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  Leon - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Leon Edward Panetta, (born June 28, 1938) is a former White House Chief of Staff to Bill Clinton
Leon Russell, born Claude Russell Bridges on 1942 in Lawton, Oklahoma, singer, songwriter, pianist, and guitarist
Leon Belmont, the protagonist of Castlevania: Lament of Innocence
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Leon   (350 words)

  
 Iloilo - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Iloilo is a province of the Philippines located in the Western Visayas region.
Its capital is Iloilo City and is located at the southeast portion of Panay Island, bordering Antique to the west and Capiz to the north.
Iloilo is subdivided into 42 municipalities and 2 cities.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Iloilo   (779 words)

  
 Panay Travel Info
Located on the southwestern tip of Panay island between the Iloilo River and the Guimaras Strait, its attributes as the repository of architectural and artistic legacies, as the promising point of progress in aquaculture, and as a trove of unexplored tourist attractions give it an allure so bewitching as not to be missed.
Iloilo is the cradle of early Philippine civilization.
Iloilo has a glorious past as the land's great sugarbowl and the locale of the haciendas of the old rich - whose scions and daughters turned down the centuries into dons and doñas of powerful economic dynasties.
members.tripod.com /~Katterina/iloilo.htm   (513 words)

  
 GlobalPinoy, Travel - Iloilo
Iloilo, the "Jewel of the South" is located on the southeastern side of Panay Island.
Iloilo's main economic industry is agriculture and is dubbed as the "Food Basket and Rice Granary of the Philippines" for being one of the leading producers of rice and other crops like legumes and root crops and fruits like mangoes, pineapple and citrus.
Plaza Libertad, Iloilo City - The place where the flag of the First Philippines Republic was raised in triumph after Spain surrendered Iloilo, her last capital in the islands, to the revolutionaries led by Gen. Martin Delgado on Dec. 25, 1898.
www.globalpinoy.com /travel/province/iloilo.php   (855 words)

  
 ILOILO TRAVEL INFORMATION
Iloilo is made up of the city and 43 municipalities, and divided into five congressional districts.
Iloilo province is primarily the commercial and trade center of Western Visayas, with commercial, industrial development and rural banks, financial and investment houses, insurance companies, and realestate agencies and developers.
Iloilo has a glorious past as the land's great sugarbowl and the locale of the haciendas of the old rich - whose scions and daughters turned down the centuries into the dons and donas of powerful economic dynasties.
www.asiatravel.com /iloinfo.html   (1332 words)

  
 Leon
Leon, an inland town is located on a fertile plateau.
He was also authorized to rename the town Leon, the capital city of his hometown.
The church was reported to have 12 santos transferred from the earlier church in Camando and carved around 1786.
www.admu.edu.ph /offices/mirlab/panublion/r6_leon.html   (266 words)

  
 The News Today Online Apr 19 2006 - Iloilo News and Panay News
The province of Iloilo is among the 21 provinces tapped for the establishment of modified rapid composting techno demo farms in the country, having a standing rice crop of about 1,800 hectares.
Iloilo is one of the eight provinces in the country that are in the priority list in the US$7.8 million ABK Initiative project in order to combat its worst child labor problem.
Iloilo comprised a portion of the estimated four million children aged five to 17 who are working.
www.thenewstoday.info /2006/04/19   (669 words)

  
 Welcome to FreshPlaza   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-25)
Iloilo Provincial Agriculture Office Zafiro Palabrica said their hosting of the congress that will be attended by mango growers from all over the country as well as the different municipal agriculture officers could hopefully highlight the mango production of the province.
He said that Iloilo province is also producing good quality mangoes similar to that of the nearby Guimaras that is noted to have "the sweetest mango in the world." Iloilo Provincial Agriculture Crops Division Chief Reynaldo M. Osano said that in fact the mango trees planted in Guimaras province must have originally come from Iloilo.
Osano said that for the province of Iloilo, which has about 237,864 mango trees planted with 83 per cent of it considered to be bearing and 16 per cent as non-bearing trees.
www.freshplaza.com /2006/14feb/2_ph_mangocongress.htm   (355 words)

