say "palagi", that's like every now and then something blasts off from our city when in fact it isn't. You could have just answered "a few years back"..or "that was before but now it is peaceful"..."there are even foreigners who prefer it than Manila"..

:) When asked kung taga asa ka. Need not to say mindanao. just tell them ILIGAN CITY THE HOME OF MARIA CRISTINA FALLS.

Hello Guys, I just read this in Iligan City website. Nagsugod na ni nga project???

Construction of New Pala-o Public Market

The proposed new Pala-o Public Market is a three (3)-storey reinforced concrete structure with a total building area of 25,085 sq.m. It will be located at the existing public market at Pala-o which has a total land area of 9,734 sq.m. owned by the City Government of Iligan.



The ground floor (7,643 sq.m.) will house the wet and semi-wet section. A portion will be used as mechanical rooms (escalators, passenger and freight elevators), utility storage rooms and generator area. The second and third level (8,221 sq.m. each) will be for the dry goods section, cooked food section, administration office, day care center, games and recreation and others.



It has an open space of 2,091 sq.m. as parking space for approximately 136 vehicles. The remaining area will be for police outposts, loading and unloading zones, waiting sheds, pedestrian lanes and landscaping. The sewerage treatment plant will be constructed under the diagonal parking bays.

The new public market will encase a total of 1,775 rentable stalls.

^^Wala.

just want you to know this iliganons!!

im in a conversation with a new friend in manila..

.....

i want to change what other perceives to our city!!lets make it better!!we should take this constructively!!

Sayop ka, taken it constructively is not mean that you go the flow with him without correcting him. Next time around, ayaw na hunahunaa nga gusto ka motabang sa pagbag-o sa imahe sa syudad kundi himoon mo na impromptu. Dili man nato ikalimod nga nabombahan ang atong syudad pero ang Manila ba nakalingkawas ba sa bomba?

just want you to know this iliganons!!

im in a conversation with a new friend in manila..

tao: taga san ka nga pala?
ako:iligan..sa mindanao
tao:san yan?malapit lng ba yan sa davao o cagayan??
ako:oo,malapit lng naman.
tao:di ko kasi masyadong narinig yang lugar mo eh..hehe..yan ba yung palaging binobomba??
ako:tama ka jan..<though ashamed>

i want to change what other perceives to our city!!lets make it better!!we should take this constructively!!

Tell your ignorant friend (just like the rest of the people living in Metro Manila who thinks Manila is the whole Philippines already) that there are more people who die an unnatural death (due to crimes) in Metro Manila everyday than the number of people who die in Iligan for an entire year because of crimes. :)

In addition, in case your friend is too ignorant & oblivious about the existence of other Filipinos living outside Metro Manila, tell him also that yes, here in Mindanao there are also schools & malls ('coz there was one celebrity who thought that Mindanao is full of forests & mountains only. She was even shocked that we have schools here that are in the Top 20 in the country.). Tell him that the people here have also heard about internet, television & all those modern technology. :)

just want you to know this iliganons!!

im in a conversation with a new friend in manila..

tao: taga san ka nga pala?
ako:iligan..sa mindanao
tao:san yan?malapit lng ba yan sa davao o cagayan??
ako:oo,malapit lng naman.
tao:di ko kasi masyadong narinig yang lugar mo eh..hehe..yan ba yung palaging binobomba??
ako:tama ka jan..<though ashamed>

i want to change what other perceives to our city!!lets make it better!!we should take this constructively!!



I can not read the part of your post that is in Bisaya ( I Think ) but I think I get the general idea of your post.

So you have a new friend in Manila ? Why not send your new friend this link.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9F004lntSec

( Iligan City " Bring Home A Friend " promotional video )




http://i466.photobucket.com/albums/rr25/bobiniligan/iligancity2c.jpg




Iligan City

Simply Amazing !

Hello Guys, I just read this in Iligan City website. Nagsugod na ni nga project???

Construction of New Pala-o Public Market

The proposed new Pala-o Public Market is a three (3)-storey reinforced concrete structure with a total building area of 25,085 sq.m. It will be located at the existing public market at Pala-o which has a total land area of 9,734 sq.m. owned by the City Government of Iligan.



The ground floor (7,643 sq.m.) will house the wet and semi-wet section. A portion will be used as mechanical rooms (escalators, passenger and freight elevators), utility storage rooms and generator area. The second and third level (8,221 sq.m. each) will be for the dry goods section, cooked food section, administration office, day care center, games and recreation and others.



It has an open space of 2,091 sq.m. as parking space for approximately 136 vehicles. The remaining area will be for police outposts, loading and unloading zones, waiting sheds, pedestrian lanes and landscaping. The sewerage treatment plant will be constructed under the diagonal parking bays.

The new public market will encase a total of 1,775 rentable stalls.


Im afraid that the construction of this new market may not materialize.

Rehabilitasyon sa Pala-o Market, mas dali nga mapatuman sa siyudad; katukuran og bag-ong gambalay, magkinahanglan og dakong pundo


Pabor si City Planning Officer Gil Balondo nga ipatuman lamang una sa kagamhanan sa siyudad ang rehabilitasyon sa Pala-o Supermarket isip hinanaling solusyon sa nagkaguba nga mga parte niini gumikan sa kakaraan.

