SAN MATEO, Rizal — Police personnel here participated in this town’s tree-planting activity organized by the Kapisanan ng mga Brodkaster ng Pilipinas (KBP) yesterday. Senior Supt. Rolando Anduyan, Rizal Police Provincial Office (PPO) director, led police personnel in participating in the tree-planting activity at Purok Baytangan, Pintong Bukawe in this town as part of KBP’s nationwide activity dubbed as “Oplan Broadcastreeing.” Some 50 personnel of the Rizal PPO planted assorted fruit-bearing and hardwood trees in collaboration with the Department of Environment and Natural Resources and the Department of the Interior and Local Government. (Nel B. Andrade)

BENEFIT RUN

STA. ROSA CITY, Laguna — Around 60 children with cleft lip and cleft palate will benefit from today’s “Duathlon and Fun Run” which will fund their free medical operation in line with the celebration of the 30th Year of Operation Smile Philippines. The event with a theme “Fun a Mile, Build a Smile” will start at the SM City Sta. Rosa parking area at 5 a.m. Operation Smile Philippines said it is in partnership with the New Sinai MDI Hospital, SM Supermalls and the city government. Registration for the free operation will be at the New Sinai MDI Hospital and in the nearest barangay health center in the city on October 21. Operation Smile will provide free surgeries to repair cleft lip, cleft palate and other facial deformities for children this November in De La Salle-Dasmariñas in Cavite. (Ferdinand Castro)