Images from the Dedication of the Calbayog Main Health Center

(Electricity was restored at minutes past midnight. Thanks to Typhoon Frank, Calbayog was "powerless" since Friday. Anyway, on to "business")

I just got hold of some pictures taken during the Dedication of the Calbayog City Main Health Center. The said center is one of the projects undertaken under the MEDCAP of the USNS Mercy Mission or the Pacific Partnership 2008. It is located in Brgy. Capoocan, near the Hall of Justice and a few steps from the (soon-to-be-finished) Calbayog City Gymnasium.

Bishop Isabelo Abarquez as he said the Prayer of Blessing

Ambassador Kristie Kenney with (l-r) Capt. William Kearns, Capt. Crispin Mercado, Mayor Mel Sarmiento, Cong. Reynaldo Uy and DFA Asec Edsal Custodio.

(During the short program after the blessing and before the ribbon-cutting) Bishop Isabelo Abarquez delivered a speech of thanks on behalf of the Samareños . . .

. . . and a reply was made by the Ambassador

Ribbon-cutting. Ambassador Kenney with Mayor Sarmiento and some members of the PA Engineering Batallion and the US Navy Seabees. Partly hidden are Cong. Reynaldo Uy and Bishop Isabelo Abarquez.

The Ambassador and the City Mayor as they unveiled the plaque

The dedication was capped with the U.S. Navy Seabees presenting the City Mayor a completion plaque. In close attendance in the presentation was Cong. Reynaldo Uy.

"The completion plaque accents the work and partnership between the U.S. Navy, Armed Forces of the Philippines and the Royal Australian Army Engineers.”