The groundbreaking rites for the Korea-Negros Occidental, Philippines Building - a training center for livestock and poultry farmers and paravets - located beside the Office of the Provincial Veterinarian, Gatuslao Street, in Bacolod City was held yesterday, a Capitol press release said.

Gov. Joseph Marañon, Vice Gov. Isidro Zayco, Korean Overseas volunteers Yun Su-won, Lee Jung-hwa, Cha Min-Jung, Park Hyun-Hee and Lee Sun-a, and Sangguniang Panlalawigan members led the ceremony

. The two-storey building, estimated to cost P2 million, is a joint project of the Negros Occidental government and the Korea International Cooperation Agency of the Republic of Korea.

It will have audio-visual equipment and other training facilities that can accommodate 80 training participants. Present at the activity were Board Members Ike Barredo, Adolfo Mangao, Francis Gerard Tuvilla, Mae Javellana, Edgardo Acuña, George Gitano, and the Capitol department heads, the press release added.*

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Architectural arts exhibit
at Negros Museum Jan. 14

An architectural arts exhibit called "Francesco Riccardo Monti in the Philippines" will open Saturday, 5 p.m. and will run until March 3 from 10 a.m. to 6 p.m, at the Phinma Gallery of the Negros Museum, Gatuslao Street, in Bacolod City, a press release from the Negros Museum-Negros Cultural Foundation Inc. said yesterday.

The works of Italian sculptor Francesco Riccardo Monti, who lived in the Philippines from 1930 to 1958, were documented in black and white photographs by Ava Lugtu and Philip Escudero.

Bacolod City is home to one of his early works. The Filipina with a carabao, or Homage to Agriculture, was done in the pre-World War II years. Originally designed as a fountain, it was inaugurated even before the Capitol Building was completed, the press release said.

In three decades, Monti collaborated with local artists and architects to create public sculptures. Among them were Juan Arellano for the Metropolitan Theater in Manila and the former Iloilo Municipal Hall; Jose Zaragoza; and Conrado de Leon, founder of the House of Precast, the press release said.

The exhibit is a project of the CAL Foundation Inc. of the University of the Philippines, Committee on Art Galleries of the National Commission for Culture and the Arts, Embassy of Italy, Philippine-Italian Association and the Galleria Duemila Inc.

Those interested in the exhibit may call Chinette Gaston of the Negros Museum at tel. nos. (034) 433-4764 and 708-5080, the press release added.*

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Army conducts
medical mission

The medical and dental outreach mission of the Army's 303rd Infantry Brigade on Jan. 4 has benefited 122 residents of Brgy. San Miguel, Murcia, Negros Occidental.

Seventy-one of the 122 barangay residents availed of free medical consultation, tooth extraction - 43, and circumcision - 8.

Brig. Gen. Jogy Leo Fojas, 303rd IB commanding general, yesterday said the medicines distributed to barangay residents were donated by the Philippine Charity Sweepstakes Office.

The Army medical and dental team headed by ILt. Jovan David was assisted by the Rural Health Unit of Murcia headed by Dr. Augustus Ceasar Tan, and Drs. Jake Hofilena and Marc Leong of the Bacolod Doctor's Hospital.*GPB

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