MCA's Palermo Wins In On-The-Spot Painting Contest

July 3,2010
MCA’s Palermo Wins In On-The-Spot Painting Contest
By Quirico M. Gorpido,Jr.
Maasin City, Southern Leyte-Abby Dyanne Daclan Palermo, an elementary student of the Maasin Christian Academy in brgy.Mantahan has won in the provincial on-the-spot painting contest held recently at the Provincial Capitol building here.
The young painter, who is a daughter of a seaman, bested other 21 contestants from different schools of the province. Her winning streak of the contest was not that easy. It passed a two-hour long meticulous evaluation from the three-men team judges composed of undefeated third termer councilor Salvador “boy” Abiera,Francisco “Frankie” Lim and SJC instructor Ed Garino Tabinas.
Abiera, who is also an artist and architect himself, disclosed that the paintings judgment were based on 4 creteria:1)Relevance to the theme-Southern Leyte at 50-35%; 2)visual impact-30%; 3)rendering and proportion-20%; 4)originality-15%. He implied that Palermo’s works has met the 4 criteria in higher percentage compared to her competitors.
Gerson Destora of the College of Maasin reaped the second place. Manny Vincent Carbonilla of Asuncion Elementary School got the third place.Palermo,Destora and Carbonilla all received cash prizes of P3,000.00, P2,000.00 and P1,000.00 respectively. Like the Quiz Bee winners, each amateur painter also received trophy and a medal.
There were two fourth placers in the person of Jomer Roa of the College of Maasin and Audessa Avellanosa of St.Jospeh College. Rod James Royeras also of SJC was the fifth placer.
POPCOM’s Kangelon announced to the audience during the awarding ceremony that as a contest rule, the winning paintings will become the properties of the Provincial Government, the main sponsor of the event.
In earlier quiz bee contest also participated in by 22 secondary students from various school s in Southern Leyte, Jason Tuang-Tuang of Bontoc National High School bested other contestants as the first placer. He received P3, 000.00, a trophy and a medal. ST.Thomas Aquinas College’s Pepito Manlunas, 111, bagged the second place. He got P2, 000.00, a trophy and a medal.Janin Faye Tomol of the St. Joseph College pocketed P1, 000.00,a trophy and a medal.
Velma P. Kangleon, also the Quiz Bee Committee Chairman, whose members were mostly from the Integrated Provincial Health Office( IPHO)technical team, said that the questions raised during the contest were all about Southern Leyte’s historical backgrounds.
Pictures for posterity were taken together with their respective families from each winner of the two contests, as they received their prizes, trophies and medals from the chairmen of the two committees.
Abiera, who announced the painting winners, admonished the young contestants to continue practicing and participating in the contest whenever it will be held in the province. He revealed that in the past he also participated in painting contests held in this province and had won during the Marco regime.
A friend of the first placer’s mother who congratulated Palermo, advised her to take up Fine Arts. The course is the proper and the right venue for artists to improve and hone their talents to the fullest.(Quirico M. Gorpido,Jr.)