  
 Iloilo Hotels - Hotels in Iloilo. Philippines-Hotels.us   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-25)
Iloilo is set in a graceful repose between Iloilo and Batiano rivers forming an angle of a nose.
Iloilo is located in the center of the Philippine archipelago.
Iloilo’s climate is pleasantly tropical with 2 pronounced seasons – the rainy season from June to September, and the dry season from October to May.
www.philippines-hotels.us /iloilo-hotels   (881 words)

  
 Sun.Star Iloilo - Salvilla: Leon -- bulwark of democracy
DURING World War II, in the mountain barrio of Bucari, Leon, Iloilo, civil resistance Governor of Panay and Romblon Tomas Confesor established his underground government against the Japanese.
Because of the fierce love of the people of Leon for freedom and democracy, Confesor was never captured despite several close encounters with the Japanese.
She was a martyr born of noble family who converted the wife of Emperor Maxintius and two hundred of his soldiers to Catholicism.
www.sunstar.com.ph /static/ilo/2002/11/20/oped/atty..rex.s..salvilla.html   (454 words)

  
 November 05 2004
ILOILO CITY -- President Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo said today that the main challenge now as the country struggles to get out of the fiscal problem is the fight against poverty and how to grow the economy.
Iloilo Governor Niel Tupas, Sr., Alimodian Mayor Juanito Alipao, Vice Mayor Jeffrey Alonsabi, Technical Education Skills Development Authority (TESDA) Director General Augusto Syjuco and DPWH Secretary Florante Soriquez assisted President Arroyo in the ceremonial unveiling of the Bridge’s marker.
Leon Mayor Romulo Cabana, Vice Mayor Rolito Cajilig, Salngan Barangay Captain Sonia Salvacion, Iloilo 2nd District Representative Judith Syjuco, DSWD Secretary Dinky Soliman and TESDA Director General Augusto Syjuco joined the President in her historic visit to an RPA zone.
www.news.ops.gov.ph /archives2004/nov05.htm   (1926 words)

  
 DA6 Agribiz Profile   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-25)
The city of Iloilo is the regional center of trade, industry, education, culture and government.
The provinces of Aklan, Antique and Guimaras each represents one district; Capiz is composed of two districts; Iloilo with five districts; Negros Occidental, 6 districts; and the cities of Iloilo and Bacolod are distinct congressional districts.
The western half of Aklan, Negros Occidental, Iloilo and the western tip of Capiz is classified as Type 1 under the Coronas System of Climate Classificaation, which is characterized by two pronounced seasons: dry season from November to April and wet season during the rest of the year.
www.da.gov.ph /agribiz/region6/indexbottom.html   (1123 words)

  
 3 rebs, 1 cop slain ... - Jun. 21, 2004
Senior Superintendent Reynaldo Rafal, Iloilo provincial police director, said they were conducting inspections on police stations, especially in hinterland towns, after the attack in broad daylight.
Suspected rebels on Tuesday attacked a municipal police station in Tubungan town, Iloilo, wounding the town's police chief and one of his men.
This was the first rebel attack on a municipal hall on the island since the late 1980s.
www.inq7.net /reg/2004/jun/21/text/reg_1-1-p.htm   (616 words)

  
 Balita - Linking Filipinos worldwide with news since 1994
Iloilo Provincial Agriculturist Inocencio Parian, in an interview, said that once operational, the processing plant being put up in Barangay Cordova Norte of Tigbauan would be able to process 1,000-1,500 liters of fresh cow’s milk everyday.
ILOILO CITY, Nov.10 - Police finally filed on Tuesday criminal charges against the three suspects in the gruesome murder of Aklan Schools Superintendent Dr. Arthur Juada whose body was discovered lying in a pool of blood inside his room in a resort in Arevalo district here last June 29.
ILOILO CITY, Nov. 10 - The second year of the country’s first-ever roving festival will be held in the island resort of Boracay on November 25-27 and will be participated in by over 30 local and foreign artists, writers, and cultural groups.
news.balita.ph /html/article.php/20051110225045083   (1745 words)

