14 years longing for a light - City Government of Ormoc
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NBTC championship started<br />
with a simple ceremony<br />
by Roberto C. Dejon<br />
The National Basketball Training<br />
Center “Elite 16” championship<br />
event started Sunday at the West<br />
Negros University hoop house with<br />
16 private high school teams all over<br />
the country.<br />
WNU Pres. Dr Oscar Suarez<br />
said that they are so proud and<br />
happy that his year’s Seaoil NBTC<br />
championship is being played here<br />
especially at their hoop house. Suarez<br />
congratulated all the players that<br />
were chosen to play in the said elite<br />
group because it is national in scoop.<br />
He told the players that they should<br />
be happy also because NBTC is not<br />
just only about playing basketball<br />
but it is also about developing the<br />
child, but building character, and<br />
molding them as the new leaders in<br />
the next generation.<br />
Samahang Basketball sa<br />
Pilipinas Executive Director Sonny<br />
Barrios told the players about the<br />
reality that not all <strong>of</strong> them will<br />
land at the Philippine Basketball<br />
Association but playing the game<br />
here will give each one <strong>of</strong> them very<br />
valuable lessons and experience<br />
in their kind <strong>of</strong> basketball. He<br />
said that as players they would<br />
only think that they are here to<br />
play basketball, but if they look<br />
closely they will learn the value <strong>of</strong><br />
teamwork, discipline, hard work,<br />
and the value <strong>of</strong> following ground<br />
rules and regulations, the value <strong>of</strong><br />
obeying authorities. He added that<br />
if the players put into heart all this<br />
values that they will learned in from<br />
their experience in this tournament<br />
undoubtedly they would become<br />
not only good basketball players<br />
they would become better brothers<br />
to their siblings, better sons to<br />
their parents, better citizens to the<br />
country and even better human<br />
being in this part <strong>of</strong> earth.<br />
For Seaoil brand group manager<br />
Rey Jimenez, said the company has<br />
assured the NBTC <strong>for</strong> a 10 year<br />
period <strong>of</strong> no ending support. He<br />
added that they company accepted to<br />
support the NBTC because they have<br />
the same outlook and values <strong>for</strong> the<br />
future and that is to fuel <strong>for</strong> a better<br />
future.<br />
The NBTC elite 16 championship<br />
has 16 teams all over the country<br />
and divided into 4 brackets in a<br />
single round robin <strong>for</strong>mat teams that<br />
become No. 1 in each bracket will<br />
LNU BSTHRM students<br />
tour New <strong>Ormoc</strong> <strong>City</strong> Hall<br />
advance to the next round. The Saint<br />
Peters College or the BMEG Derby<br />
Ace <strong>Ormoc</strong> belongs to Bracket<br />
B along with Monterey Bulacan,<br />
Purefoods Tender Juicy Hotdog<br />
Bacolod St., John’s, and Purefoods<br />
Tender Juicy Hotdogs Davao.<br />
Group A is composed <strong>of</strong> Star<br />
Margarine Olongapo, BMEG<br />
Premium Lucena, Magnolia Frozen<br />
De<strong>light</strong>s Iloilo, and Magnolia<br />
NSA General Santos. Group C is<br />
composed <strong>of</strong> Magnolia, La Union,<br />
SanMig C<strong>of</strong>fee Bacolod WNU,<br />
Purefoods Tender Juicy Hotdog<br />
Ceb, and Monterey Meat Shop<br />
Cag. De Oro. While Group D is<br />
made up <strong>of</strong> SanMig C<strong>of</strong>fee Cavite,<br />
Star Margarine Dumaguete, Star<br />
Margarine Zamboanga, and SanMig<br />
C<strong>of</strong>fee Iligan <strong>City</strong>.<br />
by Ronnie C. Roa<br />
“The popularity <strong>of</strong> the New<br />
<strong>Ormoc</strong> <strong>City</strong> Hall is now an aspiring<br />
place to go,” this is a statement<br />
<strong>of</strong> a student from Leyte Normal<br />
University (LNU) taking up Bachelor<br />
<strong>of</strong> Science in Tourism/Hotel and<br />
Restaurant Management (BSTHRM)<br />
last week. The 40 BSTHRM students<br />
came to visit the city hall to observe<br />
how it is being run by the local chief<br />
executive.<br />
Mayor Eric “Beboy” C. Codilla<br />
met and in<strong>for</strong>med the students on the<br />
city’s social services and programs.<br />
He acted as a tour guide and briefed<br />
the youth visitors. He said that the<br />
new building matches the present<br />
time. The mayor emphasized that<br />
the New <strong>Ormoc</strong> <strong>City</strong> Hall was built<br />
solely by the city government <strong>of</strong><br />
<strong>Ormoc</strong> from the tax collection and<br />
without getting loan or assistance<br />
from the national agencies. Mayor<br />
Codilla said that tourism will come in<br />
later after setting up the foundation.<br />
“Makuri man dumeritso kita hit<br />
tourism tapos waray pa kita set up,”<br />
the mayor said in waray-waray.<br />
Ms. Fil Rose Espina, the<br />
accompanying teacher <strong>of</strong> the<br />
BSTHRM students observed<br />
that all the people in <strong>Ormoc</strong> are<br />
accommodating. “Especially in the<br />
city hall.. very maswerte ang mga<br />
taga <strong>Ormoc</strong> sa kanya (Mayor Eric<br />
Codilla)…. very amazing and the<br />
city hall is very well organized,” she<br />
expressed.<br />
It was learned that the tour is part<br />
<strong>of</strong> their curriculum and it is expected<br />
that a test will be conducted upon they<br />
return to their university in Tacloban<br />
<strong>City</strong>.<br />
8<br />
Ang<br />
<strong>Ormoc</strong>anon<br />
www.ormoc.gov.ph
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