ROCK SOLID. Davao City First District Rep. and House Committee on Appropriations chairman Karlo Alexei Nograles reaffirms his family’s full support to the leadership of President Duterte during Nograles media party at The Royale House in Davao City on Sunday evening. LEAN DAVAL JR.

ROCK SOLID. Davao City First District Rep. and House Committee on Appropriations chairman Karlo Alexei Nograles reaffirms his family’s full support to the leadership of President Duterte during Nograles media party at The Royale House in Davao City on Sunday evening. LEAN DAVAL JR.

SIGNATURE DISPLAY. Davao City homegrown artist Kublai Millan’s sculptural creation called “Ilaw ng Davao” prominently stands at the façade of the Davao City National High School along F. Torres Street. “Ilaw ng Davao” is a project of Millan’s DCNHS batch 1991 led by its president Ariel Decena as a honoree batch for this year’s alumni homecoming set on December 18. LEAN DAVAL JR.
UNDERSCORING. Department of Science and Technology 11 assistant director Elsie Mae Solidum (third from left) walks members of the media through the details of the upcoming DOST’s Technology Transfer Day, a Mindanao-wide activity aims at promoting the DOST generated and assisted technologies to its intended beneficiaries, stakeholders and private sectors, slated today at SM Lanang Premier’s SMX Convention Center.  Solidum was joined by Industrial Technology Development Institute TSD chief Nelia Elisa Florendo (leftmost), Engr. Rosemarie Garvia (second from left) of DOST 11 Food Nutrition Research Institute, Adamson University Chemical Engineering Department professor Dr. Merlinda Palencia third from right), DOST 11 Metals Industry Research and Development Center’s Maria Girlie Millo (second from right, partly hidden) and Philippine Nuclear Research Institute head of Chemistry Research Section Dr. Lucille Abad during yesterday’s Kapehan sa Dabaw at the Annex of SM City Davao. LEAN DAVAL JR.