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1st
triangular kids
olympics, April 17-18
By
FRED C. FUERTESThe
1st Bohol Triangular Children's Olympics will take center stage in this city and
the towns of Loay and Maribojoc come April 17 and 18, this year.
Children,
12 and below, coming from this urban center and the two coastal municipalities
will pit their sports skills and athletic prowess in a sports festival sponsored
by the Philippine Sports Commission (PSC), Region VII.
Opening
ceremonies will be held at Bohol Cultural Center on April 17, 2009 at 8 o'clock
in the morning.
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two-day triangular meet, also dubbed as the Bohol Community Games, materialized
thru the efforts of Boholano Sports Commissioner Fr. Vicente Uy.
Erstwhile
DepEd District Supervisor Florante B. Evasco told this writer in an interview
at the office of Maribojoc Mayor Leoncio B. Evasco Jr., that these sports-minded
tots numbering 150,000 per delegation, will compete in the following sports discipline:
athletics, boys and girls; basketball, boys; volleyball, boys and girls; football,
boys; table tennis, boys and girls; chess boys and girls; taekwondo, boys and
girls; sipa, boys; boxing, boys; and badminton, boys and girls. |
Tagbilaran
DILG City Director Mardonio Roxas, Loay Municipal Local Government Operations
Officer Liza Ipong Jayoma and DepEd District Supervisor Flotante Evasco have been
designated as delegation coordinators.
Evasco
further revealed that this is the second Children's Olympics held in the Central
Visayas. The first sports hostilities were staged at Cebu City sometime December,
last year.
It
may be recalled that a year ago, at the intercession of Maribojoc Mayor Evasco,
who is reportedly a close friend of the PSC Chairman Butch Ramirez and Commissioner
Fr. Vic Uy, ten national coaches from the PSC including a Cuban boxing ring mentor,
hit this province to conduct the 1st Maribojoc Sports and Cultural Center, last
year.
Gov.
Erico B. Aumentado facilitated their lodging while Mayor Dan Lim caused the release
of budget for meals of participants and trainers. Congressmen Edgar M. Chatto
also extended financial assistance to the affair.
With
this development, more sports festivities is expected to happen in this island
province and, hopefully, our dismal performance in previous Palaro games will
soon be a thing in the past.
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