| Antique fisherfolks briefed on Wildlife Act
IN ORDER to educate the people on the laws governing protection and conservation of the different endangered flora and fauna, officials and personnel of the Department of Environment and Natural Resources (DENR)-Community Environment and Natural Resource Office (Cenro) of San Jose, Antique had led the conduct of a briefing on Republic Act (RA) 9147 otherwise known as Wildlife Resources Conservation and Protection Act among the coastal residents of San Jose, Antique.
This after a report reached the office of DENR Cenro San Jose that an endangered mammal, was stranded and slaughtered by an unidentified people in the area. The head of the Bureau of Fisheries and Aquatic Resources Antique Provincial Office Rosemary Nacisvalencia relayed this report to the DENR field office.
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North St. Paul / CARDS OF EVERY KIND
If you were to rummage through your basement, clean, organize and price everything and cast the room with the bright white of fluorescent light, you might wind up with a replica of Jerry Peterson's store. The eye candy at the Seventh Avenue Antique Mall in North St. Paul begins in the front display window, where a fuzzy gorilla reclines on a brocade chaise lounge, and extends inside to shelves of boxed-up Barbies, faded board games connected to "The Brady Bunch" and "All in the Family" and framed images of Jesus bearing prominent labels in felt pen identifying each as a "religious picture." It's easy to overlook the dozens of blue binders and long white cardboard boxes that house the store's most distinctive contents. Peterson estimates he owns more than 250,000 postcards.
Owner to Give Away Schoolhouse
The owner of the Sterling Schoolhouse Antiques building plans to replace it with a new two-story office building.
Mike Cherok said his family will give away the former two-room schoolhouse, which was built in 1879. "I'd like to preserve the schoolhouse," he said, in a telephone interview last week. "Somebody might appreciate having it somewhere else."
He said his family will use the donation as a tax deduction. The one-story building is about 900 square feet. "We've never connected the sewer or water, so it should not be much of a problem moving it," he said. If no one expresses interest in the next 18 months, the family will demolish the building, he added.
Cherok said leasing the historic building is no longer an option. "They've raised the taxes so much I can't get enough money out of the leases there," he said.
Georgetown sets eyes on audit, streetscape
GEORGETOWN - Georgetown's annual audit and a proposal to purchase antique-style streetlights for the downtown streetscape improvements are on the agenda for Thursday's meeting of Georgetown City Council. The annual audit will be summarized and the numbers given to Georgetown City Council for information purposes, said Stacy Moree, with the accounting firm of Harper, Poston and Moree. The city has won certificate of achievement for excellence in financial reporting for the past several years, she said. The city has submitted the paperwork to receive the same award this year, Moree said. "That means that their actual financial report conforms to standards set by the Government Finance Officers Association for presentation and disclosure," Moree said.
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