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Students expelled for joining Pasigarbo gets aid from mayor

Madridejos Mayor Sally dela Fuente is extending assistance to students expelled by the Salazar Institute of Technology for participating in the Pasigarbo sa Sugbo contest last month.

Dela Fuente said she will use her personal funds to settle the accounts of 20 students who were no longer admitted in the Salazar Institute of Technology (SIT) after their stint in festival commemorating the 443rd anniversary of the province of Cebu.

SIT claimed that the 26 students did not ask permission from the school when they participated in the festival. The school however allowed six students to resume their studies.

The 20 students, Mayor Dela Fuente and representatives of the Commission of Education meet with Gov. Gwendolyn Garcia yesterday to thresh out interventions for the students.

Dela Fuente said the 20 students were just awaiting final assessment of their payables to SIT.

Some of the students according to the mayor have offered to transfer to a maritime school in Cebu City, while the others will transfer to the Madridejos Community College./Correspondent Carmel Loise Matus

Lapu brgy finally rids streets of garbage

Finally, the pile of garbage along the roads of barangay Basak in Lapu-Lapu City has been collected last Sunday by the barangay garbage trucks.

Basak barangay captain Isabelo Darnayla admitted that their MRF was just finished and they can now transfer the bulks of garbage found in their streets to the new facility.

Darnayla also requested the Solid Management Office (SMO) of Lapu-Lapu City that they be given until Oct. 1 to open their Materials Recovery Facility (MRF). But this request was turned down by Cleofe Solis, head of the SMO.

Solis said that the barangay has been asking them for time to open their MRF for eight months already.

This after Mayor Paz Radaza warned the barangay she would issue addition citation tickets to the barangay which already have about  a hundred such violations if they fail to clean up their streets of waste over the weekend.

Darnayla said, the city used to collect the garbage in national roads in their barangay./Correspondent Norman V. Mendoza