By Julie G. Fianza
BAGUIO CITY – For rendering outstanding community service in their own
fields of expertise, nine Baguio citizens including three in the military
service shall be honored 8AM today, Sunday, Baguio’s 104th charter day celebration, at the Baguio
Convention Center.
The awardees were announced by Mayor Mauricio Domogan during a media forum
at city hall Wednesday.
Oscar Cadelina, the founding president of the Baguio-Benguet Public
Information and Civic Action Group (BB-PICAG), Inc. which for 38 years has
worked with and for Baguiotes during times of calamities and other occasions
shall receive the award in Community Service. Cadelina has also served the
community through other roles such as a forester, businessman, researcher,
consultant, lecturer, professor, member and Director of the Cordillera
Executive Board (CEB), commissioner of the Northwestern Luzon Growth
Quadrangle, and other socio-civic memberships.
Pines City National High School Principal Dr. Rachel Bugtong shall also
receive the outstanding citizen award for community service and education. Dr.
Bugtong as a dedicated teacher makes sure her students and teachers both grow
in education and profession, and looks after their welfare within and outside
of the four walls of the classroom.
She also made extra effort to make the physical surroundings comfortable
for students in her school, oftentimes knocking on doors of benevolent
individuals for this; and has linked with the community during times of need;
through acts of kindness.
HenedinoLuzano, better known as Jimmy Luzano, or Lolo Doro on the
airwaves is one of the awardees; specifically for community service, in
journalism. Working as a broadcaster, reporter, scriptwriter, announcer,
commentator, program director and drama talent; he became the Station Manager
of DzWX, and later the Area Manager for Northern Luzon of BomboRadyo
Philippines. He has retired from the radio station, but has now partnered with
Ecarta Media Productions and Promotions, and a columnist with a daily newspaper
in the city.
In the
80’s he has served as negotiator for the release of military captives in Abra.
Earlier, he is a recognized musician and bodybuilder; and now an active civic
leader with community service through different organizations, including senior
citizens’ groups.
Baguio Country Club General Manager
Anthony de Leon, is a tireless worker, a passionate endorser and uplifter of
tourism for the city. An involved sportsman, he supports golf, tennis, bowling,
boardgames and airsoft, a sport with a group in Baguio he himself founded.
De Leon is considered a bastion of the tourism industry as he has
successfully hurdled numerous trainings and development programs for hotels,
restaurants and tourism endeavors, here and overseas. He has also served the
community in various endeavors; through the Philippine National Red Cross,
BB-PICAG, SilahisngPasko, Outreach programs, Monday Afternoon Club, Barangay
Council, the Baguio Flower Festival and the Hotel and Restaurant Association of
Baguio (HRAB), the Baguio Tourism Council.
Eye doctor and awardee Marcelino Dizon, Jr. reaches out through mission
work and vision programs; in schools, at the city jail and the community as a
whole. He also does research on Amblyopia, Istrabimus, Dilopia, Low Vision and
vision-related problems.
As the only sports vision specialist in Northern Luzon, Dr. Dizon, Jr.
volunteered and is tasked to train and improve visual needs of national
athletes.
Fred Fangonon who has pioneered eco-composting, and demonstrated this in
Loakan Proper also receives an award in community service. Starting young,
Fangonon has planted trees in his place of birth; and now produces organic
fertilizers to grow fruits and luscious vegetables in his rooftop garden, and
teaches others to follow suit.
Though a graduate of political science, a former Overseas Contract
Worker, and a businessman, Fangonon is passionate about being a farmer and
environmentalist, which he shares to the community through lectures,
demonstration and technical innovations of the Eco-Composting Receptacle (ECR).
He presently maintains said ECRs in Loakan and other areas of the city.
The awardees were chosen by the Society of Outstanding Citizens of
Baguio (SOCOB), and in consonance with this year’s theme, “Steadfast Service to
the City.”
Three soldiers join the list of awardees; Colonel Romeo Brawner, Jr,
Major Daneck Dang-awan, and Police Superintendent Edgar Alan Okubo.
Baguio-born Col. Romeo Brawner, Jr., is a 1989 graduate of the
Philippine Military Academy, and has served the country for 24 years.
He has seen combat in various parts of the country, and has been
instrumental in the decrease of strength of the New People’s Army. He has also
joined in disaster rescue and relief missions, and livelihood advocacy programs
in areas where he was assigned.
His tour of duty includes being involved in medical-dental outreach,
blood-letting, anti-insurgency and anti-criminality, and anti-drug campaigns in
far-flung areas; and infra-structure projects such as medical and birthing
center, and a two-classroom building.
Maj.Daneck Dang-awan is also a Baguio-born soldier working in the
chaplain service where he pioneered the prayer walk, vesper divine services
through music and neighborhood host bible studies. Other programs include
brotherhood projects with Muslims, Mindanao street children ministry, Support a
child – Save A Future ministry, Feeding program, and partnering with the
Serving Neighbors Network for Out-Of-School-Youth, and the distribution of
relief goods during times of calamities. This is in addition to his functions
as evangelical chaplain and spiritual adviser to soldiers and their family and
the community at large.
A graduate of the Philippine National Police Academy
(PNPA), Supt. Edgar Alan Okubo has served the government for 22 years. His
experience includes the pursuit of dangerous lawless elements and eventual
capture and prosecution.
Supt. Okubo involves the community in crime-busting, as well as
information and educational campaign through the calling-card project, the
church and the faithful, and the Mag-aaral Kontra Krimen Project. Checkpoints
against dissidents were also installed during his watch resulting to arrest of
armed groups and confiscation of high-powered firearms; and the use of
motorcycles for police officers riding-in-tandem projects, which resulted to
easing of tension and peace of mind in the community.
The
awardees shall be honored in the presence of Baguio boy Associate Justice Mario
Victor Leonen who is this year’s charter day speaker.
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