The Poseidon Dance Theater of VMA Global College in Bacolod City will compete in the 5th Mindanao Modern Dance Competition (National Invitational Challenge) on July 17, in Koronadal, South Cotabato, a press release from the school said.

The contest is one of the highlights of the 41st Foundation Anniversary and the 8th T'nalak Festival of the province of South Cotabato. Contingents from Luzon, Visayas, Mindanao, Hongkong, Taiwan and the People's Republic of China will vie for the grand prize and the prestige of being the 2007 Most Outstanding Contemporary Dance Troupe, the press release said.

The Poseidon Dance Theater was champion in the 2006 Negros Occidental Private Schools Sports Cultural and Educational Association Modern Dance Competition, and the 2007 Western Visayas Private Schools Athletic Association, in the same category. The dancers are Philip John Garbanzos, Jewel Pormento, Carlo Abadilla, Michael John Adores, Jhoevanie Rixaldo, Michael Huertas, Fejie Saludar, Francis Espinosa and Gilberto Cabalo.

Danny Vale is the choreographer. The group will be accompanied by Rudy Reveche, chairman of the NOPSSCEA Cultural Task Force, the press release added.*

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IN DUMAGUETE
CENRO personnel linked
to illegal logging activity

The Dumaguete City-based Community and Environment and Natural Resources Office is investigating the possible involvement of its personnel in illegal logging activities in Pamplona, Oriental Negros.

Environment and Natural Resources Officer Charlie Fabre said his office has created a three-man investigation team to determine whether a CENRO employee had a hand in the cutting and sowing of narra species in Sitio Anibongan, Bansu, Pamplona.

Operatives of the Pamplona police confiscated on June 22 some 246 board feet of sawn narra lumber. The police identified the owner as Julito Elvina. The lumber, Fabre said, bore a Department of Environment and Natural Resources hatchet mark, which indicates that the cutting and sowing of the lumber is permitted by his office. Fabre, however, said his office did not issue a permit for the cutting or sawing of the tree, eliciting suspicion that a CENRO employee or employees connived with the owner of the lumber.

He said two of his personnel assigned in the area will be subjected to investigation. He however, refused to identify them, pending result of the probe, but he said, he will not tolerate in wrongdoings of any of his employees. "I am not remiss in reminding our personnel to avoid getting involved in any irregularity. If they are proven to have committed such act, they have to face the consequence and I will never tolerate them," Fabre said.

Meanwhile, Fabre said the alleged owner of the lumber will also be investigated and will be charged if evidence warrants.*RA

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