Awesome Mindanao!!!

Inspired by Filipinos’ great love for native delicacies and desserts, Magic Melt offers want-satisfying pastries to every individual. With its tremendous success in Cebu City, the company is set to open at Gaisano Mall, Iligan City this coming Saturday, May 26, 2012. It’s the company’s way of expanding their market by serving the customers in Mindanao. Magic Melt started as a specialty bakeshop offering ensaymada and pastries way back in 1999. Over the years, it has extended its product line to include breads and cookies. Their distribution channels included supermarkets, convenience stores and canteens in Cebu city.   People in Iligan and neighbouring cities will surely be glad for this venture because availing otap and other products will be easily accessible. It could be noted that most people spending vacation in Cebu always bring home otap as their pasalubong. Reaching out the market is one of the effective marketing strategies for a company’s success. WOW ILIGAN glad...

            Tita Fannies will be launching Tsibugan sa Iligan on Saturday, May 12, 2012 at San Miguel Street., Brgy. Poblacion , Iligan City . It is the company’s latest innovation by putting a division in the grill section where Lechon Manok and Liempo de Lechon will be separately cooked. Moreover, the company will be having separate chopping areas for the different products with color-coded materials to ensure no tampering of these different products.              “It’s about time that we innovate and make a big move to serve our Muslim brothers and sisters as well as Christians who do not eat pork. We want to satisfy their needs too and make them happy with our delicious Lechon Manok and other recipes with chicken as the main ingredient,” said Mr. Jezeel Christopher P. Onque , the General Manager of Tita Fannies.             “ Tsib...

Iligan City -  Boardwalk, one of the country’s top providers of apparels gave brand new clothings to Sendong victims at Barangays Tambo and Hinaplanon on Wednesday, January 10, 2012. Mr. Lloyd A. Magallanes , Manager in CDO Branch personally handed the clothes to the victims. Joining him was his staff, a member of Iligan Bloggers Society and a student of MSU-Iligan Institute of Technology . They started distributing packed clothes at the Tent City Evacuation Center.   The CSWD coordinator called the evacuees to fall in line with their green cards. She then marked it with BW for control measures.   People got excited to receive new clothes after most if not all of their belongings were damaged due to flashfloods. They immediately opened the package and tried fitting it. Their smiles were more vivid when they finally fit it well, thanking the donors for sharing new clothes.  While waiting for the taxi, a good-hearted policeman SPO3 Liberato Can...

Known for its crispiest and tastiest liempo, Tita Fannies has its humble beginning. The Onque family managed to utilize a 100 square meter area in putting up a restaurant. Using low cost native materials like bamboo furniture and nipa hut, Tita Fannies Chicken and Liempo Haus was finally launched on November 18, 1999 at Zamora St., Poblacion, Iligan City. “We wanted Iligan City to have its mark in the food industry” recalls Mrs. Nilda Onque. The family then had a very great idea of offering liempo and lechon manok in town. These were the main products that captured the taste of the Iliganons who kept coming back for more. Satisfied customers served as the company’s major promotional medium; the impact of which was beyond expectation. Since then, a growing number of happy customers encouraged the family members to continue the business. Tita Fannies has its name derived from Aunt Fanny as Mr. and Mrs. Onque’s children enjoyed calling her as Tita Fanny. With a captivati...

  March 4, 2012 will be another memorable day as the Regional Emergency Assistance Communications Team (REACT) spearheads Pag-amping sa Kinaiyahan: A Tree- Growing Activity. This is one of the organization’s projects to promote environmental conservation through planting trees in collaboration with local schools and community-based working groups. Brgy. Digkilaan, Iligan City was chosen as the venue for tree-growing because it is one of the greatly affected areas of the flashflood caused by typhoon Sendong barely two months ago. Over 600 participants comprised of the students, constituents of the said barangay, local officials, members of the Armed Forces of the Philippines will be planting 2,000 seedlings of trees. “This is one of the ways to educate the constituents about environmental consciousness and encourage them towards responsible stewardship of the environment,” says REACT Deputy Group Chief, Mr. Vladimir Tenorio. REACT partnered with the MSU-IIT Mast...

Iligan City – The MSU-IIT Sustainable Development Studies Program of the School of Graduate Studies and the Office of the Vice Chancellor for Research and Extension partnered with ECOWEB and CAFOD in hosting a forum on Mainstreaming Flood Disaster Preparedness on Friday, January 13, 2012. Mainstreaming basically means an approach in responding to a hazard which necessitates massive information drive to make all stakeholders be informed about the impact of the calamities, their responsibilities in reducing risk and their roles in the implementation of the action plan. Representatives from civil society organizations, government entities and private sectors joined the affair. The first resource person Dir. Malu Fellizar - Cagay of the Center for Disaster Preparedness (CDP) shared The PHILIPPINE DISASTER RISK REDUCTION AND MANAGEMENT (DRRM) Act of 2010 which is REPUBLIC ACT NO. 10121. It’s an “An Act Strengthening the Philippine Disaster Risk Reduction and Management System, Prov...

Iligan City East High School, Brgy. Sta. Filomena is one of the evacuation centers in Iligan City. Below is the list of evacuees: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/ccc?key=0ApyZxe5dd1VsdDMzZ29zWGhuU0VZZDJJTWxsNUhZUXc&hl=en_US CARINO BUILDING ROOM 1- JUAN LUNA FAMILY AGE 1 1 ECHAVEZ, FELIZARDO 47 Leader 2 ECHAVEZ, ARTEMIA 50 3 ECHAVEZ, ZALDY 17 4 ECHAVEZ, SARAH 11 2 5 ECHAVEZ, RYAN 24 6 ECHAVEZ, JONAH ROSE 22 7 ECHAVEZ, JOHN RAIN 2 8 ECHAVEZ, JUNIEL 5 Mos.old 3 9 ESPANOL, CARLITO 51 10 ESP ANOL, MA. CECILIA 50 11 ESPANOL, JUNILITO 4 12 ESPANOL, JOEL 28 13 ESPANOL,KAREN 24 14 ESPANOL, JASPER 1 &10mos 5 15 ESPANOL, JONNIE 26 16 ESPANOL, PRINCESS 26 6 17 ESPANOL, ROY 25 18 ESPANOL, JOVY 18 7 19 MARIQUIT, RONILLO 45 20 MARIQUIT, MARLYN 30 21 MARIQUIT, JONEL 23 22 MARIQUIT, HANILYN 16 23 MARIQUIT, JOEMARIE 10 ...