Civil servants, civic organization hold fun run, mangrove planting

By Rizalie A. Calibo

SIQUIJOR, Sept 25 (PIA) -- Nearly 500 civil servants, students and members of the Rotary Club of Siquior Central (RCSC) joined the fun run and mangrove planting on Friday, September 21. 

These are parts of the celebrations of the 112th Philippine Civil Service anniversary and 41st Founding Anniversary of the province of Siquijor. 

The activity was spearheaded by the Civil Service Commission (CSC) Siquijor field office in cooperation with the RCSC and the local government unit of Larena. 

The fun run started at 6 a.m. at the Larena Port Area Rotunda and ended at Cangmalalag, Larena, Siquijor where the runners planted about 2,000 mangrove propagules and seedlings. 

Registration fees of P100 for the head of office, P50 for department heads, P20 for rank and file were collected by the Rotary club to help construct a school building for the New Corrigedor School in Calunsan, Larena, Siquijor. 

CSC-Siquijor Provincial Director Gina Crucio in her brief message said, the activities were not only meant to celebrate the two important events in the province but to enhance and help our finite environment. 

She said she was glad that people of Siquijor joined hands in protecting and rehabilitating Siquijor's coastal and marine resources. 

Mangrove planting is a way of bringing back the diminishing fireflies for which Siquijor has been known for as famed by Isla del Fuego, she said. 

Provincial Prosecutor Jim Palmitos, also an officer of the RCSC lauded the joint efforts and hoped to make it a regular project of the Rotary. (MBCN/RACalibo-PIA7 Siquijor)