The Department of Education (DepEd) Division of Negros Occidental awarded Isabela Town Councilor Patrick Miguel Montilla during the Harvest of Excellence 2017 awarding rites, which took place yesterday at the SMX Convention Center at SM City Bacolod.

The local official was recognized for the donation of 9,973 square meters of property located at Hacienda San Bonifacio in Barangay Tinongan in the said town earlier this year, which will be used as the future site for Tinongan National High School.

“After 39 years of the existence of the Tinongan National High School, it has now its own school site,” said Principal Suzanne Catague.

She added, the high school has been “squatting” with Tinongan Elementary School.

As part of the Deed of Donation signed between Montilla and Catague, the school will be renamed Patrick Arroyo Montilla, Jr. National High School, father of the town councilor and brother of late Isabela Mayor Enrique Montilla III.

In terms of the name change, Montilla said, “I thought it would be appropriate.”

Back in June, Catague revealed a budget is currently pending with DepEd for a 20 classroom school building equipped with restrooms, an information and communication technology laboratory, a science laboratory, and workshops.

The groundbreaking for the construction of the school building was held last September./DGB, WDJ