The Realization Of The 11-point Agenda
(Ang Katuparan Ng 11-Puntong Adyenda)

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A FRIENDLY PUSH: Manila Mayor Alfredo S. Lim gives a friendly push to the wheelchair he gave to his former employee at the National Bureau of Investigation, Rodolfo Lapidario of 1228 Ibarra St., Sampaloc, Manila. The Mayor also donated another wheelchair to Jerico Estrada, 22 years old from Doroteo Jose, Tondo, who has been suffering from dwarfism since his early childhood. He had been bodily carried by his grandfather when he was attending special skills courses on cellphone repair at the City College of Manila until he graduated last Thursday. (Photo by Bong Olarte, Manila Media Bureau)

LIM OPENS EXHIBITION MATCH: Manila Mayor Alfredo S. Lim pitches to open the softball exhibition match between the Manila Golden Girls (in red uniform) the recent silver prize winners at the World Series in Michigan and the 4-time winners at the University Athletic Association of the Philippines, Adamson University Falcons at the Manila Boystown Complex in Marikina City. With the Mayor are Robert Evangelista, head of delegation of the Manila Golden Girls in Michigan and Eddie Castro, consultant of Mayor Lim at the Boystown. (Photo by Bong Olarte, Manila Media Bureau)

BATCH 18 REUNION: Manila Mayor Alfredo S. Lim poses with the members of Batch 18 of Manila’s Finest during the annual luncheon reunion held at the Wah Yuen Restaurant in Escolta, right in front of the City College of Manila. Batch 18 is very important to the Mayor because he, while then a colonel of the Manila Police Department, signed the appointment papers of 324 members of the batch that trained for a year at the Manila Police Academy headquartered at the Pamantasan ng Lungsod ng Maynila during the incumbency of the late Mayor Antonio Villegas. (Photo by Ben Aquino, Manila Media Bureau)

SEIZED TRUCKLOAD OF MILK: Manila Mayor Alfredo S. Lim shows to media the truckload of Chinese milk that was to be delivered to a store on 718 Elcano St., Binondo when policemen, headed by Col. Nelson Yabut of Station 11, got a tip. The truck of seized milk was brought to City Hall and presented by the Mayor to media during the regular Friday People’s Day at Bulwagang Villegas. (Photo by Ben Aquino, Manila Media Bureau)

WHO’S SICK? NOT ME: This was what Manila Mayor Alfredo S. Lim said as he tried lying down at the stretcher of the newly-blessed ambulance for the Ospital ng Sampaloc, which came from Philhealth funds of the hospital. The Mayor made this pun in view of persistent reports about his supposed failing health due to advanced age. With the Mayor inside the ambulance is Dr. Janet Tan, Director of the Ospital ng Sampaloc and Dr. Teodoro Martin of Ospital ng Tondo (beside her) and Dr. Fidel Chua, Director of the Ospital ng Maynila (behind the Mayor). (Photo by Ben Aquino, Manila Media Bureau)

RELIVING INTRAMUROS: Manila Mayor Alfredo S. Lim, Tourism Secretary Ace Durano and Intramuros Administration Administrator Ana Maria “Bambi” Harper and the Manila Boyscout Council plant a tree at the Maestranza Park in Intramuros as part of the program of IA to relive Intramuros Today. From there the three officials proceeded to Fort Santiago for the program which traced the crucial role of Manila and Intramuros as the seat of government during the Spanish era. The IA also launched the Intramuros Visitors’ Center, Museum shop, Almacenes Reales (exhibit of images representing Dominican Saints, including Our Lady of the Rosary. (Photo by Ben Aquino, Manila Media Bureau)

A SURPRISED INSPECTION: Manila Mayor Alfredo S. Lim made a surprised inspection Sunday morning at Balut, Tondo where a new cement bridge will be erected to link Nepa St. inDistrict 1 to Del Fiero and Earnshaw Streets in District 2. Residents welcomed the Mayor and City Engineer Armando Andres and were informed that the bridge’s construction would soon begin. (Photo by Bong Olarte, Manila Media Bureau)

BE TRUE TO YOUR OATH. This was what Manila Mayor Alfredo S. Lim stressed before city officials and employees who attended the 108th anniversary celebration of the Philippine Civil Service held at the Rajah Sulayman in Roxas Boulevard Saturday afternoon. The Mayor cited the case of Nestor Lucapa, a fresh cum laude graduate of BS Criminology at the City College of Manila who placed 9th in the recent board despite his poverty and Abraham Cariño, an honest tricycle driver who returned a green envelope with P53,350 in cash to the Mayor even if he himself needed the money so much to feed his family of four children and his wife. The Mayor said public servants should give their dedication, loyalty and service over self. (Photo by Ben Aquino, Manila Media Bureau)

REMEMBERING THE ELDERS: Manila Mayor Alfredo S. Lim shakes the hands of an old woman in wheel chair as he joined hundreds of people who participated in the Memory Walk 2008 in observance of the World Alzheirmer’s Day. Alzheirmer is a disease that afflicts the elderly and has often led to rapid weakening of the skeletal and nervous systems. The Memory Walk started from Rajah Sulayman to Quirino Grandstand in Luneta. (Photo by Tony Cunanan, Manila Media Bureau)

CASH FOR HONESTY: Manila Mayor Alfredo S. Lim hands over cash worth P5,500 from his pocket to tricycle driver, Abraham Cariño, 44 and resident of Blumentritt for his honesty in returning a green plastic envelope with P55,350 left by his passenger Thursday night to Barangay Chairman Danny Aquino of Barangay 385 Zone 39 (Quiapo) who in turn took Cariño to Congresswoman Zenaida Angpin and Angpin referred him to the Mayor. Cariño was presented a model for honesty by the Mayor to hundreds of participants in the regular Peoples Day at Bulwagang Villegas. He was also hired on the spot by the Mayor to work for City Hall. Cong. Angpin also gave Cariño P5,000 in cash. In photo (from left) are: Cong. Angpin; the Mayor; partly hidden is City Legal Officer Atty. Renato de la Cruz; Bgy Chairman Aquino and Senior Supt. Romulo Sapitula. (Photo by Ben Aquino, Manila Media Bureau)

NO TO PORNOGRAPHY: Manila Mayor Alfredo S. Lim watch intently at the open quadrangle of City Hall as a bulldozer wrecks P80,000 worth of lewd VCDs and DVDs seized in Quiapo by the Mayor’s Complaints and Action Team (MCAT) headed by ret. Col. Franklin Gacutan. The drive against pornography is a continuing one and the Mayor said his staff will conduct sporadic and surprise confiscations in the coming months to stop the production of these pornographic materials which undermine the moral values of the youth. At the extreme left, kicking the VCDs/DVDs is Señior Supt. Nelson Yabut. (Photo by Ben Aquino, Manila Media Bureau)

LIM ADDRESSES FEU STUDENTS: Manila Mayor Alfredo S. Lim and Atty. Enrique de la Cruz, legal counsel of Far Eastern University, answer questions raised by hundreds of FEU students on the social responsibility of the youth. The Mayor, in a speech last Tuesday, challenged the political leaders to make use of the skills, creativity and brains of the youth and to have clear focus of where they are leading their constituents. (Photo by Bong Olarte, Manila Media Bureau)

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