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BY MAE SINGUAY
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Friday, June 30, 2017
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BACOLOD City – The Montilla family in Isabela, Negros Occidental donated a 9,973 square meter lot to the Department of Education (DepEd).
The property in Hacienda San Bonifacio, Barangay Tinongan will be the new location of the Tinongan National High School.
“A dream come true” was how Principal Suzanne Catague described the lot donation.
After 39 years of operating, the high school will have its own site, Catague said.
Currently the high school is squatting at the campus of the Tinongan Elementary School.
Catague, DepEd counsel Glen Morte and Councilor Patrick Montilla — representing the donating family — signed a Deed of Donation at the high school on Thursday.
Renaming the Tinongan National High School — comprising 493 students — “Patrick Arroyo Montilla Jr. National High School” was part of the Deed.
“The school can now settle permanently with its own physical structures and identity,” Catague said. “We will no longer be called squatters.”
A 20-classroom school building may soon be built at the high school. The fund is pending with the DepEd central office, the principal disclosed.
Costing an estimated P20 million, the school building will be equipped with restrooms, Information and Communication Technology laboratory, Science laboratory, and workshops.
Construction will start as soon as the Department of Public Works and Highways issues a Notice to Proceed, Catague said.
Meanwhile Montilla said naming the school after their late father — “Nonoy Patrick” to the locals and “Patrick” to his friends and family — was “appropriate.”
Montilla, chairman of the Sangguniang Bayan education committee, acknowledged the need for Isabela to have more classrooms to “accommodate the growing number of students,” especially with the K-12 program./PN
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