PGLU Monitors Province’s Fresh Water Resources

As a part of Provincial Government of La Union’s forefront program on fostering ecological integrity, and clean and healthy environment dubbed as #KalikasanNaman campaign, the Provincial Government – Environment and Natural Resources Office in collaboration with the Department of Environment and Natural Resources – Environmental Management Bureau (DENR-EMB) has continuously conducted fresh water quality monitoring to inland bodies of water in tourism destinations.

The PG-ENRO headed by the Officer In Charge EnP. Annalyn Rosario-Valdez, Supervising Environmental Management Specialist, proceeded to Simminublan Falls at Santol and Bulalakao Falls at Bagulin on April 19-20, 2021 to identify a new sampling station and collect water samples. Said water samples will be submitted to DENR-EMB for laboratory analysis.

This Water quality monitoring activity aims to guarantee the safety of visitors/tourists by ensuring the province’s recreational water quality. This monitoring effort intends to determine and prevent highly significant exceedances of coliform and to conform with DENR standards. Further, this will also serve as an Information Education Campaign to nearby communities for in the case of some exceedances, consultation and strategic planning with concerned LGUs as well as reconnaissance will be done to identify problem sources and to prevent occurrence of freshwater pollution.

Freshwater is vital for life. Thus, the ENRO on its bid to reinforce the LGUs action towards sustaining fresh water, is initiating partnership with the belief that alone we can do so little; together we can do so much.

PGLU vies for 2021 SGLG

The Provincial Government of La Union (PGLU) and the Department of the Interior and Local Government (DILG) convene for the CY 2021 Seal of Good Local Governance (SGLG) Coordination Meeting via video conferencing on April 27, 2021.

Ms. Agnes Grace A. Cargamento, Provincial Administrator presided over the meeting reminded Gov. Pacoy’s directive “Ito pong efforts natin are all efforts to bring about a Transformative Governance.”

SGLG is now an institutionalized award, incentive, honor and recognition-based program that encourages Local Government Units’ commitment to continuously improve their performance along various governance areas. However, due to the CoViD-19 pandemic, the SGLG Assessment activities were cancelled in 2020.

Nicolette Amon of the DILG presented the Assessment Criteria of the Provinces wherein through the Republic Act 11292 institutionalized by the SGLG, from the 7 original performance areas, namely Financial Administration; Disaster Preparedness; Social Protection and Sensitivity Program; Safety, Peace and Order; Business-Friendliness and Competitiveness; Environment Management; and Tourism, Heritage Development, Culture and Arts, three new performance areas were introduced, namely Programs for Sustainable Education; Health Compliance and Responsiveness; and Youth Development. Criteria in the different performance areas with its new indicators were discussed and presented during the meeting.

Ms. Michaela Louise T. Delfinado, Provincial Planning and Development Coordinator presented the SGLG CY 2021 PGLU Self-assessment.

The orientation was conducted to go over with the new SGLG requirements and performance indicators and to give updates in terms of the status of assessment being conducted by the PGLU.

La Union Expands Relief Ops to MECQ Areas

The Provincial Government of La Union has expanded its COVID-19 relief operations to provide assistance to component Local Government Units (LGUs) that are recorded as high risk areas and have imposed granular lockdowns.
Gov. Pacoy ordered the expansion of the operations to benefit the other LGUs in the province that recorded spike in COVID-19 cases recently.
On April 15, the PGLU distributed a total of 10,041 relief goods for the municipalities of Agoo, Aringay, Luna,and Nagulian.
Meanwhile, the team was deployed today, April 16, to turnover additional relief packs to Naguilian, Agoo, Luna, Bangar, and Sudipen.
The PGLU turns over the relief packs to the LGUs, to be distributed to identified households affected by the strengthened quarantine protocols.
Earlier this month, the PGLU has given out 1,437 relief packs to San Gabriel, Bacnotan, Santo Tomas and Luna.
To date, there are the eight LGUs under MECQ, namely Agoo, Aringay, Luna, Naguilian, Bangar, Bauang, Tubao and the City of San Fernando.
To ensure that help is provided to those who are urgently in need, the PGLU is closely coordinating with the component LGUs to identify which areas are in need of augmentation support.