  
 Fatigue downs 'Master of Pain'
Sangguniang Bayan member and event manager Roberto Calaor III of Leon town informed The News Today through text yesterday that the 45-year-old 'Master of Pain' had to give up the bid to land in the Guinness Book of World Records for 24 hours non-stop street sweeping around 1 a.m.
In an interview with Bombo Radyo Iloilo, Caigoy said he had miscalculated the actual time in which temperature would be at its hottest.
All in all, Caigoy was about eight kilometers short of the projected 26 kilometers of highways and major streets of the towns of Leon, Alimodian and San Miguel.
www.thenewstoday.info /2006/04/19/fatigue.downs.master.of.pain.html   (381 words)

  
 PAL vs CA : 159556 : May 26, 2005 : J. Callejo Sr : Second Division : Decision
These eight employees were all assigned at the petitioner’s Iloilo Airport Ticket Office.  It appeared that the anomalous transactions occurred whenever these employees were on duty and that the fraudulently refunded tickets passed through their hands for processing.
Only respondent De Leon filed with the CA a petition for certiorari imputing grave abuse of discretion on the part of the NLRC in rendering the decision which affirmed that of the Labor Arbiter.
Their affidavits, taken together with the tickets, confirm respondent De Leon’s participation in the scheme by which the used or flown tickets were refunded.  As correctly asserted by the petitioner, respondent De Leon’s and his companions’ culpability cannot be compartmentalized.  Each played an important role in the consummation of the fraud.
www.supremecourt.gov.ph /jurisprudence/2005/may2005/159556.htm   (2611 words)

  
 'Employable' courses ... - Aug. 31, 2002   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-25)
For school year 2000 to 2001, there were about 2,500 high graduates who enrolled at Passi Trade School in Passi City, Iloilo, New Lucena Polytechnic College in New Lucena in Iloilo, Leon Ganzon Polytechnic College in Ajuy town, Iloilo and Dumalag Vocational School in Capiz.
Iloilo province has 20 schools; Capiz, 16; Aklan 10, and Antique, 5.
Valerio Rola, officer in charge of the Tesda regional office based in Iloilo City, said that the demand for blue-collar occupations here and overseas has greatly influenced the career decisions of low-income families.
www.inq7.net /gbl/2002/aug/31/text/gbl_4-1-p.htm   (837 words)

  
 NATIONAL DAIRY AUTHORITY   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-25)
TIGBAUAN, iloilo- The first ever milk Processing plant in the province of Iloilo had its ground breaking in ceremonies held at the Tigbauan National High School Grounds, July 29.
National Dairy Authority (NDA) Administrator Salvacion Bulatao said that despite their slow entrance in introducing milk processing in Iloilo province she was pleased to note that the initial 9 cows distributed has increased to 216 animals tended by dairy farmers.
He thanked Iloilo Governor Neil Tupas for the 2 million pesos assistance in the construction of the building and initial facilities.
nda.da.gov.ph /news213.htm   (380 words)

  
 Rights groups condemn arrest of archbishop's brod - INQ7.net   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-25)
ILOILO CITY -- Human rights groups here have condemned the arrest of Romeo Capalla, younger brother of Davao Archbishop Fernando Capalla, whom authorities have accused of being part of a group of communist rebels who burned a construction equipment in May last year.
The Panay Alliance-Karapatan said Capalla's arrest is part of an "alarming" pattern of witch-hunt and harassment against non-government organizations and leaders of militant organizations.
Romeo Capalla is the younger brother of the prelate whose family hails from Leon town, Iloilo province.
news.inq7.net /regions/index.php?index=1&story_id=46181   (548 words)

