NISARD distributes
goats to farmers
BY MARICAR ARANAS

The Negros Island Sustainable Agricultural Rural Development Foundation Inc.  distributed Thursday an initial 20 Anglo Nubian breed  of  dairy  goats  to  farmers  in Sibulan  and  Valencia, Negros  Oriental.

NISARD president Rep. Henry Teves (NegOr, 3rd district), executive director Ernesto Quiamco spearheaded the turnover rites held at the NISARD office, Provincial Agriculture compound, Barangay Piapi, Dumaguete City.

The goat dispersal program is barangay-based with barangay captains as overseer, while the cow dispersal project of NISARD is Barangay Agricultural Development Center-based, Quimco, whose five-hectare land in Barangay San Antonio, Sibulan is used as demonstration farm of the project. .

 ‘No foul play in death of
army Scout Ranger’
BY JUANCHO GALLARDE

The body of Army Corporal Teofilo Quimson Jr., 41, of Caliclic Babak, Davao del Norte, a retired member of the elite First Scout Ranger Regiment, was found Friday afternoon by residents of Apo Island, and a report issued by Municipal Health Officer Dr. Melpha Yee said he is believed to have died of natural causes.

The body was already in an advanced state of decomposition when first seen floating off the waters of Cogon Point in the southeastern part of Apo Island.

Apo Island barangay councilmen Felix Suan and Carlito Tabañera told the DAILY STAR that at around 5 p.m., the cadaver was washed ashore, and they retrieved and transported it to mainland Dauin on a motorized banca.

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