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THE three top local officials in the cities of Caloocan, Malabon and Navotas joined together in a clean-up drive set last Saturday involving a wide creek that traverses the neighboring localities, according to Navotas Mayor John Rey Tiangco himself.

It turns out that the project was part of the celebration of the International Coastal Clean-up Day and the ‘Manila BAYanihan para sa Kalikasan:’ Million People Clean-up program which is being spearheaded by the Department of Environment of Natural Resources (DENR).

Mayor Tiangco says that he and Mayors Oca Malapitan (Caloocan) and Lenlen Oreta (Malabon) have agreed to pool their resources as they set the clean-up campaign involving the long stretch of a creek along Lapu-lapu Street which traverses the three adjoining cities.

“Our concerted efforts was only the signal of the start of the government’s Adopt-an-Estero program primarily aimed to sustain the cleanliness of the Manila Bay and its adjoining waters,” Mayor Tiangco says.

He adds: “Napakahalaga ang pagkakaisa ng bawat lungsod sa Metro Manila upang makamit ang nasabing layunin.”

At the same time, Mayor Tiangco says that the entire barangay officials from the 14 villages led by its Liga ng mga Barangay spearheaded a simultaneous city-wide clean-up activity at the same day.

The Tiangco administration started in 2011 the conduct of regular clean-up activity and anti-dengue spraying in different areas all over the city.

Just last month, it had partnered with the GreenBuild Waste Management Services and launched a program which encouraged residents to segregate their garbage and make money out of it.

There you go.

VALMASCI

Painted in platinum and white, streamlined, and grid-based, the design of the brand-new Valenzuela City School of Mathematics and Science (ValMaSci) building in Barangay Malinta, which opened its doors, brings to mind a slick office appliance.

The interior evokes that of a mall, with the four levels built around an atrium.

Including the roof deck, the combined building floor area is at 7,200 square meters. The science laboratories on the first floor – chemistry, biology and general science, and physics and robotics – have the look of their counterparts in a university.

“With something as grand as this, we want to stir an interest in mathematics and science among the youth in the city,” Mayor Rex Gatchalian said.

The campus, which costs P199-million to construct and outfit, is a project under the city government’s Education 360-Degree Investment Program, a large-scale spending to shore up the local educational system, according to the former lawmaker-turned-mayor.

The plan allots P300-million for the building of 201 classrooms, reading improvement programs, teacher and parent trainings and feeding programs.

The construction of the 20-classroom building lasted for six months, the mayor says. GOOD RIDDANCE/ARLIE CALALO

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CONCERTED EFFORTS