ASEAN INTEGRATION 2015

Tomato

The vegetable farmers of Cannery Site grow different vegetables.  They utilize a portion of the vacant area of two hectares intended for a marketplace. Previously DARBC has donated six hectares of land to the LGU of Barangay Cannery Site. These vegetable farmers as well as other farmers in the whole country will face the ASEAN Integration of the economy by 2015 if it will push through as planned by the Asean Economic Community (AEC). AEC envisions an economy that has the characteristics of (a) a single market and production base, (b) a highly competitive economic region, (c) a region of equitable economic development, and (d) region fully integrated into the global economy.  

                                                                                                          

Will our farmers be competitive to face the influx of foreign agricultural products that has no tariffs?  The problem of our farmers is their high production costs that obligate them to sell at a higher price.  Farm inputs like fertilizer and insecticides burden our farmers.  To counter these problems organic farming can be developed which are known to increase productivity and reduce farming expenses. 

If we can do this I believe we can bravely face the challenge of the ASEAN Integration 2015.

East-West personnel giving on-the-spot orientation
at the barangay demo farm

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Purok Newly Elected Officials Mass Oath-Taking

Taking an oath is a formal and serious promise to do the responsibility that awaits an official.  The name of the most high God is invoked for assistance.  During the ceremony the elected official  presented himself, make a promise, and call on the Almighty.

•  "I,..."  From the small section of the purok he make himself known to the whole barangay who he is. From the privacy of his home he goes out to the public.  Nobody forces him, he does it voluntarily. 
•  "elected as...." -He knows the responsibility of the office he is elected.  Purok officials has no remuneration but he still run for the office.  It is self sacrifice. It is a difficult task but yet he promise to do the office well.  
• "so help me God."  He recognizes the existence of the most High God.  He now makes a connection between him and the creator in relation to his job; may his yoke be lightened; may he persevere throughout his term.

  

  Barangay Captain "Nono" Octavio
  giving an encouragement talk.

  

  Mayor Honey Lumayag Matti
  attended the ceremony

  

  Purok Chairmen

An Example Of Leadership

Once upon a time in ancient Rome, there was a story of a man named Cincinnatus. There was a war. The Roman army was surrounded, and the country was in need of a leader who would seize the moment and turn impending defeat into victory.

Purok Kagawads

They called upon a man who was out plowing his field, a farmer named Cincinnatus. He came. He saw. He conquered. He went home. Cincinnatus gained fame for his selfless devotion to his country. This half-legendary hero gave his all in a time of crisis, and then, when the task was done, he gave up the reins of power and went back to his plow. (http://matutumformunicipalitymovement.
blogspot.com/search/label/Selflessness)

What a man! Such selfless motive!

"Let's plant trees"
"Let's protect the environment"
"Let's stop global warming"

Trees

BY JOYCE KILMER

Bita (or, Dita) tree seedlings at the barangay nursery

I think that I shall never see

A poem lovely as a tree.

A tree whose hungry mouth is prest

Against the earth’s sweet flowing breast;

A tree that looks at God all day,

And lifts her leafy arms to pray;

A tree that may in Summer wear

A nest of robins in her hair;

Upon whose bosom snow has lain;

Who intimately lives with rain.

Poems are made by fools like me,

But only God can make a tree.

Ms. Ivy Villegas

Acasia tree seedlings

Matutum Park

The people who have first stepped
on the Mini-Mt. Matutum

There is a proposal from one of the member of the   Barangay Council of Cannery Site to name portion of the DARBC donated lot as "Matutum Park". The proposal is not without basis.

   On January 25,1998 sixteen years ago, Barangay Cannery Site and eight other barangays of the Polomolok East, namely barangay klinan 6, barangay Upper Klinan, barangay Lamcaliaf, barangay Palkan, barangay Polo, barangay Maligo, barangay Landan, and barangay Kinilis  gathered for a consultative assembly in order to create a municipality. They made a resolution naming the proposed municipality, “Municipality of Matutum”.  They passed this resolution to the Sanguniang Bayan of Polomolok and was approved by the then municipal mayor Jordan H. Reyes on February 28, 1998.  The Sangguniang Panlalawigan also approved the resolution of this purpose.-
 http://matutumformunicipalitymovement.blogspot.com/p/birth-of-dream.html

 Since then every Foundation Anniversary of Barangay Cannery Site the Beauty Contest was called “Mutya Ng Matutum”.  It only stopped during the term of the former barangay captain Mariano Superioridad.

