January 4, 2009
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NewsPolice identifies suspects in Paracelis pipes theftBy Roger U. Sacyaten
AFTER MANY months of uncertainty, the police has finally identified the suspects in the theft of pipes in Paracelis, Mountain Province.
Sometime in July 2008 some pipes installed in the mainline of
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Political reality
IT WAS not so long ago when the late Congressman Victor Dominguez of Mountain Province could readily get the endorsement of local politicians there on almost anything under the sun.
Read moreFeaturesArabica coffee production in Mtn. Prov. enjoys full support By Roger U. Sacyaten
BONTOC, MTN. PROVINCE – The Mtn. Province governor expressed his full support for the propagation, promotion, and development of Arabica Coffee production in this province which was recently seen to be
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She finally made it (2009-01-05) Baguio City, January 5, 2009-- For almost two years she was almost alone in a relatively big house which made the irony even more stark. She was unable to utilize the house, unable to feed her dog, and the surroundings were deprived of her loving farmer's hands. For company, she only had a middle aged help, a caregiver of sorts to minister to her needs including cleaning her as she was bedridden.
She had a full life which validates the virtues of the Igorot lifestyle of old. Simple natural food of camote, vegetables and rice whose drudgery was broken every now and then by gorging on meat when someone would throw a feast for a wedding, canao or other Igorot celebration.
Though physically diminutive her tenacity was legendary. How else to survive backbreaking work and going up and down mountains of the Cordillera from dawn to dusk? This was in a way good as her bones were surely packed with calcium due to the unrelenting exercise, added to by the calcium-rich "tengba" (rice left to ferment in a clay jar with crabs) which people would bring out to cook into a thick soap whenever somebody gave birth. People would come to partake of it and bring anything to give to the family as a way of sharing the joy of welcoming a new member of the family.
Yes, the traditional Igorot lifestyle took care of their nutritional needs. They did not need a doctor to tell them a new nursing mother needed a lot of calcium.
So in her late age the woman coped physically and the loneliness of being almost just by herself. After almost two years of yearning to join her Maker, she finally succeeded. She crossed the great divide last Jan.3, 2009 at 3:00. She was about 95. She's our mother-- Emilia "Dalimana" Dalayon.
While I would like to go on, I have to go and buy a pig for the old folks to satisfy what they think are "ritual imperatives" for her wake. She will be interred Saturday, Jan. 10, 2009. -- The Publisher
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