GOV. PACOY PRESIDES PROVINCIAL LOCAL AIDS COUNCIL MEETING

Gov. Francisco Emmanuel “Pacoy” R. Ortega III presided the 2021 first quarter meeting of the Provincial Local AIDS Council, on April 15, 2021, held via teleconferencing.
As the chairperson of the council, Gov. Pacoy underscored the importance of monitoring other public health concerns, such as the Human Immunodeficiency Virus – Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome (HIV/AIDS), while the province continues to tackle the most impactful health crisis – the COVID-19 pandemic.

PGLU Checks Financial Performance Standing

With the aim to help Provincial Government of La Union offices to be up-to-date on their financial performance standing for the 1st quarter of the year, the Provincial Government of La Union (PGLU) through the Provincial Budget Office conducts a Coaching and Mentoring Session through video conferencing on April 13-15, 2021. The Budget Office presented the 1st Status of Appropriations, Allotment and Obligation in comparison of PGLU departments to their 1st Quarter Financial Plans. Discussed in the session are the deviations and the measures to be taken in order to improve the financial performances of the offices.

FIRST ONLINE DOCUMENTARY FESTIVAL GETS UNDERWAY IN LU

As part of the production rounds of INAIG: Dokyu-Kalikasan Fest (Inaig), the Provincial Government of La Union (PGLU) through the La Union Provincial Tourism Office (LUPTO) held an Online Film and Documentary Making Workshop on April 13 – 14, 2021 through video conferencing. The workshop was participated-in by the top five finalists of the said documentary competition.

La Union Intensifies Disinfection to Combat CoViD-19

Enabling La Union establishments and households in the fight against the CoViD-19 pandemic, the Provincial Government of La Union (PGLU) continues to utilize the province’s disinfection water generating facility distributing 13,843 liters of disinfection water as of March, 2021 for this year and about 45,000 liters for 2020.

Pagbabakuna Kontra CoViD-19 sa La Union Papaigtingin, Papabilisin pa

Kasunod ng direktiba ni Gob. Francisco Emmanuel “Pacoy” R. Ortega III na mas pabilisin at paigtingin pa ang pagbabakuna kontra CoViD-19 sa probinsya upang makatulong sa pagpapababa ng kaso ng CoViD-19, dalawa pang augmentation vaccination teams ang handa nang maideploy ng Provincial Government of La Union (PGLU) bukas, Abril 14, 2021 upang tumulong sa #BakunaMuna Vaccination Program sa mga Rural Health Units (RHUs) ng La Union.
“Kung mabakunahan ka, ang magiging advantage ay hindi ka maapektohan ng severe case na malaking bagay especially for the health care workers…I want the vaccination program moving,” sabi ni Gov. Pacoy.
Ang dalawang grupo ay mayroon paring anim na miyembro kasama ang dalawang vaccination nurses, isang screening at assessment officer, isang health educator, at dalawang data managers.
Upang masiguro ang kaligtasan ng mga bagong miyembro ng vaccination team, sila ay nakatanggap ng unang dose ng Sinovac Vaccine noong Abril 12, 2021. Sa parehong araw ay sumailalaim din sila sa orientation program upang kanilang malaman ang kanilang gagampanang tungkulin at ang halaga nito.
Maaalalang nauna nang naideploy ang unang PGLU vaccination team noong Abril 5, 2021 at kasalukuyan nang tumutulong sa pagbabakuna sa iba’t ibang RHUs.
Sa tala ng Abril 12, 2021, mayroong 1,952 na active cases sa probinsya na patuloy na pinapababa sa pamamagitan ng istratehiyang Prevention, Detection, Isolation, Treatment and Reintegration.
Patuloy na ipinapaalala ng PGLU ang patuloy na pagsunod sa Minimum Health Standards at pananatili sa loob ng tahanan upang maiwasang madapuan ng virus.