Awarding the mini Mt. Matutum to Barangay Cannery Site

Now unexpectedly and without any suggestion from Barangay Council, Dole Philippines, on the celebration of its 50^th Golden Anniversary,  through the Agri Department,  surprisingly brought to Barangay Cannery Site - made to rise at its very yard, a replica of the magnificent Mount Matutum. Happily and gratefully this replica was awarded and received by the barangay, through barangay captain Antonio "Nono" Octavio. .  

Mini-Matutum

"There is no future without the past".  'Matutum Park' will remind Cannery Site residents of a history that the barangay had underwent. Perhaps it is a Divine design that these events happened.  For sayings say: It is not man who wills "but upon God who has mercy".(Christian Bible: Romans 9:16). "

“Sometimes we can choose the paths we follow. Sometimes our choices are made for us.....” -Neil Gaiman

Barangay Newly Elected Officials (BNEO) Seminar

The Barangay Newly-Elected Officials (BNEO) Program is a term based capacity development program of the Department -(DILG)  in its continuing effort to enhance the proficiency of barangay officials in performing their mandated tasks and responsibilities. 
The Local Government Academy (LGA), after a series of consultations with key stakeholders, have fine tuned the Program Framework to depict the string of activities that the Department will undertake and facilitate to ensure that the newly-elected barangay officials are equipped with the competencies they need to do the job in the attainment of their vision for their barangay. (excerpt from- http://www.lga.gov.ph/update/preparing-dilg-implementation-bneo-program)

Barangay Cannery Site Delegates

MLGOO HEIDE AGUSTIN
"Excellence is not an act but it is a habit.
As of now we sit as an officials of our barangay.
We are doing everything for our constituents to see what our barangay is.
We have in ourselves that goal that we will do our best for our people.
To all of you congratulations,  please, apply what you have learned here."

Vice Mayor of Polomolok, Honorable "Elyat" Jovero
addressing the participants.

HRDC-TESDA GRADUATION DAY- FEBRUARY 7, 2014

"The best of all things is to learn. Money can be lost or stolen, health and strength may fail, but what you have committed to your mind is yours forever."
(Louis L'Amour)

Barangay Captain "Nono" Octavio

Giving an Inspirational Talk

Barangay Kagawad Aniceto Baculna,
 a welcome address

TONY DANIEL
(EMCEE)

HON. MELANIE DEYPALAN
Municipal Kagawad

Ms. MA. LOURDES HORMIGOS
P.E.S.O. Manager / CETC

The Graduates

“May your dreams take you to the corners of your smiles, to the highest of your hopes, to the windows of your opportunities, and to the most special places your heart has ever known.” 

Sightseeing Somewhere in Barangay Kinilis

Tower in the Sky

It is during our darkest moments that we must focus to see the light.

Aristotle Onassis

Read more at http://www.brainyquote.com/quotes/topics/topic_inspirational.html#AoeSDeO6vy2hFy1b.99

A Tribute to Roberto C. Jimena

Roberto (Bert) C. Jimena
He moved for creation of Cannery Site as barangay
This is a picture taken a few days before his death when he ran again
 as a barangay captain of Cannery Site but died before election time.

Roberto Coronado Jimena or Bert as his friends call him came to Cannery Site with nothing in his name. Cannery Site was not yet a barangay then but an annexed sitio of barangay poblacion.  It was a biggest sitio, Dole Philippines factory being here. 

Bert was an adventurer, principled, and knows what he wants in life. He knows the political psychology of his constituents.  He ran as purok president then and became a federated purok president.  It was then that he worked for the creation of cannery Site to become a barangay.  In short a plebiscite was held and on September 1, 1991 Cannery Site became a formal barangay.

It was his people-oriented approach that endeared him to his constituents and by this development was realized in Barangay Cannery Site. People see what progress and development he had left for the people of Cannery Site. A tribute to him.

Bert on a year 2002 photo

Bert's Funeral

The caption reads: "We will remember you.... We will continue what you have started."

Kamote in Pots

Planting in pots is enjoyable.  It is recommendable in abodes where there is limited space.

Violet kamote in a broken pot.