Miasoy kini nga maglisod pa pagkuha ang pamuno-an sa dakbayan sa 485 milyones pesos nga pundo aron matukod ang usa ka three-storey New Pala-o Market Building. Subay sa mga pagtuon, nagkinahanglan lamang ang siyudad og 10 milyones pesos alang sa rehabilitasyon ug posible kining mapatuman gamit ang 20% Development Fund sunod tuig.

Matud pa ni Balondo, nakita usab karon nga problema ang kakulangon sa mga stalls nga maggamit sa vendors kung basehan ang bag-ong desinyo sa Pala-o Market. Sa panahon sa pag-desinyo, kapin pa lamang sa usa ka libo ang vendors sa maong merkado. Sa bag-ong ihap, misaka na kini sa kapin dos mil.

Tungod niini, girekomendar sa planning officer nga mabuksan ang laing merkado didto sa North Bound Terminal. (mta)

Iligan City Website (http://www.iligan.gov.ph/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=4654&Itemid=368)

Weekend Night Market gipaningkamutang masugdan sa sunod bulan

Friday, 26 November 2010


Gipaningkamutan ni City Councilor Frederick Siao nga masugdan na karong umaabot nga bulan sa Novembre ang Weekend Night Market sa Iligan, pinasubay sa rekomendasyon ni Mayor Lawrence Lluch Cruz.

Tinguha sa Chairman sa Committee on Trade, Industry and Commerce sa konseho nga ma-aprobahan ang transitory provision alang sa temporaryong implementasyon sa mga stall fees and charges niini.

Sigun sa nasayran, gisugyot karon ang dies pesos nga bayad matag metro kwadrado nga ma-okupar sa matag magpapatigayon nga mamaligya sa night market.

Alayon niini, suporatdo sa mayoriya sa konseho ang resolusyon ni Konsehal Siao nga nag-aproba sa minutos sa mga public hearings kalabot sa Weekend Night Market Ordinance ning nakalabay’ng duha ka semana.

Ipahigayon ang maong kalihukan matag Biyernes ug Sabado lamang sa gabii diha sa sa plaza publiko. (mta)

Iligan City Website (http://www.iligan.gov.ph/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=4670&Itemid=368)

Change to outside perception? your answer to your friend should have been the start bai..i mean, you are an Iliganon and you can't just let somebody say a stereotypical description of your hometown.

"Palaging binobomba" ? If we say "palagi", that's like every now and then something blasts off from our city when in fact it isn't. You could have just answered "a few years back"..or "that was before but now it is peaceful"..."there are even foreigners who prefer it than Manila"..

Korek.. When people ask me.. 'Diba Gensan maraming bombahan dun? As in warzone?' Sabi ko naman, part of Gensan's history ang bombing pero wala na cya ngayon. How about Manny Pacquiao? Kilala mo cya? taga-Gensan cya..'

It's really difficult kasi may image problem talaga tayo sa Mindanao. But instead of stressing the negative, why not focus on the POSITIVE.. Just like what our city is promoting na maganda cya.. Our slogan is 'MAgandang Gensan' which was coined a few years ago.. In fairness effective din cya.. :D

Korek.. When people ask me.. 'Diba Gensan maraming bombahan dun? As in warzone?' Sabi ko naman, part of Gensan's history ang bombing pero wala na cya ngayon. How about Manny Pacquiao? Kilala mo cya? taga-Gensan cya..'

It's really difficult kasi may image problem talaga tayo sa Mindanao. But instead of stressing the negative, why not focus on the POSITIVE.. Just like what our city is promoting na maganda cya.. Our slogan is 'MAgandang Gensan' which was coined a few years ago.. In fairness effective din cya.. :D


Exactly. Why is it when someone asks you about your hometown, they think of negative? Is this really a Pinoy mentality?

When I was having my internship in Manila, people frequently asked me dumb questions. "May kuryente ba duun sa Iligan?-- answer ko Iligan provides the majority of power supply in Mindanao. Don't be ignorant.

"May sasakyan ba duun sa Iligan? answer ko-- Hindi ako makarating dito sa Manila kung wala kaming sasakyan. Bobo ka ba?

"Saan ba yung Iligan? answer ko-- Paano ka nakapasa ng Araling Panlipunan o Sibika at Kultura ni hindi mo alam kung saan ang Iligan. Absenot ka ba?

Sometimes we are being look-down by those people there esp yung mga taga Manila. Kaso puro nalang negative ang thinking nila kung ikaw ay taga-Mindanao.

just want you to know this iliganons!!

im in a conversation with a new friend in manila..

tao: taga san ka nga pala?
ako:iligan..sa mindanao
tao:san yan?malapit lng ba yan sa davao o cagayan??
ako:oo,malapit lng naman.
tao:di ko kasi masyadong narinig yang lugar mo eh..hehe..yan ba yung palaging binobomba??
ako:tama ka jan..<though ashamed>

i want to change what other perceives to our city!!lets make it better!!we should take this constructively!!

simple: no major development ang iligan!! mao walay dungog! nay development pero mismo ang mga namuyo, sama nako mulikramo sa mga projects na gpangbuhat..sama anang mga pag.simento sa mga dalan, nganu man simentohon man nang dalan na wala kau muagi na mga sakyanan, sama anang on-going dapit sa plaza? dapat kanang dira sa unitop ug kanang mga kagang-kagang na dalan sa land bank, kanang dalan padung redem ug kanag dalan sa st.michaels tibanga, iskina going to del carmen....maypanang dalan padung check-inanan...sobra ka smooth. hayyy....