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06/30/2010 | 12:49 PM

The following is the full transcript of President Benigno "Noynoy" Aquino III's inaugural speech delivered after taking his oath as the 15th Philippine president at the Quirino Grandstand in Manila.

His Excellency Jose Ramos Horta, members of the diplomatic corps, Vice President Jejomar C. Binay, former President Fidel V. Ramos, former President Joseph E. Estrada, Senate President Juan Ponce Enrile and other members of the Senate, House Speaker Prospero Nograles and other members of the House of Representatives, members of the Supreme Court, local government officials, distinguished guests, mga minamahal kong kababayan.

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On February 6, 2002, I got a text message asking me to contact an agency for a job offer. I was considered for a one-year consultancy work by my former employer. The offer was unexpected; my wife considered the compensation “obscene.” Friends admonished me, that I would be a fool to refuse such a lucrative offer. Considering that my second child would be entering college, I accepted the job. I flew to Manila for my medical examinations and passport renewal. After completing all requirements — delayed by the bureaucratic processes in our government agencies — I departed on April 19 back to the land of kings and princes, oil and sand dunes.

Read more: Retired, not tired

June 28 was a good day to start afresh. Newly assigned parish piest Reverend Father Hurley John Solfelix officiated in the Thanksgiving Mass offered by and for the leaders and the people of this municipality, Municipal Circuit Trial Court (MCTC) Judge Ma. Ligaya Itliong-Rivera administered the oath to the new set of executive and legislative officers, and local DILG officer Ma. Floricel Servito turned-over 60-days work of the department heads, of assembled documents, records and inventory of all properties pertaining to the operations of this municipality, as commissioned by the outgoing Mayor Emma Zosima T. Chan.

Read more: Pozorrubio holds thanksgiving mass, oath-taking and turn-over ceremony in one sitting

(This is the fourth in a series of articles celebrating Pozorrubio's writers. The piece below, 'The Etiology of a Community Malady’, won the Special Award in the 1st Pozorrubio Essay/Expository Writing Contest. It was written by Dr. Francisco Raul D. Salvador, submitted under the pen name of ‘Rod Avlas’.

Dr. Francisco Raul D. Salvador, a true blooded Pozorrubian, is the youngest son of Francisco Salvador and Teofila Doras of Bobonan, a barangay north of the town. He is a medical specialist practitioner of family and community medicine, a professor of La Consolacion College, a former medical coordinator volunteer of Medecins Sans Frontiers, Switzerland section. He was a pioneering community and occupational health officer in Georgetown, British Guyana, South America.

Read more: Celebrating Pozorrubio's Writers - 4: " The Etiology of a Community Malady"

Father's Day is a day honoring fathers and celebrating fatherhood, paternal bonds, and the influence of fathers in society. It is celebrated on the third Sunday of June in 55 of the world's countries and on other days elsewhere. It complements Mother's Day, the celebration honoring mothers. It is a widely known celebration.

Read more: Father's Day

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Sonora Dodd, of Washington, first had the idea of a "father's day." She thought of the idea for Father's Day while listening to a Mother's Day sermon in 1909.

Sonora wanted a special day to honor her father, William Smart. Smart, who was a Civil War veteran, was widowed when his wife died while giving birth to their sixth child. Mr. Smart was left to raise the newborn and his other five children by himself on a rural farm in eastern Washington state.

Read more: Father’s Day History

It was a long 3-day weekend and it began Saturday, June 12, 2010 with a parade through the main streets and a program at the open stage.  The 112^th Philippine Independence Day celebration has for this year's theme: Kalayaan, Tagumpay ng Bayan.

Read more: Pozorrubio observes 112th Independence Day

Bantugan, Nantangalan, Maambal, Castaño, Haway. Not anymore “the overseas barangays”, but “the barangays just over the bridge”. Over the Malasin-Bantugan Bridge.

At 6:30 Saturday morning of June 5, 2010, twenty-five days before Mayor Emma Chan turns over the reign of the local government to the new administration, she fulfills a promise – a bridge to link the overseas barangays to the Poblacion.

The following is a rather lengthy feature shortly told through pictures:

Read more: Bridging the overseas barangays!

(This is the third in a series of articles celebrating Pozorrubio's writers. The piece below, Partnerships Create Synergy' , written by Ms. Lucrea Vilnluan-Dayrit, a.k.a. ‘tagapozoako’, received the Third Place Award in the 1st Pozorrubio Essay/Expository Writing Contest.

The award, consisting of an expensive plaque and P10, 000 cash, was handed over to the author’s relative in Pozorrubio, Ms Gemma Salcedo, in her absence herself unable to come due to workloads in  the US.