LUNHAW AWARDEES BARED

The 6th Lunhaw Awards, held at the Grand Men Seng Hotel last September 26, recognized a total of 12 awardees for green initiatives in Davao City which can be replicated in homes and communities.

“The Lunhaw Awards is all about recognizing the green initiatives so that they can be replicated by other Dabawenyos. So it's not really a formal contest where there are winners or may ranking first, second, etc.,” Florence Baula, Lunhaw Awards head organizer, said in an e-mail to SunStar Davao yesterday.

The awardees: Maxey Atog for his Small Space Urban Organic Garden; Francis Eric Tan for his La Fermette Dairy Farm to Table Concept; Jera Lambac for the Green Mountain; Nagkahiusang Mananagat sa Bago Aplaya; Green Building of the University of Mindanao; Winifredo Cabatu for his Centralized Solar Water System; Baguio District United Women's Association for their Women's Plastic Strip Weaving; Care Channels Social Enterprises Inc. and San Pablo Parish Rainwater for its Catchment System.

San Roque Elementary School's Gulayan sa Paaralan won the education and advocacy category while the the special awardee for outstanding local government unit (LGU) was awarded to Barangay Tacunan and the special award for youth green champion was Julito Burgos. /

“As far as Eastern Mindanao

is concerned,

we have not

received report

of any group

in the Eastern

Mindanao

Command

kahit sa mga

subordinate

units that are

planning to

conduct destabilization.”

Eastmincom spokesperson Lieutenant Colonel Ezra Balagtey