  
 Sun.Star Iloilo Online
ILOILO Provincial Board (PB) Member Romulo Cabana of the second district on Thursday said the 1.003-kilometer portion of the Leon-Bucari road in Leon, Iloilo, costing P28 million, is far overpriced.
ROLAND Magahin, president of the Iloilo Terminal Market (ITM) Vendors Association, belied the claim made by Mayor Jerry Treñas that he did not apply for a stall at the newly renovated market.
ILOILO City Mayor Jerry P. Treñas on Friday admitted the bad state of the city's drainage system.
www.sunstar.com.ph /affiliate.php3?locid=8&date=2002-06-15   (148 words)

  
 Family Tree Maker's Genealogy Site: User Home Pages: The Tirol,Hontiveros,Miraflores Clan of Panay
Leon MIRAFLORES from Mandurriao, Iloilo was a priest in Tangalan, Aklan from the 1870's to the early 1900s, he fathered numerous children, many assuming their mother's surnames, including HONTIVEROS, DAROY, SANTAMARIA, TRANCE, SEGOVIA and many more.
The MIRAFLORES Clan of Manudrriao may have been of Chinese origin in Molo, the chinese Parian or Ghetto of Iloilo.
Leon was just one of the many children of Florencio MIRAFLORES and Emilia PEDROSA, first cousins, who lived at the beginning of the 1800s.
familytreemaker.genealogy.com /users/t/i/r/Rene-A-Tirol   (259 words)

  
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Philippines: rabies outbreak feared in Iloilo City -------------------------------------------------- Mayor Jerry Trenas expressed fear of a rabies outbreak in Iloilo City, following reports on an increasing number of rabies infections.
One each from Carles, Lemery, Leon, Oton, Pototan and San Dionisio died of rabies.
The city is implementing a comprehensive rabies control program, but the mayor said he is considering the creation of a rabies control committee to reinforce the 5-fold anti-rabies approach of the City Veterinarian's Office (CVO).
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 projects   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-25)
• Provincial profiles of the provinces of Aklan, Antique, Capiz, Iloilo and Guimaras.
Manganese, Anilao, Iloilo, 400Wmax Wind / 600Wpk PV hybrid
Botlog, Polopiña and Igbon, Concepcion, Iloilo, 1.2kWpk PV - BCS
www.cpu.edu.ph /anec/ANEC_Projects.htm   (580 words)

  
 I MINA'BENTE OCHO NA LIHESLATURAN GUÅHAN   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-25)
Relative to commending and congratulating the Western Visayas College of Science and Technology, formerly known as “Iloilo School of Arts and Trades”, and its Alumni on Guam, on the occasion of its Centennial Celebration.
BE IT RESOLVED BY THE EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE OF the Western Visayas College of Science and Technology was founded in 1905 as the Iloilo Trade School on Iznart Street, Iloilo City, with Mr.
RESOLVED, that the Speaker and the Chairman of the Executive Committee certify, and the Secretary of the Legislature attest to, the adoption hereof and that copies of the same be thereafter transmitted to Mr.
www.guamlegislature.com /28th_Guam_Legislature/EC_Res_28th/ECRes052.htm   (716 words)

  
 The College Library
Field instruction program in schools of social work in the Visayas (Iloilo).
Lariza, Edwin I. Networking as a Development Strategy of NGOs in the Province of Iloilo.
A study of a cottage industry project launched by the Punta Community Center for its needy residents.
www.upd.edu.ph /~cswcd/lib.html   (2901 words)

  
 PIA News Releases
Iloilo City (28 July) -- The July 2005 Nutrition Month celebration underscores the government and other concerned sectors’ commitment in promoting good nutrition with the launching of high impact nutrition programs and projects.
Aside from the provincial government officials, expected to attend the activities in Tigbauan are National Dairy Authority (NDA) Administrator Ms.
Salvacion Bulatao and officials of the towns of Tigbauan, Oton, Igbaras,Miag-ao, Leon, Iloilo Federation of Dairy Cooperatives (IFEDCO), Department of Education-Iloilo as well as other members of the Provincial Nutrition Council.
www.pia.gov.ph /news.asp?fi=p050728.htm&no=25   (420 words)

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