A Silay City resident who is from Brgy. Guinsaugon in St. Bernard, Southern Leyte whose relatives were among the victims of the recent landslide there has sought the help of the Silay government to see her surviving kin, a Silay press release said yesterday.

Lolita Garcia, who is married to a resident of Silay, in Negros Occidental and now residing in Sitio Pasil, Brgy. Mambulac, asked Mayor Carlo Gamban for help with her fare to Leyte to see her relatives. Gamban referred the case to the City Social Welfare and Development Office.

Garcia, whose husband is a trisikad driver, said her aunt who was interviewed on TV said that her four brothers and sisters in Guinsaugon, only Arsenio Japson survived. Two others were missing and one has already been buried, the report added.

Garcia will leave for Leyte today and is expected to be in Ginsaugon tomorrow, the press release added.*

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Managing family
corporations program eyed

The University of St. La Salle Graduate School, in cooperation with the Asian Institute of Management Executive Education and Lifelong Learning Center, is planning to offer the Program on Managing Family Corporations on May 3 to 6, a USLS press release said yesterday.

The program is designed for family members and professional managers of family businesses who should be at least 21 years old or a college graduate.

Resource Persons and lecturers from AIM-Manila will discuss Problems and Issues, Family Systems, Individuation, Power, Conflict Management, Family Theories, Business Systems, Succession, Professionalization, Corporate Culture, Boards and Governance, Managing Transitions, Estate Planning, and Management of Tools and Frameworks, the press release said.

Certificates of Completion will be issued to those who attend at least 80 percent of the total sessions.

Inquiries about the program may be made with Dr. Donna Echaus c/o USLS Graduate School Tel. 4321189 loc. 120 or email echaus@usls.edu.ph, the press release added.*

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