By Dominique Gabriel G. Bañaga

The City Government of Bacolod is targeting its summer job trainees to plant about 10,000 trees before the summer job season ends on June 2.
The city on May 2 has deployed about 2,000 summer jobbers in different offices of the city, which is also a joint program of the Department of Labor and Employment (DOLE) during school vacation.
Public Employment Service Office (PESO) Manager Anjo Ayco said some of the trainees will be planting trees in different public schools of the city in line with the 2017 Brigada Eskwela.
The other trees will be planted in areas previously planned by the city and the Department of Environment and Natural Resources-Negros Island Region (DENR-NIR) at Abada-Escay, Barangay Vista Alegre as part of the one million trees project.
Ayco stressed they are targeting to plant about 10,000 when the seedlings arrive on Friday from Ayungon, Negros Oriental, where the plant nursery of the DENR-NIR is situated.
He added they are targeting to plant about 200,000 every year in order to reach the five-year goal of the project.
Earlier, the DENR-NIR and the City Government launched a program dubbed the “Bacolod City Urban Development Greening Program.”/WDJ