RAIN OF FIRE

Cesar G.Bonilla
Prides of San Nicolas

SAN NICOLAS, Ilocos Norte – Charter Change is still the controversy and it would be a great blunder if this would be utilized for personal motives and political maneuvering to extend terms of those whose mandate is beyond the imagination of the constituents.

The nation is tired of problems afflicting the country. We need a leader like Moses and the guts of Joshua to lead us from moral perdition. The people can always seek the guidance of God to keep the Constitution unmolested by those whose greed and voraciousness they are trying to hide in the guise of legality. Actually their advocacy for change is only a manifestation of poor administration and pseudo-nationalism to make the nation great again as they claim.
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We must condemn political killings and encourage witnesses to come forward to stop extrajudicial executions. While many ordinary criminals are languishing in jail because they cannot afford the services of lawyers, the powerful and influential evade punishment because of connections and blind supporters who justify their purported innocence by all means.

The leaders of our time should be models of integrity. Political killings can decrease the percentage of foreign nationals arriving because of disorderly and troublesome situation of the country.
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Beware also of those aspiring candidates who come and made their names prominent in print and broadcast media to precondition the minds of the masses that they are available for public service in the 2010 elections. These opportunists are trying to hypnotize the electorate to becoming forgetful of how they served the country the past years.
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San Nicolas has once again gained recognition for its achievements. These include 1st runner-up for best performing local government unit,1st runner-up in the search for LGU best practices, with the entry: Damili. The Earth as a Way of Life of the San Nicolenos for 2008, 2nd runner-up in Search for LGU-NGO project best practices with the entry:”I have a dream” for 2008 and 3rd runner-up in search for the cleanest, safest, and greenest municipality (1st to 3rd class category).

Dr.Marinelle Valdez De Los Santos, the daughter of Centennial Balikbayan Mayor John Hernandez De Los Santos and Madam Shirley De Los Santos of the Citizens Mortgage Corp. have also borught honor to San Nicolas.

Mayor Dr. Alfredo Valdez, Jr. recognized those who successfully passed the medical board and the bar exams for lawyers. Dr. Marinelle Valdez De Los Santos is a successful foreign medical graduate of Our Lady of Fatima with an outstanding performance in passing the United States of America's medical License Examination, Step 1 and Step 2.

She was born on June 30,1982 and studied at Rutgerzs, the State University of New Jersey, USA. She took up Bachelor of Arts in Psychology with minor in Sociology. She enrolled at Our lady of Fatima University in Valenzuela City with a medical doctor degree on this April.

She would like to become a licensed doctor in the US and the Philippines. She is inclined to practice Obstetrics and Gynecology or Family Medicine
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I would like to greet Madam Jackie Raval and Ma'am Alice for their kindness to this humble writer. My sincerest greetings to Angela Ventura ,Jesse Bulatao, Katrina Villanueva, Idang Ernilda, Marites Navarro, John Mayor, Ludi Mendoza, Darwin Villanueva, and all our companions when we visited the Casa Teresita Beach in Pagudpud owned and managed by veteran tadio Announcer and manager of Radio DZJC Diomedes "Medy" Lorenzo and his wife Teresita.
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Happy birthday to Zea Lab May G. Simeon, the daughter of my former classmate Rowena. My thanks to Mirachelle de Los Santos and her son John Manuel, Jayvee, Edith, the sister of ma'am Shirley and her husband, and all the De Los Santos and Valdez families. God bless you!