LETTERS FROM THE AGNO
March Fianza
The John Hay Management Corporation has lined
up its own activities for the Holy Week to be held at the Bell Amphitheatre
from March 28 to April 5, 2015. Dubbed “Spiritual Journey at the Camp”, the
line of events is in partnership with the John Hay Business Club and Ayala
Technohub.
On these dates John Hay will hold Public
Masses, Stations of the Cross, Veneration of the Black Nazarene and a camp-wide
Easter Egg hunt on Easter Sunday from 8:00AM to 11:00AM. The public is invited.
Registration for the Easter Egg Hunt will be at Mile-Hi and Ayala Technohub.
See you there.
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Remember the song popularized by Dionne
Warwick that goes: “Going out of my head over you … day and night, night and
day and night, wrong or right. I see you each morning. But you just walk past
me, you don't even know that I exist.” It came back to me while watching on TV
the mystery about the recent plane crash on a mountainside in the French Alps.
French and German security officials found no
indication that anyone on board had links to terrorism. They revealed that
German co-pilot Andreas Lubitz was normal during the last moments of
Germanwings Flight 9525 but denied that he committed suicide. This was because
he took 149 other people to their deaths with him, and so this was not suicide.
Other than that, there is another word, they said.
Okay, if it was not suicide then maybe he
went “nuts”, as suggested by other analysts. Based on a study conducted for the
aviation industry and published in 2014; out of 2,758 aviation accidents
recorded 2003 to 2012, only eight were determined to be suicides. The pilots of
all the flights were male, four of whom were heavy drinkers like some Filipino
pilots I know, and two were taking antidepressant drugs at the time of the
crash.
One case involved a pilot who had a history
of depression and at least one suicide attempt during his lifetime. The
unidentified pilot took off from the runway then the plane headed straight down
to the ground shortly after. There was no other explanation except that the
pilot went nuts during take-off.
Another case involving a 47-year-old student
pilot who was in a custody dispute took off in a small Cessna 150 with a child
passenger. The report said the plane flew for more than an hour, headed back
for the airport, took a steep dive and crashed into the pilot’s
ex-mother-in-law’s house. The pilot went crazy.
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Lately, former congressman Bernardo M.
Vergara along with 15 other individuals were under preliminary investigation
for alleged violations of various election laws in relation to the 2013 polls.
The Comelec Law Department filed charges against Vergara, his press relations
officer, the Baguio City Treasurer and unnamed CTO personnel, other individuals
including PNoy’s aunt Margarita Cojuangco in five separate cases before the
Comelec en banc.
This means that it is not only Baguio Congressman
Nick Aliping who is facing court charges for violating environmental laws.
Recently also, the prosecutor who was assigned at the Benguet Prosecutors
Office to handle the environment case against Aliping endorsed the same to the
Ombudsman.
In case the Office of the Ombudsman
recommends suspension and finally hands down a verdict, we may have a city with
no congressman. By now, some politicians are toying with the idea about who
could be possible congressional candidates in 2016. Of course, there are a lot
of them in waiting such as businessman Mark Go, lawyers Edgar Avila and
PablitoSanidad, soon to retire Judge Del Claravall, councilors PoppoCosalan and
Leandro Yangot, and not to discount Mayor Domogan who might suddenly decide to
take back his seat in congress, and maybe even Joe Molintas.
By the way, in fairness to Aliping, he said
he moved for the deferment of HB 4976 that proposed for the segregation of
three hectares of Forbes Park for the housing of a favored group. He did this
in consideration of the opinion of the DENR that Forbes Park is a critical
water source for Baguio, and after Domogan earlier asked him to withdraw the
bill. At least, Aliping and Domogan, unlike the pilots who have gone nuts, are
getting back their right senses.
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