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(The following is a reprint of the article written and published in the November 22, 2005 Issue of the CLSPAA Chronicle during the Regional Schools Press Conference hosted by the Division of City of San Jose del Monte. The writer was still then the incumbent president of the Regional Secondary School Paper Advisers Association.)
Revisiting the Eighth Category
in Press Conference Five years ago, there was a concept that came out of brainstorming sessions between two school paper advisers (who are no longer paper advisers at present) after the regional consultative meeting held at Juan R. Liwag Memorial High School in Gapan City. This notion came out of their intention to come up with an activity which will further push paper advisers toward the limits of schoolpapering. They were toying an idea about guiding paper advisers to do actual paper layouting in a computer which they had observed whenever they go to printing press to have their school papers laid out and reproduced. From the blending of their thoughts, the abstract of the “eighth category” was bred and born, and later on, Desktop Publishing, the eighth category in press conference came into being. <Read the complete article.> Tarlac City Mayor, light at the end of the tunnelReprinted from: CLRAA Bulletin, Vol. X, No. 4, March 29, 2009 Issue
TARLAC CITY-Being the chief executive officer of the capital city of Tarlac-this year’s gallant host of the Central Luzon Regional Athletic Association (CLRAA), Mayor Genaro “Aro” Mendoza must be very occupied attending to the city’s more urgent needs. But to everyone’s surprise and delight, the hardworking mayor managed to find time to cheer personally the players on representing the city. This correspondent, like the sea of spectators, was astonished to find out that among the most ardent spectators of the table tennis competitions held in St. Rose Catholic High School, Paniqui, Tarlac was the generous and diligent mayor himself. He was a typical over-enthusiastic supporter of the players that he was shouting, gesturing and even shouting every time the Tarlac City Lady Choppers would make a score against their archrival-the Olongapo Lady Smashers. What was more amazing was he had no arrogant body guards and he was just in plain or casual clothes unlike politicos who always want to be the attention-grabber. <Read the complete article.> |