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French Ambassador M. Gerard Chesnel and his wife
Ning, with Counselor for Cultural Affairs, M. Georges-Gaston Feydeau,
will be the guests of honor at a benefit dinner sponsored by the
Bacolod French Club tomorrow, 7 p.m., at the Sea Breeze Hotel, in
Bacolod City.
Called "Une Soiree a Paris" a French dinner buffet,
wine tasting cocktails and short lecture and an after-dinner cooking
demo will be held for the SIMAG Foundation, a non-government organization
taking care of abused children in the rural areas of Silay City
and E.B. Magalona, Negros Occidental, a press release from Maricar
Ramos said.
Tickets for the affair are available at the Sea Breeze
Hotel or from any French Club member.*
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SIFI
conducts medical mission
IN BINALBAGAN
The Sugar Industry Foundation Inc. conducted its
44th medical mission at the Planters Association of Southern Negros
office, in Binalbagan, Negros Occidental recently, a SIFI press
release said.
The team was headed by Neolita Alminaza and assisted
by SIFI staff, while the PASON group was led by managing director,
Arturo Tadifa and director Dr. Randy Ravina. SIFI said its mission
to outlying sugar farms is part of its thrust to regularly provide
medical and dental services and health education to sugar workers
and their families.
A total of 303 sugar worker beneficiaries from
different haciendas of PASON's planter members have availed of free
medical consultations, free medicines and free tooth extractions,
the press release said.
The medical and dental doctors who joined were Randy
Ravina, Ma. Eleonor Madalogdog, Rochelle Calleja, Jonalee Gregori,
Marc Leong, Mario and Tina Oliveros, the press release added.*
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7
NOHS ALS students pass exam
Seven graduates of the Balik-Paaralan Out of School
Adult Program of Negros Occidental High School in Bacolod City,
recently passed the accreditation and equivalency test of the Bureau
of Alternative Learning System of the Department of Education, a
press release from the school said.
The examination passers are Adelfa Cordova, Herald
Donasco, Elena Encabo, Retchie Favores, Sheryl Marie Gepilga, Edwardo
Miguel Roldan and Vanessa Sarabia, Edisa Nequia, NOHS BP-OSA institutional
manager, said. The DepEd ALS is a practical option to the existing
formal instruction for out-of-school youths and adults who are at
least 16 years old.
The passers earned a high school certificate that
entitles them to proceed to any collegiate course, the press release
added.*
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Art
group to hold exhibit
To celebrate the 32 years of the art group's existence
30 members of the Art Association of Bacolod display their works
at the Event Center of SM City Bacolod on July 21-27, a press release
from the group said.
Organized on July 4, 1975 by a group of Negrense
artists led by Edgardo "Budot" Lizares, the AAB, as it has become
familiarly known, saw the development of several of its members
into artists of national and international renown, it said. The
release also claimed that the AAB initiated the country's premier
festival event, Bacolod's October MassKara.*
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SIFI
conducts medical mission