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Sunday, January 27, 2008

 

Radioman and rider Gerry Cornejo spreads

The gospel of public safety

By Perry Gil S. Mallari

GERARDO “GERRY” CORNEJO is a man who seems to be all for fun. He rides a slick motorbike and gets his kicks from playing the drums and guitar on impromptu jam sessions with the likes of rock icon Pepe Smith. But people close to Cornejo know him as a man of deep conviction.

An active advocate of public safety, he is one of the founding directors of the Framework Convention on Tobacco Control Alliance Philippines (FCAP) and the director for media of the Motorcycle Philippines Federation (MCPF). Cornejo also hosts a daily radio program dubbed KKK (Kalusugan [health], Kaalaman [knowledge] at Katuwaan [fun]), that bagged the Most Outstanding Radio Program (AM) award of the Consumers Union of the Philippines for three consecutive years from 2003 to 2005.

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READING a play is an odd thing. We are often told that its proper place is in the theater where it rises and falls with the curtain.

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THE GREEN REVOLUTION

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