SKYCable has announced the first monthly draw winners in its ESPN Star Sports' Singapore Breakaway promo for new and prepaid subscribers held at its main office in Bacolod City, recently.

Prizes for the quarterly, semi and annual subscriber-winners are towels, sling bags and T-shirt packages, respectively, a SKYCable press release said.

Winners with annual subscriptions are Herbert Zayco, Rose Birch, Maricon Teh and Anacleto Montaño. Semi-annual subscriber winners are Jude Tirazona, SunStar Bacolod c/o Giovanni Nilles, Johnny Kho, Neil Tumameng, Jose Anthony Fernan, Analen Nakagawa and Katsuhiro Yamaguchi.

Winners for the quarterly subscribers are Martin Diente, Lomi Tan, Juliana Ferrer, Nelisa Ilad, Bernadette Profeta, Ma. Fe Silayro, Jhoanne Espiritu, Leonarda Manday III, Teresa Barrera, Nackie Docil, Luisa Villaruz, Edgar Yanson, Reynaldo Acebedo, Aurelio Solinap, Bryan Bartley, Richard Rala, Elnora Scarborough, Andrew Yanson, Divina Daishojiya;

Lucia Montoya, Uy Siong Lim, Teresita Aglehem, Edgar Jumuad, Dionesio Deguit, Negros Teachers Federation, Jaime Deriada, Mary Arlene Pulmones, Edgie Felix Badayo, Jessica Timbang, Jihyun Rebecca Kim, Marilyn Gentilezo, Gina Regalado, Margarita Mehlhopt, Margeolina Marigomen, Eric Pula, Elmer Gatuteo, Evelina Luntayao, Ramy Alcala, Flordeliza Onayan, Roy Villarias, Roby Ana Chang, Emelyn Juguan and Teresita Alas.

Prizes can be claimed at the main office of SKY Cable at 23rd Lacson Street, Bacolod City, the press release added.*

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Gift-giving for SDC
kids conducted

About 33 children at the Bacolod City Social Development Center in Bacolod City were benefited by the Christmas gift-giving project launched by the Philippine Mental Health Association Negros Occidental-Bacolod Chapter, in December.

The PMHA donated 10 chairs, blankets and pillows for the wards of the SDC, while the Soroptimist International Bacolod Metro gave toiletries to each child.

Other groups who helped in the project were the Mental Health Units of Riverside College, Bacolod City National High School and University of St. La Salle, all in Bacolod, a press release from the donors said.

Students conducted parlor games for the children.

The project was led by PMHA acting chapter executive manager Harold Villanueva, PMHA administrative assistant Maritess Benares, SIBM member Ma. Punay Sanz, USLS Mental Health Unit adviser Rowena Bañes, Riverside MHU president Angelica Gallespen, and social workers Connie Yaun and Jennifer Chang, the press release added.*

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AT USLS
EU funded project confab set

The University of St. La Salle - Bacolod City will host on Jan. 23 -27, the Third International Conference of Geoteach Censophil, a two-year multilateral project funded by the European Union through EUROPEAID- Asia Information Technology and Communication.

The project involves five partners and focuses on Geomatics, a scientific mapping technology using mathematical tools, a USLS press release said.

The European partner universities are -- Facultes Universitaires Notre Dame de la Paix (Namur, Belgium) and Hochschule Karlsruhe (Karlsruhe, Germany), while the Philippine partners are Xavier University College of Agriculture (Cagayan de Oro), University of St. La Salle (Bacolod City), and Environmental Science for Social Change (ESSC, Ateneo de Manila University).

Expected to attend the Third Geoteach Conference are foreign partners and European Union representatives Rene Sieron and Mirko Giebels, Project Proponent and Director Dr, Robert Holmer (XUCA), and international partners Prof. Francoise Orban - Ferauge and Jean Pierre Van Oudenhove ( FUNDP-Belgium), Prof. Gertrud Schaab and Tobias Lung (HsKA- Germany), and Fr. Pedro Walpoole, (ESSC), the press release said.

Launched during the First Conference held in Cagayan de Oro February 2005, the Project is designed to develop in USLS and XUCA, competence in geomatics technology for application in community -based development and management of agriculture and natural resources in the areas where the both institutions are located.

The project has the following components: a five-month Geomatics training of two staff from each Philippine university partner, the setting up of Geomatics laboratories at USLS and XUCA, local trainings for faculty, NGOs and government entities, applied research, and curriculum integration.

During the Second Geoteach Conference held in Karlsruhe, Germany in July 2005, USLS was represented by USLS project coordinator Dr. Marie Therese Jochico, Mary Ann Pandan, and Riggs Alarcon, all members of the USLS Geoteach team.

The working committee for the Third Conference also includes Teresita Barcoma, director of USLS Balayan Community Services, and College of Engineering dean Dr. Florita Napallatan.*

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