By Kit Bagaipo
The Bohol ChronicleA 17-year old kid who returned a lost wallet containing about P20,000 will be among honorees together with Iluminado Boc, the tricycle driver who turned over a bag which contained $1,700 left in his tricycle, on Sunday's celebration of the 153rd Bohol Foundation Day at the Bohol Cultural Center.
In this year's Bohol Day celebration, Gov. Erico Aumentado will also confer the Datu Sikatuna award.
This year's Datu Sikatuna awardees are Australian Ambassador to the Philippines Anthony John Hely, Peter Reichmann of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints Charities, Dr. Ludgerio Torres of the Philippine Heart Center and vice president of the Heart Foundation of the Philippines and provincial government social and health services consultant Francesca Baluyot.
The boy, John Paul Bernales, a native of barangay Bayong, Guindulman town, reported the wallet he found at the Tagbilaran City fish port to one Ignacio Narisma and Jongjong Loquellano who also turned it over to dyRD's "Tagbilaran-by-Nite" program.
Boc and Bernales will both be bestowed special awards for their outstanding honesty.
The Datu Sikatuna award is the highest honor the province gives to individuals who have contributed much to the development and progress of Bohol.
Ambassador Hely will keynote the event which will start at 8 a.m. (July 18, 2007)
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