It’s lights on for Tree of Hope this Dec. 1

/Siliman University Intern Julien Piñero, Jose Santino S. Bunachita 11/11/2017

With the Christmas season kicking off last September 1, work on the M. Lhuillier Christmas Tree of Hope at the Fuente Osmeña Circle in Cebu City is expected to be completed before December 1. A familiar, welcome…

Mandaue firms join tree planting

Norman V. Mendoza 08/22/2017

Around a hundred employees of Mandaue City Chamber of Commerce and Industry (MCCI) member-companies participated in the re-greening program spearheaded by San Miguel Brewery Inc. (SMB) by planting trees at the Mananga-Sibugay watershed in Cebu City’s mountain…

Global Carrier mounts Disney-inspired Christmas tree–making contest

PR 01/03/2017

Employees and management of Global Carrier Philippines Inc. took the challenge by participating in the Christmas tree–making contest. It has been 16 years since the company traditionally made Christmas trees based on the themes like metallic, Chinese,…

The First Christmas Tree

Francis B. Ongkingco 12/23/2016

Where will we get firewood, daddy?” Young Amos asked. “There, the dead tree,” he pointed at a leafless tree. Amos ran to the tree snapped off the smaller twigs. But as he tried breaking the bigger branches,…

‘Advent, eventually…’

Fr. Dondon N. Aquino 11/27/2016

I was actually toying on forging a word-expression while brooding over a nice springboard for this article. That word is “adventually” – an abbreviated, or rather, a coined exclamatory outburst of amazement upon realizing how time flies…

Some ‘rest and recreation’ at Doña Pepang Cemetery

Morexette Erram 10/31/2016

It was nearing six in the evening when children carrying balloons walked down the concrete road from Doña Pepang Cemetery to Imus Avenue in Barangay Lorega, San Miguel, Cebu City. Tracing the children’s footsteps will lead the…

Traffic congestion in Basak due to cargo truck, tree branch

Lesley Cara Delos Santos 10/20/2016

A large number of motorists were stuck in traffic after a truck’s container van got snagged by a tree branch along Basak San Nicolas early Thursday morning. The cargo truck was about to park at a garage…

Hundreds join tree planting

Norman V. Mendoza 08/10/2016

Activity held to celebrate Mandaue Business Month and SMB’s greening initiative More than a hundred employees and businessmen trooped to a mountain barangay in Cebu City and Umapad Dumpsite in Mandaue City for a tree-planting activity last…

4 killed as bikes hit toppled tree

Apple Ta-as, Jhunnex Napallacan, Rene Alima 09/18/2015

A beach outing of six friends ended in tragedy after the motorcycles they were riding hit a fallen mango tree blocking  the road in Tuburan town, northern Cebu. Clark Anthony Enguilo, 18, was killed on the spot…

Tree saved from DPWH project is ‘biggest’ Narra by roadside in Cebu City

Jose Santino S. Bunachita 06/29/2014

It was about to be cut down last summer by a public works contractor to widen lanes in M. Velez Street in Cebu City. Instead, the old Narra, one of seven roadside trees across the west wing…

Contractor charged for uprooting trees in Osmena road widening project

Jose Santino S. Bunachita 04/16/2014

The contractor and officials tasked to handle the road widening project were charged for illegally cutting more than 100 trees along S. Osmeña road, Cebu City. The Department of Environment and Natural Resources filed before the Cebu…

Yolanda nears, expect rains

Rose Ursabia 11/07/2013

Mayor Michael Rama had just announced the cancellation of work in both private and public office starting now to tomorrow. Pagasa -Visayas acting chief Oscar Tabada said storm signal no. 3 may be hoisted in nothern Cebu and Cebu…

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